A Bonus Daily Cartoon by Felipe Galindo.

I've seen a lot of "Who would win, Superman vs ____" questions, but honestly the answer is probably just "Superman would be nice to them and they wouldn't have to fight"

The History of Cleveland, Ohio in 50 Objects, #7: The Cuyahoga River, 1969 (and 2019) …people don’t know what they think they know about the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire.

8/ Anyway, happy Earth Day; the comeback of the Cuyahoga River stands as proof we can help the earth recover from our excesses if only we have the will. 🌎❤️ kellykomics.com/2022/04/23/t...

A small park on a street corner in downtown Cleveland, Ohio; a bright green patch of grass, tucked up against the wall of a neighboring building. On the wall of the building is John F. Morrell's 1969 social justice-themed mural "Life is Sharing the Same Park Bench"; featuring stylized portraits of a variety of people (different ages, races, genders) sitting on a park bench, rendered in shades of black, brown, and white.

7/ Klaric's name doesn't appear anywhere in her namesake park -- or at least it didn't when I took this photo in June 2025.

6/ In 2020, a small park in downtown Cleveland was named "Betty Klaric Park" in her honor. The park is more famous for John F. Morrell's 1969 social justice-themed mural "Life is Sharing the Same Park Bench."

5/ ... and helped spur the growing ecological movement which inspired the first Earth Day in 1970.

4/ In the mid-1960s, she transitioned to reporting on environmental issues. Her reporting-- especially after the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire -- focused attention on the dangers pollution represented to clean air and water ...

3/ ("Betty Klaric with wine glass containing polluted water," photo by Herman Seid. ©️ Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. clevelandmemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... )

Black and white photo of a woman sitting on the edge of a watercraft; she's hoisting a wine glass of sludgy-looking water drawn from the river below. ("Betty Klaric with wine glass containing polluted water," photo by Herman Seid. ©️ Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. https://clevelandmemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/klaric/id/15/ )

2/ ... I do want to bring attention to the woman standing in the river. That's my homage to a (locally) famous photo of reporter Betty Klaric; Klaric worked for *The Cleveland Press,* initially as a "copy boy [sic]," & then as a general reporter.

A cartoon parody of Manet's "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe," featuring an assortment of people picnicking by the banks of the Cuyahoga River. On the far bank, factories are spewing ominous clouds in the sky and belching neon green gunk into the river. One woman is standing in the river collecting a water sample with a wine glass (she looks dismayed). On the left, one female picnicker is nude except for a gas mask and tall olive green wading boots. The man next to her is wearing an old copper diving helmet. On the right, a man dressed as a newspaper reporter, complete with a gray felt fedora with a tag reading "PRESS" in the hat band, leans against an old tire. He is contemplating his right arm, which he has evidently just dipped in the river, because it is covered with brown gunk up to his elbow. The picnickers are surrounded by various pieces of garbage & detritus, including a dead fish, an empty soda bottle, and an old beer can.

1/ Celebrating #EarthDay with a never-before published bonus illustration I originally created some years ago for my Cuyahoga River feature. I'll write more about this image when the anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire rolls around in June, but...

Do I think they are being just a bit extra? Yes. Will cats understand global cuisine? Likely not. Did the marketing ploy work? Yes. Yes, it did

Ohhhh now you’ve done it

::Stares in math::

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Happy Earth Day! Walt Kelly’s iconic strip celebrating Earth Day appeared on April 22, 1971. His message has only become more relevant, and urgent, in the years that followed.

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

a four panel comic. in the first panel, a robin hops along a trail saying "lovely!" in the second panel, the robin perches on a tree with pink flowers and says "beautiful!" in the third panel, they look up at a white flower and say "fantastic!" in the final panel, their eye is up close to a pink flower and they say "wow" repetitively.

do birds experience spring like we do? i like to think so. at least a little bit.

read how the comic was made: beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/comic-signs-...

#birds #illustration 🌎 🌿🦉 #wildlife #nature

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

💔 I am so sorry. 😭

we all know I have no life, so:

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

This is a horror.

It's cool that the NWSL is coming to Columbus, but last night the city voted to give a park that serves literally the poorest neighborhood in Columbus to the team's owners -- the odious Haslams -- as a practice facility. Shitty and unnecessary in every possible way.
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Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out on her favourite armchair, but mentally trapped in a reverie about the summer of 1995.

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

Ah yes, the traditional sign that spring is giving way to summer… the publication of a rebel-rousing graphic novel! ✊

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?