Matt - where is this blurb from?

DC friends! Come see @wkamaubell.bsky.social perform standup tomorrow night!

Thank you!

Dana White’s Politics, Saudi Money & Zuffa Boxing, Explained | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

A long-overdue conversation with @lukethomas.bsky.social about how MMA — the sport he's loved and covered for decades — has become one of the foremost vectors of right-wing politics in America.

While Dana White (like so many UFC fans) remains in denial about that very fact: youtu.be/bUIaL-zE2b4?...

There are so many chuds (or worse) at UFC events these days that if you’re a celebrity dapping up whoever, there’s a good chance that person will have been charged or convicted of sex crimes.

UFC is feeling the heat about their gross politicization of their product and comically over the top Trump boosterism, so now they’re pivoting to striving centrist Dems to launder their deserved reputation as a right-wing company.

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This has been how they do it for a few years now.

Good question. Let me see!

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees Kennedy Vows To End ‘War’ On Stinging-Insect Diets

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-ame...

How the UFC Sold Its Soul to Donald Trump (ft. Luke Thomas) YouTube video by LeBatardShow

I had an opportunity to talk to @lebatardshow.bsky.social about the UFC going all-in on Donald Trump.

What I want everyone to understand is the specific role UFC played for Trump: they were critical in rehabbing his image following Jan 6.

That plus more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXCN...

To me, yes. The MMA audience is going to be his Alamo. That said, if you do hear them booing, that would be quite a statement.

One of the first places Trump appeared post Jan 6 or during legal proceedings from the Jack Smith case were UFC events. The timing of his UFC appearances matches his legal troubles. If he's making the rounds now, he’s grasping for an image boost.

Simpsons bit where a lifeguard says "Excuse me, Americans!" Homer ask, "How did you know?" It's revealed that Homer is wearing a shirt with Uncle Sam taking a bit out of the world with the words "Try and Stop Us"

How it feels being on this app today

New shot of Earth from behind the Moon 🌎

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Exclusive interview with Luke Thomas | Ep. 240 We're sitting down with sports and political commentator Luke Thomas in an exclusive interview.

Check out our interview exclusive with @lukethomas.bsky.social where he and @heynottheface.bsky.social discussed everything from the threat TKO/Zuffa Boxing poses to boxing all the way to the journey the UFC has taken into the right wing, and more.

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Exclusive interview with Luke Thomas | Ep. 240 We're sitting down with sports and political commentator Luke Thomas in an exclusive interview.

On today’s episode of Hey Not The Face! we have as a guest @lukethomas.bsky.social to discuss the UFC’s relationship to the Trump administration, why boxing may be underestimating the threat posed by Zuffa, and his foray into political coverage. open.substack.com/pub/heynotth...

Can’t help but connect this to the UFC on the WH lawn, the ICE and DoD propaganda videos on X. The president, Hegseth, all these regime sycophants, want war and death and untold human suffering as spectacle. They want us glued to our TVs at 8pm like it’s fucking 90s pay-per-view.

That headline hasn't aged very well. Never heard anyone discuss this before

Not in this instance, but certainly one could.

Watch My University Lecture on MMA and Right-Wing Politics Just how longstanding, robust and relevant is the connection between the political right and combat sports? I answer that and more in this presentation.

I had the opportunity to guest lecture at the University of Maryland on the relationship between MMA and the political right.

We start from social sorting and psychology influences and then get to fascism in 1930s Brazil to the modern UFC-MAGA alliance and more. open.substack.com/pub/lthomas/...

I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.*
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*art courtesy of Claudia Fung

You cannot imagine how much differently this post/lecture was received at The Other Site.

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Watch My University Lecture on MMA and Right-Wing Politics Just how longstanding, robust and relevant is the connection between the political right and combat sports? I answer that and more in this presentation.

I had the opportunity to guest lecture at the University of Maryland on the relationship between MMA and the political right.

We start from social sorting and psychology influences and then get to fascism in 1930s Brazil to the modern UFC-MAGA alliance and more. open.substack.com/pub/lthomas/...

Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism' Humans, however flawed, are

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.

Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Stumbling Towards Armageddon Episode 271 with Luke Thomas

Had the opportunity to join progressive stalwarts
@krystalball.bsky.social and @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social on their podcast to talk the UFC White House event plus the Iran War, Trump's health, our misanthropic tech oligarchs and much, much more.
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I turned down MMA fighter on a night out - so he punched me Anne Marie Boyle suffered a brain injury and subsequent seizures which led to her losing her business, her ability to drive and her confidence.

BBC News - I turned down MMA fighter on a night out - so he punched me
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Man, I can’t believe the company that grossly underpays its talent would also have executives who don’t take human capability or need seriously.

THEY WANT ROBOTS TO REPLACE YOU YouTube video by Secular Talk

Hey @lukethomas.bsky.social.. Love seein' you evolve brother! Great to see you on @krystalball.bsky.social, @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social and friends!

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