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  • How the Oscar Race Got as Messy as “Conclave”


    Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their lot. Time-honored rituals are observed. Fancy outfits are donned. The ogling public is kept at bay. The contenders, some representing progress, others tradition, jockey for supporters, though outright campaigning is frowned upon—and negative campaigning is taboo, although it happens in whispers. Unflattering rumors swirl, and the contestants are made to atone for their past sins. Secret ballots are cast and counted, in an arcane tallying system, and a victor is announced, to great fanfare.

    This is, roughly, the plot of “Conclave,” in which the College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican, after the death of the Pope, to choose his successor. But it’s also the plot of this year’s Oscar race, in which “Conclave” is nominated in eight categories, including Best Picture. When I first saw it, last fall, the film immediately reminded me of awards season, with its ceremonial customs, its flair, and the pettiness of its esteemed voting body. (For the red robes and skullcaps, sub in the red carpet.) Just as Oscar nominees go on endless press rounds to talk about their artistic process without evincing a hunger for the little gold man, the film’s papal hopefuls profess that their aspirations are spiritual. Still, “every cardinal, deep down, has already chosen the name by which he would like his papacy to be known,” one character says in “Conclave”—just as every actor has, admittedly or not, delivered an Oscar speech in the shower.

    It wasn’t until the Oscar nominations were announced, two weeks ago, that awards season started to resemble “Conclave” where it counts: in sheer, soapy drama. As in the movie, a succession of mini-scandals has threatened to derail one Best Picture contender after another, amounting to one of the messiest campaign seasons in recent memory. In “Conclave,” the calculus shifts each time a disgraced cardinal drops out of the running. In the awards race, the question looms: Will any of the nominees make it to the ceremony untainted?

    Let’s start at the beginning. (“Conclave” spoilers follow.) Last year’s Best Picture winner, “Oppenheimer,” was a widely admired favorite, much like the beloved Pope who dies in the first scene of “Conclave.” This year’s race has never had a stable front-runner; instead, it’s populated by smaller, more polarizing movies, each vulnerable under the scrutiny of the Oscar spotlight. As in “Conclave,” in which Cardinal Adeyemi, of Nigeria, gets the most votes on the first ballot, “Emilia Peréz,” a potentially history-making entrant, seemed to be winning the numbers game, with thirteen nominations. But both contenders prove to be imperfect harbingers of progress. Adeyemi would be the first Pope from Africa, but he’s known among the cardinals to have regressive views on homosexuality. “Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a transgender drug lord in Mexico, seems like a boundary-breaking Best Picture winner, but it’s been saddled with criticisms from Mexican and trans viewers, who have accused it of retrograde misrepresentation. (Its director, Jacques Audiard, is French.)

    Midway through “Conclave,” Adeyemi’s candidacy collapses when a nun arrives from Nigeria, revealing that he fathered her child when she was nineteen. “Emilia Pérez” has had a cascade of P.R. snafus from Karla Sofía Gascón, the Spanish actress who plays the title role. When Gascón landed on the Best Actress list, she became the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar. Things immediately went sideways, when she had to walk back earlier comments she’d made to a Brazilian newspaper about a fellow-nominee, Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”). “I have never, at any point, said anything bad about Fernanda Torres or her movie,” Gascón had told Folha de S. Paulo. “However, there are people working with Fernanda Torres tearing me and ‘Emilia Pérez’ down.”

    No sooner was the backlash subsiding than old tweets by Gascón “resurfaced” (the word every public figure dreads), in which she called George Floyd a “drug addict swindler,” likened the 2021 Oscars to “a Black Lives Matter demonstration,” and mused, “Is it just my impression or are there more Muslims in Spain? . . . Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.” Gascón nuked her X account and released multiple apologies, although she maintained that she’d been targeted by a plot to “sully” her name with “lies or things taken out of context.” Compare Adeyemi, when he’s confronted by Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes): “I am the victim of a disgraceful plot to ruin my reputation!”

    Gascón was never a front-runner for Best Actress, but the revelations have all but scotched her chances, and they may well hurt “Emilia Pérez” over all—making the new front-runner uncertain. Perhaps it’s “The Brutalist,” which has not been immune to scandal itself. Last month, its editor revealed that A.I. had been used to tweak the Hungarian accents of its stars, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, and to create fictitious architectural plans and buildings for the closing retrospective of the main character’s career. This touched a nerve in Hollywood, where A.I. was central to the 2023 actors’ and writers’ strikes, but opinions were split on the infraction. “Not all A.I. is created equal,” Sam Adams wrote in Slate. “You can argue that The Brutalist generating concept sketches deprived a human architect of work—although it was an architect who decided to use it.” If “The Brutalist” has a corresponding character in “Conclave,” I’d say it’s Cardinal Tremblay (John Lithgow), who stands accused of the obscure sin of simony—the buying and selling of something spiritual, such as an ecclesiastic office. Not great, but a bit of a head-scratcher.

