The funniest part of JD Vance’s speech is the ending:
“I am angry about the rise of China… but I am most angry that American leadership let it happen.”
Let it happen?
As if China’s rise was an American clerical error.
As if 1.4 billion people industrialized because Washington forgot to lock the door.
China was sanctioned, contained, smeared, tariffed, and technologically strangled.
And still it became the world’s strongest industrial economy.
India had the population.
India had English.
India had earlier access to the WTO.
India had Western approval, “democracy” branding, and decades of geopolitical courtship.
Capital still chose China.
Factories still chose China.
Supply chains still chose China.
Why?
Because civilization is not built by flattering Washington.
It is built by infrastructure, discipline, engineers, workers, logistics, electricity, education, and state capacity.
America’s next ten years are not about competing with China.
That phase is already over.
America is now competing with India for who can disappoint capital less.
China’s real opponent was never America.
China’s real opponent is its own execution, its own discipline, its own ability to keep building without believing Western noise.
Vance is angry because China rose.
But what really humiliates him is this:
America tried to stop it.
And China rose anyway.
The fix is not to eat less protein.
It's to eat more fiber alongside it.
Your gut bacteria will always prefer to ferment fiber over protein when both are available.
High protein + high fiber = gut bacteria stay in fiber-fermentation mode.
Aim for 25–35g of fiber a day. Use psyllium husk if your diet falls short.
If you're struggling in life, do this:
> final food 4 hours before sleep
> screens off 60 before bed
> read a book 10 min before sleep
> light in eyes when waking
> exercise daily
Do it for 7 days straight.
It works. I promise.
It’s a rude awakening to graduate from school where you are rewarded for memorization only to realize that the people who made the most friends are likely to be wealthier.
Wemby: "Obviously we weren't ready. I wasn't ready to win a ring. That's obvious. I think in terms of desire to do well, intensity and effort, we were at a good level. I was at a good level. But experience... it's mistakes. We don't lack talent, we don't lack ability, we just make too many mistakes. And I make too many mistakes."
It feels like the Spurs gaind 5 years of playoff experience in this playoff run
They've now been in every basketball situation imaginable, this is going to make them so much better next session
I'm proud of the Spurs man
Nobody thought the Spurs would be hear before the season, there is so much that they can improve on, but I love this team
One of my favorite Spurs' teams of all-time
VICTOR WEMBANYAMA AGE 22 SEASON:
60 win season
1st team all NBA
1st team all Defense
UNANIMOUS DPOY
3rd in MVP voting
Western Conference champion
Western Conference MVP
The future is now 👽👽
UNBELIEVABLE Season. Thank you 1
Jalen Brunson was drafted in the same draft class as Luka Doncic, SGA, Trae, MPJ, and Deandre Ayton.
He was selected with the 33rd pick in the second round and played behind Luka for the majority of his Mavs tenure…
He signed with New York when many people thought it was an overpay, only for it to be a moment of Brunson betting on himself to prove himself right.
Now he’s an NBA champion and one of the greatest players to ever grace a Knicks jersey. 🔥
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆
New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
The Chiefs are adding two years to Patrick Mahomes’ contract, tying him to Kansas City through the 2033 season at a value of $504.75 million.
Beginning in 2027, when the new money begins, the deal averages $64 million per year, setting a new NFL record for average annual value. (via @adamschefter, @RapSheet)
When Mariska Hargitay was cast as Detective Olivia Benson in 1999, she thought she had landed a steady acting job on a new Law & Order spinoff called Special Victims Unit.
At the time, it felt like a career step forward. A solid role. A reliable paycheck. She had already spent years working steadily in television, including time on “ER,” but nothing that had truly made her a household name.
She had no idea the role would completely reshape her life.
Not long after SVU premiered, the letters started arriving. At first they were ordinary fan mail — autograph requests, compliments, messages from viewers who loved the show.
Then the tone changed.
“I was assaulted when I was 15. I am 40 now and I have never told anyone.”
Mariska sat alone in her trailer holding the letter, stunned silent. Soon there were more. Then hundreds more. Then thousands.
These weren’t fan letters.
They were confessions.
Women. Men. Survivors carrying decades of silence finally putting their pain into words. And the heartbreaking part was this: they weren’t writing to Mariska Hargitay.
They were writing to Olivia Benson.
A fictional detective had become the safest person they could imagine telling the truth to.
Mariska understood exactly what that meant. Survivors were so desperate to be believed that they trusted someone who didn’t even exist. Most actors would have thanked the audience politely and moved on.
She moved closer to the pain instead.
She trained as a certified rape crisis advocate. She studied trauma and sat with experts who worked with survivors every day. She wanted to understand the reality behind the stories arriving in her hands.
Then, in 2004, she made a decision that reached far beyond Hollywood.
She founded the Joyful Heart Foundation.
Its mission was enormous: help survivors heal and transform the way society responds to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse.
Five years later, another discovery changed the direction of her work completely.
Across America, rape kits were sitting untouched in police warehouses. Evidence collected from survivors after assaults had been abandoned for years — sometimes decades. In some cities, the backlog reached into the tens of thousands.
Each forgotten kit represented someone still waiting for justice.
Mariska refused to let that continue quietly.
She testified before Congress. Met with governors, prosecutors, and police departments. Walked through storage facilities where evidence gathered dust. In 2017, she co-produced the HBO documentary “I Am Evidence,” following survivors fighting to have their kits finally tested.
The film won an Emmy in 2019.
Her first Emmy had come from portraying Olivia Benson.
Her second came from doing the work Benson would have fought for herself.
Year after year, the movement grew. Mandatory testing laws. Tracking systems. Survivor notification rights. Funding for crime labs. Reform spread state by state until, in May 2026, Maine became the final state to adopt at least one major pillar of rape kit reform.
For the first time, every American jurisdiction had laws addressing the backlog.
Mariska called it “a promise that the system can and will be transformed into a source of light, not darkness.”
Today, she is still playing Olivia Benson, now the longest-running live-action primetime character in television history. But when she talks about what matters most, she rarely starts with awards or fame.
She starts with survivors.
Because what began as letters to a fictional detective became something far bigger — proof that when people are finally believed, entire systems can begin to change.
The best thing about road games is hearing the crowd get quiet
I love that shit, especially how Knicks fans were celebrating after Game 2
Job aint finished tho, lets go back to SA 2-2