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Many have questioned our decision to put Jeffrey Epstein in a cell with Frank "The Billionaire Murderer" Garbanzo but honestly it makes me laugh how little you armchair experts know about prison administration.

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Neither of those, Mad God I definitely know

I think it was folk horror? With a poster that was a man and a woman looking... Melancholic?

My friend put this in my brain: does anybody remember a fairly recently released horror movie that was unfinished for like decades? I think it's Scandanavian??? This is going to be driving me nuts for a long time, I think it was on Shudder for a while.

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

They are totally shutting down Whipple, where people have been continually protesting peacefully for a month. There is no more 1st Amendment. Forcing them to close aid station. #whipple #minneapolis #minnesota #iceout

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"It really undermines the legacy of what these games are supposed to represent." LA City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez calling for Casey Wasserman to resign on Spectrum, referencing the USA gymnastic team members who were abused by team doctor Larry Nassar

Seth Harp @sethharpesq X.com Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show, Interesting Times, on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward. Today 11:41 AM Hi Is the NYT still planning to publish the interview I did with Ross three weeks ago? Today 1:01 PM Hey Seth, we've been working through the edit and it's looking like we aren't going to be able to make it work. We were kind of pummeled by the news cycle in the last 6 weeks and are going to pivot away from this story. Thanks for the time you put into it and for your expertise. Unbelievable cowardice on Ross's part and a giant waste of my time. I'm going to make it known what actually happened: Ross challenged me to a debate on foreign policy, got crushed, and doesn't have the intellectual or journalistic integrity to air the footage. Delivered

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •6h Five days after we recorded, an editor of mine asked me how it went. I told her that @DouthatNYT was surprisingly unprepared to defend his point of view, and I suspected even then that they would spike it. From To seth.harp@protonmail.com * T Jan 20 凹 了 介 → It seemed to go just fine from my perspective although it did get a little heated towards the end when we debated foreign policy. I was somewhat surprised that Ross wasn't better prepared defend his point of view. They may still decide to spike it, we'll see. SH Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ••• On Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 at 11:41 AM, wrote: That's great —how did the interview go? {7 54 • 1.3K ill 38K

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h I also told an editor at Harper's, on 1/30/26, that I suspected the NYT would spike the interview rather than publish video of me dog-walking @DouthatNYT and making a mockery of his defense of US regime-change wars ... Friday 12:35 PM It's been more than 2 weeks since I was interviewed for Ross Douthat's show. I murdered him in our debate over foreign policy and was genuinely surprised that he wasn't better prepared to defend his point of view. Now I'm concerned that he will spike the episode. Do you have a sense of how far ahead they usually record? Also I really hope I get to hear this My sense was that it was about a week Suspicious 4 17 44 • 1K thl 32K 贝 企 Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •5h Ross @DouthatNYT was unprepared to take on a subject matter expert, floundered around, and became irritable and sarcastic towards the end. But spiking the episode is ten times worse for his journalistic credibility than simply losing a debate, which happens to us all.

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h ... Ross @DouthatNYT's producer blames their decision to spike our foreign policy debate on the crazy news cycle. But the last three episodes they've aired have been on Roe v. Wade, Covid-19, and young men's church attendance. OPINION Interesting Latest Feb. 5, 2026 Interesting Times with Ross Douthat The first draft of our future. Mapping the new world order through interviews and conversations. Every Thursday, from New York Times Opinion. Q Search Why Ending Roe Wasn't Enough for the Pro-Life Movement Activists won the legal battle. Are they losing the culture war? By ROSS DOUTHAT Jan. 29.2026 A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a 'Fringe Epidemiologist' Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public's trust in the Covid era. Now it's up to outsiders to restore it. By ROSS DOUTHAT and SOPHIA ALVAREZ BOYD Jan. 22,2026 No, Young Men Are Not Returning to Church All the religious trends you're wrong about. By ROSS DOUTHAT and ANDREA BETANZOS 18 17 75 1.5K ill 38K Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 1h I'm hearing that prominent guests are cancelling scheduled appearances on @DouthatNYT's show due to his lack of journalistic integrity. Why would you spend hours, days, or weeks prepping for an interview when you know the show is rigged to ensure that you don't show up the host? 3 223 ill 4.4K 贝

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.

What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Saw a reddit post that said "What did Bane mean when he said 'You think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!' and I don't know how that could be any clearer??

He's got nothing on the king

as someone who tries to work in these spaces outside my work.. this is such a brutal, elegant gutpunch of reality. (try fighting with San Franciscans on efforts to open even the most modest Safe Injection Site!)

I Watched The "Lost" Live-Action 'Dilbert' Pilot Episode, And It's Clear Why It Didn't Get Picked Up | Defector The death of Dilbert creator Scott Adams in January at age 68 was followed by obituaries with a predictably wide range in tone. While some were charitable to the late cartoonist, most were less forgiv...

The live-action Dilbert sitcom pilot IS real, but cannot hurt you. Unless you go to the Library of Congress, in which case it absolutely can. defector.com/i-watched-th...

Labour may be the most embarrassing political party in the world

Stay with me here, and this might be a crazy one so strap in: what if we invented a baby that went to sleep?

Uh, ICE Reatard

This image has become an @midnight prompt

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

It's so funny that when you finish The Pitt HBO recommends Task, like it's all a part of the greater Pennsylvania television universe

True to form, power protects power. Casey Wasserman must resign, and Los Angeles deserves a mayor who isn't afraid to call for it.

Her sincerely using the term "ethnic whites" at one of her homophobic gay rights group meetups

Due to his first name my headcanon is that he's half Italian

Comically photoshopped driver’s license of Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development

A screenshot from the horrific Xfinity Jurassic Park ad that used AI effects to deage Laura Dern and Sam Neil so they look like they did in the movie, zoomed in on their faces. They look extremely weird and fucked up. Director Taika Waititi is a criminal.

Looking good! Very normal (they're not in motion here, this is them while they're just sitting still)

"It's not like there's this mastermind on the dark web who will sell girls to you" you're right, you didn't need to go to the dark web you could just email this asshole and then he'd send them to you in exchange for the promise of future political, reputational, and financial gifts

It's fucking nauseating the way these people pretend like it was a bunch of 16 year old girls just lining up to have sex with this man and not a coordinated effort to pay, blackmail, and/or threaten vulnerable teenagers into being sex trafficked by a man with infinite resources and protections

Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.

Either way, cancel the Olympics!