    But wait, there’s more! Did you see the flak over Fernanda Torres, who had to apologize after a clip of her wearing blackface in a comedy sketch in 2008 resurfaced? (More of that darn resurfacing!) What about the essay that appeared in the Cut in December, titled “How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?,” by Lilly Jay, the therapist whose ex-husband, Ethan Slater, is now dating his “Wicked” co-star, Ariana Grande? (“As for me, days with my son are sunny,” Jay wrote. “Days when I can’t escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker.”) As Hunter Harris observed last week, in her pop-culture newsletter, Hung Up, “This year is quite the Conclave; we are all Isabella Rossellini silently cryptic at an outdated copier.”

    Of course, Oscar-season melodrama is nothing new, though it doesn’t date back quite as far as the papacy. In the nineties, Harvey Weinstein, at Miramax, spearheaded an aggressive campaigning style that made the awards ecosystem more cutthroat and bloated. The 1999 race, which pitted Miramax’s “Shakespeare in Love” against DreamWorks’ “Saving Private Ryan,” was the nastiest yet, after DreamWorks got word that Weinstein was bad-mouthing “Private Ryan” to the press. Three years later, the front-runner was “A Beautiful Mind,” about the mentally ill mathematician John Nash, and the Drudge Report posted that Academy members were discovering “shocking Jew-baiting” remarks that Nash had made during a schizophrenic episode. Everyone blamed the smear campaign on Weinstein, but someone from the “Lord of the Rings” team later admitted to having a hand in it. Nowadays, you don’t need a campaign strategist to leak oppo research from the shadows. On their months-long press tours, directors and actors have plenty of opportunity to step in it themselves. Social media can take care of the rest.



    The Oscar race this year has been a wild ride, with unexpected twists and turns that have left everyone scratching their heads. From controversial nominations to shocking snubs, it seems like anything could happen on Hollywood’s biggest night.

    One film that has been at the center of the chaos is “Conclave,” a dark and gritty drama that has divided critics and audiences alike. The film, which follows a group of cardinals as they navigate a tense and secretive election for the next Pope, has been praised for its bold storytelling and powerhouse performances. However, it has also faced criticism for its controversial subject matter and polarizing ending.

    As the Oscars draw closer, “Conclave” has become a lightning rod for debate within the industry. Some believe it deserves to sweep the awards, while others think it is too controversial to be recognized. The film’s presence in the race has only added to the confusion and unpredictability of this year’s awards season.

    With so much uncertainty surrounding “Conclave” and the rest of the Oscar contenders, it’s anyone’s guess how the race will ultimately play out. One thing is for sure – this year’s ceremony is shaping up to be one of the most chaotic and messy in recent memory.

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  • Jimmy Butler’s Messy Splits | The New Yorker


    Sometimes, at the start of a relationship, you can see its end. When the Miami Heat acquired Jimmy Butler, in 2019, what did they expect would happen? “I like controversy,” Butler said to reporters, in 2017, when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls. Right around that time, he was fined for a locker-room argument in which he questioned the younger players’ desire to win. He felt underappreciated, and he reportedly called the team’s head coach, Fred Hoiberg, “soft.” Butler was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves after the Bulls were knocked out of the playoffs. “I feed off of confrontation,” he told the basketball writer Michael Pina that summer. “It makes me go.”

    Butler forced his way out of Minnesota at the start of his second season there. After asking for a trade, he skipped the first two weeks of training camp. He bridled at being made to practice despite his trade request. “I have a for-real problem with authority,” he later explained on J. J. Redick’s podcast. “When somebody’s telling me what to do as a grown man, I have a problem with it.” When he finally showed up, he started yelling at the general manager, Scott Layden. “You fucking need me, Scott,” he said. “You can’t win without me.” Butler joined a reserve squad for a scrimmage, and they crushed the starters. He shut down the team’s best players largely by himself. When the game was over, his Timberwolves teammate Jeff Teague recalled, Butler took off his warmups to reveal his shirt and shorts, with big holes where he had cut out the word “Minnesota.” He bolted before practice was even over. When the other Timberwolves headed back to the locker room, they turned on ESPN and saw Butler, already at home, describing his discontent to the journalist Rachel Nichols. The interview had already been set up.

    A month after that, the Timberwolves traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers. With Butler, the 76ers made the Eastern Conference semifinals, where they narrowly lost to the Toronto Raptors. Then, in the offseason, the 76ers decided to sign Tobias Harris, instead of paying Butler what he thought he was worth. Butler left Philly for Miami, and later described his fallout with the team on Redick’s podcast. He said that he’d heard there were questions about whether the 76ers’ coach, Brett Brown, could “control him.” “I was, like, ‘You don’t gotta worry about it,’ ” Butler said. “Shit, can’t nobody fucking control me.” When he was playing for Miami in the 2022 playoffs, the Heat beat the 76ers and he shouted, “Tobias Harris over me?”

    Miami was supposed to be different, in the same way that Butler was clearly different. Other stars had forced their way into trades before: Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons, James Harden, Carmelo Anthony, and Paul George, among others. Some of those deals worked out; some did not. But no one had ever seemed to fit his new team quite like Butler seemed to fit the Heat. The team was hypercompetitive; Butler was, too. The Heat had the hardest preseason conditioning test in the league; Butler’s intense work ethic was legendary. Butler was a “serial killer’s dream,” his personal skills trainer told Pina, back in 2017. “He does the same shit every fucking day.” Pat Riley, the Heat’s calculating, impenetrable president? Also a serial killer’s dream. Both fetishized toughness and proving others wrong. Butler played in junior college before transferring to Marquette University, and was the thirtieth pick in the N.B.A. draft. In Miami, he was the best player on a team that relied on contributions from former G Leaguers and undrafted players. The Heat made the N.B.A. Finals as the fifth seed in the East, in 2020, and again, as the eighth seed, in 2023. The higher the stakes, the harder the team hustled. The higher the stakes, the better Butler got.

