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This could have been USMNT's finest moment. Instead we are the laughing stock of the entire world. This is where he and his movement brought us. In this. In everything. I feel for the players. But most of all, I feel for all of us. How much longer are we going to stand for this garbage. 4/end

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Many of them are marginal players at best; this is the end of their careers for them. And Poch certainly won't stay around for this. 3/

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When the players who play overseas go back into their pro club camps this summer they will be mocked mercilessly by teammates, and just wait until the matches start and the supporters get their word in. 2/

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Last of this then we'll move on. The team played like they were embarrassed to wear the uniform. They knew how absolutely wrong this was. I won't say they were rattled, but clearly they were demoralized. 1/

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Except Europe is in an especially punitive mood, and a ban on the US would also take out the women’s team, which they do care about

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Do not be surprised if the regional associations, led by UEFA, successfully push for a ban on USA, which would not only affect USMNT but also USWNT. The knives are out.

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The other part of this-isn’t-over: article 15(c) of FIFA regulations prohibits “government or political interference in football administration. Violations can result in the suspension of national teams and clubs from international competitions.”

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Remember, during last year’s Club World Cup he hijacked the team trophy and inexplicably kept it in the Oval Office for months, then during the winner’s presentation he pocketed one of the medals. This isn’t over.

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Do not be surprised if the regional associations, led by UEFA, successfully push for a ban on USA, which would not only affect USMNT but also USWNT. The knives are out.

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As a Chelsea supporter I watched him stand up best he could for his players in an impossible situation under nightmare ownership. And now he’s in an even worse place.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

And I thought Poch was a stand up guy. Guess he's been here too long already.

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Art history students get the meaning. Marcel Duchamp lives.

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Data centers need to be planned and sited no differently than nuclear missile siloes: far away from populated areas, on their own power grids, with their own water supplies.

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There would be no Bari Weiss without Heather Cox Richardson as her business partner on Substack.

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Same thing happened to me for ad fraud and I never recovered

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Also getting texts and physical mail. I have never voted Republican in my life, not once, anywhere, for any level of office. The only possible way this could happen is that DOGE or one of the federal agencies I do business with provided my information to Republican political operatives.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Don't know if this is happening to anyone else: I have one email address that I only use for "official business" with the federal government--IRS, SSA, DHS, etc.-- and for nothing else. Lately I've been getting flooded on that email with solicitations from the president and the Republican party.

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If you wouldn't build a nuclear missile silo there, you shouldn't build a hyperscale data center there.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New Jersey is turning on Mike Sherrill just as fast as she is turning on them. Her betrayal of her constituents and her support for the concentration camp in her state will live in infamy.

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Rules and laws don't apply to Republican criminals

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...he had taken his friends in those gun groups with him. No one would have shed a tear either way. 5/end

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...his (third) wife to go inside and make him a sandwich. While she watched through the kitchen window, he put a 9mm in his mouth and pulled the trigger. We all thought it was a blessing and a minor miracle he didn't take anyone else with him. But if he had to, would have been just fine if 4/

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... Courts agreed with my cousin that something was seriously wrong, had my uncle's weapons taken away. Couple of years later, gun groups successfully challenged the state's ERPO laws and had them repealed. Uncle got his guns back. Not long after, he was sitting in his backyard and told 3/

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...California Highway patrol, spent the rest of his career beating up Latinos and Hell's Angels. When he retired, my cousin, himself a local police captain by that time, noticed some concerning behaviors, and went through the lengthy legal process of having an ERPO served on his own father. 2/

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Had an uncle, Guadalcanal Marine, tough as nails. Came home from the war and became a NJ State Trooper, spent the 1950s and 60s beating up black people up and down the NJ Turnpike. Something went real bad one day and he had to suddenly move across the country, where he joined 1/

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Next thing you know he'll be holding a demolition derby back there. As a Midwesterner, I appreciate a good demolition derby. But still.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yeah so explain why we were all on Twitter then from 2006 to 2023. What a load of nonsense.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s surreal and deeply angering in person

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Friend took my rant from a recent visit to DC and made this

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tom Massie was a total piece of shit. So was Bill Cassidy. Good riddance both. Doesn't make any difference at all "how bad" the other guys are.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Few days late with this, but for anyone interested in taking economic action, the largest companies HQ'd in Tennessee include FedEx, Dollar General, AutoZone, Tractor Supply, Unum. Make them feel you. BoycottTheConfederacy.

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We're just gonna have to stop going to ballgames

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As did I. And except for the guy I replied to and his fellow Norwegians who for some reason felt compelled to dogpile with cheap childish memes. As for my behavior, blame the 2% Icelandic/Norwegian in my DNA. Maybe the more extensive German. And of course the French.

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Guess this what Norwegians do for a living these days, work in meme factories. My grandfather was born at sea off the coast near Arendal, on a ship captained by my great-grandfather, who refused to make port because he didn’t want the stain of Norway on his son’s birth record.

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What is it with you fucking Norwegians? 25 years ago I had the misfortune of working a project with the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and those people were wacky enough, but is it possible it’s gotten even worse?

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Use your own words, boy, or go back and watch more television and leave everyone else alone from your childish nonsense

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Because when this country goes down, as it is right now, it's on them and them alone. 12/end

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But you know, all the people who voted for this, who drive around in blacked-out F150s with flags and those bumper stickers? They can go fuck themselves. 11/

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I really feel sorry for the people in the thick of family things who have to choose between gas and food and rent and saving for their children and saving for their retirement. 10/

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