Alexander Marks
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At this point, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from trump is about as impressive as a mug that says "World's Best Grandpa"
LOL. After a bizarre aside about "central casting" college football coaches, Trump announces that Lou Holtz will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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@notcapnamerica
The problem with kicking issues to the states is that some states are literally Florida
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I once mispronounced "Worcester" when I was living in MA and this girl told me she didn't want to see me anymore.
Good luck with this one, Mr. Kennedy.
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Trademark it!
Toxic asbestos was found all over the Tropicana during a pre-implosion inspection.
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While you’re trying to figure out what Rep. Collins is talking about, ask yourself so who wore it best?
#ImpeachmentEve
#impeachment
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2016: Relax, how bad could trump be?
2021: After 393K+ unnecessary deaths from COVID-19, the vaccine rollout was a failure, and then 10 days after the insurrection by trump supporters, the green zone in DC was expanded and mail collection was suspended due to security concerns.
JUST IN: The United States Postal Service (USPS) has temporarily removed or suspended mail collection at mail collection box sites in several major cities across the country as cities make security preparations ahead of next week’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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The New Yorker is like "Nah, we don't need satire or cartoons; we’ll just explain the John Fisher Oakland A’s situation exactly as is to make the point."
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Have y’all noticed the Vegas stadium coverage has gotten really negative since the A’s turned their backs on Oakland and Vegas so they can play in Sacramento? Honeymoon is over…
OPINION: Sacramento-bound A’s are not inspiring much confidence
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Vegas will never love the
#Athletics
as much as these fans do. Leave the team in Oakland. Use the public funds for other things like education.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
Incredible to be a part of the
#SellTheTeam
chants at the Coliseum. What a moment!
The
#Athletics
fans love this team so much, and we're going to do all we can to keep them in Oakland!
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#StadiumScam
#FisherOut
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"I voted for a bill impacting the taxpayer without understanding what I was voting on. Then, I made a video about it 10 months later full of wrong information. Then, I doubled down by insulting the Oakland community. But I still support the bill, despite not understanding it"🙃
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MLB is savvy enough to start floating this rumor out there. Moving the A's to Vegas and giving Oakland an expansion is a lot of effort when you could just do expansion in Vegas. MLB/Fisher ran into greater than expected problems w/ the cut and run. Now they're trying to mitigate.
Per
@BNightengale
: "High-ranking (MLB) executives say that if Oakland officials and an ownership group secure a site to build a new ballpark, they will join Nashville, Tennessee, as the top two expansion sites in the next five years."
via
@usatoday
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Still incredible to me that the
#Athletics
fans can consistently mobilize these types of efforts to warn the world about the current ownership... and Nevada still disregarded every warning and gave John Fisher $380M in public money...
#SellTheTeam
#AllStarGame
A’s fans led “sell the team” chants in the top of the fifth
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lol someone sent me this “hype” video with John Fisher talking about the stadium and they used the Atlanta Braves logo…
#SellTheTeam
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Legislators throwing $380 million in public money to a billionaire without even asking how he'll pay for 75% of the costs
#StadiumScam
From the announcement of a site for a Las Vegas ballpark to the special session to approve public financing, the A’s potential relocation progressed quickly.
But things have slowed as the team waits on MLB owners to approve the move.
@howardstutz
reports:
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“The sun is actually setting in the wrong spot here which is an accurate rendering since John Fisher doesn’t know what to do with a star when he sees one”
#SellTheTeam
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"It's time for Manfred and the other owners to tell Fisher: "Enough! Either go back to Oakland and work on a deal there or
#selltheteam
to somebody who will." The Las Vegas A's are a laughingstock and an embarrassment to baseball. So too is John Fisher."
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"To put it succinctly, a good number of power players in Las Vegas believe the A’s organization involves more clowns than all of Cirque du Soleil’s shows combined."
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The A's
#StadiumScam
will not be moving forward this Session. To all the advocates who helped put
#SchoolsBeforeStadiums
, you all get Straight A's for keeping the right priorities.
#NVLeg
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Some heckler just yelled out “go back to Oakland or Sacramento or Las Vegas or Portland or Salt Lake City!”