    Before “Heat Culture” was a brand—the words now painted on the floor, sold on jerseys—it seemed to be a real thing. Intangible, but real. You could find evidence of it in the stats of playoff games, like charges taken and loose balls recovered, and in the intensity of the team’s zone defense. You could hear it in the zeal with which players spoke about it, and their pride that not everyone could stand it. Heat culture predated Butler; its paragon was Riley. He wore suits and slicked back his hair, and, as Udonis Haslem, the player who, more than anyone, represented the team’s ethos, said, Riley wanted his teams to be “a little nasty.” And there was something a little nasty about the way Riley pushed players, and sometimes pushed them out, even the stars. Shaquille O’Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James all left. But all of them came to praise Riley, and some of them have returned to his fold.

    When Butler arrived, he seemed to embody the team’s energy. But in fact he was a culture all of his own. Stories have been emerging about how there were cracks forming in the relationships between Riley and Butler, between Butler and other members of the team. He would fly private instead of joining everyone on the charter. He’d stay at his own place, not the team hotel. He got special treatment, which was nothing new; stars often do. But, as far as the tenets of Heat culture go, hard work wins championships, sacrifice wins championships, toughness wins championships. Teamwork, not freelancing stars, wins championships. Butler was, at times, a great teammate, but also in many ways an island unto himself.

    Heat culture hasn’t actually won any championships in recent years. But good players have, and lately Miami has needed more of them. Butler has often been injured, and is thirty-five years old now. The team has been focussed on cultivating a few of its best young players, including Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo. The front office’s failure to sign another big star reportedly frustrated Butler. Then the Heat did not offer him the two-year, hundred-and-thirteen-million-dollar max extension he was eligible for this past summer. Riley raised questions about Butler’s durability and ego, after Butler declared, in May, that the Heat could have gone further in the post-season had he been fully healthy. “For him to say that, I thought, Is that Jimmy trolling or is that Jimmy serious?” Riley said. “If you’re not on the court playing against Boston, or on the court playing against the New York Knicks, you should keep your mouth shut in your criticism of those teams.”

    The Heat probably should have traded him right then. Riley might have been right about not offering Butler so much money, but it has always been clear that, to Butler, money is a signal of value, respect. Maybe Riley was also right about Butler’s chirping, but it’s no surprise to learn that Butler reportedly took offense to that, too. During the start of the season, Butler was in and out of the lineup with injuries, and sometimes seemed to be out of it even when he was in. He let it leak that he wanted to be traded. He talked about wanting to recover his “joy” on the court. The Heat suspended him for seven games, citing issues with his conduct toward the team. He skipped a flight, and was suspended for another two. Then he came to practice, and was told he’d be replaced in the starting lineup with Haywood Highsmith, a player few outside of Miami, and quite possibly few within it, had heard of. The N.B.A. reporter Brian Windhorst later described it as a setup, and Butler complied, walking out. The Heat suspended him indefinitely.

    It’s likely that he’ll be traded by Thursday’s deadline. He is still a fantastic defender, a disciplined player, a gnarly competitor, and now he has something to prove. It’s been rumored that the Heat, who clearly have no other choice, have been dropping the price and now are shopping him cheap. Some people have wondered why he would sink his stock and worsen his trade value. They seem to suggest that he should view himself as fans and analysts sometimes view him, as an asset. They wonder why he isn’t more considerate of his teammates, whom he’s putting in an awful position, and why he’d damage his legacy. His teammates, for their part, appear ready to move on from him.

    “You gotta go further into my life to understand why I am the way that I am,” Butler told Sports Illustrated, a few years ago. “And I ain’t changing.” He grew up in Tomball, Texas, a tiny town outside of Houston. His father left him and his mother, and then his mother kicked him out when he was thirteen. She told him, he recalled, “I don’t like the look of you.” He had to fend for himself, and went from couch to couch, until a friend’s family took him in. “I’m gonna go or I’m gonna be or I’m gonna stay wherever I’m wanted, man. Because that’s all anybody ever wants,” he said, in 2017. “To be appreciated.”

    There was a sense, in Miami, that he’d found his people: the intense coach, who could in one moment nearly come to blows with him and in another embrace him; the teammates who could withstand his brutal workouts, who had nearly as much to prove as he did; and Riley, a man who might just possibly understand and value him. Riley has heaped praise on Butler in the past. But lately there has been the reminder of limits, an almost paternal strictness. You should keep your mouth shut. Riley rarely speaks to the press these days, but he recently went on the podcast of Dan Le Batard, and they spoke as friends do. At several points in the course of nearly two hours, Riley sounded emotional, choked up. They discussed Riley’s father, a “great man,” Riley said, who had never achieved his own dreams as a ballplayer, and who’d been very hard on his children. “Whatever I did wasn’t good enough.” Later he said, of him and his siblings, “Without a doubt, we were survivors. If my father gave us one thing, all of us, it’s, You’re on your own. And, when we all got the opportunity to leave, we left.”

