Peter Olson

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I kind of invented digital comics. Dethtron5000 on most other platforms. Software director for AI and Data at the New York Public Library. Alum of Amazon, NBC News, IDEO, Marvel and Wesleyan University.

A screenshot from the Fox News show "The Five." The chyron reads "Libraries Turning into Drug-Infested Sex Dens"
A "trade offer" meme saying "I receive 'Flo plays next game' you receive 'A used FIFA peace prize'"
Bart Simpson facing a boot from the Simpsons episode "Bart vs. Australia"
A medieval illumination featuring a centaur, strumming a lute while a face on its butt blows a horn.
A notice from the secret service telling ticket holders to the NBA finals game 3 that they might have to wait up to 2 hours due to secret service protections since Trump will be in attendance.
A book storage aisle with thousands of books
Poster for the movie "Lady Ballers"
The cover of X-Force 120, which features Woverine sitting on a pool table saying "Ya know, I'm only doing this to boost sales."
Movie poster for "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension"
Text on a picture of the Enterprise D from Star Trek reading "No really, Dr. Crusher literally fucks a ghost in this one"
An excerpt from a legal filing from the Trump justice department featuring lots of Truth Social-style language, including saying the claimants have TDS.
A statue of a lion outside the New York Public Library.
A quote from an interview with Pat Metheny "But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’s tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible."
A clip from the barroom brawl scene in the movie Dodge City. A cowboy smashes a bottle over the head of another cowboy and then runs him through a prop wheel of fortune.
a still from the movie "The Claim" that shows a Western town with several buildings burning.
Montgomery Clift from Red River
Steve McQueen and Yul Brenner on a stagecoach from the movie The Magnificent Seven
Instructions from a cat toy stating that it prevents obesity and autism.
The X-men character Nightcrawler.
An image of a building on 1st avenue in New York. A cutout of Pedro Pascal peers out of one of the windows.
Liz Lemon from the show 30 Rock saying "Jack, just say 'Jewish.' This is taking forever."
A trendline of month over month job creation, showing a steep dropoff after Trump was inaugurated.
A screenshot of the Noun Project with an error message that reads "we didn't find any icons for 'robot vomit'"
4 panels showing president George W. Bush falling off a Segway.
Image from the TV show "Gargoyles"
A contemporary depiction of the Boston Massacre.
Commander Gloval from Robotech
Screenshot of a New York Times editorial from 2016 with the headline "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk."
Image of Liam Neeson delivering his "I have a particular set of skills" monologue from the movie "Taken"
Image from the "worst person you know just made a good point" meme. A balding white man squints into the camera.
But for the love of God they should stop treating MAGA like a legitimate movement that is playing by the same rules as everyone else. Regular order is over. That clip of JD Vance admitting that he’s happy to “create” stories ought to play in front of literally every single discussion of Jimmy Kimmel.
A label reading "W & Z" dry cleaner.
A graph showing Trump's declining approval rating on immigration, deportation, jobs and other issues.
A screenshot from X featuring their LLM Grok repeating antisemitic talking points.
In any event, we are not prone to declaring that the sky is falling at the first signs of trouble. And with the various expressions of Trumpism, you never know what will happen, long-term. Still, what's going on right now is very bad, and it could lead to a place that is much, much, much worse. Consequently, while we wrote yesterday about the mess in Los Angeles, we're going to give over nearly all of today's posting to a more in-depth treatment. Because NOW is the time to push back on this extralegal abuse of power, not "well, maybe after the budget bill."
An image of Seymor Skinner saying "They just can't get the spices right."
A fencer lunging and being parried by their opponent.
An image of JD Vance wearing Jamie Lannister's armor from Game of Thrones. Lannister was called the Kingslayer in the TV Series.
An image illustrating the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
A 20-foot high sculpture of a pigeon.
The cover of the comic "Lawful" by Greg Pak, showing his signature.
Dr. Nick from the Simpsons, waving.
Cover of Time magazine featuring Elon Musk sitting at the White House resolute desk.
A parody of a Trump campaign sign with MUSK in large letters and TRUMP in small letters.
A parody of a Trump campaign sign that reads "MUSK" in very large letters and "TRUMP" in very small letters.
A screenshot of a headline from the satirical newspaper "The Onion" reading "Casual one-nighter gives Strom Thurmond change of heart on gay issue."
An image of St. Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels.
Lede from the linked article describing the losses that Scott Bissent accrued as a hedge fund manager.
Screenshot of a quote from the article: "To be as clear as I can be, the second Trump administration with Elon Musk embedded within it represents the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience. If you’re a media executive or editorial leader and you haven’t met with your legal team to understand the current landscape of First Amendment threats, let alone the ones to come, you’re already behind. Get on it. "