{"id":15625,"date":"2026-02-02T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:26:01","slug":"bad-and-good-bunnies-and-an-electoral-shockwave-deep-in-the-red-heart-of-tx-bradcast-222026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15625","title":{"rendered":"Bad and Good Bunnies, and an Electoral Shockwave Deep in the &#8216;Red&#8217; Heart of TX: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/2\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BadBunny-LiamRamos_020226.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We getcha caught up on a whole bunch of news from over the weekend on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, before opening up the phones to callers [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among that news&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we&#8217;d be warning, the federal Government is now in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/government-shutdown-homeland-security-pentagon-transportation-2dd3464f56295ff79f136c1c5c24a532\">another partial shutdown<\/a>. 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 <b>DHS<\/b>, <b>ICE<\/b> and <b>CBP<\/b>, as Democrats continue to insist on new guardrails for the goons who have been terrorizing America under the guise of <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s deadly mass deportation campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Puerto Rico<\/b>&#8216;s pop\/rap superstar <b>Bad Bunny<\/b> won a whole bunch of big awards at Sunday night&#8217;s Grammy Awards and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/other\/bad-bunny-makes-history-at-politically-charged-grammy-awards\/ar-AA1VtcAx\">spoke out<\/a>, 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 &#8212; a pretty good bunny, as it turns out &#8212; will be making Trump and MAGA&#8217;s heads continue to explode this Sunday, as the most popular artists on the planet headlines the Super Bowl halftime show. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Liam Conejo Ramos<\/b>, the 5-year old Ecuadorian boy used as bait by <b>ICE<\/b> 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 <b>Texas<\/b>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/2026\/02\/01\/perfidious-lust\/\">ordered to be returned<\/a> 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 <b>Minnesota<\/b>, though his school was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/columbia-heights-schools-threat-liam-ramos\">closed today due to a bomb threat<\/a>. Moreover, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/02\/02\/measles-dilley-immigrant-detention-facility-liam-ramos-texas\/\">measles outbreak<\/a> at the family detention center in TX has been reported. Hopefully, Ramos and his father will be okay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There were a couple of runoff Special Elections over the weekend in <b>Texas<\/b>. In one, for the U.S. House in a very &#8220;blue&#8221; Houston district, Democratic Harris County Attorney <b>Christian Menefee<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/31\/politics\/texas-18th-special-election-democrats-republicans\">easily defeated<\/a> a fellow Democrat. Once sworn in to the seat held by Rep. <b>Sylvester Turner<\/b> until his death last year, the GOP&#8217;s already incredibly thin majority margin will become thinner still. House Speaker <b>Mike Johnson<\/b> will be able to lose just ONE vote and still pass a measure on a party line vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But, also in <b>Texas<\/b> on Saturday, in a state Senate seat in a <i>very<\/i> &#8220;red&#8221; district which Trump won in 2024 by 17 points, Democratic labor union leader <b>Taylor Rehmet<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-state-senate-democrat-taylor-rehmet-c8cb6685c49696b8a607a8f93111ae2e\">defeated<\/a> his Republican opponent, who enjoyed a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/2017683510316990676?s=20\">full-throated endorsement<\/a> from Trump, by more than 14 points! That is a stunning <i>31-point swing<\/i> for Democrats in a <i>very<\/i> 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. &#8220;I&#8217;m not involved in that, that&#8217;s a local Texas race,&#8221; Trump tried to gaslight a Fox &#8220;News&#8221; reporter, hilariously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-texas-special-election\">claiming<\/a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about it.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Sunday night, in a long <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115997939705121174\">rambling post<\/a> on his failing social media site, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-kennedy-center-will-close-two-years-renovations-rcna256982\">announced<\/a> he would be shutting down the <b>Kennedy Center<\/b> (he calls it the Trump Kennedy Center) for two years due to much-needed renovation. All of it, complete and utter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/02\/nx-s1-5696489\/kennedy-center-renovation-trump-questions\">lies<\/a>, as detailed on today&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a lot of other news along the way today, before we then open up our public airwaves to <b>callers<\/b>, who also have quite a bit on their minds!&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-BadBunnyGrammys-LiamRamosHome-RunoffsTX-TrumpClosingKennedyCenter_Callers_020226.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We getcha caught up on a whole bunch of news from over the weekend on today&#8217;s BradCast, before opening up the phones to callers [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among that news&#8230; As we&#8217;d be warning, the federal Government is now in another partial shutdown. 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