    Riley got a scholarship to the University of Kentucky, where he played on an all-white team that lost the national championship to Texas Western College, in a game that helped drive the integration of sports. From there, he went pro, before becoming a commentator and then a coach. His father died when he was twenty-five. There was the suggestion, throughout the interview, that Riley turned basketball into a family, though his model at times has seemed more like that of a Don than the life he shares with his wife and children. (His nickname is the Godfather.) It’s not clear precisely when the interview was recorded, but, when he was asked by Le Batard about the way he related to players these days, his answer seemed to allude to Butler in particular:



    Jimmy Butler’s Messy Splits: A Deep Dive into the NBA Star’s Turbulent Relationships

    In the world of professional sports, drama and controversy are not uncommon. But few players have experienced as many messy splits as NBA star Jimmy Butler. From his tumultuous departure from the Chicago Bulls to his rocky relationships with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Philadelphia 76ers, Butler’s career has been marked by drama both on and off the court.

    In this in-depth analysis, The New Yorker explores the reasons behind Butler’s turbulent relationships with his former teams and the impact it has had on his reputation in the league. From clashes with teammates and coaches to demanding trades and public outbursts, Butler’s career has been anything but smooth sailing.

    But despite the drama, one thing is clear: Butler is a talented and tenacious player who has proven time and time again that he can thrive in high-pressure situations. As he continues to make headlines with his recent move to the Miami Heat, one thing is for certain: Jimmy Butler’s messy splits are far from over.

    Stay tuned for more updates on Butler’s career and the latest developments in the NBA world, only on The New Yorker.

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  • In L.A., the politics around wildfire debris removal gets messy


    Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s David Zahniser, with assists from Tony Barboza, Andrew Khouri and Laura J. Nelson, giving you the latest on city and county government.

    One of the most emotionally charged issues facing Los Angeles-area political leaders since the deadly wildfires is also one of the most basic: How will the government get rid of all the debris?

    When the week began, L.A. city and county elected officials were facing furious demands to haul it away more swiftly. By week’s end, they were hearing criticism that the process was moving too fast — and that the hazardous waste was being shipped to the wrong places.

    President Trump first seized on the debris issue during his Jan. 24 visit to L.A. At an awkward roundtable discussion, he told Mayor Karen Bass that homeowners in Pacific Palisades, the part of Los Angeles hardest hit by the fires, were “devastated” to learn they would be “forced to wait 18 months” to get building permits. “I just think you have to allow people to go on their site and start the process tonight,” he told the mayor.

    Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt piled on days later, telling reporters in Washington, D.C., that Pacific Palisades residents felt “as though their government has just gone insane.”

    “Before President Trump showed up on the scene, Karen Bass was telling private property owners that they would have to wait 18 months to access their private property,” she said.

    So where did that 18-month timetable come from? Apparently, the federal government itself.

    On Jan. 23, a day before Trump’s arrival, Bass and other local elected officials took part in a post-wildfire Zoom call hosted by the Pacific Palisades Community Council — a packed session attended by hundreds of residents grieving over the loss of their homes. Among the speakers was Col. Eric Swenson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who — along with L.A. County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella — explained the government’s strategy for hauling away debris.

    “If all things go as planned,” Swenson told about 1,000 people in the Zoom meeting, “we expect to be meaningfully complete with private property debris removal sometime in the next 18 months.”

    Swenson and Pestrella said residents whose homes were destroyed would have access to a two-part program funded by the federal government. During the mandatory first phase, workers from the Environmental Protection Agency would remove hazardous waste — paint, asbestos, lithium-ion batteries and so on — from the sites of burned-out homes.

    Over the longer second phase, the Army Corps of Engineers would send crews to haul away the remainder of the debris. (Property owners also may choose to pay for their own private cleanup of nonhazardous materials.)

    Some wildfire survivors were stunned at the prospect of waiting 18 months, voicing their frustration online and in person. Trump channeled that anger during his Pacific Palisades roundtable, telling Bass in front of the cameras: “They want to start now. They want to start removing things.”

    Councilmember Traci Park pointed out to Trump that the 18-month timeline had been announced by the Army Corps. Other local officials, during the roundtable and in the days that followed, warned that residents could face health risks if they personally sift through toxic debris, especially without protective equipment.

    “The most important thing is for people to be safe,” Bass said.

    Since the Palisades fire broke out on Jan. 7, Bass has sometimes struggled to answer questions about the city’s response. Asked at one point about the criticism from Trump’s press secretary, she told KNX that she had a productive call with the administration that same day.

    Trump, in an executive order, has called for the heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the EPA and other U.S. agencies to develop a plan to speed up the removal of debris — including contaminated material.

    According to one White House official, federal agencies have since tripled the number of hazardous materials teams heading out to the Palisades and Eaton burn areas. They also laid plans for having the EPA and Army Corps work simultaneously on different parts of the same site, as part of the effort to speed things up.

    By midweek, L.A. County officials were offering a more accelerated debris removal timeline.

