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12 minutes into @Coventry_City vs @Wolves #FACup tie on Saturday the Wolves goalie appeared to feign injury so that their manager could rearrange strategy using a tablet to brief the team. Why did the FA not penalize this???
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@freddiesayers @yanisvaroufakis Unfortunate. I quite like some of @yanisvaroufakis 's economic ideas from the troika era, but this is just ridiculous. The pre passport era world had a tiny population with very limited mobility. Today the 3rd world has total visibility into the 1st world and wants to live there
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@GavinNewsom This is what happens when you cut $150 million from Cal Fire's wildfire prevention budget and lie about forestry management (18% of 100% claimed) at a time when fire fuel is out of control. Showboating at the subsequent disaster is not getting it done
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@TulsiGabbard I'm amazed this common sense logic brings out so many clownish comments.
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@mchooyah Do 'contractors' ie mercenaries have to have the injections? I'd imagine a Seal would make far more $ on that team
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@GeorgeTakei @TulsiGabbard is like the person who tenaciously fights an unfair dismissal case against a giant corporation and prevails despite their lawyers constantly changing the rules to cheat. The #DemocracyDiesInDarkness media blackout should be a dire warning about democracy's future!
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@LWoods4Congress Useful explainer
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@GavinNewsom Why is the governor of California tweeting asinine cliches when there is so much work to be done? I'm not a gun owner but I'm v aware there are 300m+ guns in the US. Permits etc are low relevance if you intend to do harm.
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@pontiuspilat3 @disclosetv People for whom racialization of everything advances their agendas
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@GavinNewsom The game changer will be you leaving office, less autocratic impositions and a return to government by, of and for the people
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@kathansen38 @politico You love Joe Malarkey for calling a guy fat and refusing to answer questions about his son's shady Ukrainian deal?! You'll get Trump re-elected with your blind faith
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@GoalsCov @_ellissimms I feel sorry for poor Kitching, he looked devastated at full time. That was a poor, sloppy team performance and he was the unfortunate fall guy #PUSB
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@GavinNewsom There needs to be restrictions on how many times a day politicians can boast and self justify a day on Twitter, including their comms employees posting for the politician
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#DNC - why are you working hard for #Pence2020 while failing to bother to validate poll criteria for @tulsigabbard & @andrewyang for your corporate partner TV show 'debate' format? you are empowering #Trump and ignoring your base
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@MattHaneySF @GavinNewsom I'm a registered Democrat and I signed the recall Matt. Not good enough, we need to find someone less autocratic and with more common sense.
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#SanFrancisco has declared a 'Monkey Pox' state of emergency, yet people are dying of drug overdoses in the streets like flies and violent crime is out of control, particularly against Asians. Where are the emergency measures for these two deadly plagues?!
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@GavinNewsom There's still time to end your emergency autocratic powers and issue some mea culpas, but @realMeetKevin 's lawsuits, disastrous failures on homeless spending with few results, massive crime wave and endless showboating on @twitter and elsewhere makes yr recall necessary. I'm Dem.
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. @ChrisCuomo When are you inviting @tulsigabbard back to apologize and discuss?
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Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal "The fact that an extremely important news story of immense geopolitical consequence is not getting any mainstream news media coverage, *at all*, is absolutely stark raving insane."
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@cecaiza @ewarren @GavinNewsom Checked the reasons for the recall too? Crime, massive homeless spending resulting in more homeless, autocratic emperor like edicts from self created emergency powers. I don't care who is in charge, these things need fixing, fast!
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@sfstandard SF progressives: ' the old world was going to end anyway, it's nothing to do with us'. Meanwhile LA, NYC malls have returned to pre pandemic foot traffic and sales tax generation, which in turn pays for city infrastructure
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@sarahcwestwood @JasonLeopold I won't be asking the question
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@DeanPreston @SF_HSH This vacant hotel could have been tidied up and still be bringing in tourist sales taxes that could pay for transient youth drop in services and centers, but the BoS insist on destroying the SF tax base while increasing spending on street dwelling drug tourists
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@sfchronicle 'Carlos Santana goes on ‘most insane’ anti-transgender rant during concert' Many Latino people think the whole alphabet soup trans fashions are insane, but I'll bet you wouldn't dare call 'LatinX' views informed by their religion 'most insane'. What a ridiculous headline anyway!
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@GavinNewsom SCIENCE is now a dogmatic religious belief, and you have chosen to make this a political rallying point. Remember when people used to say 'the latest scientific ideas suggest'? Now people like you say SCIENCE is settled and you'd better believe it whatever it is. I expect better!
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@GavinNewsom 1. In 2020 nearly 10,000 fires burned over 4.2 million acres of CA. Solution: Far better forestry management 2.We’re treating 'climate change' like what it is—an emergency. Non Sequitur: China & other parts of the world are producing vastly more pollution than the US. 1/2
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@mrmartye @Elections2020_ @TulsiGabbard @vrin_davan @CullenYossarian @abewilliamsdp @PRIMONUTMEG @wanderlustyogi @CmookieB @DennisPotvinDem @JackmanRadio @sofiaxzaldivar @GOP @tulsigabbard is getting cross party and independent support. That's how you win an election, by avoiding the partisan red or blue team bigotry and appealing across the nation to all
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@dominictsz And the cars last 15 minutes
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@GavinNewsom How about doing your job instead of watching TV and focusing on racialism
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@curmudgeon_x @ryangrim Read some history and stop embarrassing yourself in public
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@mgraffx @chuckcze @TulsiGabbard Not a Trump voter but no new wars while he was president...now the neocons are back...Gabbard is one of the few people challenging the #bigWar #MIC $ machine
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@GavinNewsom This manic tweeting by the @GavinNewsom Getty team smacks of desperation
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@chrsdcook That's funny Christopher, the way you characterize Michelle is the way I think about you! ...misinformation, falsehoods, stale, failed ideological tropes that need serious push-back, misleading tons of people about the realities of homelessness and the 'solutions'...
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@myrnamelgar 'Instagram live' is probably one of the reasons these gangs love to beat up individuals. There are cameras filming everywhere in the clips, it's like racialized violence porn. At least there is criminal evidence on Meta servers somewhere.
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@merica The flak is thickest when you are over the target.
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@mtracey @tulsiGabbard is the most sensible and articulate politician I've ever seen. No wonder she is quarantined from the public like a COVID19 casualty by the media, who also force feed their gullible consumers with undermining garbage and poll numbers. Tragic.
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@timdavies_uk @nypost Ah that's all right then! If Hannah Sparks says it in Mr Murdoch's New York Post we can all relax!
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@matthewstoller @ggreenwald @robertwrighter Matt, that is just a bizarre assertion that undermines your credibility! How did the left wind up becoming neocons with a McCarthy like paranoia about bogeyman 'opposing establishments'?! It's depressing.
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@RepThomasMassie Dr. Peter McCullough has a lot of color and detail on that
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@GavinNewsom Common sense logic is to support landlord mortgage payments rather than tenant rent payments. a lot of landlords will be foreclosed on, jeopardizing roofs over renters. If the state then buys those foreclosed homes that is highly unethical
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@EricRWeinstein 'The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it' ~ George Orwell
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@XochitlHinojosa @TomPerez @tomperez needs to resign. Xochiti how about less self congratulation and more realism. Septuagenarian dementia riddled Biden is not a political force I can believe in, especially with #burisma in background..
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@NhialMa @TheHarrisSultan The British built the railways, sewers etc in British Mandate Palestine and successfully policed it against various extremist zionist and arab uprisings, but then the zionists became impossible to deal with. I wish they had persevered but the then new UN made that impossible.
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@peterboghossian @apaphilosophy I find that last paragraph rather baffling at a philosophical association of all places! Solidarity with who?
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Hard hitting piece by @chadwick_moore lambasting US media industry
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@InformedMama209 @Scott_Wiener I used to live in the Castro. 4 clones from inland got out of a minivan and started shouting 'we're here, we're queer, get used to it' as they walked outside our place. 'So is everyone else here darling' said a passerby. This performative parade is pretty pointless within SF...
