Justin Gaethje was literally in the Oval Office before his fight, looking at the actual Declaration of Independence. Then he walked out as a 6-to-1 underdog and beat the piss out of his opponent to win the first undisputed championship of his career. I genuinely don't care what your politics are. That's one of the coolest sequences of events I've ever seen in sports. Am I really supposed to think this isn't awesome because people decided to make it political?

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

IS THAT TONY HAWK ??

everything and everyone you’ve ever heard of has all been on this same rock and nothing more. kinda beautifully insane.

If you wear sunglasses, you’ll want to see this.

They expected AI to expose flaws in the Bible. Instead @Grok discovered coherence, patterns, and structure across texts written centuries apart. Does that surprise you or confirm what you already knew? @elonmusk

😭 I didn’t just cry, I saw my childhood. The best memories we had creating things together and now everything is disconnected yet we are all more connected than ever before. Take a moment and reflect and kids this is what us that grew up in the 90’s feel. 🥺💔 God help us.

Keep it entertaining

At this point there is no reason to pay taxes anymore

Former Military Behavior Expert Chase Hughes how to spot a psyop 🤔

From a remote place to where you are, from a complete stranger to your life, empathy is universal. When a message of loss comes onto a path of someone else, there is a compelling to share in your sadness and offer you support if not as a shoulder to lean on for a brief moment of solace. She is in perfect peace. And smiling at you always My condolences

TO MY GREAT FELLOW AMERICANS…

I tasted success as a young man but was never able to sustain it, because I lived by "feel" instead of by "have to". Once I stopped making excuses and started doing things because I had to, instead of because I wanted to, everything changed. This goes HARD.

When people are from New Jersey I think that is beautiful

RT @bareknucklefc: Beautiful violence in last nights headliner from the new champ Franco Tenaglia & Tony Soto 🎭 #BKFCSPAIN t.co/1j…

Hey @Topuriailia if you really want that belt, then I'm ready. @danawhite send the contract, I will bring the LW belt back to Dagestan.

So we have to pressure congress to get the Renewed Act passed.