Cartoons Friday!

Plus Colbert, Krugman and HCR, and a Gram of truth music from Jessie Buckley and the Lemonheads.

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Stephen last night gets us going:

Paul Krugman:

Europe has problems, as we all do. But when MAGA types declare that a prosperous continent that in many ways delivers a better life for its citizens than we do is a social and economic hellscape, that says more about them than it does about Europe.

But Europe has learned a lesson. Appeasing a bully doesn’t work, especially when, as anyone watching Trump’s Davos rant could see, that bully is experiencing rapid cognitive decline. But standing up to him does work.

The question now is whether and when enough influential people here at home will learn the same lesson.

Heather Cox Richardson:

A new poll out today from the New York Times and Siena University shows that nearly two thirds of Americans, 63%, disapprove of how ICE is handling its job, while only 36% approve. Even among white Americans, 57% disapprove, while only 42% approve. Sixty-one percent of Americans, including 19% of Republicans, think that ICE agents have gone too far.

Just hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old Renee Good on January 7, and long before there was any official investigation of the shooting, Vance was out in front of the news, blaming Good for her own death and claiming that the officer was clearly justified in shooting her.

But even MAGA voters don’t buy it. Podcaster Joe Rogan has compared ICE to “the gestapo,” and Greg Sargent of The New Republic noted that a majority of both young voters and those without a college degree, those who tend to be easy for MAGA to reach, disapprove of ICE enforcement. Media Matters reported that the senior judicial analyst on right-wing channel Newsmax, Andrew Napolitano, called the newly revealed secret ICE memo claiming the right to break down doors to arrest people in their homes “a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment, which expressly says people are entitled to be secure in their homes and that security can only be invaded by a search warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause of crime.”

From Gram, Emmy, Jessie, Lucinda to…Lemonheads

The Lemonheads have a new album but here they are this week covering the Gram Parsons-Emmylou classic, “Return of the Grievous Angel”—at Lucinda Williams’ bar in NYC.

….and new Oscar nominee (and likely winner) Jessie Buckley a few years back covering Emmylou’s song about losing Gram, “Boulder to Birmingham.”

From Tunes to Toons

Anderson:

Wuerker:

Goris:

Bagley:

Barry Blitt:

Noth:

Photo Finish

From my camera to you, “Preservation Hall Band, New Orleans”