Pat's Picks

A Baby Boomer's perspective on the news that impacts the next generation.

[TeinaPosts.🇪🇺 @RafaMorgan64]

We Europeans struggle to understand how a man with such poor and vulgar language skills could have been elected president by 77 million supposedly intelligent people.

How is it possible that a candidate with a history of inflammatory rhetoric, convicted of 34 serious counts of falsifying business records, and repeatedly mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's files, was elected president?.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Or, as a member of the bipartisan COVID Crisis Group noted in a 2023 study on the pandemic, a "key predictor of infections and total COVID deaths" in each state during the pandemic "was the share of people that voted for Trump in 2020," and that "Trump was a comorbidity."

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Scott Galloway: Senator Paul, who filibustered the Patriot Act for ten hours complaining it was a surveillance state, is fine with the surveillance state when he's holding a flashlight.

The bumper sticker America needs isn't prosecute Fauci, it's prevent fucking measles.

[Pat's Picks @Pats_Picks]

@Lady_FanAccount "GIMME SHELTER" IS A GENUINE, UNDISPUTED MASTERPIECE. I❤️IT! IT IS MY FAVORITE SONG BY THE ROLLING STONES!!!!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.

Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

The father of the 10-year-old boy who was saved by lifeguard Ryder Williams in Santa Cruz says his son was seconds from dying.

Sumit Rai says his son, Nathaniel, lost consciousness during the incident & says his daughter is traumatized after witnessing what happened.

"Ryder's only 16 years old himself. He's a teenager and for him to take that kind of leadership and go out and have that type of courage and bravery to go out and save someone else's life is remarkable, and I cannot thank him enough," Rai said.

"We got lucky that he didn't die, but this outcome could've been very different. I am incredibly and extraordinarily grateful to the lifeguard. He's the only reason that my son is alive."

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Dr. Fauci sitting there and listening to the insane ramblings of Ron Johnson on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine use for Covid without busting out laughing. Dr. Fauci is made of steel. We’d all be dead if the GOP had stayed in charge of the pandemic response.

[Pat's Picks @Pats_Picks]

@jgindel ✋

[Pat's Picks @Pats_Picks]

@depressionlesss AMAZING!!!! . . . WHAT AGILITY! WHAT DETERMINATION! WHAT A LOVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DOG AND THE OWNER!

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

If "not f*cking around" was a dog

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: Kaitlan Collins just gave the perfect explanation for why Trump attacks her.

“I think he surrounds himself with people who praise him or laugh at his jokes…”

Ouch!

“when he’s confronted with someone who is asking a challenging question… I think he doesn’t like it, and he lashes out over it.”

She absolutely nailed it.

[Pat's Picks @Pats_Picks]

@JVMonte2 STEVIE WONDER playing the harmonica. Here's a sample of his genius in the following songs:
"ISN'T SHE LOVELY"
"BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN"
"FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE"
"I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER"
"I WISH"
"TOO HIGH"

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Healthcare worker here. I worked the COVID pandemic front lines. I can testify with 100% proven reliability that the only patients who died were primarily the UNVACCINATED.

Dr. Fauci is a deadly pathogen professional whose efforts and efficacy saved countless lives. The man’s a hero.

[Paul O’Brien @Paul_L_OBrien]

I was helping my mom get into her nightgown and then into bed.

She thanked me and said I do a wonderful job. Then she asked me how many houses I work at each day.

I said just this one. She smiled then asked me what my name is.

Alzheimer’s is so brutal.

No funny story tonight, just sadness.

[Pat's Picks @Pats_Picks]

@nyknicks Happy Birthday to Bill Bradley . . . A great, great team player!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

happy birthday, bill! 🎈

[Jdab @JDabz87]

6 weeks later and STILL the mood 🏆🗽

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The republicans tore it apart.

[Thierry Le Chat @thierrychanu]

Très bonne journée avec @StationSimone!

26 juillet 1943, naissance, il y a 83 ans, de Mick Jagger

The Rolling Stones - "It's All Over Now"

(Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, octobre 1964)

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

John Leguizamo says voicing Sid in the ‘Ice Age’ franchise paid his bills, bought him two houses, and covered his children’s college education.