# ![@JamesSurowiecki Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1219579814.png) @JamesSurowiecki James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki posts on X about culture, in the, to the, white the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[finance](/list/finance)  #4235 [countries](/list/countries)  5.95% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  3.97% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.98% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.98% [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  1.59% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #1690 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  0.4% [musicians](/list/musicians)  0.4% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  0.4%

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[culture](/topic/culture) #692, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.76%, [to the](/topic/to-the) #1636, [white](/topic/white) #732, [more than](/topic/more-than) 2.38%, [countries](/topic/countries) #2681, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #1884, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.38%, [the most](/topic/the-most) #2522, [dems](/topic/dems) #72

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

"They do provide basic documentation: name address age telephone number driver's license or Social Security number and a sworn statement. (In some states it's more than that.) So what's your theory as to why that's not sufficient Are you concerned that non-citizens are providing info that belongs to citizens and registering to vote under the citizens' names Or that they're registering to vote under their own names and addresses even though that will make it relatively easy to catch them and voting if you're not a citizen is illegal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022157943366463792"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022157943366463792)  2026-02-13T03:56Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@dilanesper On top of this we know from Braun's work on Virginia and what happened in Kansas that empirically making it harder for people to register led to a decline in people registering. And again this is all to solve an imaginary problem. https://x.com/jessicabriedl/status/2022417096995721267s=46 https://x.com/jessicabriedl/status/2022417096995721267s=46"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022450685523197968)  2026-02-13T23:19Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"This is ridiculous. Biden was the most pro-labor president in [--] yrs. His stimulus plan was targeted to get people back to work. Working-class people saw their real wages grow faster than any other group. Dems did not abandon the working class. The working class abandoned them. It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo the American people are angry and want change. And theyre right. https://t.co/lM2gSJmQFL It should come as no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1854323517405208820)  2024-11-07T00:42Z 129.6K followers, 3M engagements


"This is somehow not a parody. Many Trump voters really believe he's going to cut gas prices in half. It's an impossible goal: if oil prices drop even 25% it'll become unprofitable to drill new wells in most of the US. But Trump's deluded people into believing he can do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1878456050623344983)  2025-01-12T14:56Z 129.6K followers, 96.2K engagements


"Just brilliant. Because Indonesia has a high tax on coffee imports Trump's going to put a 32% tax on coffee imports from Indonesia - even though the US exports no coffee to Indonesia (or most anywhere else). He literally does not understand the concept of comparative advantage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907536738479673822)  2025-04-02T20:52Z 129.6K followers, 2.7M engagements


"This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols what is that formula Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was. I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed or is just being misleading. Either way the Trump administration did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907657860793696281)  2025-04-03T04:54Z 129.6K followers, 4.3M engagements


"For a public university to dismiss faculty members based on the content of political comments they made outside the classroom is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. Calling the content they posted "inappropriate" does not make their firings constitutional. A statement from Clemson University: https://t.co/YSYEKlOhAU A statement from Clemson University: https://t.co/YSYEKlOhAU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1968411657442353599)  2025-09-17T20:28Z 129.6K followers, 890.4K engagements


"Just outrageously insanely unconstitutional for an official government account to say this about religion. Jefferson and Madison are rolling over in their graves. Without borders law and order and religion you don't have a country. Without borders law and order and religion you don't have a country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1970289343106343114)  2025-09-23T00:49Z 129.6K followers, 1M engagements


"We gave [--] Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave [--] Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of Lakota most of them women and children at Wounded Knee. That's absurd and embarrassing. Under my direction the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled. https://t.co/klQlB6MZ6l Under my direction the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1971548614234386651)  2025-09-26T12:13Z 129.6K followers, 1.9M engagements


"Blatant violation of the Hatch Act illegally using taxpayer money for political propaganda. I know - no one cares. A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats. https://t.co/S9eliK1Bt2 A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats. https://t.co/S9eliK1Bt2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1976818836814127474)  2025-10-11T01:15Z 129.6K followers, 3.2M engagements


"Scott Bessent has been saying for months that Trump raising tariffs did not lead to higher prices. So why would lowering Trump's tariffs lead to lower prices Do you think maybe he was lying before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1988797489152160136)  2025-11-13T02:34Z 129.6K followers, 19.8K engagements


"MAGA when Trump imposes tariffs on bananas coffee beef: "This is fine. The tariffs have no impact on prices at all" MAGA when Trump rolls back the tariffs he imposed: "This will help bring down prices and make things more affordable""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1989481329218785697)  2025-11-14T23:51Z 129.6K followers, 46.7K engagements


"Joe Biden did not let [--] million illegal aliens into the country. And everyone here is entitled to get enough due process to ensure that they actually are here illegally which is all a deportation hearing amounts to. Stephen Miller wants the govt to be able to kick whomever it wants out of the country without giving them a chance to prove they're here legally. It's a ridiculous position and no court will support it. REMIGRATION: Stephen Miller There are [--] million illegal aliens. If each were given a full trial deportations would take centuries. They had no due process entering the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2003994398796009720)  2025-12-25T01:01Z 129.6K followers, 251.9K engagements


"@C130GuyBNA Go talk to the Bureau of Labor Statistics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2011937089160405411)  2026-01-15T23:02Z 129.6K followers, 10.9K engagements


"The disingenuousness here is positively Orwellian. We all know that ICE is entering the homes of American citizens without judicial warrants because we just saw them enter the house of ChongLy Thao a U.S. citizen and drag him out by force. Why lie and pretend otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2014505584867852625)  2026-01-23T01:08Z 129.6K followers, 29.8K engagements


"Todd Monken did a good job in Baltimore as OC. But how is he in any sense an upgrade over Kevin Stefanski Teams should stop firing coaches while having no clear sense of who will replace them just because they "need a change." After the Browns informed DC Jim Schwartz this morning they were passing him over to hire Todd Monken as head coach Schwartz was visibly upset said goodbyes in the building and told other coaches hes not coming back sources tell The Insiders. Schwartz is under contract and https://t.co/GBEct9BRPB After the Browns informed DC Jim Schwartz this morning they were passing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2016563239841042588)  2026-01-28T17:25Z 129.6K followers, 24.4K engagements


"Make up a totally fake story in order to defame Alex Pretti - attributing the fake negative comments to a Latina doctor no less - then release it into the wild and let MAGA influencers spread your lies to millions of people. So corrupt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2016563649679089721)  2026-01-28T17:26Z 129.6K followers, 93.7K engagements


"@SwannMarcus89 Are you seriously arguing that a journalist who embedded with civil-rights protesters in the 1960s while they planned acts of civil disobedience and then accompanied them to cover those acts of civil disobedience could be prosecuted for doing so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2017550640575119812)  2026-01-31T10:48Z 129.6K followers, 229.8K engagements


"Blatant and violent violation of a U.S. citizen's constitutional rights done for no reason other than to intimidate. The single most important thing congressional Democrats should require as a condition of any deal over DHS funding is that [--] USC [----] be amended to explicitly allow people to sue any federal agent or official for violating their civil rights with an explicit provision making clear that federal officials are not protected by qualified immunity. DHS agents in MN swerved in front of an unarmed woman who was recording them once again WALK IN FRONT OF A CAR with guns drawn. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2017714063543845145)  2026-01-31T21:38Z 129.6K followers, 60.9K engagements


"Civil disobedience as a concept was not a product of the 1960s but goes back to Thoreau. And it is of course unsurprising that Curtis Yarvin thinks sitting in at a lunch counter in protest of Jim Crow constituted "harassment and intimidation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2017967836040188013)  2026-02-01T14:26Z 129.6K followers, 40K engagements


"It is bizarre that we're supposed to embrace the idea that the Department of Justice - the law enforcement agency for the nation - should make decisions about who to prosecute and who not to prosecute based on the grievances vendettas and whims of the president. Blanche: But if you're going to work in this department you are going to execute on the president's priorities. Stephanopoulos: You just actually made my point right there. You said it's the president's priorities. The president calls for them publicly to be prosecuted and then https://t.co/UsaigRB3BH Blanche: But if you're going to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018031424469631293)  2026-02-01T18:39Z 129.6K followers, 50.9K engagements


"I understood that unitary executive theory is accepted as gospel on the right (and by conservative legal scholars) but it is a ridiculous bastardization of what the Framers intended based solely on one line in Article II. There is not a chance in the world that James Madison believed the president should be able to use the federal police to punish his personal enemies. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018032306347475050 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018032306347475050"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018032306347475050)  2026-02-01T18:42Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"It wasn't a "random church." One of its pastors runs ICE's ERO office in St. Paul at a time when ICE agents in the Twin Cities were routinely detaining U.S. citizens in Minnesota at gunpoint and had just killed a U.S. citizen. You can disagree with their tactics - I wouldn't have done what they did - but this was a targeted protest against a high-ranking ICE official. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018113642089132489 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018113642089132489"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018113642089132489)  2026-02-02T00:06Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Amazing. Everything he touches falls apart. He keeps going leaving disaster in his wake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018117459690115178)  2026-02-02T00:21Z 129.6K followers, 275.4K engagements


"@galts1teaparty @Garrett_Archer So now you're claiming that they're illegally registering illegal aliens to vote without telling the illegal aliens and then impersonating the illegal alien in order to cast a fake vote Are you insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018196430775591024)  2026-02-02T05:35Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Setting up borders you patrol and prohibit the crossing of as part of a protest against immigration enforcement is deeply contradictory. WATCH: Community defenders stop an out of state vehicle at the filter blockade run the plate through a database and confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors before letting it through. https://t.co/PqBXlhIHb7 WATCH: Community defenders stop an out of state vehicle at the filter blockade run the plate through a database and confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors before letting it through. https://t.co/PqBXlhIHb7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018436326975053854)  2026-02-02T21:28Z 129.6K followers, 144.4K engagements


"@BacicotBj @CathyYoung63 They went into one church where a pastor is an ICE official in charge of enforcement and removal operations in St. Paul at a time when ICE and CBP officers are routinely detaining US citizens assaulting protesters and had not long before killed a US citizen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018446112827519182)  2026-02-02T22:07Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@denisfitz Not clear to me why people that own a valuable asset should have property taxes eliminated but that is in any case different from what OP is talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018796312695865575)  2026-02-03T21:18Z 129.6K followers, 25.9K engagements


"@maraudershields It's intuitive that even though you're driving a city's roads relying on its fire and police departments and utilizing its infrastructure you shouldn't have to pay property taxes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018800542970216473)  2026-02-03T21:35Z 129.6K followers, 20.3K engagements


"This tweet has more than a thousand replies. Almost none are from people defending the absurd "mortgage holders should pay property taxes but people who have paid off their homes shouldn't" position. It's almost all people who want to abolish property taxes entirely. I do not understand this common "I've paid off my home so therefore I shouldn't have to pay property taxes" argument. Why should having a mortgage make you more liable for property taxes People who have paid off their homes use city resources just like mortgageholders do. I do not understand this common "I've paid off my home so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018841427623702816)  2026-02-04T00:17Z 129.6K followers, 43.7K engagements


"@txsalth2o Because other people choosing to live where you live has made you much richer and the diminishing marginal utility of income/wealth is real and should be the basis for any tax system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018841902788014192)  2026-02-04T00:19Z 129.6K followers, 17.4K engagements


"@BenThePCGuy No one in a highly valuable home is unable to pay $8k a year in property taxes. That's not a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018842412387594672)  2026-02-04T00:21Z 129.6K followers, 18.5K engagements


"Elon thinks he as a naturalized citizen should be able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on elections in order to tilt the U.S. political system in the direction he wants while other naturalized citizens should be banned from even becoming judges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019029684554748047)  2026-02-04T12:46Z 129.6K followers, 145.2K engagements


"Yes Lee had to choose between competing loyalties and made an absolutely horrendous choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019228988972187908)  2026-02-05T01:58Z 129.6K followers, 30.3K engagements


"@wil_da_beast630 I expect him to apologize for retweeting Stephen Miller's disgusting lie that Pretti was an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019232942846013813)  2026-02-05T02:13Z 129.6K followers, 64.5K engagements


"JD Vance should apologize to the family of Alex Pretti and to American citizens for retweeting and thereby amplifying Stephen Miller's grotesque lie that Pretti was an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents." But of course he would never do that. Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti Vance: For what https://t.co/IKmZtX0KQS Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti Vance: For what https://t.co/IKmZtX0KQS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019233572742222243)  2026-02-05T02:16Z 129.6K followers, 16.4K engagements


"These "mistake" numbers are so fake. To know how many "mistakes" ICE/CBP has made in the past year you would need to know how many U.S. citizens agents have stopped without reasonable suspicion how many citizens they've detained for more than a couple of minutes to "check their papers" (in violation of the 4th Amendment) as well as how many citizens they've taken into custody for supposedly being here illegally. We don't know any of those numbers (except for a vague estimate of the last) because ICE/CBP does not give the people they detain but don't end up arresting any paperwork and even if"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019311852887437658)  2026-02-05T07:27Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Heminator The only reason the Post is "bleeding influence" is because Bezos decided to embrace Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019401485130359053)  2026-02-05T13:23Z 129.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"It's not controversial. It just shows that Stephen Miller's mass-deportation strategy is incredibly unpopular with swing voters which is why Trump is abandoning it in Maine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019401924102221921)  2026-02-05T13:25Z 129.6K followers, 15.4K engagements


"What's most baffling about Bessent and what's been most damaging to his reputation is that he feels the need to constantly weigh in on things that have nothing at all to do with his job. It's like he wants to be a MAGA pundit in addition to being Treasury Secretary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019469621154251063)  2026-02-05T17:54Z 129.6K followers, 12.9K engagements


"The most important thing Dems in Congress should insist on is amending [--] USC [----] so that US citizens can file civil suits against federal agents for violating their constitutional rights. Until ICE/CBP agents face personal consequences for trampling on citizens' rights they'll keep doing it. We just published database of @ACLU plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota case. Devastating. Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens. An important lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it. 1/ https://t.co/EkiVK3g5Hp We"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019563945833410730)  2026-02-06T00:09Z 129.6K followers, 162.5K engagements


""Gen-Z led progressive content hub" is cringe man. Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019570642975355247)  2026-02-06T00:35Z 129.6K followers, 11K engagements


"Of the many absurd things Trump has said this may be the funniest: I can promise Americans will receive $2000 a month and at some point I may even choose to deliver on that promise. Or not. Who can say NBC News: Can you promise Americans will be receiving $2000 rebates Trump: I absolutely can promise this and at some point I may even choose to do so. https://t.co/viCxLlppK1 NBC News: Can you promise Americans will be receiving $2000 rebates Trump: I absolutely can promise this and at some point I may even choose to do so. https://t.co/viCxLlppK1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019571361698689391)  2026-02-06T00:38Z 129.6K followers, 51.7K engagements


""Why did no one tell Trump that an event called the National Prayer Breakfast was a prayer breakfast" Didn't anyone on the President's team advise him that the National Prayer Breakfast is a prayer breakfast Didn't someone write a speech for him What's going on I think they need to bring me in to help. It's that bad. I love my country and will serve if called. Didn't anyone on the President's team advise him that the National Prayer Breakfast is a prayer breakfast Didn't someone write a speech for him What's going on I think they need to bring me in to help. It's that bad. I love my country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019575880486645957)  2026-02-06T00:56Z 129.6K followers, 12.9K engagements


"@RickWMiller1 No SCOTUS has eviscerated Bivens so it's essentially impossible to sue federal agents for constitutional violations. And making agents personally liable would absolutely protect rights and make things like the shooting of Alex Pretti far less likely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019580355901333523)  2026-02-06T01:14Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Bill_LessThan3 There is no indemnification for federal agents in the statute. They will be personally on the hook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019581543098863929)  2026-02-06T01:18Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@foodfiend1970 No US citizens' rights were not trampled by the presence of illegal immigrants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019584675040358427)  2026-02-06T01:31Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@kfgpnz He's already made the promise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019614063681257692)  2026-02-06T03:28Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Bill_LessThan3 In the amended [--] USC 1983"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019615251092984268)  2026-02-06T03:32Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Bill_LessThan3 Did you read the tweet you replied to or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019616039353344258)  2026-02-06T03:36Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Bill_LessThan3 That's not true. House Dems introduced the Bivens Act which would do exactly what I talked about in my tweet in November: https://hankjohnson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/hankjohnson.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bivens2025.pdf https://hankjohnson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/hankjohnson.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bivens2025.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019619193243533427)  2026-02-06T03:48Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@BitcoinSensei4U You're right. It's just a currency based on cryptographic proof. Why would anyone call it a cryptocurrency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019774751917441182)  2026-02-06T14:06Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Yet another ICE agent who is completely indifferent to the Constitution and will face no consequences for trampling on an American citizen's rights. 🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are now threatening to violently assault U.S. citizens for the crime of sitting in their own car in a parking lot Yes. Literally that. ICE agents are now claiming U.S. citizens are not allowed to be in the same parking lot as them. In the video you https://t.co/ao5mIzrPjM 🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are now threatening to violently assault U.S. citizens for the crime of sitting in their own car in a parking lot Yes. Literally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019873509833601151)  2026-02-06T20:39Z 129.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"@BuzzPatterson @ImFiredUp2 He's an American. That means he should be able to criticize the president without having to worry about being punished for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020105439052988813)  2026-02-07T12:00Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@TrumpgetsitTX @ImFiredUp2 Donald Trump is not the "foundation" the American flag stands on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020105665943834900)  2026-02-07T12:01Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"We don't have a system of proportional representation in America. If Republicans and Democrats are spread out roughly equally in a state the minority party is going to end up with few seats. So what gerrymandering exactly do you think has been done in CT or MA to take seats from Republicans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020108404845343042)  2026-02-07T12:12Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Anti-cancel-culture movement wants guy to be officially punished for criticizing Donald Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020108817120235968)  2026-02-07T12:14Z 129.6K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Why are so many high-profile RWers nuts Erika confirms Candace's claim that lights would flicker when Charlie was around. "It's a total frequency thing" She says it happened all the time when they were dating & married. And adds that the lights were like a "strobe" in her hotel room after Charlie died. https://t.co/Erc5HM6Zhj Erika confirms Candace's claim that lights would flicker when Charlie was around. "It's a total frequency thing" She says it happened all the time when they were dating & married. And adds that the lights were like a "strobe" in her hotel room after Charlie died."  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020148845468963265)  2026-02-07T14:53Z 129.6K followers, 111.2K engagements


