"Governor Josh Shapiro is a dangerous, dangerous liberal progressive and we need to take him out [long pause, clapping begins . . .] We need to take him out of office."
Rep. Jonathan Fritz, PA House, 111th District, at a Stacy Garrity rally in Towanda on 10 November 2025.
#DogWhistle

This does not get repeated enough: Robert Kennedy is making a killing off Gardisil "injury" lawsuits. He gets 10% of the award from each plaintiff he refers to the Wisner Baum law firm. Every uptick in vaccine paranoia puts him in a better financial position.

September 1, 1939 W H Auden

I'm not understanding the "catastrophic consequences." Would anyone else on this list have been a sure bet? Would Harris magically have looked better?

Why are so many people so certain that if Biden had not run, a Democrat would have won the election? This is from a poll in early July 2024. It doesn't look like Newsom or Buttegieg were better bets than Harris.

Your tiger reminds me of the bobcat Walt
Kelly created to represent McCarthy! Even in cartoons . . .

Roland B. Hedley Jr. (intrepid reporter of Doonesbury fame) is covering a late-breaking story. It's on the other place, I hate to admit.

Kennedy Jr. had Leavitt bring her adorable little kid to work yesterday, to advertise his claims about infant formula. For the record, most European formula has lactose and vegetable oil. AS DO THE COMMONEST AMERICAN FORMULAS, such as standard Similac. Parents may switch to one with another sugar.

John Roberts, shown here as axis of the world at noon on the first day of spring, got us where we are.

#playmobil

My mother as a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, 1942. Barley was the subject of her genetic research.

In 1864, some 10,000 Confederate prisoners of war were brought to the Elmira Prison Camp in New York. From the first snowfall in October, it was a harsh winter. Some stayed in tents until the barracks were completed in January. The death rate was 24%, the highest of any Union camp.

Vichy fashion, from "L'Officiel de la Couture de la Mode de Paris" July 1942 (reprinted in Forties Fashion by Jonathan Walford). Melania's designer had a concept, I suspect.

The new Oval Office decor includes a scale model of the #reichstag fire.

#playmobil #lego #loz #elonmusk

On the Susquehanna.

#playmobil #lego

Acrobatic thief.

#squirrel

From Exploring Religion With Eight Year Olds by Helen Firman Sweet and Sophia Lyon Fahs, 1930.

Now would be a really good time to find that wardrobe going to Narnia.