    “EPA’s Phase one started at a projected three months, and is now shortened to 30 days,” Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said on Wednesday.

    Swenson, standing near Horvath, presented a different schedule as well, saying “better than 80 to 90 percent” of the properties burned in the Eaton and Palisades fires would be cleared by the Army Corps “in the first year or less.”

    Swenson acknowledged that he had previously described debris removal as an 18-month process, but said there had been a misunderstanding. The vast majority of people who sign up for debris removal “will be done much faster than a year,” he said.

    “But there will always be people, for a variety of reasons, where ownership of the property may be in doubt because the owner may have passed away during or before the fire,” he said. “The county can’t approve [a site cleanup] until they have established legal ownership.”

    Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose district includes Altadena and who is the only Republican on the board, credited Trump with speeding things up, telling reporters that the president “doesn’t mess around.” Horvath thanked Barger for working to secure the faster timeline from the EPA.

    But by then, the supervisors were contending with a different political headache.

    Residents in Duarte, Azusa and other San Gabriel Valley communities were furious to learn that Lario Park in Irwindale had been designated as a site that would temporarily receive paint, bleach and other hazardous waste from the burned-out properties of the Eaton fire.

    That rocky location, which is actually known as the Lario Staging Area, is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was leased until last month to the L.A. County parks department.

    At a packed town hall in Azusa, residents and officials from cities near the site expressed anger and dismay that federal officials had taken action without notifying them. As environmental officials fielded their questions, other residents shouted: “Leave it in Altadena!”

    “It feels like David versus Goliath,” Duarte Mayor Cesar Garcia said.

    Celeste McCoy, an on-scene coordinator with the EPA, told county officials that the site was chosen because it is already owned by the federal government.

    “We are moving as fast as possible,” she said. “We have, by order of the White House within the last 48 hours, to expedite this phase one process.”

    Barger agreed that the EPA should have done better outreach to the communities around Lario Park. But she expressed confidence that federal cleanup crews would “make sure that it’s safe.”

    “I can tell you, having worked with the EPA, they are probably the strictest agency to work with,” she said.

    On Friday, Trump spokesperson Kush Desai suggested that more moves might be on the way. In a statement, he said the president plans to use “every lever of executive and legislative power” to “rebuild ruined homes and communities.”

    “President Trump’s actions have streamlined government bureaucracy and deployed additional federal resources to expedite the cleanup and rebuilding process — efforts we only intend to build on to get Americans’ lives back on track as soon as possible,” he said.

    State of play

    — FLOOR FIGHT: The City Council declined to move ahead with tenant protections proposed in response to the region’s devastating wildfires. After an extremely heated discussion, the council voted 10-3 to send the proposal to its housing and homelessness committee for more deliberations. The proposal included a prohibition on several types of evictions if tenants experienced economic or medical hardship as a result of the fires.

    — WALKING TOUR: Bass and Steve Soboroff, the city’s chief recovery officer, took the news media on a freewheeling half-hour walking tour in Pacific Palisades, where they discussed plans to hire a firm to oversee the rebuilding process. “They’re going to represent you and make sure that everybody does exactly what they say they’re going to do,” Soboroff said.

    — BATTLIN’ BARGER: Meanwhile, Barger fielded questions from the LAT’s Steve Lopez, telling him that residents have a right to rebuild in high-fire risk areas like Altadena. “I talked to a probation officer whose home had been in the family forever,” she said. “And I’m not going to look her in the eye and say, ‘You can’t build. Sorry. Climate change.’”

    — HEATED OVER HOUSING: Speaking of the supes, housing advocates are upset over a proposal to temporarily waive state housing laws in Altadena and other unincorporated areas impacted by wildfires. Barger and Lindsey Horvath, whose districts were in the path of the fires, want Gov. Gavin Newsom to temporarily exempt those areas from laws intended to speed up the creation of affordable housing.

    — HEALTH HAZARDS: Toxins may have reached parts of L.A. well outside the immediate fire zones.

    — FIRE STARTER: Inside the search for the cause of the Palisades fire.

    — PUSHED OUT: City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto has fired Michelle McGinnis, the onetime head of the office’s criminal branch, a lawyer for McGinnis told The Times. Matthew McNicholas, who represents McGinnis, said his client will challenge her termination. Last year, McGinnis sued Feldstein Soto, saying she faced retaliation after identifying a number of misdeeds by her boss. Feldstein Soto, who previously denied wrongdoing, declined comment on McGinnis’ employment status.

    — PARK PROCEEDS: City Councilmember Traci Park, who represents Pacific Palisades and other coastal areas, is running for reelection in June 2026. On Friday, she reported that her campaign took in about $306,000 in donations during the fundraising period that ended Dec. 31. Meanwhile, businessman Tim Gaspar, who is running to replace Councilmember Bob Blumenfield in the west San Fernando Valley, reported that he collected more than $106,000 — which includes a $25,000 personal loan from himself.

    — EMERGENCY FUND: The council set aside $50 million for wildfire emergency response and recovery on Friday, borrowing the money from the Department of Building and Safety. The council approved the transfer unanimously, noting that the loan would be repaid with state and federal emergency relief funds.

