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• Hollywood's Motion Picture Academy announced Monday they are delaying the announcement of the 2025 Academy Award nominees. It's due to the wildfires. The Academy wants to see how many actors were charred by the fires so they'll know which movies meet their diversity quotas.

• Los Angeles firefighters capped a heroic week of work on Sunday by finally getting the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire controlled but smoldering embers remain dangerous. Governor Newsom should stay completely away from all the fires in Los Angeles. Most hair products are highly flammable.

• L.A. Mayor Bass was ripped for making the Fire Department a nest of DEI hires. It's no problem for engineers to channel mountain runoff water to L.A. We all now realize that when we asked the California Water Resources Department for more dikes to combat fires, we should've been more specific.

• The Los Angeles Times reported L.A. Fire Marshals met Monday to examine any video evidence of arson in the setting of the Palisades Fire last Tuesday. Investigators are currently kicking around different theories about who had the most to gain by burning down Los Angeles. It all leads to P. Diddy.

• Mel Gibson was doing Joe Rogan's podcast when he heard his house in Malibu was completely destroyed by the fires. It's great to see him. Mel cleaned up and recovered and is working again after he went to the Betty Ford Center for his alcoholism and to the Henry Ford Center for his anti-Semitism.

• California Governor Gavin Newsom paid tribute to the generous spirit of Southern Californians as we pitch in to aid fire recovery. The disaster has united all people of L.A. Today on local news I saw a white guy, a black guy, and a Hispanic guy in the Palisades, and they were looting a mansion together.

• House Republicans battled each other over a tax bill with N.Y. and California lawmakers at odds with the deficit hawks. They should read the polls. Congress's approval rating is 13%, a number that puts Members of Congress two points ahead of Bird Flu and six points behind the Santa Ana Winds.

• President Biden delivered a goodbye speech to the State Department Monday and summarized his foreign policy accomplishments over the last four years. He has impacted religions. Thousands of Afghans converted to Scientology hoping they could hold on to departing airliner wings like Tom Cruise.

• Politico noted that Donald Trump will preside over a coalition of supporters far wider than the Republican Party. When he's sworn into office on Monday, Trump will be a convicted felon who once worked at McDonald's. Not a month goes by that he doesn't upgrade his street cred with black men.

• The White House announced Friday that President Biden will deliver his Farewell Address to the Nation on Wednesday night. I think he should be able to get through it in fine form. At last week's presidential funeral, Joe Biden gave the eulogy from the pulpit and everyone agreed he looked so lifelike.

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