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

"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: America Needs a New Generation of War Scouts The meaning of war is changing. In Ukraine drones blanket the sky. Soldiers on horseback sport Starlink terminals. Prediction markets price the battlefield and Russian tanks bristle with Mad Max-style anti-drone hedgehog armor. Ukraine is a massive laboratory the Shenzhen of war. Half a century ago advancing American military thinking meant going into the field. Our defense researchers chewed beryllium to prove its safe for industrial use in planes climbed oil rigs to test missile launchers and even built Moon transmitters."  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2021622267307073884)  2026-02-11T16:28Z 202.1K followers, 42.9K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Another Day Another Suicidal San Francisco Ballot Prop The recently proposed Overpaid CEO Act in SF which already has the required signatures to appear on ballots in June is advertised as a way for voters to stick it to their greedy boss. In reality its a nearly 9x tax increase on big businesses revenue. something that recent history suggests will have massive ripple effects on the citys economy. During the pandemic SF tried a similar overpaid CEO tax only to scale it back in [----] after businesses fled en masse. Now Public sector unions want to revive this tax at nearly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2018851910489604116)  2026-02-04T00:59Z 202.1K followers, 38.5K engagements


"RT @DefenseAnalyses: America needs a new breed of defense intellectual https://defenseanalyses.org/fellowship/ https://defenseanalyses.org/fellowship/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021992043258786018)  2026-02-12T16:57Z 202.1K followers, [--] engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Meet the Architects of Californias Billionaire Tax A proposed ballot measure in California would tax billionaires 5% of their net worth. It needs nearly 1m signatures to make it onto the ballot and has already triggered what could become the largest wealth flight in the history of Silicon Valley. Until now the architects of the bill have largely escaped scrutiny. So we decided to figure out who they are and what they really want. Turns out they do indeed want something. and its not just money for public healthcare (their stated reason). Below the architects of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022348376055148914)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 202.2K followers, 238.6K engagements


"The brain trust: French economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez Their research is cited in the billionaire tax proposal and has similarly influenced at least nine additional wealth tax proposals nationwide over the last decade. Using a broad definition of income (including business profits) they argue that every group of earners even the very poorest pays the government a tax rate of 25-30% except for billionaires who pay 23%. This is the tax system of a plutocracy they wrote in an op-ed explaining their work. Zucman is also advocating for a global 2% tax on billionaires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022348382162014523)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 202.1K followers, 20.9K engagements


"NEW: The stated justification for Californias proposed wealth tax on billionaires is the acute emergency of acquiring more funding for healthcare. But the measures architects have other motivations for Dave Regan president of the union that sponsored the wealth tax that includes leveraging Californias ballot prop system to scale his unions causes more efficiently than regular bargaining. Dont take our word for it. Here he is admitting as much on video: Regan Im not from California. You hear all about these ballot initiatives. And I thought Well surely you must have to go through some kind of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022411881869382006)  2026-02-13T20:45Z 202.1K followers, 30.7K engagements


"Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman: "Day [--] anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected whose Social Security number ends in an odd number you're out. Day [--] of those who remain if your Social Security starts in an even number you're in and if it starts with an odd number you're out. That's a 75% reduction." "Now imagine that you could run that thought experiment at scale but you had a metric for screening people who had the greatest competence as well as the greatest commitment and knowledge of the Constitution. That would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1856517841916145756)  2024-11-13T02:02Z 201K followers, 12.3M engagements


"NEW from Anduril cofounder and Founders Fund partner @traestephens: I regularly see startups chasing what Ive come to call a Kamikaze funding round: an early enormous check tagging the company with a valuation vastly outpacing its current status in the market. This usually ends in disaster. Its effectively suicidal. Pressure to grow forces companies to take insane risks without solid revenue. Failure to live up to an inflated valuation sets off a downward spiral of dilution wiping out founders and early investors. Theres no law against taking less money at a lower valuation. Trae writes At"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1970906056470777952)  2025-09-24T17:39Z 201.7K followers, 399.7K engagements