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    In L.A., the politics around wildfire debris removal gets messy

    As wildfires continue to ravage California, the aftermath leaves behind a trail of destruction that requires extensive cleanup efforts. In Los Angeles, the politics surrounding wildfire debris removal have become increasingly contentious, with various stakeholders clashing over the best approach to handling the aftermath.

    One of the major points of contention is the responsibility for debris removal. While the state government plays a significant role in coordinating cleanup efforts, local governments and private contractors also have a stake in the process. This has led to disagreements over who should foot the bill for debris removal and how the cleanup should be carried out.

    In addition, environmental concerns have also complicated the debris removal process. Asbestos, heavy metals, and other hazardous materials are often present in wildfire debris, posing a risk to both cleanup crews and the surrounding environment. Finding a safe and effective way to dispose of these materials has become a major challenge, further complicating the cleanup efforts.

    Furthermore, the sheer scale of the debris left behind by wildfires has overwhelmed many communities, leading to delays in cleanup efforts and frustration among residents. With limited resources and competing interests at play, finding a solution that satisfies all parties involved has proven to be a difficult task.

    In the midst of all this, it is clear that the politics surrounding wildfire debris removal in L.A. have become increasingly messy. As the debate rages on, it is crucial for stakeholders to come together and find a solution that prioritizes the safety of workers, protects the environment, and helps communities recover from the devastation of wildfires. Only through collaboration and cooperation can we effectively address the challenges posed by wildfire debris removal in L.A.

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  • Virginia mother pleads guilty to assaulting 10-year-old son over messy bedroom


    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A Fort Belvoir, Virginia mother accused of assaulting her child with various items, like a chair and dresser drawers, for not cleaning his bedroom pleaded guilty in federal court to several charges on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

    Injuries from the Oct. 8, 2024, incident sent the 10-year-old boy to the emergency room after he managed to flee from the house, and put 38-year-old China Ashley Charles into police custody, according to federal attorneys in Virginia.

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    Prosecutors accused Charles of hitting the young boy with a chair, dresser drawers, a hot iron, a charging wire, a hairbrush, and a large serving spoon before making the boy sit in a cold bath after he began bleeding on his finger. Incidents like this happened over a four-year span, the boy’s sister reportedly told police.

    Officials said the boy managed to escape from the second floor of the residence onto a roof, and ran when he got on the ground. Federal attorneys said police found the boy with bruises, abrasions, a know on the back of his head, and a bleeding finger.

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    Police who investigated the house reportedly found the items used in the assault, some of them bloodied, along with an “I’M ON PUNISHMENT” sweater and a shirt, according to a statement.

    Charles pled guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, assault by striking, beating, and wounding and cruelty to children; she is set to be sentenced on May 9, and faces up to 16 years in federal prison, officials said.



    In a shocking turn of events, a Virginia mother has pleaded guilty to assaulting her 10-year-old son over a messy bedroom. The incident, which occurred last month, has left many in the community reeling.

    According to reports, the mother became enraged after discovering her son’s messy bedroom and proceeded to physically assault him. The boy sustained minor injuries as a result of the attack.

    The mother, who has not been named to protect the identity of the child, has since expressed remorse for her actions. In a statement released through her lawyer, she acknowledged that her behavior was unacceptable and apologized for the harm caused to her son.

    The case has sparked a debate about the use of physical discipline in parenting and the importance of seeking help when feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. Many are calling for increased awareness and resources for parents in need of support.

    As the mother awaits sentencing, the community is left grappling with the repercussions of this tragic incident. It serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of addressing anger and stress in healthy ways, rather than resorting to violence.

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  • Jeezy, Jeannie Mai Divorce Still Messy, Police Get Involved


    If you thought the mess between rapper Jeezy and his ex-wife Jeannie Mai was going to stay in 2024, then boy, do we have news for you. Unfortunately, it may not be news you’re going to like.

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    In new court documents obtained by InStyle on Friday, it appears the two got embroiled into yet another dispute back in December 2024 that reportedly ended up with police getting called. The impetus? An alleged pre-scheduled visit to Jeezy’s house in Georgia that a judge allowed via court order for Mai to retrieve boxes with her last things in them like handbags, shoes, her Emmys and other trophies and more that were reportedly inside the garage.

    However, when she was there, she was refused entry by the house manager “on the orders of Jeezy.” His reason for doing so allegedly stemmed from his concerns over letting the former host of “The Real” into their home for fear that she’d plant “listening devices or cameras” and Mai’s alleged previous attempts at “destroying [Jeezy’s] career with misleading information.”

    “[Jeannie] is angry about the parties divorce and she is revengeful. In addition, the mere presence of [Jeannie] inside [Jeezy’s] home and personal space, after the highly contested nature of the divorce case, would absolutely destroy [Jeezy’s] peace and tranquility, as well as invade his privacy,” the rapper’s lawyers said in the documents.

    However, Mai is pushing back against those claims and is arguing that the “Put On” artist had previously agreed to let her come to the house to pick up her things and knew exactly when she was planning to pull up. Upon her arrival, that’s when he switched up and violated the terms of the court order by not allowing her or her movers to get her things. As a result, the Atlanta police were were called and later arrived at the home in attempt to resolve the issue.