Ok it was me.
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The warm welcome we received today in Oakland at
#FansFest2024
was incredible. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to ask how they can help and support. It’s an honor to be in this fight at your side. I feel even more energized to keep on fighting for
#SchoolsOverStadiums
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Well, given the left field wall is made entirely of glass, flags are blowing in different directions inside the dome, and the litany of other issues with what was supposed to be a retractable roof, everyone seems to be doing their part but John Fisher...
#SellTheTeam
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John Fisher is losing the Review-Journal
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Why’s the guy next to Anthony Weiner dressed like Rerun?
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Politics is a dirty business; it’s nice to see Beto help a young kid who was flying alone for the first time.
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When you're too busy suing teachers and salivating over that sweet corporate welfare, you forget to do basic filings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An Oakland A's fan group who has been vocally critical of the team's ownership is attempting to trademark "Las Vegas Athletics."
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Just remember: Hill, Aguero, Fisher, and Kaval stood before the
#NVLeg
and said they needed $380M in public money for a *retractable* roof stadium. That's not what we're seeing. Convenient how things change after they get their public money...
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
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When you can't defend your uneducated/misguided/financially incorrect
#StadiumScam
vote and subsequent comments, you just call the City of Oakland a third-world country and dump all over the fans and community. What an embarrassment she is.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
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John Fisher seeing that the LVCVA will use public money to "sponsor" each player.
#SellTheTeam
The WNBA has opened an investigation into the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's $100,000 sponsorship payments to each Las Vegas Aces player, according to
@TheNextHoops
.
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FansFest is a benefit to the Oakland Community. If the A's and Fisher are meddling around pressuring sponsors to pull out, how could Nevada ever expect him to meaningfully fulfill the Community Benefits Agreement?
Something incredibly fishy is going on in Oakland. Feels like John Fisher and the A’s are pressuring sponsors to pull out of the independently organized Fans Fest. Talk about a bunch of low lifes in the A’s organization. Manfred, are you listening?! It’s a con!
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"Oakland losing the A’s is an indictment of Manfred, Fisher, and all the billionaires trying to tell us that we should be paying for their stadiums."
cc:
#NVLeg
,
@JosephMLombardo
My latest piece
@thenation
is about Oakland, the A’s, West Sacramento, the disgraceful owner of the team and a Vegas citizen’s movement that could upend his best laid plans.
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Another stadium for Nevada...Now our educators will have another place to work their second job. Bang up job, everyone.
#StadiumScam
#NVLeg
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For wanting to make Las Vegas their community, suing teachers trying to refocus Nevada's 48th in the nation priorities is an odd way for the A's and their representatives to go about things.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
🚨RELEASE🚨
Statement Regarding Lawsuit Filed by Lobbyists With Ties to the
#Athletics
.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
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Americans: haha UK politics is so weird!
Also Americans: let's elect a bunch of fascists because gas is 25 cents higher
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“The absurdity of making a grant of public money to a billionaire and his rich cronies for a sports venue while other public needs are more pressing isn’t lost on the teachers, and it shouldn’t be lost on anyone else.”
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When it’s been 1 year since the
#NVLeg
Special Session was convened and you still have no private financing, you had to sue teachers so voters couldn’t have a say, and you’re trying to play three seasons worth of games somewhere else
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
If the SB509 hearing a week ago was all about Nevada having the wrong priorities while we're at the bottom of all the good lists, perhaps a Special Session costing an extra $250K in taxpayer money for the same stadium no one wanted in a regular session is misguided.
#StadiumScam
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Kind of ironic that the teachers union is the only union involved in this entire A's stadium scam screaming about the working conditions of their members. Join the fight
@MLBPA
! Oppose the move.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
"If I'm the MLPBA, I'm screaming my head off about this."
@Ken_Rosenthal
weighs in on the uncertainty surrounding the quality of player amenities in Sacramento for not just the A's, but visiting teams as well.
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“So Clark County can be proud of all it has done to increase the Davis family’s fortune.”
