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# ![@Steve_Sailer Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::209693451.png) @Steve_Sailer Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer posts on X about in the, los angeles, gold, the great 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**
[celebrities](/list/celebrities)  11.59% [countries](/list/countries)  9.93% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  9.6% [finance](/list/finance)  6.95% [pga golfers](/list/pga-golfers)  #1173 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.66% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.32% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.32% [musicians](/list/musicians)  0.66% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  0.33%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 8.28%, [los angeles](/topic/los-angeles) #737, [gold](/topic/gold) 3.31%, [the great](/topic/the-great) #589, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.65%, [the new](/topic/the-new) 2.32%, [new york](/topic/new-york) 2.32%, [black](/topic/black) #2237, [the olympics](/topic/the-olympics) #806, [india](/topic/india) 1.99%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@rambovanhalen](/creator/undefined) [@razibkhan](/creator/undefined) [@dilanesper](/creator/undefined) [@sermadx](/creator/undefined) [@petersbrooking](/creator/undefined) [@charlesmurray](/creator/undefined) [@bendreyfuss](/creator/undefined) [@davidastinwalsh](/creator/undefined) [@atulyagopaljee](/creator/undefined) [@giancarlosopo](/creator/undefined) [@legalfil](/creator/undefined) [@stevesailer](/creator/undefined) [@insights198](/creator/undefined) [@herandrews](/creator/undefined) [@reaperintherye](/creator/undefined) [@ktunaxaamerika](/creator/undefined) [@edwardt67402509](/creator/undefined) [@policyenjoyer](/creator/undefined) [@jacobashell](/creator/undefined) [@pegobryen](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[New York Times Co. (NYT)](/topic/$nyt) [Dana Incorporated (DAN)](/topic/$dan)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"On Wednesday near the beach in Orange County a generic-looking BIPOC crazy man hit with his Lexus California's most Republican-looking white man an ER doctor then ranting about "white privilege" stabbed him to death. No mention yet in NYT or WP of this "stochastic terrorism""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1621973128749654017)  2023-02-04T20:45Z 177.2K followers, 229.3K engagements


"@anarchyinblack What about an Aleut who knows all racial groups on sight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1758285693984628784)  2024-02-16T00:22Z 177.2K followers, 506.6K engagements


"@echetus Horses make more horses bicycles don't make bicycles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1918838055529828840)  2025-05-04T01:20Z 177.2K followers, 427.4K engagements


"An example of nurture and nature working together: The [--] greatest golfers of the last [--] years Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson grew up in Southern California playing golf [--] months per year. In contrast Canadians tend to be golf-crazed Scotsmen but only Mike Weir won a major. I promised a post on John von Neumann after the controversy last week. Unfortunately correcting a half-century of junk scholarship about Johnny and the credulity of pop-hereditarian beliefs about him has taken me more than [--] days. It has taken me [--] days. Coming tomorrow https://t.co/DneDYqnnLG I promised a post on John"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1988180610792423688)  2025-11-11T09:42Z 177.3K followers, 15.5K engagements


"@lefineder A few years ago Spielberg announced he was going to produce a TV series based on Kubrick's unmade script about Napoleon. Haven 't heard anything since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2015733054682321029)  2026-01-26T10:26Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@NotRealMusic It's weird how few great women songwriters there have been. Dorothy Fields was an important lyricist of the Great American Songbook era but there were extraordinarily few until the eary 1960s when Brill Building husband-wife teams like Goffin-King and Mann-Weil emerged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2015737783877587404)  2026-01-26T10:45Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Ign_J_Reilly @NotRealMusic Dolly Parton really was a famous songwriter (I Will Always Love You and Jolene) but Patsy Cline's most famous song Crazy was by Willie Nelson Aretha's Respect by Otis Redding and Janis's Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristoffersen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2015739287283892305)  2026-01-26T10:51Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Here's the hilariously ignorant science denialist article about IQ and race that the New York Times ran above the fold on Page [--] of its Sunday edition yesterday along with my extensive response: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-science-denialism https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-science-denialism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2015855398142804066)  2026-01-26T18:32Z 177.2K followers, 50.1K engagements


"My impression is that there wasn't all that much elite emigration out of England except Puritans in the 1630s Tories in the 1650s maybe top farmers to Rhodesia. The country that really got hammered by top talent outflow was Scotland much of that to England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2016377483285954887)  2026-01-28T05:07Z 177.3K followers, 32.5K engagements


"@washingtonpost African Americans die by homicide [--] times as much as whites almost at all at the hands of other blacks and about [---] times as often as Hispanics. Could not black-on-black murder be a major source of stress on blacks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2016462182620570009)  2026-01-28T10:43Z 177.2K followers, 68.1K engagements


"@davidshor @AntinomeWLP @Bonecondor I don't fly very much so when I do fly I try to get a window seat on the north side of the airliner so I can fully see the Grand Canyon and the like. Guys who make more money than me have probably seen the Grand Canyon countless times so they prefer convenient window seats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2016463931825697273)  2026-01-28T10:50Z 177.2K followers, 11.4K engagements


"https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-indigenous-english-dumber-than https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-indigenous-english-dumber-than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2016647886663274559)  2026-01-28T23:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"New on SteveSailer . Net -- Dr. Oz vs. Men with Gold Chains The Trump Administration's favorite Ottoman is on the warpath against Russian Armenian hospice fraud in the San Fernando Valley. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/dr-oz-vs-men-with-gold-chains https://www.stevesailer.net/p/dr-oz-vs-men-with-gold-chains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2016682801668694022)  2026-01-29T01:20Z 177.2K followers, 12.3K engagements


"@JacobAShell @obversers I made up a sci-fi story in which Trump and Modi abruptly sign a mutual open borders treaty between USA and India and over time West Virginians flood Uttar Pradesh with Burger Kings college football and a 400' statue of Jesus eating a Whopper. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/2076-christian-butcher-runs-for-pm https://www.stevesailer.net/p/2076-christian-butcher-runs-for-pm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017037373654389155)  2026-01-30T00:49Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Top100Rick And yet Torrey Pines' tournament track record is sensational: Tiger's win at the [----] US Open was perhaps the most memorable US Open ever. Jon Rahm won the last one. Tiger won [--] regular events there and Phil 3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017080689955656093)  2026-01-30T03:41Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"From SteveSailer . Net -- Winnin' Ugly vs. Winning Pretty Let's look at the data for the wildly different gay male representation in figure skating ice hockey and mountaineering. Ruth lured George "Because it's there" Mallory away from Bloomsbury. Link in reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017363769106800776)  2026-01-30T22:26Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@anon_anon_anon8 @JacobAShell @obversers Sandy figured that if he bought the Tropicana Motel overlooking the Hollywood freeway then tourist kids arriving by station wagon in L.A. would shout "Dad let's stay at the Sandy Koufax Motel" But instead rock stars like Jim Morrison moved in. Sandy sold out pretty soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017367897711251482)  2026-01-30T22:42Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@kunley_drukpa Don't try this at your local hippo enclosure kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017491043781120322)  2026-01-31T06:52Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@matthew_petti I met a guy who was a [--] year old intern working at the office of a Very Famous Lawyer. He said Jeffrey Epstein was the only client who was friendly to the interns like himself. Apparently he had a likable personality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017492436613009645)  2026-01-31T06:57Z 177.3K followers, 109.8K engagements


"@pegobry_en What proportion of Jeffrey Epstein's wealth did he get from just two guys Leon Black and Leslie Wexner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017523056214949948)  2026-01-31T08:59Z 177.1K followers, 35.8K engagements


"Architectural firms' renderings always portray what their project might look like (if everything works out perfectly) at [--] pm on May 31st. Now shows you a more realistic view of what it will look like on an average day. http://AntiRender.com At last an AI tool I can get behind Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November. https://t.co/23Ay7MD4ka https://t.co/DikU2lyDay http://AntiRender.com At last an AI tool I can get behind Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017548698000277886)  2026-01-31T10:41Z 177.2K followers, 26.3K engagements


"@L0m3z The feds date the Towers Financial ponzi scheme that Jeffrey Epstein got away with uncharged from 1988-1993. The late 1980s was also when Epstein met Victoria's Secret founder Leslie Wexner according to an actress who accompanied him to the meeting: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-get-so-rich https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-get-so-rich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017749883336433716)  2026-02-01T00:00Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Cincinnati_Son Lots of gentile whites love Trump's moxie but richer ones seldom do. A hundred years ago rich German Jews wouldn't have let a Marty Supreme-type hustler anywhere near their country clubs. But Jews have gotten less worried about making a good impression on gentiles since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017773732790755493)  2026-02-01T01:35Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@dansblog1a @Ed_Odyssey_ They used to make comedy movies about obnoxious self-centered characters with Bill Murray Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy. Some of them were really funny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2017821795320271264)  2026-02-01T04:46Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlakeSNeff What percentage of Americans making a million dollars per year in finance played sports in high school In college"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018078091298615751)  2026-02-01T21:44Z 177.3K followers, 13.7K engagements


"@JacobAShell When I was a kid in the 1960s lots of kids' shows were very focused on the decolonizing world like "Johnny Quest" or specifically African-focused like "Daktari" in the Serengeti or the lion movie "Born Free." It was a hopeful time regarding decolonized countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018080232679543289)  2026-02-01T21:53Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's my idea for a Nicholas Cage sequel: "National Treasure: Book of College Presidents." When they make you Harvard president they give you a padlocked book. It turns out to be a dog-eared copy of "The Bell Curve" because it explains why you still need to use race quotas. In [----] Jeffrey Epstein emailed Noam Chomsky about the BlackWhite test-score and IQ gap referencing material from Mike Enochs The Right Stuff. In the email to Chomsky Epstein notes that Nobel Prize winner James Watson was thrown out of academia for accepting some https://t.co/NicAZkmSX8 In [----] Jeffrey Epstein emailed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018083954377834874)  2026-02-01T22:08Z 177.2K followers, 24.7K engagements


"New on SteveSailer dot Net: I Made the Epstein Files But for boring reasons . https://www.stevesailer.net/p/i-made-the-epstein-files https://www.stevesailer.net/p/i-made-the-epstein-files"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018087732132946316)  2026-02-01T22:23Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"You hear a lot from all sides about America in [----] being wracked by violent chaos . yet the country now seems strikingly less homicidal than during the recent Racial Reckoning after The Establishment went nuts over George Floyd: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/01/crime-dc-homicides-january/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/01/crime-dc-homicides-january/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018100599385120825)  2026-02-01T23:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@raggedy_manican @realpeteyb123 Nolan had a lot of success with an Irishman playing a Jew in "Oppenheimer." He's worked with a lot of actors who are ethnically similar to himself like Matt Damon Christian Bale Heath Ledger etc. so his North Atlantic casting for "Odysseus" is in his comfort zone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018103156505530840)  2026-02-01T23:24Z 177.2K followers, 19.6K engagements


"@GoneAnon0 @SchnapsideeG But because polite society bans discourse documenting what American social science has discovered over the last [--] years about the racial gaps in IQ few realize that the current trend toward banning racial preferences will devastate black representation in high IQ positions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018107322971930894)  2026-02-01T23:40Z 177.2K followers, 17.3K engagements


"@baseballcrank After all egalitarian ideologues like Stalin and Pol Pot never hurt anybody"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018110231327518815)  2026-02-01T23:52Z 177.2K followers, 12.6K engagements


"@GiancarloSopo A black actress might reasonably be cast as a supernatural character but Helen of Troy is supposed to be a real woman. And there's no plausible explanation how a black woman could get to Greece in [----] BC. So that casting stunt just takes you out of suspension of disbelief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018114801902440636)  2026-02-02T00:10Z 177.3K followers, 64.1K engagements


"@JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Thanks. But then we need Zeus to be black too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018156968943435857)  2026-02-02T02:58Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This White Supremacy is getting out of control. BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. https://t.co/8WGMAODKRd BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. https://t.co/8WGMAODKRd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018174722404753642)  2026-02-02T04:08Z 177.2K followers, 20.4K engagements


"@StatisticUrban My vague memory from [----] is that President Gerald Ford's mighty All-American jaws heroically devoured the entire tamale he was offered on the campaign trail corn husk wrapper and all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018176604573466894)  2026-02-02T04:16Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@jon_wertheim Tennis stars have gotten more dominant in the 21st Century than in the 20th Century which is the opposite of say baseball where Cy Young won [---] games or golf where Tiger Woods was incredibly good but came up [--] majors short of Jack Nicklaus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018186667572838527)  2026-02-02T04:56Z 177.2K followers, 44.9K engagements


