Cartoons Tuesday!

Plus Oscar-winning John & Yoko film short finally premieres, Lily Gladstone "Buffalo" doc debuts, Colbert returns, and more.

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Note: Jason Isbell’s long-awaited reunion with the Drive By Truckers is TONIGHT on Colbert.

NY Times this morning:

The lawyer for Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the United States of drug trafficking charges, said on Tuesday that his client had been released from a federal prison in West Virginia after receiving a full pardon from President Trump.

Heather Cox Richardson:

Today White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a memo from the president’s physician, Sean P. Barbabella, saying that “advanced imaging” was performed on the president as a preventative measure. The memo said this imaging “was performed because men in his age group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health.” It said Trump’s cardiovascular and abdominal imaging is “perfectly normal.”

Conspicuously absent from the memo was any reference to the president’s brain.

Barry Blitt:

I had forgotten about the 2023 film based on the John Lennon-Yoko Ono anthem “Merry Xmas (War Is Over),” even though it won the Academy Award for best animatred short in 2024. Last night it was finally officially premiered in a wide release via YouTube, as part of a benefit and promoted by Sean Ono Lennon, who co-wrote it. Here it is:

We can also recommend a new doc streaming via PBS, “Bring Them Home,” narrated and produced by Lily Gladstone, on a remarkable effort over many years by an Blackfoot nation in Montana to restore a large Bison herd to their ancestral land.

Which put me in mind of one of my favorite discoveries of the year, from Ry Cooder’s soundtrack for “Geronimo,” an amazing instrumental “Wayfaring Stranger.”

From Tunes to Toons

Bramhall:

Ohman:

Nick Anderson:

Andrew Winters:

The cover of this week’s issue is “White House of Gold,” by Klaas Verplancke.

Whitworth:

Photo Finish

Our new daily feature, from my camera to you, today: “Ranchos Church at Sunset, Taos, NM.”