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The Left doesn't like opposing viewpoints. That's not news. But what's really telling is the way the Left treats people from typically Left-leaning groups who don't toe their political line. Whether it's women or Blacks or actors, the Left thinks they own these groups and their votes -- and they get downright nasty when someone strays from the flock. This writer has been a fan of Zachary Levi since he starred on 'Chuck', and -- even though she doesn't know him personally -- he seems like a genuinely nice guy. But he's committed the ultimate political sin: he supports Donald Trump . Doing that publicly takes guts, because it'll likely cost him jobs and friendships (cause Hollywood isn't exactly a bastion of tolerance). And here's Variety proving the point by publishing this nasty high-school mean girl piece from a former co-star of Levi's: “I never liked him," Laura Benanti says of Zachary Levi. "Everyone was like, ‘He’s so great!’ And I was like, ‘No, he’s not. He’s sucking up all the f---ing energy in this room. He wants to mansplain everybody’s part to them.'” https://t.co/tIS9jszVaB This writer also really likes movies and Broadway and has never heard of Laura Benanti, for what it's worth. This is what happens when you have the stones to break the narrative. Hold the line, Zachary Hold the line. Who's Laurie Benanti? Serious question. Exactly. It sounds like she’s just bitter and unhappy. This article makes her sound non-credible. Was that the intent of the article? To smear Levi. Nothing more. Are there still people who don't know that the second someone uses the term mansplain they are a childish dimwit with nothing to offer? Mansplain: He was smarter and more articulate, and I'm mad There is no such thing as 'mansplaining.' It's a word hypersensitive women use when they don't want men talking to them. Dear Variety, you guys are despicable hatemongers. You have helped poison the industry Hold the line Zachary, you are a hero. Yes, he is. I’ve heard of @ZacharyLevi . However, I’ve never hear of Laura Benanti. The era of attacking past co-stars as a means to impress the judges at the Victim Olympics is over. It does not result in more work. In fact, it simply telegraphs one’s capacity to torpedo projects, past,... https://t.co/LXIAaux59Z All of this. She's clearly mad at his vaccine stance but has nothing specifically bad to say about him so it's just vague gobbledygook with "mansplaining" thrown in there because that one always works with no details necessary. https://t.co/3JatjSYc3y pic.twitter.com/TUCelf7dD7 And Variety decided to run with this. If everyone liked him and you didn’t, maybe... I dunno... you’re the problem? https://t.co/nI5tWHHNIs Yeah, she might be the problem here. This writer is willing to bet Levi will have nothing but nice things to say about Benanti, proving that he's the good guy and the bigger person.48 niceph 。

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Sam Kerr may still be three months away from returning to the field. The Matildas captain has had a devastating setback in her program to recover from knee surgery, her club Chelsea confirmed on Saturday (AEDT). The 31-year-old has been out of action in 2024, needing surgery to repair a ruptured ACL in her knee in January. The injury saw her miss the Matildas’ entire Paris Olympics campaign. However, nobody could have prepared Chelsea and Aussie fans for the news that Kerr’s recovery will stretch to well over 12 months. Recovery from ACL surgery for elite athletes typically does not extend beyond 12 months. However, Chelsea coach Sonia Bompastor has dropped the news Kerr is not even training with teammates yet and remains on a modified recovery program. “I would say Sam we are looking to maybe have back with us February, March, not before that,” the Chelsea boss said. “She didn’t start yet to train, even being modified with the group, so she’s still on her individual process rehab and I think it will take at least two or three more months for her to be fit enough to be with the squad.” It means Kerr will only return in time for the final few months before the Women’s Super League season wraps up in May. Matildas interim coach Tom Sermanni recently said he expected Kerr to return to the Matildas squad in the next FIFA international window — where they will play Japan, the United States and Colombia in February. Kerr cryptically said on a BBC podcast in September that she had a “little bit more going on than an ACL”. Sam Kerr will have time to support Kristie Mewis. Sermanni said last month he had not been made aware of any other issues surrounding the return of his star striker. “Her rehab is going really well,” Sermanni said, adding that ACL injuries typically take at least a full year to heal. “Things are getting a little bit better in rehab, but in reality, it’s still probably a 12-month injury, and Sam’s taking that time to come back to ensure that hopefully, when she comes back, she’s going to be completely fit and healthy.” Several of Kerr’s other Matildas teammates have returned from the same injury in a shorter 9-10 months time frame, like defender Ellie Carpenter. But after missing the Olympics and with no major international tournament on the line Kerr is taking time to ensure her body is properly ready before making her comeback. The silver lining to the sad injury update is that Kerr will have more time to support partner Kristie Mewis as the West Ham star carries the couple’s first child. The pair announced their news