"@CMario90914478 @jon_wertheim In [----] I saw 61-year-old Sam Snead almost win the L.A. Open vs. a major championship-quality field (Nicklaus Watson Palmer Trevino Miller Weiskopf etc) pulling within [--] stroke on 71st Now golfers swing so hard they wreck themselves young (except Justin Rose and Phil)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018210930715422819)  2026-02-02T06:32Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@Mortscab @Sandeen57 Will Top Golf Americans ever get good enough to dominate the Ryder Cup like the USA used to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018293001756479514)  2026-02-02T11:58Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Leftists wouldn't issue a peep right if Daniel Day-Lewis were cast as Othello Right For the Woke it's all about who is the best actor which DDL is so they'd be utterly quiet about the [--] time Oscar winner playing Othello. Sure "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018471410881191945)  2026-02-02T23:47Z 177.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@watchdog_jedi @CraigMurphy8881 @GiancarloSopo @John_Tee_Ford Charlie Chan can't be played by a white actor in this century but Lucy Liu has played Dr. Watson on TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018474525382631689)  2026-02-03T00:00Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo And why hasn't Daniel Day Lewis played Othello while Denzel Washington has played both Othello and Macbeth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018477634221637665)  2026-02-03T00:12Z 177.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@FortranGary @charlesmurray Rushton was kind of a con man financially and in his personal life but his research replicates pretty well. Being on the politically incorrect side of the scientific debate apparently made him more careful than if he were on the left where he would have had easy pickings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018478851140342166)  2026-02-03T00:17Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlakeSNeff Paul Johnson's history of the English The Offshore Islanders written while he as still an Orwell-like leftist nationalist is also in this vein. It's one of my favorite books by Johnson since the perspective is lost today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018492010701693082)  2026-02-03T01:09Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@CaitlinPacific Somebody I knew who knew Epstein said the backs of Epstein's hands were the hairiest he'd ever seen suggesting Epstein was very high in testosterone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018492357809696850)  2026-02-03T01:10Z 177.2K followers, 22.9K engagements


"It's an issue regarding Palestinian Muslims vs. Jews. How closely related are Palestinians genetically to ancient Canaanites Well from one perspective they have a lot of DNA in common with the indigenous of [----] years ago. On the other hand they are about 5% sub-Saharan who are very different _on average_. So you really need to look at the question from a couple of perspectives to avoid seizing on whichever perspective you find ideologically/ethnocentrically congenial. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018493788877132095 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018493788877132095"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018493788877132095)  2026-02-03T01:16Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Not in this millennium. In contrast Denzel Washington can play Macbeth without anybody objecting that The Scottish Play is about Scotsmen. I'm generally in favor of stage casting being wide open but casting for close-ups (film TV) you have to worry about losing credibility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018496741625204785)  2026-02-03T01:28Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@Petersbrooking @GiancarloSopo @kolsenertito @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller A lot of key incidents in the Trojan War like Helen and Paris or the Trojan Horse aren't in Homer but in lost epics for which we just have summaries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018498577987690992)  2026-02-03T01:35Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@antipode_elliot @isaacdecastro @tabletmag The scene where Jonah Hill tells Leonardo DiCaprio that he's married to his cousin but it's not like you think is a classic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018510858322948477)  2026-02-03T02:24Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@MrGoldBeaver @avidseries Decreasing ignorance about the findings of American social science over the last [--] years will level the playing field so racist anti-white arguments like Ibram X. Kendi's hate-driven explanation of why all the problems of blacks are due to whites will no longer go unchallenged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018512857835704570)  2026-02-03T02:32Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@razibkhan Once again Matt Damon is kind of a non-ideal choice but he's been at least pretty good in about a million movies so I imagine the film's financiers figure he won't screw it up and it's up to Nolan's Name-Above-the-Title aura to bring in [--] figures in box office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018517767302139958)  2026-02-03T02:51Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@razibkhan Jaoquin Phoenix is great at playing mentally handicapped guys but he was terrible at playing the ultra-fast thinking Napoleon Bonaparte. Damon seems to play mostly middle of the road protagonists (he's played them well over his endless career). A good enough choice "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018518974431175057)  2026-02-03T02:56Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@matthewstoller OK well then what are some big acts of governance that Epstein was involved in He seemed to have a lot of time on his hands more than most really important people. And Ghislaine spent a huge amount of time on Reddit which I wasn't aware is how the strings are pulled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018525422049431813)  2026-02-03T03:22Z 177.2K followers, 17.7K engagements


"@paul_hundred @razibkhan Viggo Mortensen won his Oscar for playing a Joe Pesci-type character. He doesn't look Italian but he is on his mom's side. It seems like we are short of Eastern Mediterranean big name stars at the moment. Benicio del Toro from PR played a Maronite in Phoenician Scheme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018529702164734065)  2026-02-03T03:39Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@paul_hundred @razibkhan There's a famous essay from the New Yorker in the 1940s (A.J. Liebling) about how New Orleans is the further outpost of the Hellenistic world. Tom Wolfe made a similar point in his novel about a meathead Miami Cuban cop that he still knows the whole story of the Trojan War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018536446328701036)  2026-02-03T04:06Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- Why Did Silicon Valley Go Unwoke Because all the hissy fits were getting in the way of getting stuff done https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-did-silicon-valley-go-unwoke https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-did-silicon-valley-go-unwoke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018540951246115031)  2026-02-03T04:24Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@razibkhan @creekandholler For instance what was Homer talking about with his "wine-dark sea""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018590046946050499)  2026-02-03T07:39Z 177.2K followers, 10.3K engagements


"@paul_hundred Right. E.g. the Democratic machine bosses who did the country a big favor in [----] by forcing FDR to drop Henry Wallace for Harry Truman as VP were a pretty unfragrant bunch but "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018622352431747499)  2026-02-03T09:47Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@sfmcguire79 Black male youths die by drowning way too often. Our society should be socially constructing solutions for this tragic problem not embracing black lack of swimming ability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018623074980270329)  2026-02-03T09:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@R1b11B1P @sfmcguire79 The great boxer Joe Frazier who beat Muhammad Ali in [----] nearly drowned during the swimming race in the first "Superstars" competition on ABC in the 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018643687786643855)  2026-02-03T11:12Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@LegalistsOfGor @JacobAShell That seems to be the crown prince of Saudi Arabia's goal: we'll use our vast wealth to get our young men interested in golf stand-up comedy auto racing and other fair-minded enterprises besides homicidal religious fanaticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018650123476369675)  2026-02-03T11:37Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@Ralph_L8 @razibkhan @creekandholler The King of Corinth announces: And all this week our regal selves are proud to present the famous bard Homer who will recite The Odyssey at our palace from dusk to midnight. To make the time pass faster every time Homer mentions "wine-dark sea" drink a shot of mead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018651652040114469)  2026-02-03T11:43Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@theyondan @GarrettPetersen Right. The current mode is as if Peter O'Toole was cast as a hereditary prince of Araby with no explanation of why this extreme Nordic phenotype is an Arab. C'mon scriptwriters at least make an effort to concoct some kind of adventurous back story for us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018655464805003415)  2026-02-03T11:59Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@TheNextMazer @GarrettPetersen Right. As I wrote in my review of "The Dark Knight Rises" Christopher Nolan is slightly to the right of the Duke of Wellington. (Likewise his more American brother Jonathan Nolan is slightly to the right of Pat Buchanan.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018655996126871838)  2026-02-03T12:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@herandrews My son won a scholarship to a superb Old Money prep school outside Pasadena CA. The admission office loved hapas like the half Asian salutatorian who went to Stanford who was also a brilliant professional magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Full Asians not so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018658681181909265)  2026-02-03T12:11Z 177.3K followers, 54.2K engagements


"@Abyssal_du_Nord @Reaction_Hero @theyondan @GarrettPetersen There were very few elephants in northwestern Europe in [---] AD but Charlemagne kept in his stables to show his guests an elephant sent to him by Haroun al-Raschid (of the Sinbad the Sailor stories) sultan of Baghdad. Improbable details like that fit in well in epic stories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018818086816899286)  2026-02-03T22:45Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@bendreyfuss Mexican-Irish actor Anthony Quinn played an Arab an Eskimo a Frenchman a Filipino a Greek a Native American a Ukrainian a Russian a Native Hawaiian a Chinese an Italian etc. Rumi Malek a Copt is our modern Anthony Quinn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018821045780938844)  2026-02-03T22:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@bendreyfuss True but Brit Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal and Mexican-Irish Anthony Quinn as Auda in "Lawrence of Arabia" are two of the best supporting performances ever. And if the Levantine Omar Sharif can play a Bedouin should he be allowed to play a Russian in Dr. Zhivago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018822135700156416)  2026-02-03T23:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@sgautam206 @bendreyfuss Yes to play Freddie Mercury the "Bohemian Rhapsody" filmmakers should have found a Parsi born with four extra teeth. Previously Sacha Baron-Cohen was slated to play Freddie Mercury. Would that have been Woke or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018822988339274101)  2026-02-03T23:04Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@bendreyfuss New Zealander Cliff Curtis has some Maori ancestry so he's been allowed to play Latinos and Arabs under the principle that all non-whites look more or less alike. Or something. Nobody has ever quite articulated the rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018823554993885261)  2026-02-03T23:06Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@pegobry_en Prime Minister Asquith took his First Lord of the Admiralty and prospective son-in-law Winston Churchill on a two month summer cruise in c. [----]. Asquith refused to talk shop the whole cruise so Winston secretly did [--] hours work each early morning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018825558982095233)  2026-02-03T23:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@pegobry_en After [--] years as Prime Minister the indolent Asquith finally got squeezed out of office by the workaholic dynamo David Lloyd-George in the middle of the Great War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018826085941788706)  2026-02-03T23:17Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@pegobry_en Winston Churchill almost married Prime Minister Asquith's daughter Viola. When Winston decided to marry another Viola jumped off a cliff but survived. She and Winston remained great pals. Viola's granddaughter is "Fight Club" actress Helena Bonham-Carter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018827227266425029)  2026-02-03T23:21Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@charlesmurray Why is the black percentage at the Stuyvesant public exam high school in Manhattan so infinitesimal Because most black kids smart enough to get into Stuyvesant will be offered scholarships to legendary private schools like Dalton which of course they take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018829936023535930)  2026-02-03T23:32Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@DavidAstinWalsh Kendi was always a cringe [---] IQ public intellectual but he swept the field for a decade by blaming all black problems on the malevolence of whites. After all the alternative is Charles Murray's view that average differences in IQ and crime rate matter & that's inconceivable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018832029689970890)  2026-02-03T23:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@DavidAstinWalsh If Matthew Yglesias et al finally come out and say what they've been hinting at -- yeah The Bell Curve is basically more or less right and everybody should read it and learn from it -- we might not have a resurgence of Ibram X. Kendiism again in a few years. But will they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018832411409391908)  2026-02-03T23:42Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@kausmickey I visited Warsaw last summer and it looked like what people in [----] hoped Downtown L.A. would look like by 2025: lots of new skyscrapers well-dressed pedestrians and the occasional quaint wino here and there. But then came meth and fentanyl. Oh well "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018855686097231983)  2026-02-04T01:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Ed_Realist @herandrews At minimum your old suggestion that the GPA boost for taking an Advanced class should be reduced from [---] grade points to 0.5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018856412974387488)  2026-02-04T01:17Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@feanor1988 @janecoaston Ryan Coogler set Wakanda at such high altitude that much of it is covered in snow. (He has visited Lesotho which has a ski hill.) My guess is Coogler subscribes to the Cold Winter Theory of IQ where the Bantu expansion reached South Africa earlier. He has visited Lesotho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018862436456313303)  2026-02-04T01:41Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@herandrews Harvard fears that if it doesn't maintain a thumb on the scale against Asians it will wind up like Yogi Berra's former favorite restaurant -- so popular that nobody goes there anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018865232035340324)  2026-02-04T01:52Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@bendreyfuss The problem is that it is confidence-sapping to see that the filmmakers know so little about history that they would cast Denzel Washington as Hannibal. Denzel was fine in Gladiator [--] because people of a random race winding up in Rome is easy to imagine but not Hannibal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018874960702570801)  2026-02-04T02:31Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@DKThomp Right the U.S. taxes the upper middle class pretty hard but not the poor or working class. And the rich get handled pretty easily too with income tax rates maxing out around what $500000 these days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018882624102826143)  2026-02-04T03:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@aceniederhoff After the Shoal Creek PGA brouhaha c. [----] the PGA Tour made a rule that tournament host clubs had to have at least one black member. Most clubs (such as Augusta National) immediately admitted one or more black executives although Cypress Point did not until Condi Rice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018937647759249684)  2026-02-04T06:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@bendreyfuss My personal view is that if Denzel Washington wants to play Macbeth great And if Daniel Day-Lewis wants to play Othello great I'm in favor of theater kids putting on shows. I like shows so I like theater kids like Denzel and Daniel. I am against their enemies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018961847114940673)  2026-02-04T08:16Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Peter_Nimitz When Denny Hastert became 3rd in line to be President the Secret Service made him put locks on his doors in Aurora IL so nobody could walk in and steal nuclear launch secrets. Then he was discovered to be a gay molester. I think about this. But I've never figured it out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018962980638175457)  2026-02-04T08:20Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@tedfrank @classi_lib Robert Maxwell was the closest thing to a Bond Villain I've ever encountered: in [----] he tried to cheat my firm in a deal I was negotiating out of one . MILLION . dollars. But still . while no doubt Ghislaine Maxwell looked for a man like dear old dad "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018968106778132752)  2026-02-04T08:41Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@tedfrank @classi_lib Epstein called Dr. Gregory Cochran his "houseguest" when Cochran spent [--] minutes in Epstein's office at pre-arrest Epstein's request explaining his scientific paper. Epstein was a social climber"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018968606047129623)  2026-02-04T08:43Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@feanor1988 @janecoaston My guess is that Ryan Coogler speculates that if the Bantu expansion had started [-----] years ago instead of [----] Bantus in southern / high altitude Lesotho (which he unusually has visited) would have evolved into a high IQ race like the Scots who perfected the steam engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018974936430424568)  2026-02-04T09:08Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@nut_history If we had film of this Roberto Clemente's [----] inside the park walk-off grand slam it would be as famous as Willie Mays' [----] catch played every time Clemente is mentions. But we don't so it's obscure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019168164513493009)  2026-02-04T21:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@BP4Politics @EmersenLee Although by the [----] election Kamala was doing well in the nice white suburbs of Kansas City while Trump was dominating among both the Old Weird Americans (French Canadian lumberjacks Melungeons etc.) and the New Weird Americans (Persian Jews Maharishi-followers etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019208612049219668)  2026-02-05T00:37Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"This is Unsilenced Science's graph: https://x.com/UnsilencedSci/status/1973219411952906374 The new SAT report is out. -Asian scores slightly improved. Every other racial category declined especially Hispanics and multi-racial students. -Native-American scores reached a new record low despite the number taking it returning to the lows of [----] (contra @grok) https://t.co/oYmu8iuJaP https://x.com/UnsilencedSci/status/1973219411952906374 The new SAT report is out. -Asian scores slightly improved. Every other racial category declined especially Hispanics and multi-racial students. -Native-American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019249234973999416)  2026-02-05T03:18Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@FolliesBlue @nut_history My guess is that the first game of the [----] World Series in which Willie May made The Catch was the first baseball game ever watched on TV for several million of Americans considering how TV sales were exploding in 1954"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019542870907318442)  2026-02-05T22:45Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@DavidAstinWalsh The USA is [--] years into the Affirmative Action Era which dates to the Nixon Administration's [----] Philadelphia Plan greenlighting racial preferences. That's exactly [--] generations. Is [--] generations time enough for a review and a rethink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019544495440961717)  2026-02-05T22:51Z 177.2K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@WestsideLAGuy @fredsoda Perhaps but I suspect that Harvard has superb (but secret) per capita donation data. They apparently didn't see enough improvement in Asian alumni over time to settle before Harvard's humiliating loss at the Supreme Court in 2023"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019550446021710104)  2026-02-05T23:15Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@JoyceCarolOates The most prominent M to F Trans weren't bullied sissy boys like you think. They were instead examples of masculinity at its most heroic/toxic like the outer space entrepreneur I went to MBA school with who became "America's highest paid female CEO.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019551423831372174)  2026-02-05T23:19Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Washington Post was wasting away before Bezos bought it and poured in cash for a decade. Without Bezos the Post would have faded badly by [----]. Interesting perspective from a WaPo alumna: "Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper even the ones with no Interesting perspective from a WaPo alumna: "Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019552554468966884)  2026-02-05T23:23Z 177.3K followers, 16.7K engagements


