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Considering the teams that played
Blackburn has pretty much the same team that played together last season. They haven't done much in the window so far. They had no players go to the World Cup. Yes, they were in a relegation battle last season.
Wolves have a team that is newer when playing together. They had late additions as players returned from the World Cup. They didn't have the entire preseason and last season to get these players playing as one team.
There are defensive questions to be answered. The lack of identity and cohesion in the second half was troublesome. On the brighter side they did get a point against a team that has spent much more time playing together. A win would have given the fans and the players much more confidence but there were a lot of positives to build upon. That Fer Lopez stiff arm is awesome
That fourth goal 😅
According to the description, this is the match that guaranteed Wolves would be champions of the Championship
One Of The Top 5 Worst Trump Administration Members
I think the damage was permanent.
So thankful for the Lane Splitter
Was rear ended yesterday while at a complete stop. Luckily it couldn't have been much more than 35 mph. The person who witnessed it said I was launched 6-8 feet up in the air. I remember being hit. I remember laying on the ground. Everything in-between is not there. Clearly I had landed on my head. I am truly grateful to the safety gear that I was wearing
Thank goodness my insurance requires wearing a helmet
Was rear ended today. I was stopped at a red light. Luckily the car behind me couldn't have been going much faster than 35 mph, the speed limit. It still hurt. Apart from some serious back pain and some road rash I am upright and walking (slowly). I'll have to try and figure out where the Triumph went after the ambulance took me away
Who has the problem?
The weekend news programs are talking about how Democrats have a problem because Abdul El-Sayed won the primary. GTFOOH! The Senate currently has 50+ boot licking Republicans who are absolutely awful at legislating. They have just literally gone on a five-week break after doing the bare minimum.
Let's imagine Dr. El-Sayed wins the Senate seat, what do we really think a single DSA Senator will be able to do? (Okay, two, with Bernie Sanders). There will still be a majority of Democrats who are establishment politicians who will vote with Republicans to block any progressive proposals. The worst case scenario with Dr. El-Sayed is that he calls out the asinine proposals from the establishment. The best case scenario is that the Senate swings back from the extreme right.
Senator Jim Banks (R) Indiana on Meet the Press today (8/9/26) just stated that he doesn't want his kids grow up in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon. It's perfectly acceptable that his kids get to live in a world where the US is in crippling national debt. A world where covering up the sex crimes of the powerful go unpunished. A world where the Constitution is shredded to appease a buffoon with a fragile ego. A world where elected officials are manipulating the stock market for their own financial gain. This is an example of not governing for the many but only placating the one.
Republicans are the enemies of the United States. They do not care about the country, they only care about their own wallets. There is no interest in bringing down prices. There is no interest in making sure jobs are there in the future. It's all about amassing their own great wealth because they believe that will insulate them in the future. The current batch of Republican politicians are not fiscally responsible and thus enemies of the US.
Even if Dr. El-Sayed wins it's not like those deep red states will stop being staunch Republicans (and States that take more from the Federal government than put in). Having two Senators who are talking about the "social safety net" is not going to change US policy anytime soon. Those boot licking, self dealing, Republicans will continue to look out for themselves so much that 20 DSA Senators still could not change policy.
Therefore, Democrats do not have a problem. The US has the problem of lock-stepped Republicans who are not looking out for the well-being of their own constituents and are only interested in amassing great wealth while appeasing the president
Highlights from today
Yes, Munetsi skies one at the end but he had some good link-up play. It's good to see highlights that are almost all offense and very little defense
Injury updates
Tough about Rafiki, but at least it didn't happen in the first 45 minutes of his first match. Glad that Armstrong is back to match fitness
With the injuries to Johnstone and JRB does this imply that there is very little chance of them moving away from Wolves?
With the return of Fer from injury, does this increase the likelihood of him moving on?
Nature finds a way. A tomato plant, with tomatoes, growing in a crack in a parking lot
Read in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice
"stop whining"
Any surprises here?
Gracey and Brooks in net. No Armstrong. Jackson Tchatchoua got 45 minutes. Granted anyone who featured at the World Cup gets a prolonged summer break
People who bring non-biodegradable glitter to a public park
It has been here for months
Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Sweet, Sweet Tungsten Mining Deal
According to this NY Magazine article, who is quoting a NY Times piece:
When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal on a top priority for Washington.
During the call, Mr. Trump and his team won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten, a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods.
Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.
It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.
Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.