ICE: Nein

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Watched little of the Golden Globes last night partly because little rooting interest (so few great films this year) but I did catch this highlight early on. Yes, the show was aired by CBS:

Yesterday from old buddy and Philadelphia legend Will Bunch:

If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didn’t stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees “garbage” and a patriarchy that mutters “f---ing bitch” as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood. If it lives, it will be because we embraced the higher morality of empathy and compassion for our neighbors — and for people we don’t even know.

The world must choose between the morality of one man’s damaged soul and those ancient hierarchies, or that of the millions who are risking bodily harm and even death out in the streets, here and on the other side of the world. There is no longer any middle ground.

And another longtimer, Lucian K. Truscott IV:

It’s tempting to say that the Trump administration, in the name of enforcing immigration laws, is waging a war on citizens. But it’s not all citizens of America. It’s only those in blue states like Minnesota and Oregon and Illinois and California.

Trump is the first person in the 250-year history of this country who doesn’t believe he was elected to be president of all the people. He says, and he acts, as if he is the president of those who voted for him. Everyone else, such as the people of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are enemies. They may as well be living in Iran or Venezuela, or be riding in open boats with multiple outboard motors racing through the Caribbean Sea. It’s open season on everyone who didn’t vote for Donald Trump, especially those who are showing up on the street to protest ICE efforts to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants….

If we wondered what a civil war would look like when it happened in this country, we have our answer. We are being forced under tax laws that apply to all of us to pay for a uniformed, armed, masked army that is rounding up our friends and neighbors, and when we exercise our rights under the First Amendment in protest, they are beating and arresting and killing us.

Then there’s this: On Truth Social last night, Trump posted a portrait of himself with the title: “Acting President of Venezuela.”

Seems apt to re-post (although this is a different version) Jesse Welles singing his “Join ICE.”

Didn’t expect this. I guess a new and haunting way to “get high.”

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner:

Dave Rowe:

Steve Brodner at yesterday’s NYC rally, with Woody, of course:

Margulies:

Duquette:

Photo Finish

From my camera to you, “Fog Rolls in, Point Reyes, CA”