Mike Chiropolos
@UneasyChair
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Cryptic contrarian commentary on the World's Game 🌏 ⚽️, lesser sports, energy, ecology & political economy -- from an Uneasy Perch in the Prairie State 🌾 🦬
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@KateAronoff
Sankara. I lived in West Africa and the Sahel in the 1980s. Charisma of AOC, principled moral vision of Bernie, oratory skills of JFK. He conveyed hope and inspiration to the young and down trodden across a continent. Empowerment, egalité. ✊ 🇧🇫 🌍 ⚖️ 👊🏿
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@annehelen
I took two little boys on a dozen or two vacations as a single dad.
It was a bit of “work”.
And the most damn fun I’ll have in this world or the next.
We left the four-legged sis behind in a gas station once; Gloria Little Bull calmly waited and we were back inside 15 minutes.
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@TylerRickyTynes
Morning in America. In attempting to fan the flames of racial division, Trump managed to awaken a nation to injustice.
#AllMenCreatedEqual
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@SecretaryZinke
@USATODAY
Trying to illegally diminish National Monuments like Escalante Grand Staircase and Bears Ears to promote more leasing and development of coal, oil and gas?
Fuels climate changes that prolong & worsen fires and fire seasons - putting more fire fighters at risk. Cause and effect.
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@ClimateHuman
Ironic
(To the extent the political right and neocons are most invested in industrial civilization and capitalism, they have the most at stake in avoiding and mitigating the worst impacts of climate change. But …)
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@SarahThamerWISN
Of an unarmed man
Who was no threat to the officers
Who reportedly just broke up a fight
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
Remember that time a guy with a big mouth who owned a few golf courses and beauty pageants got elected President?
Zero experience, right?
Reality tv “actor”?
Didn’t a few hundred thousand Americans die from clueless pandemic policies?
Impeached twice, voted out?
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@stephenmtanner
Larger issue is that’s U-10 nonsense
Managers don’t direct traffic on the field — the good ones trust the boys on the field or find some boys they can trust
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@JoeNeguse
Smart money says tough-talking Boebert turns tail and runs to a “safe place”.
Neguse is the embodiment of integrity, effectiveness and constituent service.
Boebert is a mouth in search of a cause and a clue.
If they ever meet in a statewide race, Neguse wins 2 to 1.
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@HarrisonWind
If Calvin wanna die on that hill, fine
Josh can bring in a GM committed to fielding a team that gives Joker a chance of winning more chips in his prime
As in, now
This isn’t San Antonio and it’s not 2004
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@COChicanoJoe
@billscher
Raspberry Trump (but just a 13 second snippet where the current occupant said words to the effect of "it was just a retweet u know i put it out there" and the citizen responded "ur not some crazy uncle dude ur supposedly the potus")
Game. Set. Match.
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@GlennThrush
@lynn_bartels
Let the record reflect that the Harvard law prof who summers in the Hamptons suggests there is nothing troubling, unusual or extraordinary about 1) blatant lies, or 2) felony payments of hush money to buy the silence of past paramours in the “heat” of a Presidential campaign.
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@SecBernhardt
@realDonaldTrump
Nice
Tbh we would have settled for leaving our public domain as good as he found it
As in not abolishing National Monuments
Turned out to be too much to ask
45 will be toast Tuesday
Biden and the courts will restore Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and the others
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@owillis
Pretty damn effective when she asks exact same question three times in a row while screeching “reclaiming my time” as if she gets it back for being dumb as a stump.
Once you waste your time, you don’t get it back
@laurenboebert
Ms. Young’s hint of a smile is wicked funny👇
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@JoJoFromJerz
@RexChapman
@MLopezSanMartin
Seems offshore wind turbines might be slightly less likely to light the ocean on fire
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@drvolts
If there weren’t wars to be fought we might pursue the international cooperation needed to address tipping points
Alas
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@mtracey
Neither Russia nor USA were "destroyed" in Afghanistan. Both withdrew because cost didn't justify occupation. Same for USA in Vietnam. Britain in American Revolution, or most (all?) of her colonial withdrawals since. Breakup of USSR.
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@NYinLA2121
@ProjectLincoln
The baffling level of ignorance, stupidity and entitlement that caused Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner to authorize Kasowitz’s threat to sue is the sum total of the wisdom of the two “aides” DJT entrusted w/ American foreign and domestic policy — and pandemic response.