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@suzanne_moore @ggreenwald This would be a great thing IMO. Owen Jones doesn't do anyone who isn't straight any favours with his ghastly persona and posturing.
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@merica Paging Mrs Clinton- please stop meddling in dnc primaries! You'll hand the election to Trump, you are a divisive and hated figure with a corrupt, dark history #halloween
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@mgerrydoyle You don't seem to have comprehended you disgraced yourself here as a journalist Gerry
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@KimIversenShow @krystalball @esaagar The part both Breaking points and yourself are missing is that the political landscape has changed dramatically since the electoral cycle. Gabbard is ahead of the curve as usual imo
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@HamasakiLaw Do those 'peeping tom' laws apply to children too? You can't see the wood for the trees here despite being a lawyer. This should not be happening on public streets and you know it. Stop hiding behind idiotic claims about 'hate', get a grip & enforce the basic laws we all live by
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. @SFGate @LATimes is doing a better job of local reporting of #SF than you are
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'Two of the most important economic questions over the next few years are: how will the US-China relationship play out, and how will nations curb corporate monopoly power?' @RanaForoohar & @matthewstoller are both terrific on centralized #monopoly power
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The @chesaboudin virtue signaling and incompetence goes from bad to worse.
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It is disingenuous for @chesaboudin to say how awful this crime is when he let the attacker go two weeks prior after he was arrested at the exact same spot.
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@nowthisnews @BernieSanders #Tulsi2020 platform has always been against wasteful regime change wars. Sanders will be a good senior adviser to #PresidentGabbard on domestic matters. His contribution here is too little, to late
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@DeanPreston It takes a certain level of cruelty to choose this moment to whine about the fact your and the BoS policies have completely failed, despite astonishing amounts of money, to help anyone, while making a tragic situation far, far worse.
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@MattHaneySF It could, but I'm seeing the reverse right now: 3rd world squalor in unsanitary streets, lots of vacant commercial real estate, fast streets crime and continued clamp down on live events, huge civic sums being burnt on unproven schemes with no oversight or transparency
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@Coventry_City @Wolves I'm sending this clip to the FA. O'Neil is out of his technical area on the pitch coaching his team. Can't find the specific rules in FA handbook but it needs a formal protest imo.
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@QueenOfHeartsSF The term 'anti vaxxer' has been smeared to imply a general resistance to vaccines. The various mRNA shots are a very specific category that some people chose not to have. I don't think the term 'anti' vaxxer is helpful to anyone. I do think more people should read Kennedy's book
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@Y94243913 @AddictionsPMC @NORMLIRELAND @IrishPsychiatry If cannabis was legalized and graded by strength, as alcohol is, there would be much better understanding of the effects of THC.
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We were warned by @tulsigabbard , now it's happening
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Tulsi: “There is one person who is responsible for this, and that’s President Trump. He has chosen to surround himself with neocons and warmongers.”
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@dannoyes What a mess. Rampant retail theft goes unchecked for years, now security has to be hired and a guy makes one mistake confronting shoppers he thinks might be thieves. It's a 100-1 ratio and now the city bureaucrats grind into action to punish the guard. Checkmate.
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@GavinNewsom @KamalaHarris Hopefully waving goodbye in a few days and the #DNC having a major reality check before reforming before it's too late
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@Twolfrecovery I love the way you have used yourself as an example and are fighting to save others who fell into the same trap as you did. That is such a hugely important public statement that transcends bureaucratic probation in a huge way!
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@GavinNewsom Does 'quarantining' mean going dark but really having a big Thanksgiving party with friends and family?
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@fbach4 @LondonBreed @SFDEM_MEC ( The author Tracey Mixon is a Peer Organizer at the Coalition on 'Homelesness' (sic) )
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@Telegraph 'Rishi we need peace diplomacy' would be a much better sign. We don't want to reduce Ukraine and the Crimea to rubble and call that a 'victory'.
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Noticing an uptick in anti @tulsigabbard trolls and misinformation spreaders today, wondering if this is to coincide with the Jan 6 TV memorial spectacular?
