Cartoons Wednesday!

Plus Joni Mitchell with a Muppet, the Mekons at the Tiny Desk, and a special Woody tribute.

My award-winning film “The Atomic Bowl” started streaming on PBS.org and PBS apps last week and via Vimeo (you can easily watch it via links here), plus it is airing over many PBS stations—and there is now a companion e-book. In addition, my previous film, “Atomic Cover-up,” is receiving free PBS showing here in its “short” (28 minutes) version. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE.

CBS with a Sunday morning tribute to Woody Guthrie this week, focusing (perhaps too much) on “This Land Is Your Land.” Fails to mention surprising release of his demo songs coming soon, as we’ve highlighted, including his only known version of “Deportees.” But as with all things Woody, worth a watch:

»Best news of the day, re: one of our faves:

Sherrod Brown Plans to Try for a Senate Comeback in Ohio

»>On the other hand, Paul Krugman this morning reminds us of Hannah Arendt quote, inspired by the latest Trump appointee, E.J. Antoni:

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

»>And at his old joint, The New York Times:

‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site.

The Mekons are back—and here’s a Tiny Desk performance from yesterday.

Came across this oddity for first time, Joni Mitchell flew halfway around the world. to tape this, with a Muppet, for Jim Henson and his “The Ghost of Faffner Hall.”

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner on reports that Trump saw a false report on D.C. crime on Fox and naturally ordered out the National Guard….