Greetings! Hasta la vista, baby: Greg Bovino, the face of Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, is retiring.  In January, the thuggish former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection was removed from his position after the deaths of two U.S. citizens who were shot and killed by his agents.  He was briefly reassigned to a position as Border Patrol sector chief in California. (NBC News)...Worth noting: If they ever make a movie about Minneapolis 2026, Sean Penn gets my vote to play Bovino...The American Spectator wonders if WWII would have started had FDR bombed Berlin and Tokyo in the 1930s before they ramped up their war machines. The article is obviously trying to justify Trump’s strikes against Iran. Draw your own conclusions...President Cognitive Decline: The perplexing POTUS had some strange Truth Social posts last night.  First, he suggested that Venezuela could become the 51^st state in a post about its national baseball team. Then he had another post mystifyingly linking to a January 19 Outkick article about the positive “massive” crowd reaction to his attendance at a college championship football game in Miami. He also endorsed the new podcast “Hangout with Sean Hannity,” but neglected to provide a link thus likely depriving his buddy with thousands of visits....Comedian Chelsea Handler has a major bone to pick with RFK Jr. and wife Cheryl Hines. According to the NY Post, she bought their $6 million house in the tony Brentwood section of LA five years ago, but it’s in such bad shape that she hasn’t even been able to live in it.  Among the problems: a crumbling foundation. Sounds like a metaphor for Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! In subtle ways, opposition to Trump was woven into the fabric of last night’s mostly bland Oscars.  For instance, Barbra Streisand’s tribute to the late Robert Redford, co-star in “The Way We Were,” spoke about how that iconic film was set in a time when Americans took loyalty oaths and were blacklisted for their political affiliations. She spoke of Redford’s environmental activism and his free speech advocacy.  Another example:  a gentle, yet  powerful anti-gun message from Gloria Cazares, the mother of a little girl killed in the Uvalde school massacre. She took the stage briefly after the film about the incident, “All the Empty Rooms,” won Oscar for Best Documentary Short.” “My daughter, Jackie, was nine years old when she was killed in Uvalde,” Cazares said. “Since that day, her bedroom has been frozen in time.”  The most overt political commentary came from Jimmy Kimmel who delivered this zinger: “As you know there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which.  Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS”...Worth noting: the MAGA-friendly showbiz site Hollywood in Toto gave the Oscars a big thumbs down, summing it up with this critique: “Conan O’Brien leads Trump Derangement gala at worst possible time” ...Brilliant: Saturday night’s MAHAspital ranks as the best SNL skit of the season. The hilarious spoof playing off  the hit TV series “The Pitt,” imagines an ER being run by medical personnel who are RFK Jr. vax-denying disciples.  MAHAspital’s tagline? “For people who love ‘The Pitt’ but can’t stand it’s liberal phony science”....Worth noting: another SNL bit that nailed it from Saturday night was a Tucker Carlson rant (played to perfection by Jeremy  Culhane) about woke Oscar politics...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard