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.
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.
@uspolitics I thought they protect the rights of companies, not people. Remember the rail strike & subsequent rail disaster in OH?
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?
@rbreich without the DoJ doing their job, the consolidation of markets will continue, abated only by token interruption of monopolistic activities. Market consolidation (acquisition rate exceeds market entry rate) is the engine behind the concentration of wealth. Late stage capitalism, meet end game capitalism.
Tokyo Sand 
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
Stefan BohacekRosa 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/
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.
@pdxlawgrrrl critical race theory: they hate it b/c it’s right.
@giarminio @breadandcircuses Wasn’t this disclosed years ago? I even recall one of the Rockefeller heirs talking publicly about this at length in an effort to implore people to take a closer look at the very company whose wealth he stood to inherit. A quite striking interview on NPR about eight years ago.
Well there goes any credibility for The College Board: capitulating to anti-education bigotry. Terrible timing too.
