Cartoons Tuesday!

Plus Colbert and Kimmel, Phil Ochs and John Prine.

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Stephen and Jimmy last night:

Then there’s:

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

Trump Says Civil Rights Caused White People to Be “Very Badly Treated”

And David Frum at The Atlantic:

Most Americans don’t thrill to spectacular acts of six-on-one violence aimed at DoorDash delivery men. ICE’s approval ratings have duly plummeted.

Again and again, ICE agents are encountering members of the public who reject their protection and sympathize with the supposed invaders. Yet ICE’s powers against U.S. citizens are limited. Americans can record ICE operations, follow ICE motorcades, and vex and annoy ICE personnel, and there’s not much that ICE or Border Patrol agents can legally do to stop them—hence the turn to unlawful force instead.

That’s the mentality the whole world saw in videos of the killing of Good in Minneapolis, including the one seemingly recorded by the shooter himself. The ICE agent will likely argue that he opened fire on Good—who was unarmed and driving away—to save his own life. But the videos also raise the possibility that he fired because he felt disrespected by a person who—in his opinion—owed him deference. ICE agents who use violence may be counting on superiors to back them up, because they feel disrespected too, and by the whole ungrateful country.

Apt protest song for today from old buddy Phil Ochs, “Knock On the Door.”

And young Johnny Prine, “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Int Heaven Anymore”

From Tunes to Toons

Ann Telnaes on Washington Opera pulling out of Kennedy Center schedule:

de Adder:

John Deering:

Brodner:

Sheneman:

Photo Finish

Former death strip in Berlin, metal markers at bottom trace original site of Wall along Bernauer Strasse