Weekend Cartoons!
ICE murderer exposed, Larkin Poe, and more.
Still free to subscribe to this nearly daily newsletter! Greg Mitchell is the author of fourteen books and director of five films for PBS since 2022. In a previous life, he was a longtime editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. His latest film “Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today” is now streaming everywhere via PBS.
Sheneman:
Tim Dolighan:
Top story at NY Times right now:
They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling.
The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.
As AP reports:
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.
David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.
Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Music Pick
We are big Larkin Poe fans now, and were Chris Isaak fans back then, so of course we are a sucker for them doing his formative “Wicked Game” two nights ago in Vermont.
From Tune to Toons
Bennett
Bramhall:
Anderson:
Goris:
Rowe:
Bramhall again:
deAdder:
Wuerker:
Wuerker again:
deAdder:
Photo Finish
From my camera to you: San Francisco de Asis Church, Taos (Homage to Paul Strand)
Glad the courts are stepping up and doing their job!
Great tune and great toons today. Thanks for selecting those for us!!