Greg Mitchell has authored more than a dozen books and directed four recent PBS films. His latest, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations and now streaming for free (key links to watch now and more here). A companion book is available, and you can read more or order here. And subscribing to this newsletter is still FREE.
Heather Cox Richardson:
The No Kings demonstrations ran the gamut from hundreds of thousands of protesters in large, blue cities, to smaller crowds in small towns in Republican-dominated states. Together, they demonstrate that the administration’s claims to popularity are a lie. Such a high turnout means businesses and institutions that thought they must cater to the administration to appeal to a majority of Americans will be forced to recalculate. And the protests showed that Americans care fervently about democracy.
Fun comment by Mehdi Hasan at D.C. rally:
“Two of Trump’s three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that Americans are not willing to do!”
New song by rising topical bard Jesse Welles, who we have featured before, “No Kings”:
Opening of last night’s SNL “Weekend Update”
CBS yesterday on surprising story of one man’s “vinyl empire” in Kansas:
From Tunes to Toons
Heedless Horseman:
Photo Finish
From my camera to you, let me know what you think. Today: “Massive anti-Iraq War demonstration, NYC, 2004, as Republicans are about the re-nominate George W. Bush at Madison Square Garden.”
I’m so impressed how political cartoonists like you get so much relevance in such a brief caption. Awesome and thank you for sharing!
Greg - you are doing valuable work here, and I thank you.