"@wil_da_beast630 All of them are superior to Trump in terms of ethics and morality since Trump has no ethics and doesn't care about morality. Those words are meaningless to him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020228087682888135)  2026-02-07T20:08Z 129.6K followers, 93.4K engagements


"@grey4626 @DisrespectedThe "Donald Trump is a terrible president and ICE/CBP agents should not be killing US citizens" is not a "woke" position. It's how most Americans feel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020228434354663484)  2026-02-07T20:09Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Of the person they're looking for does own it rent the residence an arrest warrant can only give them access to the property if they have probable cause to believe the person is there. They can't invade a home owned by a third person just because someone else said it was their residence. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020236117056897443 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020236117056897443"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020236117056897443)  2026-02-07T20:39Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@malmesburyman You're not honestly confused because you know there is a long history - one continued on this site - of insulting black people by calling them monkeys or gorillas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020236540002332748)  2026-02-07T20:41Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@CBHeresy How is it "burning the Constitution" to let illegal immigrants who have been here for years stay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020268911275515948)  2026-02-07T22:50Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Other than maybe Elon no rich person has done lie damage to his reputation by tweeting than Bill Ackman has. There's no conspiracy theory or lie too stupid for him to find plausible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020269447584575879)  2026-02-07T22:52Z 129.6K followers, 93.2K engagements


"We're not talking about policy. We're talking about personal ethics and morality. Trump has none. He's a fraudster. He lies all the time. He cheated on every one of his wives. According to Jeffrey Epstein he slept with his friends' wives whenever he could. He regularly stiffed people who did work for him. He's the most corrupt president we've ever had by a country mile - he's literally about to pay himself $10 billion for a lawsuit in which he's both the person suing and the guy deciding to settle. He has no personal loyalty: as soon as someone stops being useful to him or annoys him he dumps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020271872223387874)  2026-02-07T23:02Z 129.6K followers, 13.2K engagements


"Come on man - look at those Clinton "controversies." A similar list for Trump would fill an encyclopedia. Anyway this is a pointless conversation because you think ethics and morality are fake to begin with so of course you don't see how deeply strange Trump is. It's not that he's immoral - it's the idea of not doing something because it's wrong has never entered his head"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020292555523420264)  2026-02-08T00:24Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@malmesburyman Michelle Obama is not a "public official" and your willful deception here is very tiresome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020294264450904066)  2026-02-08T00:31Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@LauraPowellEsq If Congress cannot make a law abridging the freedom of speech why would you not expect to be allowed to protest against the current administration in the U.S. if you're a foreign student"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020295359373717964)  2026-02-08T00:35Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


""Civil liberties attorney.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020295885091926084)  2026-02-08T00:37Z 129.6K followers, 17.6K engagements


"@RnkSt7 @wil_da_beast630 He's a terrible person and an abysmally bad president"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020296363494502753)  2026-02-08T00:39Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@SchizoLLC @LauraPowellEsq Yeah I think that law.was the constitutional. But it was at least directed at entities outside the U.S. who enjoy no 1A protections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020306305819504774)  2026-02-08T01:18Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisGskyway @LauraPowellEsq Not an answer. The 1A says nothing about only citizens being protected by it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020306635453792291)  2026-02-08T01:20Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@shortmagsmle No - you don't care because you're a racist. Lots and lots of normal adults care"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020307250414510555)  2026-02-08T01:22Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Zazziesbastard The murder rate is near historic lows. And not one native-born American has been replaced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020308908334776525)  2026-02-08T01:29Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@DarkagePossum @CBHeresy Do you think the fact that cops only ticket [--] ticket in [----] people who speed (if that) is a systematic violation of state constitutions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020319791110889968)  2026-02-08T02:12Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@L2pir @CBHeresy Most illegal aliens get no taxpayer assistance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020320387674800481)  2026-02-08T02:14Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Where did all the European Jews go then There were millions of Polish Jews almost a million Romanian Jews hundreds of thousands of Jews in Germany and Hungary. After the war there were very few Jews in any of those countries. Where'd they all go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020435920462458952)  2026-02-08T09:53Z 129.6K followers, 50.7K engagements


"@Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 Come on man. Beaty's book was not "the second most popular conservative book in the 1950s." It was seen at the time as a crackpot text by an anti-Semitic crank - which is exactly what it was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020436746534887541)  2026-02-08T09:57Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ApeAstro_USA @TheBondGuy2 @GoodMornBadNews Why would you think your account of his situation is more accurate than the family's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020437469741916392)  2026-02-08T10:00Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@AndreaHuismann @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 No - [----] million Polish Jews did not move to the USSR (whose Jewish population shrank by [--] million during WWII) and Israel's entire Jewish population in [----] was only [------]. Try again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020440120193687661)  2026-02-08T10:10Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@freespeechreign @bluestein No you didn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020453812058616049)  2026-02-08T11:05Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 European govts were"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020468872244081122)  2026-02-08T12:04Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Wait are you claiming that there were actually millions of Jews still alive in Poland Hungary and Romania after WWII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020479186775794143)  2026-02-08T12:45Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@McPoyal88 @ERiKAmerica88 @Steve_Sailer @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 There were more than [--] million Jews in Poland Hungary and Romania alone before World War II. There are currently around [------] Jews total in those three countries. What happened to erase the Jewish populations in those countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020487027712565334)  2026-02-08T13:17Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@EfrnSss @Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 Yet another anti-Semite who's terrible at spotting actual Jewish people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020489540452933744)  2026-02-08T13:26Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@mikupill @Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 I've changed nothing. Again where did the [--] million Jews in Poland Romania and Hungary go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020521283490918627)  2026-02-08T15:33Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@DBlossius @Yo2084356110777 @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 [--] million of [---] million is roughly 2/3 man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020557135235444930)  2026-02-08T17:55Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Classicist9999 @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Once again not answering the question. I am not confusing causation with correlation: we know the cause. You are denying the Holocaust so you need to come up with a different cause to explain where all the European Jews went. You have not done that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020594172269367526)  2026-02-08T20:22Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"That team was 1st in the league in points scored and 1st in the league in points allowed 5th in the league in total yards gained and 1st in the league in total yards allowed. After the Cowboys loss they won every game but one by two TDs or more and the only exception was a game they won by [--]. They were a dominant team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020629884788146232)  2026-02-08T22:44Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Wrong. Look at the Harris poll Batya cites. In that poll 63% of those surveyed oppose deporting illegal immigrants who have lived in the U.S. "for many years" and committed no "serious crimes." 68% oppose deporting illegal aliens who arrived here as children. Hell 51% oppose deporting people who arrived recently and have no criminal record. Every poll that drills down into the details of what people want finds the exact same thing: deporting illegal immigrants who have lived here for years without committing serious crimes or who came here as children is an incredibly unpopular position."  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020635470552518986)  2026-02-08T23:06Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@JQ2_Electric @grok @mikupill @Mark___Taylor @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Again where do you think the [--] million Jews went"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020635737650319733)  2026-02-08T23:07Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Marc Thiessen says "Here's the full video" then posts a video that omits a big chunk of what Hunter Hess said. Heres the full video. Everyone can judge for themselves. If you have mixed emotions representing your country then stay home. https://t.co/zDWdrRhJGs Heres the full video. Everyone can judge for themselves. If you have mixed emotions representing your country then stay home. https://t.co/zDWdrRhJGs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020656717093318743)  2026-02-09T00:31Z 129.6K followers, 42.7K engagements


"I'm shocked that white nationalist who despises America's great mutt culture also hates football one of our greatest creations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020668982852796706)  2026-02-09T01:20Z 129.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"The [----] election took place in the middle of a pandemic that most affected the people with the highest voter participation rates and states - red and blue - made it easier to vote by mail. So it's totally unsurprising that more people chose sensibly to vote by mail in 2020"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020670970353033680)  2026-02-09T01:27Z 129.6K followers, 14K engagements


"@st_louis_stan The vast majority of migrants to the U.S. are Latinos. Why are you talking about Somalis and Haitians who make up a minuscule fraction of the population and always will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020823596000764388)  2026-02-09T11:34Z 129.6K followers, 12.6K engagements


"@punishedlibtard @st_louis_stan Stop with the bullshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020834830901285026)  2026-02-09T12:19Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@M3_Jinzo @st_louis_stan Latinos in America are perfectly fine neighbors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020835077253730485)  2026-02-09T12:20Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@LowTimeHero @st_louis_stan There are not "teeming masses" of Somalis or Haitians in the U.S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020835325560713368)  2026-02-09T12:21Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Never forget what they took from you. Nothing will ever top the [----] #NFL championship halftime show #SuperBowl https://t.co/RhofY9dOeb Nothing will ever top the [----] #NFL championship halftime show #SuperBowl https://t.co/RhofY9dOeb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020840923442430405)  2026-02-09T12:43Z 129.6K followers, 79.7K engagements


"@johncoo04958892 @CynicalPublius Donald Trump is not the brand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020887251559829803)  2026-02-09T15:47Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@saluwe @CynicalPublius Being critical of Donald Trump does not make the US look bad in the eyes of the world. It makes the US look better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020887461203779962)  2026-02-09T15:48Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@LowTimeHero @opsecsmasher @st_louis_stan The fact that you think there are [--] Somali Americans in Congress is a perfect demonstration of how utterly deluded you are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020889296664703359)  2026-02-09T15:55Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"By this definition Donald Trump is as un-American as it gets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021008217464242232)  2026-02-09T23:48Z 129.6K followers, 25.3K engagements


"@plshel1992 @David_J_Bier They're taking no financial support from taxpayers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021164739141709874)  2026-02-10T10:09Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@plshel1992 @David_J_Bier No it does not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021218286780690510)  2026-02-10T13:42Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Following ICE agents and observing them as they do their work in public is not a crime. The fact that it "seems obvious" to Trump supporters that ICE should nonetheless violate people's 1st Amendment rights and arrest them is a serious problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021321263319265394)  2026-02-10T20:31Z 129.6K followers, 43.5K engagements


"Mike Johnson is the Sergeant Schultz of American politics. He sees nothing hears nothing and knows nothing. Q: There's reporting that federal judges are increasingly frustrated with DHS for defying court orders in cases involving ICE detainees. Should the administration be able to miss deadlines MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not gonna comment on a report I haven't seen. That's the first I've https://t.co/SXpLFFYfaJ Q: There's reporting that federal judges are increasingly frustrated with DHS for defying court orders in cases involving ICE detainees. Should the administration be able to miss deadlines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021321766820290853)  2026-02-10T20:33Z 129.6K followers, 58.5K engagements


"@ElRealColonel @LeighWolf That's like saying someone who believes "It's fine we don't ticket everyone who speeds" is opposed to speed limits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021329373974896676)  2026-02-10T21:04Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@JNavok What will happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021331316432842762)  2026-02-10T21:11Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Pompicity Observing government officials who are carrying out official duties in public is obviously not "stalking" and it's ludicrous for you to claim otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021331714698567810)  2026-02-10T21:13Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Howard Lutnick said last year on camera that after he first met Jeffrey Epstein in [----] "I was never in the room with him socially for business or even philanthropy. If that guy was there I wasn't going." But he went to Epstein's island for lunch in 2012"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021340757454618977)  2026-02-10T21:49Z 129.6K followers, 14.9K engagements


"@ThomasC05391852 The 1st Amendment protects the right of citizens to gather information about the actions of govt officials and disseminate that information"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021380056610689316)  2026-02-11T00:25Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@TexasGolfer70 The part where there is no mention of harassment in the law and the part where ICE has re-defined the 1A-protected activities of following and observing the actions of gift officials and yelling at them if they're doing things you don't like as "harassment.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021380399230824850)  2026-02-11T00:26Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@substance7146 @stoprefresh Wanting govt officials to be identifiable so they can be held legally accountable for their actions is the opposite of "foul intent." It's something every American should want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021400503834562926)  2026-02-11T01:46Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Texas__Bulldog You're very confused. The 1A rights involved here are the rights to gather and disseminate information about govt officials performing their duties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021400981750284640)  2026-02-11T01:48Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@ThomasC05391852 Of course it should be legal. A free people in a democratic society need to be able to observe the actions of govt officials without fear of punishment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021401456520331340)  2026-02-11T01:50Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Theurb @boredlawyer310 [--] USC [----] requires that the person charged harbored or concealed the fugitive which is not the case in any of the situations we're talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021403044500603296)  2026-02-11T01:56Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@stanfordNYC But it's not a single instance of speeding. It's speeding [--] days a week (at least) every year you drive. That's what hundreds of millions of Americans do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021422578733285401)  2026-02-11T03:14Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"This is what it means to be ruled by a tyrant and not by a president who is subject to the law. Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive . I didn't really like the way she talked to us so instead of giving her a reduction I raised it to 39%." https://t.co/covIESz4u2 Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive . I didn't really like the way she talked to us so instead of giving her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021424362029830328)  2026-02-11T03:21Z 129.6K followers, 56.3K engagements