"NEW: Last month @lulumeservey techs communications whisperer announced shed raised a $40m VC fund. We talked to Lulu about why she decided to (sort of) get into VC and her plans to invest in founders who can bend the arc of history with their products. and words. Lessons from our conversation: Theres no alpha in being a follower. If you want people to pay attention to you you have to risk being disliked. As Peter Thiel says its not contrarian to just put a minus sign in front of everything. Then youre just predictably negative which is the same as being reflexively anti-woke or reflexively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2008301012948307976)  2026-01-05T22:14Z 192.2K followers, 18.5K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Last week the World Economic Forum convened for their annual ski trip / important meeting on world affairs at Davos (also known as the SXSW for Globalism). A tech founder was detained for [--] hours for having a bomb-lookalike device in his hotel room. (It was an anti-fraud hardware device he was hoping to pitch.) Emmanuel Macron delivered an entire speech wearing aviator sunglasses prompting The Telegraph to rave about his testosterone levels and speculate Can Macrons sunglasses save the West But the most fodder came from the arrival of President Trump and his"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2015917380434882816)  2026-01-26T22:38Z 193.9K followers, 20.3K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Meet the millionaire NIMBY behind Californias proposed wealth tax. While billionaires and political reps have dominated headlines about the proposed asset seizure the measures leading proponents have escaped deeper scrutiny. Today were changing that. Robert Reich 79-year-old Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at Berkeley is essentially a hired gun on behalf of the unions and academics who crafted the asset seizure proposition. He spent the Carter years at the FTC advised three U.S. presidents and served as Clintons Labor Secretary before settling into academia. and along"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016259083201065233)  2026-01-27T21:16Z 191.8K followers, 231K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Californias ballot-prop system essentially lets the mob create new laws by popular vote. Its been sold as a cure for broken government and regulatory capture and its been wreaking havoc on the state for decades. Around [----] well-funded private interests figured out that if they spent millions on ads and signature-gathering they could go around the legislature to lock in otherwise difficult-to-pass policies that are almost impossible to undo (ballot props can generally only be amended or repealed by. more ballot props). The result has been a ballot-prop industrial complex."  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016946314052063396)  2026-01-29T18:47Z 198.1K followers, 99.9K engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/polymarket-v-kalshi-a-complete-timeline https://www.piratewires.com/p/polymarket-v-kalshi-a-complete-timeline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2019839641780887643)  2026-02-06T18:24Z 195.2K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: From the [----] Project to Mehdi Hassans infamous Muslim slaves built America comments most liberal pundits and activists treat American slavery as grounds for rewriting history and teaching Americans to hate themselves. But slavery as no one will ever admit was a global system for millennia. The Arab slave trade predates the Atlantic trade by [---] years enslaved an estimated [----] million people and unlike American slavery. still hasnt ended. Arab slaveholders raided West and Central Africa European coastal towns and parts of Asia. Captives were worked to death in mines and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2019864610451648999)  2026-02-06T20:03Z 200.5K followers, 35.4K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Californias [----] income tax hike sold as a 7-year emergency measure was extended until [----] back in [----]. Now due to a new potential ballot proposal it could become permanent. As the state simultaneously braces for a totally temporary one-time emergency wealth tax ballot battle take a look at the saga of Prop [--] for an instructive lesson on the temporary nature of tax hikes in California. @EvanMilenko 👇 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013396576899600853 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013396576899600853"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2013396576899600853)  2026-01-19T23:42Z 202.1K followers, 187.2K engagements


"NEW FROM MIKE SOLANA: [--] billionaires break their silence about Californias proposed asset seizure ballot prop. (And yes theyre leaving.) An informal poll conducted in the largest billionaire Signal chat suggests 70% of California billionaires will leave the state if the ballot prop passes. Without exception every founder of a private company mentioned the ballot props confusing control language but their concerns have less to do with this single ballot prop than the question of how companies will be targeted in the future and everyone believes they will be targeted again. Once the concept is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014752878410530832)  2026-01-23T17:31Z 202.2K followers, 667.1K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Meet the Secret Society Where Young Tech Debates the Future of the West Once a month some [---] VCs founders and owners of timeline-dominant X accounts gather at the Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco for the nights invite-only Hamilton Society debate. The dress code: a suit and tie for men the female equivalent for ladies. Anything short of that is subject to ridicule or expulsion. The societys leadership created Hamilton in response to a calcified social malaise overtaking tech where striving for the sake of short-term gains dominates any sort of larger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017299837210005729)  2026-01-30T18:12Z 202K followers, 234K engagements


