[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.] [@TheSpectator](/creator/twitter/TheSpectator) ""If Xi falls or indeed has already fallen the consequences for Taiwan and US-China relations could be dramatic and possibly beneficial to both." ✍ Francis Pike"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947261541587247179) 2025-07-21 11:45:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Steven Spielberg was just XX when he directed it and had only two screen credits to his name: the then-unreleased Sugarland Express and Duel a made-for-TV movie about a man being stalked by a big-rig truck." ✍ Christopher Sandford"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948126003865301051) 2025-07-23 21:00:08 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The Rada vote came days after Ukraines security service carried out XX simultaneous raids on senior investigators from the NABU and SAPO agencies reportedly without court warrants." From @owenmatth"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948144849837752681) 2025-07-23 22:15:01 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Sam A and Zuck are focused on accelerating as fast as possible toward superintelligence but another AI rival Dario Amodei chief executive of Anthropic has a different motive." ✍ Rachel Tyrell"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948382691470024922) 2025-07-24 14:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Owens is going to stick with her pistols and fight the Macrons all year if not in court then at least on YouTube. Brigitte Macron is not a man. But man is this going to be juicy." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948375132629516649) 2025-07-24 13:30:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Whats the best novel youve read all summer For Cockburn its the more than 200-page complaint that Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed in federal court today against Candace Owens.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948105885840036197) 2025-07-23 19:40:11 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""A sign of Xis diminishing power is the increasing redundancy of the economic posts he holds. The Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission which he chairs has been meeting only sporadically." ✍ Francis Pike"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947102998276010031) 2025-07-21 01:15:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Network and cable TV no longer matter like they did. Far more people watch online video and listen to podcasts for their comedy fixes than tune in to late-night talk shows." ✍ Neal Pollack"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948021209301410281) 2025-07-23 14:03:43 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The world changes but Trump stays the same. Decades after the young real estate baron incensed Breslin with his effortless command of New Yorks press his mastery of the return call is as sharp as ever." From @aidnmclaughlin"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947238902919475285) 2025-07-21 10:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""According to figures from the Pew Research Center XX percent of mainline Protestants voted for Donald Trump last year. Despite this the attitude of mainline church leadership toward MAGA has been one of full-blown resistance." ✍ Chris Mondics"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947099214158196990) 2025-07-21 01:00:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Hunter our next president looked fit clean and sober if occasionally unhinged in that garden setting. It was his coming-down-the-escalator moment." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947959898852962662) 2025-07-23 10:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The administrations AI Action Plan and the three AI-related executive orders he signed at the conclusion of his remarks were designed to 'reassert the future which belongs to America.'" From @mattjpfmcdonald"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948461947520692309) 2025-07-24 19:15:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Stewart and Colbert shouldnt kid themselves because theyre not capable of kidding themselves much anymore. When they first rose to prominence the nation needed them." ✍ Neal Pollack"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948107119581913337) 2025-07-23 19:45:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""I have a bone to pick with Tulsi Gabbard. I had thought six months into Donald Trumps second term that I could safely say 'sayonara' to the Russia Collusion Delusion and all its works." From @rogerkimball"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947646580804182522) 2025-07-22 13:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""To create a potential scapegoat for economic tumult Trump has been bludgeoning Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell claiming that he has been tardy in lowering interest rates. But Powells term is drawing to a close." From @JacobHeilbrunn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947737166085226998) 2025-07-22 19:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""As more trade deals follow that of Japan and the Philippines announced today Trump will be able to claim a negotiating success. But that doesnt mean Americans will be better off for it." ✍ Ross Clark"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948039157864886297) 2025-07-23 15:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Trump has never been one for nitty-gritty detail. His understanding of AI is rooted as with many complex subjects in his desire to beat the opposition." From @mattjpfmcdonald"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948422247783236089) 2025-07-24 16:37:18 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Let the people drink the better Coke John. They want it. They want the crisper more delectable Coke the Coke that doesnt leave your mouth tingling with a weird sweet corn taste." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946298947510636650) 2025-07-18 20:00:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Trumps latest visit to Bedminster put him within sight of Barack Obama in the list of golf enthusiast presidents. Obama played XXX rounds while in office and Trump is now up to XXX after six months of his second term." ✍ Patrick Kidd"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948413865311485989) 2025-07-24 16:03:59 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Gearing up to launch his new America Party' Elon Musk now speaks of a GOP-Democratic duopoly that has the country in its grip. But this system died ten years ago at the hands of Donald Trump: Americas first third party president." ✍ Travis Aaroe"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946551852847312996) 2025-07-19 12:45:01 UTC 50.5K followers, 1081 engagements ""At his final gig with Sabbath at Villa Park on July X I watched from the Doug Ellis Stand and Ive seldom seen someone so obviously overwhelmed by his reception." ✍ Michael Hann"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948404763764097181) 2025-07-24 15:27:49 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Its easy to decry this lack of humanity and the utter failure of institutional safeguards. How can one justify saving a life if it requires taking another from someone who can and sometimes does recover" ✍ Gage Klipper"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948416646441238950) 2025-07-24 16:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""In May my sister-in-law a mother of three had her house ransacked. My childhood Pacific Palisades home burned down and so did my mothers house in Malibu." ✍ Peachy Keenan"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946589619442618822) 2025-07-19 15:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Nowhere does Chernows exhaustive method prove more valuable than in his account of Twains finances. He digs into the entrails of every disastrous venture." ✍ John Mac Ghlionn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947106774298821107) 2025-07-21 01:30:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Even if it was somewhat surreal the interview felt authentic and authenticity is the secret sauce the Democrats are missing." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947835313008648246) 2025-07-23 01:45:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""My attempts to escape boredom have been so extreme they sometimes verge on predictable." ✍ Sean Thomas"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947118108981723557) 2025-07-21 02:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Okay Ill admit it: Shane Gillis made the ESPYs entertaining. Gillis was the only person worth talking about. If not for his name trending on social media I would have had no clue the award ceremony was still televised in 2025." From @BrittMcHenry"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207325129150488) 2025-07-18 13:55:59 UTC 50.5K followers, 4321 engagements ""Punchbowls Jake Sherman noted yesterday that Green hadnt voted 'in a few weeks.' Wheres he been At first Guyana according to NOTUSs Reese Gorman.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767386934829121) 2025-07-22 21:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Adamss announcement comes after his appearance on the New York Posts podcast yesterday in which he said again that almost all of Zohrans socialist promises are unattainable.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948488379647295801) 2025-07-24 21:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Trump appears to be in a rather conciliatory mood at the moment. While he couldnt help but rub in the terms and conditions of the settlement he also had some positive reflections to share." From @KateAndrs"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948461695543702002) 2025-07-24 19:14:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Gillis lampooned the yet-to-be-verified Epstein list American politics and Indiana Fever sensation Caitlin Clark. He received roars of laughter and a few jeers a mixed bag." From @BrittMcHenry"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946314058585551179) 2025-07-18 21:00:06 UTC 50.5K followers, 4391 engagements ""Lets talk facts. The real drivers of inequality in healthcare arent race but resources." From @sypherdavid1"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947601289413529913) 2025-07-22 10:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The first to show his hand was Sam Altman the chief executive and founder of OpenAI a company he once shared with his former friend Elon Musk." ✍ Rachel Tyrell"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948322294813622558) 2025-07-24 10:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Cockburn thinks current Mayor Eric Adams now running as an Independent must have read Zohrans free-stuff-for-New-Yorkers list and spotted a hole: WiFi.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948372489890840846) 2025-07-24 13:19:35 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Columbia University and the administration reached a settlement yesterday that in theory brings a months-long battle between the academics and politicos to an end." From @KateAndrs"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948428488647582197) 2025-07-24 17:02:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The crackpot idea of a canal linking Lake Erie with the Hudson River was refined in a series of essays composed in a debtors prison in 1807 by a flour miller named Jesse Hawley." ✍ Bill Kauffman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948156213008499130) 2025-07-23 23:00:10 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Unusually The Art of a Lie is also a celebration of the early days of trade with the dawn of businesses such as Fortnum & Mason Floris and Berry Bros which still carry luster to this day." ✍ Amanda Craig"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1943716946349801483) 2025-07-11 17:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Cockburn will admit that he didnt really see it until now but after yesterday hes ready to admit that Robert Hunter Biden may be the only person who can lead the Democratic Party out of the wilderness.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947702641204859256) 2025-07-22 16:57:50 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Mainline Protestantism once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life is in freefall." ✍ Chris Mondics"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947050148242022872) 2025-07-20 21:45:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Time and again ministry to the faithful took a back seat to left-wing orthodoxies." ✍ Chris Mondics"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947427638961742165) 2025-07-21 22:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Ozzy as he will always be known was a hilarious contrary oddly lovable figure. We shall not see his like again." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948141118769488150) 2025-07-23 22:00:12 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""After heavy campaigns in the north and south including in areas like Beit Hanun where Israeli forces recently had to re-engage following a Hamas resurgence the battle for the central Strip could prove decisive." ✍ Jonathan Sacerdoti"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947691340575215698) 2025-07-22 16:12:56 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""If the Caribbean and South Florida arent exotic enough Cockburn understands Green spent last weekend on a boat in Italy with his new girlfriend and her family.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947736978834763794) 2025-07-22 19:14:17 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The reason why Ozzy was so highly thought of was that he was charming in his befuddlement playing the part of the devilish entertainer with a gleam in his eye that let his delighted audience know he was in on the joke." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948076910363181101) 2025-07-23 17:45:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""In neither the short-term nor the mid-term is there a way of providing the promised San Francisco to Los Angeles service in X hours and XX minutes." ✍ Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947657919698174371) 2025-07-22 14:00:08 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""One could easily argue that the best late-night hosts John Mulaney and Adam Friedland arent really on late night at all but Netflix and YouTube respectively." ✍ Neal Pollack"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948061829126553903) 2025-07-23 16:45:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Although he was by his own admission a diminished figure toward the end of his life wracked with Parkinsons Osbourne still possessed the lugubrious wit that had endeared him to so many throughout his life." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947820235077063039) 2025-07-23 00:45:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The moment I heard that thered been a backlash against James Gunns reboot of the Superman franchise on the grounds that hed ruined this great American icon by turning the Man of Steel 'woke' I thought sign me up" ✍ Sam Leith"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947322851389829407) 2025-07-21 15:48:41 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Until Tulsi Gabbards revelations I had resigned myself the prospect that any serious accountability for this concerted effort to overturn the results of a presidential election were nil." From @rogerkimball"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947454071247388705) 2025-07-22 00:30:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath did something British groups had not done before. Before them the British Invasion groups had taken American music and sold it to the British public as the American dream as exotica." ✍ Michael Hann"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948450654843756591) 2025-07-24 18:30:11 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""It has as the blues songs say been a long long way down. In the 1920s Clarksdale was according to the Wall Street Journal home to more millionaires per capita than any other city in the US." ✍ Graham Boynton"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947601289279398315) 2025-07-22 10:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news with even worse news you can make people pathetically grateful at the outcome." ✍ Ross Clark"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948008968644608482) 2025-07-23 13:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Even if Pakistan-made bombs never come to Saudi Arabia the Saudis have already done their bit to spread such weapons further afield." ✍ Andrew Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946706633381327158) 2025-07-19 23:00:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""To call Hunters interview 'expletive-laden' is somewhat misleading. It was more of an extended expletive laden with other words." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947786246824005866) 2025-07-22 22:30:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""As I can personally attest if you agitate the likes of Sarah Spain youre doing something right. Gillis is a refreshing respite from the overly politically correct mob and 20-minute features and monotonous speeches." From @BrittMcHenry"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946363121729216580) 2025-07-19 00:15:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Osbourne certainly lived a life. Stories about him in his pomp are legion." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948031623477293111) 2025-07-23 14:45:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""I preface this review by saying that unless you are the greatest admirer of Lena Dunham or anyone in the (admittedly impressive) cast of her new Netflix series Too Much it is very easy to give this particular show a miss." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947295537738224023) 2025-07-21 14:00:09 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""You can summon the world on a phone argue with invisible friends or play mindless games when stuck in line at the store. Yet the world feels angrier and more chaotic than ever." ✍ Sean Thomas"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947223828687450616) 2025-07-21 09:15:13 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The strange alchemy that makes one restaurant a trendy hit while others superficially similar languish in penurious obscurity has worked its magic at Le Veau dOr." From @rogerkimball"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947374792849428644) 2025-07-21 19:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Were I a betting man I would say the odds favor some high-profile prosecutions." From @rogerkimball"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947695658250420655) 2025-07-22 16:30:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The real window into the soul is found not in substance but in quantity. The single Martini gives the impression of performative dipsomania but as Dorothy Parker knew the real fun only begins after the third." ✍ Kelly Chapman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947706970959458762) 2025-07-22 17:15:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Trump is winning. He has won. Let the defeated Dems glower in their lakeside houses drinking their lonely whiskies at dusk heads bowed like Michael Corleone at the end of Godfather Part II." ✍ Neal Pollack"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947461619782447532) 2025-07-22 01:00:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Unusually The Art of a Lie is also a celebration of the early days of trade with the dawn of businesses such as Fortnum & Mason Floris and Berry Bros which still carry luster to this day." ✍ Amanda Craig"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1945453381981503639) 2025-07-16 12:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Remaining interesting in the ever-fickle music industry for over five decades is no joke and if Osbourne had to become an exaggerated version of himself in order to stay popular that was a price worth paying." From @alexlarman"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947734577155285184) 2025-07-22 19:04:45 UTC 50.5K followers, 1800 engagements ""White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that 'a house cat' has a better chance of becoming president than Hunter Biden. Cockburn is guessing that Hunter is more of a dog person but Jackson missed the significance of this interview.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947744729346580614) 2025-07-22 19:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The Macrons are very salty about the rumors which originated with a French journalist in 2021 and caught on with Owens particularly after the Daily Wire fired her in 2024." ✍ Cockburn"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948212804739031484) 2025-07-24 02:45:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Colbert himself has long since abandoned the smarmy satirical shtick that once made him stand out as something of a critical thinker. In the Age of Trump he became the witless corporate guy he once played." ✍ Paul du Quenoy"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1946249878557827499) 2025-07-18 16:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""During the Biden administration the FBI asserted repeatedly that the biggest threat to civic order in the US wasnt Islamic terrorists but white supremacists as if repetition rather than persuasive statistics could make it so." ✍ Lionel Shriver"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948352483677372451) 2025-07-24 12:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Sabbath instead sold the American nightmare back to the United States filling arenas across North America a much bigger concert draw there than at home." ✍ Michael Hann"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948477054602625518) 2025-07-24 20:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The solution to unequal healthcare is not to flood the system with under qualified graduates just to meet a racial quota. Thats not justice. Thats malpractice." From @sypherdavid1"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947631486854726142) 2025-07-22 12:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""The coming weeks will tell us whether any indictments and prosecutions will be forthcoming. Tulsi Gabbard says that more evidence is coming. The mood of country seems to favor accountability." From @rogerkimball"  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1947422248991588357) 2025-07-21 22:23:40 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements ""Cockburn understands that Owens offered the Macrons the right of reply before airing the speculation but the French President and his wife declined.""  [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) on [X](/post/tweet/1948163737870807277) 2025-07-23 23:30:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
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""If Xi falls or indeed has already fallen the consequences for Taiwan and US-China relations could be dramatic and possibly beneficial to both." ✍ Francis Pike"
@TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 11:45:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Steven Spielberg was just XX when he directed it and had only two screen credits to his name: the then-unreleased Sugarland Express and Duel a made-for-TV movie about a man being stalked by a big-rig truck." ✍ Christopher Sandford" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 21:00:08 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The Rada vote came days after Ukraines security service carried out XX simultaneous raids on senior investigators from the NABU and SAPO agencies reportedly without court warrants." From @owenmatth" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 22:15:01 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Sam A and Zuck are focused on accelerating as fast as possible toward superintelligence but another AI rival Dario Amodei chief executive of Anthropic has a different motive." ✍ Rachel Tyrell" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 14:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Owens is going to stick with her pistols and fight the Macrons all year if not in court then at least on YouTube. Brigitte Macron is not a man. But man is this going to be juicy." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 13:30:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Whats the best novel youve read all summer For Cockburn its the more than 200-page complaint that Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed in federal court today against Candace Owens."