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    “When the police officer informed the house manager that a court order was, in fact, being violated, the house manager then had to shift gears and create a new barrier to entry. Next, the house manager, at the direction of [Jeezy], refused to allow anyone on behalf of [Jeannie] to enter the home unless they signed a nondisclosure agreement. To note, there is nothing in the court order that states any language regarding a nondisclosure agreement,” Mai’s lawyer wrote.

    Fortunately, Mai was able to get her things, but  multiple boxes were damaged with water and showed proof that a rodent had eaten through them. Several of her trophies were also allegedly scratched up and/or broken.

    This news comes just four months after Mai blasted her ex for allegedly unfulfilled settlement requirements back in September 2024. The former couple’s divorce was settled earlier that summer.



    It seems like the divorce between rapper Jeezy and TV host Jeannie Mai is still far from amicable, as police had to get involved in their messy split. Reports have surfaced that tensions between the former couple have escalated to the point where law enforcement had to intervene.

    The details of what exactly transpired leading up to the police involvement have not been disclosed, but it’s clear that the situation is not a smooth one. Jeezy and Jeannie Mai announced their split back in 2020, just a year after getting engaged.

    Fans of the couple are shocked by the turn of events, as many had hoped for a peaceful resolution to their relationship. It remains to be seen how the divorce proceedings will play out, but it’s clear that things are far from being resolved between Jeezy and Jeannie Mai. Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.

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  • Miss Mouth’s Messy Eater Stain Treater Spray – 16oz Stain Remover – Newborn & Baby Essentials – No Dry Cleaning Food, Grease, Coffee Off Laundry, Underwear, Fabric


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  • 108 Centella Asiatica Wax Strips for Hair Removal, Hypoallergenic Waxing Strips Kit for Face, Eyebrow, Legs, Arms, Armpits,Bikini Hair Remover (54 Double Strips Sized+18 Oil Wipes) Soothing, Non Messy


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    LONG-LASTING RESULTS : Waxing with Wokaar wax strips can remove hair from the root, which means the results can last up to 4 weeks and regrowth is thinner and less bushy.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room – Paperback – ACCEPTABLE



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  • Ohio State’s Will Howard near title after messy Kansas State departure






    Ohio State’s Will Howard near title after messy Kansas State departure

    Former Kansas State quarterback Will Howard has found new life at Ohio State, and he’s making the most of it. After a messy departure from the Wildcats, Howard has quickly become a key player for the Buckeyes and is helping lead them towards a potential national title.

    Howard’s time at Kansas State came to an abrupt end after a series of off-field issues and disagreements with the coaching staff. However, Ohio State saw potential in the talented quarterback and welcomed him with open arms.

    Since joining the Buckeyes, Howard has impressed coaches and teammates alike with his work ethic, leadership abilities, and on-field performance. He has quickly become a fan favorite and has helped guide Ohio State to a successful season.

    With the College Football Playoff on the horizon, Howard and the Buckeyes are in prime position to compete for a national title. Despite the setbacks he faced at Kansas State, Howard has shown resilience and determination, proving that he has what it takes to succeed at the highest level of college football.

    As Ohio State continues its quest for a championship, all eyes will be on Will Howard as he looks to make a name for himself on the biggest stage.

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  • Why Messy SpaceX and Blue Origin Launches Are Good News


    A lot of hardware destined for space went to pieces this week, but to hear the rocket companies responsible for the messes tell it, little untoward happened at all. “We did it! Orbital. Great night for Team Blue,” David Limp, the CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin posted on X, after the Jan. 14 maiden launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket ended with an upper stage payload successfully reaching orbit. The first stage, which was supposed to land gently on a downrange barge, however, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. 

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX, meanwhile got cheeky two days later after the launch of its giant Starship rocket on Jan. 16 flipped that script. The rocket’s first stage was successfully recovered between a giant pair of chopstick-like tongs on the Texas launch pad but the second stage was lost in a massive explosion eight minutes and 27 seconds into flight. “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” the company euphemistically posted on X.

    It was the second part of both those X posts, however, that told the real story of the imperfect flights. “On to spring and trying again on the landing,” Limp wrote of Blue Origin’s plans for a second launch in just a few months. “Teams will continue to review data from today’s flight test to better understand root cause,” SpaceX wrote. “With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability.”

    Rocket science has always been an exceedingly iterative process, one in which a whole lot of launches have to come to ruin before the engineers get things right. During NASA’s early days, nearly half of the Atlas boosters that lofted the Mercury astronauts into space failed their test flights before they were finally rated safe to carry men. The Titan missiles that launched the two-man Gemini crews practically shook themselves to pieces in their first uncrewed flights. And as for the celebrated Saturn 5, the magnificent machine that launched the Apollo astronauts to the moon?

    “This was a disaster,” Chris Kraft, NASA’s director of flight crew operations, told the press in 1968 after the final uncrewed flight of the Saturn 5 almost ended in a crash landing in the ocean. “I want to emphasize that. It was a disaster.”

    But the Atlases flew and the Titans flew and the Saturns flew, and if space history is any guide, the New Glenns and the Starships will fly too—but not without a lot of work. 

