Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps a statue of an evil dictator in his home for a perfect reason

🏛️ Arnold Schwarzenegger has a Lenin statue in his house

The immigrant bodybuilder turned movie star turned governor has a very weird home decor flex.

For a man who left postwar Austria to chase the American Dream (and boy, did he), it’s a bit jarring to learn that Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps a bust of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in his home.

Why?

“I like to show people losers,” Arnold explained, pointing at Lenin. Then he points to busts of his heroes, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan, as if it were a museum of moral contrast.

As Erik Barnes reports, this philosophy extends to his politics, too. Arnold’s latest fight? Gerrymandering. With Texas and California squaring off over redistricting, the former governor is calling out both parties for rigging the game. "It’s not Democrats vs. Republicans," he said. "It’s politicians vs. the people."

🚼 A human embryo was caught on camera burrowing into a womb for the first time ever

The wild new video changing what we know about making babies

Starting a family is never simple, but for millions of people using IVF, it can feel like a high-stakes gamble. Now, a team of researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia has made a discovery that could tip the odds.

In this story by Mark Wales, we learn that scientists built a custom gel platform to mimic the uterus, then filmed an embryo physically forcing its way into the synthetic tissue. Turns out, implantation is a bit like a biological battering ram, intense, mechanical, and surprisingly invasive.

This 3D footage is more than just a scientific wow. It could help unlock better IVF success rates, reduce stress, and make the journey to parenthood a little less grueling for millions.

🛑 The question that kept this billionaire off the doomed Titan dive

Sometimes not doing something is what takes courage.

Jim Kitchen had been to 193 countries, to space, and was slated to visit the wreck of the Titanic on what would become the ill-fated Titan expedition.

In 2023, just weeks before the voyage was to set out, Kitchen was participating in a safety briefing. He was asking the sort of question most of us would ask. Questions like how long will we be at sea, and how’s the weather looking? It wasn’t so much the answers he was getting that pegged his danger-meter; it was the tone.

Then he asked the question that would save his life; How many times has this sub done the dive before?

In this story by Erik Barnes, Kitchen reflects on how that one question saved his life and what the rest of us can learn about speaking up, even when it gets awkward.

And what did we learn?

Yesterday, we dropped five killer tips for professional comms. Then we audited which jargon underperformed on KPIs. Now, let’s unpack the data.

Ok everyone! We need...

• a single source of truth. (15.2%)

• to align on expectations. (12.1%)

• to leverage our core competencies. (42.4%)

• to move the needle. (30.3%)

💬 From the group text…

If I lived on a golf course, I would accomplish nothing. Not because I’d play golf, mind you… because I’d spend my every waking moment doing this!