@IvankaTrump
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@MahirZeynalov
@kurdishblogger
@okcthunder
Solidarity. We should issue an American passport if necessary. Stand up to tyrants and tyranny.
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@herculezg
When you hang your laundry out to dry in public thinking it will make you look good, you never know what dirty laundry might get aired out next.
Now we know.
Gregg could have stayed silent on how he "handled" Gio Reyna in Qatar -- for all kinds of reasons.
He didn't.
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@VABVOX
@maureendowd
Dowd thinks for herself. She makes some of her readers do the same. Sometimes, see things differently. Learn. Laugh. I’m good with that.
Journalists should strive to earn readers’ *respect*.
“Lionize”?
If they seek adulation that’s a disservice to journalism and democracy.
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@davidsirota
How was HRC to know popular vote winner not elected by EC? Yale law degree? 3 campaigns counting WJC? Insider advisers? Not her fault! 🤣😭
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@davidsirota
Almost as if HRC is:
- out of touch
- out of ideas
- out of office
- out-blaming the universe
- out shilling for 💰💰💰, again
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@Standard_Tweets
@businessinsider
Because: all along, it was about her. Not us. Not our country. Not dreamers or women. Her.
That’s why she voted for the Iraq War that killed millions on lies. Took what Wall Street offered; raised PAC money Sanders refused; defended WJC; attended Weinstein fundraisers.
Her.
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@BenRothenberg
What’s the medical science and public health data that allowing Djokovic to compete is a threat to public health?
If it existed, wouldn’t Kyrie Irving be a risk to the 30-some cities that host NBA teams and fellow players?
We should be embarrassed, and ashamed.
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@BenRothenberg
And Fernandez defeated three top five players including the defending champ in one of the toughest paths to a US Open final, ever
Unbridled joy, surpassing skill, fearless athletic prowess and sport distilled to its purest essence: a final for the ages
🇨🇦🍁🦁🇬🇧🎾🗽🇺🇸🏆🥇🥈
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@KristianRiise
@GovMikeHuckabee
@realDonaldTrump
#Churchill
:
Lifetime military man and politician
Served in navy
Gifted speaker
Wrote his own books
Books worth reading
Stood up to Nazis
Puffed cigars like a dragon
Drank whiskey like a fish
Revered by allies
Feared by tyrants
#Trump
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None of the above
No comparison
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@MikeLeslieWFAA
Wrong question.
Right questions:
-What if a MAJORITY of Cowboys kneel?
-ENTIRE team?
-PLAYERS, COACHES AND TRAINERS
#PowerInAUnion
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@StatisticUrban
Resilient. No steel or concrete. Mobile, with changing seasons and climate. Adaptable. Indigenous.
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@TaylorTwellman
In 1962 Cup Pelé was injured in the second group match after scoring a spectacular goal in the opener (G and A in 2-0 win over Mexico) and didn’t play after the injury — including the final.
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@rameradam
@MennoniteAction
#quiltingforpeace
some of the most bold and beautiful banners in the history of nonviolent protests and peace vigils
Israel may be winning on the ground in the battle for Gaza, but Palestine has triumphed in the more important struggle: the battle for public opinion
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@nbarealist23
I watched most every game of that 2012-13 season — that team hooped the way hoop is meant to be hooped
Best over-performing team ball in NBA history and it’s not close for my money
@CoachKarl22
masterclass
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@tariqnasheed
Her whole thing was to play the victimized heroine and get her fool name all over the net. Five minutes of fame. Man answered the question.
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@drvolts
It doesn’t exist unless you’ve devoted your life to being a competitive swimmer, track and field athlete, or ____ — and don’t realize your dream bc it does exist for you
But hey, “statistically speaking” you “basically do[n’t] exist”
Erasure much?
Is fairness ⚖️ left v right?
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@nycjayjay
States also delegate rulemaking authority to agencies.
Because it makes sense.
Congress — or state legislatures — can amend or repeal rules or regs after agencies approve.
Some states provide for annual legislative review of all new regs.
Rulemaking are open to public.
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@KevinAprileCT
Came out the same year. I had a little log in my room on notebook paper, kinda like a diary, hash marks for plays by song on the most one or two Chicago radio stations playing that stuff back then.
