[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@Chris_arnade](/creator/twitter/Chris_arnade) "@_CLancellotti Arguable how much the intellectuals had an impact other than being at the right place at the right time. Richard Pipes is pretty dismissive of their role beyond as agitators that jumped in when chaos happened. The to the people's movement shows just how detached they where"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945494374596387194) 2025-07-16 14:42:59 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements "@PaulSkallas How about showing where you got that piece"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946360744636829764) 2025-07-19 00:05:37 UTC 91.4K followers, 4116 engagements "Honest question for banking regulator types. Why don't we have them We already guarantee everyone's money"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1938209353619624036) 2025-06-26 12:14:54 UTC 91.4K followers, 6059 engagements "There is something darkly humorous about Richard Lugar park being turned into a homeless addict camp His statue is usually draped with old clothes and its feet surrounded by drug detritus"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945094570003333343) 2025-07-15 12:14:18 UTC 91.4K followers, 16.9K engagements "Here is link. Thanks Elon You are the best billionaire ever"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946313401241669756) 2025-07-18 20:57:30 UTC 91.4K followers, 6730 engagements "Along the way the protagonist buys a vape at the head shop some new socks at the Dollar Tree dabbles with joining the Army at the recruiting station gets their nails done pawns their wedding ring gets a new cell phone pawns that two lots later buys some K2 at the dodgy Indian run gas-station/headshop enters the addiction counseling service in the next lot"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945845833259250057) 2025-07-17 13:59:33 UTC 91.4K followers, 4912 engagements "Dont think Ive ever seen a downtown so empty of McDonalds as Indianapolis. Whats that about"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1944799019357688305) 2025-07-14 16:39:53 UTC 91.4K followers, 25.8K engagements "Here's what's going to happen to the government grocery stores in NYC: -- A study will be convened that last two years -- A long report nobody reads will be issued suggesting it would be too costly for too little use. -- Regardless to save face one limited version will eventually be opened in S Bronx as "test". -- It will be under-utilized because crap offerings . -- it will effectively operate as food pantry for low-income giving out canned products (which already exists) and cheap kale for the few well-to-do gentrifiers in neighborhood. -- it will close up after a year with zero fan-fare"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1938270610066448834) 2025-06-26 16:18:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 74K engagements "never had a product I got more out of and will be sorry to give up on"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1937867904906858723) 2025-06-25 13:38:07 UTC 91.4K followers, 7657 engagements "It took XX yrs and at least X trips around the world but this backpack is finally done"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1937867513066594676) 2025-06-25 13:36:33 UTC 91.4K followers, 22K engagements "@DoriMoody13 Oh my. I forgot to look up Bruderhof communities in Australia. I was intending to visit the house in Paraguay but my trip canceled. Will definitely try and visit"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946541054347391338) 2025-07-19 12:02:06 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements "My issue with the the city grocery store thing is and has always been what are you going to do about security Because I can tell you that and taste is the biggest issue in these "food deserts" Prosecuting aggressively shop lifting theft and anti-social behavior (in and around store) sure doesn't seem high on Mamdani's radar"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946577095594754425) 2025-07-19 14:25:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 37.6K engagements "I know twitter hates S*bstack but my pieces there are were I focus not on this thing and would be flattered if you read my latest which is about my seven days on Greyhounds and the people I met like Jerry below and it's not pay-walled(link in next tweet)"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946313287697571964) 2025-07-18 20:57:03 UTC 91.4K followers, 13.7K engagements "@TheEsteemedFox I am so done with his prose style and it now irritates me so much that I can't read more than a few paragraphs of him or the hoards of short declarative sentence followers"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946248129772134875) 2025-07-18 16:38:08 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements "They have become so deeply and clearly a radio run by hard left activist that it's hard to distinguish it from satire. That they claim to not see that makes it even more jaw dropping. I play a game how long until they turn this X news item into somehow about something racial or about sex and they never disappoint"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945530777288282437) 2025-07-16 17:07:38 UTC 91.3K followers, 2091 engagements "I feel that way about a lot of products. The simple inexpensive durable well-designed basic version is rarer"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1938232861070368956) 2025-06-26 13:48:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 4600 engagements "Ill be in Sidney (Australia) from August 2nd to 9th before busing up towards Darwin. This will be my rough bus route by greyhound (not foot) with many stops"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946530954568212812) 2025-07-19 11:21:59 UTC 91.4K followers, 6778 engagements "A Cheever-like short story about walking through strip mall parking lots one after anotherfording connecting drainage ditches or climbing over barrier bermsto finally make it to the Denny's four miles away"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945843890247901253) 2025-07-17 13:51:50 UTC 91.4K followers, 18.4K engagements "I'm leaving for Japan in a few days. If I just wait and buy a camera there (Pro level point and shoot like a Panasonic) I presume there's no issues of compatibility"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1923563481745219816) 2025-05-17 02:17:26 UTC 91.4K followers, 6484 engagements "@Liamjsm @razibkhan I don't know man. All I can tell you is somehow every issue gets turned into something to do with with race or gays and how they manage that is pretty damn impressive"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945534468879421782) 2025-07-16 17:22:18 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements "@AlanMCole yes. Yes you most certainly would. Funny planning it out. Even getting dropped off at station at X am with closest hotel X miles away is a problem Nature is not friendly there"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1941611690040127644) 2025-07-05 21:34:34 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements "Ill be arriving in south bend tonight assuming my bus arrives. If you swing by the McDonalds near the bus station you might find me. Ive been a week on buses and in cheap motels so I might not smell my best"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945099714413641916) 2025-07-15 12:34:44 UTC 91.4K followers, 6617 engagements "And of course from a government run store in KC --- anyone whose not a blind ideologue who has any experience with these neighborhood knows SAFTEY IS THE ISSUE"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946577379578548727) 2025-07-19 14:26:27 UTC 91.4K followers, 8057 engagements "Headed to Indianapolis if the bus actually comes. This is where it dropped me off yesterday different spot for where it is supposed to pick me up. 🤷 I wish I had more time here in Columbus and it wasn't pouring the entire time but feels a bit overlooked. Ok town. PS: My take on all these towns is why you still so spread out. Changes in parking requirement zoning laws can't come soon enough"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1944744108037161149) 2025-07-14 13:01:41 UTC 91.3K followers, 9556 engagements "Downtowns in cities like Indianapolis are really depressing vast and mostly empty with less activity than near the outer ring malls & shopping plazas. Municipal business (courts government offices) are primary draw and they close at night. There are a few larger private business but they stay fortified in their towers. Theres a few destination sights (sports arenas etc) but those are only periodically busy. The only real long term committed residents are the homeless who efficiently take over and so everything becomes about them bathroom codes limited outdoor seating shuttered public spaces"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945093551341051911) 2025-07-15 12:10:15 UTC 91.4K followers, 173.4K engagements "Most annoying thing about discussion of crime in US is intentional failure to recognize how local it is changing often from block to block within a city. US is indeed a violent dangerous country by global standards especially given how wealthy we are and Minneapolis is high on the list. But that crime is almost entirely confined to a few neighborhoods that can be avoided if you are in the know. Being in the know is the issue and I tell foreigners about to visit that crime in US is not just a Hollywood stereotype so be aware but it can also be easily avoided"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1944335680911335907) 2025-07-13 09:58:44 UTC 91.4K followers, 431.7K engagements "@Chad_Kosciusko "Went to a improv comedy show" -- mistake number one dude"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945117056669511886) 2025-07-15 13:43:39 UTC 91.3K followers, 2520 engagements "Kind of would be decent to show where he got that screenshot from"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946362094904807836) 2025-07-19 00:10:59 UTC 91.4K followers, 56.5K engagements "Hello South Bend. A little different from that pristine campus down here"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945217555557200333) 2025-07-15 20:23:00 UTC 91.4K followers, 8814 engagements "@AlanMCole @LizWolfeReason teaching young boys how to neg their way into relationships is no sort of book I want read"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945257078018158980) 2025-07-15 23:00:03 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements "@CTIronman @ReubenR80027912 I'm more surprised late night TV shows still exists and that the hosts get paid a shit load"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946251704523001930) 2025-07-18 16:52:20 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements "everyone in the online debate intentionally makes bad arguments with the data to support their case. From looking only at State level and saying oh look Red States are more dangerous to saying "what do you mean my city is safe" to OH MY GOD LOOK HOW DANGEROUS NYC IS"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1944336269456080929) 2025-07-13 10:01:05 UTC 91.3K followers, 19.8K engagements "And some of us are on quest to find functional McDonald's ice-cream machines"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945954347788943744) 2025-07-17 21:10:45 UTC 91.4K followers, 12.6K engagements "@DavidFellerath Columbus (less so but still) Harrisburg Fort Wayne Jacksonville Waterbury Albany I could go on and on"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1945095449217487160) 2025-07-15 12:17:47 UTC 91.3K followers, 3533 engagements "I'm not a free market libertarian guy. I think the government can provide an alternative to for profit grocery stores but running them in "food deserts" means running them in high crime neighborhoods and success is entirely about cultural issues not economic one and the left currently does not want to acknowledge or address those. You have to provide heavy policing. Will they do that"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1946579934719156456) 2025-07-19 14:36:36 UTC 91.4K followers, 8795 engagements "Greyhound has been selling off their downtown stations and moving towards the burbs. For $s. Sometimes that kind of makes sense if they are moved to a Walmart plaza with lots of hotels etc but look at where Cincinnati is"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1943304169953054732) 2025-07-10 13:39:53 UTC 91.3K followers, 36.1K engagements "I know the usual answers (jobs scene etc) but still dont get why more young hip people priced out of NYC & SF dont move to places like Columbus Ohio & create a scene. Plenty of room here"  [@Chris_arnade](/creator/x/Chris_arnade) on [X](/post/tweet/1944515381772620033) 2025-07-13 21:52:49 UTC 91.4K followers, 156.8K engagements