"In the Epstein Files if you rank the top [---] email senders by how many emails they sent (i.e. not by being mentioned a lot like Trump was) what percentage were men White Jewish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019555973061648859)  2026-02-05T23:37Z 177.3K followers, 41.8K engagements


"@RealDianeYap Read the post about why Harvard insisted on continuing to discriminate against Asians despite that leading to a humiliating defeat in the Supreme Court in [----]. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-should-colleges-respond-to-the https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-should-colleges-respond-to-the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019556315648127114)  2026-02-05T23:38Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@JoyceCarolOates Something amusing is that prominent late onset M to F trans tend to be far more rightwing than everybody expects: Jenner McCloskey Morris Donnelly etc. It's never some liberal NPR announcer with an indoor voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019558307967693301)  2026-02-05T23:46Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@amyalkon @JoyceCarolOates At Harvard they don't kick you out if you quit the football team so if McCloskey played quarterback for Harvard it's because he wanted to play quarterback for Harvard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019559964206096479)  2026-02-05T23:53Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@janecoaston The reason "Wolf of Wall Street" goes on for [--] hours is because it had a lavish budget and that's because Leonardo DiCaprio pretended to be Best Friend Forever of Malaysian embezzler Jho Low who stole billions from his country and invested millions in Scorsese's movie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019562515886486013)  2026-02-06T00:03Z 177.2K followers, 16.2K engagements


"@KlausJennings Leaving aside Epstein's personal assistants the pool guy his car repairman and the like what are the percentages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019565005767926005)  2026-02-06T00:13Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Legal_Fil The tastes of sports media [--] years ago were more upper class and cosmopolitan (e.g. Wide World of Sports). Americans felt they should try to be more interested in what the rest of the world especially European elites were doing like ski-jumping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019571759033569345)  2026-02-06T00:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Legal_Fil NBC has perfected making the Winter Olympics appeal to moms whom advertisers prefer. But Twitter is dominated by men so they tend to complain that NOBODY is interested in the Winter Olympics anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019572494936780804)  2026-02-06T00:42Z 177.3K followers, 13K engagements


"@Legal_Fil Sports Illustrated in [----] ran lots of articles by WASP aristocratic writers like George Plimpton about European aristocratic sports like the luge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019573329376755808)  2026-02-06T00:46Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@hedeedit @Legal_Fil It turned out that Paris makes a really awesome television set for the Olympics especially for outdoor races through the streets and over the bridges of the Seine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019573813336580557)  2026-02-06T00:48Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Legal_Fil All over the world spectator sports interest has gotten more homogenous than a half century ago: soccer in most of the world American football in USA. In [----] attitudes to the Olympics were: Cool we get to watch weird foreign sports Now: Yuck where's football/soccer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019575954503614817)  2026-02-06T00:56Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@DonnaMae065 @janecoaston Read up on the how the famous Lamborghini scene's budget was scratched together"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019576350747848920)  2026-02-06T00:58Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@DavidPhelan3 @Legal_Fil Golf writer Herbert Warren Wind was the WASPiest Jewish writer ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019577188002197941)  2026-02-06T01:01Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@HelmetofScipio @Legal_Fil So are females and males give their womenfolk a lot of the money they earn to spend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019580512415936530)  2026-02-06T01:14Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@CricketRookies @Legal_Fil Horse racing was a huge sport when I was a kid [--] years ago but now we have so many other ways to gamble that it has faded a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019610637668962561)  2026-02-06T03:14Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@OncheonR @RealDianeYap "Meanwhile the most high profile cheating case was mainly white people." Similarly man bites dog news is bigger than dog bites man. TV stars conniving in hilarious ways (second string placekicker) to get their kids into USC rather than Arizona St. was fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019611358208356654)  2026-02-06T03:17Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@DanFriedman81 @Hotshot_Movie San Francisco finally has a competent mayor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019615290578112778)  2026-02-06T03:33Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@SidKhurana3607 Most foreign languages that are spoken a lot in California are also spoken a lot in New York. This one however is not. So I will guess Vietnamese. Vietnamese tended to arrive around [----] when NYC was broke so they didn't go much to New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019616234422301151)  2026-02-06T03:36Z 177.3K followers, 43.6K engagements


"@Iris_Sandwich2 @SidKhurana3607 Lots of Vietnamese arrived in 1975-1980 when Houston was booming due to the Energy Crisis. NYC in contrast was broke in 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019616661863821566)  2026-02-06T03:38Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@kerwin65230 @SidKhurana3607 The oil economy was booming in Houston due to the Energy Crisis during the big influx of South Vietnamese in 1975-1980. New York City in contrast was in dire shape until Wall Street took off in 1982"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019620774190137349)  2026-02-06T03:54Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@SidKhurana3607 This list probably correlates with where did a surprising number of college football players go to high school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019623929326014971)  2026-02-06T04:07Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@the_transit_guy Rio de Janeiro is like if Yosemite Valley was on a tropical beach. I've sat in a cafe along Copacabana Beach and watched roped-up rockclimbers edge their way up a [----] foot cliff four blocks inland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019627703536873544)  2026-02-06T04:22Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewMorral Homicide rates by state are basically how black the state is followed by how much the whites are Scots-Irish vs. Yankee with a weird outlier for New Mexico"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019644065588080817)  2026-02-06T05:27Z 177.2K followers, 21.9K engagements


"@SirCesareBorgia @AndrewMorral If you add % American Indian your homicide correlation model that starts with % black it gets a little more accurate. There are also seems to be a dangerous Latino belt from New Mexico up into southern Colorado like Colorado Springs has a surprisingly high homicide rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019650604352893435)  2026-02-06T05:53Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@FischerKing64 Hollywood treated the British Empire as a blast: e.g. Gunga Din"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019656271297933746)  2026-02-06T06:15Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@rorysutherland McDonald's is German-American cuisine. So are the hot dogs that FDR served the royal family in 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019660848042787117)  2026-02-06T06:34Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@dpinsen @ThomasCyr777 How much do NFL MVP Matthew Stafford and his childhood best friend Clayton Kershaw a former National League MVP in baseball look alike I recall I once found proof that they aren't actually secret half-brothers but I can't remember what it was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019680433575981395)  2026-02-06T07:51Z 177.3K followers, 13K engagements


"@dpinsen @ThomasCyr777 Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams and Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers grew up best friends in Highland Park TX. But while Kershaw was born in Dallas on 3/19/88 Stafford was born in Tampa on 2/7/88 so they are almost certainly not half-brothers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019686853977477316)  2026-02-06T08:17Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@lost_nomad__ The [--] counties of the Los Angeles metro area are a colossal node of [--] million people with no obvious water or mountain barriers to separate them. To the south however Camp Pendleton is a [--] mile wide Marine base that definitively divides the L.A. metro from San Diego metro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019710164845416675)  2026-02-06T09:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@jwh_6800 @lost_nomad__ But Camp Pendleton takes up [--] miles of Pacific coastline so virtually nobody south of the Marine base in Greater San Diego goes to high school with anybody north of the base in Greater L.A. That's what likely matters for Facebook connections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019710926497386725)  2026-02-06T09:53Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@JustinWolfers What happened to your hair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019720561358991382)  2026-02-06T10:31Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- The Winter Olympics Are Here Twitter he-me swear that THIS time they won't watch girly sports. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-winter-olympics-are-here https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-winter-olympics-are-here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019729971183599814)  2026-02-06T11:08Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@default_friend @herandrews Because there are several billion Asians in this world whose ancestors evolved culturally and/or genetically under more stringent Malthusian rigors than in the less Malthusian West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019906316031107133)  2026-02-06T22:49Z 177.3K followers, 30.5K engagements


"@Educatingpeopl2 @ClaudeScuba @bendreyfuss Seems reasonable. E.g. if I were going to make an epic movie about Charlemagne I'd try to include Charlemagne's personal elephant which Haroun al-Rashid the famous sultan of Baghdad had sent him as a diplomatic gift. Adventure tales include lots of rare events"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019913842575438160)  2026-02-06T23:19Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@lavadub77 @AndrewMorral David Hackett Fischer's "Albion Seed" has lots of fun stereotypes about the [--] main types of colonial era British-Americans: Scots-Irish are the rootin'-tootin' orneriest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019915049285087471)  2026-02-06T23:24Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Empty_America The research by this black lady economist at Stanford whose name I forgot is not that there are many overlooked white boys at the 99.5th National Merit Scholar percentile but that a lot of red state white boys around the 90th percentile get badly overlooked by the system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019920419659346326)  2026-02-06T23:45Z 177.3K followers, 17.7K engagements


