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I'm honestly shocked they aren't already taking another shot at making this their Reichstag fire moment.

A Chao with the words "just escaped my enclosure"

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One of the biggest reasons the right wing couldn't make Charlie Kirk stick as their Reichstag fire is that none of them, including his own widow, actually and sincerely gave a fuck he died

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

No shit.

I mean, I prefer presidents who aren't in the Epstein files and also didn't slaughter an entire family at a wedding or endorse genocide. Trump being a much MUCH bigger piece of shit doesn't change that Biden and Obama were both evil scum.

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Truly American hegemony is over, China is now even beating us at doing redneck shit in pickup trucks.

Chinese GF has informed me this is called "scrubbing the wok" (hence why there's foamy water in the middle) and you can see a million more of these videos if you search 越野刷鍋 (off-road hot pot).

Fern

God this sucks so hard I love it 😂

I should also clarify I saw this movie when it came out and not since I doubt I'd call it relatable today.

That's also a fair point, but she never seemed fully on board for Biden's open and abject racism towards Palestinians.

Again none of this as a "Gotta hand it to her," she was a coward in the face of atrocity, I just do think there may have been a distinction.

That's not to say I dislike the first two, "Point Break but it's street racing instead of surfing" is a fine idea for a movie, I just found Tokyo Drift a little more (granted, in relative terms) believable and thus cared more about the characters and story.

I loved Tokyo Drift. The CG was used more sparingly and no longer looked like a PlayStation 2 game, the story felt a bit more grounded ("some kid," instead of it somehow being a police operation???) and for me it marks the point where the creators realized we're mostly here for the cars.

Damn you really curled the monkey's paw on that one.

Anything to avoid entertaining, for even a millisecond, that it is the Dems' responsibility to offer the electorate the things they want, not the electorate's responsibility to want whatever the Dems feel like offering them.

I'm just saying I think if she had won that once in office and no takesie backsies she would've been obviously better than Trump and possibly significantly better than Biden on Israel. Granted we'll never know because saying "Yes, genocide is bad" was "too controversial" for the campaign trail.

*didn't have enough characters but to be clear, signalling in a non-committal cowardly way that she felt wouldn't turn the Israel lobby against her. Opposing genocide isn't something to be coy about and her failure to take a clear hardline stance against it deservedly killed her campaign.

I voted Harris, I do think she would've been receptive to pushback on Israel, even seemed to me to be signalling that* during the campaign. Either way at worst the choice was bad or worse.

With Newsome the choice is MAGA or MAGA. I'll stay home for the first time in my life if he's the candidate.

The deep and indescribable sense of otherworldly dread that H.P. Lovecraft depicts so hauntingly in his stories is ultimately the author's attempt to express to his audience how he feels about the possibility of encountering a black person at the grocery store.

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/...

Did you plan the outfit or was it just happy coincidence?

a woman named the endministrator in a high tech visor obscuring her eyes says "freak the fuck out and panic sell everything right now. it's fucking over."

learning that this is happening to the bitcoin exchange traders rn

A white bunny peeks around a wooden door frame into a carpeted room.

I dunno I love getting people to suffer through the horny fever dream that is Keijo!!!!!! but if I just say it's a good show not so bad it's good I feel that reflects negatively on me in various ways.

"Woah you have wings now?! Does that mean you can fly?!"

"*sigh* no they're just placebo."