Mario A. Mireles

Singer/Songwriter to live; working man to survive. Baseball Fan, Dad of 2 great young men; in Southern exile, Follower of everything Chicago #wishyouwerehere

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@MeredthSalenger well said and very flattering - and it’s my home town (currently living in exile in the Deep South).

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@RushmoreLists More than Words

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@RushmoreLists Harvest Moon

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@JomboyMedia Thanks, Jimmy. I only had to watch it once.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

This is quite a read and very informative. Pass it along.

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

DoorDash is quietly hoping you never do the math on a single order.

I did.

I ordered a $25 meal last Tuesday. When the receipt came through, the total was $44.87.

$25 in food. $5.99 delivery fee. $4.12 service fee. $2.50 small order fee. $1.26 regulatory fee. $6 tip.

That's a 79% markup. On a Tuesday night. From a restaurant 8 minutes away.

A friend of mine a former DoorDash operations manager who spent 4 years inside the pricing and marketplace division looked at my last 30 days of orders and said:

"You spent $620 on DoorDash last month. $211 of that was fees. Not food. Not tips. Fees. You're paying a 34% surcharge on every dollar of food you order and that's before the menu markup the restaurant adds that you don't even see."

He showed me 11 ways to cut the bill nearly in half.

Same restaurants. Same food. Same app. $270/month less.

Here's every trick he showed me 🧵

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

the real privilege is being the person an animal decides is worth trusting with their whole small life.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

Ernest Hemingway would marvel at the prose.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@Acyn Tuberville is currently the dumbest elected official.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The White a house was trying to figure out who was leaking confidential information about ICE and it ended up being a Grass roots movement of women that would Honey pot ICE agents on Tinder and they would tell them everything! 😂

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@jayhaykid Doesn’t ABS stand for Angel Bull S**t calls?

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

Voters aren’t stupid. You’re a liar. There are enough votes on both sides to pass the measure. You want to retain the speakership more paying TSA. Cow Chip Roy is a coward as well.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

The root of this entire Democrat shutdown is a demand to reopen the border and to protect criminal illegal aliens.

Democrats prioritize murderous illegal aliens over American citizens. Look at their actions, their words, and their votes.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

Speaker Johnson knows there’s enough votes to pass the measure and overcome the minority of republicans wanting more in the bill. He just won’t take the chance to win the vote because he could lose the speakership. Instead he misleads voters.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

The Democratic shutdown?!
Dude, you have the the House, the Senate, and the presidency. The Democrats are without power. You just turned down a bill passed unanimously in the Senate to pay American workers. Blame yourself!

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@Puppieslover Found in a cage designed to capture a coyote.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@SIRIUSXM I had enough of your billing practices as a 25 year cust. The obstacles you put in the way of cancelling my account! What a load of crap. You renewed me at the highest tier when I was at the lowest tier and price & charged - $25 fee. @Spotify - you want a new customer?

[Covie @covie_93]

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

I’m not showing up or watching either. Chump.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Speaker Johnson: It’s shameful that they would boycott an address. We don’t do that. Republicans don’t do that. It doesn’t matter if the president is from the opposing party — we don’t skip out. Our constituents want and need us to be here. Every member of this House represents more than 750,000 people. They’re disenfranchised if you’re not sitting in your seat to fulfill the role and responsibility of Congress.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

@EdKrassen @EdKrassen Where is republican Governor Kemp on this issue? He has to either come out in agreement with the raid or against it. Take a lesson from Walz.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

This is Truth.

[Mario A. Mireles @marmireles]

Two questions in one sentence. This poll is a joke - right?

[The Dan Le Batard Show @LeBatardShow]

#poll Is Indiana cheating and is Miami prepared for that?

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

After 58 years of bringing groundbreaking education and entertainment to millions of children and adults, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has officially shut down.

What a truly sad time for America. I still hold onto hope that one day things will be better.

#ChicagoHistory 🧸