Robert Lloyd
@robertlloyd.bsky.social
More than full time TV critic, L.A. Times. Sometime sideman. Picture drawer.
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🔴 Guerra en Europa, guerra en Oriente Medio y ahora guerra en América del Sur.
Se impone la ley de la selva.
Se destruye el derecho internacional.
Con líderes megalómanos que actúan sin frenos ni guardarraíles.
Se impone la ley de la selva.
Se destruye el derecho internacional.
Con líderes megalómanos que actúan sin frenos ni guardarraíles.
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
🔴 Guerra en Europa, guerra en Oriente Medio y ahora guerra en América del Sur.
Se impone la ley de la selva.
Se destruye el derecho internacional.
Con líderes megalómanos que actúan sin frenos ni guardarraíles.
Se impone la ley de la selva.
Se destruye el derecho internacional.
Con líderes megalómanos que actúan sin frenos ni guardarraíles.
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NEW from me:
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Private jets and ‘Bari pitches’: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered private flights for her armed security detail, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused o...
www.independent.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
NEW from me:
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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There’s a lot of good stuff here. Another reason to appreciate the great state of California.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California rolls out sweeping new laws for 2026, from cellphone limits in schools to a ban on cat declawing
A slew of new laws in California have gone into effect, including a ban on law enforcement officers wearing masks, cuts to the cost of insulin and a requirement for landlords to provide refrigerators.
www.latimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 AM
There’s a lot of good stuff here. Another reason to appreciate the great state of California.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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However heartwarming, clever, historically fascinating, or technically advanced your AI slop post is, I will not watch it. I will not like it. I will not share it.
Make human stuff.
Make human stuff.
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
However heartwarming, clever, historically fascinating, or technically advanced your AI slop post is, I will not watch it. I will not like it. I will not share it.
Make human stuff.
Make human stuff.
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For the first Latinx Files newsletter of the year I made some predictions for 2026. One of them may be wishful thinking www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...
Our Latino predictions for 2026
From the midterm elections to the World Cup to the Grammys, here are five predictions for 2026.
www.latimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:06 PM
For the first Latinx Files newsletter of the year I made some predictions for 2026. One of them may be wishful thinking www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...
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Proud of this De Los doubleheader in today’s @latimes.com entertainment print section.
Cliqua story (by @carlosfilm.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Leather: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Cliqua story (by @carlosfilm.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Leather: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Proud of this De Los doubleheader in today’s @latimes.com entertainment print section.
Cliqua story (by @carlosfilm.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Leather: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Cliqua story (by @carlosfilm.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Leather: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
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Definitely a must read article - reality takes down the delusions of a rich man/former drug addict/serial abuser.
"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter." #McSweeneysTop25of2025
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Our 11th most-read article of 2025. - - -Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children a...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Definitely a must read article - reality takes down the delusions of a rich man/former drug addict/serial abuser.
I still hate fireworks.
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I still hate fireworks.
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As EVs falter in the U.S., hybrids are surging: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Hybrid sales surge as automakers recalibrate electrification strategies
Hybrid sales surge as automakers recalibrate electrification strategies
www.latimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
As EVs falter in the U.S., hybrids are surging: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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The stories that gripped L.A. in 2025: Catastrophic fires, shocking murders, immigration raids, an examination of L.A.’s chronic homelessness and deeply moving human narratives
The most-read Los Angeles Times stories of 2025
Matthew Perry's death. Tropical Storm Hilary. A mass shooting at a Lunar New Year festival: These were some of California's biggest news events. But there were bright spots too.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
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If this is what it takes to kill AI I'm all for it.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
If this is what it takes to kill AI I'm all for it.
I give some sugar to public broadcasting. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Essay: 6 ways public broadcasting will improve your life. And that's a promise
Public broadcasting is your friend. And local stations such as PBS SoCal (a union of KOCE and KCET) and LAUSD's KLCS, KCRW, LAist (KPCC), KUSC, KCSN and KJZZ need your support more than ever.
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I give some sugar to public broadcasting. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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2025 finally gets what it richly observes: “The Year in Rebuke”, today on #leshow. 1st hearing: 10a PT/1p ET wamc.org, kalw.org, wcbe.org. Then throughout the day on select public radio stations, and podcast on most platforms.
WAMC - Homepage | WAMC
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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December 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The countdown of our most-read articles of 2025 rolls along! Here's #16:
I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas
Our 16th most-read article of 2025. - - -You’ve probably wondered about me, the independent thinker in your social network. I’m one part libertari...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The countdown of our most-read articles of 2025 rolls along! Here's #16:
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If you’d like to cry, watch one video like this on YouTube and your whole feed is “last day of the newspaper in city X.”
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you’d like to cry, watch one video like this on YouTube and your whole feed is “last day of the newspaper in city X.”
He was for them.
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
He was for them.
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It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’ - The Boston Globe
Home prices in Greater Boston have surged far faster than incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for many.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
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This is what @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social were writing about in the Guardian a few months ago: the world's levers of power have been hijacked by a bizarre coalition of people who reject life and humanity, and want to hasten the world's end.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is what @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social were writing about in the Guardian a few months ago: the world's levers of power have been hijacked by a bizarre coalition of people who reject life and humanity, and want to hasten the world's end.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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I feel like this encapsulates LA’s 2025. A green bin negligently delivered to 70,000 apartment buildings that can’t store them, repurposed as shelter for someone who either can’t afford to live here or was violently displaced from their home, which collapsed in the heavy rain of a warming climate 😑
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I feel like this encapsulates LA’s 2025. A green bin negligently delivered to 70,000 apartment buildings that can’t store them, repurposed as shelter for someone who either can’t afford to live here or was violently displaced from their home, which collapsed in the heavy rain of a warming climate 😑
Bedford Falls. Ten years later this was the tract where I grew up.
December 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Bedford Falls. Ten years later this was the tract where I grew up.
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is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?