patrickmhackett.bsky.social
@patrickmhackett.bsky.social
youngstown, OH
tOSU
SGU 🩺
Reposted
Drug companies have hired over 500 lobbyists this year to gut the Inflation Reduction Act's drug price negotiation provisions.

They outnumber public interest advocates more than 20 to 1.

We must get money out of politics and end Big Pharma's deadly greed once and for all.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted
Greg Abbot called CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organization, a “terrorist organization” and said Muslims are a “threat to our freedom.”

The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.

This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a ‘Terrorist Organization’
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Reposted
“The valiant, brave, patriotic Americans who step up to serve” in ICE, says house speaker Mike Johnson.

What he meant to say: “The identity-cloaked, jack-booted thugs who are following a terror campaign.”
October 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Reposted
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."

- Nelson Mandela
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Reposted
"We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
October 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted
If this person walked into an emergency department, he'd be worked up for a stroke and wouldn't be discharged from the hospital under his own care
Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."
October 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted
As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Reposted
"The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster."
-Carl Sagan
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reposted
It's a weird comp but Kimmel's monologue was like a comedic version of the "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more" speech from "Network."

Burn. It. Down.
September 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us."
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
September 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Reposted
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Reposted
Violence only begets violence. Enduring change comes from building solutions, transforming minds, and cultivating what is good, in the human heart and in the world.
September 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reposted
Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to critical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.

- Carl Sagan.
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

- Carl Sagan
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted
Good morning!

Trump is the opposite of manly. Beta

He wears makeup. He whines non-stop. He’s always a poor victim. He dodged the draft. He have never served anything noble. He’s desperate for approval. He smells like the inside of a warm prison on the bayou, he hikes his pants up high
August 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted
First Ballot HOF
Motherfucking wind farms…
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted
Authoritarians don’t need to burn books - they just flood the shelves with lies.
August 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted
Mf
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Trans folks ain't done shit to you
July 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reposted
I’m calling for the release of The Epstein Files and Vivek Ramaswamy needs to do the same. Transparency is essential to keeping people safe.

As a victim of abuse and a mom, I know how serious this is. Ohio needs a Governor with zero tolerance for predatory behavior.
July 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reposted
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

- Albert Einstein
July 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Reposted
Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.
July 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted
PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
July 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted
Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM