#  @clairlemon Claire Lehmann Claire Lehmann posts on X about australia, sydney, china, countries the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1398479138/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -85% - [--] Month [---------] +59% - [--] Months [----------] -42% - [--] Year [-----------] +67% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1398479138/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -66% - [--] Months [---] -6.90% - [--] Year [---] -4.60% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1398479138/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] -0.01% - [--] Month [-------] +0.39% - [--] Months [-------] +0.97% - [--] Year [-------] +3% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1398479138/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [us election](/list/us-election) [stocks](/list/stocks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [australia](/topic/australia), [sydney](/topic/sydney), [china](/topic/china), [countries](/topic/countries), [israel](/topic/israel), [rfk](/topic/rfk), [money](/topic/money), [hamas](/topic/hamas), [in the](/topic/in-the) #6595, [if you](/topic/if-you) #4245 **Top assets mentioned** [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "You should write an academic paper on your theory you might get some citations https://x.com/matthewasears/status/1016039363547783168s=21 https://x.com/matthewasears/status/1016039363547783168s=21" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1016115955015925760) 2018-07-09T00:24Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "@Gay_Alcorn Handle is different from identify" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1037863676881985536) 2018-09-07T00:42Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements "@Gay_Alcorn Am not denying that the issue is complicated & I can't see how you would take that reading from what I wrote" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1037865680618455040) 2018-09-07T00:50Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements "Too many women have been persuaded to sacrifice their fertile years in order to make profits for disinterested others https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1068235154294956032) 2018-11-29T20:08Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements "Woke Pam https://x.com/pamfoundation/status/1069559265713668096s=21 I despise violence.but what is the violence of all these people and burned luxurious cars compared to the structural violence of the French -and global - elites https://x.com/pamfoundation/status/1069559265713668096s=21 I despise violence.but what is the violence of all these people and burned luxurious cars compared to the structural violence of the French -and global - elites" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1069685468822786049) 2018-12-03T20:11Z 249.2K followers, [---] engagements "Switch on ABC news & some ex-politician is arguing that to stop psychopaths from raping & murdering strangers we need more programs in schools about respectful relationships & toxic masculinity. Am struggling to comprehend how stupidity can reach such depths" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1086742697484869632) 2019-01-19T21:50Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements "When are marketing companies going to start doing false flag outrages.i.e. get on Twitter & pretend to cause a rucus just so their brand gets free press coverage for zero spend Or is this already https://x.com/australian/status/1093639529502789637 https://x.com/australian/status/1093639529502789637" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1093642829543297024) 2019-02-07T22:49Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements "I read this book review and it honestly felt like I'd been transported to another planet. The world which it describes is simply unrecognisable. https://unherd.com/2019/03/the-inescapable-misogyny-of-the-modern-world/=sideshare https://unherd.com/2019/03/the-inescapable-misogyny-of-the-modern-world/=sideshare" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1105027804750479361) 2019-03-11T08:48Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "Just read the multiple threads written by academics about how dangerous Quillette is over the past few days. Theyre really scared that theyre no longer the gatekeepers arent they" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1108628048570507264) 2019-03-21T07:14Z 250.1K followers, [----] engagements "I want to write a book about why so many books that are written & published shouldn't have been written or published https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/books/naomi-wolf-outrages-errors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/books/naomi-wolf-outrages-errors.html" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1140026418023161856) 2019-06-15T22:40Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "Wtf kind of fact checking is this Andy Ngo is indeed an editor with us he is a journalist. And no @Quillette is not conservative we are all political moderates of a liberal centrist persuasion https://x.com/snopes/status/1145394834926166018s=21 Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) who describes himself as an editor at the conservative website @Quillette and says he is hated by antifa said he was attacked by anti-fascist protesters and had to be taken to the hospital to treat injuries to his face and head. https://t.co/AEj0YhDo0y https://x.com/snopes/status/1145394834926166018s=21 Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) who" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1145439728801476608) 2019-06-30T21:11Z 250.1K followers, [----] engagements "Try doing it with accused and witchcraft https://x.com/juliacarriew/status/1190669830954766338s=21 A fun exercise in reading this article is to replace the verb forms of cancel with criticize and the adjectival forms of cancelled with bigoted and see where you end up https://t.co/mASs1cUeyQ https://x.com/juliacarriew/status/1190669830954766338s=21 A fun exercise in reading this article is to replace the verb forms of cancel with criticize and the adjectival forms of cancelled with bigoted and see where you end up https://t.co/mASs1cUeyQ" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1190787722576719872) 2019-11-03T00:28Z 248.4K followers, [---] engagements "Like something out of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel 🦕 Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era https://t.co/9maPvLdRqe https://t.co/Et6RA9DI1Q Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era https://t.co/9maPvLdRqe https://t.co/Et6RA9DI1Q" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1215853170011672576) 2020-01-11T04:29Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements "Medium took down the post Evidence over HysteriaCOVID-19 and Twitter flagged the link as unsafe presumably for misinformation. But what I want to know is why so many US conservatives *want* to believe it I thought conservatives had greater sensitivity to pathogens" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1241608037665628166) 2020-03-22T06:09Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "Definitely number #6 https://x.com/lithub/status/1247582133301981185s=20 https://t.co/mB9S3owgvH https://x.com/lithub/status/1247582133301981185s=20 https://t.co/mB9S3owgvH" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1247725602779484161) 2020-04-08T03:18Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements "I've got no problem at all with Vox asking for financial contributions from readers--that's what we do at Quillette & have done so for years now. But what on earth did they spend $US300M of investment on Manhattan real estate Cocktail and uber bills Executive salaries🤷" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1248407097089257473) 2020-04-10T00:27Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements "You get rid of unfair privileges in society by looking DEEPER. Looking at a person's character & behaviour not their clothes or their post-code or god-forbid their skin colour. Giving people the benefit of the doubt. Forgiving" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1280669652004134912) 2020-07-08T01:06Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements "Money (or lack of it) is not always the problem "having worked as a doctor in some of the poorest countries.I have little hesitation in saying that the mental cultural emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass is the greatest of any large group of people I have encountered" https://t.co/hZyeZO5q8q https://t.co/AVu8D28k1q "having worked as a doctor in some of the poorest countries.I have little hesitation in saying that the mental cultural emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass is the greatest of any large group of people I have encountered"" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1295988646902808581) 2020-08-19T07:39Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "The New York Times is enlisting former Buzzfeed hacks to write hit-pieces on respected American journalists now" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1300542394748731392) 2020-08-31T21:14Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "@j4mi3p Probably the most played are Blood on the Tracks Hard Rain (live album) and Time out of Mind" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1340546630819348482) 2020-12-20T06:36Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements "Can someone who understands money explain this to me: - the USD was backed by gold then oil then economic growth; - If there is no growth & the US government keeps printing. - what prevents hyperinflation" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1354207014935646214) 2021-01-26T23:18Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "If you have to be hospitalised in the ICU for Covid the average stay is [--] days. An ICU bed in Australia costs $4375 per day so an [--] day stay costs taxpayers $35000. Compare that cost to that of an AstraZeneca jab which is $3" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1421654618216361985) 2021-08-01T02:10Z 249K followers, [----] engagements ""American Express which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islams founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil." 