"Just insane to have the Justice Department trying to prosecute senators - or anyone honestly - for what was undeniably constitutionally-protected speech. Trump is perfectly happy to trample on the 1st Amendment whenever he feels like it. Trump Justice Department tries to indict six Democratic members of Congress for making a video reminding members of the military that they should not obey illegal orders only to have the grand jury refuse to go along. @alanfeuer @GlennThrush @nytmike https://t.co/yUBc042mLN Trump Justice Department tries to indict six Democratic members of Congress for making"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021428606006854029)  2026-02-11T03:38Z 129.6K followers, 13.6K engagements


"@TJH314 @Texas__Bulldog It's illegal to "forcibly" impede federal officials performing their duties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021432000595591361)  2026-02-11T03:51Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Now ask people if they think people should be required to provide a passport or birth certificate - and if they're a married woman who's changed her name her marriage certificate - in order to be able to vote. Because that's what the SAVE Act requires first the vast majority of Americans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021542818016108763)  2026-02-11T11:12Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@BrighamLeavitt @KesendraB @RepMarkPocan A RealID is not sufficient under the SAVE Act"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021545725432377478)  2026-02-11T11:23Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Most Americans may support requiring people to show a passport or birth certificate (+ marriage certificate for [--] million Americans) in order to vote. But polls in which Americans are asked whether they favor a photo-ID requirement (meaning a driver's license) tells us nothing about support for the SAVE Act requirements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021573970558947653)  2026-02-11T13:16Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ZiggyPernot @C_3C_3 @elonmusk A RealID will not suffice under the SAVE Act"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021575000415670325)  2026-02-11T13:20Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Just an absolutely ridiculous claim (based it turns out on a single anecdote he remembers some guy telling him [--] years ago). The average starting salary for a new college graduate in [----] was a little less than $10000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021577415844085948)  2026-02-11T13:29Z 129.6K followers, 11.1K engagements


"@the_psyop_cop @ZiggyPernot @C_3C_3 @elonmusk Does your RealID indicate your citizenship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021591054193938587)  2026-02-11T14:24Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@medievalgore Because disenfranchising citizens who have been registered to vote for [--] years because they lost or misplaced their birth certificate all in order to solve an imaginary problem is stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021593686589493447)  2026-02-11T14:34Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"And now the 10-day ban on flights over El Paso has been lifted after a couple of hours. Again every day with Trump brings another piece of nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021596286672142580)  2026-02-11T14:44Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@medievalgore Flying is not a constitutional right and tens of millions of Americans do not have a Real ID"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021613216372023422)  2026-02-11T15:52Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@stoprefresh @cimags @substance7146 It's literally all they're doing. ICE agents don't like being followed so they're arresting people who do it because they know that they will face no consequences - legal or on the job - for doing so. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-is-cracking-down-people-who-follow-them-their-cars-2026-02-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-is-cracking-down-people-who-follow-them-their-cars-2026-02-10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021638427129917933)  2026-02-11T17:32Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"It's hacks wherever you look in the Trump administration because only hacks would do something like obey orders to try to bring criminal charges against US senators for public statements they made. NEWS: The DOJ lawyer who tried--and failed--to indict [--] Dem lawmakers over military video runs an active dance photography studio & worked for US Atty Pirro decades ago. Both prosecutors on case had no prior federal backgrounds as experts were walled off. https://t.co/OjeNxQxPdr NEWS: The DOJ lawyer who tried--and failed--to indict [--] Dem lawmakers over military video runs an active dance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021671795795824887)  2026-02-11T19:44Z 129.6K followers, 14.5K engagements


"@paulswaney3 I have exposure to Costco and know they have a single exit and check all receipts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021755624594211103)  2026-02-12T01:17Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@JW1197539373284 @David_J_Bier What benefit would Kennedy have gotten by pretending to not know something he knew Bier got the facts out and named names. Did Kennedy want him to do something else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021757530628575536)  2026-02-12T01:25Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"I go to that Walmart all the time. There are two exits and the receipt checking is sporadic at best. Costco stuff is also of course harder to shoplift physically. The clientele at our local Costco is more middle-class - as you'd expect given the requirement to pay a membership fee - but obviously "working class" does not mean "shoplifters." The part of this story that's always weirdly skipped over is that Costco made $5.3 billion in membership fees last year. That's pure profit and accounts for two thirds of Costco's net income. That's a much more compelling reason to charge the fee than some"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021760115162923217)  2026-02-12T01:35Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@paul_ziffer @ChrisMurphyCT No - his position is "The 1st Amendment allows Americans including senators to speak freely without fear of punishment and prohibits the president from trying to throw them in jail for something they said.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021772733890101704)  2026-02-12T02:25Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Backblastradio @ChrisMurphyCT You're LOLing at the 1st Amendment which is a pathetic thing for an American to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021774428321833450)  2026-02-12T02:32Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@AlphEatsCats @paulswaney3 The only statement in that post is that deterring shoplifters is not the reason Costco has a membership fee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021775484128751982)  2026-02-12T02:36Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"You seem to believe that the govt can punish people for making political statements against it. It cannot. Again Congress can make no law abridging the freedom of speech - and the highest protections are for political speech. You can say the president is illegitimate and should be tossed out of office and replaced by a dictator and the govt cannot prosecute you. That's what freedom of speech means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021777796842872852)  2026-02-12T02:46Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Pam Bondi is incredible because I have never seen her perform well in a public appearance. You'd think just by chance she'd have had everything clicking at least once. But every time she testifies or gives a speech or appears on TV she's stiff and fake and says absurd things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021782140099174524)  2026-02-12T03:03Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"That's simply a ludicrous description of the video which is why the govt couldn't get a single person to vote to indict - and if they had gotten an indictment the case would have been dismissed on 1A grounds. If you want to live in a country where the president can prosecute people for telling soldiers not to obey unlawful orders move to a different country. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021945343810617537 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021945343810617537"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021945343810617537)  2026-02-12T13:51Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@meredithwilsonX As I said were they required to show their birth certificates when they got to Congress in order to be allowed to vote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022077205007020252)  2026-02-12T22:35Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@barb010160 Real ID does not suffice though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022078383446950042)  2026-02-12T22:40Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@BjornCoe @ChrisMurphyCT I am not "proving your point." No one believes that English culture and French or Italian or German culture are similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022099845142786090)  2026-02-13T00:05Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@createnbak @TheStalwart What you're saying here has nothing to do with Joe's tweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022264160944361808)  2026-02-13T10:58Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"We're talking about the SAVE Act which will have no impact on what you're talking about. And what's your theory about the mail-in ballots Only one ballot per individual voter is counted and you can track when/if your ballot is accepted. So are you saying US citizens are having their real ballots rejected because a ballot in their name that was sent to an old address has been cast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022267399869739160)  2026-02-13T11:11Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@bdzivi That is awesome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022311363016548682)  2026-02-13T14:06Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@thornt25628 @giannmi @carney It's obviously not "unworkable" since it worked fine for 30+ years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022338489287922139)  2026-02-13T15:54Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@WWouldJakeDo @BooksRead777 New England is not gerrymandered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022404752756367726)  2026-02-13T20:17Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@ralanbrantler People have been complaining about the birth-certificate issue for many years. But it wasn't a huge deal until recently because [--] years ago not one state required documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022501307710353837)  2026-02-14T02:41Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@gaussianReverie @soncharm Nonsense. No one is paying to live in or thinks it's "desirable" to live in a neighborhood full of white people from Appalachia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022520511922622814)  2026-02-14T03:57Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@L0m3z @Rongwrong_ What makes the culture "white" as opposed to upper-middle-class American (or Western if you want to be excessively broad)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022592966603510028)  2026-02-14T08:45Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@BumpkinEsq @L0m3z Claiming that white people in Appalachia share the same culture as white upper-class intellectuals in Paris is 100% stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022593686329053224)  2026-02-14T08:48Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Hondo320F16 Single-point exits and all receipts checked seem like a bigger factor to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021435498972184893)  2026-02-11T04:05Z 129.6K followers, 36K engagements


