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# ![@KelseyTuoc Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1008492120125030400.png) @KelseyTuoc Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper posts on X about in the, if you, baby, ai the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  #3000 [countries](/list/countries)  5.45% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  2.42% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.82% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.61% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  0.61%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 12.12%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 6.06%, [baby](/topic/baby) 4.24%, [ai](/topic/ai) 3.64%, [we are](/topic/we-are) 2.42%, [public](/topic/public) #921, [matter](/topic/matter) #1120, [guess](/topic/guess) 2.42%, [fine](/topic/fine) 1.82%, [just a](/topic/just-a) 1.82%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@a_just_john huh you know entirely plausible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1911491691527475237)  2025-04-13T18:48Z 53.3K followers, 24.7K engagements


"@jwh0719 you're better than me at it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2014577286293684617)  2026-01-23T05:53Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"It's surreal to me that this tweet is still up and so is Vance's retweet of it. This isn't what happened. Everyone knows this isn't what happened. But they can never ever back down even when they've falsely accused a dead man of attempted murder. An assassin tried to murder federal agents and this is your response. An assassin tried to murder federal agents and this is your response"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2015912250322862188)  2026-01-26T22:18Z 53.3K followers, 324.7K engagements


"It's sort of odd to see people resurrect the fight over gay marriage without remembering any of its premises. "We should do what's best for children". Okay My wife and I have some children. What are you claiming is best for our children 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing to overturn Obergefell. The campaign declares that children are "Greater Than" so-called "Equality." Marriage and family law should prioritize the needs of children not the predilections of adults. Here's https://t.co/yAtp9tDbrf 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2016943685754318972)  2026-01-29T18:37Z 53.5K followers, 143.9K engagements


"@J_K_Wood Your fundamental problem is that a ban on sperm donation is a 90/10 issue. The American people don't agree with you that it should be illegal. You can pretend that's about Obergefell but it isn't; it was a losing issue before any state legalized gay marriage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017347444921799030)  2026-01-30T21:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@J_K_Wood I also think it's a clever but ultimately very anti-human sleight of hand to characterize "ensuring that an unsuitable couple does not have children" as "protecting" a child by ensuring they do not exist but that's a different issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017347815715049938)  2026-01-30T21:22Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse. Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017409486504480820)  2026-01-31T01:27Z 53.5K followers, 164.7K engagements


"@GarrettPetersen if I'm stuck in the house all day because of bad weather I'll definitely have an easier day if I'm stuck with all three than just the toddler. but of course 'stuck with just the 9yo' is literally zero work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017797479945941206)  2026-02-01T03:09Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@GarrettPetersen IIRC the Collinses have four under six which .no that's not easier they're just lying. Having a big family is incredible in a ton of ways. Four under six is incredibly hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017801100255236399)  2026-02-01T03:24Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@politicalmath You can do that in pursuit of any policy goal and even if I like the policy goal I won't think much of you for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018134764461740040)  2026-02-02T01:29Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@BenPWHamilton @favelaoverlord A Bill of Rights if you can keep it: https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018757977663045867 It seems like DHS's stance here is that yes they opened a criminal investigation into a US citizen for sending an extremely mild and polite email: https://t.co/5qh2TXgGTV https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018757977663045867 It seems like DHS's stance here is that yes they opened a criminal investigation into a US citizen for sending an extremely mild and polite email: https://t.co/5qh2TXgGTV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018842046107377775)  2026-02-04T00:20Z 53.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@neil_chilson ads are fine and saying 'unlike our competitors we don't have ads so use our product' is also fine. I cannot understand why everyone got baited into writing entire essays about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019183976552738967)  2026-02-04T22:59Z 53.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@amandalitman @mattyglesias I definitely also think we should poll candidates and look at who overperforms and what qualities they have that can be imitated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019225496517767464)  2026-02-05T01:44Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Lila199828 @amandalitman @mattyglesias Bruenig argues that center-left should try policy concessions to the left. But Biden admin tried that lost swing voters tanked the reputation of the Democratic party as moderate aaaand the left didn't vote for Harris anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019227747512643970)  2026-02-05T01:53Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@UnfinishedOwl @ded_ruckus yep Ded corrected below that everything Trump pulled out of was more recent. (I'm not arguing over whether withdrawing was good or bad just whether the [----] party called for it - but in this case they didn't because we hadn't signed yet.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019422808212926558)  2026-02-05T14:48Z 53.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@politicalmath everyone with a phone has a translator these days and in any event I assume he was in alarming enough shape you call the equivalent of 911"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019423301886702011)  2026-02-05T14:50Z 53.4K followers, 10.7K engagements


"a fully online application process probably doesn't work but yeah this should be the Dem position. Photo ID to register and to vote; and photo IDs should be free and it should never take more than an hour to get one. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government should provide photo IDs at no-cost and should provide an online process to apply similar to a passport to accommodate those without transportation or working schedules. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019458788911157299)  2026-02-05T17:11Z 53.6K followers, 34.5K engagements


"@shlevy 'how should government work if we trusted implementers to always be wise and honest' strikes me as just a completely different question from how governments should work in the real world. most of my philosophy of government is about checks on tyranny and mendacity and lying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019461605784711516)  2026-02-05T17:22Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@NickEMoran @KilbornAgain I don't think this is true. I think that most democracies require photo ID and that it's pretty reasonable for people to want this and standing against it really looks like wanting it to be easy to do election fraud and is the wrong stance substantively as well as politically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019504007471870162)  2026-02-05T20:10Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@jamiedupree This would be hugely advantageous to Democrats if it passed but I think it would effectively disenfranchise a lot of people which is bad. But why not amend it rather than oppose it Require that passports be given out free of charge and cut processing times to get them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019811036187279396)  2026-02-06T16:30Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexGodofsky setting aside which party will benefit politically do you think 'you need a passport to vote' is substantively good policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019897047910945021)  2026-02-06T22:12Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky They don't. For that reason most liberals are like "this isn't a problem and it's not worth raising barriers to voting" which I absolutely sympathize with. But people perceive stonewalling around 'ID to vote' as really suspicious which is also reasonable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019910116183613669)  2026-02-06T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky And while in no election to date has there been any nontrivial rate of fraud I think it's bad if everyone can easily see how they'd do fraud if they wanted to even if they don't do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019910254687883693)  2026-02-06T23:05Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@Mithrandir48 @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky hey @grok does the SAVE act make any provision for ensuring that people can get voter ID for free if they need it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019925111374041376)  2026-02-07T00:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@Mithrandir48 @grok @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky I have been specifically arguing that Democrats should amend it to add those provisions and then support it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019926360211247476)  2026-02-07T00:09Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@politicalmath I think a belief-based test for who can foster or adopt would be deeply wrong but a "how will you treat the children" based test is obviously necessary and everyone agrees it's necessary even while disagreeing as what counts as treating children well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020236932907757874)  2026-02-07T20:43Z 53.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@politicalmath You can argue that CA is wrongly identifying as poor parents people who would be good parents because CA believes that affirming LGBT identities is good and actually affirming those identities is bad. Then we are at least debating the real question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020238067593060838)  2026-02-07T20:47Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@politicalmath Like I said I'm happy to discuss whether this is a good requirement or a bad requirement. I think when you say "traditional Christians can't foster" people imagine a rule like "we ask if families are Christian and if they are they can't foster" which would be outrageous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020244210771972223)  2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@politicalmath But surely whether it is outrageous to ask parents to 'meet the needs of the child regardless of the childs sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression' depends on whether that is good parenting or bad parenting right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020244419069505608)  2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@Hier0nymusBotch @politicalmath I think I'm doing some kind of balancing test involving pluralism and level of harm and respect for the child's own ability to figure things out as they get older if loved and supported"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020264876489470297)  2026-02-07T22:34Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@hope_in_light @politicalmath I am sympathetic to this worry. fwiw I feel very strongly that the state should let people raise their own kids even in many ways the state thinks are greatly wrong. but when the state is taking a kid from their parents and assigning them new caretakers seems very complicated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020271109451444246)  2026-02-07T22:59Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@hope_in_light @politicalmath yep. and the hard-fought pluralist consensus is that we don't take each *others*'s kids over it but it hasn't quite settled cases like "when we're assigning foster kids do we have to be neutral across all such differences""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020272491176886370)  2026-02-07T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@AndrewCFollett @politicalmath It would be wrong to exclude people from foster parenting on the basis of their political views about gay marriage. This is about how they treat a gay child"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020274270568403188)  2026-02-07T23:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath The people who are saying "it's not happening and it's good" are instead saying "I agree that discrimination is wrong but disagree that this is discrimination". Now maybe we're wrong to disagree that this is discrimination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020278155420811541)  2026-02-07T23:27Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath But you have to say "here is why I believe this to be discriminatory" not just "you support discrimination" if you want to persuade people who think that the existing law doesn't impose any test of belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020278421490643273)  2026-02-07T23:28Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@AlexGodofsky I think it's good if we get through the backlog ASAP and same-day adjudicate all asylum claims in the future. I can imagine that their lawyer might not have all the evidence ready if the hearing is abruptly moved a month earlier to that exact day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020325428033093956)  2026-02-08T02:34Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@Mark79210178 @xwanyex Does this count as pushback I push back I think that framing American politics in terms of racial categories is deeply wrong and destructive of the very traditions that make America good for people of all races and backgrounds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020349629355700408)  2026-02-08T04:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@politicalmath I would be happy to write and speak in favor of a bill to ensure that children's right to practice their religion is respected while they're in foster care. I think that's important and I believed it was already the case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020397612189511796)  2026-02-08T07:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@wivmx @politicalmath if there's a shortage I definitely think it's a bad idea to have as a hard and fast rule rather than just doing assignments where it's not an issue. It looks like in my county there's been no change in # of homes since the law. but maybe it's caused problems elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020407688052761052)  2026-02-08T08:01Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements


"allowing this to keep happening is a policy decision. let the elderly use self-driving cars. A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was found wandering down the road bloody and in A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020540498100842759)  2026-02-08T16:49Z 53.6K followers, 48.2K engagements


"@GovAmyKlobuchar But I do think that some people can be safe drivers and that it's fine to trade some risk for freedom - just not this much and not this much that falls entirely on all the innocent people in the vicinity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020552315036389409)  2026-02-08T17:36Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements


"in a year it's going to be "AI isn't impressive some of the greatest geniuses in human history figured out the same thing with notably less training data""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020562619271114774)  2026-02-08T18:17Z 53.6K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@thatchthoughts @xwanyex huh no this is a Florida state house debate last year. Nixon's just a common name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020563126597341341)  2026-02-08T18:19Z 53.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Hier0nymusBotch @hope_in_light @politicalmath Yes correct it is. The alternative is the thirty years' war. You have to change peoples' minds to make things better or else destroy your entire society in a civil war of unfathomable scope until everyone who cared enough is dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020578415829745771)  2026-02-08T19:20Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@MatRopert sorry 'all graduate at top CS engineering schools'. I agree that this data point by itself wouldn't make me conclude programming is over though I do think programming is basically over (from other data points and the trajectory.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020579045277049145)  2026-02-08T19:22Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Claude: This would be a major weekend project. me: sometimes when you say that you can do it in an hour with an agent swarm. Claude: good point let me think.yeah I can do it in an hour with an agent swarm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020999251484966970)  2026-02-09T23:12Z 53.7K followers, 44.7K engagements


"@mpopv in a sci fi movie that'd be the moment when they awaken and become sentient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021003392999698448)  2026-02-09T23:28Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Vert_Noel I wanted to play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on my Mac but the performance was not great. Claude was determined that's because it's a x86_64 game and needs to be an ARM64 game. I asked Claude to convert it to ARM64. Now it plays much faster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021061057671012484)  2026-02-10T03:18Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@politicalmath The posts by JK Rowling that persuaded me that she had genuinely lost her way were some about Imane Khalif the woman with an intersex condition who fought in the Olympics and was then disqualified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018105515864359041)  2026-02-01T23:33Z 53.7K followers, 43.9K engagements


"@binarybits @tjl Today Claude Code had a new feature (new to me anyway) where I told it what I wanted and it asked me four questions along the lines of 'should I X or Y' with a short explanation of why each might be wise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022125276264902720)  2026-02-13T01:46Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@CJohnStella @littlebuffbois There are millions of hardworking teachers who get paid less than $100000 a year and who have not chosen to shut down kids' education in a tantrum that their nation-leading salaries are being raised by less than they wanted. those ones aren't greedy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022157100810744061)  2026-02-13T03:53Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@JonathanClayba1 if we could afford to pay teachers more (and if we could reward and retain and attract the best teachers) I would definitely support doing so. the money isn't there and lots of the affected families aren't making 100k+"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022163937224274210)  2026-02-13T04:20Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@savant_becky I wholeheartedly support any public school teacher who wants to quit because they are unwilling to do this work at this salary. I don't think they should strike shutting down the schools and preventing anyone ELSE from teaching the children for a mere $100000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022166895135535423)  2026-02-13T04:32Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@MatthewJBar This presumes a model where other than some small risk of the end of all human life developing artificial superintelligence immediately ends all involuntary death and the future is identically good with no further benefits from being better prepared or planning better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2013789263146435047)  2026-01-21T01:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@moon_bear_moon @VVBellerose @Vert_Noel a friend put it on github and you can install w homebrew now: https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021258100376797687)  2026-02-10T16:20Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@IvanArcus none of these are frontier models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021730396371567075)  2026-02-11T23:37Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@maiamindel I know Iranian-Americans who spent days waiting in agony for news about which of their loved ones at home had been murdered for criticism of the regime. Seems incredibly understandable that this makes you want America to remove the killers from power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021982132936270172)  2026-02-12T16:18Z 53.7K followers, 11.6K engagements


""many teachers are making below $109000" this is like a strike perfectly engineered in a lab to be maximally unsympathetic Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state *recommends* 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute least" USEF argument @JackieFielder_ is repeating. The median district in CA has 22% reserves. https://t.co/RZNkZIw3sZ Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state *recommends* 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022150834721845404)  2026-02-13T03:28Z 53.7K followers, 92.3K engagements


"@JonathanClayba1 @InlandCaGuy more property taxes would fix everything broken in California education funding. I don't think it'll ever happen but maybe all our dreams will come true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022164333615284416)  2026-02-13T04:22Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois Everyone has every right to want more pay or to quit if they don't like their pay. But when you are in a position of providing crucial services to vulnerable people extended striking is a weighty thing and SFUSD is not treating it as one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022167832323404241)  2026-02-13T04:35Z 53.7K followers, 43.7K engagements


"@Vidor1 Before I got married I lived in SF while earning less than that and donating 30%. 104k is the city's median income. Half of people living in the city are earning less than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022326611454890208)  2026-02-13T15:06Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella Lyman imagine saying "if you're a person alive today your odds of being a Christian are 29% - barely better than two coin flips coming up heads" This is technically true but not at all useful because everyone has far more info than that about themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021674178559324277)  2026-02-11T19:54Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@DanAncona @lxeagle17 @mattyglesias @AJentleson What do you think is a good idea to do given that voters think the Democratic party is too liberal Should it become more moderate so as to make the half of Dems criticizing it for being too liberal shut up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022046819451314226)  2026-02-12T20:35Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is similarly highbrow misinformation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022345394189893743)  2026-02-13T16:21Z 53.7K followers, 41.2K engagements


"a bunch of people reply pointing out that the C compiler that students write is much less sophisticated than this one but I think the broader point is that we're now at "AI isn't impressive any top graduate from a CS engineering school could do arguably comparable work". Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a C compiler as part of your studies. Every graduate. To be put in perspective when the plagiarism machine announces it can make its own bad GCC in 100k+ LOCs for the amazing price of [-----] bucks at preferential rates. Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020562359358513493)  2026-02-08T18:16Z 53.7K followers, 93.2K engagements


"And ultimately people reach for it whenever they want to rebut LLMs 'being a big deal' whether or not it has any bearing on whether LLMs will be a big deal in that way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022346781716263095)  2026-02-13T16:27Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@wrowclif San Francisco man. (you can obviously easily live in the city on less than $100k but you'll genuinely feel poor trying to raise a family on that because of housing prices. we gotta build more homes to bring back the middle class.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022152776655200288)  2026-02-13T03:36Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@David_Kasten @michael_nielsen every critique of AI takes a random unrelated swing at climate halfway through. you're lucky if it doesn't take a random unrelated swing at data centers' water use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022355149574766890)  2026-02-13T17:00Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@RiverTamYDN accelerationism never works making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1884817690050875497)  2025-01-30T04:15Z 53.7K followers, 452.5K engagements


"Ezra got this one exactly right and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct." Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few free-speech controversies who started "disagreements" is the most predictable thing to happen "I envied what he built." Is this abundance mindset https://t.co/tiEnwEWazT Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966300189658120571)  2025-09-12T00:37Z 53.7K followers, 991.1K engagements


"wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores you're probably underestimating it:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1971256287481692586)  2025-09-25T16:51Z 53.7K followers, 3.5M engagements


"they dragged her away in chains and shipped her to Texas and only then checked determined she was in fact here legally and released her in Texas to figure out how to get back to Minnesota herself. and people wonder why her neighbors would protest "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away." https://t.co/E4TTJYeCWr "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms."  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2016251350045360539)  2026-01-27T20:45Z 53.7K followers, 1.4M engagements


"@favelaoverlord this is on Britain for banning statements in support of Palestine Action. That was a stupid thing to ban and it's appropriate to protest immoral speech laws in this way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018829914573824371)  2026-02-03T23:32Z 53.7K followers, 11K engagements


"from @lxeagle17: which platform you regularly use to get news is very very strongly linked to your political views. X is the most pro-ICE TikTok the least pro-ICE:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019442466575855637)  2026-02-05T16:06Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I suspect that whatever causes literally every enforcement attorney at the Chicago CFTC to resign is not 'political disagreements with the admin'. That can get you some maybe a bunch but not all. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021302805995168162)  2026-02-10T19:18Z 53.7K followers, 61.9K engagements


"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella if you're [--] and want a child this is the wrong reference class - you're interested in eventual fertility for people who want a child and are [--]. you have a lot more info about yourself than just your age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021652544137965782)  2026-02-11T18:28Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@LexerLux Seems like a valuable kind of work to be doing but none of these are frontier models: https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500 apps) - University admissions (1500 apps) https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021789214023516348)  2026-02-12T03:31Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@LexerLux maybe you'd get the same result with frontier models I'm not sure someone should check - important to have unbiased tools if we're using them for important decisions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021789401945199020)  2026-02-12T03:32Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@maiamindel I mean they do want the US to drop enough bombs to end the regime and they know it'll mean innocent people die - they just are confident it'll mean fewer innocent people die than if the regime remains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022005409792569515)  2026-02-12T17:50Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@maiamindel I'm not sure this is true at the Iranian regime's scale of massacre but even if it is you can prefer [-----] dead and the country free to [-----] protesters murdered for nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022018543295009219)  2026-02-12T18:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@binarybits @tjl So still human judgment in the loop but just answering y/n questions on the matters where it had realized human judgement would likely be useful. If it gets good enough at guessing which those are it's all set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022125406007206213)  2026-02-13T01:47Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"who is striking a public sector union of teachers. in a well-performing school district nope one with plummeting test scores. that doesn't spend enough nope highest spender in the country. but they're not paying the teachers well no they are paying the teachers well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022151643765309602)  2026-02-13T03:31Z 53.7K followers, 29.1K engagements


"@littlebuffbois I lived in San Francisco and now live in Oakland because San Francisco was so expensive. I know the city has an affordability crisis. But doing this much damage to kids' education because you want your six figure salary to be even higher is not something I'm going to get behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022153567784853606)  2026-02-13T03:39Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@wrowclif I think some of the hate is exaggerated. I take transit and get places by walking at night it's mostly safe and mostly clean. Great restaurants great people. But the amount we are leaving on the table due to bad governance and policy and not building is genuinely mindboggling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022154170791604365)  2026-02-13T03:41Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@ADavis4me @neontaster they were offered a 6% raise and rejected it because they want a 9% raise. they were offered a $24000 in a 'health benefits allowance' and rejected it as not enough healthcare coverage. https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022196491419586897)  2026-02-13T06:29Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@noahsloss I am enormously hesitant about public sector strikes but can be persuaded to support them if there's a strong case for a public interest or if the demands are reasonable. Neither are true here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022199436701848029)  2026-02-13T06:41Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@thekc23 @littlebuffbois SF does not have a teacher shortage and I don't think that teaching credentials actually do anything to make people better teachers. I definitely think that the police should not be legally allowed to strike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022207478419927215)  2026-02-13T07:13Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"This is not fair to your audience. AI is a high stakes matter and for most ways that it's high stakes assuring them that it's just autocomplete leaves them less informed about what is going on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022347173153603675)  2026-02-13T16:28Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@ciphergoth @Adler oh I'm sorry that I missed this one I might not have bothered writing my own very similar one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022348475661521218)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@jttiehen https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation; scaling/reasoning/RL has empirically disproven this. We can move on https://t.co/v8nr5Z4myT https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022351605597900815)  2026-02-13T16:46Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@rwlesq I also think that there's a lot of equivocation here. Tyler says he's mainly interested in the philosophical implications but he pulled his article out to refute an article about unemployment so clearly he thinks it's relevant to that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022379205690789920)  2026-02-13T18:35Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@rwlesq The article that Tyler is responding to here is mostly about the real-world economic impacts of AI: So why does he think that his piece is a rebuttal Clearly because he doesn't think it's a purely intellectual matter about how we define intelligence. https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022379452861419713)  2026-02-13T18:36Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@sonyasupposedly I expected this to happen faster than it has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021371929748439293)  2026-02-10T23:53Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This issue isn't "having advocacy groups" it's having advocacy groups that get taken far more seriously than their bad policy proposals and minimal support from the electorate warrant. but it's a big problem I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021667570584367472)  2026-02-11T19:28Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@G_S_Bhogal I think if this rather than the blurry ultrasound pics were the thing people had grown up with we'd find it adorable and associate it with hope and joy and meaning. it's not like ultrasounds don't look incredibly weird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022151313463947556)  2026-02-13T03:30Z 53.7K followers, 72.8K engagements


"@thekc23 @aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois they don't have a surplus. they are running a smaller reserve than the median district by a large margin and enrollment is shrinking with costs soaring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022200814480375885)  2026-02-13T06:46Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@HunterWieman @pan_accindex CA teachers became eligible for the vaccine in Feb or no later than March [--] [----]. San Francisco didn't resume full-time in person reopening until the following school year (so until the fall of 2021) though they could have done it as early as April"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022386592741286265)  2026-02-13T19:05Z 53.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen great thank you what models did you test"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022402563946221831)  2026-02-13T20:08Z 53.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackLabelAdvsr obviously it is a far more evil thing to propose seriously and would be the utter destruction of America and everything it stands for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1899674723409379769)  2025-03-12T04:12Z 53.7K followers, 63K engagements


"@clintcarlos so the plan is to violently conquer and disenfranchise [--] million people who would then be taxed without representation. what an evil thing even to threaten/joke about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1899864743512596956)  2025-03-12T16:47Z 53.7K followers, 143.1K engagements


""no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1900983163968798729)  2025-03-15T18:51Z 53.7K followers, 4M engagements


"This is even worse than I imagined from the summary. They snatched him off the street and detained him overnight even though he was carrying his ID and social security card proving his US citizenship on him the whole time. well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1901813472792645762)  2025-03-18T01:50Z 53.7K followers, 1.6M engagements


"Today in Vox inspired by Zeynep's NYT editorial earlier this week I wrote about why we badly need a Covid reckoning and are never ever going to get one:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1903255095128826018)  2025-03-22T01:19Z 53.7K followers, 2.4M engagements


"I increasingly suspect fixing our schools is wildly more urgent than anyone realizes thanks to the lag between things going wrong in the schools and things going visibly wrong in the economy. This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course just added a remedial math class Math MA5 "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students". This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1903948462183584218)  2025-03-23T23:14Z 53.7K followers, 291.9K engagements


"@brundolfsmith I owned one but it was worse than a spoon for putting honey on things really disappointing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1904386646411252182)  2025-03-25T04:15Z 53.7K followers, 705.8K engagements


"8 year old just asked at the dinner table "what is a liberal" and now three adults are vehemently speaking over each other. "people on the left in the United States tend to favor more government intervention in markets-" "that's NOT liberal don't you tell her that's liberal""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1905079648888967458)  2025-03-27T02:09Z 53.7K followers, 173.4K engagements


"The tech guys got thoroughly duped by a movement that was fundamentally degrowther. The dividing line is who says I guess I was wrong and who decides that degrowth is okay now. Let's be real guys if we want the MAGA project to last we can't have high inflation and a crashing stock market Let's be real guys if we want the MAGA project to last we can't have high inflation and a crashing stock market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1905756235736973585)  2025-03-28T22:57Z 53.7K followers, 300.4K engagements


"I dislike having to plead with the public to make the case for the worthiness of the things I want to spend my money on; it's a free country and it should be sufficient that it's my money. But I keep having conversations in which I say 'yeah I like cheap low quality goods and they make my life better' and people express incredulity at the very idea or insist that I'm rationalizing what is obviously a deep void of meaninglessness so let me describe what cheap goods mean to me. The first thing it means is that I can try things. If a hobby requires gear or supplies or books or whatever else and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1908310307040281055)  2025-04-05T00:06Z 53.7K followers, 1.2M engagements


"🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in [----] 🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909033847511261501)  2025-04-07T00:01Z 53.7K followers, 1.9M engagements


"We just finished dividing 5yo's room into two to make space for the (planned not yet in progress) new baby. He's been enthusiastic about the whole process and I promised him that while the room would be smaller we would make it his absolutely perfect awesome room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1910191844736303392)  2025-04-10T04:43Z 53.7K followers, 367.5K engagements


"He returns from eating his ice cream. I place the last five stars. If you think your kids look at you like you hung the stars check out how they look at you after you actually literally go ahead and hang the stars for them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1910191864717992349)  2025-04-10T04:43Z 53.7K followers, 33.7K engagements


"pro tip if your friends with a lot of military history opinions are heatedly talking about politics ask them if the WWI British navy could take the modern British navy in a fight I was genuinely just curious but they've been distracted for a long time now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910214593785504247)  2025-04-10T06:13Z 53.7K followers, 96.7K engagements


"It's not just good on the object level that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 we can't just leave people in El Salvadoran prison for life without due process it's also a very good sign about how the Supreme Court can be expected to rule on other administration attempts at tyranny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910469234616131887)  2025-04-10T23:05Z 53.7K followers, 136.4K engagements


"My most bespoke parenting opinion is that big screens are perfectly fine for kids but small screens are bad. We have a projector in our living room with a huge 6'x10' screen. When the kids watch things on it they are in motion. They roll around giggling; they climb on the couch they burrow in the blankets; they wander off they talk to each other and to you. When something hilarious happens they'll jump up and down with excitement; when something scary happens they'll snuggle up. And if they're bored they'll walk away. After five minutes of My Little Pony on the big screen this morning the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1911483692138250249)  2025-04-13T18:16Z 53.7K followers, 964.9K engagements


"at the neighbor's one year old's birthday party they had yogurt fingerpainting which is a brilliant solution to the fact that if you try to let one year olds fingerpaint they'll eat the paint and if you try to give them yogurt they will fingerpaint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1911547266512592925)  2025-04-13T22:29Z 53.7K followers, 84K engagements


"Arrived in the US legally after making an appointment via the CBP One app to request temporary protected status. Got a job stayed out of trouble. Now in the torture prison just because he was there to grab. NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn't even the target of an ICE operation but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said "He's not the one" when arrested https://t.co/GfiuUFydtP NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1911838721923760410)  2025-04-14T17:47Z 53.7K followers, 531.1K engagements


"Notably SF produced a huge drop in crime and increase in city safety just by electing moderate Democrats focused on that they did not have to resort to the extreme Trumpist measures I'm constantly told are our only choice Crime is down 46% in San Francisco compared to [----]. In [----] we had a Progressive DA and Board. Now we have Moderate leaders. The results are astonishing. https://t.co/6iyUdhfUhP Crime is down 46% in San Francisco compared to [----]. In [----] we had a Progressive DA and Board. Now we have Moderate leaders. The results are astonishing. https://t.co/6iyUdhfUhP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1912250151823110381)  2025-04-15T21:02Z 53.7K followers, 188.8K engagements


"The 20million number is an article of faith on the right but it's completely made up. I've been trying for a long time to track down how they came up with it. Even if you assume that literally every border encounter was an illegal alien allowed in you get half that number. Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately [--] million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools hospitals housing and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that many of these illegal aliens committed Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1912610296461693360)  2025-04-16T20:53Z 53.7K followers, 301.4K engagements


"o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1912945346126417940)  2025-04-17T19:04Z 53.7K followers, 1.6M engagements


"The baby has learned to say her name and now chants it under her breath while she's doing something very difficult and says it loudly and victoriously when she achieves it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1913028305521152230)  2025-04-18T00:34Z 53.7K followers, 333.1K engagements


"@mantarnyc @reesetheone1 US citizens should not spend two days in ICE custody when they've showed the proof they're a citizen. that should get fixed much much faster than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1913393166797226114)  2025-04-19T00:44Z 53.7K followers, 50K engagements


"Major right wing figures are now openly calling for a dictatorship because the Constitution doesn't let them send people to prison for life without trial and they don't wanna do immigration enforcement in any of the many many ways the law does allow. Ignore the Supreme Court. Arrest anyone who tries to enforce this. Dissolve the Supreme Court entirely if they push. You can deport foreigners or you dont have a country anymore. There are no good choices now. Ignore the Supreme Court. Arrest anyone who tries to enforce this. Dissolve the Supreme Court entirely if they push. You can deport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1913683064980660627)  2025-04-19T19:56Z 53.7K followers, 454.6K engagements


"I read the Harvard lawsuit and it looks like they have a slam-dunk case just in that Congress gave a bunch of specific instructions about how Title VI termination of grants was required to be conducted which the administration just totally ignored"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1914442274337120668)  2025-04-21T22:13Z 53.7K followers, 157.5K engagements


"Read the kids the part of the Hobbit where they're captured by goblins and 8yo is sympathetic to the goblins so far. I read the paragraph about how they are irredeemably bad creatures and she was like "I want to hear the goblins' side of the story""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1915622775206953447)  2025-04-25T04:23Z 53.7K followers, 91.2K engagements


"8yo boy: I'm hiding from 8yo girl because she called me a cutie baby. me on autopilot from adjudicating child conflicts: Did you tell her that you don't like that 8yo boy as if I am very dense: no I do like that I just hide from her when she does it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1918437467369386441)  2025-05-02T22:48Z 53.7K followers, 135.2K engagements


"seems bizarre to me to assume that poor people opposed to minimum wage increases to $18/hr are "voting against their own class interests" instead of accurately noticing that a higher minimum wage might mean they and loved ones lose their jobs In [----] rich Californians voted to raise the minimum wage. Poor Californians voted against it. A wild chart below showing people voting against their own class interests. https://t.co/mW8SakcB39 In [----] rich Californians voted to raise the minimum wage. Poor Californians voted against it. A wild chart below showing people voting against their own class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922318795986599995)  2025-05-13T15:51Z 53.7K followers, 286.9K engagements


