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Nick Anderson:
Yours truly in Nanuet, N.Y., photo by Barbara Bedway:
A thousand cool signs pictured on the inter-tubes, here is just one:
RFK Jr. at CPAC yesterday:
President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything I believed him to be. I basically drank the Kool-Aid—that he was this bombastic narcissist who didn’t read books and was ill-informed. But now I know the exact opposite. He’s the opposite of a narcissist.
I’d forgotten about this, included in NY Times list of all the things where Trump has placed his name or face in the past months:
During his first term, Mr. Trump told Kristi Noem — then a U.S. representative — that his “dream” was to be on Mount Rushmore. Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna sponsored a bill in January 2025 that would add Mr. Trump’s figure to the memorial. It has yet to be acted on..
Then there’s this: Martin Sherman calls for ethnic cleansing in The Jerusualem Post. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, a member of the Israel Defense & Security Forum research team:
The only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of “another people” is to remove “the other people” from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself.
Music Picks
Bruce sang his new “Streets of Minneapolis” at the big rally yesterday there but Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers and Tom Morello followed with Bob’s “The Times They Are a Changin.” It’s cued up below:
Longtime animator (including for Disney) and subscriber Woody Yocum earlier today reminded us of this timely tribute to Woody’s “This Land Is Your Land” that he directed, which we posted some time ago but happy to present again:
Back at Crawdaddy in the 1970s in NYC we were often paid a wacky unscheduled visit by singer and musician Peter Stampfel, famed fun member of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders. He is still active and has honored us with a No Kings lyric, set to the immortal tune of “I Fought the Law.” It concludes with “Stick a fork in him / because he’s done” but begins this way:
BOMBING GIRLS IN THE HOT SUN// TRUMP FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON// TRUMP FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON//
DIDN’T USE HIS BRAIN BECAUSE HE HAD NONE/ TRUMP FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON, TRUMP FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON
HE NEEDS DISTRACTION AND HE NEEDS IT BAD, THEY’VE GOT HIM ON THE RUN
CAUSE HE’S THE WORST PRES-I-DENT WE’VE EVER HAD
HE FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON
HE FOUGHT IRAN AND IRAN WON
From Tunes to Toons
Bramhall:
Schrank:
Britt:
Morland:
Photo Finish
From my camera to you: Paris.
Thanks so much for including our animated appreciation of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This is Your Land’! We really appreciate your writing and efforts that make your Substack such a daily joy!!!
Peter Stampfel doing Sonny Curtis proud. Absolutely perfect. Thanks for sharing.