"@Empty_America Professor Caroline Hoxby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019920928474558683)  2026-02-06T23:47Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@razibkhan Medieval University of Paris was organized around its various "nations" like Germans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019921638222147607)  2026-02-06T23:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@PBarbicane @default_friend @herandrews Harvard economic historian David Landes pointed to the impact of early marriage in China (most women married around age 18) vs. delayed marriage in England (average age from 1200-1800 was [--] to 26) as reason for fewer famines in England despite high quality governance in China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019923241972953208)  2026-02-06T23:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@MuseZack I reread Evelyn Waugh more than anybody else. It's striking that Hemingway was Waugh's abiding icon even though that's not obvious from Waugh's mature prose style. Waugh saw Hemingway as the great liberator from 19th Century stylists like Dickens whom Waugh loathed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019940032279376214)  2026-02-07T01:03Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@VelliMach @MuseZack Tom Wolfe tried writing "Bonfire of the Vanities" serialized in "Rolling Stone" but it came out pretty bad and readers gave up on it. So he had to start over and change Sherman McCoy from journalist to bond trader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019968874310210026)  2026-02-07T02:58Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@razibkhan The David Landes theory is that the Chinese population grew faster than the Western European population under conditions of good government due to earlier marriage ages but then crashed harder when government failed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020000606380048680)  2026-02-07T05:04Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@razibkhan China for instance suffered a catastrophic famine in my lifetime when Mao screwed up in the Great Leap Forward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020001169599525096)  2026-02-07T05:06Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@USA_Polling Manhattan is narrow and surrounded by about [---] degrees of deep water that couldn't be bridged until [----]. It has granite underground to anchor buildings in securely. So it made sense to build tall. Chicago has water on [---] degrees but infinite land otherwise. Still "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020056798582231382)  2026-02-07T08:47Z 177.3K followers, 30.5K engagements


"@souljagoyteller Edward Jay Epstein said that Nixon in old age was the best at leading a serious dinner table discussion he ever saw calling on each guest to contribute exactly when his specific expertise was most valuable to the conversation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020058241380806786)  2026-02-07T08:53Z 177.3K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@BeschlossDC I think I watched the first Super Bowl at my house in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon on tape delay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020058719409827857)  2026-02-07T08:55Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Rongwrong_ @Etanarachel Great Moments in Closed Captioning: Andrea Bocelli is belting out Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot" at Cortina Italy's Winter Olympics opening ceremony and my TV's closed caption labels it: "Singing in a non-English language""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020062874945876357)  2026-02-07T09:11Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@vintagemapstore Really good original names (e.g. "Shiprock") but the ones named after individual cities should be more evocative: e.g. instead of "Los Angeles" use "Hollywood;" instead of "New York" "Gotham.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020065327477035420)  2026-02-07T09:21Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@adam_tooze Nah there were strikingly few Mexicans in California in [----]. For example Harvard man Richard Henry Dana's [----] bestseller "Two Years Before the Mast" emphasized that the San Francisco bay area is the Best Place in the Whole World and nobody lives there (hint hint)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020069211931038087)  2026-02-07T09:36Z 177.3K followers, 14.3K engagements


"@adam_tooze Richard Henry Dana made clear that what's now Los Angeles County with its current population of [--] million was desolate when he frequented it in 1834-1835. The only reliable year round running water was in downtown L.A. L.A.'s population was [----] in the [----] census"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020072005580820800)  2026-02-07T09:47Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@adam_tooze Dana liked the Old Spanish culture around the San Diego and Monterey harbors. But Los Angeles lacked a harbor until a colossal artificial one was built in the 20th Century & it lacked water. And virtually nobody bothered inhabiting the superlative San Francisco Bay Area in 1835"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020074487782490247)  2026-02-07T09:57Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@avrilbradley23 @TheChanfron @HiawathaAvenged "You know you me Elijah Jedediah John and a few other Yanks could probably take over California if we tried.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020290734222663914)  2026-02-08T00:17Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@KateriSeraphina Mostly true but Barack had some resentment of his mother dumping him on her parents. Also 2nd husband Lolo was from an elite rightwing family. His dad was the top Indonesian petroleum geologist. Stanley Ann was pretty Deep State with backing of US gov and Ford Foundation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020292310018453757)  2026-02-08T00:23Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@KateriSeraphina But a lot of Americans had Deep State ties during the well-funded Cold War. E.g. my mom's 2nd best friend's husband was the chief designer of the SR71 spy plane for the CIA. My family's ties were to the hard technical side of the Cold War Obama's to the soft political side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020293043589624057)  2026-02-08T00:26Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@avrilbradley23 @Peter_Nimitz @TheChanfron @HiawathaAvenged Similar in Hawaii: George Clooney played a 1/32nd Hawaiian royal in "The Descendants" whose family owns 9% of Hawaii which is an understatement of size of the actual Bishop holdings. WASPs married interracially when it was in their interests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020297208210550848)  2026-02-08T00:42Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@prewittse @AtulyaGopaljee @dilanesper The Winter Olympics are the Festival of Happy Families: the modal American medalist's dad is an Executive Vice President her mom was a lawyer but retired to be a homemaker and her two brothers play obscure D-1 sports"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020325669100745087)  2026-02-08T02:35Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@PoxThistle27030 @AtulyaGopaljee @prewittse @dilanesper The running tribes of the high Kenyan grasslands are horseless cowboys. What Wyoming cowboys do on horseback like searching for stray calves they do by running"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020346891473703006)  2026-02-08T04:00Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@jimmygandhi @herandrews @wil_da_beast630 Like Harvard let in David Hogg despite nothing special test scores when no other top college wanted him. Ten years later he became Vice Chair of the DNC. Harvard likes celebrities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020351406469968045)  2026-02-08T04:18Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@AtulyaGopaljee @SchizoLLC @dilanesper LeBron James has worked really hard for a really long time. I admire his work ethic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020351865553355037)  2026-02-08T04:19Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@cairoasmith "Lots of couples that look like Slavic mob and Slavic hooker combos purely from the styling." Why wouldn't they be Slavic mobsters and hookers Southern California has lots of people from the ex-Soviet Union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020357498193211908)  2026-02-08T04:42Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@_KeithCook @thwacknicklaus @PGA I'd like to see the PGA go one time to Royal Melbourne. Not a regular thing just do it once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020364501384933400)  2026-02-08T05:10Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@alexandre_lores @KantInEastt Justin Gatlin and Bob Hayes are black but Bobby Morrow (1956 100m gold medalist) and Lindy Remigino (1952) are white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Morrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Morrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020368118351282412)  2026-02-08T05:24Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@KantInEastt NFL star Christian McCaffrey's grandfather Dave Sime came within inches of winning the Olympic 100m gold in [----]. But since [----] U.S. Olympic 100m men have been all black. Better nutrition for blacks after WWII Better coaching"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020370268578009553)  2026-02-08T05:33Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@rhodes_mzra @KantInEastt The other white NBA rookie from Duke Kon Kueppel played for a private HS within the Milwaukee city limits which is relatively urban for white American NBA stars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020376002007097493)  2026-02-08T05:55Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@walterkirn My favorite Jack Parsons story: in [----] his parents in Pasadena overhear their teen son talking about rockets for hours on the phone. They ask who he's talking to and he says "My new friend Werner." Then they get a phone bill for $1000s in calls to the Von Brauns in Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020377443899699437)  2026-02-08T06:01Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Hammers2023 @KantInEastt I went to school from 1964-1976 in Sherman Oaks CA then home to the world's busiest freeway interchange. Where do I go to get back my missing IQ points"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020394174328217978)  2026-02-08T07:08Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@abdalhaqq_ @USA_Polling Visiting Istanbul gives you an appreciation for Constantine's eye for geography. I wonder why St. Louis is a big city but Cairo IL at the economically more important Ohio River is not Maybe Cairo is too flood prone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020415909920403590)  2026-02-08T08:34Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@galtons_sextant @AtulyaGopaljee @dilanesper Jamaicans seldom get caught using PEDs while Nigerians tend to get caught. I presume from their amazing performances that the Jamaicans are also using but that they devote more competence to coaches and staffers than in Nigeria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020419134857871533)  2026-02-08T08:47Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@varadmehta After self-destructing during the Opening Ceremonies Paris then turned out to be a great host for the Summer Olympics. [---] years of great architecture I wish Los Angeles was following Brisbane because Paris will be a tough act to follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020419935084896728)  2026-02-08T08:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@KeystoneObsrvr @varadmehta My prediction: the Olympic torch will be lit in Los Angeles in [----] by Serena Williams from Compton (4 Olympic gold medals) and Magic Johnson of the L.A. Lakers and the [----] Dream Team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020420709470883914)  2026-02-08T08:53Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@varadmehta @KeystoneObsrvr The [----] Olympic torch will be lit by male and female black athletes with ties to Los Angeles and the Olympics like Rafer Johnson in [----] (UCLA Olympic decathlon gold [----] disarmed Sirhan Sirhan in 1968). My guess: Magic Johnson and Serena Williams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020421621409067270)  2026-02-08T08:57Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The [----] Los Angeles Olympic torch will be lit by black athletes with ties to SoCal and and the Olympics like Rafer Johnson in [----] (UCLA Olympic decathlon gold [----] disarmed Sirhan Sirhan 1968). My guess: Magic Johnson (Dream Team) and Serena Williams (4 gold medals)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020422760145801272)  2026-02-08T09:01Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@LaocoonofTroy The brunette's hairstyle is called a B-52 like in the 1970s-1980s group right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020433234048503904)  2026-02-08T09:43Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@LatexEngineer @dilanesper The Chinese have exploited a lot of individual sports to win a lot of gold medals but have done poorly at soccer. Some feel this reflects poorly on Chinese culture. That's not implausible but I don't know enough about soccer to have an educated opinion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020441375473586258)  2026-02-08T10:15Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@AtulyaGopaljee @SchizoLLC @dilanesper Recently LeBron James has fallen in love with golf. After a lifetime of damaging his feet jumping and landing on the basketball court he deserves to retire (upon his choosing) to the nice soft golf course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020454226548113703)  2026-02-08T11:06Z 177.3K followers, 12.5K engagements


"@JamesSurowiecki @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Right. A million+ Jews disappeared from Warsaw between July and December [----]. Where did they go and most notably why didn't they ever write"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020457009791799582)  2026-02-08T11:17Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@senderowiczj Carl Lewis is the greatest American male track athlete ever but he's from Houston not Los Angeles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020461106603372955)  2026-02-08T11:34Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@St2station RFK's three celebrity bodyguards who jumped on Sirhan Sirhan were totally awesome guys: Rafer Johnson George Plimpton and Rosie Grier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020464044524667004)  2026-02-08T11:45Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@VinayakKishore I went to [----] Los Angeles Olympic's men's field hockey gold medal game at which Pakistan beat West Germany 1-0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020734598754586919)  2026-02-09T05:40Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@dilanesper India recently the world's most populous ranks 60th among nations at the Olympics summer and winter with [--] gold medals and [--] medals in total. In contrast Iran has [--] medals Indonesia [--] Turkey [---] Hungary [---] Finland [---] Japan [---] Italy [---] China [---] and USA 3095"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020745551613145090)  2026-02-09T06:24Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@vintagemapstore Why is Los Angeles supposedly so naturally loud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020747748237328818)  2026-02-09T06:33Z 177.3K followers, 12.4K engagements


"@Mapache155893 @Ol_TimeFootball The Baltimore Colts' 20-17 win in sudden death overtime in the [----] NFL championship game was considered the great pro game of all time when I was a kid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020749299303477529)  2026-02-09T06:39Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@owenbroadcast A lot of things have become universally electrified like car windows and locks and toothbrushes. Other electrified things like can openers and carving knives were tried but have faded over the decades. Trial and error"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020754566145569129)  2026-02-09T07:00Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@TrevorSutcliffe @owenbroadcast Thinking back can-opening was a much much bigger part of life than it is today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020778075009769526)  2026-02-09T08:33Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@prktripathi @charlesmurray Well Uttar Pradesh _does_ have what the human race would probably choose as the world's most beautiful building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020782153793974756)  2026-02-09T08:49Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@IsaBelebziq @wifiejwn38 @Anc_Aesthetics A Sri Lankan recently ran a [----] [---] meters with the new shoes and at moderate altitude (1000 meters). But still . 9.97"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020812360810705301)  2026-02-09T10:49Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@wifiejwn38 @Anc_Aesthetics I was wondering if the Sri Lankan who went sub-10 seconds in the [---] meters is from the rare sub-Saharan population in South Asia. But instead he's a handsome version of the typical South Asian guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2020815160990896154)  2026-02-09T11:00Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@huntersnintendo @ReaperInTheRye @annakhachiyan Not a lot of evidence has turned up over the last [--] years that the government can do much about narrowing IQ gaps after moving past really bad Jim Crow schooling. This doesn't mean that IQ differences are all genetic but it does mean it's not clear what the government can do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021441080395432396)  2026-02-11T04:28Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@RamboVanHalen Most of the truly influential films of the 21st Century would be better classed as rightwing art rather than leftwing art: e.g. the Lord of the Rings trilogy Iron Man the Dark Knight trilogy No Country For Old Men Mulholland Drive The Lives of Others etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021724481878921720)  2026-02-11T23:14Z 177.4K followers, 210.6K engagements