"At this point ICE/CBP and DHS have lied so often - including in court and in affidavits - that the default assumption about any account they give of an incident should be that they are not telling the truth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022117959788105884)  2026-02-13T01:17Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@prickly_pickles No - your driver's license is proper identification. The law requires much more than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022501757742649620)  2026-02-14T02:42Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ChristianHeiens Lawful permanent residents are taxpayers just as much as citizens are. And these are loan guarantees not loans. What's the actual argument for making it harder for LPRs - who are here legally and are long-term residents - to start small businesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022688257939771811)  2026-02-14T15:03Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexanderTurok Absolutely not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022837700546498798)  2026-02-15T00:57Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@WehadkeeCreek We don't need proof of citizenship since noncitizens don't vote. But if the govt is going to insist on it it should be responsible for having the data it already has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022839077553279423)  2026-02-15T01:03Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers as they say they did. Instead for every country they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64% which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is. It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907559189234196942)  2025-04-02T22:22Z 129.6K followers, 19.9M engagements


"It's a sad commentary on the state of crypto that I have no idea whether this tweet is a parody of horrible financial advice or just horrible financial advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019616590426435933)  2026-02-06T03:38Z 129.6K followers, 42.1K engagements


"Every day with Trump is another bit of ridiculous chaos. The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for [--] days grounding all flights to and from the airport for special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details. https://t.co/T3F2pDAiZk The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for [--] days grounding all flights to and from the airport for special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details. https://t.co/T3F2pDAiZk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021564102297157640)  2026-02-11T12:36Z 129.6K followers, 24.8K engagements


"Just an absolutely ridiculous claim (based it turns out on a single anecdote he remembers some guy telling him [--] years ago). The average starting salary for a new college graduate in [----] was a little less than $10000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021585964326436899)  2026-02-11T14:03Z 129.6K followers, 15.2K engagements


"@HarlemJ11 That's what I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021763953689280921)  2026-02-12T01:51Z 129.6K followers, 19.1K engagements


"The fact that the Trump administration thinks the U.S. should model itself after countries with long histories of authoritarian rule and fragile protections for individual rights says it all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021767157361897784)  2026-02-12T02:03Z 129.6K followers, 10.8K engagements


"@thematthew What are the "several forms of ID" other than passport and birth certificate it says are acceptable for non-native American civilians (which is to say almost all voters)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022078287691100495)  2026-02-12T22:40Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


""Electability" as a concept is straightforward: does a candidate have a realistic chance of winning a given race against a normal opposition candidate. People's evaluations of electability are of course flawed and shaped by their individual perspectives. But the idea that it's impossible to come up with a reasonable guess of a candidate's likelihood of winning is just silly. And if a candidate's likelihood of winning is very small then the party should not under any circumstances nominate that candidate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022086367761621105)  2026-02-12T23:12Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


""Newly discovered evidence is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit" is the government saying "We totally lied in our court filing." UPDATE 👀: After detaining these men generating national headlines about a broom/shovel attack detaining one of the defendant's partners and separating them from their [--] year old son the Trump admin drops the charges citing "newls discovered evidence." https://t.co/v570zdVNSr https://t.co/98TbbwH6XK UPDATE 👀: After detaining these men generating national headlines about a broom/shovel attack detaining one of the defendant's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022107931756666886)  2026-02-13T00:37Z 129.6K followers, 41.6K engagements


"Are people who are worried about voter fraud concerned that non-citizens are registering to vote under their own names and addresses while lying and saying they're citizens Or do they think non-citizens are somehow impersonating citizens and casting votes in their names"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022160906667675863)  2026-02-13T04:08Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"HD has obviously been great for all sports on TV but the two sports that have benefited the most from it are hockey and perhaps surprisingly tennis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022290373503004900)  2026-02-13T12:42Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Democrats should pay attention to Carney's success when picking a candidate in 2028"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022322305792192950)  2026-02-13T14:49Z 129.6K followers, 194K engagements


"@carney If the population growth isn't happening it seems weird to say that immigrants are "replacing" it. It's not like in the absence of immigrants the native-born population would be growing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022335686674895281)  2026-02-13T15:42Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@___Sean______ Setting aside that 10% of voting-eligible citizens don't have their birth certificate it's a ridiculous waste of time and effort for already-registered citizens to have to go register in person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022375199451070752)  2026-02-13T18:19Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