in November with a cute Instagram post that had a simple caption: “Mewis-Kerr baby coming 2025.” Their announcement was spoiled somewhat by a storm of ugly comments on social media that prompted the football club to hit out at “unacceptable and hateful homophobic comments”. Kerr and Mewis announced their engagement last November, two months after rumours initially swirled about the move. Matildas star Sam Kerr at Chelsea training with Kristie Mewis. Sam Kerr celebrating a goal. Photo by IZHAR KHAN / AFP. The pair kept it quiet, playing a game with fans as they refused to confirm the news until Mewis broke the couple’s silence on November 9 in an exclusive interview with People Magazine. And a post confirmed the couple were engaged on September 1, 2023. That was just under two weeks after the Matildas’ World Cup campaign ended in the 2-0 third-place playoff loss to Sweden. Kerr and Mewis went public with their relationship in 2021 after the Tokyo Olympics and since then the power couple have regularly shared snaps together. “We’re not private people,” Kerr told Gaffer. “I like sharing my story. I like sharing who I am outside of football.” Kerr added that it was important to her to be with someone who understood the demands of football, particularly when they play on the opposite sides of the world. Mewis added: “I think just being out and being two girls in love, I think if we can change one or two people’s lives, and the way that they feel about each other and how comfortable they feel, then that means a lot to me. “I love to share my relationship on social media.” The pair won over fans at the World Cup, sharing a photo dump of their time together, as well as being snapped celebrating with a kiss. 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US President Joe Biden on Sunday said deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should be "held accountable" but called the nation's political upheaval a "historic opportunity" for Syrians to rebuild their country. In the first full US reaction to Assad's overthrow by an Islamist-led coalition of rebel factions, Biden also warned that Washington will "remain vigilant" against the emergence of terrorist groups, announcing that US forces had just conducted fresh strikes against militants from the Islamic State organization. "The fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice," Biden said, speaking from the White House. "It's a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria." Asked by reporters what should happen to the deposed president, who reportedly has fled to Moscow, Biden said that "Assad should be held accountable." Biden -- set to step down in January and make way for Republican Donald Trump's return to power -- said Washington will assist Syrians in rebuilding. "We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime toward independent, sovereign" Syria "with a new constitution," he said. However, Biden cautioned that hardline Islamist groups within the victorious rebel alliance will be under scrutiny. "Some of the rebel groups that took down Assad have their own grim record of terrorism and human right abuses," Biden said. The United States had "taken note" of recent statements by rebels suggesting they had since moderated, he said, but cautioned: "We will assess not just their words, but their actions." Biden said Washington is "clear eyed" that the Islamic State extremist group, often known as ISIS, "will try to take advantage of any vacuum to reestablish" itself in Syria. "We will not let that happen," he said, adding that on Sunday alone, US forces had conducted strikes against ISIS inside Syria. The US military said the strikes were conducted by warplanes against Islamic State operatives and camps. Strikes were carried out against "over 75 targets using multiple US Air Force assets, including B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s," the US Central Command said on social media. Earlier, Biden met with his national security team at the White House to discuss the crisis. Assad's reported departure comes less than two weeks after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group challenged more than five decades of Assad family rule with a lightning rebel offensive that broke long-frozen frontlines in Syria's civil war. They announced Sunday they had taken the capital Damascus and that Assad had fled, prompting celebrations nationwide and a ransacking of Assad's luxurious home. A Kremlin source told Russian news agencies that the deposed leader was now in Moscow, along with his family. The US military has around 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq as part of the international coalition established in 2014 to help combat the Islamic State jihadist group. It has regularly struck targets in the country including those linked to Iranian-backed militias. Tehran was a major backer of Assad's government. Biden also confirmed US authorities believe the American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Syria in 2012, still lives. "We believe he's alive," Biden said, but the US has yet "to identify where he is." bur-sms/mlmGeorgia QB Carson Beck sidelined following arm injury in SEC championship game against Texas

