We getcha caught up on a whole bunch of news from over the weekend on today’s BradCast, before opening up the phones to callers [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among that news…
- As we’d be warning, the federal Government is now in another partial shutdown. In theory, once House lawmakers get back to the Capitol amid climate change-fueled extreme weather across much of the country, they will adopt a package of bills approved in the U.S. Senate that set new funding levels for most of the Government, along with a two week extension of current spending levels for DHS, ICE and CBP, as Democrats continue to insist on new guardrails for the goons who have been terrorizing America under the guise of Donald Trump‘s deadly mass deportation campaign.
- Puerto Rico‘s pop/rap superstar Bad Bunny won a whole bunch of big awards at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards and spoke out, movingly (much of it in Spanish), against the cruel deportation horrors of the Trump regime. Many other artists did as well. Trump is threatening to sue some o them. Bad Bunny — a pretty good bunny, as it turns out — will be making Trump and MAGA’s heads continue to explode this Sunday, as the most popular artists on the planet headlines the Super Bowl halftime show.
- Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year old Ecuadorian boy used as bait by ICE officers to try and lure his mother out of her house in Minneapolis before he and his father were shipped down to an ICE detention facility in Texas, was ordered to be returned home, along with his father, over the weekend. In his ruling, some of which we share today, the federal judge excoriated the federal Government. Liam is now back in Minnesota, though his school was closed today due to a bomb threat. Moreover, a measles outbreak at the family detention center in TX has been reported. Hopefully, Ramos and his father will be okay.
- There were a couple of runoff Special Elections over the weekend in Texas. In one, for the U.S. House in a very “blue” Houston district, Democratic Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee easily defeated a fellow Democrat. Once sworn in to the seat held by Rep. Sylvester Turner until his death last year, the GOP’s already incredibly thin majority margin will become thinner still. House Speaker Mike Johnson will be able to lose just ONE vote and still pass a measure on a party line vote.
- But, also in Texas on Saturday, in a state Senate seat in a very “red” district which Trump won in 2024 by 17 points, Democratic labor union leader Taylor Rehmet defeated his Republican opponent, who enjoyed a full-throated endorsement from Trump, by more than 14 points! That is a stunning 31-point swing for Democrats in a very Republican district near San Antonio, against a MAGA-endorsed candidate, deep in the heart of Texas. Think any GOPers are noticing yet? The day after the election, hilariously, Trump claimed that he knew nothing about the race. “I’m not involved in that, that’s a local Texas race,” Trump tried to gaslight a Fox “News” reporter, hilariously claiming, “I don’t know anything about it.”
- On Sunday night, in a long rambling post on his failing social media site, Trump announced he would be shutting down the Kennedy Center (he calls it the Trump Kennedy Center) for two years due to much-needed renovation. All of it, complete and utter lies, as detailed on today’s program. In short, he is shutting it down, because it has collapsed after he unlawfully took control of it, as both performers and patrons have fled from his hot, obnoxious mess.
There is a lot of other news along the way today, before we then open up our public airwaves to callers, who also have quite a bit on their minds!…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
2/2/2026
Bad and Good Bunnies, and an Electoral Shockwave Deep in the ‘Red’ Heart of TX: ‘BradCast’ 2/2/2026 | Music world slams Trump; Liam Ramos released; Dem wins TX seat by 14 points in district Trump won by 17; Callers ring in... · · · · · Bad and Good Bunnies, and an Electoral Shockwave Deep in the ‘Red’ Heart of TX: ‘BradCast’ 2/2/2026 | Music world slams Trump; Liam Ramos released; Dem wins TX seat by 14 points in district Trump won by 17; Callers ring in...
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