@ZackBlatt Even a field goal on this drive would sealed the game IMO and would have bled more clock. This was the turning point of the Packers comeback despite the FG next drive. Offense was stagnant after this drive
UFC is trying to book Dan Ige x Diego Lopes tonight, I’m told. It’s not 100% yet.
Ortega is on the verge of having to withdraw. He is sick, sources say.
The plan would be a 165-pound catchweight fight, if it gets over the line.
Ige would have to weigh in tonight.
I honestly have never heard of anything like this before considering he didn’t weigh in yesterday.
Developing.
Honestly, not that I can recall. Last minute replacements have happened mid-card, but those fighters weighed in the day before etc.
That’s why when I initially heard about this I didn’t believe it. I still am having a hard time believing it. There’s just zero precedent for it that I can recall.
Either the UFC is putting together an all-time prank or this is a real thing because Ige is in the arena and everyone associated is saying they feel confident this has a real shot of happening.
Holy Freaking Size Alert 🚨
Rep. David Trone just disclosed the largest Political stock filing in history
He reported over $97M worth of trades.
Yes. $97,000,000.
The best part? Every single one violated the Stock Act
It is unforgivable what @ESPNPlus is doing to customers.
This is two UFC pay-per-views in a row where I’ve paid for the event and been unable to watch it.
You stole from me and your product is the worst in the entirety of online streaming.
Refund me. Now, @ESPNPlusHelp.
BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements, per MorePerfectUnion.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.
Be careful what you watch. FBI demanded identity of YouTube viewers of certain videos. Everything you watch is tracked. But the surveillance state will end the day I become President. #KennedyShanahan24
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This is hands-down the best explanation I've heard on why sanctions on Russia backfired, and why they were never going to succeed in the first place.
By economist James K. Galbraith, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Best quote of his explanation: "This is a situation in which the sanctions were imposed by one important sector of the world economy which then cut itself off from resources that it needs - and that's particularly true of Western Europe - in return for cutting Russia off from various things that Russia doesn't really need."
Second best quote: "If you go back to the period before the introduction of the sanctions [...] the Russian economy was very heavily colonized by Western firms. That was true in automobiles, it was true in aircrafts, it was true in everything from fast food restaurants to big box stores. Western firms were present all throughout the Russian economy. A great many of them [...] either chose to exit Russia or were pressured to exit Russia after early 2022. So on what terms did they leave? Well, they were required, if they were leaving permanently, to sell their capital equipment, their factories and so forth, to let's say a Russian business which would get a loan from Russian banks or maybe have other sources of financing, at a very favorable price for the Russians. So effectively a lot of capital wealth, which was partly owned by the West, has been transferred to Russian ownership. And you now have an economy which is moving forward and has the advantage compared to Europe of relatively low resource costs because Russia is a great producer of resources, oil and gas and fertilizer and food stuff and so forth. And so while the Europeans are paying maybe twice in Germany what they were paying for energy, the Russians are not, they're paying perhaps less than they were paying before the war. So again I characterize the effect of the sanctions, in fact as being in certain respects a gift to the Russian economy. And this is, I think, quite different from what the authors of the sanctions expected. [...] And the essence of the situation is this would not have happened without the sanctions. You could have had the war, and it would have gone pretty much as it has gone. But the Russian government in 2022 was in no position to force the exit of Western firms. It didn't want to, wouldn't have done that. It was in no position to force its oligarchs to choose between Russia and the West. It didn't wish to do that. These choices were imposed by the West, and the results were actually, in many respects, favorable to the long-term independent development of the Russian Federation's economy."