🤣🤡 https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist/ https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1425621499243761666) 2021-08-12T00:53Z 249.1K followers, [---] engagements "I've waited since yesterday for @simonahac to explain what he thinks the errors are. If any genuine errors are found I'll apologise & correct the record. But lobbing these these accusations--without substantiation--is unethical & bordering on harassment. https://x.com/simonahac/status/1688040809289879552s=20 🤦♂ another hot mess of an energy piece from @clairlemon. so many errors. would be great if claire consulted with actual energy experts before misrepresenting @CSIROs GenCost & @AEMO_Energys ISP. and if the @australian fact checked opinion pieces masquerading as exposes." [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1688322754586759169) 2023-08-06T22:54Z 248.5K followers, 190.2K engagements "@Bowenchris" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1695231326125969703) 2023-08-26T00:26Z 248.5K followers, 12.3K engagements "@ShepJoel @Meta @Quillette Seriously Unbelievable" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1723207081635836054) 2023-11-11T05:12Z 249.1K followers, [---] engagements "What happens if the plagiarism probe finds that rates of duplicative language are not equally distributed among student/faculty groups 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1743837220078080256) 2024-01-07T03:29Z 249.2K followers, 189.5K engagements ""It is worth examining the South African application in order to understand how poorly it is constructed as a matter of law and how deceptive it is as propaganda" writes Holocaust historian Norman J.W Goda for @Quillette https://quillette.com/2024/01/17/lawfare-at-the-hague/ https://quillette.com/2024/01/17/lawfare-at-the-hague/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1747495050983211132) 2024-01-17T05:44Z 249.1K followers, 17.4K engagements "In universities across the world humanities departments have over time come to reject the notion that there is such a thing as objective truth. This nihilistic outlook was originally promoted by a small group of academics in the mid-20th century but is now the dominant philosophy in a range of disciplines from literary criticism to gender and cultural studies. And while the doctrine has quietly swallowed the humanities many thought it would never infiltrate the hard sciences. If one is engineering a bridge for example it would be reckless to reject the objective truth of gravity. If one is" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1782181393537319360) 2024-04-21T22:55Z 249.4K followers, 441.5K engagements "@DrewPavlou Personality disorder" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1815180577605361783) 2024-07-22T00:22Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements "@eyeslasho Yes but once you reach a certain threshold (e.g. one or two standard deviations above the mean) personality traits do make a huge difference. The problem is not articulating where or what that threshold is" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1827137528664879329) 2024-08-24T00:15Z 248.7K followers, [----] engagements "@humpheryjenner Hi Mark would you be interested in writing an article about this for an international audience at @quillette" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1835502589900951633) 2024-09-16T02:14Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "I am skeptical that natural birth and breastfeeding are actively bad https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1843673299508940891 Here's the rule of thumb with pregnancy and babies: Everything "natural" (e.g. natural birth home birth breastfeeding) is overrated or actively bad; everything that people generally look down upon (e.g. C-sections formula feeding screen time) is fine or actively good. https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1843673299508940891 Here's the rule of thumb with pregnancy and babies: Everything "natural" (e.g. natural birth home birth breastfeeding) is overrated or actively bad;" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1843786081239806253) 2024-10-08T22:50Z 248.6K followers, 22.9K engagements "@TomChivers If he didn't want people to make such an inference he could have included the possibility that natural practices can be actively good &/or beneficial as well. This shouldn't be too difficult for a science journalist" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1843917602500030510) 2024-10-09T07:33Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements "Sydneys median house price (1.65M AUD/1.1M USD) is 42% higher than the most expensive state in the US. The median house price in California is $776K. This is the main reason I left California and moved to Tennessee in [----]. Best decision ever. https://t.co/85uUYCsJB9 The median house price in California is $776K. This is the main reason I left California and moved to Tennessee in [----]. Best decision ever. https://t.co/85uUYCsJB9" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1859468123256312270) 2024-11-21T05:25Z 248.7K followers, 246.6K engagements "RFK Jr wants to run an experiment where people who havent been vaccinated are compared with people who have. People who lived in the past never got vaccinated So we can check out how long they lived & compare it to life expectancy today. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860442771875856615) 2024-11-23T21:58Z 248.5K followers, 257.2K engagements "Even smart people have no idea what life expectancy used to be before vaccination was invented and how much human life was just one Sisyphean battle against infectious disease. Were so comfortable now weve collectively erased it from our memory" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860444986279624926) 2024-11-23T22:07Z 248.5K followers, 196.9K engagements "@DrZhana Yes I understand confounding variables. But when measles deaths plummet immediately after vaccine introduction - in different countries at different times controlling for other factors - that's pretty compelling evidence. Science isn't just about perfectly controlled trials" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860492481609322586) 2024-11-24T01:15Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "@DrZhana My post was satirising RFK Jr's call for vax/unvax experiments. He says we need to run controlled trials comparing vaxxed vs unvaxxed kids. I was pointing out the absurdity - we've already seen what a world without vaccines looks like. Perhaps you need to take a class in satire" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860496435734806728) 2024-11-24T01:31Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "I fully support ongoing research into vaccine safety - just not experiments that deliberately leave children unprotected. We have ethical ways to study new vaccines: clinical trials surveillance systems large cohort studies. But suggesting we create an unvaccinated control group is dangerous" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860507167734006260) 2024-11-24T02:14Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "@DrZhana RFK Jr's quote "show me a vaccinated population & an unvaccinated population & show me that the vaccinated population is healthier" was about the complete vaccine schedule not individual vaccines. https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859648556933529797 https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859648556933529797" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1860516485741052083) 2024-11-24T02:51Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "Anyone can commit suicide if they want to. Terminally ill people receive palliative care which makes the end less painful. The so-called "right to die" is simply euphemism for training doctors to kill people. https://x.com/polanskydj/status/1862650107780297146 When there was only one set of slippers it was then that The Economist carried you https://t.co/ocQV34iPxu https://x.com/polanskydj/status/1862650107780297146 When there was only one set of slippers it was then that The Economist carried you https://t.co/ocQV34iPxu" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1862653108083728510) 2024-11-30T00:21Z 248.5K followers, 187.5K engagements "You can find all the interesting people to follow on the other site from the block lists. Super convenient" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1863408194879672628) 2024-12-02T02:21Z 248.7K followers, 53.3K engagements ""No matter how deranged Kennedys