How did I miss these?

 Noted without comment, or not much.

Republican bankroller Steve Alembik shot his wife and then killed himself in the parking lot of a Delray, Florida, restaurant.  Alembik briefly rose to prominence because he claimed the same right as Chris Rock to use racial slurs, although Rock never called Barack Obama a Muslim n-----.  He donated to the campaigns of Trump, Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis; Scott and DeSantis returned the money.  Sharp dresser.

The New York State Court of Appeals has removed Robert J. Putorti, Whitehall Town and Village Court Judge, from the bench because he pointed a loaded handgun at a Black litigant in his courtroom, and it only took eight years.  Far from expressing remorse, Putorti bragged about the incident, exaggerating the man's height and weight.  Here is charming Whitehall, New York:

La factura, por favor:  Aidas J, a Lithuanian resident of Alicante, Spain, has been arrested after faking a heart attack at least twenty times to avoid paying his restaurant bill.  On several occasions he went so far as to be hospitalized.  A typical bill was less than sixty Euros, so he's probably not going to jail.

In a possibly related story, a man stood in the window of a Warsaw shop until after closing time pretending to be a mannequin so he could then steal jewelry.  He is suspected of stealing clothes at a different store.  

More bad news for Trump?  A judge in Texas ruled that Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy laws to avoid paying over a billion dollars to Sandy Hook families.  Judge Christopher Lopez says the law cannot be used to shield "willful and malicious" conduct.  Like calling people "crisis actors" whose children were not really murdered.

The Trinity site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was tested in July 1945, is a National Historic Landmark that opens to the public in April and October.  This year record crowds are expected resulting from the film Oppenheimer.  It is not known if Schindler's List had the same effect on Auschwitz, but apparently Americans are still learning history from the movies.  Tread carefully, filmmakers.

Politics -- how does it work?  Joe Biden, who has been in politics longer than many Americans have been alive, is reportedly ready to throw in more money for border security to get Congress to support his aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Gaza.  A reminder that in many cultures, the eldest are considered the wisest, too.

A distribution center in Hebron, Kentucky, received a $30,000 fine for illegally employing children, 11 and 13, to operate a forklift.  The Kentucky legislature needs to lower the working age so the state will remain competitive with Arkansas, Missouri and Ohio.  Children are our future.

It seems so much longer, but it's only two weeks since the Hamas attacks in Israel.  A Bedouin Israeli bus driver named Youssef Ziadna is credited with saving thirty Jewish Israelis from the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im, for which he gets death threats and experiences PTSD.  His cousin was killed and four family members are missing.  At the same time a Jewish "settlers" group with the gratingly ironic name Angels of Peace has driven a Bedouin community out of the West Bank village where they have lived for forty years, encouraged by the Netanyahu government.  There are no winners here.