Cartoons Wednesday, As Clown Prince Toasts Crown Prince

Plus Joni and Dylan thunder again.

Nov 19, 2025

Greg Mitchell has authored more than a dozen books (see most of them here) and directed four recent PBS films. Subscribing to this newsletter is still FREE—so if you want to help fund, maybe purchase one of my books, thanks!

Stephen last night, with my old Editor & Publisher comrade Joe “Scoop” Strupp in the audience.

As you have probably heard, Trump mocked and attacked yet another (female) reporter yesterday, this time from ABC, who dared to ask him about his Crown Prince visitor and Bonesaw expert, MBS. Naturally he suggested that the Washington Post journalist that MBS ordered offed deserved it: “You’re mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen. But he [MBS] knew nothing about it. You don’t have to embarrass our guest.”

Ann Telnaes here, more commentary down below:

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation

And a little less significant, from NY Times:

Wife of Astronaut Pleads Guilty to Falsely Alleging Crime in Space

Summer Worden admitted lying to federal agents when she accused her spouse, the astronaut Anne McClain, of illegally accessing her bank account from space.

It happened on this date in 1863, so Heather Cox Richardson has just posted a little four-minute video tribute:

Fifty years ago Joni Mitchell joined Dylan’s Rolling Thunder tour. I had attended its kickoff in Plymouth, MA and would catch two shows in early December 1975 in my hometown Niagara Falls. By then, I’m not sure if she had added “Coyote” to her set list, a song she was writing bout Sam Shepherd, but here still in November she was doing her great “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow.”