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Bill Rapai

@brapai.bsky.social
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UMich grad and sports. Active in Kirtland's Warbler conservation. Author. Lover of Michigan beer. Married to The Lovely Joann. Here to be positive.

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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 10h
Get up! It's game day! Go Blue!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yo, coach! Maybe you should start with a coherent offensive plan?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Red Wings have no freaking idea of how to play a 3v3 OT. That was embarrassing.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I spent Saturday afternoon hiking in Olympic National Park. Put it on your bucket list.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There are times when I wonder if I'm going in the wrong direction.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course he did.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn! Better than the human menu!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just saw -- and squished -- my first invasive spotted lantern fly.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's the best you got, Nolan?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What is the number for seething?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@bluebarronphoto.bsky.social Hope you got the shot!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I blame you.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get up! It's game day! Go Blue!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Get up and prepare for rain. It's game day! Go Blue!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who cares what that fool thinks?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Get up! It's game day! Go Blue!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Leave it to Sailor Seth to call them out!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm going to spend my $5k check on a Canadian-made hockey stick.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's growing increasingly clear that Trump doesn't want companies that engage in commerce to not engage in commerce.
detroitnews.com
Ford responds to federal government telling it to cut back China ties
The letter from DOT Secretary Sean Duffy to Jim Farley doesn't threaten any specific action, but says the CEO should "reflect on these concerns."
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the Civil War’s most celebrated U.S. soldiers, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, was born 198 years ago today: 9/8/1828. Here’s a piece I wrote about him several years ago that addresses Chamberlain’s regular retelling of his own story for the rest of his life & larger issues of Civil War memory.
werehistory.org
Joshua L. Chamberlain and Civil War Memory
Retelling the past to relive, reshape, and perhaps rewrite it
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Could have been worse. When she was little, Kid No. 1 tried leaving her mother's wedding ring as a tip for the housekeeping staff at DisneyWorld. She was well intentioned, but...
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I told my wife after the game that when the fan survey came in that I was going to unload. I hope they are prepared!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everything is packed for the tailgate! Now, what am I going to do for the next four hours?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Get up! It's game day! Go Blue!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tigers ... bullpen ... speechless.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When the season is over, Tigers Manager AJ Hinch has one job: Gather up the bullpen pitchers, take them to a quiet spot under the right field grandstand, and kill them.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I found this Gulf Fritillary in Macomb County, Michigan, today. As the name implies, its usual range is the southern United States, west to California. One will wander into Michigan every so often only to learn the hard way that it can't survive the winter. Go home, you silly creature!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And I will be throwing things at you and Patrick from the stands! 😆
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Beat you today because MapTap didn't ask me about some town in India that I didn't even know existed.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
President Trump's order has no impact on how I or anyone else refers to Lake Ontario. The only people impacted by the order are Executive Branch bureaucrats. There is no force of law here. We citizens are not compelled to use Trump's naming convention. And we shouldn't.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
78.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Lovely Joann and I sailed 20+ miles today. I am dead dog tired.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tigers fan here. Ignoring the game on purpose. Too painful.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is supposed to gain us respect throughout the world?
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Seriously, Nolan? Do you honestly think Mike Rogers is going to make a serious attempt to try to appeal to the Left? Get real.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Check out the structure of this storm cell over Lake Erie earlier this evening. Yowsa!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Mayor of Simpleton by XTC.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I immediately turned off the local TV news last night when a reporter opened her story on the Lindsay Clancy trial by saying, "Hey there!" It just screams a lack of professionalism and maturity. Imagine Edward R. Murrow opening his reports from London during the blitz with a happy "Hey there!"
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the past few years, I've attended Michigan games at the Orange Bowl and at Oklahoma. At both games I was dumbfounded by how every second of every time out needed to be filled with loud, in your face ads. Money ruins everything.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Buck Stops ... anywhere else.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Looks like I'm not going anywhere for a while...
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Lovely Joann and I made a quick trip to the Door Peninsula over the weekend to see the delightful new musical "The Thing With Feathers," which is about hardcore birders facing a dilemma when they discover a Kirtland's Warbler out of range. See it if you can. It's a real treat!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hello, Milwaukee!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Monitoring the game from Wisconsin. Bring home the win!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Today's solar eclipse as viewed from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Only 3 percent coverage, but if you look closely, you can see it!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you played Sporcle's Pub Quiz, I wrote the questions about Thomas Hobbes and Agua Fresca. Hope you got them right!
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mark just wants another yacht.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As you are contemplating the US jobs report this morning, consider this: Canada added 75,000 jobs in July.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I might just believe him when he says that because making money is his ideology.
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Bill Rapai @brapai.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Scored a goal? Was it a header off a corner? Maybe he tipped in a shot from the point. Perhaps it was whatever they do in water polo. Far too often when the News posts here, it's something embarrassing that shows that modern newspaper journalism can no longer be trusted to be accurate. DO BETTER!
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