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OpenAI’s nightmare: What David Sacks as AI Czar (and Elon Musk as wingman) could mean for Sam Altman’s $157 billion startupShopping on Temu can feel like playing an arcade game. Instead of using a joystick-controlled claw to grab a toy, visitors to the online marketplace maneuver their computer mouses or cellphone screens to browse colorful gadgets, accessories and trinkets with prices that look too good to refuse. A pop-up spinning wheel offers the chance to win a coupon. Rotating captions warn that a less than $2 camouflage print balaclava and a $1.23 skeleton hand back scratcher are “Almost sold out.” A flame symbol indicates a $9.69 plush cat print hoodie is selling fast. A timed-down selection of discounted items adds to the sense of urgency. Pages from the Shein website, left, and from the Temu site, right. Welcome to the new online world of impulse buying, a place of guilty pleasures where the selection is vast, every day is Cyber Monday, and an instant dopamine hit is always just a click away. By all accounts, we’re living in an accelerating age for consumerism, one that Temu, which is owned by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings, and Shein, its fierce rival , supercharged with social media savvy and an interminable assortment of cheap goods, most shipped directly from merchants in China based on real-time demand. The business models of the two platforms, coupled with avalanches of digital or influencer advertising, have enabled them to give Western retailers a run for their money this holiday shopping season. A Christmas tree ornament purchased on Temu. Software company Salesforce said it expects roughly one in five online purchases in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada to be made through four online marketplaces based or founded in Asia: Shein, Temu, TikTok Shop — the e-commerce arm of video-sharing platform TikTok — and AliExpress. Analysts with Salesforce said they are expected to pull in roughly $160 billion in global sales outside of China. Most of the sales will go to Temu and Shein, a privately held company which is thought to lead the worldwide fast fashion market in revenue. Lisa Xiaoli Neville, a nonprofit manager who lives in Los Angeles, is sold on Shein. The bedroom of her home is stocked with jeans, shoes, press-on nails and other items from the ultra-fast fashion retailer, all of which she amassed after getting on the platform to buy a $2 pair of earrings she saw in a Facebook ad. Neville, 46, estimates she spends at least $75 a month on products from Shein. A $2 eggshell opener, a portable apple peeler and an apple corer, both costing less than $5, are among the quirky, single-use kitchen tools taking up drawer space. She acknowledges she doesn’t need them because she “doesn’t even cook like that.” Plus, she’s allergic to apples. “I won’t eat apples. It will kill me,” Neville said, laughing. “But I still want the coring thing.” Shein, now based in Singapore, uses some of the same web design features as Temu’s, such as pop-up coupons and ads, to persuade shoppers to keep clicking, but it appears a bit more restrained in its approach. Shein primarily targets young women through partnerships with social media influencers. Searching the company's name on video platforms turns up creators promoting Shein's Black Friday sales event and displaying the dozens of of trendy clothes and accessories they got for comparatively little money. But the Shein-focused content also includes videos of TikTokers saying they're embarrassed to admit they shopped there and critics lashing out at fans for not taking into account the environmental harms or potential labor abuses associated with products that are churned out and shipped worldwide at a speedy pace. Neville has already picked out holiday gifts for family and friends from the site. Most of the products in her online cart cost under $10, including graphic T-shirts she intends to buy for her son and jeans and loafers for her daughter. All told, she plans to spend about $200 on gifts, significantly less than $500 she used to shell out at other stores in prior years. “The visuals just make you want to spend more money,” she said, referring to the clothes on Shein's site. “They're very cheap and everything is just so cute.” Unlike Shein, Temu's appeal cuts across age groups and gender. The platform is the world’s second most-visited online shopping site, software company Similarweb reported in September. Customers go there looking for practical items like doormats and silly products like a whiskey flask shaped like a vintage cellphone from the 1990s. Temu advertised Black Friday bargains for some items at upwards of 70% off the recommended retail price. Making a purchase can quickly result in receiving dozens of emails offering free giveaways. The caveat: customers have to buy more products. Despite their rise, Temu and Shein have proven particularly ripe for pushback. Last year, a coalition of unnamed brands and organizations launched a campaign to oppose Shein in Washington. U.S. lawmakers also have raised the possibility that Temu is allowing goods made with forced labor to enter the country. More recently, the Biden administration put forward rules that would crack down on a trade rule known as the de minimis exception, which has allowed a lot of cheap products to come into the U.S. duty-free. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to slap high tariffs on goods from China, a move that would likely raise prices across the retail world. Both Shein and Temu have set up warehouses in the U.S. to speed up delivery times and help them better compete with Amazon, which is trying to erode their price advantage through a new storefront that also ships products directly from China. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.

The Philadelphia 76ers will continue a Western Conference swing with a meeting with the host Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night as they attempt to keep finding their form. After a slow start to the campaign, the Sixers are on a season-best three-game winning streak that includes a 114-111 victory over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City on Saturday. Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey each scored 32 points to pace Philadelphia's offensive attack. Embiid went 11-for-13 from the charity stripe -- where he is 70-for-75 on the season -- against Utah to help the 76ers rally from a 14-point first-half deficit. It marked Philadelphia's ninth win in 12 games. The Sixers are finally starting to have Embiid in the lineup more consistently, as the MVP of the 2022-23 campaign is in line to play four games in a row for the first time this season when Philadelphia takes on Portland. Embiid has appeared in 10 of the 76ers' 29 games. "I thought he was rolling really good (against the Jazz)," 76ers coach Nick Nurse said of Embiid. "I thought he really played at a great tempo. He was under control, had the shot fakes, drawing all the fouls, all that stuff. ... I thought he played pretty assertive. Philadelphia will face a rejuvenated Trail Blazers team, which is seeking a third consecutive win. Portland most recently relied on an even spread of contributors in a 126-122 win over the visiting Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night. Shaedon Sharpe (23 points), Anfernee Simons (22), Deandre Ayton (21), Deni Avdija (21) and Scoot Henderson (19) all took turns in getting the scoreboard moving. Blazers coach Chauncey Billups missed his second straight game due to the death of his grandmother, but it seems like his messages are starting to finally sink in. "Everything is starting to click," said Ayton, who also had 16 rebounds on Saturday. "The things we've been doing in the lab is being consistent and guys just buying in. ... It's starting to click where we're starting to see some of these results. ... The vets on the team are talking a lot more, and the young guys are really speaking up as well; (they're) asking a lot more questions." Henderson's improved form has been a key to Portland's recent surge. The exciting second-year playmaker has seemingly snapped out of a rut by following an 18-point, 10-assist double-double against the Jazz with six assists and a career-best five steals against the Mavericks to complement his scoring. "He's contagious," Ayton said of Henderson. "When he's firing like that, he's downhill, he starts flexing, being animated, (and) that energy spreads quickly." Sharpe has also noticed a new and improved version of Henderson since Christmas. "He's just been more aggressive and been himself," Sharpe said. "(Henderson is) making the right plays and getting everyone involved -- just being the point guard everyone knows he can be. Everyone's touching the ball, everyone's creating for each other, and the energy is high right now." --Field Level Media

Donald Trump Says Country Owes Jimmy Carter A 'Debt of Gratitude'Group Eleven Resources Corp. ( CVE:ZNG – Get Free Report ) shot up 3% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as C$0.17 and last traded at C$0.17. 53,301 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 59% from the average session volume of 130,359 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$0.17. Group Eleven Resources Trading Up 3.0 % The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 2.73 and a current ratio of 6.66. The firm has a market cap of C$35.14 million, a PE ratio of -8.50 and a beta of 1.39. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of C$0.18 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$0.19. Group Eleven Resources Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Group Eleven Resources Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of mineral properties in Ireland. The company primarily explores for zinc, lead, and silver deposits. It owns 100% interest in the Silvermines project comprising two prospecting licenses (PLs) covering an area of 43.0 square kilometers located in the northern County Tipperary; the PG West project that consists of 22 PLs covering an area of 650 square kilometers located in the Limerick region. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for Group Eleven Resources Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Group Eleven Resources and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Giles' 25 help UNC Greensboro beat N.C. A&T 67-55