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@giroditalia Being in the US, a heartfelt thank you! If only all races in the US were on Max!

🚴‍♂️ Il Giro d’Italia continua a emozionare il mondo! Siamo orgogliosi di estendere la partnership con Warner Bros. Discovery, portando le nostre corse ai fan in Europa e negli USA. 📺 Eurosport, HBO Max e TNT Sports 🌍 Oltre 50 mercati L’edizione 2026 parte l’8 maggio e si conclude a Roma il 31 maggio. #GirodItalia

@daniellloyd1 @WHOOP @GoZwift @bryan_johnson @KristenhCNN @JeremyPowers @Brady_H @foundmyfitness Awesome! And hey, I was there for her very first Zwift group ride.

Lorraine's @WHOOP metrics since she started doing twice weekly 45 minute @gozwift sessions. One zone 2, one Vo2 max. This is on top of brisk (dog) walks, park run every other week and one or two sessions in the gym each week. I'm incredibly proud of her. It's also an amazing case study of what you can achieve with consistency. She recently turned 53, always been healthy and clean living, so these improvements are on top of someone already in a very good place.

@daniellloyd1 @jorgepontedeira This makes we wonder about Seixas. I think he’ll be a great rider for sure, but will he really be another Pog? I highly doubt it. But maybe.

@jorgepontedeira It's a good point, although those five riders combined have started fewer cobbled monuments than Pogacar has won. I think what I'm trying to say is that, if you want to be seen as one of the all time greats in the future, you'd better be winning the biggest one day races too.

Best result in a monument: Alberto Contador: 9th Nairo Quintana: 9th Chris Froome: 36th It's easy to forget that there was a generation or two where classics and Grand Tours were almost two entirely different disciplines. Whether you enjoy watching Tadej Pogačar dominate the one day classics or not, he has set a very good precedent for future pros - winners of Grand Tours can and probably should race monuments (even cobbled ones). That's the thought process that future greats will have as they're growing up, and that's got to be a good thing.

JD Vance: "The sickest that I have been in the last 15 years, by far, was when I took the [Covid] vaccine. My heart was racing, the fact that we're not even allowed to talk about that.."

Matt Walsh Jumps Out Of Bushes At Easter Egg Hunt To Inform The Kids Bunnies Laying Eggs Is Biologically Impossible buff.ly/1eZD5b9

Glad he's ironed that out.

@Bean_Cotton @Cyclingnewsfeed And nothing about Pog is boring.

@George0rwell @Cyclingnewsfeed Nothing about Sagan was boring.

'Even easier than a Playstation' – Peter Sagan says Tadej Pogačar's dominance is amazing but 'boring in a certain way' cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/te…

@SILCAvelo They made an excellent choice!

Glad we could get the jokes out of the way yesterday... @uae_team_emirates privately tested every wax on the market. They put their trust in us. #SILCA is the Official Chain Lubricant of UAE Team Emirates – XRG.

Scientists Discover Strong Correlation Between Trusting Government And Eating Paint Chips buff.ly/Dp2bRMM

Nazism on the Left

@VelonCC @dnlbenson @vismaleaseabike My guess is his wife made him put that on his bars.

No more sticker kisses today for Jonas 😍 Jonas Vingegaard could finally kiss his family after winning the Volta a Catalunya 2026. Usually, the Dane celebrates his victories by kissing a sticker with their photo on his handlebar. 📸 Getty Images | @dnlbenson

@VelonCC 🥱

Vingegaard keeps building his legacy 🏆 Jonas Vingegaard wins the Volta a Catalunya 2026 and adds another WorldTour stage race to his palmarès, with only the Tour de Suisse, Tour de Romandie and UAE Tour left to conquer. 📸 Getty Images

@peterboghossian @ZubyMusic Wag the dog indeed.

@ZubyMusic Same with Trump's releasing all govt files on aliens.

And just like that, nobody cares about the Epstein files anymore.

She wins the internet today 🤣🤣🤣

@ComicDaveSmith The worst progressive idea was censorship.

@elonmusk Reminds me of Peter Hotez, and that’s definitely not a compliment!

Probability of me getting a fair trial if this is how the judge dresses is 0.0%

Someone put this diagram together and it deserves to be read slowly. Three of the most disturbing psychological experiments in modern history placed in a Venn diagram with COVID policy sitting precisely at their intersection. They were not wrong. Most people know the Milgram experiment. Ordinary people administering what they believed were lethal electric shocks to strangers because an authority figure in a white coat told them to continue. We wrote about this. COVID replicated it at planetary scale, the doctors, the neighbours, the employers, the family members who enforced mandates with a zeal that had nothing to do with science and everything to do with institutional obedience. But the other two are equally important and far less discussed. The Asch Conformity Experiment demonstrated something even more fundamental. Solomon Asch showed in the 1950s that a significant majority of people will deny the evidence of their own eyes will give an answer they know to be factually wrong, simply because everyone else in the room is giving that answer. Not because they were threatened. Not because they were paid. Because the social pressure of the group was sufficient to override direct sensory experience. This is what masking a healthy population, cancelling Christmas, and demanding that people treat their neighbours as biological threats actually accomplished. It was not about any of those things specifically. It was about training an entire population to override their own perception and defer to the group consensus, however absurd that consensus became. And then the Stanford Prison Experiment. Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 study abandoned early because it spiralled so rapidly out of control, showed that ordinary people assigned roles of authority over other ordinary people will, within days, begin to abuse that authority in ways they would have found unthinkable before the role was assigned. The guards became cruel not because they were cruel people but because the structure gave them permission and the institution backed them up. We watched this happen in real time. The COVID marshals. The border agents turning families away. The hospital administrators barring visitors from dying patients. The teachers reporting parents. The neighbours calling police on children playing in parks. The HR departments gleefully processing terminations for the unvaccinated. Ordinary people, handed a role and a uniform of institutional approval, discovering capacities for cruelty that their pre-2020 selves would not have recognised. Now go deeper. Because the institution at the centre of this, the one that has connected these threads across decades is not an accident of history. Stanford sits at the intersection of centralised medicine, defence research, and the surveillance architecture that has been constructed around human attention and behaviour for the better part of a century. The Stanford Research Institute. The connections to MKUltra the CIA’s mind control programme that ran from the early 1950s and included everything from Mexican mescaline experiments to the weaponisation of LSD on unwitting subjects, overseen by figures who moved seamlessly between military intelligence and the medical establishment. From General Groves who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the deliberate suppression of radiation health data to Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who ran MKUltra’s most extreme programmes. The through-line is not conspiracy. It is institutional continuity. The same networks. The same funding streams. The same willingness to use human beings as experimental subjects in the service of power dressed as science.