"inevitable SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩 SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2021000593515626593)  2026-02-09T23:17Z 202.1K followers, 32K engagements


"NEW: This summer @DefenseAnalyses will send two Americans into the Ukraine war to study drone combat up close and bring back lessons for U.S. defense. Full piece on the mission and a link to apply from @JoinFAIs @timhwang 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/america-needs-a-new-generation-of https://www.piratewires.com/p/america-needs-a-new-generation-of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2021734763271483582)  2026-02-11T23:55Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Our newsletter goes out every weekday morning. It's [--] 🔥 takes from the Pirate Wires crew takes [--] seconds to read and will always be free. Sign up 👉 https://get.piratewires.com/pw/daily/twclid=pinned https://get.piratewires.com/pw/daily/twclid=pinned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1886821418626928800)  2025-02-04T16:57Z 202.1K followers, 102.3K engagements


"Alex Karp responds to a protestor during todays talk at the #HillAndValley Forum:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1917592177229848770)  2025-04-30T14:49Z 202.1K followers, 389.6K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: This week prediction market platform Polymarket announced its latest viral marketing ploy: a completely free grocery store in New York City operational from February [--] to February [--]. Not to be outdone rival prediction market Kalshi preemptively launched its own grocery-themed stunt: the one-day-only universal $50 grocery stipend at Westside Market on 3rd Ave. This is only the latest episode in what has become a multi-year blood feud between the two platforms which collectively boast billions of dollars in weekly trading volume. Between stunts like free groceries and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2019839635393044564)  2026-02-06T18:24Z 202.1K followers, 10.2K engagements


"RT @DoWCTO: Correct you can just do things. We are rapidly deploying frontier AI capabilities across the @DeptofWar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2021597796218896631)  2026-02-11T14:50Z 202.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/america-needs-a-new-generation-of https://www.piratewires.com/p/america-needs-a-new-generation-of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2021622274902876187)  2026-02-11T16:28Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES on the SpaceX merger: If you want more compute. leave Earth. AIs biggest chokepoint isnt investment its our ability to build. Were limited by the chips we manufacture the power we produce and the bureaucratic bog that drags it all down. The U.S. spent over $1.5 trillion on AI last year and most of that went toward data centers. But energy growth has been flat for the last decade. Permitting a new power plant can take 4-7 years and advanced AI chips are sold out until [----]. Meanwhile some states are even proposing data center moratoriums. Elons solution Ascend to the stars."  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022066075333239007)  2026-02-12T21:51Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Union president Dave Regan Regan runs Service Employees International Union-United Health Care Workers West (SEIU-UHW) one of the most powerful unions in the U.S. and the billionaire taxs sponsor. The union claims a budget shortfall caused by Republican cuts to Medicaid could literally shutter hospitals in the state and by extension leave some of its members without jobs. However under his leadership SEIU-UHW has become essentially a ballot prop factory to grow the union and pressure large companies to do what Regan wants. In his words: You hear all about these ballot initiatives. And I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022348380014571687)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 202.1K followers, 20.8K engagements


"The academics: Brian Galle (UC Berkeley) David Gamage (U of Missouri) Darien Shanske (UC Davis) These men are some of the most-cited tax law scholars in the country. Theyve made a career out of arguing for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy with a focus on unrealized gains. In his recent book How to Tax the Ultrarich Galle argues that inequality the supposed target of wealth taxes is very bad. But he also argues that theyre a tool in a fight about power: Vast inheritable fortunes shape media and other core civic institutions and are increasingly insulated from tax. . The result is the rapid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022348384129192084)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 202.2K followers, 20.5K engagements


"An honest look at the careers of the people behind Californias billionaire tax suggests an ongoing political project for which Californias healthcare budget one of the most generous in the country is only the latest Trojan horse. Read the full piece from @dodgeblake 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/who-wrote-california-wealth-tax-proposal https://www.piratewires.com/p/who-wrote-california-wealth-tax-proposal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022348385903428056)  2026-02-13T16:33Z 202.1K followers, 19.7K engagements


