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BREAKING: Chicago Bears NFL Team set to leave city for Indiana. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not happy: pic.twitter.com/0ODEuN0MfI — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 19, 2026 Factcheck: No — not yet. But they are closer than ever to making that move, and Indiana has taken major legislative steps to lure them. Indiana’s House Ways and Means …
Oh and you can’t go for a walk on the Beach either Gavin Newsom’s 2020 Thanksgiving guidelines Never forget, Gavin Newsom not only tried to ruin your Thanksgiving, but then lied about it Gavin Newsom: I read somewhere some folks asserting we put out guidelines for the holidays. They simply were misled or, intentionally, were …
The US Treasury sells dollars again through Banco Santander in Argentina’s currency market as the peso nears the ceiling of its trading band, @ioliveradoll reports https://t.co/CDbqzNiMkC pic.twitter.com/JpnXol0ZTd — Stephen Wicary (@wicary) October 21, 2025 The US Treasury sold dollars again on Tuesday through Banco Santander in Argentina’s currency market as the peso neared the ceiling …
Mexican Lawmakers debate US cartel aid, 20 senators throw punches The cartels are not going to be happy that their politicians are fighting. — MAZE (@mazemoore) August 28, 2025
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that China South City Holdings must be liquidated, marking the largest Chinese property developer by assets to face winding-up since Evergrande’s collapse. “Developer China South City Holdings was ordered to liquidate by Hong Kong’s High Court, making it the biggest Chinese builder by assets to be wound up since …
McDonald’s is launching an adult Happy Meal. But it’s not just a meal, it’s a full-blown nostalgia campaign dressed as innovation. The McDonaldland Meal drops August 12. It comes with a Quarter Pounder or McNuggets, fries, a mystery shake, and collectible tins. The characters? Ronald, Grimace, Hamburglar, Birdie, Mayor McCheese, Fry Friends. All back. All …
Robinhood built OpenAI and SpaceX tokens with no equity rights. CEO says it doesn’t matter. OpenAI rejects the deal. This is synthetic ownership rebranded as access.
🇺🇸Happy US Jobs Report Day! Here's What to Know: • May Nonfarm Payrolls Est.: 126,000• April Payrolls: 177,000 • May Unemployment Rate Est.: 4.2%• April Unemployment Rate: 4.2% •Time: 8:30AM ET *Source: @Investingcom pic.twitter.com/aSnU89KkYm — Jesse Cohen (@JesseCohenInv) June 6, 2025 Ahead of NFP, the expectation is a print of 125K. ADP implies just 47K …
US consumers are getting even more pessimistic about the stock market: A record 12% of Americans see no chance that stocks will increase over the next 12 months, according to a UMich survey. This percentage has tripled over the last 2 months. It has also surpassed previous peaks seen near 2022, 2009, and 2022 market …
By one valuation metric, the stock market looks even riskier than the height of the dot-com era. By another, the market has reached an extreme that goes back over half a century! Find out what you need to know. Read the full article here: https://www.elliottwave.com/articles/ponder-these-2-key-stock-market-valuation-metrics/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=sopo&utm_campaign=ar-frup&utm_content=frupov
Thank you for all the happy birthday wishes! I’m 54 today but I’ve aged a few extra years this past year. And guess what? I get to fly to Washington D.C. for my birthday and give those folks some liberty!#sassywithMassie pic.twitter.com/kFN1xK6stn — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 13, 2025
The American dream is now considered to be a “trap”. Don’t worry though true freedom comes with fiat and nothing to show for it. h/t LarryNoodlesOnGuitar
CHRISTIAN TOTO: NY Times Declares The Woke Movies Era Is Dead. The New York Times uncorked a withering attack on woke Hollywood movies. The piece flexes its progressive bona fides, but large swathes of the article could have been written by The Critical Drinker or Film Threat’s Chris Gore. The headline and subhead are stunning and brave in their bluntness. Is …
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE …
When you say it out loud, it’s clear this ‘norm’ isn’t normal…#Thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/rmz5EHjUr1 — PETA (@peta) November 25, 2024
Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year. The costs of this year’s holiday feast — estimated at $58.08 for a 10-person gathering, or $5.81 a head — dropped 5% since last year, the lowest level since 2021, according to a nationwide survey of grocery prices by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents millions of …
This Berlin brewery’s innovative take on sustainability has seen it use rooftop solar panels to fuel its beermaking, feed spent grain to local cows and sell its beer in tins. h/t KeepIt
America is the greatest nation on Earth Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸 https://t.co/5extqsPNhA — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 4, 2024 Happy 4th of July !! It's the 12th anniversary of the famous San Diego fireworks show where they all went off at once. Sound ON pic.twitter.com/U3DuUa1Cnj — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) July 4, 2023
Report finds falling happiness among youth of North America and western Europe, but rise in sub-Saharan Africa and eastern Europe Vivek Murthy: the US surgeon general highlighting unhappiness ‘You have to stand out’: six Dagenham teenagers on their future prospects Young people are becoming less happy than older generations as they suffer “the equivalent of …
The new research shows that not only those experiencing emotional distress can suffer a broken heart But new research has discovered that the same can occur from sheer joy, leading scientists to coin it ‘happy heart syndrome [….] But in the case of the remaining 20 individuals, heart damage appeared to have been triggered by …
by Chris Black Today is Elvis Presley’s birthday. I hope everyone is thinking of him and keeping him in their thoughts, as they take some time to think about him. To tell you the truth, Elvis was a lot more important than 911, which I don’t care about at all anymore, because Americans don’t seem …
Speaking of under-funded banks, Schwab just announced they are cutting jobs AND raising debt. https://t.co/Bd8grqcl0J Market not happy as exploding money market yields pressure banks to raise deposit rates or face mass exodus. pic.twitter.com/ugidUJHuIW — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) August 22, 2023 Financial stocks are dropping, moar BTFP liquidity is needed — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) August 22, 2023
by Chris Black Cue Klaus Schwab’s voice. [OPINION] “It's time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.” https://t.co/SAwMfYplRy — Military.com (@Militarydotcom) July 29, 2023 This article is pretty gemmy in general. >This increased public interest might also have the added effect of increasing public pressure to prevent open-ended wars led by …
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by Chris Black Independence is a part of our national mythology. We are a unique group of people, in a unique place, with a specific identity, and July 4 is a way to mark and remember that identity. American identity might seem a little complicated at the moment, but we shouldn’t forget who we are. …
How much would you be willing to tip for a $20 pizza? pic.twitter.com/SPjP9iifC4 — AlphaFox (@alphafox) July 3, 2023 h/t Dogsbollocks
“The Supreme Court’s recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us. …
