Metro Chimp
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There set out, slowly, for a Different World, At four, on winter mornings, different legs… You can’t break eggs without making an omelette —That’s what they tell the eggs.
Back when I was a fund manager, I put all the money in an index fund. The index was cocaine. It was fund while it lasted.
Stock-Picking Funds Are Performing as Poorly as Ever
Just 13% of U.S. large-cap funds have outperformed indexes over the past decade, new data show.
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See?!?! Even people in sports I don't care about are willing to stand up for injustice!!!
‘Going to be Vice President of the United States’: Sophie Cunningham already made an impression
Over the past several days, Sophie Cunningham has caused quite a stir for taking a controversial stance on transgender athletes and refusing to back down. It’s Cunningham’s first real step into politi...
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Pro Tip, Dear: "If Nazis love you, you are probably in the wrong."
The WNBA conversation is no longer about basketball, and Sophie Cunningham doesn’t get why
The Fever and Aces played a highly entertaining basketball game Thursday night. Though other things happened around the basketball part.
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Folks, nothing just happens, especially in the rightwing, fever swamps:
Sophie Cunningham Is About As Edgy As A Beach Ball | Defector
There’s a type of public relations exercise that unfolds like a joke. In it, a notable figure who has chosen to sit for a longform profile, declined to answer a sensitive question through her represen...
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Lil' Donnie Dipshit, Micro Marco, and Kegsbreath have seen nothin' yet ...
The Taliban Are Losing Control of Afghanistan
YouTube video by WarFronts
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Sami Sadat is getting the band back together.
Wilson Dizard III@wpd3.bsky.social · 2d ago[And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Matthew 24:6-8 KJV. Reports of rebellion inside Afghanistan; no confirmed foreign sponsor(s) yet.]
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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It’s honestly just sad. The incompetence of this administration is affecting literally everyone. Photo source: MeidasTouch
NO PRESIDENT, EVER, could do INEPT as well as him. Nobody, ever...
Of course, Washington himself scaled back plans for the future White Hose because he didn't want the presidency all gussied up in royal affactations.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoWhile gas prices soar Americans lose health care and trapped sailors eat rotten meat
I predict Gov. Polis will spend hid next years on Fox to bemoan how the "Radical Left has taken over the Dem Party" and silenced him for making a "completely reasonable decision" in pardoning Tina Peters. G*d forbid we want Dems who actually fight #Trump instead of pre-emptively surrendering.
Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows (Gift Article)
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”
nytimes.com
In the midst of the depressing madness, it's nice to finally read a positive, upbeat, feel-good story!
If You Want to Know How Trump 2.0 Is Really Going, I Suggest a Visit to the Dying Trump “Superstore”
Recently, the retailer gained notoriety for a new sign.
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The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
Dear Pizza Hut, I’d like to order 2 million pizzas, 8 million wings, breadsticks and soda to match. Deliver to the Navy and bill the DoD. Thanks!
Have we fully gotten to the bottom of Hunter Biden’s art sales yet?!?!
A Green Light for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.
theatlantic.com
1/4: Japanese media about the war is very ... interesting, and it has interesting parallels to American media about Vietnam. A lot of American media tends to treat the Vietnam war as largely a tragedy that happened to US. The good and decent people of the US, and ...
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
The survey, which a historian in Tochigi Prefecture’s Utsunimoya spent years translating, helped the city come to terms with the war’s consequences.
japantimes.co.jp
"Pressed on whether the ship’s deployment — which has lasted nearly nine months — had gone on too long, Trump responded that it was 'not nearly long enough'.” A Democratic president would be impeached over this comment.
Sailors on Aircraft Carriers Have “Virtually No Food, Water, or Soap”
Families of deployed sailors recount the horrific living conditions on the ships.
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As for Lil' Donnie Dipshit's Persian Excursion, I wonder if this thing is really gonna continue through the Nov elections and, somehow, the economy will muddle through (it's certainly sputtering some, but it's still pretty amazing how long this has been going on without things going seriously bad).
Exclusive | U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain
The USS George Washington is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, as lawmakers raised concerns about reports of poor conditions aboard the Lincoln after more than 250 days at sea.
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1/2: “I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest ...
Exclusive | Trump Orders Navy to Restore Older Tech on Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions
The Navy spent years fighting the president’s push to go back to steam catapults.
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