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Chris Mannix @sichrismannix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW POD! Luke Thomas (@lukethomas.bsky.social) on the Senate version of the Ali Act, Nico’s flip, if the bill becomes law, more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Is the Ali Act Inevitable?

Podcast Episode · Boxing with Mannix and Mora · September 24 · Bonus · 28m

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I spoke with the journalist doing the best coverage of the attempt to destroy the Ali Act in Congress. We discuss how decisive Nico Ali Walsh's disappointing turn is for TKO, why lefty media ignored the story completely and where things stand with the bill: lthomas.substack.com/p/boxing-ali...

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The Future Of Boxing: An Interview With John Nash

If the TKO bill to destroy the Ali Act passes, what will happen to boxing? Journalist John Nash joins me to discuss the present and future.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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The Future Of Boxing: An Interview With John Nash

If the TKO bill to destroy the Ali Act passes, what will happen to boxing? Journalist John Nash joins me to discuss the present and future.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Left-wing media is divorced from anything combat sports related. This is likely due to there being little political and even cultural overlap between who occupies those worlds. This is extremely unfortunate because legislation or biz practices lefty media typically would cover go untouched.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026

i love polls that are like "BREAKING: 64% of country now aware of most painfully obvious liar and crook in national history"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Man, I can’t believe a prominent member of the MMA community used their celebrity to publicly endorse MAGA politics. How unusual.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

MMA had a brief moment where it could highlight unique human interest stories or serve as emergent, almost punk rock cultural phenomena. Now it’s a vector for right-wing politics and home to low IQ dipshits desperately seeking Darwin Awards.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When I first started making the argument MMA was a vector for right-wing politics (esp. in Western Hemisphere), I got fierce blowback at the suggestion. Now it's conventional wisdom repeated in the Financial Times.

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Chris Camposeo @chriscampy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watching @lukethomas.bsky.social on CNN and I’m losing my mind at these dog shit bad faith attacks against AES and Hasan youtu.be/k9VIChHPjPM?...

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Watch Me on CNN DEFEND Abdul El-Sayed | Luke Thomas Gets Political

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW: ICE agents demanded that REI turn over the names of "all persons" who bought a green beanie from the outdoor retailer over the past two years as part of their probe of protesters who entered a St. Paul church in March. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-wa...

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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m actually looking forward to this. For as long as the humiliation exists, it’ll be delicious.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me on CNN: there isn't actually *any good data* that shows how Abdul El Sayed is doing with Jewish voters. What exists only applies to the primary and even that is very scant. New polls show him 5+ on Rogers, so why are we assuming he has to dig out of a hole? www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VI...

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Watch Me on CNN DEFEND Abdul El-Sayed | Luke Thomas Gets Political

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We are allowing barbarism and unfathomable state violence all in the name of national self harm from immigration illiteracy.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The downstream consequences of declining higher ed enrollment - especially while the Trump administration makes the problem worse by reducing the number of international students - is an under appreciated story.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Combat sports is so odious and broken in 2026 that venues have to issue apologies for hosting Nazi kickboxing events.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People ask me to stay in combat sports to push back against this, but how? There isn’t much of a constituency looking for what I espouse and as long as the most powerful stakeholders enable or promote retrograde ideas and values with no advertiser or broadcaster pushback, they just continue apace.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been trying to warn everyone. Now they’re waving Nazi flags openly at combat sports events.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dem leadership isn’t digging their own graves. They’re digging ours.

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Digital Relic 🌀 @damop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Luke is spot-on in this one! This has to be the lowest-IQ, most idiotic smear job ever to come out of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party. It’s fucking backfiring big time! The Dem leadership is digging their own political graves! @lukethomas.bsky.social youtu.be/25XkzVrxpQw?...

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Let's Talk HASAN PIKER | Luke Thomas Gets Political

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The original, terrifying IT. His performance gave my brother and I nightmares as kids. He could do terror, but truly, he could do anything. Incredible range for a natural-born performer. What a brilliant talent. He’ll be missed.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everyone’s ratioing this and yeah, you should wear your helmet (I always do!), but they’re right. Just as pressure to perform personal wellness is not meaningful public health intervention, the lesson is systems drive real health outcomes. Wearing helmets is the right call, but not true bike safety.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision. The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now that I’m getting into more politics coverage, it’s genuinely insane how much of it is based on people not having basic listening or reading comprehension skills. Yes, many know better and are manipulative, but there is a metric ton of them who simply can’t rationally process what others say.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Start your week with some great news. The culling of innocent people from their jobs and livelihoods who made remarks following Charlie Kirk's death that were either benign or/and legally protected is finally getting rectified. No one is more deserving of that than @karenattiah.bsky.social!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

People who weren’t around back in the day don’t believe me when I tell them no, really, MMA used to draw in people from all walks of life.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is why what’s happened to MMA and the UFC has so greatly pained me.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TKO/UFC is an unambiguously right-wing organization.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Imagine giving a single solitary fuck about this utterly manufactured pearl clutching from the party that has promoted, adored and elected the single most toxic, culturally debasing leader in modern U.S. history. Their rage means nothing other than what you allow it to mean.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

BREAKING: ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC in DC District Court. The suit says the Trump administration "has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts." www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/m...

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Disney sues Trump’s FCC over ‘retaliatory campaign’ against ABC | CNN Business

Disney is going to court to defend its ABC television stations from the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.

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Punk Curmudgeon @pinkcurmudgeon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I might have given myself brain damage listening to Fetterman on the Jon Stewart interview. @lukethomas.bsky.social is spot on with his breakdown of some it here. youtu.be/au9OFt11vRc?...

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John Fetterman's DISASTROUS Jon Stewart Interview HAS to Be SEEN | Luke Thomas Gets Political

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That's what I'm talking about @gelliottmorris.com!!! That's what the science says!!! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-06...

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 05/08/2026

Dana White, who has made his fortune looting MMA fighters of their fair share of fight proceeds, speaking about "putting money back in people's pockets" is bad comedy

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This was predicted by TKO ahead of time, down to the $30 million amount, to say nothing of how the event juiced their biz in innumerable other ways. I see antagonists taking a victory lap over this news, but TKO posted record revenue just yesterday from this same quarter. Don’t fall for it.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not very hard to bet on GOP cowardice in the face of Trump even when enablers have nothing to lose, but the bet still counts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IQG...

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Watch Me PREDICT the FUTURE on CNN | Luke Thomas Gets Political

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hard to find a better way to show your skill level is very likely/actually low and you fundamentally misunderstand martial arts than Jonah Hill has.

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you want to see how intertwined the UFC brand is with Trump, this sign is visible at an event currently taking place in Serbia. Of note, Trump's not there nor was it ever suggested he'd be there. The audience just knows a great way to get the message to Trump is to send it at a UFC event.

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