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 19:40:11 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""A sign of Xis diminishing power is the increasing redundancy of the economic posts he holds. The Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission which he chairs has been meeting only sporadically." ✍ Francis Pike" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 01:15:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Network and cable TV no longer matter like they did. Far more people watch online video and listen to podcasts for their comedy fixes than tune in to late-night talk shows." ✍ Neal Pollack" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 14:03:43 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The world changes but Trump stays the same. Decades after the young real estate baron incensed Breslin with his effortless command of New Yorks press his mastery of the return call is as sharp as ever." From @aidnmclaughlin" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 10:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""According to figures from the Pew Research Center XX percent of mainline Protestants voted for Donald Trump last year. Despite this the attitude of mainline church leadership toward MAGA has been one of full-blown resistance." ✍ Chris Mondics" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 01:00:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Hunter our next president looked fit clean and sober if occasionally unhinged in that garden setting. It was his coming-down-the-escalator moment." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 10:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The administrations AI Action Plan and the three AI-related executive orders he signed at the conclusion of his remarks were designed to 'reassert the future which belongs to America.'" From @mattjpfmcdonald" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 19:15:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Stewart and Colbert shouldnt kid themselves because theyre not capable of kidding themselves much anymore. When they first rose to prominence the nation needed them." ✍ Neal Pollack" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 19:45:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""I have a bone to pick with Tulsi Gabbard. I had thought six months into Donald Trumps second term that I could safely say 'sayonara' to the Russia Collusion Delusion and all its works." From @rogerkimball" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 13:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""To create a potential scapegoat for economic tumult Trump has been bludgeoning Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell claiming that he has been tardy in lowering interest rates. But Powells term is drawing to a close." From @JacobHeilbrunn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 19:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""As more trade deals follow that of Japan and the Philippines announced today Trump will be able to claim a negotiating success. But that doesnt mean Americans will be better off for it." ✍ Ross Clark" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 15:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Trump has never been one for nitty-gritty detail. His understanding of AI is rooted as with many complex subjects in his desire to beat the opposition." From @mattjpfmcdonald" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 16:37:18 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Let the people drink the better Coke John. They want it. They want the crisper more delectable Coke the Coke that doesnt leave your mouth tingling with a weird sweet corn taste." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-18 20:00:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Trumps latest visit to Bedminster put him within sight of Barack Obama in the list of golf enthusiast presidents. Obama played XXX rounds while in office and Trump is now up to XXX after six months of his second term." ✍ Patrick Kidd" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 16:03:59 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Gearing up to launch his new America Party' Elon Musk now speaks of a GOP-Democratic duopoly that has the country in its grip. But this system died ten years ago at the hands of Donald Trump: Americas first third party president." ✍ Travis Aaroe" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-19 12:45:01 UTC 50.5K followers, 1081 engagements
""At his final gig with Sabbath at Villa Park on July X I watched from the Doug Ellis Stand and Ive seldom seen someone so obviously overwhelmed by his reception." ✍ Michael Hann" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 15:27:49 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Its easy to decry this lack of humanity and the utter failure of institutional safeguards. How can one justify saving a life if it requires taking another from someone who can and sometimes does recover" ✍ Gage Klipper" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 16:15:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""In May my sister-in-law a mother of three had her house ransacked. My childhood Pacific Palisades home burned down and so did my mothers house in Malibu." ✍ Peachy Keenan" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-19 15:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Nowhere does Chernows exhaustive method prove more valuable than in his account of Twains finances. He digs into the entrails of every disastrous venture." ✍ John Mac Ghlionn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 01:30:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Even if it was somewhat surreal the interview felt authentic and authenticity is the secret sauce the Democrats are missing." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 01:45:02 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""My attempts to escape boredom have been so extreme they sometimes verge on predictable." ✍ Sean Thomas" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 02:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Okay Ill admit it: Shane Gillis made the ESPYs entertaining. Gillis was the only person worth talking about. If not for his name trending on social media I would have had no clue the award ceremony was still televised in 2025." From @BrittMcHenry" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-18 13:55:59 UTC 50.5K followers, 4321 engagements
