Terri Laufer

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave

Says the PA senator that lives in CT.

WATCH: Barack Obama just surprised an entire aircraft full of veterans on Veterans Day.

Damn straight. Maybe Nick Sirianni wants to be fired?

a stray dog stands in a bushy area. the dog is blue with golden eyes. he looks majestic as he stares off into the distance.

a group of 4 dogs rest together in a bushy area. two of the dogs are tan, one is black, and the last is blue with long, scruffy fur.

a blue dog is mid-step as he walks through brush.

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week

Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

i think Senator Lander has a ring to it

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

Exactly. Fight for us. No SNAP was find but no planes wasn’t? WTF!!

@runforsomething.net Run for Something @bradlander.bsky.social!! We love you.

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him

And they should, given this is his fault.

I said this in the summer and it’s still true.

This is exactly it. And even if that’s NOT the reason for the cave, the optics are sure fucking suggestive that it was.

I want Brad Lander to announce TOMORROW.

Or AOC for that matter.

Just imagine how much money they will raise to primary this motherfucker.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

DO NOT CAVE!

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Insanity.

Can’t even call @fetterman.senate.gov office on the weekend. Don’t be pathetic!!!!

Pesto’s memory will be a blessing for you. And for us.

Graphic supporting Justices Kevin M. Dougherty, Christine Donohue and David N. Wecht for re-election to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Election Nov. 4, 2025.

When Repubs throw a lot of money at something, you know they're up to no good. They're trying to skew the election for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices so they can put far-right judges on the bench. Don't let them.

Vote YES! to Retain Justices
* Kevin Dougherty
* Christine Donohue
* David Wecht

Here's why the new White House ballroom project is not real. (The demo is obviously real.) Some background - I am a licensed Architect with 20+ years of experience. I have worked on multiple Federal projects with sensitive building programs that required background checks. 1. With a projected size of 90,000sf and a newly revised budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical. 2. Let's assume, since we are drawing in the classical, style, that the proportions of the building adhere to the Golden Ratio. A 90,000sf would be a building with a footprint roughly 380' x 235'. Longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide. 2. The building is projected to accommodate 999 people. 15sf/person is required for a banquet area; 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. What you see in the rendering below is closer to 20sf/person. That's only 20,000sf, or a space that is 200'x100'. It's supposed to be a ballroom, so let's be extraordinarily generous and provide 10,000sf for the ballroom support functions, and another 10,000sf for pre-function. Extraordinarily generous. That's STILL only 40,000sf, not even half of the supposed building. 3. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated - exterior views do not match the interior views. See below - the White House is 70 feet tall, to the roof. The interior renderings show a room that is roughly 100' x 200', with a ~20 foot ceiling. The exterior renderings show a building footprint of 4.5x that amount. Those are renderings that could be produced by young staff in a week or two, at most. Nothing else exists.

An architect on the ballroom drawings. From fb (he said he doesn’t like being public, hence unattributed)

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“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Updating my LEGO White House

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

You go girl!!

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

This is a good spin.

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans