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‘I’M SICK OF RICH PEOPLE NOT PUTTING THEIR F*CKING KIDS OVER IN THESE WARS’ — Theo Von to Joe Rogan ‘PUT YOUR F*CKING HONKY ASS KIDS UP THERE. LET THEM GO SHED SOME F*CKING BLOOD’ ‘Put your f*cking honky little fancy ass f*cking kid up there’

The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio, 1610

Statement from Head Coach Geno Auriemma

Now is not the time to shun your neighbors leaving MAGA. Embrace them. We're gonna need their help

Unions are the worst thing to happen to Hollywood. Every time SAG-AFTRA or IATSE negotiates, they come away with higher day rates, bigger health and pension contributions, stricter overtime. I get why workers want that stuff. Better healthcare, more money. Sounds good right? But someone pays for it. You do. The subscriber. Union labor costs go up, production budgets go up, streamers raise prices. Netflix went from $7.99 to $22.99. Disney+ started at $6.99 and nearly tripled. The content didn’t get three times better. The labor costs went up. A massive chunk of that is union negotiations. I’ve been building LOOR for five years. I’ve sat in rooms with producers who literally cannot make what they want to make because the second you go union, your $500K budget becomes $2M. Same script. Same locations. Same shoot days. But now you need a union crew, union rates, union overtime, union pensions, union health fund, and paperwork that gets its own line item. What happens? The mid-budget film dies. The creative risks stop. Everything becomes franchise IP because that’s all that justifies the overhead. The union system doesn’t protect creativity. It kills it. It makes filmmaking so expensive that only massive corporations can play. The future of filmmaking is a punk rock garage band. Five people with cameras and AI tools. No permission. No $350/day minimums. No forced turnaround penalties. No trust fund you’ll never see because you didn’t hit enough hours. The best music ever made came from garages. Kids who couldn’t afford studios. People the industry said weren’t good enough. Same thing is happening in film right now. The tools exist. Cameras are cheap. AI fills gaps that used to need six crew members. Distribution is a URL. The free market is doing to Hollywood unions what Spotify did to record labels. Not overnight. But slowly, making them irrelevant because creators realized they don’t need the gatekeepers or the bureaucracy. I’m not saying union members are bad people. The system itself has become a cost disease that makes content worse and more expensive for everyone. The people who suffer most aren’t the A-list actors with residual checks. It’s independent filmmakers who can’t afford to start because the barrier to entry is artificially inflated by labor rules written for a completely different era. The future is non-union. The future is small teams. The future is creators who own what they make and don’t owe a percentage to an organization that doesn’t even know their name.

Trump's 2027 budget proposal includes $354 million in funding cuts for HBCUs and other similar institutions.

TreVeyon Henderson didn’t start this, he responded to the Jaden Ivey situation by standing on his faith. That doesn’t make him hateful. You don’t have to agree with his beliefs, but twisting Christianity into something ugly every time someone speaks on it is where people lose me.

You either die in LA or live long enough to see yourself move to Orange County

"GIRLS ARE TOLD THEY CANT PLAY SPORTS" isn't really woke to me, it's antiquated and feels like a 50s era slogan. Here's what I think happened. 1- Nike has lost "the culture": The top-down marketing of premiere athletes simply doesn't return the same investment. There are no longer captive audiences over a single sport or athlete. Your nephews care more about IShowSpeed than Kyrie or Luka. 2- Hypebeast Culture is Dead: Or it's dispersed. Your nephews' favorite apparel brands aren't any of the big sport co's. It's some company with 100k following. 3- Office Politics: Politics and the me-too era clipped leadership personnel [justly maybe]. There have been 3 reorgs in a five year period. Hard to focus product when everyone's getting let go. And a woke-ish corp culture has its own chilling effect. 4- Manufacturing and Saturation: MANY interesting sport/equipment brands have popped up as manufacturing and marketing has gotten easier. With shorter lead times and less red tape for approvals, smaller brands are nimble. Nike's design -> market calendar takes 1.5 years. 5- D2C is very hard! Their CEO didn't think they needed some larger retailers [footlocker] and wanted to pursue DTC. Ecomm has its own major costs and it's not the margin people think it is. 6- I no longer work there: Kidding, but Nike can't keep and maintain talent when great workers can build their own audiences/product. I doubt we'll see many multi-billion dollar sustain in this market. These factors are happening at all the brands.

daunte culpepper after throwing the craziest 70-yard dart to randy moss.

I-right wiggle 34 switchblade. For the state championship. I love all y’all baby, I love all y’all.