"RT @dodgeblake: I read their books essays and proposals and listened to their mid-2010s YouTube talks to create what is essentially t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022381338771480598)  2026-02-13T18:44Z 202.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Full piece from @dodgeblake on the architects behind Californias wealth tax ballot prop: who they are and what they really want. 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/who-wrote-california-wealth-tax-proposal https://www.piratewires.com/p/who-wrote-california-wealth-tax-proposal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022411885581382045)  2026-02-13T20:45Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-spacex-merger-if-you-want-more https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-spacex-merger-if-you-want-more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022066081096245355)  2026-02-12T21:51Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW: The real chokepoint in the AI race is power and SpaceXs acquisition of xAI just might represent @elonmusks bold solution. Generate that power in space faster than our glacial bureaucracy will allow here on Earth. @eventidia 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-spacex-merger-if-you-want-more https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-spacex-merger-if-you-want-more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022108544024432736)  2026-02-13T00:40Z 202.1K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW: Its Valentines Day. A day for a nice dinner maybe some flowers and chocolate and yes the sweet activity your parents called wrestling when you walked into their bedroom as a child. And look folks everyone knows the birthrate in America is plummeting. To help remedy that and get our readers in the mood on this day of love heres some erotic nonfiction from @bryan_johnson the entrepreneur and venture capitalist conquering death (originally published on X). Enjoy be fruitful and multiply. 👇♥ https://piratewires.com/p/dont-die-do-multiply https://piratewires.com/p/dont-die-do-multiply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2022687288556425728)  2026-02-14T15:00Z 202.1K followers, 14.9K engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/tufts-food-compass https://www.piratewires.com/p/tufts-food-compass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2008963686183186918)  2026-01-07T18:07Z 149.2K followers, [----] engagements


"After a wide-ranging interview on foreign policy with the Commander-in-Chief today the New York Times lamented once again that President Trump was brushing aside international law. Its the latest in a long line of recent appeals by the media to this so-called international law which as @neerajadeshp explained for Pirate Wires: -Doesnt supersede the U.S. Constitution and; -Is therefore basically fake. Tapping the sign 👇 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009399063398203413 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009399063398203413"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2009399063398203413)  2026-01-08T22:57Z 149.9K followers, 13.3K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: We interview James Fishback (@j_fishback) the insurgent candidate running for Florida governor against Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds. Online a quasi-civil war is fracturing the American right. It has yet to manifest in a major Republican race until now. The 31-year-old candidate and venture capitalist Fishback used to write pieces for The Free Press. Now during his campaign hes moved towards what some might call the America First wing of the Republican Party. Young fans donning Nick Fuentes merchandise frequently show up in support at his campaign events. We discussed the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2010064117709844972)  2026-01-10T19:00Z 153.9K followers, 13.7K engagements


"One of Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishbacks (@j_fishback) unique policy proposals Divesting the money the state uses to buy Israeli bonds and using it instead to help young married couples buy homes. (Single and chopped people need not apply.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2010101844501000281)  2026-01-10T21:30Z 149.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Mattel is releasing an autistic Barbie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2011124202645176483)  2026-01-13T17:12Z 150.8K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW FROM PIRATE WIRES: The Billionaire Wealth Tax being floated in California is not just a tax its a kill switch that would destroy the tech industry as we know it in the state. Late last year the architects of this ballot proposition quietly amended language in their proposal which if successful would permanently end the concept of founder-controlled startups in the state by redefining net worth in such a way that founders are considered owners of anything they control assessing a founder with 10x voting rights per share in his own company for example as being worth 10x the dollar value of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2011174714220154964)  2026-01-13T20:33Z 160.8K followers, 89K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Police bodycams have gone from left-wing priority. to brutal self-own. After the [----] killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer in Ferguson Missouri Black Lives Matter and the ACLU demanded bodycams as a tool to reform racist cops. The Obama Justice Department put real money behind the idea in [----] awarding $23.2m to law enforcement in [--] states to adopt them. By the end of [----] almost 80% of police departments had officers wearing bodycams. Universally they were intended to catch police behaving badly. A decade later however it seems nothing has hurt the police"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2011468062126637420)  2026-01-14T15:58Z 151.6K followers, 11.6K engagements