various pronouncements about human health & welfare may be @VPrasadMDMPH & his editors are unwilling to countenance the idea that he is worse than the @nytimes or the other elites they hold in contempt" TL;DR: He's worse https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/sanitising-a-paranoid-crank-rfk-trump-hhs/ https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/sanitising-a-paranoid-crank-rfk-trump-hhs/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1864097534479831440) 2024-12-04T00:01Z 248.5K followers, 22.3K engagements "@DrZhana @VPrasadMDMPH @nytimes 🥱" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1864111150620921867) 2024-12-04T00:55Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements "In [----] average life expectancy was [--] (in US) [--] (in AU) & people died from infections/accidents. Today we live to our 80s which is long enough to develop arthritis/diabetes/heart disease. Rising chronic illness isn't a public health failure. It's a side effect of longevity" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1864174139235553776) 2024-12-04T05:05Z 248.5K followers, 115.3K engagements "People like this have never run a company & it shows. When it comes to specialised work you do with your brain 99% of a population wont be able do it. Salary is irrelevant" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1872075036456313060) 2024-12-26T00:20Z 250.1K followers, 677.5K engagements "We must acknowledge three uncomfortable truths. Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive politically unpopular measures. Such measures include burying power lines despite the cost restricting development in fire-prone areas despite property rights concerns and regular controlled burns despite air quality complaints . Just as in Australia fire belongs in Californias landscape. What doesnt belong is a refusal to adapt. The devastation in Los Angeles shows the cost of this refusal: lives have been lost" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1878385317474074716) 2025-01-12T10:15Z 248.5K followers, 184.9K engagements "Tucker implies that Western Civilisation stopped after WWII. "Where is it" he asks shaking his head. Well here are some achievements of Western Civ since 1945: Penicillin (1945) TV (1946-50) Transistor radio (1947) Discovery of DNA structure (1953) Elvis Presley (1954-57) Motown Records founded (1959) The Beatles (1962-70) Bob Dylan (1962-present) Satellites (1962) William Eggleston photography (1965) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick (1968) Moon landing (1969) The Godfather - Coppola (1972) Sydney Opera House - Jrn Utzon (1973) PCs (1975) MRI (1977) GPS (1978) Internet protocols (1983) World" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1885555278038675807) 2025-02-01T05:06Z 242.8K followers, 266.7K engagements "Manufacturing depth matters more than GDP in real conflicts & China has far more depth + 4x population. Ukraine shows numbers still matter in war. Americans are delusional about US power being permanent. "Bullying" allies while China uses soft power to make friends = acceleration of decline" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1886602027524116868) 2025-02-04T02:25Z 243.2K followers, 211.6K engagements "Schizophrenia is a shockingly debilitative illness any uptick in rates is an absolute disaster. https://x.com/NTFabiano/status/1887116529466065370 Since legalization new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled. 🧵1/9 https://t.co/cUqx7WlCLG https://x.com/NTFabiano/status/1887116529466065370 Since legalization new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled. 🧵1/9 https://t.co/cUqx7WlCLG" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1887257846783615061) 2025-02-05T21:51Z 248.5K followers, 46.1K engagements "Built [--] new internal systems for my team this week (leave requests/customer support) using code generated by Claude. Took me [--] day in total & saved us $5-10K in consultant costs. If an english/psychology grad like me can use code to build stuff any wordcel can" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1887968234722443543) 2025-02-07T20:54Z 242.9K followers, 60.3K engagements "How do people get through life with this kind of attitude" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1888055617065206130) 2025-02-08T02:41Z 242.9K followers, 96.1K engagements "I got into the 42nd (Shrek) percentile 🫤 (according to this survey) https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1888061426637619396 What's your sexual market value After months of work I have a comprehensive survey based on a ton of data from how people ranked nearly every conceivable trait. So: How hot a commodity are you in the dating arena I'd love to see your scores Link below https://t.co/1Ak5vIF2nu https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1888061426637619396 What's your sexual market value After months of work I have a comprehensive survey based on a ton of data from how people ranked nearly every" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1888107493706100898) 2025-02-08T06:08Z 243.3K followers, 41.2K engagements "It's amazing how fast this is all happening. Suggests that these policies were less about ideology than we thought and were just about going along with the crowd. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1888705792443904264 NYT reports that Trumps executive orders on diversity have swept through scientific institutions. The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine is an independent 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1888705792443904264 NYT reports that Trumps executive orders on diversity" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1888712454898905561) 2025-02-09T22:11Z 242.9K followers, 126K engagements "I run home through a leafy Sydney suburb after dropping my daughter at school in the morning. The only advertising I see is for Chinese property platforms (Juwai Fang). Now houses have "COMING SOON" signs out the front as if they're about to premiere. Something's not right" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1889447055552291202) 2025-02-11T22:50Z 247.9K followers, 72.8K engagements "So this doctor & nurse will presumably be fired & banned from practicing ever again but the NSW Health Minister @ChrisMinnsMP & @AlboMP are going to have to front up & explain to Australians what the hell is going on. Nuclear level scandal. https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1889426549079994403 🚨SHOCKING: Chilling footage has emerged of a NSW Health doctor and his nurse claiming to have killed Israeli patients Please spread this video to help identify the racist perpetrators https://t.co/RZmlTI5Y6x https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1889426549079994403 🚨SHOCKING: Chilling footage has emerged of a" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1889458291576836570) 2025-02-11T23:35Z 243.4K followers, 241.5K engagements "@ArtemisConsort What the fuck" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1889804504641708200) 2025-02-12T22:31Z 242.9K followers, 12.9K engagements "A city of [--] million is brought to a standstill once again (0% of trains are on time) after months of prolonged strike action and why They want $200K a [--] hr work week & a $5k bonus for every train driver. On what planet is this not criminal Lets fuck the network up awful awful stuff @unionsnsw https://t.co/5iuNUrvsHX Lets fuck the network up awful awful stuff @unionsnsw https://t.co/5iuNUrvsHX" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1890239659705528838) 2025-02-14T03:20Z 249K followers, 34.7K engagements "For every alpha male with a harem theres about [--] males (or more) who miss out on a mate altogether. Polygyny is frowned upon by conservatives because it destabilises societies the right at nauseam: procreate make babies become a mom save civilization woman decides to use objectively the best sperm available on the planet to get pregnant and have a baby the right: NO NOT LIKE THAT the right at nauseam: procreate make babies become a mom save civilization woman decides to use objectively the best sperm available on the planet to get pregnant and have a baby the right: NO NOT LIKE THAT" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890608119752868052) 2025-02-15T03:44Z 250.1K followers, 573.4K engagements "David Geary: Girls and women typically do better on whats called episodic memorymemory for personal experiencesverbal memory short-term and long-term memory. If you give them a list of words to remember and ask them to recall it a few minutes later they perform better. Or if you ask how quickly they can generate names of plants girls and women generally do better in those areas. Boys and men generally do better in visual-spatial tasks like navigating from one place to another or generating and manipulating visual images. Whats really interesting is that these differences are smaller in" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1890678693472977359) 2025-02-15T08:25Z 243.3K followers, 27.9K engagements "Steve Jobs denied paternity of his daughter even after a paternity test showed he was the father. Some men who do great things can also be amoral & cruel. The Elon/Ashley thing is actually pretty sad. Not ideal having to get in touch with your childs father via tweet as hes trolling you to his hundreds of millions of followers. Would be better if he cared less about being the main character & more about being a dad I guess. The Elon/Ashley thing is actually pretty sad. Not ideal having to get in touch with your childs father via tweet as hes trolling you to his hundreds of millions of" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1890931217643474953) 2025-02-16T01:08Z 243.4K followers, 124K engagements "The Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War captures the trauma of the 60s better than any other cultural artefact in my opinion. On the one hand you had kids waving Viet Cong flags on the other you had kids coming home in body bags. People say "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well no. It has seemed comparatively crazier before. Imagine that you are an American parent in [----]. You are a veteran of WW2. Your wife has never worked. You're the average American family. Now fast forward five People say "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well no. It has seemed" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1891231766494531702) 2025-02-16T21:02Z 243.3K followers, 48K engagements "German thoroughness Frank Michael Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about [---] hate speech cases in Germany over the past four years. https://t.co/XG1T319q60 Frank Michael Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about [---] hate speech cases in Germany over the past four years. https://t.co/XG1T319q60" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1891581614968168869) 2025-02-17T20:12Z 243.4K followers, 16K engagements "Went to ARC last year. The organisers mean well. But I was surprised that there were no talks on housing & urban planning & nothing on tech or scientific progress. If conservatives want to recruit young people they need to engage with these issues (rather than whatever this is) At the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference conservative thought-leader Oliver Anthony delivers a rallying cry to world leaders about the dangers of the technological society https://t.co/VL0ZlUytPb At the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference conservative thought-leader Oliver Anthony delivers a" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892109665032364357) 2025-02-19T07:11Z 243.4K followers, 20.4K engagements "This is so embarrassing This is the only party with the resources connections and know-how to win seats and effect change at the next Federal election. I fully support the Trumpet of Patriots and will be working closely with their candidates. https://t.co/tXJ6EgVvSv This is the only party with the resources connections and know-how to win seats and effect change at the next Federal election. I fully support the Trumpet of Patriots and will be working closely with their candidates. https://t.co/tXJ6EgVvSv" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892118845415936117) 2025-02-19T07:47Z 243.4K followers, 17.8K engagements "Even if you are committed to ending the war through negotiation with Putin that doesnt necessitate parroting propaganda which casts Zelenskyy as aggressor" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892292085187010736) 2025-02-19T19:16Z 243.6K followers, 83.2K engagements "Relationships heal people https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1892326601326547037 Adam Sandler denazified Kanye https://t.co/InEbARn5g1 https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1892326601326547037 Adam Sandler denazified Kanye https://t.co/InEbARn5g1" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892376053756142046) 2025-02-20T00:49Z 243.3K followers, 17.9K engagements ""hes spent years talking about how it wouldnt have happened on his watch and can settle it in a day and now basically hes decided the best way to do that is to make Ukraine the warmonger in his own head." https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/what-did-trump-just-say-about-ukraine-what/ https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/what-did-trump-just-say-about-ukraine-what/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892397632359629202) 2025-02-20T02:15Z 243.7K followers, 28.8K engagements "A cultural backlash to the Woke Left propelled Trump's [----] win. Will the inevitable backlash to the MAGA Right bring left-wing economic populists to power I won't be surprised if it does. https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1892158386600382478 If you haven't seen it yet here is the full video that Bernie Sanders shared on TikTok that got almost [--] million views: https://t.co/tq7Tti1Epi https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1892158386600382478 If you haven't seen it yet here is the full video that Bernie Sanders shared on TikTok that got almost [--] million views: https://t.co/tq7Tti1Epi" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892447844969160898) 2025-02-20T05:35Z 243.7K followers, 81.6K engagements "The Greek playwrights would understand Musk. The villains of their tragedies arent really villains at all they are great men undone by hubris. In Musks case hubris has worked for him & will continue to work for him until it doesnt. I've already said that before but Musk is honestly a mystery to me. I usually have a model of how people work but with him I really don't know. He's obviously extremely smart and I actually agree with him directionally in a lot of cases yet he also says a lot of dumb shit I've already said that before but Musk is honestly a mystery to me. I usually have a model of" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892690530699772265) 2025-02-20T21:39Z 243.7K followers, 66.2K engagements "From the @WSJ: John Bolton Trumps former national security adviser who turned against his former boss said the president doesnt have a coherent enough ideology to dismantle the global order. This is one mans view but unfortunately hes the president Bolton said. His advice to allies: Just grit your teeth. https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-zelensky-foreign-policy-world-alliances-a3592bc4mod=hp_lead_pos2 https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-zelensky-foreign-policy-world-alliances-a3592bc4mod=hp_lead_pos2" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892716053350031380) 2025-02-20T23:20Z 243.3K followers, 25.7K engagements "The creation of both Tesla and Space X were acts of genius. Kanye West's Graduation & Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy were acts of genius. Creativity & insanity don't always go together but sometimes they do in the most tragic of ways. https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 @clairlemon Genius Really https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 @clairlemon Genius Really" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892717151318114750) 2025-02-20T23:25Z 243.7K followers, 66.2K engagements "Now that the wokes have gone to bluesky people like @CathyYoung63 @thomaschattwill & me are the Left to the MAGA hordes. And we will be treated accordingly. famous left winger @clairlemon editor of famously left wing outlet @Quillette famous left winger @clairlemon editor of famously left wing outlet @Quillette" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892808391652692217) 2025-02-21T05:27Z 243.7K followers, 13.8K engagements "Multiple bus explosions in Israel China conducting military drills off the coast of Australia the US switching sides in Russia/Ukraine. Feels like something important has died in the last [--] hours" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1892810084922659208) 2025-02-21T05:34Z 243.7K followers, 48.2K engagements "Remember the majority voters have positions that are economically to the left socially to the right. Bernie Sanders launched an anti-oligarchy tour and it's the only thing that has popularly resonated within the Democratic Party base. That's fascinating and notable. Bernie Sanders launched an anti-oligarchy tour and it's the only thing that has popularly resonated within the Democratic Party base. That's fascinating and notable" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893451152747888975) 2025-02-23T00:01Z 243.7K followers, 41.6K engagements "Bad deal unless youre already [--] have a high paying career & no kids. But for a never-married woman in their 20s Crazy choice. I feel like a lot of women would be open to being paid like a one-time fee of a million dollars to anonymously have El*ns baby with zero obligations for him after that point. At first I was like why hasnt he done this But now Im like actually he probably has I feel like a lot of women would be open to being paid like a one-time fee of a million dollars to anonymously have El*ns baby with zero obligations for him after that point. At first I was like why hasnt he done" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893454083207369086) 2025-02-23T00:13Z 243.6K followers, 29.9K engagements "Why does anyone pay attention to this unkempt slob They are getting far way comfortable inciting violence against antizionist jews. This is scary af. https://t.co/cKgG12iOY6 They are getting far way comfortable inciting violence against antizionist jews. This is scary af. https://t.co/cKgG12iOY6" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893454561802887286) 2025-02-23T00:15Z 244.7K followers, 50.7K engagements "Good news out of Germany https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1893772516486713517 the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can really achieve independence from the usa. - next german chancellor friedrich merz unthinkable words even two months ago https://t.co/vZLZFP5Gsw https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1893772516486713517 the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can really achieve independence from the usa. - next german chancellor friedrich merz unthinkable words even two months ago" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893776146073817367) 2025-02-23T21:33Z 243.7K followers, 46.9K engagements "Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1893752415872045378 Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. After Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary. https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1893752415872045378 Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779744153391169) 2025-02-23T21:47Z 243.7K followers, 74.1K engagements "@SarahTheHaider It's likely to have downstream effects for the average American though. https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779744153391169 Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://t.co/Hg14TmIfzR https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779744153391169 Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://t.co/Hg14TmIfzR" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779952291528943) 2025-02-23T21:48Z 243.6K followers, [----] engagements "The world uses USD to buy & sell stuff partly because the US provides security guarantees. BUT if security guarantees are no longer reliable the world may stop using USD for trade. When that system breaks Americans may end up paying more for everything https://x.com/SubBeck/status/1893817928388059216 @clairlemon If they want to pay for their own defense I don't see how this it hurts the dollar. US will be saving dollars. https://x.com/SubBeck/status/1893817928388059216 @clairlemon If they want to pay for their own defense I don't see how this it hurts the dollar. US will be saving dollars" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893821430996865213) 2025-02-24T00:33Z 248.7K followers, 76.1K engagements "@john23089884 Stability comes from security - and the fact that other countries use it" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893824581560828081) 2025-02-24T00:45Z 243.6K followers, [----] engagements "Yes but you can seperate this out from the post-WWII security architecture which the US itself designed. https://x.com/dbinthed/status/1893823062673342618 @clairlemon The US is at the center of the global monetary system because it's economy is 25% of global GDP never defaulted and stable relative to emerging markets. Very very very little to do with security quid pro quo. https://x.com/dbinthed/status/1893823062673342618 @clairlemon The US is at the center of the global monetary system because it's economy is 25% of global GDP never defaulted and stable relative to emerging markets. Very" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893825254490775807) 2025-02-24T00:48Z 243.7K followers, 15.4K engagements "Sorry - was tweeting while doing something else. Here is a more informative link. Key quote: The Ukrainian peace the Trump administration appears likely to embrace may also cause the international financial system to splinter. Security guarantees have long formed a pillar of the US dollars dominance and the exorbitant privilege this affords the US. That is why Russias [----] invasion of the Ukraine which bolstered support for NATO and led to the strengthening of security guarantees for Taiwan reinforced the dollars primacy. Americas abandonment of Ukraine and rejection of NATO together with its" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893844956533625269) 2025-02-24T02:06Z 243.5K followers, [---] engagements "My X feed right now is just a cascade of leaders from Germany Sweden Netherlands France Poland--even the US--expressing support for Zelensky as if Ukraine were just hit w/ a terrorist attack. Have never seen such an outpour in my life. All provoked by disgust for [--] men" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895586748270555484) 2025-02-28T21:27Z 250.1K followers, 1.3M engagements "Theyre promoting this moment as if it looks good for them. Deranged. Have you said thank you once @VP JD Vance https://t.co/kDu0o6gDd4 Have you said thank you once @VP JD Vance https://t.co/kDu0o6gDd4" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895627556512284696) 2025-03-01T00:10Z 250.1K followers, 10.5M engagements "@eyeslasho He wasnt the one shouting and waving his finger like his was on Jerry Springer" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895630687354622012) 2025-03-01T00:22Z 250.1K followers, 253.2K engagements "@DavidSacks What the fuck is wrong with you" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1895631597120209296) 2025-03-01T00:26Z 247K followers, 85K engagements "@eyeslasho But why was Vance spoiling for a fight" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1895638050744778803) 2025-03-01T00:51Z 245.6K followers, 67.8K engagements ""We are now living in a post-NATO world where black is white up is down friends are foes (and vice versa) and once-unthinkable impossibilities have become our new reality." https://quillette.com/2025/03/01/the-sixth-impossible-thing-nato-trump-putin-russia-asia/ https://quillette.com/2025/03/01/the-sixth-impossible-thing-nato-trump-putin-russia-asia/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1895942835595329661) 2025-03-01T21:02Z 249.4K followers, 49.3K engagements "@carney Mate these polls were taken before the leader of the free world decided to align with Putin. So they may need to be updated in light of current events" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1895965392096674217) 2025-03-01T22:32Z 248.7K followers, 21.8K engagements "Why do MAGA X users get upset if you suggest countries other than the US can & should militarise and provide security agreements to liberal democracies Isn't that what they want" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1895983793762443750) 2025-03-01T23:45Z 249.4K followers, 118.1K engagements "The strategic argument is that if Putins invasion is rewarded today it will lead to a much larger war tomorrow. Does anyone else find it deeply unsettling that the primary argument for prolonging the war in Ukraine is purely emotional The loudest voices advocating for continued conflict are the same hawkish figures who pushed for interventions in Iraq and Syriapeople hailed as foreign Does anyone else find it deeply unsettling that the primary argument for prolonging the war in Ukraine is purely emotional The loudest voices advocating for continued conflict are the same hawkish figures who" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1896085318320996366) 2025-03-02T06:29Z 248.5K followers, 224.5K engagements "New World Order just dropped We are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. https://t.co/ip4d3z9kQx We are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. https://t.co/ip4d3z9kQx" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1896325621799883181) 2025-03-02T22:23Z 249K followers, 87.2K engagements "Wheres the ETF for this I want in. Breaking news: In a frenzied start to trading shares in Rheinmetall Germanys largest defence company jumped 18% London-based BAE Systems was up 14% in London and Leonardo climbed 15% in Milan. https://t.co/Wt3E9JdCVU https://t.co/EsTwkuhT0j Breaking news: In a frenzied start to trading shares in Rheinmetall Germanys largest defence company jumped 18% London-based BAE Systems was up 14% in London and Leonardo climbed 15% in Milan. https://t.co/Wt3E9JdCVU https://t.co/EsTwkuhT0j" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1896494166219354412) 2025-03-03T09:33Z 248.7K followers, 86.9K engagements "Disappointing but not all that surprising that a bunch of Substackers & podcasters who built huge audiences between 2020-24 for being brave anti-establishment truth-tellers can't bring themselves to criticise the establishment now that it's changed hands" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1896648276591685830) 2025-03-03T19:46Z 250.1K followers, 642.5K engagements "MAGAtards would betray their own mother if Trump told them to" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1896811405497778357) 2025-03-04T06:34Z 248.7K followers, 111.8K engagements "So what youre saying is we should: shut down Pine Gap boot US marines & nuclear bombers currently stationed in the NT rip up the $368bn aukus submarine deal Which one first @nw3 @clairlemon We don't need Australia for anything we've got the Philippines Japan South Korea and India who are mortal enemies of the Chinese. The Australians are becoming even more fascist than the Brits when it comes to freedom of speech and protecting the Australian working people. @nw3 @clairlemon We don't need Australia for anything we've got the Philippines Japan South Korea and India who are mortal enemies of" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1897012291780145571) 2025-03-04T19:52Z 248.9K followers, 34.4K engagements "Newsflash: people are cowards" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1897860010786398652) 2025-03-07T04:01Z 249.4K followers, 313.7K engagements "The great @tylercowen in defence of expertise in @TheFP" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1914552867974996009) 2025-04-22T05:32Z 249.4K followers, 2.1M engagements "To be honest I don't really understand why. Is it because there are now more educated women than men & so there aren't enough eligible matches (according to these women's standards) to go around https://x.com/signulll/status/1936477159369109835 its absolutely remarkable that so many people have a hard time understanding the why behind this. https://t.co/kWqwabN9OJ https://x.com/signulll/status/1936477159369109835 its absolutely remarkable that so many people have a hard time understanding the why behind this. https://t.co/kWqwabN9OJ" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1936572142885421429) 2025-06-21T23:49Z 249.1K followers, 273.5K engagements "Funny how the phrase 'toxic masculinity' is never applied to men working in day care centres - the one context where it probably should" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1940323682095964368) 2025-07-02T08:16Z 249.2K followers, 21.4K engagements "I don't really understand this justification. Even if someone has autogynephilia why does that mean that visceral anger/hatred/bullying is a valid response" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1940537884257468695) 2025-07-02T22:27Z 249K followers, 1.4M engagements "@evolutionarypsy Avene is a great brand (I have sensitive skin)" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1941299236550869328) 2025-07-05T00:53Z 249.2K followers, [---] engagements "Incredibly sad story https://x.com/nypost/status/1950606201852453302 23-year-old who died of cancer after refusing chemo had five coffee enemas a day https://t.co/0vYancxdgl https://t.co/3xuNwvBdtT https://x.com/nypost/status/1950606201852453302 23-year-old who died of cancer after refusing chemo had five coffee enemas a day https://t.co/0vYancxdgl https://t.co/3xuNwvBdtT" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1950719748645539903) 2025-07-31T00:46Z 249K followers, 27.1K engagements "Amazing how many VCs & technologists close to the Trump admin go silent on RFK Jr. killing mRNA research. Power & money is more important than technology & idealism apparently" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1953951479569752436) 2025-08-08T22:48Z 249.2K followers, 64K engagements "Some VCs will fight to the death for your right to stare at TikTok all day but wont lift a finger for mRNA tech that saved millions" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1953952369102008358) 2025-08-08T22:52Z 249.2K followers, 93K engagements "Link via @DegenRolf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585325000711#s0055 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585325000711#s0055" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1954058186249712036) 2025-08-09T05:52Z 249.1K followers, [----] engagements "Whats the correlation between urban density and the total fertility rate Are people having fewer babies now because they have no space The wealthiest and most populous city in China has a fertility rate of [----] (about one-quarter the population replacement rate). The wealthiest and most populous city in China has a fertility rate of [----] (about one-quarter the population replacement rate)" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1956181574762029139) 2025-08-15T02:30Z 249.2K followers, 56.9K engagements "Australia once a convict island now has its own convict islands. Australia will send more than [---] foreign-born criminals including convicted killers to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed off on a multi-milli on-dollar deal. https://t.co/EDudYvogTp Australia will send more than [---] foreign-born criminals including convicted killers to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed off on a multi-milli on-dollar deal. https://t.co/EDudYvogTp" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1961631417936298477) 2025-08-30T03:25Z 248.8K followers, 32.9K engagements "Still can't wrap my head around Florida scrapping polio and measles vaccines for kids attending school. It's like a government shutting down the sewage system on the basis that not having shit in one's drinking water is a matter of personal choice. It's just uncivilised" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1964491681300173230) 2025-09-07T00:51Z 248.5K followers, 207.9K engagements "Florida is not alone. There are other governments that have scrapped polio vaccination requirements as well" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1964498810648072573) 2025-09-07T01:19Z 248.7K followers, 59.9K engagements "Can guarantee you that this truth-telling will not include what the expected lifespan was of people living in pre colonial Australia" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1965304061210804420) 2025-09-09T06:39Z 248.7K followers, 77.4K engagements "University students should be reading the Quran They should be reading all the canonical texts of the world's great religions. This is what education is. https://x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1965169406289609039 Went to the Columbia University bookstorethese are some of the books students are reading this semester. A bookstore employee told me the Qur'an is required reading for all freshman. https://t.co/NBF8eErJYv https://x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1965169406289609039 Went to the Columbia University bookstorethese are some of the books students are reading this semester. A bookstore" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1965541250163245412) 2025-09-09T22:22Z 249.1K followers, 46.9K engagements "I was piled on a while back when I shared that I don't let my [--] yr old son play video games (aside from online chess). But to me your number [--] job as a parent today is to keep your kids off the screens for as long as possible https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1966587367738802459 Tyler Robinson was almost assuredly radicalized online. Everything I'm seeing about him indicates he was terminally online. - [----] 'slav squat' meme - The "OWO what's this" reference on the bullets - Early access to a computer not just a phone - "gifted" kid https://t.co/M04yK4eqgm" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1966753447115436076) 2025-09-13T06:38Z 248.4K followers, 400.8K engagements "On the plane returning home from London I tried to watch three different Paramount+ showsall were unwatchable. Theres so much high-production-value garbage being made right now. Is it more than usual or am I just late in noticing" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1972518390129692857) 2025-09-29T04:26Z 248.6K followers, 85.8K engagements "When the housing bubble eventually bursts our entire financial system including the banks will be at risk of collapse. This intervention is less about first home buyers than it is about preventing this scenario (same goes for immigration policy) Starting tomorrow youll only need a 5% deposit to buy your first home. https://t.co/1RTTBi9Zgl Starting tomorrow youll only need a 5% deposit to buy your first home. https://t.co/1RTTBi9Zgl" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1972962137166487775) 2025-09-30T09:50Z 248.7K followers, 59.1K engagements "@SteveMichaels11 There's lots of speculation in the Australian housing market" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1973506413621289393) 2025-10-01T21:52Z 248.4K followers, [---] engagements "Who names their kid "Jihad" https://x.com/BBCBreaking/status/1973844963147575775 Manchester police say they believe synagogue attacker is Jihad Al-Shamie - a Briton of Syrian descent https://t.co/peD5onxTRH https://x.com/BBCBreaking/status/1973844963147575775 Manchester police say they believe synagogue attacker is Jihad Al-Shamie - a Briton of Syrian descent https://t.co/peD5onxTRH" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973854310300803289) 2025-10-02T20:55Z 250.1K followers, 641.6K engagements "Haussmann cracked the code on what makes a beautiful medium-density city. Why is it then that we can't replicate this all around the world Genuine question. https://x.com/Parisianaes1/status/1975609566072348910 What is preventing you from moving to Paris https://t.co/zjE40VnEXo https://x.com/Parisianaes1/status/1975609566072348910 What is preventing you from moving to Paris https://t.co/zjE40VnEXo" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1975816412036997131) 2025-10-08T06:51Z 248.8K followers, 656.6K engagements ""The starvation story was based on incorrect data and an echo chamber of circular reporting whereby NGOs and media outlets repeated each others alarming allegations without investigating the original data" -- @Mr_Andrew_Fox https://quillette.com/2025/10/09/the-genocide-libel-besa-report-israel-gaza/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/09/the-genocide-libel-besa-report-israel-gaza/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1976138640846885199) 2025-10-09T04:12Z 249K followers, 63.7K engagements "Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world intelligence is not the bottleneck" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1976429879219625992) 2025-10-09T23:29Z 248.5K followers, 236.1K engagements "It has been enabled for a long time though. I was publishing articles about Candace Owens being a malicious hack back in 2018-2020mainstream conservatives didnt care. Ben Shapiro Warns the Conspiratorial Right Is Taking Over Social Media https://t.co/zBdbZPJ3qf Ben Shapiro Warns the Conspiratorial Right Is Taking Over Social Media https://t.co/zBdbZPJ3qf" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1976769036706001025) 2025-10-10T21:57Z 248.4K followers, 93.2K engagements "Credit to @CathyYoung63 