Patrick Herron

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Currently seeking accounts worth following. Not so interested in replatformed twits. Still nostalgic about the era when ego media were social. Former academic generalist still studying the economic & cultural global forces of actual invention in private industry. Scientist, author, poet of some acclaim decades ago, musician, artist. Mostly focused on being husband and dad these days.
My three favorite sports teams have all lost championships in the last 10 months, my wife nearly died last week, my dad died last year, none of my adulthood best friends are alive to commiserate wth, and my own health is currently south of hell. Chin up.
So for those who reason, “Lebron is now the GOAT b/c of the scoring record,” did you think before that Kareem was the GOAT until the moment Lebron’s record breaking basket was made?

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

Rosa Parks, born on this day, 110 years ago, was a defiant and seasoned working-class organizer.

'To the day she died, in October 2005, she insisted: “Don’t give up and don’t say the movement is dead.”'

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/rosa-parks-radical-politics-civil-rights-movement-activism/

#RosaParks #OTD #CivilRights #BlackHistoryMonth

Rosa Parks Was a Radical

Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913. Far from being a face of respectability politics, she was a defiant and seasoned working-class organizer who despised the cringing submission that Jim Crow induced and who doggedly fought oppression in all its forms.

The coverage of Biden’s documents has been weird as has the coverage of Hunter Biden. So too has been coverage of the price gouging in the food industry and energy sector. If that’s not been weird enough, the coverage of China’s surveillance balloon is now being eclipsed by the “rail fire” in Ohio. It’s TOXIC POISON GAS. Like “1984” but the “free markets” filter the news reaching us. Even if journalism still exists it will likely not arrive. Tell me more about how we’ve almost busted Trump.
Well there goes any credibility for The College Board: capitulating to anti-education bigotry. Terrible timing too.
So the DOJ is gonna go all in on big target anti-trust cases, when just about every market in the US is consolidating at breakneck speed?2022: in a year in which aquisitions dropped quickly and yet markets shrunk even more quickly. Not just late stage capitalism; smells like endgame capitalism. DOJ and EU need to do more to tend to the health of markets. They especially need to support midsize companies who diversify too slowly.
Jeff Lurie actually is getting smarter with age. Take that, time! #eagles
AJ Brown has the best mental game in the league…smarts, confidence, desire, sense of humor. Everybody else can catch up!
Brian Daboll: pudgy Bill Burr?