Matt 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️sports, space, small govt

If you want to make this an aristocracy, this would be valid and Trump wouldn’t be the nominee. But as long as we are going to be a giant government, we need a candidate who can message the people. We’re redrawing the lines. Are you an elitist who needs protection or can you live on your own? #Trump2024

Also from contention as the next Kansas coach

It’s going to get worse if the Dems retake anything.

WTH is going on with NCAA refs. Take 2 off the floor and put them high on either side of the arena. This is absurd.

@DanWetzel Aside from Izzo, the most corrupt of their generation

Old coaches can’t survive in the new era of college basketball. Sweet Sixteen coaches: Rick Pitino (73 years old) Tom Izzo (71) Rick Barnes (71) Kelvin Sampson (70) John Calipari (67)

Glad I’m not a shareholder in Amtelco. Their employees are acting like fools at this hotel at this hour. Some conference at La Cantera in San Antonio. Bar is full and loud. I’m sure they’ll be ready for Monday morning.

@TobyBall16 @KUsports But KUsports.com is the Journal World, so $ to the athletics department doesn’t get to them. They are the meat and potatoes writers for Lawrence.

@321and713 @KUsports I want to support KU 100% and have donated, Bought Merch and done everything i can. But Basic information should be available to grow the fan base. I would subscribe to Rivals, Scout, and others if I wanted in depth knowledge. It just seems counter productive

Of all the despondent Jayhawks in their locker room at Viejas Arena on Sunday evening, perhaps no one was taking the loss to St. John’s as hard, in the minutes afterward, as Elmarko Jackson. “I can’t even really think right now, to be honest,” he said. www2.kusports.com/sports/college…

This is alpha on college basketball.

@KUTheShiver They’ve forgotten how to play offense in the last 3 weeks. Run the weave against nobodies, not against the Top 20.

KU should have beaten UCONN beat Zona Beat Houston Beat BYU Gave Duke all they wanted Beat ISU When you watch them now you can't figure out how any of that happened.

@MarkAGunnels Wishcasting

Imagine if Bill let Kohl play through his struggles. There's no reason why he shouldn't have been in the rotation.

Every time I post about our family getting split up on a flight I’m told I didn’t pay enough for our seats or book far enough in advance. But this is what Macaulay Culkin just posted. It should not be legal for airlines to split up kids and parents on the same reservation.

@TobyBall16 @KUsports Can’t argue with that. I did the $50/y since I’d like to keep them around. I wish The Kansan would adopt strict neutrality for politics. I think alumni would fund them too. Student Senate was talking about defunding them last year.

@321and713 @KUsports They used to run advertisements, I want everyone to make money, but it's out of Control. Its hard to distinguish what is Media any more.

Can you point to a study that says recovery requires carbs? I grew up on low fat diets & started from zero studying weight loss in 2018. I specifically looked at that (extensive searches) & thought recovery metabolism is slow enough that it can be fueled by fat (at least above ~18%bf)

Weight loss ≠ fat loss You can make the scale plummet very easily just by : • Cutting all carbs • Sweating more • Dropping sodium • Eating less food overall (less in digestion/ transit) The scale will move. Your body weight will drop. But ask the real question: How much of that is actually fat? Most of the time, not much. When you pull carbs, you dump glycogen. Glycogen holds water around 3/4g water per gram of carbohydrate. Lose the glycogen, lose the water, scale drops. When you sweat more, you lose fluids. When you cut sodium, you drop more water again. That is weight loss, NOT fat loss. Fat loss is different. It is slower and at times less dramatic. Fat loss requires: • A sustained calorie deficit • Adequate protein to preserve lean tissue • Enough carbs to train hard and recover • Consistency over MONTHS, weeks, not days Most start off in the wrong spots. They chase the fastest scale drop. They panic when weight rebounds. They tighten food even more. Training quality drops. Muscle is lost. Metabolism adapts. Now you are lighter but you do not look better not do you perform better. And fat loss stalls. This is why weight loss is terrible as a sole primary goal. Weight loss can be manipulated. Fat loss has to be earned. Fat loss shows up in: • Waist measurements • Visual changes • Strength retention • How clothes fit • Weekly trends, not daily weigh-ins If the goal is to look better, feel better, and keep the result: 🚨Stop chasing weight. ✅Start chasing body composition. Because the scale going down means nothing if the mirror, performance, and health are going backwards.

@TheCinesthetic About Time - perfect dad and son film when your boy is 16-18. It’s even better if you have no idea what it’s about. No one has said it. Also, a lot of replies struggle with “hardly anyone has heard of it.”

What movie is 10/10, yet hardly anyone has heard of it?

@LoD_STL @TheCinesthetic Executive Producer @elonmusk

@cabelloh2 @TheCinesthetic First one I would agree fits the “hardly anyone has heard of it.” Great psychological study on the spectrum of reactions.

@TheCinesthetic Almost no one I know has watched Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and it's one of my favorite movies ever.

This is a deliberate provocation from certain Muslim leaders, amplified by Mamdani’s confrontational and disrespectful approach. It’s a step too far, and I think the backlash will be significant. 🇺🇸 @FDNY @FDNYAlerts @SDNYnews @POTUS @SecScottBessent

@CynicalPublius @astrarce She’s certainly the most erudite woman in America. That word to me encompasses both intelligence and the ability to communicate it.

RE: Data Republican I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well. But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman. You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you. For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned. This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected. These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness. Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible. It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST. You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under. And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR. I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall. For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding. An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear. But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out. Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense." If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them. This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President. Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is. I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that. One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

@iowahawkblog The monotony of Gator chants is one of the worst things in college sports. Duke is always the strongest schadenfreude, but UF is up there.

America’s Team bitches

@TobyBall16 @KUsports My fellow conservative, you want them to work for free?

@KUsports Fuck your Paywall

@tucciarone2026 You’ve got powder burns as part of the circular firing squad. You might get into heaven with your puritan beliefs (that are as tolerant as sharia), and we’ll all suffer because we don’t have an electoral majority of righteous Christians. Congrats.

@321and713 I don’t know?!? I wish I had left buddies but I’m not in that camp.

Why is the left so good at avoiding circular firing squads and the right hasn’t learned in the last 400 years that Puritanism doesn’t work?