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"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #9) [1]
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Date: 2025-06-07
The Queen of Roland Garros Stadium in Paris
As you know by now, Coco Gauff became the first American player in a decade this morning to win the women’s singles title at the French Open tennis championships. Serena Williams won it in 2015.
Gauff defeated World No. 1-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) in three sets 6-7, 6-2, 6-4. Only 21 years old, this was Gauff’s second Grand Slam title, having won the US Open in 2023.
Present in the gallery among other celebrities were former First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama.
x Congratulations to @CocoGauff for an amazing championship at the French Open — the first American singles champion at @RolandGarros in a decade. You make us all proud.
https://t.co/dk1W6e0J9X — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 7, 2025
Tennis is one sport I am intimately familiar with, having played it since I was just a kid. I have written two long diaries in recent years covering two of the most historic matches ever played in professional tennis history.
Althea Gibson inspired not only Billie Jean King but other great tennis players like Serena Williams and Coco Gauff. Upon receiving the trophy from Queen Elizabeth II at Wimbledon in July 1957, she said, "Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus."
One was a major moment in 1973 in the struggle for women’s rights. When World No. 2 Billie Jean King defeated former men’s Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of the Sexes,” she struck an important blow for women’s equality not just in sports but in every aspect of American life.
One of her major supporters was Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. You will also learn a few things about Althea Gibson, the first African American to win the Women’s Singles title at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958. She changed the face of professional tennis.
The other match was played in London in 1938, at a time when Europe was seriously endangered by Nazism and Fascism and the world on the brink of World War II. This is quite an intriguing story involving antisemitism, a country under Nazi rule, two major players widely suspected of being gay, and the German Fuhrer threatening one of the players with grave consequences were he to lose this match.
It is also a story of redemption and survival.
x Coco celebrating with the ball kids 🥹🙏pic.twitter.com/2Lf5SNwm8Y — Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 7, 2025
Manual Updates Posted Here
Update #9 — 1:15 am ET
A Huge Flop
x Had to see the movie in Techbrocolor. Director’s cut! pic.twitter.com/2e0pPpRg1d — Peter Kuper (@PKuperArt) June 7, 2025
If You’re Retreating, You’re Losing
Update #8 — 1:02 am ET
Back to South Africa, Elon
We Serve to Please
Update #7 — 12:50 am ET
The Daily Cartoonist: A Cold Breeze from Vichy
A Scene from Casablanca Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?
Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.
Update #6 — 12:42 am ET
Didn’t We Hear About Controlling the Media and Culture in the 1930s?
x Trump is trying to convince us that it’s all in the name of cost-cutting but in reality there is a larger plan to control news coverage and culture to undermine democracy anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-look...
[image or embed] — Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Not the Way to Conduct Diplomacy
Update #5 — 12:38 am ET
The Beginning of the End
Friends No More
Update #4 — 12:28 am ET
One Stop Shopping for MAGA Criminals and Buffoons
How It All Works
x With less than six months in power, Trump and his family have used the presidency to increase their personal wealth by millions of dollars. Today's cartoon by Peter Sully. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query... #Trump #wealth #selfenrichment
[image or embed] — Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement.com) June 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Update #3 — 12:20 am ET
Will Anyone Win this Fight?
So Long, Elon
Update #2 — 12:10 am ET
Do We Need This Military Parade?
You’ve Learned Nothing, Donald
Update #1 — 12:08 am ET
Shameful Display
Pete Hegseth is Useful, At Times
No Winners, Only Losers
An article in the Atlantic magazine reviews the Trump-Musk spat.
x 😂 pic.twitter.com/ugvrEg1Txn — Annie (@AnnieForTruth) June 7, 2025 The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs This spectacle is tempting to view as a cage match: Two men enter, one man leaves. (Musk, at least, is familiar.) But that mentality supposes a winner and a loser, and it’s worth asking what winning even looks like here. Surely, nobody will come out of this unscathed. Musk’s “Epstein files” comment, beyond being an allegation about Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender and child trafficker, also is a suggestion that Musk might have other dirt on the Trump administration. And the likely loss of Musk’s donor money deprives Trump of political leverage. Similarly, Trump has suggested he might strip Musk’s companies of their federal funding and subsidies. Tesla’s stock has fallen sharply today since Musk began rage-posting against Trump, which suggests there will be real consequences. (Meanwhile, people, including Steve Bannon, are already musing that Musk could get himself deported.)… The Trump-Musk feud is not so much a distraction as it is evidence of a societal tendency toward abstraction, even obfuscation. A cage match is easier to watch than a discussion about who deserves benefits and resources. It is certainly more cathartic than an ideological stalemate about the world we want to build. Maybe Trump or Musk will find a way to win or lose their spat. The rest of us, though, will probably not be so lucky, destined instead to spectate fight after fight. x Laughing stock of the world…. pic.twitter.com/rX2ClA1v0y — Dutchy Patrick (@DutchyPatrick) June 6, 2025
Heady Fight
One of the Greatest Songs of All Time
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? I can think of younger days
When living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow
I was never told about the sorrow — Listen to Al Green’s version of this beautiful song. x 6/4/2025- The Membership Card #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #PartingWays
https://t.co/XWH20T1Mty pic.twitter.com/M4nRmVqBXC — Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) June 4, 2025
What Goes Around…
x Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons pic.twitter.com/yAFZDR8Y07 — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 29, 2025
Revenge of the Nerds
Attribution: Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes
Two of the More Unlikable Men on Earth
x May the worse man win! #both Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons and visit
https://t.co/R8pNcSjYRt for more, not to. mention all the Lalo cartoons over at
https://t.co/pjCtSwnGVO pic.twitter.com/FiWRPVGifk — Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz) June 6, 2025
MAGA Infighting
Not How It Looks
x See. Everything is okay 👍. pic.twitter.com/4pNwE2hP7F — Ben 🌻🍉🎗️ (@FreeUkraine91) June 6, 2025
Who Will Survive This Clash?
This Guy is the President of the United States???
Beautiful No More
Deader Than Dead?
Ugly as Hell
Trouble Ahead
Capitalism for the Poor, Socialism for the Rich
The GOP: Haven’t You Lived Long Enough?
Click on the editorial cartoon for a larger image.
MAGA Maniacs
Trump’s America
x He was sleeping on a concrete floor with no mattress and just a foil blanket?
This is not how we treat human beings. pic.twitter.com/YnIRalnTHM — Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) June 6, 2025
ICE in Action in Los Angeles, California — June 7, 2025
x A powder keg is about to explode: With masks to hide their identity, this is what a Nazi takeover of the streets of Los Angeles looks like. Trump's cosplaying ICE Gestapo is carrying out a lawless assault against one of the most diverse cities in America. pic.twitter.com/zDJyAplqhx — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) June 7, 2025
Diary Poll
The poll does not include many other great female players, namely Hana Mandlikova, Arantxa Sanchez, Gabriela Sabatina, Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters, Jennifer Capriati, and others that I’m forgetting.
Of course, I haven’t listed players like Suzanne Lenglen, Mo Connolly, Maria Bueno, and others who played before or with Althea Gibson in the 1950s. The Open Era — when professionals and amateurs could compete together — started in 1968.
Of the ones included in the poll, I have listed only three current players — Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek, and Aryna Sabalenka. There are several others like Naomi Osaka, Paula Badosa, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula, Sloane Stephens, Ons Jabeur, Jasmine Paolini, Mirra Andreeva, Qinwen Zheng, and others who could have made the list.
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