Pat Shocker

@patshocker.bsky.social

Wool

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

I think a perfect microcosm of America right now is the federal government’s effort to un-enroll homeless folks from receiving Medicaid benefits. It’s Medicaid. It exists for low income households. Our Feds (with the help of some states) are trying to take it from the lowest income households.

Man, that Andy Williams news just hits like a ton of bricks. I spent so many hours of my youth trying to play those riffs as effortlessly as he did. RIP to a top notch guitarist and good dude.

I know we're all miffed about Balogun..but If I can keep the USMNT and Everton as independent items, that's my preference. USMNT fandom is filled with this odd, toxic brand of nationalism, perpetual youth sports conversations, and birthright citizenship debates. Okay by me if Everton avoided that