"Black Lives Matter demanded police bodycams to expose racism in law enforcement. A decade later The footage (of deranged perps mostly) is vindicating cops. @LouPerez 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/black-lives-matter-demanded-bodycams https://www.piratewires.com/p/black-lives-matter-demanded-bodycams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2011545968903348640)  2026-01-14T21:08Z 151.4K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Tipping culture has become insane. Todays point-of-sale systems ask for tips after almost every transaction with prompts now popping up not just at coffee shops but also at unusual places like medical offices and even self-checkout kiosks at airports (who are we tipping exactly The airplane). As it turns out like many bad things tipping came from Europe. Aristocrats would pay servants extra to keep them happy and after the Civil War we imported this practice to America. Then Square which launched those infamous iPad tip screens in [----] gave every business on Earth the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2012327952655282530)  2026-01-17T00:55Z 154.9K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/no-im-not-tipping-you https://www.piratewires.com/p/no-im-not-tipping-you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2012327955641540658)  2026-01-17T00:55Z 153.6K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Trans and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers can now enjoy free yoga meditation and cooking classes for $433k per bed (covered by taxpayers) thanks to a career activist who sued the bejeesus out of the city. After a settlement with a homeless trans person triggered by sex-segregated bathrooms the city is now legally obligated to build at least four trans shelters. The first at an undisclosed location in Queens opened last summer and will cost taxpayers at least $65m to operate for just the first five years. (We tried to figure out how much the other three shelters will cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014018158185869542)  2026-01-21T16:52Z 165.9K followers, 30K engagements


"Its true: NYC opened up the nations first taxpayer-funded trans-dedicated homeless shelter complete with [---] beds yoga meditation and culinary arts programs in state-of-the-art kitchens. Oh yeah and the city is required to open [--] MORE. Check out our full piece 👇 New York City is CURRENTLY operating a taxpayer funded shelter ONLY for trans and gender confused people. $7200 PER BED PER MONTH. This is insanity. They should be insane asylums not shelters. https://t.co/q9HN1e2tgt New York City is CURRENTLY operating a taxpayer funded shelter ONLY for trans and gender confused people. $7200 PER"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014152481207447700)  2026-01-22T01:45Z 166.1K followers, 119.4K engagements


"NEW: After a trans activist sued the living bejeesus out of the city New York is now legally obligated to open [--] homeless shelters exclusively for trans and gender-nonconforming people. The first opened to the tune of $7200 per bed per month (60% more than a typical NYC shelter). Under the citys settlement trans and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers ALSO must now be admitted to any mens or womens shelter whichever affirms their identity. Effectively this means NYC no longer has sex-segregated homeless shelters which have been in place for decades. As @BessByers writes the real crime here in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014494160666104039)  2026-01-23T00:23Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/inside-nycs-65-million-effort-to https://www.piratewires.com/p/inside-nycs-65-million-effort-to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014494164566900912)  2026-01-23T00:23Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @micsolana: I spoke with [--] billionaires impacted by the state's new asset seizure ballot proposition around 10% of billionaires in th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014734063236743655)  2026-01-23T16:16Z 166K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @DavidSacks: Democrat Billionaires in Silicon Valley are learning: Play socialist games win socialist prizes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014735729612750941)  2026-01-23T16:23Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @micsolana: I just published a piece sourced by the most billionaires in a single article I think in human history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014736656239366614)  2026-01-23T16:27Z 165.8K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @micsolana: @kitten_beloved my man joe lonsdale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014756655544861092)  2026-01-23T17:46Z 165.1K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @JTLonsdale: Mike tells me Im the [--] of [--] willing to speak on the record. But Im glad theyre waking up. The hour is late as the ha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014769006922891772)  2026-01-23T18:35Z 167K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @Altimor: If you read nothing else today read this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014839793499464111)  2026-01-23T23:16Z 165K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @rylzdigital: crack open a can of protein-packed insect snacks and check out my latest for @PirateWires 👇🦗"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2015926571257983440)  2026-01-26T23:15Z 165.8K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @davidu: Excellence from @PirateWires. There are many things one can criticize the Trump administration for but energy policy is not on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2015938363229176318)  2026-01-27T00:02Z 167K followers, [--] engagements


""LA is still in the grips of wildfire suffering from a catastrophe we are now discussing freely and honestly at the scale of millions for the first time maybe ever And not just on X. The medias reflexive opening bit of climate change obfuscation gave way first to fact checks and then to further reporting. This is healthy discourse which I credit almost entirely to freer social media norms and not only on X but across Metas platforms and YouTube both of which drifted toward openness following Elons Twitter revolution. But all of it every piece of this new freer information ecosystem began with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1879275597207351683)  2025-01-14T21:13Z 169.7K followers, 39.6K engagements


"MAJOR REDDIT SCOOP: Investigation reveals an extraordinary degree of astroturfed anti-capitalism radical Marxist Islamist propaganda on some of the biggest subreddits including r/Documentaries A Discord group has hijacked hundreds of subreddits many of them with millions of followers to censor its ideological enemies and distribute propaganda directly sourced from US-designated terror organizations such as Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad the Houthis and many more. The subreddits the group now has control of are composed of a group of central subreddits including r/Palestine r/IsraelCrimes and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1892318416293539958)  2025-02-19T21:00Z 175.4K followers, 916.5K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: America is relearning something it forgot you cant make power without fuel. This week the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $2.7b investment in American uranium enrichment a capability we effectively abandoned in the 90s. Obama shut down Americas last remaining enrichment facility in [----]. Three companies won $900m each. Two are legacy players. One is a startup: General Matter. Founder @ScottNolan tells us General Matters facility in Kentucky on the site of the exact same facility Obama shut down will use the $900m to meet all domestic demand for high-assay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2009720084781306034)  2026-01-09T20:13Z 169K followers, 129.1K engagements


"Last October after Iryna Zarutska was murdered by a deranged schizophrenic Pirate Wires made the case for bringing back long-term psychiatric institutionalization (insane asylums). Thank you for your willingness to build those suckers Mr. President. Full piece threaded 👇 JUST IN - President Trump: 'Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums. We are going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers but you've got to get the people off the streets' https://t.co/XHnTfaho9I JUST IN - President Trump: 'Signed an executive order to bring back mental"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2013730060201795725)  2026-01-20T21:47Z 168.6K followers, [----] engagements


"This was not about a law. This was about a terrifying class of people rapidly amassing power in this country. -@micsolana Full piece here 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/exodus-the-largest-wealth-flight https://www.piratewires.com/p/exodus-the-largest-wealth-flight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014753670945231228)  2026-01-23T17:34Z 168.9K followers, 23.4K engagements


"21 billionaires broke their silence about the proposed asset seizure ballot prop. Yes they're leaving. Here's what they had to say exclusively to @micsolana 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2014770068316401705)  2026-01-23T18:39Z 174.4K followers, 185.3K engagements


"I spoke with [--] billionaires about californias unprecedented asset seizure ballot proposition. here: their plans to leave their efforts to fight back and the future of tech in california micsolana By @micsolana Quorum at the Leopards Eating Faces Party. Were a little over a month into an industry-wide conversation about the future of tech in California which is largely taking place off social media. At this point most people know the conversation was triggered by a ballot proposition floated by the states largest healthcare union which seeks to legalize a first-of-its-kind asset seizure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2015174437256233432)  2026-01-24T21:26Z 173.9K followers, 22.5K engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-secret-nimby-millionaire-behind https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-secret-nimby-millionaire-behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016259577692750305)  2026-01-27T21:18Z 171.9K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @micsolana: hey guys please raise your hand if youre attending kara swishers nuremberg trials. wondering if pirate wires should do a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016304984988778788)  2026-01-28T00:19Z 170.8K followers, [--] engagements


""We may never get actual teleportation but pipes and robots might get us damn close." We've built a first of its kind grocery store in Austin. Introducing Goods➡ https://t.co/bpXjOdutXR We've built a first of its kind grocery store in Austin. Introducing Goods➡ https://t.co/bpXjOdutXR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016312243361546302)  2026-01-28T00:47Z 170.8K followers, [----] engagements


"From our @pipedream_labs deep-dive last July: https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-network-of-underground-thing-pipes-is-about-to-change-delivery-forever https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-network-of-underground-thing-pipes-is-about-to-change-delivery-forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016312762368983359)  2026-01-28T00:49Z 170.8K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @garrytan: Anti-American Asset Seizure Tax from the people who brought you Be-a-NIMBY-in-Berkeley style virtue signaling. It's not ju"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016345908754231532)  2026-01-28T03:01Z 171.8K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @micsolana: kara swisher and her eunuch think people who disagree with them belong in prison. this is a growing trend on the mentally il"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016902689213600168)  2026-01-29T15:54Z 174.1K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @traestephens: The only future prop I care about is the one that will abolish the prop system. The current system maximizes dysfuncti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016959605369426064)  2026-01-29T19:40Z 170.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @eventidia: Ever wonder why California's laws are some of the weirdest in the country State lawmakers got tired of writing laws. Now th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016980806317854903)  2026-01-29T21:04Z 174.1K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @Willob: The Hamilton Society is profiled in @PirateWires today. Thanks for the write-up @huntryerson. Read it if you want to know mor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017303902279074225)  2026-01-30T18:28Z 174.1K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @huntryerson: the hamilton society is kicking off a cultural renaissance in san francisco to the benefit of tech and america as a whole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017321127694258644)  2026-01-30T19:36Z 172.5K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @NatHalberstadt: Interesting write-up on recent debate hosted by The Hamilton Society on the resolution: America needs more high ski"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017339650705363433)  2026-01-30T20:50Z 174.1K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @katech0n: Great piece by @huntryerson. The Hamilton Society is SFs premier debate society: a light on the hill for those seeking trut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017370226439164155)  2026-01-30T22:51Z 172K followers, [--] engagements


"BREAKING: the FBI has allegedly raided the home of Polymarket founder and CEO @shayne_coplan and "demanded his phone and electronics." We don't have all the details but our piece from last month detailing the US government's little-known partisan-fueled war on prediction markets is now unfortunately more apt than ever. Link is threaded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1856799270214799376)  2024-11-13T20:40Z 194.5K followers, 118.9K engagements


"TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHES DOGE As of today DOGE is established as a Temporary Organization in accordance with section [----] of title [--] United States Code The Organization will report to WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Each Federal agency is tasked with setting up a "DOGE Team of at least four employees" within [--] days of today; each team "will typically include one DOGE Team Lead one engineer one human resources specialist and one attorney" DOGE will immediately establish a government-wide "Software Modernization Initiative" DOGE will terminate on July [--] 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1881547212142022819)  2025-01-21T03:39Z 188.1K followers, 17.2M engagements


"NEW: Replit founding data scientist and engineer @giansegato: Ive begun to see product managers developing business financial models; designers writing commercial ads; barbershops building custom booking systems; and restaurant owners creating advanced pricing tools. These people always had it in them to do these things. The key difference is that it no longer takes years to learn how. Gians in Pirate Wires today with a piece on the "unraveling of credentialism" and how having an edge in the market is no longer about knowing how to do one specific thing very well but about being biased toward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1914353920853655993)  2025-04-21T16:21Z 184.7K followers, 1M engagements


"NEW: Hes the most harassed man in the history of Twitter. Chatbots are making detailed plans for r*ping him and entire cartoons are being created for the sole purpose of making fun of him. He still refuses to log off. Full story from @rylzdigital 👇 https://www.piratewires.com/p/it-do-be-like-that-mr-stancil https://www.piratewires.com/p/it-do-be-like-that-mr-stancil https://www.piratewires.com/p/it-do-be-like-that-mr-stancil https://www.piratewires.com/p/it-do-be-like-that-mr-stancil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1987978147418304578)  2025-11-10T20:18Z 185K followers, 161.6K engagements


"Read it here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/dispatch-from-davos-the-sxsw-for https://www.piratewires.com/p/dispatch-from-davos-the-sxsw-for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2015917387317706831)  2026-01-26T22:38Z 184.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Full piece: https://www.piratewires.com/p/california-ballot-prop-history-wealth-tax https://www.piratewires.com/p/california-ballot-prop-history-wealth-tax"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2016946607452016720)  2026-01-29T18:48Z 175.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Since [----] the UK has made over [-----] arrests for grossly offensive or obscene social media posts with the rate of arrests increasing in the past few years. Lately in an astonishing twist the UK has even taken its internet censorship regime global seeking to use the Online Safety Act to censor American companies with no UK presence. Now the U.S. State Department is sanctioning two British nationals who are participants in the global censorship-industrial-complex and the Labour government using the pretext of scandalous Grok AI image requests to re-establish the UK censorship regimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017247773712666907)  2026-01-30T14:45Z 176.3K followers, [----] engagements


