Cartoons Tuesday!

Plus Jon Batiste on the climate crisis, that E. Jean Carroll doc, and "The Guitar That Killed Folk Music."

Quick Note: As you may know, my latest film, “The Atomic Bowl:Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations this past month and streaming via PBS (key links and more here). A companion e-book has been available but today it is also published as a paperback, and you can read more or order here. Thank you. And subscribing to this newsletter still somehow FREE.

If you were lucky, you missed over the long weekend, much online speculation—some plausible, otherwise laughable—about signs of Trump’s failing health, based on him not speaking in public for a week, a change in style in his posts, and the usual fun photo analysis. Capped last night by word that he will make a surprise announcement from Oval Office at 2 p.m. today! So more speculation: he is giving way to J.D. Vance who will then name Joni Ernst as his Veep pick! Well we’ll see about that…

Politico says the announcement will have something to do with “defense.” So maybe just his plan to change the name of the Department of Defense to the War Department….or bombing the Epstein files…

Speaking of Trump, the doc about E. Jean Carroll and her case now debuting at Telluride. Follow link for full interview with her and director.

Meanwhile, Krugman this morning:

You might say that the Trump administration is suffering from a richness of embarrassments. Trump has, of course, surrounded himself with slavish sycophants. And he may imagine that the world admires him the way his hangers-on pretend to. The truth, however, is that the world sees him as a dangerous buffoon. Dangerous because he runs America, an economic and military superpower, and has a fanatically supportive domestic base. A buffoon because he’s almost surreally vain, insecure and ignorant.

The Guardian has an interesting piece on cut from Jon Batiste’s latest album and its climate crisis warnings. Here’s the song, “Petrichor.”

Fun little video here from the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa on their latest loans on display: Mike Bloomfield’s guitar from the first electric sessions (aka “The Guitar That Killed Folk Music”), the only typed lyrics from when Bob wrote “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and more.

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