Patrick Smith

Husband, son, brother, SGI Buddhist, business consultant, actor, photographer, natural health enthusiast, francophile, grammar addict.

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

Is it possible that the new @StreamOnMax app is even worse than the first HBOMax app? Yes. Yes, it is. #appdevelopmentfail

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@nomadgoods Ordered mine!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Military spending this year:
🇺🇸$877 billion
🇨🇳$292 billion
🇷🇺$86 billion
🇮🇳$81 billion
🇸🇦$75 billion
🇬🇧$69 billion
🇩🇪$56 billion
🇫🇷$54 billion
🇯🇵$46 billion

But please. Keep telling us the problem with the deficit is the kid who gets $6 a day in food stamps.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Now the poem that Amanda Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration, entitled “The Hill We Climb,” has been banned from curriculum through 5th grade in Miami-Dade County, for not being suitable for elementary students.

For those who listened to the poem, you would know the the poem was a lecture on peace, love, unity, and freedom.

This is why laws banning critical race theory from schools are a problem. People begin categorizing anything that talks about race as falling into the realm of CRT. Or they use the law to justify removing books and curriculum that can teach real history.

This isn’t free speech. This is using the law to chill the free speech of others, in my opinion.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This has been the GOP's plan all along:

1) Pass massive tax cuts for the rich.

2) Claim the cuts will pay for themselves, dismissing concerns about the deficit.

3) Use the massive hole they've blown in the budget to justify deep cuts to programs that millions rely on.

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@OccupyDemocrats Yes! And, more broadly, the end of journalism occurred when news outlets were suddenly all required by their parent companies to become profit centers.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Many of the same Republicans complaining about the debt ceiling voted for Trump’s tax cuts, which cost ~$2 trillion alone.

They don’t care about the debt. It’s all about their wealthy donors.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

The only thing that is really "verified" today is Elon Musk has no clue what he’s doing with Twitter.

[Robert Hardy Jr @robhardyjr]

@joncoopertweets Another clear example of progression to The Handmaid's Tale. When politicians begin to implement laws that restrict benefits to certain groups, purely based on religious ideology, we're doomed as a society and a country.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.

That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.

We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Jeff Bezos is worth $122 BILLION, while a market trader selling rice in Uganda makes $80 monthly.

Guess which one is taxed at 40%?

Join the global call to tax the mega-rich now.
#TaxBillionaires

https://t.co/DtdocnOHik

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.

Don't be fooled.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Republicans in Florida want to stop girls from talking about their periods in school.

In Idaho, they’ve rejected a bill that would have funded free menstrual products in public school bathrooms.

And in Virginia, the Governor has made sure authorities could issue search warrants in order to seize a young girl or woman’s menstrual data.

All of this, while they seek to criminalize abortion & deny a woman’s access to contraception.

If this isn’t an all-out Handmaid’s Tale style assault on women and girls, I don’t know what is.

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@patiencebloom Yossi: “Plenty of stuff to knock off the desk! Where to start??”

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@denisedailey Wow!

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@patiencebloom

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

Windows 3.1 - Taught bankers how to click with a mouse.

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

Age yourself by telling us the first Microsoft product you ever used. ⬇️

[Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY]

George Santos says gay people having children is "an attack on the family" and he's co-sponsoring a bill with MTG to ban any mention of LGBTQ lives in schoolbooks. He's not just a pathological liar and a criminal - he's a hateful bigot. Is anyone surprised?

[Patrick Smith @Smitpat]

@patiencebloom Drizzle. Veggie.