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@Chris_arnade
"@_CLancellotti Arguable how much the intellectuals had an impact other than being at the right place at the right time. Richard Pipes is pretty dismissive of their role beyond as agitators that jumped in when chaos happened. The to the people's movement shows just how detached they where"
@Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-16 14:42:59 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@PaulSkallas How about showing where you got that piece" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 00:05:37 UTC 91.4K followers, 4116 engagements
"Honest question for banking regulator types. Why don't we have them We already guarantee everyone's money" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-06-26 12:14:54 UTC 91.4K followers, 6059 engagements
"There is something darkly humorous about Richard Lugar park being turned into a homeless addict camp His statue is usually draped with old clothes and its feet surrounded by drug detritus" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 12:14:18 UTC 91.4K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Here is link. Thanks Elon You are the best billionaire ever" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-18 20:57:30 UTC 91.4K followers, 6730 engagements
"Along the way the protagonist buys a vape at the head shop some new socks at the Dollar Tree dabbles with joining the Army at the recruiting station gets their nails done pawns their wedding ring gets a new cell phone pawns that two lots later buys some K2 at the dodgy Indian run gas-station/headshop enters the addiction counseling service in the next lot" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-17 13:59:33 UTC 91.4K followers, 4912 engagements
"Dont think Ive ever seen a downtown so empty of McDonalds as Indianapolis. Whats that about" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-14 16:39:53 UTC 91.4K followers, 25.8K engagements
"Here's what's going to happen to the government grocery stores in NYC: -- A study will be convened that last two years -- A long report nobody reads will be issued suggesting it would be too costly for too little use. -- Regardless to save face one limited version will eventually be opened in S Bronx as "test". -- It will be under-utilized because crap offerings . -- it will effectively operate as food pantry for low-income giving out canned products (which already exists) and cheap kale for the few well-to-do gentrifiers in neighborhood. -- it will close up after a year with zero fan-fare" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-06-26 16:18:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 74K engagements
"never had a product I got more out of and will be sorry to give up on" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-06-25 13:38:07 UTC 91.4K followers, 7657 engagements
"It took XX yrs and at least X trips around the world but this backpack is finally done" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-06-25 13:36:33 UTC 91.4K followers, 22K engagements
"@DoriMoody13 Oh my. I forgot to look up Bruderhof communities in Australia. I was intending to visit the house in Paraguay but my trip canceled. Will definitely try and visit" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 12:02:06 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements
"My issue with the the city grocery store thing is and has always been what are you going to do about security Because I can tell you that and taste is the biggest issue in these "food deserts" Prosecuting aggressively shop lifting theft and anti-social behavior (in and around store) sure doesn't seem high on Mamdani's radar" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 14:25:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 37.6K engagements
"I know twitter hates S*bstack but my pieces there are were I focus not on this thing and would be flattered if you read my latest which is about my seven days on Greyhounds and the people I met like Jerry below and it's not pay-walled(link in next tweet)" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-18 20:57:03 UTC 91.4K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@TheEsteemedFox I am so done with his prose style and it now irritates me so much that I can't read more than a few paragraphs of him or the hoards of short declarative sentence followers" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-18 16:38:08 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements
"They have become so deeply and clearly a radio run by hard left activist that it's hard to distinguish it from satire. That they claim to not see that makes it even more jaw dropping. I play a game how long until they turn this X news item into somehow about something racial or about sex and they never disappoint" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-16 17:07:38 UTC 91.3K followers, 2091 engagements
"I feel that way about a lot of products. The simple inexpensive durable well-designed basic version is rarer" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-06-26 13:48:19 UTC 91.4K followers, 4600 engagements
"Ill be in Sidney (Australia) from August 2nd to 9th before busing up towards Darwin. This will be my rough bus route by greyhound (not foot) with many stops" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 11:21:59 UTC 91.4K followers, 6778 engagements
"A Cheever-like short story about walking through strip mall parking lots one after anotherfording connecting drainage ditches or climbing over barrier bermsto finally make it to the Denny's four miles away" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-17 13:51:50 UTC 91.4K followers, 18.4K engagements
