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The Charlie Kirk Debate: Too Soon? There is a particular kind of internet event that makes you realize you may have accidentally wandered into the wrong dimension. Last week, Candace Owens debated Andrew Wilson on the PBD Podcast , with Patrick Bet-David moderating. The subject was the death of Charlie Kirk , and the debate was billed as something important enough that people would apparently spend an evening watching two people argue about it on YouTube . And here's the strange part: very few people actually care about this debate. Unfortunately, almost all of those people are on YouTube. The rest of us are wondering why the algorithm has deemed this our problem now. I tried listening to the debate . Listening may be generous. It was less like a conversation and more like being trapped inside a malfunctioning political podcast where everyone had been given unlimited caffeine and absolutely no obligation to make the experience pleasant . The technical term might be...

Dear Somebody: Luigi Mangione and the Art of the Prison Letter The accused UnitedHealthcare shooter is penning witty, riddle-filled correspondence from his Brooklyn cell — and that puts him in very specific company. There is a particular kind of prisoner who cannot resist the urge to reach out. Not the kind who scrawls desperate notes to a public defender , but the kind who composes — crafts, even — letters to famous strangers , as though the bars are merely a stylistic inconvenience. Luigi Mangione , the 27-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, appears to be precisely that kind of prisoner. This past week, conservative podcaster Patrick Bet-David revealed that he has been exchanging letters with Mangione from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where the defendant is currently awaiting trial, scheduled for September 2026. Bet-David seemed genuinely surprised to find the le...