SS 🌅 and LC 🟪🟩 🎸 : Empire’s past and a global commons future
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@matthewstoller
What’s the point?
China today is something like the British Empire on the cusp of the War of 1812 (mighty power still on rise), perhaps, and US more like Ottoman Empire in 19th century and Britain in 20th (inevitable decline).
Maybe peace with China strategy > hostilities.
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@SuzannaDWalters
We can hate whoever we want: genders, religions, races, ethnic groups, sexual orientation, on down the line.
Perhaps a better question is how many departments, at how many universities, employ professors whose push "hatred" as scholarship?
#NortheasternUniversity
, for one.
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@TheRickWilson
Trump is a would-be rebel without a cause, a dumb-ass detective without a clue, a pretend populist without a program, an unaware "emperor"
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@NaomiAKlein
Almost like the Times is an establishment institution that thinks the status quo is working and “if only we could get back to normalcy and norms” everything would be “normal” again.
“Siri: define ‘out of touch’”:
“Mike the Greek, ‘out of touch’ is defined by the ‘Grey Lady’”
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@WGNNews
“Loathed Businessman with Lousy Credit Who Stiffs Workers — and Scorned Politician Who Is International Laughing Stock — Takes on Great City”
Laughable
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@CFCMod_
Qatar curse?
Marquinhos (and Neymar) play for PSG.
PSG owned by Qatar Sports Investments.
Who else plays for PSG?
Messi (and Di Maria).
Why did Brazil lose?
Football Gods frowned on Qatar connections.
Argentina bowing out, LVG and VVD to final.
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@McFaul
Individual Russian nationalists are free to join the army or donate money for missiles. They won't. Putin knows there's no popular appetite to expand the war or mobilize from the general population.
It's times like this when a responsible, rationale opposition party is needed.
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@USInteriorPress
The city and county of Boulder Colorado own more than 150,000 acres of land, fee or easements.
The Arapaho and Cheyenne Nations own 0 acres of their ancestral homelands in Colorado.
It’s time
@bouldercolorado
@bouldercounty
@AaronBrockett12
@Marta4boco
Foothold in foothills.
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@nuggets
@facucampazzo
Good things happen when MPJr and Façu cut for the hoop on the break 😐 absolute subtle brilliance of little man playing BIG 🇦🇷🪄 🏀👊🏿 and here’s to the Irishman in the front office who drafted this squad
#TimConnelly
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@BakerDebby
@sha210
@MattxRed
If only we lived in a country where citizens can run for elected office, and in 2016 an outsider candidate proved one can fund a people-powered campaign for any office - including the highest in the land - with donations averaging $27/per person.
Keep on keeping on people.
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@Bradley_Locker
@EduardoES97
Former football player confirms belief of football program that it's bigger and more important than the university.
Raising question as to whether moving past the DI football era might be the best decision that Northwestern could make in the summer of '23.
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@Silent1nsanity
@sha210
@BakerDebby
@MattxRed
Thank you.
Wherever one comes down on Bernie’s politics (I was a proud delegate), his greatest legacy might be showing that you can get elected on a platform of no PAC money - and avoiding big money donors & corporations - running a campaign fueled by contributions averaging $27
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@deepgreenphilly
@MaxBlumenthal
@davidsirota
“Move it on along 👨🏽✈️, nothing but garden variety influence peddling & prospective access auctioning (equal opportunity for foreign powers & private corporations alike) by the would-be First Laddie to support the would-be First Family’s finances 💰💰 & do-gooding ...”
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Hypothesis: population growth creates risk of far more intractable and vast problems than it might solve.
It's time to come to our senses.
Let Mother Earth breathe and give younger generations a fighting chance.
Here's to welcoming slow, stable or negative population growth.
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@KimIversenShow
Turning corner on Covid, out of Afghanistan, not international laughing stock, restoring alliances,
facing down bullies, foiled plot to steal presidency, back in Paris Climate Agreement,
making history on Supreme Court, defending choice, passed big infrastructure bill …
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@HarrisonWind
Stay healthy
142 is a lot of points with no starter on over 24
Here’s to two straight big nights by KCP
Team ball
MM
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@KyleClark
2,205 vote Frisch lead with 95% reporting ax the district
Frisch runs strong in blue Pueblo, Garfield and Pitkin Counties with 92, 90 and 80% in
Boebert’s dwindling hope in Montezuma and Otero at 91% and 77% in.