"I'm leaving for Japan in a few days. If I just wait and buy a camera there (Pro level point and shoot like a Panasonic) I presume there's no issues of compatibility" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-05-17 02:17:26 UTC 91.4K followers, 6484 engagements
"@Liamjsm @razibkhan I don't know man. All I can tell you is somehow every issue gets turned into something to do with with race or gays and how they manage that is pretty damn impressive" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-16 17:22:18 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@AlanMCole yes. Yes you most certainly would. Funny planning it out. Even getting dropped off at station at X am with closest hotel X miles away is a problem Nature is not friendly there" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-05 21:34:34 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Ill be arriving in south bend tonight assuming my bus arrives. If you swing by the McDonalds near the bus station you might find me. Ive been a week on buses and in cheap motels so I might not smell my best" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 12:34:44 UTC 91.4K followers, 6617 engagements
"And of course from a government run store in KC --- anyone whose not a blind ideologue who has any experience with these neighborhood knows SAFTEY IS THE ISSUE" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 14:26:27 UTC 91.4K followers, 8057 engagements
"Headed to Indianapolis if the bus actually comes. This is where it dropped me off yesterday different spot for where it is supposed to pick me up. 🤷 I wish I had more time here in Columbus and it wasn't pouring the entire time but feels a bit overlooked. Ok town. PS: My take on all these towns is why you still so spread out. Changes in parking requirement zoning laws can't come soon enough" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-14 13:01:41 UTC 91.3K followers, 9556 engagements
"Downtowns in cities like Indianapolis are really depressing vast and mostly empty with less activity than near the outer ring malls & shopping plazas. Municipal business (courts government offices) are primary draw and they close at night. There are a few larger private business but they stay fortified in their towers. Theres a few destination sights (sports arenas etc) but those are only periodically busy. The only real long term committed residents are the homeless who efficiently take over and so everything becomes about them bathroom codes limited outdoor seating shuttered public spaces" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 12:10:15 UTC 91.4K followers, 173.4K engagements
"Most annoying thing about discussion of crime in US is intentional failure to recognize how local it is changing often from block to block within a city. US is indeed a violent dangerous country by global standards especially given how wealthy we are and Minneapolis is high on the list. But that crime is almost entirely confined to a few neighborhoods that can be avoided if you are in the know. Being in the know is the issue and I tell foreigners about to visit that crime in US is not just a Hollywood stereotype so be aware but it can also be easily avoided" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-13 09:58:44 UTC 91.4K followers, 431.7K engagements
"@Chad_Kosciusko "Went to a improv comedy show" -- mistake number one dude" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 13:43:39 UTC 91.3K followers, 2520 engagements
"Kind of would be decent to show where he got that screenshot from" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 00:10:59 UTC 91.4K followers, 56.5K engagements
"Hello South Bend. A little different from that pristine campus down here" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 20:23:00 UTC 91.4K followers, 8814 engagements
"@AlanMCole @LizWolfeReason teaching young boys how to neg their way into relationships is no sort of book I want read" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 23:00:03 UTC 91.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@CTIronman @ReubenR80027912 I'm more surprised late night TV shows still exists and that the hosts get paid a shit load" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-18 16:52:20 UTC 91.4K followers, XXX engagements
"everyone in the online debate intentionally makes bad arguments with the data to support their case. From looking only at State level and saying oh look Red States are more dangerous to saying "what do you mean my city is safe" to OH MY GOD LOOK HOW DANGEROUS NYC IS" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-13 10:01:05 UTC 91.3K followers, 19.8K engagements
"And some of us are on quest to find functional McDonald's ice-cream machines" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-17 21:10:45 UTC 91.4K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@DavidFellerath Columbus (less so but still) Harrisburg Fort Wayne Jacksonville Waterbury Albany I could go on and on" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-15 12:17:47 UTC 91.3K followers, 3533 engagements
"I'm not a free market libertarian guy. I think the government can provide an alternative to for profit grocery stores but running them in "food deserts" means running them in high crime neighborhoods and success is entirely about cultural issues not economic one and the left currently does not want to acknowledge or address those. You have to provide heavy policing. Will they do that" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-19 14:36:36 UTC 91.4K followers, 8795 engagements
"Greyhound has been selling off their downtown stations and moving towards the burbs. For $s. Sometimes that kind of makes sense if they are moved to a Walmart plaza with lots of hotels etc but look at where Cincinnati is" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-10 13:39:53 UTC 91.3K followers, 36.1K engagements
"I know the usual answers (jobs scene etc) but still dont get why more young hip people priced out of NYC & SF dont move to places like Columbus Ohio & create a scene. Plenty of room here" @Chris_arnade on X 2025-07-13 21:52:49 UTC 91.4K followers, 156.8K engagements