Peter Fraenkel

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

He's mad because it was truthful.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Painter, painted by El Greco in 1600. And repainted by Picasso, admirer of the Old Masters, whose birthday we have been celebrating.

They don’t know about départments, prefectures, or Länder either. Hell, a quarter of them think the sun revolves around the earth.

Ok, but if you want Americans to quickly grasp the rough relationship between Ontario and Canada, saying “state” in the headline and then clarifying in the body is efficient.

Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.

Le saut de qualité l'a un peu échappé encore une fois

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

In case you think this is a joke

Pitch: “Flight 93,” but the pilot wears a little crown, has uncontrollable diarrhea, and crashes into the east wing of the whitehouse.

Je ne vais pas tomber dans le piège de Trump et partager la vidéo publiée sur son compte.

Mais répondre à l’énorme mobilisation de samedi par un clip IA où il bombarde de la merde sur ses propres citoyens, c’est la confirmation de son absence totale de solutions face au malaise d’une partie du pays

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then back to the church to shoot the priest in the face with a pepper ball. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

Paddington in The Wicker Man (1974)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

Exactly this, on the Klein/Coates debate:
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

rope-a-dope the customer into giving up, jingles and stock images sold for hard cash.
The hard lesson here might be that we truly value nonsense.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

The net effect of workplace slop is unclear. Many jobs have always been to some extent about producing slop - verbiage whose specific content isn’t particularly important, meaningless icons and arrows to fill blank spaces in PowerPoint, “support” whose primary purpose is to…

I agree it’s good to convert voters. The thing that DC Dems can’t seem to get into their thick skulls is that kumbaya listening sessions convert no one. What converts people is creating a social penalty for stupid beliefs and ideas

I learned recently that Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert were different people. There’s a weird trend here.

Amid all my dark predictions, never did it cross my mind that I’d be forced to distinguish between Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Enough is enough.

Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with names like “Horst Wessel” and “Reinhard Heydrich” and places like Reichstag. I quickly asked her if she wanted to do something else and she anxiously nodded yes and we reminisced about killing black people.

Maybe. The author may still be learning the importance, in this age, of establishing with clarity that one is not just another proud anti-woke ignoramus.

In the next paragraph the reviewer calls it a “far more faithful interpretation of the novel than most of its predecessors.” I got the impression that his main complaint was with Oscar Isaac’s acting.

This is unfair. The reviewer doesn’t like the movie, but he literally observes in the next paragraph that it’s a “far more faithful interpretation of the novel than most of its predecessors.” The main complaint seems to be about Oscar Isaac’s acting.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

This one page Hostess ad has more words per panel than most comics have per page.

Also, the Lady Sif waltzes in in a silvery skintight outfight and the dudes are distracted by the fruit pies.

We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed - Salon.com It's time to look in the mirror, America: We chose catastrophe — there's no one else to blame

Very thorough, very sobering essay by the always astute Mike Lofgren. (His 'The Party Is Over,' in 2012, stands as one of the prescient works of our times. A former GOP staffer who saw where his party was headed.)

www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

Uncontroversial public figure: A nautical disaster is upon us! To the lifeboats!
Other public figure: We must first save the children!
Notably vicious right wing public figure: Fuck the children!
Public figure whose reputation is naughty or criminal, depending on news cycle: Can we?