Cartoons Monday!

Plus John Oliver messes with big beautiful bill, Brandi Carlile at Glastonbury, WIlco counting holes at Albert Hall.

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The classic song might be “Don’t Mess With Bill” but John Oliver last night did not follow that order when it comes to the One Big Beautiful Bill.

The horrors of Trump arm twisting in the Senate might have had one positive result—an unexpected open seat in North Carolina next year for the Dems as Thom Tillis said he would not run again due ro MAGA hatred after he stood his ground. On the other hand, it led to this headline:

Fox News Host Lara Trump ‘Strongly Considering’ Senate Bid in North Carolina: Report

Then there’s this:

U.N. Inspector Says Iran Could Be Enriching Fuel Again in a ‘Matter of Months’

The assessment widens the divide with President Trump, who has claimed that Tehran has given up its nuclear ambitions after a U.S. attack.

There was all kinds of news out of Glastonbury this weekend as the big annual fest continued. Two rap acts separately sent the BBC and Parliament into a panic and got threatened with arrest after making strong pro-Palestine statements from the stage. Fans walked out of a Neil Young concert in protest after he was made a closing act instead of Pulp. But then there was Brandi Carlile making her first appearance ever there and saying she would play her breakthrough oldie “The Story” because it might be the only song any of them knew:

And you think I was going to ignore Wilco playing one of my favorite Woody songs over the weekend at the Royal Albert Hall, where people sang along and counted the California stars not the holes that filled the Albert Hall?

From Tunes to Toons

Florida to open “Alligator Alcatraz” prison: