JSChap

Attorney, writer, veteran, proud father and husband.

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@WxGabe Unbelievable. Roaring from 2 miles away. Mother natures fury is truly something to behold. Has there been a stronger recorded tornado since Moore?

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

What's happening at the CDC should frighten every American

Regardless of whether you are MAGA, MAHA, neither, or don't give a damn about labels or politics.

It's unclear whether the CDC director—confirmed just weeks ago—has been fired or not. Absolute shitshow.

And incredible career professionals resigned tonight, sounding a massive alarm.

This is pure chaos that leaves the country unprepared.

Imagine cases of Ebola in the U.S. right now?

We would be an absolute mess.

It's easy to tune this all out, to celebrate what you might see as 'cleaning house', or just not care what's happening.

But I promise you, when confronted with the next serious health threat, we will quickly see everything we've lost.

We will regret this. I promise, we will regret this.

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@NavvarSaban Some additional strategic clarity:

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@NavvarSaban Or it’s an arbitrary and meaningless deadline based on nothing more than Trump’s whims at a given moment in time, much like the numerous other 2-week deadlines he has made in numerous other foreign policy contexts.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

It's time to cleanse your timeline with this wholesome thread 🧵

( Must open this thread, it’ll fill your day with positivity)

1. The dog was stolen from this woman, she gave up her job to be able to search for him intensively. Three months later, she found him at the other end of the country. Here's the moment of happiness when they finally saw each other again. ❤

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@adamscochran This is a predictable outcome both as to bird flu, but also industrial scale farming ,and the meat monopolies. Tyson and Purdue in particular are extremely unethical and purely profit driven to the detriment of the birds, and it is all now coming home to roost.

[𝚁𝚆𝙳 @RightWingDad]

I hate him because he beat a 15 year old girl on camera and slept with her. But keep gaslighting. You are a moron.

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@JamesMaillette @HOUSEPORN___ Does that mean a swimming pool draining directly into a pond/lake would be problematic from a permitting standpoint?

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@tztokchad Nothing Trump and Putin do together is going to be good for your bags. Or global stability.

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@ledgerstatus Hahaha! Any day now.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Sorry for tweeting so much, but Twitter throttles out-bound links, so I'm trying this again.

SoCal animal shelters are overwhelmed with people dropping off injured animals they can't take with them as they flee. Many are in need of volunteers, money, and foster homes 🧵

[JSChap @Joel_Chappelle]

@mercoglianos This is a really interesting explanation, thank you.

[Brandon Tigges @brandontigges]

Day 5 update on @VailResorts Park City ski patrol strike. Here's a synopsis of what's happened for those impacted by nearly 90% of Park City being shut down the past 5 days and wondering what's going on:

- Park City ski patrol has been asking for a base pay increase from $21/hr to $24/hr for several months (neighboring Powder is $26/hr and Deer Valley is $24/hr). This also hasn't increased in x3 seasons so their ask is well below inflation.
- Vail Resorts (VR) and @PCski leadership refused to budge and let them go on strike beginning Saturday 12/28. VR also preemptively flew in ski patrol leadership from many of their other resorts (impacting their holiday and family plans as well as safety at those other locations) which they thought would mitigate any operational impact.
- The result for the thousands of guests visiting Park City for the holidays has been horrendous. Guests have and are still experiencing hour+ long wait lines, runs dangerously overcrowded resulting in guests being hit by other skiiers, guests are waiting longer than usual for Ski Patrol when injured (the days I was up there I didn't see a single Ski Patroller on the mountain), and over 80% of the mountain is still closed due to avalanche concerns (because the experienced Ski Patrollers who know how to mitigate for it are still on strike).
- VR lied to customers for the first x3 days, citing that wind and snow were the reasons runs were closed and lines were long, until they finally released a video admitting that it was due to the ski patrol strike and told us they were going to re-enter negotiations and come to a resolution.
- Last night, PC Ski Patrol notified us that Vail Resorts still has refused to grant them the concessions they asked for, they have allowed the strike to continue, and conditions are still terrible today.
- Finally, the attached letter from the Breckenridge Ski Patrol Union revealed that Vail Resorts has also been compromising the safety of guests at other VR resorts and pressuring other employees from those resorts to act as leverage against their fellow ski patrollers in Park City.

@VailResorts did a great job for many years popularizing skiing and making it more accessible.

And this generation of leadership, specifically, their CEO Kirsten Lynch, is undoing over a decade of good will by making the conscious decision this past week to punish their customers in order to send a message to their employees.

They've compromised the safety and ruined the vacations of thousands of guests because they're more focused on minimizing costs than they are in ensuring that their customers have a beautiful and safe experience during the vacations they invested thousands of dollars in to enjoy over the holidays.

This entire situation was avoidable and could have been resolved immediately at any point in time, but VR leadership chose and continues to choose to subsidize their customer experience in order to minimize their costs.

Kirsten Lynch's responsibility is to maximize the value of $MTN stock for shareholders. How does stealing time and money from thousands of guests, putting guest safety at risk, and causing irreparable harm the Vail Resorts brand maximize shareholder value?

@VailResorts board should hold Kirsten, Deirdra Walsh (VP & COO of Park City), and Bill Rock (President of VR Mountain Division) accountable for putting cost-cutting and their personal egos ahead of customer safety and experience.

My hope is that VR and Park City leadership humbly admits they were wrong and stops putting Park City guests safety at risk, ends the strike so the Park City ski patrol can get back to work, and opens up the mountain.

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[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Here's a video I made breaking down this amazing footage of a bear demonstrating how to perform CPR

Repost to save a life!

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

A little note to remind everybody that Christmas is very hard for some people.

As an alcoholic of 25 years (nearly 4 sober now) as well as severe anxiety / depression sufferer here are some little things that might help understand friends / family suffering (1/8) 🧵

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @packers' Monday night performance:

30+ point shutout
400+ yards while allowing under 200
0 turnovers
0 fumbles
0 sacks taken
0 missed kicks

No other team in NFL history has done all of that in the same game.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This photo you're looking at on your phone was taken a few hours ago, from the surface of Mars, 140 million miles away.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

See that ring?

That's the circumstellar disk around PDS 70, a star 370 light-years from Earth.

And that bright spot to the right is a new planet being born—a planet the size of Jupiter.

Which has its own circumplanetary disk... where moons are being born.

[The Associated Press @AP]

There was a snow day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado and one of its grizzly bears enjoyed every bit of it.