"@razibkhan Matt Damon was really good in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" so Nolan went with him again. Similarly Cillian Murphy's performance for Nolan as Oppenheimer was a stretch ethnically but fit in terms of skinniness and was CM's 6th role for CN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018514121092899095)  2026-02-03T02:37Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@razibkhan Ben Affleck is a little Greek but looks even more Nordic (after I'm guessing having a lot of work done) than his pal Matt Damon. Jennifer Anniston is similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2018514359358763094)  2026-02-03T02:38Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"New on SteveSailer dot Net How Should Colleges Respond to the Asian Inundation Can we continue to rely upon admission procedures developed for WASPs during Henry Luce's American Century during our own Asian Century Link in replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2019199513785954710)  2026-02-05T00:00Z 177.4K followers, 52.1K engagements


"@SOscarboy2 @eva_kurilova Dressed head to toe in Costco for [--] years now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021162280923058223)  2026-02-10T10:00Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements


"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- Asian Discrimination: The U. of California's Asian Purge and Hispanic Surge Several University of California campuses have seen plummeting Asian shares as they pursue becoming "Hispanic-Serving Institutions." Link in replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021189141338202486)  2026-02-10T11:46Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"https://www.stevesailer.net/p/asian-discrimination-the-u-of-californias https://www.stevesailer.net/p/asian-discrimination-the-u-of-californias"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021189251132518630)  2026-02-10T11:47Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@ReaperInTheRye @annakhachiyan I avoid the extremist dogmas that intelligence is determined solely by nature or nurture and assume the most likely answer will turn out to be the moderate position that both nature and nurture play roles. But the science for that while mounting isn't wholly conclusive yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021357750706634832)  2026-02-10T22:56Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Babygravy9 Norman names like Mr. Darcy still do better in English society. One question is how many Montbriands are descended from social climbers named say Smith who picked out a cooler name the way that "Sailer" is a social climber's spelling for "Seiler" (ropemaker)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021358870342533373)  2026-02-10T23:01Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@SidKhurana3607 Czech Bohemian Something from Central Europe I'm guessing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021737380278161613)  2026-02-12T00:05Z 177.4K followers, 18K engagements


"@fitzr1122 @RamboVanHalen Or maybe the great film directors tend to let their actresses talk about politics while they talk about lenses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021745445551399245)  2026-02-12T00:37Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@RamboVanHalen Brokeback Mountain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021746080019558649)  2026-02-12T00:40Z 177.4K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@roctakon @RamboVanHalen I didn't really get "Michael Clayton" but a lot of people adore it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021746983120331044)  2026-02-12T00:43Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Jj95343 @AlexNowrasteh @RamboVanHalen Much of the screenplay of "Brazil" is by the Tory playwright Tom Stoppard. My impression is that it's Stoppard's idea for: What if Evelyn Waugh wrote "1984" instead of George Orwell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021749385718378626)  2026-02-12T00:53Z 177.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@KtunaxaAmerika @SethBarronNYC @RamboVanHalen George Clooney gives a sensible speech in favor of FDR's Tennessee Valley Authority at the end of "O Brother Where Art Thou.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021755117276684493)  2026-02-12T01:15Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@GuyMcKendrick63 @PG3124 @RamboVanHalen The Source Material for There Will Be Blood is the Teapot Dome scandal which led to the Greystone Murder/Suicide which inspired Raymond Chandler's left of center worldview as Philip Marlowe explains. But PTA didn't bother with all that which weakened his movie despite DDL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Sailer/status/2021784765586977202)  2026-02-12T03:13Z 177.4K followers, [--] engagements

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Social topic influence in the 8.28%, los angeles #737, gold 3.31%, the great #589, the world 2.65%, the new 2.32%, new york 2.32%, black #2237, the olympics #806, india 1.99%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @rambovanhalen @razibkhan @dilanesper @sermadx @petersbrooking @charlesmurray @bendreyfuss @davidastinwalsh @atulyagopaljee @giancarlosopo @legalfil @stevesailer @insights198 @herandrews @reaperintherye @ktunaxaamerika @edwardt67402509 @policyenjoyer @jacobashell @pegobryen

Top assets mentioned New York Times Co. (NYT) Dana Incorporated (DAN)

Top Social Posts

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

"On Wednesday near the beach in Orange County a generic-looking BIPOC crazy man hit with his Lexus California's most Republican-looking white man an ER doctor then ranting about "white privilege" stabbed him to death. No mention yet in NYT or WP of this "stochastic terrorism""
X Link 2023-02-04T20:45Z 177.2K followers, 229.3K engagements

"@anarchyinblack What about an Aleut who knows all racial groups on sight"
X Link 2024-02-16T00:22Z 177.2K followers, 506.6K engagements

"@echetus Horses make more horses bicycles don't make bicycles"
X Link 2025-05-04T01:20Z 177.2K followers, 427.4K engagements

"An example of nurture and nature working together: The [--] greatest golfers of the last [--] years Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson grew up in Southern California playing golf [--] months per year. In contrast Canadians tend to be golf-crazed Scotsmen but only Mike Weir won a major. I promised a post on John von Neumann after the controversy last week. Unfortunately correcting a half-century of junk scholarship about Johnny and the credulity of pop-hereditarian beliefs about him has taken me more than [--] days. It has taken me [--] days. Coming tomorrow https://t.co/DneDYqnnLG I promised a post on John"
X Link 2025-11-11T09:42Z 177.3K followers, 15.5K engagements

"@lefineder A few years ago Spielberg announced he was going to produce a TV series based on Kubrick's unmade script about Napoleon. Haven 't heard anything since"
X Link 2026-01-26T10:26Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@NotRealMusic It's weird how few great women songwriters there have been. Dorothy Fields was an important lyricist of the Great American Songbook era but there were extraordinarily few until the eary 1960s when Brill Building husband-wife teams like Goffin-King and Mann-Weil emerged"
X Link 2026-01-26T10:45Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Ign_J_Reilly @NotRealMusic Dolly Parton really was a famous songwriter (I Will Always Love You and Jolene) but Patsy Cline's most famous song Crazy was by Willie Nelson Aretha's Respect by Otis Redding and Janis's Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristoffersen"
X Link 2026-01-26T10:51Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"Here's the hilariously ignorant science denialist article about IQ and race that the New York Times ran above the fold on Page [--] of its Sunday edition yesterday along with my extensive response: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-science-denialism https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-science-denialism"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:32Z 177.2K followers, 50.1K engagements

"My impression is that there wasn't all that much elite emigration out of England except Puritans in the 1630s Tories in the 1650s maybe top farmers to Rhodesia. The country that really got hammered by top talent outflow was Scotland much of that to England"
X Link 2026-01-28T05:07Z 177.3K followers, 32.5K engagements

"@washingtonpost African Americans die by homicide [--] times as much as whites almost at all at the hands of other blacks and about [---] times as often as Hispanics. Could not black-on-black murder be a major source of stress on blacks"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:43Z 177.2K followers, 68.1K engagements

"@davidshor @AntinomeWLP @Bonecondor I don't fly very much so when I do fly I try to get a window seat on the north side of the airliner so I can fully see the Grand Canyon and the like. Guys who make more money than me have probably seen the Grand Canyon countless times so they prefer convenient window seats"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:50Z 177.2K followers, 11.4K engagements

"https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-indigenous-english-dumber-than https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-indigenous-english-dumber-than"
X Link 2026-01-28T23:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"New on SteveSailer . Net -- Dr. Oz vs. Men with Gold Chains The Trump Administration's favorite Ottoman is on the warpath against Russian Armenian hospice fraud in the San Fernando Valley. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/dr-oz-vs-men-with-gold-chains https://www.stevesailer.net/p/dr-oz-vs-men-with-gold-chains"
X Link 2026-01-29T01:20Z 177.2K followers, 12.3K engagements

"@JacobAShell @obversers I made up a sci-fi story in which Trump and Modi abruptly sign a mutual open borders treaty between USA and India and over time West Virginians flood Uttar Pradesh with Burger Kings college football and a 400' statue of Jesus eating a Whopper. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/2076-christian-butcher-runs-for-pm https://www.stevesailer.net/p/2076-christian-butcher-runs-for-pm"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:49Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Top100Rick And yet Torrey Pines' tournament track record is sensational: Tiger's win at the [----] US Open was perhaps the most memorable US Open ever. Jon Rahm won the last one. Tiger won [--] regular events there and Phil 3"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:41Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"From SteveSailer . Net -- Winnin' Ugly vs. Winning Pretty Let's look at the data for the wildly different gay male representation in figure skating ice hockey and mountaineering. Ruth lured George "Because it's there" Mallory away from Bloomsbury. Link in reply"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:26Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@anon_anon_anon8 @JacobAShell @obversers Sandy figured that if he bought the Tropicana Motel overlooking the Hollywood freeway then tourist kids arriving by station wagon in L.A. would shout "Dad let's stay at the Sandy Koufax Motel" But instead rock stars like Jim Morrison moved in. Sandy sold out pretty soon"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:42Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@kunley_drukpa Don't try this at your local hippo enclosure kids"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:52Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@matthew_petti I met a guy who was a [--] year old intern working at the office of a Very Famous Lawyer. He said Jeffrey Epstein was the only client who was friendly to the interns like himself. Apparently he had a likable personality"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:57Z 177.3K followers, 109.8K engagements

"@pegobry_en What proportion of Jeffrey Epstein's wealth did he get from just two guys Leon Black and Leslie Wexner"
X Link 2026-01-31T08:59Z 177.1K followers, 35.8K engagements

"Architectural firms' renderings always portray what their project might look like (if everything works out perfectly) at [--] pm on May 31st. Now shows you a more realistic view of what it will look like on an average day. http://AntiRender.com At last an AI tool I can get behind Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November. https://t.co/23Ay7MD4ka https://t.co/DikU2lyDay http://AntiRender.com At last an AI tool I can get behind Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November."
X Link 2026-01-31T10:41Z 177.2K followers, 26.3K engagements

"@L0m3z The feds date the Towers Financial ponzi scheme that Jeffrey Epstein got away with uncharged from 1988-1993. The late 1980s was also when Epstein met Victoria's Secret founder Leslie Wexner according to an actress who accompanied him to the meeting: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-get-so-rich https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-get-so-rich"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:00Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@Cincinnati_Son Lots of gentile whites love Trump's moxie but richer ones seldom do. A hundred years ago rich German Jews wouldn't have let a Marty Supreme-type hustler anywhere near their country clubs. But Jews have gotten less worried about making a good impression on gentiles since"
X Link 2026-02-01T01:35Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@dansblog1a @Ed_Odyssey_ They used to make comedy movies about obnoxious self-centered characters with Bill Murray Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy. Some of them were really funny"
X Link 2026-02-01T04:46Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@BlakeSNeff What percentage of Americans making a million dollars per year in finance played sports in high school In college"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:44Z 177.3K followers, 13.7K engagements

"@JacobAShell When I was a kid in the 1960s lots of kids' shows were very focused on the decolonizing world like "Johnny Quest" or specifically African-focused like "Daktari" in the Serengeti or the lion movie "Born Free." It was a hopeful time regarding decolonized countries"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:53Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Here's my idea for a Nicholas Cage sequel: "National Treasure: Book of College Presidents." When they make you Harvard president they give you a padlocked book. It turns out to be a dog-eared copy of "The Bell Curve" because it explains why you still need to use race quotas. In [----] Jeffrey Epstein emailed Noam Chomsky about the BlackWhite test-score and IQ gap referencing material from Mike Enochs The Right Stuff. In the email to Chomsky Epstein notes that Nobel Prize winner James Watson was thrown out of academia for accepting some https://t.co/NicAZkmSX8 In [----] Jeffrey Epstein emailed"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:08Z 177.2K followers, 24.7K engagements

"New on SteveSailer dot Net: I Made the Epstein Files But for boring reasons . https://www.stevesailer.net/p/i-made-the-epstein-files https://www.stevesailer.net/p/i-made-the-epstein-files"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:23Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"You hear a lot from all sides about America in [----] being wracked by violent chaos . yet the country now seems strikingly less homicidal than during the recent Racial Reckoning after The Establishment went nuts over George Floyd: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/01/crime-dc-homicides-january/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/01/crime-dc-homicides-january/"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@raggedy_manican @realpeteyb123 Nolan had a lot of success with an Irishman playing a Jew in "Oppenheimer." He's worked with a lot of actors who are ethnically similar to himself like Matt Damon Christian Bale Heath Ledger etc. so his North Atlantic casting for "Odysseus" is in his comfort zone"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:24Z 177.2K followers, 19.6K engagements

