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Jon Stewart last night on Iran, ICE and etc.
Ditto for Jimmy.
The Washington Post this morning: “President Trump, who is in the midst of pressuring senators to curb the use of mail-in voting, voted by mail ballot in Tuesday’s special election in Palm Beach County, Florida.”
Also:
KAITLIN COLLINS: Who's idea was it to put ICE in airports?
TRUMP: Mine. That was like the paperclip. Do you know the story of the paperclip? 182 years ago a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked it thought, 'Why didn't I think of that?' ICE was my idea.
For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount, experts say.
Yesterday, at the Palm Beach airport, a reporter asked Trump: “If the war is ending, do you still need $200 billion?” Trump answered: “We, ah, it’s always nice to have. It’s always nice to have. It’s a very inflamed world.”
Actual NY Times item today:
Bad apple: What’s with all those A.I. videos of fruits cheating on each other?
This morning, at Axios revealed: Bob Woodward will be out Sept. 29 with "Secrets: A Reporter's Memoir." Finally, Bob's long-awaited book about Bob. “All the Presidents’ Man”?
New ACLU ad featuring Bruce’s “Born in the USA”
Music Picks
Last night, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! (I have been a guest numerous times) celebrated its 30th anniversary at Riverside Church in NYC, with musical guests including Michael Stipe and Hurray for the Riff Raff. It’s all below but it is cued up for you for Springsteen singing his Minneapolis protest song and joining friend-of-the-show Patti Smith and the others for “People Have the Power.” New doc about Amy and the history of the program debuts next month.
A little later, Jeff Tweedy and band played his great Velvet goldmine “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” on the Kimmel show.
From Toons to Tunes
Wuerker:
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Photo Finish
Bridge of Sighs, Venice
So much great stuff today. Thank you!! I appreciate this (almost) daily missive a whole lot. I’m also very grateful for Democracy Now! Independent media used to seem like a given in the United States.
Very good selection of cartoons.