Patrick
@pmfin.bsky.social
Still learning as much as I can. Reading, writing, travel and AI. Finally made it to Bluesky.
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I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
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She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
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“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”
“Let me introduce you to our frog.”
“Let me introduce you to our frog.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”
“Let me introduce you to our frog.”
“Let me introduce you to our frog.”
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The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
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The level of anger and violent rhetoric spewing forth from Trump, Vance & particularly Stephen Miller is profoundly irresponsible. There’s a reason societies depend on responsible public servants to model decent and ethical behavior—so that they don’t devolve and fracture into violence & hate.
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The level of anger and violent rhetoric spewing forth from Trump, Vance & particularly Stephen Miller is profoundly irresponsible. There’s a reason societies depend on responsible public servants to model decent and ethical behavior—so that they don’t devolve and fracture into violence & hate.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
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More from Newsom’s press office.
August 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
More from Newsom’s press office.
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I known that the standards are pretty low at Fox News, but Will Cain seems to be especially bad at this. Just stepping on one rake after another.
Here we see Fox News' Will Cain apparently unaware that Senate Democrats proposed a ban on mid-decade redistricting and partisan gerrymandering in 2021, which no Republicans supported, and that the GOP governor of Massachusetts signed off on their last congressional redistricting map.
August 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I known that the standards are pretty low at Fox News, but Will Cain seems to be especially bad at this. Just stepping on one rake after another.
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If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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Bondi’s order to open grand jury investigation of Obama is absurd. Besides statute of limitations and presidential immunity problems, it will be a stretch to show a then-confidential investigation interfered with the 2016 election. THIS is lawfare.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election
Past probes, including two conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes. Democrats have accused Bondi of trying to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
www.nbcnews.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bondi’s order to open grand jury investigation of Obama is absurd. Besides statute of limitations and presidential immunity problems, it will be a stretch to show a then-confidential investigation interfered with the 2016 election. THIS is lawfare.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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I’m sorry — *Cracker Barrel* is too woke for the Trump administration?
Cracker Barrel?!?
Cracker Barrel?!?
A Legal group founded by Stephen Miller calls for federal and Tennessee investigations into Cracker Barrel for its DEI policies — “because initiatives are focused on supporting workers who are women, Black, LGBTQ+, or Latino”
www.newsweek.com/cracker-barr...
www.newsweek.com/cracker-barr...
July 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I’m sorry — *Cracker Barrel* is too woke for the Trump administration?
Cracker Barrel?!?
Cracker Barrel?!?
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Trump's megabill includes $45 billion for the construction of immigrant detention facilities.
To put that in perspective, the Los Angeles Clippers' Intuit Dome, one of the most expensive sports arenas in the world cost $2 billion.
Trump has enough to build 22 Intuit Domes.
To put that in perspective, the Los Angeles Clippers' Intuit Dome, one of the most expensive sports arenas in the world cost $2 billion.
Trump has enough to build 22 Intuit Domes.
July 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump's megabill includes $45 billion for the construction of immigrant detention facilities.
To put that in perspective, the Los Angeles Clippers' Intuit Dome, one of the most expensive sports arenas in the world cost $2 billion.
Trump has enough to build 22 Intuit Domes.
To put that in perspective, the Los Angeles Clippers' Intuit Dome, one of the most expensive sports arenas in the world cost $2 billion.
Trump has enough to build 22 Intuit Domes.
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The word is performing more or less the same function as “communist.” It is a means of going after enemies of the state, whoever they might happen to be. And here it gives an actually antisemitic administration cover for its own antisemitism.
It is journalistic malpractice for news outlets to keep repeating that Trump's attack on Harvard has anything to do with alleged antisemitism.
The president who uses antisemitic slurs and hires Nazis is not doing anything out of concern for antisemitism. His actions are about control.
The president who uses antisemitic slurs and hires Nazis is not doing anything out of concern for antisemitism. His actions are about control.
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The word is performing more or less the same function as “communist.” It is a means of going after enemies of the state, whoever they might happen to be. And here it gives an actually antisemitic administration cover for its own antisemitism.
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I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.
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Texas has the best democracy that money can buy
1/ Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.
He got them all.
He got them all.
July 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Texas has the best democracy that money can buy
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
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MAGA be like :
- Let's bomb Gaza... Yay!!!
- Let's bomb Yemen... Yay!!!
- Let's annex Canada... Yay!!!
- Let's deport non-white american citizens... Yay!!!
- Let's defend Ukraine against Russia... Are you out of your woke marxist mind!?!
- Let's bomb Gaza... Yay!!!
- Let's bomb Yemen... Yay!!!
- Let's annex Canada... Yay!!!
- Let's deport non-white american citizens... Yay!!!
- Let's defend Ukraine against Russia... Are you out of your woke marxist mind!?!
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
MAGA be like :
- Let's bomb Gaza... Yay!!!
- Let's bomb Yemen... Yay!!!
- Let's annex Canada... Yay!!!
- Let's deport non-white american citizens... Yay!!!
- Let's defend Ukraine against Russia... Are you out of your woke marxist mind!?!
- Let's bomb Gaza... Yay!!!
- Let's bomb Yemen... Yay!!!
- Let's annex Canada... Yay!!!
- Let's deport non-white american citizens... Yay!!!
- Let's defend Ukraine against Russia... Are you out of your woke marxist mind!?!
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It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
May 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
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Which would have been harder for people to believe in 1968, that Amiri Baraka's son would become Mayor of Newark, or that he would be arrested by the INS (now ICE)?
May 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Which would have been harder for people to believe in 1968, that Amiri Baraka's son would become Mayor of Newark, or that he would be arrested by the INS (now ICE)?
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lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due
May 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due
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I think a lot about CJ Roberts writing this in 2024: "The dissents' positions in the end boil down to . . . fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President 'feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.'"
May 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I think a lot about CJ Roberts writing this in 2024: "The dissents' positions in the end boil down to . . . fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President 'feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.'"