Oliver vs. Vance, Oscar Winners and Sinners

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John Oliver exposes J.D. Vance last night:

Fun “SNL” takeoff on “The Pitt” from Saturday, at a MAHA hospital, with Dr. Harry Styles, and RFK Jr.

A few Oscar political highlights:

From producer of the great doc winner:

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin” is about how you lose your country. What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity: when we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice. But luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think.

Jimmy Kimmel in announcing the award with Trump dig: “Oh man is he going to be mad his wife wasn’t nominated for this.” Conan also had a couple of Trump cracks, including: "Welcome back, we're coming to you live from the Has a Small Penis Theater. Let's see him put his name in front of that!"

From Vanity Fair after Javier Bardem with his stop Iran war and Free Palestine references on stage:

Javier Bardem is wearing a patch protesting the war in Iran—“No a la Guerra,” it reads—that he said is the same patch he wore in 2003 to protest “the illegal war of Iraq.” “And here we are, 23 years after,” he said on the red carpet, with another war “[led] by Trump and Netanyahu, and creating a lot of damage and innocent people being killed and bombed.” He also wore a pin with a drawing of Handala, a character created by Palestinian newspaper cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969, a 10-year-old boy who cannot grow until he is allowed to return to his homeland. Ali was 10 years old when his own family was exiled from their home in Palestine in the Nakba of 1948.

Music

The big “Sinners” production number last night with special guests including Buddy Guy, Leyla McCalla on banjo, Brittany Howard, Shaboozey, Misty Copeland dancing, more.

From Tunes to Toons

Telnaes:

Goris:

Barry Blitt:

Horsey:

deAdder:

Photo Finish

Another from my new series, flying over the Southwest earlier this month: Lake drying up, probably due to climate change.