This is the moderate option:
Dear President Trump,
There are roughly 17-18M Veterans, with 75% of us that served in wartime efforts.
Deputize us and we can have every single illegal deported within a week.
The theme of effective breathing methods seems to be slow exhales. For example, traditional yoga breathing practices have been heralded for thousands of years for their ability to lower subjective stress and overheating, and these practices typically emphasize a slow exhale.
When I was at UCLA, my roommate was only 5'6".
But he hit the ball harder than almost everybody.
I remember watching him thinking:
How is this guy crushing baseballs?
He wasn't the biggest.
He wasn't the strongest.
But balls absolutely jumped off his bat.
One day I finally asked him:
"Eddie, what do you do to hit the ball so hard?"
He looked at me and said:
"I use my wrists."
To be honest...
I had no idea what he meant.
So he took me into the cage.
He put a donut on my bat.
Then he started flipping baseballs.
Fast.
As soon as I swung...
Another ball was coming.
There was barely enough time to get the barrel back.
We did 3 rounds of 3 swings.
That's it.
Then he took the donut off.
The difference was immediate.
The barrel felt like it was flying through the zone.
Everything felt faster.
Quicker.
More explosive.
So I did it again the next day.
And the next.
A few days later we flew to play Pacific.
That game I went 3-for-4 with 3 doubles.
Now, was it all because of the drill?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But, it did feel like it helped me.
So if you wanted to "boost" your swing speed tonight, try this:
Put a donut on your bat.
Have someone front toss baseballs rapidly.
As soon as you swing, the next ball is coming.
3 swings.
Rest.
3 swings.
Rest.
3 swings.
Rest.
Now take the donut off.
Hit 10 regular swings.
Pay attention to how the barrel feels.
Because here's what I learned from Eddie:
A lot of players think power comes from getting bigger.
Sometimes it comes from moving the barrel faster.
Eddie wasn't bigger than everybody.
He was faster than everybody.
Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis
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Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles.
There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard.
It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease.
The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work.
But it didn't.
Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial,
it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed.
With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week.
This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last.
In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes.
You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page.
That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk.
Another study from 2014 showed the same thing.
Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this.
The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk.
The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies.
A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk.
They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis.
They argue that this means that the association is invalid.
But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association).
They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper.
That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk.
So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here.
More recent studies show the same thing.
A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption.
And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it.
Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes.
There was a linear dose response.
That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up.
In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day.
Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied.
Why would ice cream actually be good for you?
My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream.
◇ C15
◇ C17
◇ CLA
◇ TVA
◇ TPA
are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects.
◇ Mitochondrial enhancing
◇ Anti-inflammatory
◇ Anti-thrombotic
◇ Lipid lowering
◇ Fat burning
◇ Cancer preventing
I've covered these all at length in other content.
Of course, this is all observational.
This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation.
However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real.
This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility.
But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.
🚨 NOW: FBI Director Kash Patel just MIC DROPPED the fake news
Q: Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure
PATEL: “I've NEVER been intoxicated on the job, and that is why we filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit. And any one of YOU that wants to participate, bring it on. I'll see you in court!” 🔥
“I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia.”
“And as when they get louder, it just means I'm doing my job. This FBI director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me. What that means is I've taken half as many days off as those before me.”
“I'm the first one in. I'm the last one out. I'm like an everyday American who loves his country, loves his sport of hockey, and champions my friends when they raise a gold medal and invite me in to celebrate.” @FBIDirectorKash
I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.
Rotherham. A small town in northern England.
For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.
Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.
The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.
For sixteen years, not one of them moved.
Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.
That is the moment something in you breaks.
And here is the part that makes it worse.
The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.
This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.
Then Elon Musk bought X.
The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.
But it did.
And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.
Towns the country had been told to forget.
Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.
X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.
That is worth saying out loud.
We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.