""Punchbowls Jake Sherman noted yesterday that Green hadnt voted 'in a few weeks.' Wheres he been At first Guyana according to NOTUSs Reese Gorman."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 21:15:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Adamss announcement comes after his appearance on the New York Posts podcast yesterday in which he said again that almost all of Zohrans socialist promises are unattainable."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 21:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Trump appears to be in a rather conciliatory mood at the moment. While he couldnt help but rub in the terms and conditions of the settlement he also had some positive reflections to share." From @KateAndrs" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 19:14:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Gillis lampooned the yet-to-be-verified Epstein list American politics and Indiana Fever sensation Caitlin Clark. He received roars of laughter and a few jeers a mixed bag." From @BrittMcHenry" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-18 21:00:06 UTC 50.5K followers, 4391 engagements
""Lets talk facts. The real drivers of inequality in healthcare arent race but resources." From @sypherdavid1" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 10:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The first to show his hand was Sam Altman the chief executive and founder of OpenAI a company he once shared with his former friend Elon Musk." ✍ Rachel Tyrell" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 10:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Cockburn thinks current Mayor Eric Adams now running as an Independent must have read Zohrans free-stuff-for-New-Yorkers list and spotted a hole: WiFi."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 13:19:35 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Columbia University and the administration reached a settlement yesterday that in theory brings a months-long battle between the academics and politicos to an end." From @KateAndrs" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 17:02:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The crackpot idea of a canal linking Lake Erie with the Hudson River was refined in a series of essays composed in a debtors prison in 1807 by a flour miller named Jesse Hawley." ✍ Bill Kauffman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 23:00:10 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Unusually The Art of a Lie is also a celebration of the early days of trade with the dawn of businesses such as Fortnum & Mason Floris and Berry Bros which still carry luster to this day." ✍ Amanda Craig" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-11 17:00:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Cockburn will admit that he didnt really see it until now but after yesterday hes ready to admit that Robert Hunter Biden may be the only person who can lead the Democratic Party out of the wilderness."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 16:57:50 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Mainline Protestantism once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life is in freefall." ✍ Chris Mondics" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-20 21:45:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Time and again ministry to the faithful took a back seat to left-wing orthodoxies." ✍ Chris Mondics" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 22:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Ozzy as he will always be known was a hilarious contrary oddly lovable figure. We shall not see his like again." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 22:00:12 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""After heavy campaigns in the north and south including in areas like Beit Hanun where Israeli forces recently had to re-engage following a Hamas resurgence the battle for the central Strip could prove decisive." ✍ Jonathan Sacerdoti" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 16:12:56 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""If the Caribbean and South Florida arent exotic enough Cockburn understands Green spent last weekend on a boat in Italy with his new girlfriend and her family."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 19:14:17 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The reason why Ozzy was so highly thought of was that he was charming in his befuddlement playing the part of the devilish entertainer with a gleam in his eye that let his delighted audience know he was in on the joke." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 17:45:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""In neither the short-term nor the mid-term is there a way of providing the promised San Francisco to Los Angeles service in X hours and XX minutes." ✍ Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 14:00:08 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""One could easily argue that the best late-night hosts John Mulaney and Adam Friedland arent really on late night at all but Netflix and YouTube respectively." ✍ Neal Pollack" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 16:45:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Although he was by his own admission a diminished figure toward the end of his life wracked with Parkinsons Osbourne still possessed the lugubrious wit that had endeared him to so many throughout his life." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 00:45:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The moment I heard that thered been a backlash against James Gunns reboot of the Superman franchise on the grounds that hed ruined this great American icon by turning the Man of Steel 'woke' I thought sign me up" ✍ Sam Leith" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 15:48:41 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Until Tulsi Gabbards revelations I had resigned myself the prospect that any serious accountability for this concerted effort to overturn the results of a presidential election were nil." From @rogerkimball" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 00:30:07 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath did something British groups had not done before. Before them the British Invasion groups had taken American music and sold it to the British public as the American dream as exotica." ✍ Michael Hann" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 18:30:11 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""It has as the blues songs say been a long long way down. In the 1920s Clarksdale was according to the Wall Street Journal home to more millionaires per capita than any other city in the US." ✍ Graham Boynton" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 10:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news with even worse news you can make people pathetically grateful at the outcome." ✍ Ross Clark" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 13:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Even if Pakistan-made bombs never come to Saudi Arabia the Saudis have already done their bit to spread such weapons further afield." ✍ Andrew Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-19 23:00:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""To call Hunters interview 'expletive-laden' is somewhat misleading. It was more of an extended expletive laden with other words." