Still free to subscribe to this nearly daily newsletter! Greg Mitchell is 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.
Meanwhile, targeting others, Glenn Thrush of NY Times:
I know there’s a lot of news out there today — and a lot to process — but slow your motor for 30 seconds to internalize the fact that the president casually suggested every Somali person in the country was worthless… and it went almost completely unnoticed.
And Steve Brodner on the anti-Haitian deportations:
The termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is becoming official, stripping legal status from approximately 350,000 Haitians who had been living and working lawfully in the United States leaving them a vulnerable and targeted population.
The need for TPS remains more critical than ever, with pathways to safety effectively shut off at every turn. A bill to protect Haitians, S4814, has been introduced in the Senate. Please call the U.S. Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and urging your senators to co-sponsor and pass S.4814.
Then there is this:
ICE plans to outfit officers with gloves that deliver electric shock
And Trump and Hegseth even destroying lives of U.S. sailors. From The Guardian:
Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran.
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.
Worried families vented their anxieties about loved ones onboard the Lincoln at an emotional town hall meeting with navy leaders in San Diego last Thursday, Stars and Stripes reported. One spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying “he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow”.
The Navy Times gave details of thwarted suicide attempts onboard the aircraft carrier during the current deployment. Annabelle Loma told the outlet that her husband had tried to jump overboard after his spell at sea kept being extended.
Music Picks
Posted yesterday by Brandi Carlile (who just cancelled a European tour) with what she calls a new “sad, gay version” of her song “Human.”
On this date 60 years ago the Lovin’ Spoonful hit #1 with one of the great summer songs ever, “Summer in the City.” It was one of those songs, like “Satisfaction” and many others, you’d hear on the radio once and knew it would go to #1.
From Tunes to Toons
Luckovich:
Ohman:
Bramhall:
Morland:
Anderson:
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Photo Finish
Summer in the City II: NYU student, Greenwich Village.
Excellent selection of cartoons. Summer in the City was both great and unavoidable.
Today’s music was terrific, especially “Summer in the City,” but the toons really hit the target. I love the subtle little touches each cartoonist added. Bellissimo!!!💙