Cartoons Saturday!

Plus Dropkicking ICE in music and other various ways.

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New Republic:

New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic

ICE’s defense on the horrific Minneapolis killing is falling apart.

Then there’s this:

Paul Rudnick, citing claims by anonymous sources swallowed by CBS on alleged injury to the killer of Renee Good: “According to the ratings, the CBS Evening News is suffering from internal bleeding.”

Heather Cox Richardson:

In The Atlantic, national security scholar Tom Nichols noted that Trump’s determination to seize Greenland from Denmark, a country with which the U.S. has been allied for more than two centuries, is “extraordinarily dangerous.” Nichols suggests that Trump might simply declare the U.S. owns Greenland and then dare anyone to disagree (much as he declared he won the 2020 presidential election). That could create a disastrous series of events that would “incinerate the NATO alliance.”

With that collapse, Russian president Vladimir Putin might well begin attacking other NATO members, particularly Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (which together, Nichols notes, are about the size of Wisconsin.) If other NATO allies come to their aid, Europe would be at war, and “U.S. forces, like it or not, would find themselves in the middle of this bedlam.” Many of the countries are nuclear powers, and the chances of a “cataclysmic mistake or miscalculation” would grow greater every day. Meanwhile, China might reach for Taiwan, and South Korea and Japan would need to plan for the end of U.S. strategic power, likely with nuclear arms.

Trump is courting peril, Nichols writes. His obsessions “could lead not only to the collapse of [Americans’] standard of living but present a real danger to their lives, no matter where they live.”

Venerable, and oft-political, Irish-American band from Quincy, MA, the Dropkick Murphys, are coming out with a new single they’ve been previewing on tour. It’s loud but on target, “Citizen I.C.E.”

Of course, I have followed them for awhile due to their Woody Guthrie fandom, including an album a few years back where they set some of Woody’s old poems and lyrics to their music. Here is the pro-working man “The Last One.”

And on “Dig a Hole”—where “fascism” should be buried—they have Woody on tape sing some of it, quite moving…

From Tunes to Toons

Bennett:

Luckovich:

Telnaes:

Goris:

Ratt:

Photo Finish

“Ready for Takeoff, Egrets on Hudson”