"@GoneAnon0 @SchnapsideeG But because polite society bans discourse documenting what American social science has discovered over the last [--] years about the racial gaps in IQ few realize that the current trend toward banning racial preferences will devastate black representation in high IQ positions"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:40Z 177.2K followers, 17.3K engagements

"@baseballcrank After all egalitarian ideologues like Stalin and Pol Pot never hurt anybody"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:52Z 177.2K followers, 12.6K engagements

"@GiancarloSopo A black actress might reasonably be cast as a supernatural character but Helen of Troy is supposed to be a real woman. And there's no plausible explanation how a black woman could get to Greece in [----] BC. So that casting stunt just takes you out of suspension of disbelief"
X Link 2026-02-02T00:10Z 177.3K followers, 64.1K engagements

"@JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Thanks. But then we need Zeus to be black too"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:58Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"This White Supremacy is getting out of control. BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. https://t.co/8WGMAODKRd BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. https://t.co/8WGMAODKRd"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:08Z 177.2K followers, 20.4K engagements

"@StatisticUrban My vague memory from [----] is that President Gerald Ford's mighty All-American jaws heroically devoured the entire tamale he was offered on the campaign trail corn husk wrapper and all"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:16Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@jon_wertheim Tennis stars have gotten more dominant in the 21st Century than in the 20th Century which is the opposite of say baseball where Cy Young won [---] games or golf where Tiger Woods was incredibly good but came up [--] majors short of Jack Nicklaus"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:56Z 177.2K followers, 44.9K engagements

"@CMario90914478 @jon_wertheim In [----] I saw 61-year-old Sam Snead almost win the L.A. Open vs. a major championship-quality field (Nicklaus Watson Palmer Trevino Miller Weiskopf etc) pulling within [--] stroke on 71st Now golfers swing so hard they wreck themselves young (except Justin Rose and Phil)"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:32Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@Mortscab @Sandeen57 Will Top Golf Americans ever get good enough to dominate the Ryder Cup like the USA used to"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:58Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Leftists wouldn't issue a peep right if Daniel Day-Lewis were cast as Othello Right For the Woke it's all about who is the best actor which DDL is so they'd be utterly quiet about the [--] time Oscar winner playing Othello. Sure "
X Link 2026-02-02T23:47Z 177.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@watchdog_jedi @CraigMurphy8881 @GiancarloSopo @John_Tee_Ford Charlie Chan can't be played by a white actor in this century but Lucy Liu has played Dr. Watson on TV"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:00Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo And why hasn't Daniel Day Lewis played Othello while Denzel Washington has played both Othello and Macbeth"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:12Z 177.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@FortranGary @charlesmurray Rushton was kind of a con man financially and in his personal life but his research replicates pretty well. Being on the politically incorrect side of the scientific debate apparently made him more careful than if he were on the left where he would have had easy pickings"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:17Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@BlakeSNeff Paul Johnson's history of the English The Offshore Islanders written while he as still an Orwell-like leftist nationalist is also in this vein. It's one of my favorite books by Johnson since the perspective is lost today"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:09Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@CaitlinPacific Somebody I knew who knew Epstein said the backs of Epstein's hands were the hairiest he'd ever seen suggesting Epstein was very high in testosterone"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:10Z 177.2K followers, 22.9K engagements

"It's an issue regarding Palestinian Muslims vs. Jews. How closely related are Palestinians genetically to ancient Canaanites Well from one perspective they have a lot of DNA in common with the indigenous of [----] years ago. On the other hand they are about 5% sub-Saharan who are very different on average. So you really need to look at the question from a couple of perspectives to avoid seizing on whichever perspective you find ideologically/ethnocentrically congenial. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018493788877132095 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018493788877132095"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:16Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Petersbrooking @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller @GiancarloSopo Not in this millennium. In contrast Denzel Washington can play Macbeth without anybody objecting that The Scottish Play is about Scotsmen. I'm generally in favor of stage casting being wide open but casting for close-ups (film TV) you have to worry about losing credibility"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:28Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@Petersbrooking @GiancarloSopo @kolsenertito @Observe03777404 @JimDMiller A lot of key incidents in the Trojan War like Helen and Paris or the Trojan Horse aren't in Homer but in lost epics for which we just have summaries"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:35Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@antipode_elliot @isaacdecastro @tabletmag The scene where Jonah Hill tells Leonardo DiCaprio that he's married to his cousin but it's not like you think is a classic"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:24Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@MrGoldBeaver @avidseries Decreasing ignorance about the findings of American social science over the last [--] years will level the playing field so racist anti-white arguments like Ibram X. Kendi's hate-driven explanation of why all the problems of blacks are due to whites will no longer go unchallenged"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:32Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@razibkhan Once again Matt Damon is kind of a non-ideal choice but he's been at least pretty good in about a million movies so I imagine the film's financiers figure he won't screw it up and it's up to Nolan's Name-Above-the-Title aura to bring in [--] figures in box office"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:51Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan Jaoquin Phoenix is great at playing mentally handicapped guys but he was terrible at playing the ultra-fast thinking Napoleon Bonaparte. Damon seems to play mostly middle of the road protagonists (he's played them well over his endless career). A good enough choice "
X Link 2026-02-03T02:56Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@matthewstoller OK well then what are some big acts of governance that Epstein was involved in He seemed to have a lot of time on his hands more than most really important people. And Ghislaine spent a huge amount of time on Reddit which I wasn't aware is how the strings are pulled"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:22Z 177.2K followers, 17.7K engagements

"@paul_hundred @razibkhan Viggo Mortensen won his Oscar for playing a Joe Pesci-type character. He doesn't look Italian but he is on his mom's side. It seems like we are short of Eastern Mediterranean big name stars at the moment. Benicio del Toro from PR played a Maronite in Phoenician Scheme"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:39Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@paul_hundred @razibkhan There's a famous essay from the New Yorker in the 1940s (A.J. Liebling) about how New Orleans is the further outpost of the Hellenistic world. Tom Wolfe made a similar point in his novel about a meathead Miami Cuban cop that he still knows the whole story of the Trojan War"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:06Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- Why Did Silicon Valley Go Unwoke Because all the hissy fits were getting in the way of getting stuff done https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-did-silicon-valley-go-unwoke https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-did-silicon-valley-go-unwoke"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:24Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan @creekandholler For instance what was Homer talking about with his "wine-dark sea""
X Link 2026-02-03T07:39Z 177.2K followers, 10.3K engagements

"@paul_hundred Right. E.g. the Democratic machine bosses who did the country a big favor in [----] by forcing FDR to drop Henry Wallace for Harry Truman as VP were a pretty unfragrant bunch but "
X Link 2026-02-03T09:47Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@sfmcguire79 Black male youths die by drowning way too often. Our society should be socially constructing solutions for this tragic problem not embracing black lack of swimming ability"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@R1b11B1P @sfmcguire79 The great boxer Joe Frazier who beat Muhammad Ali in [----] nearly drowned during the swimming race in the first "Superstars" competition on ABC in the 1970s"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:12Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@LegalistsOfGor @JacobAShell That seems to be the crown prince of Saudi Arabia's goal: we'll use our vast wealth to get our young men interested in golf stand-up comedy auto racing and other fair-minded enterprises besides homicidal religious fanaticism"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:37Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@Ralph_L8 @razibkhan @creekandholler The King of Corinth announces: And all this week our regal selves are proud to present the famous bard Homer who will recite The Odyssey at our palace from dusk to midnight. To make the time pass faster every time Homer mentions "wine-dark sea" drink a shot of mead"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:43Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@theyondan @GarrettPetersen Right. The current mode is as if Peter O'Toole was cast as a hereditary prince of Araby with no explanation of why this extreme Nordic phenotype is an Arab. C'mon scriptwriters at least make an effort to concoct some kind of adventurous back story for us"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:59Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@TheNextMazer @GarrettPetersen Right. As I wrote in my review of "The Dark Knight Rises" Christopher Nolan is slightly to the right of the Duke of Wellington. (Likewise his more American brother Jonathan Nolan is slightly to the right of Pat Buchanan.)"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@herandrews My son won a scholarship to a superb Old Money prep school outside Pasadena CA. The admission office loved hapas like the half Asian salutatorian who went to Stanford who was also a brilliant professional magician at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Full Asians not so much"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:11Z 177.3K followers, 54.2K engagements

"@Abyssal_du_Nord @Reaction_Hero @theyondan @GarrettPetersen There were very few elephants in northwestern Europe in [---] AD but Charlemagne kept in his stables to show his guests an elephant sent to him by Haroun al-Raschid (of the Sinbad the Sailor stories) sultan of Baghdad. Improbable details like that fit in well in epic stories"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:45Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@bendreyfuss Mexican-Irish actor Anthony Quinn played an Arab an Eskimo a Frenchman a Filipino a Greek a Native American a Ukrainian a Russian a Native Hawaiian a Chinese an Italian etc. Rumi Malek a Copt is our modern Anthony Quinn"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@bendreyfuss True but Brit Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal and Mexican-Irish Anthony Quinn as Auda in "Lawrence of Arabia" are two of the best supporting performances ever. And if the Levantine Omar Sharif can play a Bedouin should he be allowed to play a Russian in Dr. Zhivago"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@sgautam206 @bendreyfuss Yes to play Freddie Mercury the "Bohemian Rhapsody" filmmakers should have found a Parsi born with four extra teeth. Previously Sacha Baron-Cohen was slated to play Freddie Mercury. Would that have been Woke or not"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:04Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@bendreyfuss New Zealander Cliff Curtis has some Maori ancestry so he's been allowed to play Latinos and Arabs under the principle that all non-whites look more or less alike. Or something. Nobody has ever quite articulated the rule"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:06Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@pegobry_en Prime Minister Asquith took his First Lord of the Admiralty and prospective son-in-law Winston Churchill on a two month summer cruise in c. [----]. Asquith refused to talk shop the whole cruise so Winston secretly did [--] hours work each early morning"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@pegobry_en After [--] years as Prime Minister the indolent Asquith finally got squeezed out of office by the workaholic dynamo David Lloyd-George in the middle of the Great War"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:17Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@pegobry_en Winston Churchill almost married Prime Minister Asquith's daughter Viola. When Winston decided to marry another Viola jumped off a cliff but survived. She and Winston remained great pals. Viola's granddaughter is "Fight Club" actress Helena Bonham-Carter"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:21Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@charlesmurray Why is the black percentage at the Stuyvesant public exam high school in Manhattan so infinitesimal Because most black kids smart enough to get into Stuyvesant will be offered scholarships to legendary private schools like Dalton which of course they take"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:32Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@DavidAstinWalsh Kendi was always a cringe [---] IQ public intellectual but he swept the field for a decade by blaming all black problems on the malevolence of whites. After all the alternative is Charles Murray's view that average differences in IQ and crime rate matter & that's inconceivable"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@DavidAstinWalsh If Matthew Yglesias et al finally come out and say what they've been hinting at -- yeah The Bell Curve is basically more or less right and everybody should read it and learn from it -- we might not have a resurgence of Ibram X. Kendiism again in a few years. But will they"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:42Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@kausmickey I visited Warsaw last summer and it looked like what people in [----] hoped Downtown L.A. would look like by 2025: lots of new skyscrapers well-dressed pedestrians and the occasional quaint wino here and there. But then came meth and fentanyl. Oh well "
X Link 2026-02-04T01:14Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Ed_Realist @herandrews At minimum your old suggestion that the GPA boost for taking an Advanced class should be reduced from [---] grade points to 0.5"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:17Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@feanor1988 @janecoaston Ryan Coogler set Wakanda at such high altitude that much of it is covered in snow. (He has visited Lesotho which has a ski hill.) My guess is Coogler subscribes to the Cold Winter Theory of IQ where the Bantu expansion reached South Africa earlier. He has visited Lesotho"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:41Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@herandrews Harvard fears that if it doesn't maintain a thumb on the scale against Asians it will wind up like Yogi Berra's former favorite restaurant -- so popular that nobody goes there anymore"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:52Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@bendreyfuss The problem is that it is confidence-sapping to see that the filmmakers know so little about history that they would cast Denzel Washington as Hannibal. Denzel was fine in Gladiator [--] because people of a random race winding up in Rome is easy to imagine but not Hannibal"
X Link 2026-02-04T02:31Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@DKThomp Right the U.S. taxes the upper middle class pretty hard but not the poor or working class. And the rich get handled pretty easily too with income tax rates maxing out around what $500000 these days"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:01Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@aceniederhoff After the Shoal Creek PGA brouhaha c. [----] the PGA Tour made a rule that tournament host clubs had to have at least one black member. Most clubs (such as Augusta National) immediately admitted one or more black executives although Cypress Point did not until Condi Rice"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@bendreyfuss My personal view is that if Denzel Washington wants to play Macbeth great And if Daniel Day-Lewis wants to play Othello great I'm in favor of theater kids putting on shows. I like shows so I like theater kids like Denzel and Daniel. I am against their enemies"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:16Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@Peter_Nimitz When Denny Hastert became 3rd in line to be President the Secret Service made him put locks on his doors in Aurora IL so nobody could walk in and steal nuclear launch secrets. Then he was discovered to be a gay molester. I think about this. But I've never figured it out"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:20Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@tedfrank @classi_lib Robert Maxwell was the closest thing to a Bond Villain I've ever encountered: in [----] he tried to cheat my firm in a deal I was negotiating out of one . MILLION . dollars. But still . while no doubt Ghislaine Maxwell looked for a man like dear old dad "
X Link 2026-02-04T08:41Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@tedfrank @classi_lib Epstein called Dr. Gregory Cochran his "houseguest" when Cochran spent [--] minutes in Epstein's office at pre-arrest Epstein's request explaining his scientific paper. Epstein was a social climber"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:43Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@feanor1988 @janecoaston My guess is that Ryan Coogler speculates that if the Bantu expansion had started [-----] years ago instead of [----] Bantus in southern / high altitude Lesotho (which he unusually has visited) would have evolved into a high IQ race like the Scots who perfected the steam engine"
X Link 2026-02-04T09:08Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@nut_history If we had film of this Roberto Clemente's [----] inside the park walk-off grand slam it would be as famous as Willie Mays' [----] catch played every time Clemente is mentions. But we don't so it's obscure"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@BP4Politics @EmersenLee Although by the [----] election Kamala was doing well in the nice white suburbs of Kansas City while Trump was dominating among both the Old Weird Americans (French Canadian lumberjacks Melungeons etc.) and the New Weird Americans (Persian Jews Maharishi-followers etc.)"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:37Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"This is Unsilenced Science's graph: https://x.com/UnsilencedSci/status/1973219411952906374 The new SAT report is out. -Asian scores slightly improved. Every other racial category declined especially Hispanics and multi-racial students. -Native-American scores reached a new record low despite the number taking it returning to the lows of [----] (contra @grok) https://t.co/oYmu8iuJaP https://x.com/UnsilencedSci/status/1973219411952906374 The new SAT report is out. -Asian scores slightly improved. Every other racial category declined especially Hispanics and multi-racial students. -Native-American"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:18Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@FolliesBlue @nut_history My guess is that the first game of the [----] World Series in which Willie May made The Catch was the first baseball game ever watched on TV for several million of Americans considering how TV sales were exploding in 1954"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:45Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@DavidAstinWalsh The USA is [--] years into the Affirmative Action Era which dates to the Nixon Administration's [----] Philadelphia Plan greenlighting racial preferences. That's exactly [--] generations. Is [--] generations time enough for a review and a rethink"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:51Z 177.2K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@WestsideLAGuy @fredsoda Perhaps but I suspect that Harvard has superb (but secret) per capita donation data. They apparently didn't see enough improvement in Asian alumni over time to settle before Harvard's humiliating loss at the Supreme Court in 2023"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:15Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@JoyceCarolOates The most prominent M to F Trans weren't bullied sissy boys like you think. They were instead examples of masculinity at its most heroic/toxic like the outer space entrepreneur I went to MBA school with who became "America's highest paid female CEO.""
X Link 2026-02-05T23:19Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"The Washington Post was wasting away before Bezos bought it and poured in cash for a decade. Without Bezos the Post would have faded badly by [----]. Interesting perspective from a WaPo alumna: "Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper even the ones with no Interesting perspective from a WaPo alumna: "Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:23Z 177.3K followers, 16.7K engagements