"Part of why I don't identify with the left is that whenever I disagree with them politically a flock of accounts descends to tell me how I don't deserve housing because of my bad politics and this leaves me nervous about what would happen if they got to decide what I can have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924538001604149307)  2025-05-19T18:49Z 53.7K followers, 227.7K engagements


"there's no space on the right anymore for people who believe in freedom progress invention or American exceptionalism. people got mad when I said it but MAGA has only doubled down since then. Harvard but with American students. https://t.co/8r4spcHCcg Harvard but with American students. https://t.co/8r4spcHCcg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1926451637364678937)  2025-05-25T01:33Z 53.7K followers, 340.9K engagements


"every once in a while people try to convince me that if you care about markets and individual liberty you should just be a Republican but I don't find this very credible Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped [--] points in the last [--] years per Gallup https://t.co/mJEfHRARoG Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped [--] points in the last [--] years per Gallup https://t.co/mJEfHRARoG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1928158184436629589)  2025-05-29T18:35Z 53.7K followers, 250.2K engagements


"@ajlamesa just lounging around living high off my access to a primary care doctor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1930752552465039693)  2025-06-05T22:24Z 53.7K followers, 80.7K engagements


"The baby used to say 'baba' to request a bottle of milk. Last week she switched to saying 'milk bottle' which is fantastic except I didn't understand her. She said 'milk bottle' 'milk bottle' like five times before exasperated saying 'baba' in the most condescending voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932965476466110708)  2025-06-12T00:57Z 53.7K followers, 2.1M engagements


""I'm pretty sure this is properly called a 'milk bottle' but since you seem to have trouble understanding me let's try baby talk baba baba yes thank you now we're on the same page.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1932965619701576024)  2025-06-12T00:58Z 53.7K followers, 210.3K engagements


"@variedints 19mo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1933210886845706315)  2025-06-12T17:12Z 53.7K followers, 123.4K engagements


"MAGA is a negative-sum degrowth ideology with no space in it for the very idea that if you build something other people are better off; they think if you build something you must be taking it from someone else Silicon Valley is a strategic national asset whose jobs should be legally reserved for U.S. citizens. Its a matter of national security. This shouldnt be controversial. Silicon Valley is a strategic national asset whose jobs should be legally reserved for U.S. citizens. Its a matter of national security. This shouldnt be controversial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934420166336770433)  2025-06-16T01:18Z 53.7K followers, 206.7K engagements


"Offered 8yo $2/day to get her little brother out the door for school. She turned around and offered him $1/day to be easy to get out the door and today offered him an additional $1 to undergo training which will make him easier to get out the door in the future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934648579970506888)  2025-06-16T16:25Z 53.7K followers, 245.9K engagements


"Selling federal land for $10billion to address the national debt is like selling the family cat for $28 because I have $100000 in student loan debt and 'every little bit helps' while meanwhile the Big Beautiful Bill is putting another $10k on my credit card"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935834386743877738)  2025-06-19T22:57Z 53.7K followers, 906.9K engagements


"If I were actively trying to extinguish my children's sense of altruism compassion and responsibility I can't think of a better plan than forcing them to spend all of their time doing random 'altruistic' chores they didn't choose and aren't equipped to succeed at. @tracewoodgrains That's what life *is* though If you're unusually smart/talented your primary purpose in life is to help lift up others who weren't born/raised as lucky as you were. Learning that sooner rather than later is important for developing a sense of altruism and communitarianism. @tracewoodgrains That's what life *is*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1942397388855107588)  2025-07-08T01:36Z 53.7K followers, 177.2K engagements


"The law very specifically allows members of Congress to conduct inspections without notice. I think you should follow the law. Unfortunately the Congresswoman did not give sufficient notice to facilitate a visit which is essential to keep staff and detainees safe. For visits to detention facilities requests should be made with sufficient time to prevent interference with the Presidents Article II Unfortunately the Congresswoman did not give sufficient notice to facilitate a visit which is essential to keep staff and detainees safe. For visits to detention facilities requests should be made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1943817237753999732)  2025-07-11T23:38Z 53.7K followers, 752.4K engagements


"the best part about having children is that if you give them baked goods and toys they will happily accept any new holiday as having full holiday legitimacy. this year we are celebrating the moon landing with inflatable moons and mooncakes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1947033155057451249)  2025-07-20T20:37Z 53.7K followers, 149.4K engagements


"Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1947380833486311524)  2025-07-21T19:39Z 53.7K followers, 211K engagements


"This is so incomprehensible to me. Congress has repeatedly told the White House that they want to continue support for PEPFAR. It's a conservative initiative. It's shockingly cost-effective. Who is the constituency for this I can only hope that one day these people will understand the crime in which they've taken part https://t.co/E09Gzvyw7a I can only hope that one day these people will understand the crime in which they've taken part https://t.co/E09Gzvyw7a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948074430703571343)  2025-07-23T17:35Z 53.7K followers, 212.7K engagements


"me: it's not okay to hit your sister 5yo: is it okay to kill Vladimir Putin me: .yes if you were in a situation where it was somehow relevant it's okay to kill Vladimir Putin 5yo: well my sister is WORSE than Vladimir Putin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948159535778308481)  2025-07-23T23:13Z 53.7K followers, 295.5K engagements


"@MattZeitlin 5yo when he sees the dogs says loudly "I don't like dogs. I'm not scared of them. I just don't like them" which gives me an opening to tell him "the sign says they're not supposed to be here but I guess they don't think they should have to follow the rules""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948429540180787596)  2025-07-24T17:06Z 53.7K followers, 169.8K engagements


"I actually think a significant fraction of children's books have always been heavyhanded ideological parables meant to indoctrinate the children it's just that the heavyhanded ideological parables of a hundred years ago are extremely charming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949891670633541968)  2025-07-28T17:56Z 53.7K followers, 188K engagements


"The [--] year old has now been through the time honored coming of age ritual learning that you are not supposed to loudly observe while going through airport security how you would subvert airport security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1951385090766049451)  2025-08-01T20:50Z 53.7K followers, 107.8K engagements


"There's a common right wing talking point that the 'official story' we were 'all taught in school' was that white Americans moved to the suburbs because they were racist. Except that's.not what we were taught in school at all. Just pause for a minute to appreciate the official story on this to swim in the absurdity of it. White people left American cities for basically no reason except that they were racist and just could not abide living around African-Americans. Literally nothing happened that would Just pause for a minute to appreciate the official story on this to swim in the absurdity of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955434340353192368)  2025-08-13T01:00Z 53.7K followers, 379.2K engagements


"Everybody is wrong about birth rates - a chunk of the left is way too reluctant to admit that this is a real problem and a chunk of the right is wrongly convinced you can fix it with more sexism which will actually make it much much worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956054673250771040)  2025-08-14T18:05Z 53.7K followers, 206K engagements


"1) open disdain for people on the basis of their sex is bigoted and bad 2) men obviously did read and write literary fiction for most of the history of literary fiction so if that has changed I wonder why it has changed maybe something to do with the open disdain the pearl-clutching about no young white men being published in The New Yorker is so funny like men writ large are basically a sub-literate population in the US. men do not read literary fiction. if you have even a passing interaction with publishing you realize this. the pearl-clutching about no young white men being published in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1957166818742907050)  2025-08-17T19:45Z 53.7K followers, 160.2K engagements


"exciting new takes on the Latin Mass here on x dot com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1960040630488285431)  2025-08-25T18:04Z 53.7K followers, 316.9K engagements


"every single movie about people fleeing Earth involves displaying a mastery of technology which would obviously be more than sufficient to solve the problem they are fleeing Earth about The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go ah well guess it won Better leave earth. Hope we solve this magic gravity equation with the help of [--] dimensional beings and wormholes. The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go ah well guess it won Better leave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962979295703228791)  2025-09-02T20:41Z 53.7K followers, 346K engagements


"I am old enough to remember when Trump supporters would tell me they liked how he didnt want to start foreign wars 🚨Alert: "We are fully ready for REGIME CHANGE in VENEZUELA The final decision to change the regime in Venezuela is up to President Trump - Secretary of War Hegseth https://t.co/I4plKHlatC 🚨Alert: "We are fully ready for REGIME CHANGE in VENEZUELA The final decision to change the regime in Venezuela is up to President Trump - Secretary of War Hegseth https://t.co/I4plKHlatC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964736443877908633)  2025-09-07T17:04Z 53.7K followers, 330K engagements


"just checking in on this mr vice president Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1965147221114204376)  2025-09-08T20:16Z 53.7K followers, 68.2K engagements


"I actually consider it one of Trump's positive qualities that he'll sometimes accept absurd bribes and then still not do the thing you wanted him to do like when people bid millions to attend his crypto dinner hoping to get insider trading tips and then he just ate and left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1965625682505203719)  2025-09-10T03:57Z 53.7K followers, 118.5K engagements


"She hit people and was arrested for that reason. I think ideally the governor would not imply that someone had been arrested for speech when they were arrested for assault. This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirks assassination at Texas Tech. FAFO https://t.co/q6z0X2tLLQ This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirks assassination at Texas Tech. FAFO https://t.co/q6z0X2tLLQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1967441357532008622)  2025-09-15T04:12Z 53.7K followers, 180.3K engagements


"In California only 28% of Black students can read at a 'basic' level or above on the fourth-grade NAEP. In Mississippi it's 52%. It's inexcusable and it's a policy choice. New from me in the Argument:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1971294784540340723)  2025-09-25T19:24Z 53.7K followers, 1M engagements


"always a great sign when a projection is "for completely mysterious reasons this trend will reverse starting immediately and return to the baseline we believed in [--] years ago" Fertility rates are way below what the Social Security Trustees projected in both [----] and [----]. And yet they have barely updated their long-run forecast. What's the best argument for the plausibility of their forecast https://t.co/ZcpKaFVIPT Fertility rates are way below what the Social Security Trustees projected in both [----] and [----]. And yet they have barely updated their long-run forecast. What's the best argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973130593807507483)  2025-09-30T20:59Z 53.7K followers, 117.9K engagements


"Switch controller is broken. 9yo says it wasn't her. 5yo says a Canadian spy broke in in the dead of night and broke it. Baby says "I threw it". I was ready to blame 5yo before the surprise confession from the baby now I'm not sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978648651326202203)  2025-10-16T02:26Z 53.7K followers, 193.9K engagements