Others >95% in
Looks like one term and out for the incumbent
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@BleacherReport
Congratulations to the two athletes named to the team today, English Gardner and Aleia Hobbs, and here’s to a repeat of the 2016 gold medial 4x100 relay when Gardner ran the third leg
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@chipfranklin
That look on your face when you didn’t think the kid who did his homework and captained the cross country team could kick your butt in the locker room for bullying the new kid from out of town.
Trump got his clock cleaned. Stick a fork in 45. He’s done.
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@pmarca
64 games featuring athletes from 32 nations kicking a round rock around a green rectangle in what’s been called the Beautiful Game is a welcome respite from the rest of it.
Stuff dreams are made of, a bit of a leveler across cultures and continents.
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@GrantWahl
It only the Yankees, Lakers, Bayern and Barca won just about everything almost every year the world would be a better place — according to Grant.
Eff that.
Here’s to Lyons and Leipzig meeting in final — and a big shout out to Atalanta, entire roster wages equal Neymar.
Sport
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@KimIversenShow
Oversimplification. Zelensky’s party won 72% of vote in 2019, supporting good relations with Russia.
Ukraine sought and accepted our aid; raised NATO and EU membership (NATO off table bc Eastern provinces occupied).
Defending territory and sovereignty is Ukraine’s choice.
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@realDonaldTrump
If only we lived in a country where
#PresidentialHarassment
wasn’t a thing. Like, I don’t know, maybe ...
Russia 🇷🇺
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@herculezg
Greece beat peak CR7 packed Portugal in Portugal, my brother in football.
Twice.
USSR used to ball.
Danes were Vikings, once.
But yeah, WC generally a tougher win.
Then again, Mmmbop knows something about both tourneys.
He’s speaking his truth from experience.
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@kthalps
She is who she is. She’s not President. She did her best. It hurts.
Bernie took the high road at the debates and on the campaign trail. His leadership commands respect & inspires action.
Let’s build a coalition that shows what’s possible when we believe & bring people together.
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@DaveKrieger
@dailycamera
Thanks for shining light, Dave, and offering provocative, independent thinking on issues big and small, of local and global import.
These hedge funds too will pass. We will either figure out how to support real journalism and a thriving free press, or watch our democracy suffer.
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@TimothyDSnyder
Hell of a take from a history professor.
Here’s the dedication from All Quiet on the Western Front, about another artillery war 100 years ago.
World War I also resulted from entangling alliances, animosity between great powers and failed diplomacy.
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@nypost
Remember that time Trump put Pence in charge of the coronavirus task force? Yeah, good times.
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@LalehKhalili
Anderson knows as much abt where America eats as he knows abt sports — and his doting interview w Megan Rapinoe was deliciously innocent albeit largely substance free. Dude is yt privilege writ large. Vanderbilt “line”. Whatevs.
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@TexasTribune
@propublica
Most of the failures can be traced to Rick Perry’s tenure as governor.
Trump promoted Perry to Secretary of Energy.
Let that sink in:
The politician who dismantled Texas’ grid (least reliable or resilient in nation) was GOP’s choice to run DOE.
🤡🚂
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@MediumBuying
We heard baseball was dying by the demographics. Guess they know their audience bc tbh Biden is bonkers if he thinks this motivates anybody under 60 to vote.
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@jordanandersm
They who laugh last, laugh best
Game 7 wasn’t close
Marcus Morris scored 7
Jamal poured in 40
That game 5 Nugz win:
Sap had 17 and 6; Marcus Morris 12 and 7
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@KatSulls
Man’s got a point.
What if Paul Recere had spent more time crafting silver crowns & thrones for King George, instead of riding around asking the Minute Men to stand up to the redcoats?
If only Martun Luther King had minded own affairs & taught theology at a black college?
🙄
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@surlybassey
Greece was ruled by the junta or Regime of them Colonels from 67 to 74. Healthy democracy today with usual run of challenges.
Most of Eastern Europe once behind Iron Current is now free, many nations in NATO.
Malian democracy flourished under Amadou Toumani Touré & will again.
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