Most are spot on, but I have to ask who is Alden? I see a few frames are about him.

And question for history majors; the bottom comic from WWII. Not sure of the implication. Are they saying Mussolini appeared to be cleaning up Egypt at first, but then in 42…? He was pretty much run out of Egypt by then.

After a few searches, it appears Alden is a company not a person.

'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers

The New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital – known for slashing its newspapers' budgets
to extract escalated profits – won shareholder approval Friday for its $633 million bid to acquire the
Tribune Publishing newspaper chain.

More at link, no paywall...........

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/998730863/vulture-fund-alden-global-known-for-slashing-newsrooms-buys-tribune-papers

Vulture fund is right. It’s sad. I got a news paper every day for years. There are few left, the ones who’ve survived have switched to digital editions. I miss have a paper and coffee every morning.

but his latest the Richard Nixon quote SCOTUS was his newest and I run across it and then went
looking for more of his stuff, glad I did and will continue to check in on him from time to time.

The one of the guy filling up the water bottles at the water cooler to refill the vending machine really got me!