Todd Patrick (he/him)

@tightrough.bsky.social

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Tax the rich. Build more housing. Protect trans folks. Fix your hearts.

Needlepoint sampler of a fire-breathing kaiju and a house that reads, “May Godzilla destroy this home last”
Four men stand outside Kezar Pub in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district waiting to be let inside at 7am, two hours before kickoff of the Champion League finals match between Arsenal and Paris St. Germaine
A personalized bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon engraved with the words “Kash Patel FBI Director,” as well as a rendering of an FBI shield, obtained by The Atlantic (The Atlantic)
On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”
“We just roll back regulations and we keep being promised that deregulating and privatizing our systems is gonna fix everything, and it never does,” said Caitlin Ware, a pastor who advocates for clean water in southern West Virginia — her thoughts briefly interrupted as the electricity abruptly went off in her Sandyville United Methodist Church. “It only makes the rich richer, and it only puts us in a worse situation.” In February, Gov. Patrick Morrisey proudly announced plans to build a data center on nearly 550 acres in Berkeley County. “This $4 billion investment is a historic win that proves West Virginia can compete at the highest level for the global tech economy,” he said in a statement. It did not explain where the water or electricity would come from to run the 600 megawatt, 1.9 million square foot facility. Morrisey’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Thizz face next to mural of gold medalist skater Alysa Liu
A picture of the back of the Mastermind box on, what else but a kitchen table? A smug adult man in a jacket and tie is pictured playing as the Codemaker with his pegs hidden behind a shield as a preteen girl considers her next move in this pointless game of Wordle with Pegs. In the instructions printed below the photo is a section titled "Scoring" in which the final instruction reads "If it is proven that the Codemaker has misguided the Codebreaker with incorrect information, the game is replayed and 3 extra points are awarded to the Codebreaker." One wonders whether legal representation will be necessary to play.
SLOW street sign with a sticker that reads in yellow letters over a dark green background: “anyone who supports the A’s moving to Vegas is a cop”
Maybe 300-400 people gathered outside the Coast Guard Island bridge in Alameda, CA chanting and cheering while waving flags and holding signs in front of 10-12 helmeted Coast Guard Security personnel
Bilingual speech at the end of the No Kings protest march, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
Gen X’er dressed for today’s protest march in Oakland: A navy blue ACLU baseball cap reads “See you in court” in white all caps inside a red rectangle. A black T-shirt reads “Protect Trans Folks” in white gothic lettering among a broken chain and rose graphic beneath a chambray blue button down shirt open in front. Khaki cargo shorts.
A lanyard holding dozens of orange plastic whistles markered with OUT on one side, and ICE on the other
100 orange plastic individually-wrapped whistles with lanyards in a cardboard box, one unwrapped and held at profile? $20 Alerting your neighbors when ICE rolls up? Priceless
Hieroglyphics crew rapping ‘93 ‘til Infinity to a packed house in SF’s Dogpatch district, after last year’s gathering was canceled due to pockets touching
Cover of Marvel Age: The Official Marvel [Comics] News magazine, March 1984, glued onto 1/8” thick wood and cut into a 275-piece diagonal puzzle (so it’s harder to start with the edges and corners, presumably). The cover features The Avengers’ Captain America and Hawkeye, X-Men’s Cyclops, Wolverine, and Rogue in the foreground on the lower edge. Behind/above them are She-Hulk, Colossus, Thing, Dazzler, Storm, Nightcrawler. Beneath the title are Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, and the Human Torch flying, jumping, and swinging above the other characters. Sorry, I don’t know who the woman with a green mask is, but she’s in there, too The subtitle of this issue, at the bottom of the page, reads, “SECRETS OF THE SECRET WARS,” which would be published nine months later, in the following January of 1985 The puzzles are created by Ozan Burke, proprietor of puzzledcomics.com
Man-child Mark Zuckerburg ogles person-in-her-own-right, (and coincientally Jeff Bezos' fiancée), Lauren Sanchez's lace-corseted bosom… bc creeps gonna creep, I guess?
Two bins, each containing three giant 180g/6.34oz multi-flavor Chupa Chups lollipops, sold for $26.99 each before tax
“Alto alas redadas” in Spanish painted over the stars on an American flag translates to “Stop the raids” in English
MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS
Early crowd in Oakland’s Oscar Grant Park protesting the billionaire agenda