For those who are reeling from the #Euphoria finale tonight: A month ago, I flew out to Los Angeles to watch and discuss the end of the Euphoria season 3 with its creator Sam Levinson. He said the ending "felt right": “A big motivating factor for writing this show was finding a way to discuss this plague that’s killing all these young people.” Profile out now for @tabletmag. Link below: Portrait by Chase Middleton

yeah but why is my life improved by this? we're Americans and being hateful is legal so long as it doesn't compel you towards violent or criminal acts. Bigotry is as natural to mankind as breathing, preventing every instance of it is a fool's errand.

Hilarious what pussies these guys are being about this and how much it shows how little these people understand America. America is a country built upon principles of freedom of thought, freedom of expression, individuality and ingenuity. Because of those principles, we created products that the entire world coveted. Chief among those products, no doubt, is ENTERTAINMENT. Entertainment has always been one of the ways in which America projects its exceptionalism. And the UFC is, undoubtedly, the absolute greatest American entertainment product that was built out specifically this century. Think what you will of the ways in which fights are promoted and marketed, but this whole event is special. Even at their most gimmicky, martial arts are the product of honor, courage and extreme discipline and commitment towards perfecting technique. It’s as American as apple pie, and if you can’t appreciate someone like Ilia Topuria’s mastery of his art form, then you are a seething loser.

I’ll always appreciate the thousands of dollars his underdog victories earned me but holy cow is this retarded

Not enough people are talking about how several arsonists just set fire to Spencer Pratt’s office.

He lies habitually and has his entire life.

Where are all of the white liberals rushing to Karmelo Anthony's defense? Compared to previous interracial killings – Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, George Floyd – the only people defending Karmelo are black. It's one of the most racially polarizing incidents in recent memory.

Paletine High School (IL) student hacked the district website. Fucking legend.

Call me crazy but I find the justification of murder to be just a tad more objectively vile.

I don’t know why but I assumed an artist like Willie D might have a more intelligent response to this, and perhaps 30 years ago he might have but since then we’ve had decades of violent anti-white grievance and hate legitimized at the institutional level. That’s what I get for giving anyone the benefit of the doubt.

Ilia Topuria called Justin Gaethje an idiot after he said "my dad is my father" 😭

I’m not totally sold by the new comedy-horror series Widow’s Bay. There is an atmosphere of irony about it that gets annoying similarly to how Hito Murai’s previous work did, but I believe Matthew Rhys is an all time great television actor so I kept watching. One thing the show does very well is depict how remote, vacation spots with small local populations have their own internal mythologies. For instance, I grew up on Cape Cod. Cape Cod is seen by vacationers as a northeastern paradise: beautiful beaches, dense forests, and Jimmy Buffet soundtracked debauched good times. But when I’m visiting home, I see the beach where one of my class mates and her evil old man boyfriend fulfilled their suicide pact by taking a lethal overdose of morphine in her jeep (she was 16, he was over 30.) I see the path off of route 6A where an old baseball teammate of mine beat a friend of mine so badly that he left him comatose. I see the Oceanside bar where the previous owners were jailed for drugging drinks. I see my old pediatrician’s office where my doctor Michael Brown was arrested for over prescribing OxyContin and contributing to the creation of an epidemic that the community still hasn’t recovered from 20 years later. Widow’s Peak shows this antagonism very well, where the locals want the world to see the beauty of their home even if they know full well that beneath that beauty are stored memories of trauma, pain and horror that haunt the landscape like ghosts.

Want to know how Spencer Pratt got knocked out? All the homeless (44,000 ) on Skid Row voted for Nithya Raman because they WERE PAID TO. Watch this.

Nithya Raman tied to HOMELESS NGO in L.A. receiving $600k, with thousands of homeless voters registered at shelters with ZERO beds. I believe we found where Raman's magical mail-in ballot drops came from. U.S. Attorney launching probes into major fraud. James O'Keefe and many others showed you that the homeless are being paid for votes. Direct link to Nithya Raman, St. Joseph Center received $600,000 in taxpayer funds from the homeless/housing committee while Raman was chair. A photo of her presenting the check was quietly removed from the center's website after NY Post article. Raman's campaign and the center did not respond to questions. 7,600 voters registered at homeless shelters and service providers across LA. Midnight Mission, Skid Row, 1,160 registered voters, but the shelter only has beds for 84 men 36 women. St. Joseph Center, Venice drop-in center, 185 registered voters at its address, offers no beds or accommodations whatsoever. Hundreds more tied to supportive/affordable housing projects, with nearly 200 added in the final weeks before the registration deadline. Over 80 voters registered at four behavioral health/addiction facilities, Corner of Hope, Volunteers of America Alcohol Services, LA Centers for Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Homeless Health Care LA Harm Reduction Center. 313 voters tied to LA County social services facilities. Voter registration drives witnessed outside grocery stores, one homeless man, Norman, claimed he was paid to sign people up and saw cigarettes offered as incentives during "big push" efforts. One registered voter, Bo Jackson, near Midnight Mission couldn’t remember registering and couldn’t name a single candidate in the LA mayor’s race. The story ties directly into the heated LA mayor's race and major concerns over California's election integrity with clear ties to fraud.

Nithya the kind of person to see a person running down the street naked raving to themselves, and think "oh no, the unclothed community is being underserved by the garment industry"

It’s name recognition. People love Raman noodles

Once you understand the severity of leftists’ ideological certainty then you know everything is on the table. There is no action, no matter how immoral or unethical, they won’t take in service of what they are absolutely sure is the greater good. That’s why all the posts about “conspiratard MAGA” just doesn’t work right now, because anyone who knows how these people think are well aware these people will do fucking ANYTHING to stay in power and implement their agenda.

California’s machine didn’t bury Spencer Pratt because he was on track to win Los Angeles. They buried him because he was already making the entire rigged operation look mortal. That’s the part they can’t afford. A pragmatic outsider running on crime, homelessness, and basic competence ... using modern AI-driven ads instead of the same tired yard signs and mailers ... started cutting through the hopelessness they’ve spent years cultivating. He wasn’t some generic Republican reciting talking points. He was showing people what a fixed city could actually look like, and too many were starting to pay attention. So they moved. Not in November, when a Pratt run might have made Karen Bass uncomfortable. They moved now, in the primary, because five more months of him existing would have done permanent damage to the illusion that resistance is pointless in California. The machine can survive losing. It cannot survive voters realizing the game isn’t as locked down as they’ve been told. This was panic dressed up as inevitability. When the establishment has to openly kneecap a candidate in the jungle primary just to protect the narrative, it tells you everything about how fragile their control actually is. They didn’t kill his campaign to save the city. They killed it to save the con. And everyone watching just saw the mask slip. (article below)

I think people are underestimating how difficult of a matchup this is for Arman People calling it a 50/50 are nuts

Early Topuria fights are hilarious to rewatch. The commentators will be mid-sentence praising the other guy right before he puts them completely out cold. 😂