"In the Epstein Files if you rank the top [---] email senders by how many emails they sent (i.e. not by being mentioned a lot like Trump was) what percentage were men White Jewish"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:37Z 177.3K followers, 41.8K engagements

"@RealDianeYap Read the post about why Harvard insisted on continuing to discriminate against Asians despite that leading to a humiliating defeat in the Supreme Court in [----]. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-should-colleges-respond-to-the https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-should-colleges-respond-to-the"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:38Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@JoyceCarolOates Something amusing is that prominent late onset M to F trans tend to be far more rightwing than everybody expects: Jenner McCloskey Morris Donnelly etc. It's never some liberal NPR announcer with an indoor voice"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:46Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@amyalkon @JoyceCarolOates At Harvard they don't kick you out if you quit the football team so if McCloskey played quarterback for Harvard it's because he wanted to play quarterback for Harvard"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:53Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@janecoaston The reason "Wolf of Wall Street" goes on for [--] hours is because it had a lavish budget and that's because Leonardo DiCaprio pretended to be Best Friend Forever of Malaysian embezzler Jho Low who stole billions from his country and invested millions in Scorsese's movie"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:03Z 177.2K followers, 16.2K engagements

"@KlausJennings Leaving aside Epstein's personal assistants the pool guy his car repairman and the like what are the percentages"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:13Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Legal_Fil The tastes of sports media [--] years ago were more upper class and cosmopolitan (e.g. Wide World of Sports). Americans felt they should try to be more interested in what the rest of the world especially European elites were doing like ski-jumping"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:40Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Legal_Fil NBC has perfected making the Winter Olympics appeal to moms whom advertisers prefer. But Twitter is dominated by men so they tend to complain that NOBODY is interested in the Winter Olympics anymore"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:42Z 177.3K followers, 13K engagements

"@Legal_Fil Sports Illustrated in [----] ran lots of articles by WASP aristocratic writers like George Plimpton about European aristocratic sports like the luge"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:46Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@hedeedit @Legal_Fil It turned out that Paris makes a really awesome television set for the Olympics especially for outdoor races through the streets and over the bridges of the Seine"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:48Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@Legal_Fil All over the world spectator sports interest has gotten more homogenous than a half century ago: soccer in most of the world American football in USA. In [----] attitudes to the Olympics were: Cool we get to watch weird foreign sports Now: Yuck where's football/soccer"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:56Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@DonnaMae065 @janecoaston Read up on the how the famous Lamborghini scene's budget was scratched together"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:58Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@DavidPhelan3 @Legal_Fil Golf writer Herbert Warren Wind was the WASPiest Jewish writer ever"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:01Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@HelmetofScipio @Legal_Fil So are females and males give their womenfolk a lot of the money they earn to spend"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:14Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@CricketRookies @Legal_Fil Horse racing was a huge sport when I was a kid [--] years ago but now we have so many other ways to gamble that it has faded a lot"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:14Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@OncheonR @RealDianeYap "Meanwhile the most high profile cheating case was mainly white people." Similarly man bites dog news is bigger than dog bites man. TV stars conniving in hilarious ways (second string placekicker) to get their kids into USC rather than Arizona St. was fun"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:17Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@DanFriedman81 @Hotshot_Movie San Francisco finally has a competent mayor"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:33Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@SidKhurana3607 Most foreign languages that are spoken a lot in California are also spoken a lot in New York. This one however is not. So I will guess Vietnamese. Vietnamese tended to arrive around [----] when NYC was broke so they didn't go much to New York"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:36Z 177.3K followers, 43.6K engagements

"@Iris_Sandwich2 @SidKhurana3607 Lots of Vietnamese arrived in 1975-1980 when Houston was booming due to the Energy Crisis. NYC in contrast was broke in 1975"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:38Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@kerwin65230 @SidKhurana3607 The oil economy was booming in Houston due to the Energy Crisis during the big influx of South Vietnamese in 1975-1980. New York City in contrast was in dire shape until Wall Street took off in 1982"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:54Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@SidKhurana3607 This list probably correlates with where did a surprising number of college football players go to high school"
X Link 2026-02-06T04:07Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@the_transit_guy Rio de Janeiro is like if Yosemite Valley was on a tropical beach. I've sat in a cafe along Copacabana Beach and watched roped-up rockclimbers edge their way up a [----] foot cliff four blocks inland"
X Link 2026-02-06T04:22Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@AndrewMorral Homicide rates by state are basically how black the state is followed by how much the whites are Scots-Irish vs. Yankee with a weird outlier for New Mexico"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:27Z 177.2K followers, 21.9K engagements

"@SirCesareBorgia @AndrewMorral If you add % American Indian your homicide correlation model that starts with % black it gets a little more accurate. There are also seems to be a dangerous Latino belt from New Mexico up into southern Colorado like Colorado Springs has a surprisingly high homicide rate"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:53Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@FischerKing64 Hollywood treated the British Empire as a blast: e.g. Gunga Din"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:15Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@rorysutherland McDonald's is German-American cuisine. So are the hot dogs that FDR served the royal family in 1939"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:34Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@dpinsen @ThomasCyr777 How much do NFL MVP Matthew Stafford and his childhood best friend Clayton Kershaw a former National League MVP in baseball look alike I recall I once found proof that they aren't actually secret half-brothers but I can't remember what it was"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:51Z 177.3K followers, 13K engagements

"@dpinsen @ThomasCyr777 Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams and Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers grew up best friends in Highland Park TX. But while Kershaw was born in Dallas on 3/19/88 Stafford was born in Tampa on 2/7/88 so they are almost certainly not half-brothers"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:17Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@lost_nomad__ The [--] counties of the Los Angeles metro area are a colossal node of [--] million people with no obvious water or mountain barriers to separate them. To the south however Camp Pendleton is a [--] mile wide Marine base that definitively divides the L.A. metro from San Diego metro"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@jwh_6800 @lost_nomad__ But Camp Pendleton takes up [--] miles of Pacific coastline so virtually nobody south of the Marine base in Greater San Diego goes to high school with anybody north of the base in Greater L.A. That's what likely matters for Facebook connections"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:53Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@JustinWolfers What happened to your hair"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:31Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- The Winter Olympics Are Here Twitter he-me swear that THIS time they won't watch girly sports. https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-winter-olympics-are-here https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-winter-olympics-are-here"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:08Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@default_friend @herandrews Because there are several billion Asians in this world whose ancestors evolved culturally and/or genetically under more stringent Malthusian rigors than in the less Malthusian West"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:49Z 177.3K followers, 30.5K engagements

"@Educatingpeopl2 @ClaudeScuba @bendreyfuss Seems reasonable. E.g. if I were going to make an epic movie about Charlemagne I'd try to include Charlemagne's personal elephant which Haroun al-Rashid the famous sultan of Baghdad had sent him as a diplomatic gift. Adventure tales include lots of rare events"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:19Z 177.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@lavadub77 @AndrewMorral David Hackett Fischer's "Albion Seed" has lots of fun stereotypes about the [--] main types of colonial era British-Americans: Scots-Irish are the rootin'-tootin' orneriest"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:24Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@Empty_America The research by this black lady economist at Stanford whose name I forgot is not that there are many overlooked white boys at the 99.5th National Merit Scholar percentile but that a lot of red state white boys around the 90th percentile get badly overlooked by the system"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:45Z 177.3K followers, 17.7K engagements

"@Empty_America Professor Caroline Hoxby"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:47Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan Medieval University of Paris was organized around its various "nations" like Germans"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@PBarbicane @default_friend @herandrews Harvard economic historian David Landes pointed to the impact of early marriage in China (most women married around age 18) vs. delayed marriage in England (average age from 1200-1800 was [--] to 26) as reason for fewer famines in England despite high quality governance in China"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:56Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@MuseZack I reread Evelyn Waugh more than anybody else. It's striking that Hemingway was Waugh's abiding icon even though that's not obvious from Waugh's mature prose style. Waugh saw Hemingway as the great liberator from 19th Century stylists like Dickens whom Waugh loathed"
X Link 2026-02-07T01:03Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@VelliMach @MuseZack Tom Wolfe tried writing "Bonfire of the Vanities" serialized in "Rolling Stone" but it came out pretty bad and readers gave up on it. So he had to start over and change Sherman McCoy from journalist to bond trader"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:58Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@razibkhan The David Landes theory is that the Chinese population grew faster than the Western European population under conditions of good government due to earlier marriage ages but then crashed harder when government failed"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:04Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan China for instance suffered a catastrophic famine in my lifetime when Mao screwed up in the Great Leap Forward"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:06Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@USA_Polling Manhattan is narrow and surrounded by about [---] degrees of deep water that couldn't be bridged until [----]. It has granite underground to anchor buildings in securely. So it made sense to build tall. Chicago has water on [---] degrees but infinite land otherwise. Still "
X Link 2026-02-07T08:47Z 177.3K followers, 30.5K engagements

"@souljagoyteller Edward Jay Epstein said that Nixon in old age was the best at leading a serious dinner table discussion he ever saw calling on each guest to contribute exactly when his specific expertise was most valuable to the conversation"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:53Z 177.3K followers, 11.4K engagements

"@BeschlossDC I think I watched the first Super Bowl at my house in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon on tape delay"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:55Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@Rongwrong_ @Etanarachel Great Moments in Closed Captioning: Andrea Bocelli is belting out Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot" at Cortina Italy's Winter Olympics opening ceremony and my TV's closed caption labels it: "Singing in a non-English language""
X Link 2026-02-07T09:11Z 177.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@vintagemapstore Really good original names (e.g. "Shiprock") but the ones named after individual cities should be more evocative: e.g. instead of "Los Angeles" use "Hollywood;" instead of "New York" "Gotham.""
X Link 2026-02-07T09:21Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@adam_tooze Nah there were strikingly few Mexicans in California in [----]. For example Harvard man Richard Henry Dana's [----] bestseller "Two Years Before the Mast" emphasized that the San Francisco bay area is the Best Place in the Whole World and nobody lives there (hint hint)"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:36Z 177.3K followers, 14.3K engagements

"@adam_tooze Richard Henry Dana made clear that what's now Los Angeles County with its current population of [--] million was desolate when he frequented it in 1834-1835. The only reliable year round running water was in downtown L.A. L.A.'s population was [----] in the [----] census"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:47Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@adam_tooze Dana liked the Old Spanish culture around the San Diego and Monterey harbors. But Los Angeles lacked a harbor until a colossal artificial one was built in the 20th Century & it lacked water. And virtually nobody bothered inhabiting the superlative San Francisco Bay Area in 1835"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:57Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@avrilbradley23 @TheChanfron @HiawathaAvenged "You know you me Elijah Jedediah John and a few other Yanks could probably take over California if we tried.""
X Link 2026-02-08T00:17Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@KateriSeraphina Mostly true but Barack had some resentment of his mother dumping him on her parents. Also 2nd husband Lolo was from an elite rightwing family. His dad was the top Indonesian petroleum geologist. Stanley Ann was pretty Deep State with backing of US gov and Ford Foundation"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:23Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@KateriSeraphina But a lot of Americans had Deep State ties during the well-funded Cold War. E.g. my mom's 2nd best friend's husband was the chief designer of the SR71 spy plane for the CIA. My family's ties were to the hard technical side of the Cold War Obama's to the soft political side"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:26Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@avrilbradley23 @Peter_Nimitz @TheChanfron @HiawathaAvenged Similar in Hawaii: George Clooney played a 1/32nd Hawaiian royal in "The Descendants" whose family owns 9% of Hawaii which is an understatement of size of the actual Bishop holdings. WASPs married interracially when it was in their interests"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:42Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@prewittse @AtulyaGopaljee @dilanesper The Winter Olympics are the Festival of Happy Families: the modal American medalist's dad is an Executive Vice President her mom was a lawyer but retired to be a homemaker and her two brothers play obscure D-1 sports"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:35Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@PoxThistle27030 @AtulyaGopaljee @prewittse @dilanesper The running tribes of the high Kenyan grasslands are horseless cowboys. What Wyoming cowboys do on horseback like searching for stray calves they do by running"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:00Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@jimmygandhi @herandrews @wil_da_beast630 Like Harvard let in David Hogg despite nothing special test scores when no other top college wanted him. Ten years later he became Vice Chair of the DNC. Harvard likes celebrities"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:18Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@AtulyaGopaljee @SchizoLLC @dilanesper LeBron James has worked really hard for a really long time. I admire his work ethic"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:19Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@cairoasmith "Lots of couples that look like Slavic mob and Slavic hooker combos purely from the styling." Why wouldn't they be Slavic mobsters and hookers Southern California has lots of people from the ex-Soviet Union"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:42Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@_KeithCook @thwacknicklaus @PGA I'd like to see the PGA go one time to Royal Melbourne. Not a regular thing just do it once"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:10Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@alexandre_lores @KantInEastt Justin Gatlin and Bob Hayes are black but Bobby Morrow (1956 100m gold medalist) and Lindy Remigino (1952) are white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Morrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Morrow"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:24Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@KantInEastt NFL star Christian McCaffrey's grandfather Dave Sime came within inches of winning the Olympic 100m gold in [----]. But since [----] U.S. Olympic 100m men have been all black. Better nutrition for blacks after WWII Better coaching"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:33Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@rhodes_mzra @KantInEastt The other white NBA rookie from Duke Kon Kueppel played for a private HS within the Milwaukee city limits which is relatively urban for white American NBA stars"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:55Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@walterkirn My favorite Jack Parsons story: in [----] his parents in Pasadena overhear their teen son talking about rockets for hours on the phone. They ask who he's talking to and he says "My new friend Werner." Then they get a phone bill for $1000s in calls to the Von Brauns in Germany"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:01Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@Hammers2023 @KantInEastt I went to school from 1964-1976 in Sherman Oaks CA then home to the world's busiest freeway interchange. Where do I go to get back my missing IQ points"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:08Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@abdalhaqq_ @USA_Polling Visiting Istanbul gives you an appreciation for Constantine's eye for geography. I wonder why St. Louis is a big city but Cairo IL at the economically more important Ohio River is not Maybe Cairo is too flood prone"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:34Z 177.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@galtons_sextant @AtulyaGopaljee @dilanesper Jamaicans seldom get caught using PEDs while Nigerians tend to get caught. I presume from their amazing performances that the Jamaicans are also using but that they devote more competence to coaches and staffers than in Nigeria"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:47Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@varadmehta After self-destructing during the Opening Ceremonies Paris then turned out to be a great host for the Summer Olympics. [---] years of great architecture I wish Los Angeles was following Brisbane because Paris will be a tough act to follow"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:50Z 177.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@KeystoneObsrvr @varadmehta My prediction: the Olympic torch will be lit in Los Angeles in [----] by Serena Williams from Compton (4 Olympic gold medals) and Magic Johnson of the L.A. Lakers and the [----] Dream Team"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:53Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@varadmehta @KeystoneObsrvr The [----] Olympic torch will be lit by male and female black athletes with ties to Los Angeles and the Olympics like Rafer Johnson in [----] (UCLA Olympic decathlon gold [----] disarmed Sirhan Sirhan in 1968). My guess: Magic Johnson and Serena Williams"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:57Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The [----] Los Angeles Olympic torch will be lit by black athletes with ties to SoCal and and the Olympics like Rafer Johnson in [----] (UCLA Olympic decathlon gold [----] disarmed Sirhan Sirhan 1968). My guess: Magic Johnson (Dream Team) and Serena Williams (4 gold medals)"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:01Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@LaocoonofTroy The brunette's hairstyle is called a B-52 like in the 1970s-1980s group right"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:43Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@LatexEngineer @dilanesper The Chinese have exploited a lot of individual sports to win a lot of gold medals but have done poorly at soccer. Some feel this reflects poorly on Chinese culture. That's not implausible but I don't know enough about soccer to have an educated opinion"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:15Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@AtulyaGopaljee @SchizoLLC @dilanesper Recently LeBron James has fallen in love with golf. After a lifetime of damaging his feet jumping and landing on the basketball court he deserves to retire (upon his choosing) to the nice soft golf course"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:06Z 177.3K followers, 12.5K engagements

"@JamesSurowiecki @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Right. A million+ Jews disappeared from Warsaw between July and December [----]. Where did they go and most notably why didn't they ever write"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:17Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@senderowiczj Carl Lewis is the greatest American male track athlete ever but he's from Houston not Los Angeles"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:34Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@St2station RFK's three celebrity bodyguards who jumped on Sirhan Sirhan were totally awesome guys: Rafer Johnson George Plimpton and Rosie Grier"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:45Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@VinayakKishore I went to [----] Los Angeles Olympic's men's field hockey gold medal game at which Pakistan beat West Germany 1-0"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:40Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@dilanesper India recently the world's most populous ranks 60th among nations at the Olympics summer and winter with [--] gold medals and [--] medals in total. In contrast Iran has [--] medals Indonesia [--] Turkey [---] Hungary [---] Finland [---] Japan [---] Italy [---] China [---] and USA 3095"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:24Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@vintagemapstore Why is Los Angeles supposedly so naturally loud"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:33Z 177.3K followers, 12.4K engagements

"@Mapache155893 @Ol_TimeFootball The Baltimore Colts' 20-17 win in sudden death overtime in the [----] NFL championship game was considered the great pro game of all time when I was a kid"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:39Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@owenbroadcast A lot of things have become universally electrified like car windows and locks and toothbrushes. Other electrified things like can openers and carving knives were tried but have faded over the decades. Trial and error"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:00Z 177.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@TrevorSutcliffe @owenbroadcast Thinking back can-opening was a much much bigger part of life than it is today"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:33Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@prktripathi @charlesmurray Well Uttar Pradesh does have what the human race would probably choose as the world's most beautiful building"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:49Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@IsaBelebziq @wifiejwn38 @Anc_Aesthetics A Sri Lankan recently ran a [----] [---] meters with the new shoes and at moderate altitude (1000 meters). But still . 9.97"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:49Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@wifiejwn38 @Anc_Aesthetics I was wondering if the Sri Lankan who went sub-10 seconds in the [---] meters is from the rare sub-Saharan population in South Asia. But instead he's a handsome version of the typical South Asian guy"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:00Z 177.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@huntersnintendo @ReaperInTheRye @annakhachiyan Not a lot of evidence has turned up over the last [--] years that the government can do much about narrowing IQ gaps after moving past really bad Jim Crow schooling. This doesn't mean that IQ differences are all genetic but it does mean it's not clear what the government can do"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:28Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@RamboVanHalen Most of the truly influential films of the 21st Century would be better classed as rightwing art rather than leftwing art: e.g. the Lord of the Rings trilogy Iron Man the Dark Knight trilogy No Country For Old Men Mulholland Drive The Lives of Others etc"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:14Z 177.4K followers, 210.6K engagements

"@razibkhan Matt Damon was really good in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" so Nolan went with him again. Similarly Cillian Murphy's performance for Nolan as Oppenheimer was a stretch ethnically but fit in terms of skinniness and was CM's 6th role for CN"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:37Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan Ben Affleck is a little Greek but looks even more Nordic (after I'm guessing having a lot of work done) than his pal Matt Damon. Jennifer Anniston is similar"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:38Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"New on SteveSailer dot Net How Should Colleges Respond to the Asian Inundation Can we continue to rely upon admission procedures developed for WASPs during Henry Luce's American Century during our own Asian Century Link in replies"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:00Z 177.4K followers, 52.1K engagements

"@SOscarboy2 @eva_kurilova Dressed head to toe in Costco for [--] years now"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:00Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements

"New on SteveSailer dot Net -- Asian Discrimination: The U. of California's Asian Purge and Hispanic Surge Several University of California campuses have seen plummeting Asian shares as they pursue becoming "Hispanic-Serving Institutions." Link in replies"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:46Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.stevesailer.net/p/asian-discrimination-the-u-of-californias https://www.stevesailer.net/p/asian-discrimination-the-u-of-californias"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:47Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@ReaperInTheRye @annakhachiyan I avoid the extremist dogmas that intelligence is determined solely by nature or nurture and assume the most likely answer will turn out to be the moderate position that both nature and nurture play roles. But the science for that while mounting isn't wholly conclusive yet"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:56Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@Babygravy9 Norman names like Mr. Darcy still do better in English society. One question is how many Montbriands are descended from social climbers named say Smith who picked out a cooler name the way that "Sailer" is a social climber's spelling for "Seiler" (ropemaker)"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:01Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@SidKhurana3607 Czech Bohemian Something from Central Europe I'm guessing"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:05Z 177.4K followers, 18K engagements

"@fitzr1122 @RamboVanHalen Or maybe the great film directors tend to let their actresses talk about politics while they talk about lenses"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:37Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@RamboVanHalen Brokeback Mountain"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:40Z 177.4K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@roctakon @RamboVanHalen I didn't really get "Michael Clayton" but a lot of people adore it"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:43Z 177.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@Jj95343 @AlexNowrasteh @RamboVanHalen Much of the screenplay of "Brazil" is by the Tory playwright Tom Stoppard. My impression is that it's Stoppard's idea for: What if Evelyn Waugh wrote "1984" instead of George Orwell"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:53Z 177.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@KtunaxaAmerika @SethBarronNYC @RamboVanHalen George Clooney gives a sensible speech in favor of FDR's Tennessee Valley Authority at the end of "O Brother Where Art Thou.""
X Link 2026-02-12T01:15Z 177.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@GuyMcKendrick63 @PG3124 @RamboVanHalen The Source Material for There Will Be Blood is the Teapot Dome scandal which led to the Greystone Murder/Suicide which inspired Raymond Chandler's left of center worldview as Philip Marlowe explains. But PTA didn't bother with all that which weakened his movie despite DDL"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:13Z 177.4K followers, [--] engagements

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