Cartoons Wednesday!

Plus Tapper vs. Miller, climate crisis ruins summer, Eddie Vedder and funeral tune.

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Jake Tapper getting lot of praise for dismantling moronic sleazeball Rep. Max Miller re: spousal and child abuse and refusing to quit Congress.

Ron Filipkowski with an O.J. SImpson reference: “All that’s left for Max Miller at this point is to publish a book called, ‘If I Did It.’”

Meanwhile, Rep. Chuck Edwards (naturally a Republican, fromNorth Carolina) said he was dropping his reelection bid after the House Ethics Committee recommended censuring him in a report that detailed “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two young female staffers. Still on our pay roll though.

Rebecca Solnit:

It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.

We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us.

There have been youth-led lawsuits against the producers of climate chaos and the governments who’ve refused to act adequately – essentially for robbing them of their future. Robbing us all of the immeasurable joys of summer as it was is part of that theft. It’s not the main reason that climate action matters so much, but it’s a reminder that what we’re losing is not only the terms of our survival and our safety, but our freedom and pleasure.

New Barry Blitt comment on the above:

Heather Cox Richardson:

A court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Instead, it stated, the accounts were closed “for anti-money laundering reasons.” It said “transaction patterns” had triggered the review.

President Donald J. Trump has maintained that banks refused to do business with him after January 6, 2021, for political reasons. As Allison Morrow of CNN reported yesterday, Trump and his supporters, including cryptocurrency ventures, have used the idea that they were being “debanked” because of their political beliefs to claim they are victims. Last year, Trump and the Trump Organization sued Capital One in federal court in Florida, saying they had sustained “considerable financial harm” after the bank closed about 385 of their accounts.

Observers note that the story of Trump wanting immunity from IRS audits and the revelation that his bank activity mirrored that of money launderers might well be the same story.

Still:

On Saturday, Trump began selling access to his social media posts to Wall Street trading firms milliseconds before they go public, permitting them to buy and sell with insider information. The cost for this service, according to Marina Dunbar of The Guardian, is up to $100,000 a month.

Music Pick

A highlight of the very moving funeral for Glen Hansard yesterday in Dublin: Eddie Vedder with Glen’s “Once” co-star and Swell Season partner Marketa Irglova singing Glen’s “The Song of Good Hope.”

New exhibit at the Dylan museum in Tulsa: Bob 1966.

From Tunes to Toons

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Sack:

Britt:

Kamensky:

Bennett:

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My latest film “Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today” is now streaming everywhere via PBS.

Photo Finish

From my camera to you: Fountain in summer, Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC