Dana White getting pushed via: Time, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and more ahead of Trunmp's birthday fight card. White is the star of the UFC and his bosses make sure to promote him. Chumps and suckers eat this shit up, but couldn't tell you the name of one fighter competing on that card.

Just over here thinking about the number of editors who told me 15 years ago that my idea for a book about the UFC and the direction of American culture was stupid and no one would read it.

"Can you get a photo where he looks like a creepy mouth breather?" "I'll do my best." "Perfect"

C'mon now...

Marc Benioff owns Time…

lmao the stock of the company that put on those "Enhanced Games" tanked 47% today because the outcome of the games undermined the very premise of their product. sherwood.news/markets/enha...

That Paramount deal has been good for this carny...

Good stuff from Bill Orcutt and Mabe Fratti. Guitar and cello.

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

One of the best ever…

Dana White on Trump's racism: "...I can tell you the president had a very good relationship with Michael Jackson and had Michael Jackson around his kids all the time... [Trump] defended him when that stuff was going down. So to call the guy a racist is crazy. He’s not a racist.”

*planned for Trump’s birthday

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

There are people who only read dialogue in books?

oh my god a non-enhanced athlete just won another event: this time it's the 100-meter sprint with Tristan Evelyn winning with an 11.18 time. www.enhanced.com/newsroom/spr...

Hunter Armstrong, a non-juiced, "non-enhanced" athlete won the 50-meter backstroke at the Enhanced Games, beating two athletes who spent the last few months taking PEDs under stringent medical supervision. www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

Whale is important.

Buddy, the "Enhanced Games" are nothing more than a marketing ploy for Joe Rogan listeners "...clicked into place when D’Souza announced the launch of Enhanced Performance Products—a new line of supplements inspired by the ones athletes will be taking to prepare for the Games."

Damn, I haven’t been to a movie theater since “Sorry to Bother You”

MMA sites so tied to the UFC access machine they willingly covered some Adin Ross promoted shitshow of an "MMA" event just because it was at the UFC Apex...

I'll give whoever did this credit for having enormous balls, but that's not always a positive...

Okay, this one made me laugh:

Why did David Remnick sit down with Dana White for an interview? Who does Remnick owe a favor to?

Hot Fuzz is about the violence of stasis, the villages inability to change with time and process loss ultimately causes it to become reactionary as it increasingly aggressively polices its own idea of itself. The escalation to murder, including of their own, the ultimate expression of that futility.

I bought one cassingle in my life. It was this.

Ariel Helwani leading his story about Scott Coker's new MMA promtion with, "I knew about this for a while, but was sworn to secrecy..." Man has always put relationships ahead of journalism...

Power Plays is a new investigative podcast from the Human Rights Foundation hosted by sports journalist and HRF Sports and Dictators Program Lead Karim Zidan, exposing how authoritarian regimes weaponize sports for political influence.

This is worth a read.

These glasses should also record video of the people you are relaying AI slop to and automatically upload it to your social media accounts…

Inside-the-park grand slam for James Wood (!!!)

Logan Storley - "...arrested in Key West early Monday morning after police say he sexually battered a woman in the street while wearing no clothes..."

I was told, by a professor, to use AI to see how to make a paper "more analytical." Couldn't/wouldn't do it. Am I the sucker?

Remember what Dana White, falsely, said about Greg Hardy? "...And the guy was never charged with anything. He was never sentenced or anything like that..." Can't wait to hear his glowing endorsement of Gable Steveson.

Daniel Cormier: Hey Joe, here's a little known fact about Gable Steveson, who is fighting at UFC 329. Joe Rogan: No, everyone knows he washed out of the WWE and NFL. Daniel Cormier: No, that the laws around sexual assault in MN were changed because of him. Joe Rogan: Jamie, check that out...

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

Montreal playing not to lose, while Buffalo is doing all it can to win…

NEW: Sports Illustrated was accused of publishing an AI-generated article the content of which was plagiarized from a competitor -- and when we reached out with questions, it deleted the author's profile and entire archive of work futurism.com/artificial-i...

We got a new George Pelecanos novel coming in August...

Not long after Ariel Helwani castigated Max Kellerman for his over-the-top promotion of Zuffa Boxing, Helwani does the same thing, but for Jake Paul and MVP... "Journalism..."

Five years after Peyton Ham’s killing, lawsuit against state trooper who shot him lives on: defector.com/five-years-a...

Good chance this was a work, but people still see this clown as a journalist...

"There's a ridiculous doomsday tracker on the website's home page, which when I checked it this morning showed that there were more than "90,000,000 million" total foreign-born immigrants, labeled "invaders," in America today. "...90 million million is 90 trillion, according to math..."

Folks looking at Jake Paul as something other than another grifter who sees easy money in MMA marks...

Anyway, trusting dudes who collect Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst comes with its own set of problems...

Water Damage... "...like if Glenn Branca got stuck in a feedback loop with La Monte Young and they both forgot what year it was -- Texas 2025 or Berlin 1972 or maybe just eternity's parking lot."

I remember Dana White trying to describe his art collection and it was one of the unintentionally funniest things I'd ever heard. Just the dumbest shit. He would have been better off saying, "I don't know shit, I just buy what Lorenzo Fertitta tells me I should."

Good morning. I profiled Amy Wallace, the only sibling of David Foster Wallace. I don't think you need to know much about David (or his work) to understand how his sister saw him — and how he loved her.

During the presser for the MVP MMA event, brave "journalist" Ariel Helwani mentions that Kayla Harrison wasn't very happy with him because of a previous question he asked Rousey. Remember kids, you must always think about keeping access to guests for your podcast as a highly esteemed journalist...

Goddamn, this story is missing A LOT of context. Pretty slimy reporting.