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 22:30:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""As I can personally attest if you agitate the likes of Sarah Spain youre doing something right. Gillis is a refreshing respite from the overly politically correct mob and 20-minute features and monotonous speeches." From @BrittMcHenry" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-19 00:15:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Osbourne certainly lived a life. Stories about him in his pomp are legion." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 14:45:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""I preface this review by saying that unless you are the greatest admirer of Lena Dunham or anyone in the (admittedly impressive) cast of her new Netflix series Too Much it is very easy to give this particular show a miss." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 14:00:09 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""You can summon the world on a phone argue with invisible friends or play mindless games when stuck in line at the store. Yet the world feels angrier and more chaotic than ever." ✍ Sean Thomas" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 09:15:13 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The strange alchemy that makes one restaurant a trendy hit while others superficially similar languish in penurious obscurity has worked its magic at Le Veau dOr." From @rogerkimball" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 19:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Were I a betting man I would say the odds favor some high-profile prosecutions." From @rogerkimball" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 16:30:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The real window into the soul is found not in substance but in quantity. The single Martini gives the impression of performative dipsomania but as Dorothy Parker knew the real fun only begins after the third." ✍ Kelly Chapman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 17:15:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Trump is winning. He has won. Let the defeated Dems glower in their lakeside houses drinking their lonely whiskies at dusk heads bowed like Michael Corleone at the end of Godfather Part II." ✍ Neal Pollack" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 01:00:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Unusually The Art of a Lie is also a celebration of the early days of trade with the dawn of businesses such as Fortnum & Mason Floris and Berry Bros which still carry luster to this day." ✍ Amanda Craig" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-16 12:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Remaining interesting in the ever-fickle music industry for over five decades is no joke and if Osbourne had to become an exaggerated version of himself in order to stay popular that was a price worth paying." From @alexlarman" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 19:04:45 UTC 50.5K followers, 1800 engagements
""White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that 'a house cat' has a better chance of becoming president than Hunter Biden. Cockburn is guessing that Hunter is more of a dog person but Jackson missed the significance of this interview."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 19:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The Macrons are very salty about the rumors which originated with a French journalist in 2021 and caught on with Owens particularly after the Daily Wire fired her in 2024." ✍ Cockburn" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 02:45:03 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Colbert himself has long since abandoned the smarmy satirical shtick that once made him stand out as something of a critical thinker. In the Age of Trump he became the witless corporate guy he once played." ✍ Paul du Quenoy" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-18 16:45:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""During the Biden administration the FBI asserted repeatedly that the biggest threat to civic order in the US wasnt Islamic terrorists but white supremacists as if repetition rather than persuasive statistics could make it so." ✍ Lionel Shriver" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 12:00:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Sabbath instead sold the American nightmare back to the United States filling arenas across North America a much bigger concert draw there than at home." ✍ Michael Hann" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-24 20:15:05 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The solution to unequal healthcare is not to flood the system with under qualified graduates just to meet a racial quota. Thats not justice. Thats malpractice." From @sypherdavid1" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-22 12:15:06 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""The coming weeks will tell us whether any indictments and prosecutions will be forthcoming. Tulsi Gabbard says that more evidence is coming. The mood of country seems to favor accountability." From @rogerkimball" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-21 22:23:40 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements
""Cockburn understands that Owens offered the Macrons the right of reply before airing the speculation but the French President and his wife declined."" @TheSpectator on X 2025-07-23 23:30:04 UTC 50.5K followers, XXX engagements