Dana "I Slap My Wife in Public" White, who recently built an entire UFC show around rapist Conor McGregor, is friends with rapist Andrew Tate??? A stunning revelation.

NEW: I spoke to @ahjohnson.bsky.social to discuss his new book 'How to Sell a Genocide' (which was part of my Substack's book club). The evidence presented in this book is overwhelming. I can think of no better source to understand the media's complicity. lthomas.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...

Markwayne Mullin is cage side tonight for the UFC’s event in Oklahoma City.

Getting the chance to call Jon Fetterman 'diet MAGA' today on CNN felt great, ngl: lthomas.substack.com/p/i-called-j...

They did the UFC fight in part to enable this, I guess

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Getting the chance to call Jon Fetterman 'diet MAGA' today on CNN felt great, ngl: lthomas.substack.com/p/i-called-j...

NEW: I spoke to @ahjohnson.bsky.social to discuss his new book 'How to Sell a Genocide' (which was part of my Substack's book club). The evidence presented in this book is overwhelming. I can think of no better source to understand the media's complicity. lthomas.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...

Stochastic Terrorist Conor McGregor "In a separate, now deleted post on X, the UFC star said: “Do not let any Irish property be took over unannounced. Evaporate said property. It’s a war.” #Terrorism edition.cnn.com/2024/03/12/s...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s journey began in rural Mexico as the ninth of 12 children. The story of his life — and death — highlights how intertwined undocumented immigrants have become with the economies of fast-growing communities across the Sunbelt. Our dispatch. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

Let's gooooooo!

Which footage would you say fits this description?

Best ending to a UFC show ever. Legit actually funnier than if Conor got KO'd.

This is a correct recitation of events.

In a way this week has been good for those who follow MMA media. It has laid bare the morals and ethics of many who cover the sport. My suggestion, for those who care about such things, support those who showed they won't be rape apologists. It really is pretty simple.

MMA media is completely irredeemable.

Why'd I read it: @lukethomas.bsky.social recommendation Genre: nonfiction Thoughts: Not a topic I knew much about so it was very informative. I can related to the hospitals because ive seen changes while working at one through mergers even though it wasn't private equity. #BookSky #QuickReview

One of the great dualities of MMA is that no other sport has so many athletes who are both entirely pitiable while at the same time unworthy of even the slightest iota of pity.

Max is one of the very few good people in MMA, but no.

Yet his shoe deal with UFC pays no money to the fighters. They have to wear his shoes as part of the uniform policy, but don’t get a dime for doing so. No one needs to praise The Rock because he’s a somewhat hardcore MMA fan. The guy is a thief.

That’s because UFC did everything for their event. They are in the event business. Trump farmed it all out to them to avoid what happened the last June 14. That was the military parade that fizzled. The fan experience was bad, too. That was Trump. When it’s bad, the common denominator is Trump.

The way the law works right now is that the insane, authoritarian president demands massive increases to his power, his simpering enablers in the legal academy manufacture arguments supporting him, and then the Supreme Court adopts them as law, claiming scholarly legal debate exists on the matter.

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

If you’re not in the MMA bubble and you’re wondering what Josh Hokit is saying in his first interview after calling Michelle Obama a man at the UFC’s White House event, the answer is not contemplating remorse. This is just what MMA is now.

The Free Speech Party is at it again. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

A year later, DC residents are still waking up to troops in the streets.

“As it moved from the underground to the relatively legitimate terrain of network TV, MMA became one of the principal vectors through which young men—the nationalist right’s central demographic—interact with politicized culture.” —Nic Johnson

Another day in MMA: top bantamweight Umar Nurmagomedov (cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov) posts this on social media.

An aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House. The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

Biked by today. It’s still up, but being torn down. If you zoom in you can see the cats ears portion of the claw are slowly but surely being dismantled.

It’s not hyperbole. Went down here myself. That thing is as green as it gets.

Yes! @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and Hasan Piker on the current/coming surveillance state. Everyone should be worried and everyone should watch this. I support Taylor monetarily as she is truly independent and has no sponsors. I smh at her sometimes because she is more level headed than me but ❤️ her.

After UFC 324 (UFC debut on P+), we got numbers from Paramount on Monday, about 48 hours. For the MVP Netflix event, it was 72. We're past both of those thresholds with this. My hunch is the viewership number is good, but it's noteworthy we're getting app download figures before viewers.

The military's participation in UFC Freedom 250 erodes the taboo against military involvement in public life. I counted and personnel from a DOZEN different military orgs took part in the spectacle: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-milita...

Part of the reason why covering MMA without being an insane and evil person feels so difficult: look at what regular MMA media are posting about Josh Hokit after the outrage at his Michelle Obama comments.

To give a sense of how much lying is going on here, no numbers for the UFC White House event have even been released as of the time of this post. He’s lying for sport.

I took some time to process the politics of UFC White House. While Josh Hokit's rancid comments about Michelle Obama dominated headlines, the event also revealed the union of corporate power, AI surveillance tech, patriotism theater, hegemonic militarism and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=to03...

These are all former Trump fans who grew disillusioned with him. Then they moved further right and became violent. I fear all of these polls show young men abandoning Trump just means they’re radicalizing into groypers.

I caught up with @karimzidan.com to process all of the politics of UFC White House. While the Josh Hokit comments understandably caught fire in the media, there's so much more than meets the eye. As Zidan has warned, don't let the spectacle fool you. WATCH: lthomas.substack.com/p/ufc-white-...

I took some time to process the politics of UFC White House. While Josh Hokit's rancid comments about Michelle Obama dominated headlines, the event also revealed the union of corporate power, AI surveillance tech, patriotism theater, hegemonic militarism and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=to03...

Re-upping this in light of Sunday's event. I've been looking into the connection between the right and MMA (to an extent combat sports beyond it) and was afforded an opportunity to give a lecture on it at the University of Maryland.

If you didn’t know a single thing about MMA or UFC, you might think this description of their speech policy is hyperbole, but I can assure you this is correct.

What you have to understand is Hokit got to the UFC by fighting on an auditioning show. He won his fight there and did this same line about Michelle Obama. This is hardly the only time he’s ever tried this line and he did it at his job interview. Like I’ve been saying, this is just what mma is now.

Hope it's clear to everyone by now that the UFC IS the Trump administration.

Case in point, listen to my conversarion with @lukethomas.bsky.social, where we assess whether the White House event is the culmination of the UFC-Trump project of the start of more formal integration in US politics www.sportspolitika.news/p/ufc-white-...

These are fighters rehearsing walkouts for tomorrow (UFC) They’re exiting Blue Room — space to receive foreign leaders since Madison admin. They exit to South Portico balcony that hosted FDR’s 1945 WWII Address, Carter's 1979 solar panel energy dedication, speeches for Pope Benedict XVI & Francis.

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

UFC putting Trump into the HOF seems like a foregone conclusion to me.