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@Scott_Wiener The disaster continues to unfold. Will there be sales calls by drug dealers to these 'safe consumption' opioid dens too?
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@mtracey I'm very close to a complete #demexit after the disgraceful hiding and smearing of @TulsiGabbard (currently at 4% nationally despite the fear campaign). These 2 septuagenarians are cynical and pliable establishment puppets IMO. #WalkAwayFromDemocratsForever
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@steve_sherwood @kaikahele What an idiot. Gabbard isn't contesting the seat, you just got scammed by @kaikahele . Pay attention!
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@tsoofbaror @Heidi__Matthews There has never been a war where civilians are the 'enemy'. UN Resolution 2417 calls upon all states to uphold international humanitarian law in conflict and ensure accountability for mass atrocity crimes.
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@mimibutt @yashar @RobertKennedyJr Kennedy is not an 'antivaxxer'. He is someone who is demanding far higher standards of public transparency around exactly what is in #bigPharma drugs put into our bodies. Big difference.
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@bcdutt @BettyKPIX @KPIXtv They're not 'desperate'. They know they can do this with impunity which equals a lot of $$$$$'s
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@krisrobinson @esaagar @wolfblitzer Pelosi losing the election for the #DNC
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@DeanPreston @stanthonysf There goes more Transient Occupancy Taxes and tourist sales taxes that pay for city infrastructure
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@GavinNewsom @POTUS ' #Homekey ' is a disaster on so many levels. Hotel rooms are not 'homes', there is zero data gathering, accountability or evidence of success for the incredible sums spent on homeless services.
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@MythSerene @TanaGaneva What do you suppose the 'desired effect' is from your east coast perspective? Why are you confusing homeless with the CA huge crime spree enabled by Newsom, Boudin and associates?
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@RafaelMandelman 'in SF we are learning'... meaning you and your chums are feeling a chill wind and realizing your catastrophically naive political dogma is a disaster. *You* need to be honest about what doesn't work
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@GavinNewsom EV production is very environmentally harmful. 3. By requiring new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 CA moved markets & created industry-wide change for the better. Illogical: 'Zero emission' means the pollution just happens elsewhere..2/2
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@kscottz @JoelEngardio Way too many of us are naive ideologues. Go out at 2:30 am in a dangerous area and experience the real world. See how many social workers, mental health professionals, housing coordinators, addiction counselors and educators are working to help people then.
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@curmudgeon_x @ryangrim Examples: New Zealand was founded in 1840 Germany founded in 1871 Australia founded in 1901 Nation states are a very recent construct aside from the older states such as Great Britain, France etc
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@chrisjennings46 @vonderleyen highly debatable. We need kinship and diplomacy, not more antagonism and hostility.
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@MolFalc @ggreenwald @TulsiGabbard @TheView Gabbard is a current military major. She is fighting for peace and the repatriation of the 6 trillion the US spends on foreign military adventures for the good of the domestic American people. Why do you not like that platform?
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@TomPerez Are you sending a message about rigged 'pitched' polls and predetermined DNC 'dictators' here Tom? Because I'm really annoyed about how opaque and obscure DNC candidate support focus is #tulsi2020 #pollthepeople not the corporate overlords
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@naomirwolf Markle is estranged from both her own family and now the Windsors. She's a highly manipulative actress with a very sketchy relationship with winfrey. Very destructive on Commonwealth day, wondering who instigated it all...
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@Tiff_FitzHenry Also v good about #CityofLondon by Lord Glasman
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@TomPerez @HouseDemocrats @senatemajldr @SenateGOP Why are the Podesta brothers still acceptable to the #DNC and why are you blocking certain candidates Tom?
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@IncarcerNation @chesaboudin yeah... keep running east and don't stop
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@TheDemocrats I'm so annoyed @tulsigabbard isn't even mentioned in this 'vote blue no matter who' garbage from the #DNC I'm off to lift weights and vent
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@chrsdcook Hint: it's a lot of lefty lawmakers and their activist journalist pals
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