The woman pouring your $18 beer at the Super Bowl makes $14.25 an hour with no health insurance via
@sfchronicle
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The A's are gonna throw so much money at Nevada politicians and then, with a straight face, tell the community they need public money to build a (domed) stadium on the strip.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
It’s almost like the A’s might not need $380 million in public funds?!
Nevada Senate Leader
@Nicole4Nevada
receives $10,000 from the Oakland A’s, as does Clark County Commissioner
@MichaelNaft
.
What’s the definition of corruption again?
#StadiumScam
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The silence from the A’s on Nevadans potentially getting to vote on the public financing for their stadium is a good indication of what a house of cards this whole deal is.
#StadiumScam
#SchoolsOverStadiums
@EduOverStadiums
🚨PRESS RELEASE🚨
Schools Over Stadiums Files Referendum Petition To Force Statewide Vote on Stadium Financing
Donate:
Volunteer:
@NSEAOnline
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#Priorities
#SellTheTeam
#NVLeg
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@eisingerj
Make sure to refer to Harlan Crow’s Nazi memorabilia as “tchotchkes from the 1930s” so the WSJ doesn’t get upset
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Tom Hanks is not happy about the Oakland A's plans to move to Las Vegas.
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About a week ago, stadium proponents bent themselves into pretzels pretending John Fisher would be great for the Vegas Community. A shame no one bothered asking what happens if Fisher sours on the Vegas community and causes a public safety issue...
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@notcapnamerica
You don't need to read the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto. Just turn on Fox News.
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Given no one has a clue where this team will play after 2025, hear me out on this rebrand...
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
Source: Oakland A’s brass were in Sacramento today & will be in Salt Lake City later this week, touring ballparks where the team could play the 2025-2027 seasons at. The A’s Coliseum lease is up after the 2024 MLB season & their planned $1.5B LV ballpark won’t be done until 2028.
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Yup, Fisher is trying to meddle in our Constitutional challenge. Seems his A's don't have a permanent home except for in Nevada courts fighting teachers. Thankfully, Nevada’s constitution is here to protect everyday Nevadans and not out-of-state billionaires.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
“With the referendum, the clock could run out on the union. With the lawsuit, the clock could run out on the A’s. So, this week, the A’s asked the court to let them intervene in the lawsuit.”
#SchoolsOverStadiums
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A’s management loves their empty stadiums. Weird messaging.
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You mean duping the
#NVLeg
out of $380M for a stadium, suing teachers so the public had to pay for the stadium, and then using the deaths of 2 state troopers to delay showing the stadium isn't how they planned to integrate themselves into the Vegas community?
#SchoolsOverStadiums
With the A's preparing to move to southern Nevada, our
@bryanhorwath
asked A's owner John Fisher and A's president Dave Kaval what they plan on doing to integrate themselves into the Las Vegas community.
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With the help of John Cena, here’s a list of all the people The Masked Singer could have done before Rudy Giuliani
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@stevemullis
Rudy is basically Gil from the Simpsons; just trying to catch a break and make a sale.
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"Who gets engaged to be married and then watches their future spouse move in with someone else for three years before the wedding day?"
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The disdain this guy and his team have for the people of Oakland is clear. And we expect them to treat Vegas differently? Hell, their introduction to their new community after getting free money for their stadium was to sue teachers!
#SellTheTeam
#SchoolsOverStadiums
Great looking new sign at the Coliseum honoring our many historic moments in Oakland!
@Athletics
The 2024 season will be a celebration of our fifty plus years in Oakland! See you at the ballpark! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
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If you voted for SB1, give this a quick watch and see what you’re stealing away from the Oakland community who loves this team more than Vegas ever will
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Support for billionaire John Fisher getting $380M in taxpayer money is down 20! (
#TimeFor20
Vol. 2)
Billionaires can pay for their own stadiums. The work we're all doing from Oakland to Nevada is showing up in polling. Let's put it on the November ballot!
#SchoolsOverStadiums
🚨POLLING ALERT🚨
A majority of Las Vegas voters OPPOSE public money going towards a baseball stadium for the
#Athletics
!
