Dr. Matthew Pate

Save for Chomsky, Dawkins, Fukuyama, Habermas, Žižek, Amartya Sen and a handful of others, that age is largely gone.

Most of that fault lies with the academic disdain for grand theory and holistic thinking. The academy wants compartmented hyper-specialists bc they can be monetized.

Let’s be clear. If Trump weren’t propped up by daddy’s money, he wouldn’t be allowed to live independently. He wouldn’t have control over his own finances or life decisions. This is what unchecked privilege and wealth does to society. The Idiot Who Would Be King.

Most of the workers here have a short tenure. It’s horrible work. A lot of these chronically impoverished people have few options in a place like my hometown.

This is typical corporate greed but it misses the broader point that it’s a business model predicated on suffering and death. I’ll bet the vast majority of you have never been in a poultry plant or a commercial chicken house. I have. If you had to see, hear, and smell it, you’d think twice.

This would be a good time to acquaint yourself with the term “interlocking directorate” if you aren’t familiar.

I also note that most of the clowns in this report don’t have the life experience or perspective necessary to run a hot dog cart.

I tend to disagree. Buchanan was inept and ineffectual. Trump is demonstrably evil and purposefully destructive.

Wash the blood off the dashboard and keep on motoring…

This should come as no surprise. I’ve long held that FB prompts a plethora of negative emotions, encourages siloing of thought, reduces attention span, and heightens consumerism. Disguised as a social interaction site, it is more properly a data aggregation service and social control mechanism.

Robert Reich The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.

It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

I’ve worked with these tools a lot but I don’t have the time it would take to do it justice. Once all of the names are public, I think we will see a great spider’s web of elite privilege and debauchery.

Has anyone taken these names and put them through a communication network analysis (like #NodeXL ) to see how all these people are interconnected - besides Epstein?

I’m not saying we should ignore his posts, but we must consider EVERYTHING Trump says through this filter: He is a dementing psychopath with an IQ around 80.

Once you understand that, you can stop being surprised or shocked and focus on the work of destroying all he represents.

I know I’m a pedantic smart aleck, but I saw this clickbait headline, “11 English Words That Sound Completely Made Up” and thought ‘yeah, they’re all made up.’

One more artifact of the fossil fuel industry’s purchase of the US government. End Citizens United, ban stock trading by Congress, enact limits on all campaign contributions.

Blackburn is what you get when you mix greed, ignorance, and self-righteousness.

Here are the power players who've paid the highest price so far for their Epstein ties The scandal didn’t die with Epstein — it only exposed who else was willing to stand beside him.

Here are the power players who've paid the highest price so far for their Epstein ties
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You’ll notice they never let her hold light bulbs.

Brilliant

I like this idea. Imagine a grotesquely large Evel Knievel jumpsuit.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Can't Escape The Harsh Nicknames She's Been Saddled With - Nicki Swift Sarah Huckabee Sanders hasn't had an easy time in the political arena, and her naysayers have thrown some absolutely brutal monikers her way.

I’m calling shenanigans on Ms. Byerly’s reporting. Anyone who knows anything about this knows the preferred nickname for the Guv’ is #AuntFester

#Arkansas #arpx #arnews

It’s the transmission/clutch isn’t it? Ford owes me for this. #Lemon

With credit to Jeff Altman’s “I’ll Flip You Like a Cheese Omelet”for the line.

A 2025 photo of Trump at Mar-a-lago. He’s wearing a white polo and black slacks that are about four inches from his armpits.

Grandpa Creepin’ Pants is about six months away from being just a belt and a head.

How right you are!

These are excellent suggestions. Stock buybacks used to be illegal - with good reason.

Praise the maker! Thank you.

I'm looking at recipes online, for #Thanksgiving.

Unwanted: 1. The annals of time as told through your grandmother's blueberry scone recipe; 2. Scavenger hunt containing 417 popups; Iffy measurements.

Wanted: 1. Ingredient list 2. Clear instructions 3. Photo 4. Max 2 paragraphs of myth & legend.

As sure as the sun rises!

Sadly, many people today seem to be CLUELESS as to what Socialism really is!

Tell me again why we should allow billionaires to exist. Wealth hoarding ensures a need to fund basic humanity by begging. Forced redistribution of their wealth is the only way. Call it taxes or whatever but do it.

These people are beyond stupid. They need a ninth grade government class.