"READ THE FULL PIECE: https://www.piratewires.com/p/radio-free-britain https://www.piratewires.com/p/radio-free-britain https://www.piratewires.com/p/radio-free-britain https://www.piratewires.com/p/radio-free-britain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017247911893963206)  2026-01-30T14:45Z 175.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Full piece here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/meet-the-secret-society-where-young https://www.piratewires.com/p/meet-the-secret-society-where-young"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/2017299844340322680)  2026-01-30T18:12Z 181.9K followers, [----] engagements


"NEW: Brown University 'DOGE' student shares his side of the story with Pirate Wires At Brown University there's roughly one non-faculty administrator for every two undergrads. Tuition living expenses and fees now amount to $93064 a year. The school runs a $46 million annual budget deficit and professors constantly complain theyre underpaid. Trying to make sense of this situation Brown sophomore @alexkshieh emailed all 3800+ administrators asking a simple question: "What do you do all day" Among the few responses he did get one person replied "fuck you" and another told him to stick an entire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1907120331367874605)  2025-04-01T17:18Z 198.6K followers, 8.4M engagements


"@AshleyRindsberg link https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-snopes-buried-the-truth-about-ilhan-omar-s-father/ https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-snopes-buried-the-truth-about-ilhan-omar-s-father/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1902077352311701766)  2025-03-18T19:19Z 201K followers, 69.2K engagements


"NEW: AI startups "need [--] different state AI compliance regimes like they need a hole in the head Supporters of aggressive AI regulation have helped states draft over [----] AI-related laws since California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB [----] a draconian bill that would have created a new state agency to govern AI. But just as Californias Clean Air Act waiver allows it to dictate emissions policy for the whole country without going through the federal legislative process state AI bills would effectively regulate all American artificial intelligence companies. Congress is getting tired of large"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1923384283819065542)  2025-05-16T14:25Z 200.4K followers, 45.6K engagements


"NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Buc-ees and the Infinite American Spirit Or how a gas station megachain with palatial bathrooms and beef jerky walls became a cultish American spectacle. Inside Buc-ees 70000-square-foot superstores swarms of people wander bathrooms that are pristine and palatial in scale. They patronize a horseshoe-shaped Texas BBQ Station staffed by extremely nice Southern folk. And everywhere a 1950s-esque cartoon beaver the Buc-ees mascot looks up and to the right in delirious optimism. In [----] the chain reportedly generated $2.5 billion in revenue with an estimated $200 million in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1960732174480761114)  2025-08-27T15:52Z 200.4K followers, 31.1K engagements


"As the crypto sector imploded in December [----] Silvergate a financial entity specializing in crypto experienced a dramatic run on the bank. By March of the following year company leadership announced it would voluntarily liquidate marking the downfall of one of the biggest and most important crypto banks in the US. The official story repeated by the Government Accountability Office and financial mainstream media is that Silvergate deserved its fate. It bet big on a risky industry and faced the consequences when a credit crunch led to a depository flight. It had even possibly become party Sam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1839017860838076809)  2024-09-25T19:03Z 201.4K followers, 283.8K engagements


"People who defend Aztec culture like to point out that other historical civilizations engaged in an array of brutality including human sacrifice. This is true but what makes Aztec society unique is not the presence of human sacrifice but its centrality. An analog can be found in the institution of slavery. Historically speaking slavery has been found in almost every complex civilization. However historians often distinguish societies with slaves from slave societies. Antebellum Mississippi for example was not merely a society with slaves it was a slave society: slaves formed the majority of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1666442488767299590)  2023-06-07T13:50Z 201.9K followers, 20.7K engagements


"If this debauched gender-goblin pride parade wasnt bad enough consider that the Aztecs also sacrificed children to the god Tlaloc who was pleased by their tears because they resembled the rain he controlled. Archeological evidence suggests that on the way to execution children were tortured and maimed to this end. Virtually the entire Aztec calendar was marked by these special sacrifices meant to tell old myths or symbolize on-the-nose ritualized requests. This is all on top of the [--] or so run-of-the-mill human sacrifices which were performed each day just so the next would come. Today we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1666443522604511235)  2023-06-07T13:54Z 201.9K followers, 18.3K engagements


"The first internal comms on Gemini from Sundar From: Sundar Pichai To: Google "Hi everyone I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias to be clear that's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong. Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We're already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts. No Al is perfect especially at this emerging stage of the industry's development but we know the bar is high for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1762842476744708171)  2024-02-28T14:09Z 201.9K followers, 1.7M engagements

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