    Of the two new rockets that had their try-outs this week, it was the New Glenn that had the most to prove. Blue Origin, founded in 2000, is the brainchild of Amazon CEO Bezos who envisions the company as a regular provider of space transport for both cargo and crew and a major player in making humanity both an on-world and off-world species, with millions of people eventually living in space. While the company has successfully launched 28 of its small New Shepard rockets on pop-gun suborbital missions—nine with passengers on board—it had never before placed any payload in orbit. That’s compared to a staggering 423 successful launches of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket and 11 of its bigger Falcon Heavy. Starship, still very much experimental, has flown seven times.

    New Glenn, which has been in development for a decade and was expected to have its first launch in 2020, has had nowhere near the breakneck R&D of the Falcons. But by many measures it has been worth the wait. The first stage is powered by seven methane-burning BE-4 engines—a cleaner fuel than the kerosene used in the Falcon 9. Together the engines put out 3.85 million pounds of thrust—about half of what the Saturn 5 produced, and just under the 5 million pounds of the Falcon Heavy. But New Glenn still counts as a muscle-bound missile.

    “A single BE-4 turbopump can fit in the backseat of a car,” wrote Limp on X. “[But] when all seven pump fuel and oxygen from the BE-4’s common shaft, they produce enough horsepower to propel two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers at full tilt.”

    This week’s failure to stick the first stage landing notwithstanding, the New Glenn is designed for reusability—with each rocket built for up to 25 flights—and is intended to carry both cargo and crew. With SpaceX already dominating the commercial launch field, Blue Origin would seem something of an afterthought—but it’s not. If the long drought between crewed launches from U.S. soil after NASA’s shuttles stood down in 2011 and before the first crewed Falcon 9 flew in 2020 proved anything, it’s that it is never a good idea for a country or an industry to be dependent on just a single launch system.

    “Most satellite providers want to have at least two options for dissimilar redundancy,” says Scott Pace, the director of George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute. 

    This is truer than it’s ever been now that NASA has gotten largely out of the launch business, ceding that work to the private sector. The closest thing the space agency has today to the Saturn 5 is the Space Launch System (SLS), the massive rocket designed to be used in the Artemis program, which aims to have American astronauts back on the moon by the end of this decade. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the SLS is the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched, though it still puts out just over half as much muscle as the 16 million pounds produced by the Starship. Still, SLS is a boutique machine: It has flown just once, uncrewed, in 2022, costs over $2 billion per launch, and is not set to fly again until the crewed, circumlunar mission of Artemis II in April, 2026.

    “SLS operates in a hardware-poor environment,” says Pace. “You’ve only got one or two of these things. The great advantage that SpaceX has and hopefully New Glenn will have is that they operate in a hardware-rich environment. They have lots and lots of [rockets] to work with.”

    Starship is proving that already. SpaceX could afford its flippancy on X because the company has always operated with a fly-fast, fail-fast, fly-again metabolism. The seven Starship launches since 2023 easily beat the poky pace of the SLS, and NASA has enough faith in the rocket that it tapped the upper stage of the Starship to serve as the Human Landing System—the 21st century version of the Apollo era lunar module—for the Artemis III lunar landing mission. Much of the work the Falcon 9 does today involves carrying cargo and crew to the International Space Station. After the station is deorbited in 2030, however, the rationale for the Falcon 9 might go with it, especially if Starship is in the flight rotation by then.

    “There’ve been rumors that at the end of the space station program SpaceX doesn’t really intend to keep flying Falcon 9s,” says Pace. “So a high flight-rate Starship environment is what the New Glenn will be looking at.”

    That environment, with both Starship and New Glenn flying regularly both to Earth orbit and, eventually, to the moon and beyond, will be a good one for the commercial launch sector and the U.S. in particular—especially with other countries’ boosters not viable options for American and other western customers. “We don’t use Chinese launch vehicles,” says Pace. “Russian launch vehicles are largely gone because of sanctions.” Japan’s H3 booster and the Europeans’ Ariane 6 would, meantime, welcome U.S. business but they are not now competitive with SpaceX in terms of price and likely won’t be with New Glenn either. 

    Even as the debris from this week’s problem-plagued launches was still hissing into the ocean, both SpaceX and Blue Origin were thus ginning up for their next flights. Space launches have always been equal parts high adventure and bruising business, and the two companies are aiming to play both bracing games.



    Messy SpaceX and Blue Origin launches may seem like a cause for concern, but in reality, they are actually good news for the space industry. Here’s why:

    1. Innovation and experimentation: Messy launches often occur when companies are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in space exploration. These failures can lead to valuable lessons learned and improvements made for future missions. Without taking risks and facing setbacks, progress in space technology would be stagnant.

    2. Transparency and accountability: When a launch goes wrong, it forces companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin to be transparent about what went wrong and how they plan to fix it. This level of accountability ensures that they are constantly striving to improve their processes and technology, ultimately leading to safer and more successful launches in the future.

    3. Competition drives innovation: The space industry is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin vying for contracts and advancements in technology. Messy launches can serve as a reminder that no company is infallible, pushing them to continuously innovate and improve to stay ahead of the competition.

    In conclusion, messy launches from SpaceX and Blue Origin should be seen as a sign of progress and innovation in the space industry. While setbacks are inevitable in such a complex and challenging field, they ultimately lead to greater advancements and successes in the long run.

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