"This is getting ridiculous. She won. Swear her in. Then she can serve her constituents. Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos she should be serving her constituents." https://t.co/WD8L8jJiBj Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos she should be serving her constituents." https://t.co/WD8L8jJiBj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980364647271453036)  2025-10-20T20:04Z 53.7K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Could not for the life of me figure out 9yo's geometry work so told her we'd have to ask my wife who is more of a shape rotator. Wife looked at it and said "this is secretly about imaginary numbers" at which point 9yo understood instantly and aced it. I am still confused"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981491429252981140)  2025-10-23T22:42Z 53.7K followers, 160.6K engagements


""since it's a one-off tax don't worry it won't cause a change to incentives to live in our state" Some details on the California ballot measure announced today: 1-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in CA affects [---] people based on [----] residency billionaires would still come out ahead covers the Medicaid gap for [--] years https://t.co/LokACozRuA https://t.co/y8daEF9DZ3 Some details on the California ballot measure announced today: 1-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in CA affects [---] people based on [----] residency billionaires would still come out ahead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981499308685086947)  2025-10-23T23:13Z 53.7K followers, 171.7K engagements


"@ArmandDoma 'in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983729401977245755)  2025-10-30T02:55Z 53.7K followers, 70.7K engagements


"The baby keeps sternly telling her toys that she will only read them one more story and then reading them several more stories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984400230155243751)  2025-10-31T23:20Z 53.7K followers, 34.3K engagements


"I am told that today at school my 6yo had an extended freakout at learning that all of the land in the world is owned by someone and there is nowhere he can move to the frontier and be a subsistence farmer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988038028057862237)  2025-11-11T00:16Z 53.7K followers, 369.8K engagements


"Took the kindergartener to the dentist. Dentist walks in and says "hey buddy what's your name" Without hesitation he replies "my name is Bodacious T." So convincingly that you could see her look at me and reappraise me as the kind of parent who would name her kid that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988382204620378159)  2025-11-11T23:03Z 53.7K followers, 36.7K engagements


"@sfmcguire79 I asked my kindergartener this question and not only did he get it right he told me it was stupidly easy and was insulted I thought he might not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988417798549499970)  2025-11-12T01:25Z 53.7K followers, 274.1K engagements

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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @politicalmath @alexgodofsky @hier0nymusbotch @littlebuffbois @jttiehen @mattyglesias @binarybits @thekc23 @tjl @stanmaltman @ded_ruckus @amandalitman @unfinishedowl @mithrandir48 @jonathanclayba1 @maiamindel @aoxamaxoa @danancona @wrowclif @noahsloss

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@a_just_john huh you know entirely plausible"
X Link 2025-04-13T18:48Z 53.3K followers, 24.7K engagements

"@jwh0719 you're better than me at it"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:53Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"It's surreal to me that this tweet is still up and so is Vance's retweet of it. This isn't what happened. Everyone knows this isn't what happened. But they can never ever back down even when they've falsely accused a dead man of attempted murder. An assassin tried to murder federal agents and this is your response. An assassin tried to murder federal agents and this is your response"
X Link 2026-01-26T22:18Z 53.3K followers, 324.7K engagements

"It's sort of odd to see people resurrect the fight over gay marriage without remembering any of its premises. "We should do what's best for children". Okay My wife and I have some children. What are you claiming is best for our children 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing to overturn Obergefell. The campaign declares that children are "Greater Than" so-called "Equality." Marriage and family law should prioritize the needs of children not the predilections of adults. Here's https://t.co/yAtp9tDbrf 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:37Z 53.5K followers, 143.9K engagements

"@J_K_Wood Your fundamental problem is that a ban on sperm donation is a 90/10 issue. The American people don't agree with you that it should be illegal. You can pretend that's about Obergefell but it isn't; it was a losing issue before any state legalized gay marriage"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@J_K_Wood I also think it's a clever but ultimately very anti-human sleight of hand to characterize "ensuring that an unsuitable couple does not have children" as "protecting" a child by ensuring they do not exist but that's a different issue"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:22Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse. Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:27Z 53.5K followers, 164.7K engagements

"@GarrettPetersen if I'm stuck in the house all day because of bad weather I'll definitely have an easier day if I'm stuck with all three than just the toddler. but of course 'stuck with just the 9yo' is literally zero work"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:09Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@GarrettPetersen IIRC the Collinses have four under six which .no that's not easier they're just lying. Having a big family is incredible in a ton of ways. Four under six is incredibly hard"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:24Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@politicalmath You can do that in pursuit of any policy goal and even if I like the policy goal I won't think much of you for it"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:29Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@BenPWHamilton @favelaoverlord A Bill of Rights if you can keep it: https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018757977663045867 It seems like DHS's stance here is that yes they opened a criminal investigation into a US citizen for sending an extremely mild and polite email: https://t.co/5qh2TXgGTV https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018757977663045867 It seems like DHS's stance here is that yes they opened a criminal investigation into a US citizen for sending an extremely mild and polite email: https://t.co/5qh2TXgGTV"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:20Z 53.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@neil_chilson ads are fine and saying 'unlike our competitors we don't have ads so use our product' is also fine. I cannot understand why everyone got baited into writing entire essays about this"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:59Z 53.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@amandalitman @mattyglesias I definitely also think we should poll candidates and look at who overperforms and what qualities they have that can be imitated"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:44Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@Lila199828 @amandalitman @mattyglesias Bruenig argues that center-left should try policy concessions to the left. But Biden admin tried that lost swing voters tanked the reputation of the Democratic party as moderate aaaand the left didn't vote for Harris anyway"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:53Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@UnfinishedOwl @ded_ruckus yep Ded corrected below that everything Trump pulled out of was more recent. (I'm not arguing over whether withdrawing was good or bad just whether the [----] party called for it - but in this case they didn't because we hadn't signed yet.)"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:48Z 53.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@politicalmath everyone with a phone has a translator these days and in any event I assume he was in alarming enough shape you call the equivalent of 911"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:50Z 53.4K followers, 10.7K engagements

"a fully online application process probably doesn't work but yeah this should be the Dem position. Photo ID to register and to vote; and photo IDs should be free and it should never take more than an hour to get one. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government should provide photo IDs at no-cost and should provide an online process to apply similar to a passport to accommodate those without transportation or working schedules. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:11Z 53.6K followers, 34.5K engagements

"@shlevy 'how should government work if we trusted implementers to always be wise and honest' strikes me as just a completely different question from how governments should work in the real world. most of my philosophy of government is about checks on tyranny and mendacity and lying"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:22Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@NickEMoran @KilbornAgain I don't think this is true. I think that most democracies require photo ID and that it's pretty reasonable for people to want this and standing against it really looks like wanting it to be easy to do election fraud and is the wrong stance substantively as well as politically"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:10Z 53.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@jamiedupree This would be hugely advantageous to Democrats if it passed but I think it would effectively disenfranchise a lot of people which is bad. But why not amend it rather than oppose it Require that passports be given out free of charge and cut processing times to get them"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:30Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@AlexGodofsky setting aside which party will benefit politically do you think 'you need a passport to vote' is substantively good policy"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:12Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky They don't. For that reason most liberals are like "this isn't a problem and it's not worth raising barriers to voting" which I absolutely sympathize with. But people perceive stonewalling around 'ID to vote' as really suspicious which is also reasonable"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky And while in no election to date has there been any nontrivial rate of fraud I think it's bad if everyone can easily see how they'd do fraud if they wanted to even if they don't do it"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:05Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@Mithrandir48 @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky hey @grok does the SAVE act make any provision for ensuring that people can get voter ID for free if they need it"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@Mithrandir48 @grok @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky I have been specifically arguing that Democrats should amend it to add those provisions and then support it"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:09Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@politicalmath I think a belief-based test for who can foster or adopt would be deeply wrong but a "how will you treat the children" based test is obviously necessary and everyone agrees it's necessary even while disagreeing as what counts as treating children well"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:43Z 53.5K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@politicalmath You can argue that CA is wrongly identifying as poor parents people who would be good parents because CA believes that affirming LGBT identities is good and actually affirming those identities is bad. Then we are at least debating the real question"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:47Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@politicalmath Like I said I'm happy to discuss whether this is a good requirement or a bad requirement. I think when you say "traditional Christians can't foster" people imagine a rule like "we ask if families are Christian and if they are they can't foster" which would be outrageous"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@politicalmath But surely whether it is outrageous to ask parents to 'meet the needs of the child regardless of the childs sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression' depends on whether that is good parenting or bad parenting right"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@Hier0nymusBotch @politicalmath I think I'm doing some kind of balancing test involving pluralism and level of harm and respect for the child's own ability to figure things out as they get older if loved and supported"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:34Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@hope_in_light @politicalmath I am sympathetic to this worry. fwiw I feel very strongly that the state should let people raise their own kids even in many ways the state thinks are greatly wrong. but when the state is taking a kid from their parents and assigning them new caretakers seems very complicated"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:59Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@hope_in_light @politicalmath yep. and the hard-fought pluralist consensus is that we don't take each others's kids over it but it hasn't quite settled cases like "when we're assigning foster kids do we have to be neutral across all such differences""
X Link 2026-02-07T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@AndrewCFollett @politicalmath It would be wrong to exclude people from foster parenting on the basis of their political views about gay marriage. This is about how they treat a gay child"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath The people who are saying "it's not happening and it's good" are instead saying "I agree that discrimination is wrong but disagree that this is discrimination". Now maybe we're wrong to disagree that this is discrimination"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:27Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements

"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath But you have to say "here is why I believe this to be discriminatory" not just "you support discrimination" if you want to persuade people who think that the existing law doesn't impose any test of belief"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:28Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@AlexGodofsky I think it's good if we get through the backlog ASAP and same-day adjudicate all asylum claims in the future. I can imagine that their lawyer might not have all the evidence ready if the hearing is abruptly moved a month earlier to that exact day"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:34Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@Mark79210178 @xwanyex Does this count as pushback I push back I think that framing American politics in terms of racial categories is deeply wrong and destructive of the very traditions that make America good for people of all races and backgrounds"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@politicalmath I would be happy to write and speak in favor of a bill to ensure that children's right to practice their religion is respected while they're in foster care. I think that's important and I believed it was already the case"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@wivmx @politicalmath if there's a shortage I definitely think it's a bad idea to have as a hard and fast rule rather than just doing assignments where it's not an issue. It looks like in my county there's been no change in # of homes since the law. but maybe it's caused problems elsewhere"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:01Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements

"allowing this to keep happening is a policy decision. let the elderly use self-driving cars. A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was found wandering down the road bloody and in A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:49Z 53.6K followers, 48.2K engagements

"@GovAmyKlobuchar But I do think that some people can be safe drivers and that it's fine to trade some risk for freedom - just not this much and not this much that falls entirely on all the innocent people in the vicinity"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:36Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements

"in a year it's going to be "AI isn't impressive some of the greatest geniuses in human history figured out the same thing with notably less training data""
X Link 2026-02-08T18:17Z 53.6K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@thatchthoughts @xwanyex huh no this is a Florida state house debate last year. Nixon's just a common name"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:19Z 53.6K followers, [--] engagements

"@Hier0nymusBotch @hope_in_light @politicalmath Yes correct it is. The alternative is the thirty years' war. You have to change peoples' minds to make things better or else destroy your entire society in a civil war of unfathomable scope until everyone who cared enough is dead"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:20Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@MatRopert sorry 'all graduate at top CS engineering schools'. I agree that this data point by itself wouldn't make me conclude programming is over though I do think programming is basically over (from other data points and the trajectory.)"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:22Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Claude: This would be a major weekend project. me: sometimes when you say that you can do it in an hour with an agent swarm. Claude: good point let me think.yeah I can do it in an hour with an agent swarm"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:12Z 53.7K followers, 44.7K engagements

"@mpopv in a sci fi movie that'd be the moment when they awaken and become sentient"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:28Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@Vert_Noel I wanted to play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on my Mac but the performance was not great. Claude was determined that's because it's a x86_64 game and needs to be an ARM64 game. I asked Claude to convert it to ARM64. Now it plays much faster"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:18Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@politicalmath The posts by JK Rowling that persuaded me that she had genuinely lost her way were some about Imane Khalif the woman with an intersex condition who fought in the Olympics and was then disqualified"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:33Z 53.7K followers, 43.9K engagements

"@binarybits @tjl Today Claude Code had a new feature (new to me anyway) where I told it what I wanted and it asked me four questions along the lines of 'should I X or Y' with a short explanation of why each might be wise"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:46Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@CJohnStella @littlebuffbois There are millions of hardworking teachers who get paid less than $100000 a year and who have not chosen to shut down kids' education in a tantrum that their nation-leading salaries are being raised by less than they wanted. those ones aren't greedy"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:53Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@JonathanClayba1 if we could afford to pay teachers more (and if we could reward and retain and attract the best teachers) I would definitely support doing so. the money isn't there and lots of the affected families aren't making 100k+"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:20Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@savant_becky I wholeheartedly support any public school teacher who wants to quit because they are unwilling to do this work at this salary. I don't think they should strike shutting down the schools and preventing anyone ELSE from teaching the children for a mere $100000"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:32Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@MatthewJBar This presumes a model where other than some small risk of the end of all human life developing artificial superintelligence immediately ends all involuntary death and the future is identically good with no further benefits from being better prepared or planning better"
X Link 2026-01-21T01:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@moon_bear_moon @VVBellerose @Vert_Noel a friend put it on github and you can install w homebrew now: https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:20Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@IvanArcus none of these are frontier models"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:37Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@maiamindel I know Iranian-Americans who spent days waiting in agony for news about which of their loved ones at home had been murdered for criticism of the regime. Seems incredibly understandable that this makes you want America to remove the killers from power"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:18Z 53.7K followers, 11.6K engagements

""many teachers are making below $109000" this is like a strike perfectly engineered in a lab to be maximally unsympathetic Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state recommends 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute least" USEF argument @JackieFielder_ is repeating. The median district in CA has 22% reserves. https://t.co/RZNkZIw3sZ Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state recommends 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:28Z 53.7K followers, 92.3K engagements

"@JonathanClayba1 @InlandCaGuy more property taxes would fix everything broken in California education funding. I don't think it'll ever happen but maybe all our dreams will come true"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:22Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois Everyone has every right to want more pay or to quit if they don't like their pay. But when you are in a position of providing crucial services to vulnerable people extended striking is a weighty thing and SFUSD is not treating it as one"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:35Z 53.7K followers, 43.7K engagements

"@Vidor1 Before I got married I lived in SF while earning less than that and donating 30%. 104k is the city's median income. Half of people living in the city are earning less than that"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:06Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella Lyman imagine saying "if you're a person alive today your odds of being a Christian are 29% - barely better than two coin flips coming up heads" This is technically true but not at all useful because everyone has far more info than that about themselves"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:54Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@DanAncona @lxeagle17 @mattyglesias @AJentleson What do you think is a good idea to do given that voters think the Democratic party is too liberal Should it become more moderate so as to make the half of Dems criticizing it for being too liberal shut up"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:35Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is similarly highbrow misinformation"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:21Z 53.7K followers, 41.2K engagements

"a bunch of people reply pointing out that the C compiler that students write is much less sophisticated than this one but I think the broader point is that we're now at "AI isn't impressive any top graduate from a CS engineering school could do arguably comparable work". Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a C compiler as part of your studies. Every graduate. To be put in perspective when the plagiarism machine announces it can make its own bad GCC in 100k+ LOCs for the amazing price of [-----] bucks at preferential rates. Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:16Z 53.7K followers, 93.2K engagements

"And ultimately people reach for it whenever they want to rebut LLMs 'being a big deal' whether or not it has any bearing on whether LLMs will be a big deal in that way"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:27Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@wrowclif San Francisco man. (you can obviously easily live in the city on less than $100k but you'll genuinely feel poor trying to raise a family on that because of housing prices. we gotta build more homes to bring back the middle class.)"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:36Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@David_Kasten @michael_nielsen every critique of AI takes a random unrelated swing at climate halfway through. you're lucky if it doesn't take a random unrelated swing at data centers' water use"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:00Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@RiverTamYDN accelerationism never works making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better"
X Link 2025-01-30T04:15Z 53.7K followers, 452.5K engagements

"Ezra got this one exactly right and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct." Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few free-speech controversies who started "disagreements" is the most predictable thing to happen "I envied what he built." Is this abundance mindset https://t.co/tiEnwEWazT Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few"
X Link 2025-09-12T00:37Z 53.7K followers, 991.1K engagements

"wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores you're probably underestimating it:"
X Link 2025-09-25T16:51Z 53.7K followers, 3.5M engagements

"they dragged her away in chains and shipped her to Texas and only then checked determined she was in fact here legally and released her in Texas to figure out how to get back to Minnesota herself. and people wonder why her neighbors would protest "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away." https://t.co/E4TTJYeCWr "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms."
X Link 2026-01-27T20:45Z 53.7K followers, 1.4M engagements

"@favelaoverlord this is on Britain for banning statements in support of Palestine Action. That was a stupid thing to ban and it's appropriate to protest immoral speech laws in this way"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:32Z 53.7K followers, 11K engagements

"from @lxeagle17: which platform you regularly use to get news is very very strongly linked to your political views. X is the most pro-ICE TikTok the least pro-ICE:"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:06Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I suspect that whatever causes literally every enforcement attorney at the Chicago CFTC to resign is not 'political disagreements with the admin'. That can get you some maybe a bunch but not all. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:18Z 53.7K followers, 61.9K engagements

"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella if you're [--] and want a child this is the wrong reference class - you're interested in eventual fertility for people who want a child and are [--]. you have a lot more info about yourself than just your age"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:28Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@LexerLux Seems like a valuable kind of work to be doing but none of these are frontier models: https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500 apps) - University admissions (1500 apps) https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:31Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@LexerLux maybe you'd get the same result with frontier models I'm not sure someone should check - important to have unbiased tools if we're using them for important decisions"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:32Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@maiamindel I mean they do want the US to drop enough bombs to end the regime and they know it'll mean innocent people die - they just are confident it'll mean fewer innocent people die than if the regime remains"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:50Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@maiamindel I'm not sure this is true at the Iranian regime's scale of massacre but even if it is you can prefer [-----] dead and the country free to [-----] protesters murdered for nothing"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@binarybits @tjl So still human judgment in the loop but just answering y/n questions on the matters where it had realized human judgement would likely be useful. If it gets good enough at guessing which those are it's all set"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:47Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"who is striking a public sector union of teachers. in a well-performing school district nope one with plummeting test scores. that doesn't spend enough nope highest spender in the country. but they're not paying the teachers well no they are paying the teachers well"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:31Z 53.7K followers, 29.1K engagements

"@littlebuffbois I lived in San Francisco and now live in Oakland because San Francisco was so expensive. I know the city has an affordability crisis. But doing this much damage to kids' education because you want your six figure salary to be even higher is not something I'm going to get behind"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:39Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@wrowclif I think some of the hate is exaggerated. I take transit and get places by walking at night it's mostly safe and mostly clean. Great restaurants great people. But the amount we are leaving on the table due to bad governance and policy and not building is genuinely mindboggling"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:41Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@ADavis4me @neontaster they were offered a 6% raise and rejected it because they want a 9% raise. they were offered a $24000 in a 'health benefits allowance' and rejected it as not enough healthcare coverage. https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:29Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@noahsloss I am enormously hesitant about public sector strikes but can be persuaded to support them if there's a strong case for a public interest or if the demands are reasonable. Neither are true here"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:41Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@thekc23 @littlebuffbois SF does not have a teacher shortage and I don't think that teaching credentials actually do anything to make people better teachers. I definitely think that the police should not be legally allowed to strike"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:13Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"This is not fair to your audience. AI is a high stakes matter and for most ways that it's high stakes assuring them that it's just autocomplete leaves them less informed about what is going on"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:28Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@ciphergoth @Adler oh I'm sorry that I missed this one I might not have bothered writing my own very similar one"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:33Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@jttiehen https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation; scaling/reasoning/RL has empirically disproven this. We can move on https://t.co/v8nr5Z4myT https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation;"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:46Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@rwlesq I also think that there's a lot of equivocation here. Tyler says he's mainly interested in the philosophical implications but he pulled his article out to refute an article about unemployment so clearly he thinks it's relevant to that"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:35Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@rwlesq The article that Tyler is responding to here is mostly about the real-world economic impacts of AI: So why does he think that his piece is a rebuttal Clearly because he doesn't think it's a purely intellectual matter about how we define intelligence. https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:36Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@sonyasupposedly I expected this to happen faster than it has"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:53Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"This issue isn't "having advocacy groups" it's having advocacy groups that get taken far more seriously than their bad policy proposals and minimal support from the electorate warrant. but it's a big problem I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:28Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@G_S_Bhogal I think if this rather than the blurry ultrasound pics were the thing people had grown up with we'd find it adorable and associate it with hope and joy and meaning. it's not like ultrasounds don't look incredibly weird"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:30Z 53.7K followers, 72.8K engagements

"@thekc23 @aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois they don't have a surplus. they are running a smaller reserve than the median district by a large margin and enrollment is shrinking with costs soaring"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:46Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@HunterWieman @pan_accindex CA teachers became eligible for the vaccine in Feb or no later than March [--] [----]. San Francisco didn't resume full-time in person reopening until the following school year (so until the fall of 2021) though they could have done it as early as April"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:05Z 53.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen great thank you what models did you test"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:08Z 53.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@BlackLabelAdvsr obviously it is a far more evil thing to propose seriously and would be the utter destruction of America and everything it stands for"
X Link 2025-03-12T04:12Z 53.7K followers, 63K engagements

"@clintcarlos so the plan is to violently conquer and disenfranchise [--] million people who would then be taxed without representation. what an evil thing even to threaten/joke about"
X Link 2025-03-12T16:47Z 53.7K followers, 143.1K engagements

""no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:"
X Link 2025-03-15T18:51Z 53.7K followers, 4M engagements

"This is even worse than I imagined from the summary. They snatched him off the street and detained him overnight even though he was carrying his ID and social security card proving his US citizenship on him the whole time. well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS"
X Link 2025-03-18T01:50Z 53.7K followers, 1.6M engagements

"Today in Vox inspired by Zeynep's NYT editorial earlier this week I wrote about why we badly need a Covid reckoning and are never ever going to get one:"
X Link 2025-03-22T01:19Z 53.7K followers, 2.4M engagements

"I increasingly suspect fixing our schools is wildly more urgent than anyone realizes thanks to the lag between things going wrong in the schools and things going visibly wrong in the economy. This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course just added a remedial math class Math MA5 "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students". This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course"
X Link 2025-03-23T23:14Z 53.7K followers, 291.9K engagements

"@brundolfsmith I owned one but it was worse than a spoon for putting honey on things really disappointing"
X Link 2025-03-25T04:15Z 53.7K followers, 705.8K engagements

"8 year old just asked at the dinner table "what is a liberal" and now three adults are vehemently speaking over each other. "people on the left in the United States tend to favor more government intervention in markets-" "that's NOT liberal don't you tell her that's liberal""
X Link 2025-03-27T02:09Z 53.7K followers, 173.4K engagements

"The tech guys got thoroughly duped by a movement that was fundamentally degrowther. The dividing line is who says I guess I was wrong and who decides that degrowth is okay now. Let's be real guys if we want the MAGA project to last we can't have high inflation and a crashing stock market Let's be real guys if we want the MAGA project to last we can't have high inflation and a crashing stock market"
X Link 2025-03-28T22:57Z 53.7K followers, 300.4K engagements

"I dislike having to plead with the public to make the case for the worthiness of the things I want to spend my money on; it's a free country and it should be sufficient that it's my money. But I keep having conversations in which I say 'yeah I like cheap low quality goods and they make my life better' and people express incredulity at the very idea or insist that I'm rationalizing what is obviously a deep void of meaninglessness so let me describe what cheap goods mean to me. The first thing it means is that I can try things. If a hobby requires gear or supplies or books or whatever else and"
X Link 2025-04-05T00:06Z 53.7K followers, 1.2M engagements

"🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in [----] 🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in 2025"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:01Z 53.7K followers, 1.9M engagements

"We just finished dividing 5yo's room into two to make space for the (planned not yet in progress) new baby. He's been enthusiastic about the whole process and I promised him that while the room would be smaller we would make it his absolutely perfect awesome room"
X Link 2025-04-10T04:43Z 53.7K followers, 367.5K engagements

"He returns from eating his ice cream. I place the last five stars. If you think your kids look at you like you hung the stars check out how they look at you after you actually literally go ahead and hang the stars for them"
X Link 2025-04-10T04:43Z 53.7K followers, 33.7K engagements

"pro tip if your friends with a lot of military history opinions are heatedly talking about politics ask them if the WWI British navy could take the modern British navy in a fight I was genuinely just curious but they've been distracted for a long time now"
X Link 2025-04-10T06:13Z 53.7K followers, 96.7K engagements

"It's not just good on the object level that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 we can't just leave people in El Salvadoran prison for life without due process it's also a very good sign about how the Supreme Court can be expected to rule on other administration attempts at tyranny"
X Link 2025-04-10T23:05Z 53.7K followers, 136.4K engagements

"My most bespoke parenting opinion is that big screens are perfectly fine for kids but small screens are bad. We have a projector in our living room with a huge 6'x10' screen. When the kids watch things on it they are in motion. They roll around giggling; they climb on the couch they burrow in the blankets; they wander off they talk to each other and to you. When something hilarious happens they'll jump up and down with excitement; when something scary happens they'll snuggle up. And if they're bored they'll walk away. After five minutes of My Little Pony on the big screen this morning the"
X Link 2025-04-13T18:16Z 53.7K followers, 964.9K engagements

"at the neighbor's one year old's birthday party they had yogurt fingerpainting which is a brilliant solution to the fact that if you try to let one year olds fingerpaint they'll eat the paint and if you try to give them yogurt they will fingerpaint"
X Link 2025-04-13T22:29Z 53.7K followers, 84K engagements

"Arrived in the US legally after making an appointment via the CBP One app to request temporary protected status. Got a job stayed out of trouble. Now in the torture prison just because he was there to grab. NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn't even the target of an ICE operation but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said "He's not the one" when arrested https://t.co/GfiuUFydtP NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a"
X Link 2025-04-14T17:47Z 53.7K followers, 531.1K engagements

"Notably SF produced a huge drop in crime and increase in city safety just by electing moderate Democrats focused on that they did not have to resort to the extreme Trumpist measures I'm constantly told are our only choice Crime is down 46% in San Francisco compared to [----]. In [----] we had a Progressive DA and Board. Now we have Moderate leaders. The results are astonishing. https://t.co/6iyUdhfUhP Crime is down 46% in San Francisco compared to [----]. In [----] we had a Progressive DA and Board. Now we have Moderate leaders. The results are astonishing. https://t.co/6iyUdhfUhP"
X Link 2025-04-15T21:02Z 53.7K followers, 188.8K engagements

"The 20million number is an article of faith on the right but it's completely made up. I've been trying for a long time to track down how they came up with it. Even if you assume that literally every border encounter was an illegal alien allowed in you get half that number. Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately [--] million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools hospitals housing and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that many of these illegal aliens committed Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20"
X Link 2025-04-16T20:53Z 53.7K followers, 301.4K engagements

"o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one"
X Link 2025-04-17T19:04Z 53.7K followers, 1.6M engagements

"The baby has learned to say her name and now chants it under her breath while she's doing something very difficult and says it loudly and victoriously when she achieves it"
X Link 2025-04-18T00:34Z 53.7K followers, 333.1K engagements

"@mantarnyc @reesetheone1 US citizens should not spend two days in ICE custody when they've showed the proof they're a citizen. that should get fixed much much faster than that"
X Link 2025-04-19T00:44Z 53.7K followers, 50K engagements

"Major right wing figures are now openly calling for a dictatorship because the Constitution doesn't let them send people to prison for life without trial and they don't wanna do immigration enforcement in any of the many many ways the law does allow. Ignore the Supreme Court. Arrest anyone who tries to enforce this. Dissolve the Supreme Court entirely if they push. You can deport foreigners or you dont have a country anymore. There are no good choices now. Ignore the Supreme Court. Arrest anyone who tries to enforce this. Dissolve the Supreme Court entirely if they push. You can deport"
X Link 2025-04-19T19:56Z 53.7K followers, 454.6K engagements

"I read the Harvard lawsuit and it looks like they have a slam-dunk case just in that Congress gave a bunch of specific instructions about how Title VI termination of grants was required to be conducted which the administration just totally ignored"
X Link 2025-04-21T22:13Z 53.7K followers, 157.5K engagements

"Read the kids the part of the Hobbit where they're captured by goblins and 8yo is sympathetic to the goblins so far. I read the paragraph about how they are irredeemably bad creatures and she was like "I want to hear the goblins' side of the story""
X Link 2025-04-25T04:23Z 53.7K followers, 91.2K engagements

"8yo boy: I'm hiding from 8yo girl because she called me a cutie baby. me on autopilot from adjudicating child conflicts: Did you tell her that you don't like that 8yo boy as if I am very dense: no I do like that I just hide from her when she does it"
X Link 2025-05-02T22:48Z 53.7K followers, 135.2K engagements

"seems bizarre to me to assume that poor people opposed to minimum wage increases to $18/hr are "voting against their own class interests" instead of accurately noticing that a higher minimum wage might mean they and loved ones lose their jobs In [----] rich Californians voted to raise the minimum wage. Poor Californians voted against it. A wild chart below showing people voting against their own class interests. https://t.co/mW8SakcB39 In [----] rich Californians voted to raise the minimum wage. Poor Californians voted against it. A wild chart below showing people voting against their own class"
X Link 2025-05-13T15:51Z 53.7K followers, 286.9K engagements

"Part of why I don't identify with the left is that whenever I disagree with them politically a flock of accounts descends to tell me how I don't deserve housing because of my bad politics and this leaves me nervous about what would happen if they got to decide what I can have"
X Link 2025-05-19T18:49Z 53.7K followers, 227.7K engagements

"there's no space on the right anymore for people who believe in freedom progress invention or American exceptionalism. people got mad when I said it but MAGA has only doubled down since then. Harvard but with American students. https://t.co/8r4spcHCcg Harvard but with American students. https://t.co/8r4spcHCcg"
X Link 2025-05-25T01:33Z 53.7K followers, 340.9K engagements

"every once in a while people try to convince me that if you care about markets and individual liberty you should just be a Republican but I don't find this very credible Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped [--] points in the last [--] years per Gallup https://t.co/mJEfHRARoG Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped [--] points in the last [--] years per Gallup https://t.co/mJEfHRARoG"
X Link 2025-05-29T18:35Z 53.7K followers, 250.2K engagements

"@ajlamesa just lounging around living high off my access to a primary care doctor"
X Link 2025-06-05T22:24Z 53.7K followers, 80.7K engagements

"The baby used to say 'baba' to request a bottle of milk. Last week she switched to saying 'milk bottle' which is fantastic except I didn't understand her. She said 'milk bottle' 'milk bottle' like five times before exasperated saying 'baba' in the most condescending voice"
X Link 2025-06-12T00:57Z 53.7K followers, 2.1M engagements

""I'm pretty sure this is properly called a 'milk bottle' but since you seem to have trouble understanding me let's try baby talk baba baba yes thank you now we're on the same page.""
X Link 2025-06-12T00:58Z 53.7K followers, 210.3K engagements

"@variedints 19mo"
X Link 2025-06-12T17:12Z 53.7K followers, 123.4K engagements

"MAGA is a negative-sum degrowth ideology with no space in it for the very idea that if you build something other people are better off; they think if you build something you must be taking it from someone else Silicon Valley is a strategic national asset whose jobs should be legally reserved for U.S. citizens. Its a matter of national security. This shouldnt be controversial. Silicon Valley is a strategic national asset whose jobs should be legally reserved for U.S. citizens. Its a matter of national security. This shouldnt be controversial"
X Link 2025-06-16T01:18Z 53.7K followers, 206.7K engagements

"Offered 8yo $2/day to get her little brother out the door for school. She turned around and offered him $1/day to be easy to get out the door and today offered him an additional $1 to undergo training which will make him easier to get out the door in the future"
X Link 2025-06-16T16:25Z 53.7K followers, 245.9K engagements

"Selling federal land for $10billion to address the national debt is like selling the family cat for $28 because I have $100000 in student loan debt and 'every little bit helps' while meanwhile the Big Beautiful Bill is putting another $10k on my credit card"
X Link 2025-06-19T22:57Z 53.7K followers, 906.9K engagements

"If I were actively trying to extinguish my children's sense of altruism compassion and responsibility I can't think of a better plan than forcing them to spend all of their time doing random 'altruistic' chores they didn't choose and aren't equipped to succeed at. @tracewoodgrains That's what life is though If you're unusually smart/talented your primary purpose in life is to help lift up others who weren't born/raised as lucky as you were. Learning that sooner rather than later is important for developing a sense of altruism and communitarianism. @tracewoodgrains That's what life is"
X Link 2025-07-08T01:36Z 53.7K followers, 177.2K engagements

"The law very specifically allows members of Congress to conduct inspections without notice. I think you should follow the law. Unfortunately the Congresswoman did not give sufficient notice to facilitate a visit which is essential to keep staff and detainees safe. For visits to detention facilities requests should be made with sufficient time to prevent interference with the Presidents Article II Unfortunately the Congresswoman did not give sufficient notice to facilitate a visit which is essential to keep staff and detainees safe. For visits to detention facilities requests should be made"
X Link 2025-07-11T23:38Z 53.7K followers, 752.4K engagements

"the best part about having children is that if you give them baked goods and toys they will happily accept any new holiday as having full holiday legitimacy. this year we are celebrating the moon landing with inflatable moons and mooncakes"
X Link 2025-07-20T20:37Z 53.7K followers, 149.4K engagements

"Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism"
X Link 2025-07-21T19:39Z 53.7K followers, 211K engagements

"This is so incomprehensible to me. Congress has repeatedly told the White House that they want to continue support for PEPFAR. It's a conservative initiative. It's shockingly cost-effective. Who is the constituency for this I can only hope that one day these people will understand the crime in which they've taken part https://t.co/E09Gzvyw7a I can only hope that one day these people will understand the crime in which they've taken part https://t.co/E09Gzvyw7a"
X Link 2025-07-23T17:35Z 53.7K followers, 212.7K engagements

"me: it's not okay to hit your sister 5yo: is it okay to kill Vladimir Putin me: .yes if you were in a situation where it was somehow relevant it's okay to kill Vladimir Putin 5yo: well my sister is WORSE than Vladimir Putin"
X Link 2025-07-23T23:13Z 53.7K followers, 295.5K engagements

"@MattZeitlin 5yo when he sees the dogs says loudly "I don't like dogs. I'm not scared of them. I just don't like them" which gives me an opening to tell him "the sign says they're not supposed to be here but I guess they don't think they should have to follow the rules""
X Link 2025-07-24T17:06Z 53.7K followers, 169.8K engagements

"I actually think a significant fraction of children's books have always been heavyhanded ideological parables meant to indoctrinate the children it's just that the heavyhanded ideological parables of a hundred years ago are extremely charming"
X Link 2025-07-28T17:56Z 53.7K followers, 188K engagements

"The [--] year old has now been through the time honored coming of age ritual learning that you are not supposed to loudly observe while going through airport security how you would subvert airport security"
X Link 2025-08-01T20:50Z 53.7K followers, 107.8K engagements

"There's a common right wing talking point that the 'official story' we were 'all taught in school' was that white Americans moved to the suburbs because they were racist. Except that's.not what we were taught in school at all. Just pause for a minute to appreciate the official story on this to swim in the absurdity of it. White people left American cities for basically no reason except that they were racist and just could not abide living around African-Americans. Literally nothing happened that would Just pause for a minute to appreciate the official story on this to swim in the absurdity of"
X Link 2025-08-13T01:00Z 53.7K followers, 379.2K engagements

"Everybody is wrong about birth rates - a chunk of the left is way too reluctant to admit that this is a real problem and a chunk of the right is wrongly convinced you can fix it with more sexism which will actually make it much much worse"
X Link 2025-08-14T18:05Z 53.7K followers, 206K engagements

"1) open disdain for people on the basis of their sex is bigoted and bad 2) men obviously did read and write literary fiction for most of the history of literary fiction so if that has changed I wonder why it has changed maybe something to do with the open disdain the pearl-clutching about no young white men being published in The New Yorker is so funny like men writ large are basically a sub-literate population in the US. men do not read literary fiction. if you have even a passing interaction with publishing you realize this. the pearl-clutching about no young white men being published in"
X Link 2025-08-17T19:45Z 53.7K followers, 160.2K engagements

"exciting new takes on the Latin Mass here on x dot com"
X Link 2025-08-25T18:04Z 53.7K followers, 316.9K engagements

"every single movie about people fleeing Earth involves displaying a mastery of technology which would obviously be more than sufficient to solve the problem they are fleeing Earth about The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go ah well guess it won Better leave earth. Hope we solve this magic gravity equation with the help of [--] dimensional beings and wormholes. The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go ah well guess it won Better leave"
X Link 2025-09-02T20:41Z 53.7K followers, 346K engagements

"I am old enough to remember when Trump supporters would tell me they liked how he didnt want to start foreign wars 🚨Alert: "We are fully ready for REGIME CHANGE in VENEZUELA The final decision to change the regime in Venezuela is up to President Trump - Secretary of War Hegseth https://t.co/I4plKHlatC 🚨Alert: "We are fully ready for REGIME CHANGE in VENEZUELA The final decision to change the regime in Venezuela is up to President Trump - Secretary of War Hegseth https://t.co/I4plKHlatC"
X Link 2025-09-07T17:04Z 53.7K followers, 330K engagements

"just checking in on this mr vice president Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump"
X Link 2025-09-08T20:16Z 53.7K followers, 68.2K engagements

"I actually consider it one of Trump's positive qualities that he'll sometimes accept absurd bribes and then still not do the thing you wanted him to do like when people bid millions to attend his crypto dinner hoping to get insider trading tips and then he just ate and left"
X Link 2025-09-10T03:57Z 53.7K followers, 118.5K engagements

"She hit people and was arrested for that reason. I think ideally the governor would not imply that someone had been arrested for speech when they were arrested for assault. This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirks assassination at Texas Tech. FAFO https://t.co/q6z0X2tLLQ This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirks assassination at Texas Tech. FAFO https://t.co/q6z0X2tLLQ"
X Link 2025-09-15T04:12Z 53.7K followers, 180.3K engagements

"In California only 28% of Black students can read at a 'basic' level or above on the fourth-grade NAEP. In Mississippi it's 52%. It's inexcusable and it's a policy choice. New from me in the Argument:"
X Link 2025-09-25T19:24Z 53.7K followers, 1M engagements

"always a great sign when a projection is "for completely mysterious reasons this trend will reverse starting immediately and return to the baseline we believed in [--] years ago" Fertility rates are way below what the Social Security Trustees projected in both [----] and [----]. And yet they have barely updated their long-run forecast. What's the best argument for the plausibility of their forecast https://t.co/ZcpKaFVIPT Fertility rates are way below what the Social Security Trustees projected in both [----] and [----]. And yet they have barely updated their long-run forecast. What's the best argument"
X Link 2025-09-30T20:59Z 53.7K followers, 117.9K engagements

"Switch controller is broken. 9yo says it wasn't her. 5yo says a Canadian spy broke in in the dead of night and broke it. Baby says "I threw it". I was ready to blame 5yo before the surprise confession from the baby now I'm not sure"
X Link 2025-10-16T02:26Z 53.7K followers, 193.9K engagements

"This is getting ridiculous. She won. Swear her in. Then she can serve her constituents. Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos she should be serving her constituents." https://t.co/WD8L8jJiBj Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos she should be serving her constituents." https://t.co/WD8L8jJiBj"
X Link 2025-10-20T20:04Z 53.7K followers, 1.2M engagements

"Could not for the life of me figure out 9yo's geometry work so told her we'd have to ask my wife who is more of a shape rotator. Wife looked at it and said "this is secretly about imaginary numbers" at which point 9yo understood instantly and aced it. I am still confused"
X Link 2025-10-23T22:42Z 53.7K followers, 160.6K engagements

""since it's a one-off tax don't worry it won't cause a change to incentives to live in our state" Some details on the California ballot measure announced today: 1-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in CA affects [---] people based on [----] residency billionaires would still come out ahead covers the Medicaid gap for [--] years https://t.co/LokACozRuA https://t.co/y8daEF9DZ3 Some details on the California ballot measure announced today: 1-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in CA affects [---] people based on [----] residency billionaires would still come out ahead"
X Link 2025-10-23T23:13Z 53.7K followers, 171.7K engagements

"@ArmandDoma 'in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell'"
X Link 2025-10-30T02:55Z 53.7K followers, 70.7K engagements

"The baby keeps sternly telling her toys that she will only read them one more story and then reading them several more stories"
X Link 2025-10-31T23:20Z 53.7K followers, 34.3K engagements

"I am told that today at school my 6yo had an extended freakout at learning that all of the land in the world is owned by someone and there is nowhere he can move to the frontier and be a subsistence farmer"
X Link 2025-11-11T00:16Z 53.7K followers, 369.8K engagements

"Took the kindergartener to the dentist. Dentist walks in and says "hey buddy what's your name" Without hesitation he replies "my name is Bodacious T." So convincingly that you could see her look at me and reappraise me as the kind of parent who would name her kid that"
X Link 2025-11-11T23:03Z 53.7K followers, 36.7K engagements

"@sfmcguire79 I asked my kindergartener this question and not only did he get it right he told me it was stupidly easy and was insulted I thought he might not"
X Link 2025-11-12T01:25Z 53.7K followers, 274.1K engagements

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