We're pivoting to a new direction: Carnies & Conflict.
So we can cover much broader topics.
MMA is cooked and unimportant. The world is burning.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Why is fash Tucker the most powerful and cogent antiwar voice in the US?

He's actually best of class and not a bad guy. These attacks on him are the neocon loons who took over the Dem party after 2016 doing a death rattle.

Gottheimer has received millions from AIPAC, per @TrackAIPAC — valuable for them to have a Democrat justifying Trump’s war 👇🏽

Axios is lying to try to calm the markets. That's all. Ignore them. Their last 4 "ceasefire is close" stories were all debunked in hours.

The MSM needs to start reporting ALL the news and stop lying and spinning in support of Trump & Israel's war. The NYT and WSJ both ignored the massive damage Iran did to Saudi Arabia last night. That's criminal negligence.

The military needs to refuse to follow illegal orders.
If we do something really stupid, all Americans will pay the price forever.

It's time for the 25th Amendment.
We need both parties to stop backing Trump's illegal war (which we are losing badly).

I'm glad somebody noticed!

God Frank Shamrock was great.

Just read this over lunch and it's really good. Recommended if you remember 90s MMA, doubly recommended if you don't.

Erased by the UFC : Frank Shamrock, The MMA GOAT of the 20th Century His UFC title run was the peak sports-fan experience of my life

Wrote about my favorite fighter, the one the UFC erased from history www.themmadraw.com/p/erased-by-...

WrestleMania in Riyadh? Are We Sure About That? The geo-political ground has shifted out from under TKO and that ain't all

TKO has deep deep ties to the Gulf States. That is looking like a very bad bet at the moment. www.themmadraw.com/p/wrestleman...

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

NEW: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

WrestleMania in Riyadh? Are We Sure About That? The geo-political ground has shifted out from under TKO and that ain't all

TKO has deep deep ties to the Gulf States. That is looking like a very bad bet at the moment. www.themmadraw.com/p/wrestleman...

Remember what I was saying? $80 billion in debt with $30 billion in revenue (not profit) and a $15 billion market cap?

They're dead. Even if they panic and try to spin off all of the properties they just bought, they'll never come close to profitable.

This is why Netflix walked away.

Jeffrey Epstein wanted Fertitta planes & Joe Rogan. They all said no. How DOJ's Epstein Files exposed this rancid UFC super fan's fantasies.

This was written at @kidnate.bsky.social s site, I think it's paywalled but basically Epstein dealt in a LOT of private plane stuff open.substack.com/pub/themmadr...

Paramount Wins WBD: 5 Things Fight Fans Should Know This is a big big deal, but maybe not as big as we think

Had fun making an AI slop image to commemorate this horrible moment in human history.

Finally someone brave enough to say it!

and unfortunately, we're straddling different eras with different reporting mechanisms so we don't even have relative accuracy. Got a better way to track it?
I'd like to do an online survey and see how their social media #s', YouTube etc have fared but not sure even how to approach it.

I would question *all* of these numbers. They're from a variety of sources and ultimately none of them (whether Nielsen in the 2000s or Paramount+ today) are likely exactly accurate. But I think they do show us broad trends.

Most viewed MMA bouts on US TV by year. Yeah, some of this is the decline in TV viewing, and a lot of it reflects the PPV wall erected by ESPN+, but some of may be real erosion in the popularity of the sport. Can Paramount+ fix this? www.themmadraw.com/p/ufc-please...

How the audiences of 30 major news sources differ by age The median age of regular news consumers ranges from 39 for Univision to 63 for Newsmax.

CBS News median age: 58
CNN median age: 50
TikTok: 43% of adults 18-29 get news from TikTok

Ellison (and the right) are covering their demographics. Bezos' Washington Post's median age is 44, same as Joe Rogan listeners...

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participan...

The people who bought CBS and lurched it into rightwing shit just bought TikTok (a major source of news) and trying to purchase CNN... They're attempting to consolidate the news to favor the right even more...

Ellison was a part of the 2020 coup attempt... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Total media domination ain't easy

Whoo boy

An attempt to put Trump's war on Minnesota in context

a decade of mutual fuckery and back-stabbing summarized in one long blog post

My, er, Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism.