Patrick Keating

Candidate for US Congress IL-02 Trial and appellate law attorney: Law Prof @UIC Dad of Daughters. Dem Primary 3/17/26

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

Victims matter. #votepjk

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@CrystalHope1979 The contractor has every right to file a mechanics lien and legal process showing up at the customers door and demanding payment is not only bush league and unprofessional, it also subjects the contractor to potential civil and criminal liability stupid, stupid stupid

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I assume the UK is like Chicago, no matter how awful the last guy was they'll manage to find somebody even worse

[City Aesthetics ⛩ @cityaestheticss]

The Obama Library is getting far more hate than it deserves.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a genuinely interesting piece of architecture, one that I think people will grow to appreciate over time.

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@CTULocal1 Wouldn’t it make more sense to bring the head of Chicago’s Catholic schools?

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@wttw Correlation is not causation

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@AliceBunnyland2 Trust me at Princeton in the 80s 40 per cent would have been high…..

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

Lesson: If a company will pay you 50% more for 20% more work, take the job….

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

He was shocked, went home, did not show up on Saturday & did not pick any calls

Finally, he came back to office on Monday, to his old office

He told then that he had an emergency at home, that's why he was missing for a week

Lesson:
Be keen when you are joining a new job. Maybe the new employer is worse than your current one

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@ILAttyGeneral @chicagobars Great hire!

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@BeBetterMan_ Never heard of Jermyn Street I guess…

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@TheAtlantic @MelissaSmejkal Not ideal, but Winston Churchill managed to be effective…

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@CTULocal1 😂

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@CTULocal1 😳

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@MirMAKOfficial @muckrakery Well at least there will be three experienced dealmakers and negotiators in the room…..

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@CTULocal1 You guys are the very definition of a RICO “enterprise”…

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

Damning study reveals how ChatGPT is damaging the way you think https://t.co/6WdCtdWQbs via @DailyMail

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.

And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.

Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.

This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.

The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.

Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

[Spaceballs The X Account @Grunt2A]

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

@JakeSheridan_ Maybe don’t schedule full hearings on the 1 week when Holy Week, Passover and many spring breaks coincide?

[Patrick Keating @KeatingLaw]

Yes, yes we are!

[山口慶明(Yoshiaki Yamaguchi) @girlmeetsNG]

アメリカで航空ショーを見に行ったら、なぜかジェットエンジンを取り付けたスクールバスが登場して意味が分からなかったけど、とにかくアメリカ人ってバカだけど天才だなと思った😂（最高時速590Km、ブレーキでは停止できないのでパラシュートを使用