This is why billionaires sue teachers. If it's on the ballot, we win. We can stop this
#StadiumScam
in November! Donate here:
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Hey Review-Journal, while both plaintiffs are A's lobbyists, you failed to point out that one of the Plaintiffs is also YOUR lobbyist! Seems important that the Review Journalist's lobbyist is also trying to make sure Nevadans have to pay for this stadium.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
Arguments are scheduled Tuesday afternoon in the Nevada Supreme Court between Schools Over Stadiums and lobbyists for the
@Athletics
regarding a state law earmarking up to $380M in public funding for the team’s proposed $1.5B Las Vegas ballpark.
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Given their track record, my expectations for the new renderings...
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
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"We don't have real renderings, but we do have a photo of our logo on the $2.3B privately funded sphere, so we'll just use that and hope no one notices."
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
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@ZTPetrizzo
“Why the 20 insurrectionists who attended the J6 rally have a bright political future” by Chris Cilliza
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Who says we don’t fund education in Nevada
Commissioner William McCurdy said "the tickets were provided for educational reasons — so officials could understand race operations, services and infrastructure."
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I’m new here. Is the Mayor of Las Vegas saying your stadium plans don’t make sense and you should stay in Oakland good for PR?
#SchoolsOverStadiums
NEWS: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman told FOS that she believes the Oakland A’s plans for the Tropicana site don’t make sense—and that the team should stay in Oakland.
Listen to the full conversation »
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If Fisher ever gets the money and tries to build... we'll be ready to go with the injunction!
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
Exclusive: Nevada educators plan to file an injunction to block $380M in public funds for the A's Las Vegas stadium from advancing.
The group says it will kill the Tropicana site deal with the help of Oakland A's fans and "John Fisher’s ineptitude.”
@owenpoindexter
's story ⬇️
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This is what the A's wanted when they sued educators to ensure Nevadans had to pay for their stadium. We're taking this thing to the Supreme Court of Nevada and we think it's a good sign for our case that the Court wants to hear oral arguments.
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#SellTheTeam
Schools Over Stadiums appealing stadium public funding ruling in front of NV Supreme Court
#SchoolsOverStadiums
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@ElieNYC
Incredible we’ve gone from “Believe Women” to “Believe 10 Year Olds” and somehow that’s still controversial to some.
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"The governor and the A's did not respond for comment."
It's very easy to sign away $380M in public dollars for a stadium, but for some odd reason, no one seems to want to stand by that decision when the voters might have a say...
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#Priorities
A group called Schools Over Stadiums has filed a referendum petition to repeal the state funding in Nevada for stadium bonds that was approved in this year’s special legislative session.
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I have to say,
#Athletics
fans were amazing throughout this process. Great to advocate by your side the last few weeks. They truly love this team. Their genuine support of Nevada educators was refreshing and many even donated to them on DonorsChoose and the NSEA Foundation
#nvleg
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When people get to vote, they won’t vote to publicly fund stadiums. That’s why John Fisher’s lobbyists sued teachers to stop
@EduOverStadiums
. At the end of the day, billionaires, along with most of their politicians, are afraid of their voters.
KC TENANTS AND JACKSON COUNTY VOTERS SHUT DOWN THE STADIUM SALES TAX. The largest transfer of public funds to private enterprises in our region’s history, $2 billion over 40 years. The people took on the billionaires. The people won. Nothing is inevitable if we organize.
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When the local news acts as PR for a team who has shown no ability to pay for anything. ⬇️
All systems go for that 2028 A's stadium opening in Vegas. Fisher and company on track according to those who are on the inside.
#Athletics
@Athletics
@MLB
#8NN
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"
#NVLeg
didn’t hear a single bill to reduce class sizes; they thought those proposals would be too expensive. Everything in education is too expensive but if a billionaire needs public funds for a stadium, leaders fall over themselves to get them money."
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Well, let's see what the Oakland Athletics have actually provided then...
#SchoolsOverStadiums
#NVLeg
The Oakland Athletics still haven’t provided renderings for their ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip, a financing strategy and plan on where they’ll play in 2025 after their Coliseum lease expires.
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