""I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future." He is such a nut. Never change Donald. Never change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022436330056118450)  2026-02-13T22:22Z 129.6K followers, 21.5K engagements


"Me at every meeting from now on: "I have searched the depths of arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. So there.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022470707414712789)  2026-02-14T00:39Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@gaussianReverie @soncharm No - Irish culture exists. Italian culture exists. Greek culture exists. French culture exists. It's just that "white" culture doesn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022515654880907566)  2026-02-14T03:38Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Assuming you think it's socially beneficial for the govt to guarantee loans to help people start small businesses what's the actual argument for not doing so for lawful permanent residents - who are here legally and pay taxes like citizens do (Cue racist attacks on Indians.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022676855149535285)  2026-02-14T14:18Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@christopherrufo If you had Japanese guests and expected them to be personally celebrating lunar New Year because it's part of "Asian culture" they would think you were strange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022814403691725162)  2026-02-14T23:25Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"If Trump had just done nothing other than close the border and let the economy stay on the trajectory it was on when he took office his approval rating would be just fine. But he's a chaos agent - he needs to stir up trouble every single day. And Americans don't want that. Can be some noise here. But new 2nd-term Trump approval low in our tracking. We haven't had a lot of popular presidents lately. But he's also now a hair below Biden and Trump [---] at comparable points. https://t.co/RUJZFlw8l7 Can be some noise here. But new 2nd-term Trump approval low in our tracking. We haven't had a lot of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022815223585865829)  2026-02-14T23:28Z 129.6K followers, 27.7K engagements


"There's no such thing as a "white culture" that Elvis Presley and Vladimir Putin are part of but Ralph Ellison is not. It doesn't exist and it's stupid to pretend that it does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022840082449776945)  2026-02-15T01:07Z 129.6K followers, 31.3K engagements


"@TechnoPulp No it can't and be "white" culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022858755851821466)  2026-02-15T02:21Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Peter Dinklage is from New Jersey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2018124402886394208)  2026-02-02T00:48Z 129.6K followers, 2.2M engagements


"The people at the Washington Post who were poorly performing were Bezos himself and the people at the very top who post-2020 made a series of bad strategic decisions and failed to capitalize on their success from 2013-2019. And even then the Post would be in reasonable shape today had Bezos not sabotaged the paper by embracing Trump leading to the loss of hundreds of thousands of subscribers. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019401336131858507 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019401336131858507"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2019401336131858507)  2026-02-05T13:22Z 129.6K followers, 46.5K engagements


"This is where today's RW has ended up: arguing that "it's racist to call black people monkeys" is just a "liberal piety.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020226374796210231)  2026-02-07T20:01Z 129.6K followers, 126.6K engagements


"The problem with this argument is that most Americans agree with the Olympic athletes not with Batya about what ICE/CBP is doing in Minnesota. If you cant represent your country with pride because youre too ashamed of your fellow citizens those condemned to suffer the consequences of your elitist pieties maybe stay home. My latest: Americas Olympic athletes are ashamed of their fellow citizens. Well its mutual. https://t.co/0CWXGVnxPe If you cant represent your country with pride because youre too ashamed of your fellow citizens those condemned to suffer the consequences of your elitist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2020986133497450951)  2026-02-09T22:20Z 129.6K followers, 15.7K engagements


"@KvBahnhof In Europe you have national ID cards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022078947748716791)  2026-02-12T22:42Z 129.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@thematthew Right - none of those apply to native-born (but not native American) civilians unless they live in one of [--] states with Enhanced Driver's Licenses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022093897430933672)  2026-02-12T23:42Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@GreenWindow555 @BigThunderMan But their individual vote will make no difference. Even if the risk of getting caught is low it's much greater than the chance that your vote will decide the outcome of an election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022291515020620029)  2026-02-13T12:47Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@WWouldJakeDo Imagine believing that non-citizens are registering to vote under their own names and risking jail in order to cast a vote that has no chance of affecting the outcome of an election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022336101370015975)  2026-02-13T15:44Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@snowchi3 @carney You don't mean "understanding." You mean "evidenceless claim.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022437326748590408)  2026-02-13T22:26Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@TrueVoortrekkr @RumHtwn @christopherrufo Go away stupid person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022479426512949490)  2026-02-14T01:14Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@_AmazingChina_ @CatoInstitute @stephen_richer The SAVE Act is not a "show photo ID to vote" bill. It's a "show your passport or birth certificate in order to be able to vote" bill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022504484753035350)  2026-02-14T02:53Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@carney Noncitizens don't vote so the number of foreigners living in the country is not a justification for the change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022522269696745649)  2026-02-14T04:04Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@baalzamon35 @angeljimenez @davidkarim @dunbar422 You're not taxed on unrealized gains at every moment of the year. You're taxed on the unrealized gains you have at the end of the tax year. If the stock went up to $200 and then fell back to $100 before Dec. [--] you owe nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022668977525371333)  2026-02-14T13:47Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@GoViRaLFG @CannonofBannon There is zero evidence of that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2022758352502096346)  2026-02-14T19:42Z 129.6K followers, [--] engagements


"It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea with which we have a trade agreement is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907542643279802641)  2025-04-02T21:16Z 129.6K followers, 12.4M engagements


"Pro-1st Amendment party strikes again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021395724039225489)  2026-02-11T01:27Z 129.6K followers, 29.1K engagements


"Trump being very Stuart Smalley here: "I'm good enough I'm smart enough and doggone it people like me""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021425516042125553)  2026-02-11T03:26Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Of course Trump will veto this even if Republicans in the Senate allow this to come to a vote. But still a small victory to see the House reject Trump's ludicrous tariffs on Canada - which violate the trade agreement he himself negotiated and Congress ratified. 219-211 House votes to pass the resolution by @RepGregoryMeeks to terminate Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans join Democrats in voting YES while one Democrat votes NO. https://t.co/syssjSMEf9 219-211 House votes to pass the resolution by @RepGregoryMeeks to terminate Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans join Democrats in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021763735384096883)  2026-02-12T01:50Z 129.6K followers, 11K engagements


"@HaterReport Or just not let him take three steps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2021785704821370961)  2026-02-12T03:17Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements

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