https://quillette.com/2018/05/08/problem-candace-owens/ https://quillette.com/2018/05/08/problem-candace-owens/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1976769152577942012) 2025-10-10T21:57Z 248.4K followers, 18.5K engagements "Excellent piece from @AndrewIBushnell on Melbourne's crimewave https://quillette.com/2025/10/11/the-melbourne-crimewave-australia-victoria-youth-gangs/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/11/the-melbourne-crimewave-australia-victoria-youth-gangs/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1976923931652374736) 2025-10-11T08:12Z 248.4K followers, 23.4K engagements "@hollowearthterf If you have kids in your 20s before your collagen drops nothing bad happens. This is me after [--] babies (in my 30s.) Scaring women is only going to make them wait longer which is not ideal from a body-perspective" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1977483197157138825) 2025-10-12T21:15Z 248.4K followers, 18.8K engagements "They've all shifted into pro-Palestinian activism. Wokeness shapeshifts -- it doesn't go away -- but if you measure it on the movements of a few years ago it will look like it has. https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1977295552560742852 Share of young Swedish women and men who view "the environment/climate" and "gender equality/feminism" as one of the five most engaging political questions. Substantial drop since 2017/2019. https://t.co/5X8EAGiHrp https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1977295552560742852 Share of young Swedish women and men who view "the environment/climate" and "gender" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1977486138630934766) 2025-10-12T21:26Z 248.6K followers, 101.6K engagements "I'll be in conversation with Janet Albrechtsen Timothy Lynch and Nick Jensen at tonight at the Mint for the @australian. I hope to see some of you there https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/events/tap-oct-25-october-event https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/events/tap-oct-25-october-event" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1978228924371857557) 2025-10-14T22:38Z 248.4K followers, [----] engagements ""Over the past [--] years the IDF has managed to destroy only some 3050% of Hamass tunnel network. Meanwhile Hamas has recruited thousands of new fighters." Benny Morris writing from Tel Aviv explains why this is an uneasy peace for @Quillette https://quillette.com/2025/10/15/peace-at-last-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-trump/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/15/peace-at-last-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-trump/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1978597323912397112) 2025-10-15T23:02Z 248.4K followers, 11.5K engagements "Wow she is one toxic lady Ana Kasparian: For any Israelis watching this. I want you to understand this okay You are hated internationally.🔥 https://t.co/oPjU8umNuq Ana Kasparian: For any Israelis watching this. I want you to understand this okay You are hated internationally.🔥 https://t.co/oPjU8umNuq" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1978672842364407984) 2025-10-16T04:02Z 248.4K followers, 84.6K engagements "Victimhood culture stems from over-feminisation; honour culture from over-masculinisation. Dignity culture restrains both. I wrote about the "feminization" discourse. In recent years the right has become more masculine taking in bro podcasters and tech bros. Has it gotten more "truth seeking" as a result This entire discourse should be seen as partisan hackery. https://t.co/75FCGdwDWv I wrote about the "feminization" discourse. In recent years the right has become more masculine taking in bro podcasters and tech bros. Has it gotten more "truth seeking" as a result This entire discourse should" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1979300117338595516) 2025-10-17T21:34Z 248.3K followers, 140.9K engagements "Ive looked into this: theres no evidence that she is trans. Her social media history is more indicative of a mental illness / drug use What a huge shock. The Melbourne stabber is trans. Meanwhile they're shutting down Helen Joyce talks. What a huge shock. The Melbourne stabber is trans. Meanwhile they're shutting down Helen Joyce talks" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1979307703756558348) 2025-10-17T22:05Z 248.4K followers, 43.7K engagements "Back to their roots https://x.com/AscendedYield/status/1980000838824140800 Britain is drifting into an inheritocracy where the route from the middle to the top is not work but owning scarce assets early or inheriting them. Mobility slows age and parent balance sheets trump effort and politics hardens around defending scarcity rather than creating https://t.co/agSyRgx3Wi https://x.com/AscendedYield/status/1980000838824140800 Britain is drifting into an inheritocracy where the route from the middle to the top is not work but owning scarce assets early or inheriting them. Mobility slows age and" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1980044647046218121) 2025-10-19T22:53Z 248.5K followers, 21.4K engagements "Adelaide and Brisbane are pleasant cities of course but they should not be more unaffordable than London or San Francisco World's most unaffordable housing markets [--]. Hong Kong [--]. Sydney [--]. San Jose [--]. Vancouver [--]. Los Angeles [--]. Adelaide [--]. Honolulu [--]. San Francisco [--]. Melbourne [--]. San Diego [--]. Brisbane [--]. London [--]. Toronto [--]. Perth [--]. Miami World's most unaffordable housing markets [--]. Hong Kong [--]. Sydney [--]. San Jose [--]. Vancouver [--]. Los Angeles [--]. Adelaide [--]. Honolulu [--]. San Francisco [--]. Melbourne [--]. San Diego [--]. Brisbane [--]. London [--]. Toronto [--]. Perth [--]. Miami" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1980482034197000655) 2025-10-21T03:51Z 248.5K followers, 123.4K engagements "Paul Kelly credits Rudd with the critical minerals deal. Rudd a fluent mandarin speaker has long advocated for supply chain resilience as a hedge against China. The deal is not only good for the US strategicallyit creates a new industry for Australia" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1980724712058827178) 2025-10-21T19:55Z 248.3K followers, [----] engagements "@ColinJSharpe @nathancofnas How do you think the modern world came to exist without financial credit" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1980826681498824879) 2025-10-22T02:40Z 248.4K followers, [----] engagements "What does the Bible say about taking money from the Kremlin to run a clandestine influence operation Usury is a sin the Bible is explicitly clear on this Muslims structure their banking and financial systems specifically to avoid it why can't Christians Usury is a sin the Bible is explicitly clear on this Muslims structure their banking and financial systems specifically to avoid it why can't Christians" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1980829204607561812) 2025-10-22T02:50Z 248.5K followers, 119K engagements "What if theyre innocent" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1981101036489302051) 2025-10-22T20:51Z 248.3K followers, 18.9K engagements "The teenage years for a girl represent peak fecundity but not peak fertility. The body isn't quite ready for childbirth yet (you can see what happens to girls who give birth in their teens in Africa--its not pretty). Fertility peaks in the mid-twenties. https://x.com/tbpn/status/1980737625351938522 "Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're [--] [--] [--]. And be done by the time you're in your 20s." @PalmerLuckey says we should be having kids in our teens 👇 https://t.co/Ik9sw1toce https://x.com/tbpn/status/1980737625351938522 "Let's not be" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1981110843426369686) 2025-10-22T21:30Z 248.5K followers, 138.8K engagements "Have to admit that I do enjoy Grok's influence on this site" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1981180714646458474) 2025-10-23T02:07Z 248.3K followers, 17.3K engagements "A reality check from @UCLA_Eagle" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1981609761599861014) 2025-10-24T06:32Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "Link: https://quillette.com/2025/10/24/the-middle-east-will-not-improve-lebanon-saudi-arabia-egypt-israel/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/24/the-middle-east-will-not-improve-lebanon-saudi-arabia-egypt-israel/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1981609881892438137) 2025-10-24T06:33Z 248.3K followers, [----] engagements "Looks like an AI rip off of @kittypurrzogs book being sold on @AmazonAustralia. Not good. I mean WTF is this https://t.co/2ZHOkOPjmb I mean WTF is this https://t.co/2ZHOkOPjmb" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982575956578750519) 2025-10-26T22:31Z 249.4K followers, 24.1K engagements "@Imresal @kittypurrzog @AmazonAustralia Nope. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/amazons-ai-book-problem-fake-authors-flogging-sloppy-content/news-story/835f2ed38d0be5e8a82c7f9cbc6c2359 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/amazons-ai-book-problem-fake-authors-flogging-sloppy-content/news-story/835f2ed38d0be5e8a82c7f9cbc6c2359" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982577800549962141) 2025-10-26T22:39Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements "@mazemoore https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/ https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982635352532881733) 2025-10-27T02:27Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements "Predators are drawn to child care for the same reason that fishermen are drawn to the place where theres the most fish. @4corners has investigated the rising rate of sex-offending in Australia's childcare industry" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982648089619108294) 2025-10-27T03:18Z 248.7K followers, 28.9K engagements ""Nester does his best to locate a human being beneath the evil. Stalin liked movies & operas.He was an 'avid reader'.But these efforts eventually run aground. Stalin was.'brutal paranoid cruel devious cunning sadistic'" https://quillette.com/2025/10/25/a-self-created-tyrant-joseph-stalin-art-of-tyranny-william-nester-review/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/25/a-self-created-tyrant-joseph-stalin-art-of-tyranny-william-nester-review/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982720890891821090) 2025-10-27T08:07Z 248.6K followers, 16.2K engagements "Dont be daft. Anyone who doesnt like Joy Division / New Order is a Philistine. I like that our PM has decent taste. Australian Prime Minister Albo knowingly wore a Joy Division shirt on disembarking in front of international media. That shirt represents Jewish women held by SS Nazi Soldiers as sex slaves. He asked media to edit it out. Albo is a Nazi Sympathiser https://t.co/ZXMF8mkByQ Australian Prime Minister Albo knowingly wore a Joy Division shirt on disembarking in front of international media. That shirt represents Jewish women held by SS Nazi Soldiers as sex slaves. He asked media to" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982911090343456893) 2025-10-27T20:43Z 248.6K followers, 24.6K engagements "Ive got a piece up at @thedispatch about the medievalism of the online right and the enduring popularity of conspiracy story-telling" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982912274642927746) 2025-10-27T20:48Z 248.6K followers, 36.8K engagements "This @4corners investigation is deeply unsettling. Around 1-5% of the population has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children. Australian childcare is known internationally among pedophile networks. The growth in online CSA material is exponential https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/hunting-ground-four-corners-childcare/105939378 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/hunting-ground-four-corners-childcare/105939378" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1982989179224240635) 2025-10-28T01:53Z 248.6K followers, 13.5K engagements "I just realised that @Meanjin --one of Australia's oldest literary journals-- shut down. According to the deputy editor they weren't shut down because they were insolvent but because they "ran afoul of Zionist lobby groups." Gimme a break https://overland.org.au/2025/09/no-guernicas-no-sacred-places-on-the-closure-of-meanjin/ https://overland.org.au/2025/09/no-guernicas-no-sacred-places-on-the-closure-of-meanjin/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983016298440470855) 2025-10-28T03:41Z 248.6K followers, 12.6K engagements "This is so dumb Sussan Ley has given a speech to parliament (and then issued a transcript in case you missed it) criticising Anthony Albanese for wearing a t-shirt of post-punk band Joy Division Ley has often talked about "punk phase" which led to her adding the extra 'S' to her name https://t.co/u7dKiJ4hTt Sussan Ley has given a speech to parliament (and then issued a transcript in case you missed it) criticising Anthony Albanese for wearing a t-shirt of post-punk band Joy Division Ley has often talked about "punk phase" which led to her adding the extra 'S' to her name" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983047831385674180) 2025-10-28T05:47Z 248.5K followers, 26.9K engagements "Whatever other innovation crypto offers we can now see that its #1 use case is being a vehicle for bribery and corruption" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983283097115447326) 2025-10-28T21:21Z 248.5K followers, 18.9K engagements "@Lisa9Sophia This is retarded" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983299870753730984) 2025-10-28T22:28Z 248.5K followers, 17.8K engagements "@john_macgowan @Lisa9Sophia fun read. I definitely could not go to the Anne Frank museum on mushrooms 🥴" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983385042236911933) 2025-10-29T04:06Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements ""By the 2020s the memory and impact of the Holocaust had faded.old-style Muslim antisemitism now washed across Europe persuading ignorant Europeans that their fathers antisemitism had actually been legitimate." https://quillette.com/2025/10/28/a-perfect-storm-israel-gaza-palestine/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/28/a-perfect-storm-israel-gaza-palestine/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983394549830664411) 2025-10-29T04:44Z 248.6K followers, 35.8K engagements "Damn I hope no-one bought a house with a 5% deposit 😬" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983428146566443218) 2025-10-29T06:58Z 248.6K followers, 79K engagements "Between Mamdanis rise in the Democratic Party and the most popular news podcaster in the country normalising Nazism I would be a tad nervous to be Jewish in America (not that its much better anywhere else.)" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983637209883537534) 2025-10-29T20:48Z 248.6K followers, 515.3K engagements "@S___Elliott Tucker" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1983649946952986726) 2025-10-29T21:39Z 248.6K followers, 22.3K engagements "Iranian official: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. https://t.co/volRTXw58l Iranian official: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. https://t.co/volRTXw58l" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984013236593963348) 2025-10-30T21:43Z 248.6K followers, 136.1K engagements "Amazed to see Australia coming in at number #3 considering our punitive income tax https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1984139885511667944 In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy. https://t.co/l8uBLJMfck https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1984139885511667944 In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy." [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984416880577429960) 2025-11-01T00:27Z 248.6K followers, 22.4K engagements "It can be hard to get a piece published on Qatari influence in the US because so many media orgs and think tanks have partnerships with the Gulf state. New long read in @Quillette" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984731997751951675) 2025-11-01T21:19Z 248.7K followers, 245.9K engagements "Its hard in DC everyone has interests with the Qataris" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984732565107040625) 2025-11-01T21:21Z 248.6K followers, 20K engagements "Ten billion dollars a quarter. 🫠https://x.com/sethharpesq/status/1984650050421543090 The biggest capital outlay ever for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island. https://t.co/pc4mUzOZcy https://x.com/sethharpesq/status/1984650050421543090 The biggest capital outlay ever for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984743918119108946) 2025-11-01T22:06Z 248.6K followers, 29.6K engagements "@RichardHanania @Quillette Yes people complain because they fund Hamas" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1984804634264035805) 2025-11-02T02:07Z 248.6K followers, 19K engagements "Indeed. But it comes with $38 Trillion dollars worth of national debt. (That's [--] Trillion in AUD -- 58x our own national debt) https://x.com/nonestlex/status/1984903063124181304 The Australian mind cannot comprehend a top tax bracket of US$626351 (which is over $900k AUD btw) https://t.co/T15zmBSKvg https://x.com/nonestlex/status/1984903063124181304 The Australian mind cannot comprehend a top tax bracket of US$626351 (which is over $900k AUD btw) https://t.co/T15zmBSKvg" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985091903109640195) 2025-11-02T21:09Z 248.6K followers, 29.6K engagements "Temporal justice Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health. In The Lancet Healthy Longevity authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: https://t.co/S3AVviAnZY https://t.co/MU1u65qrn5 Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health. In The Lancet Healthy Longevity authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: https://t.co/S3AVviAnZY" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985152877984350362) 2025-11-03T01:11Z 248.6K followers, 19.9K engagements "WEIRD cultures are guilt cultures. https://x.com/whyvert/status/1985180550026657978 One of the best pieces of research looked a which nations' UN diplomats in NYC used diplomatic immunity to violate parking laws with impunity. UK Canada Australia Denmark Netherlands did not. Other nations' elites not so prosocial or trustworthy. The chief malefactors: https://t.co/9HZeO8Co2Z https://x.com/whyvert/status/1985180550026657978 One of the best pieces of research looked a which nations' UN diplomats in NYC used diplomatic immunity to violate parking laws with impunity. UK Canada Australia Denmark" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985190290916036827) 2025-11-03T03:40Z 248.6K followers, 97.5K engagements ""There is always a market for the circus but Mr. Carlson has become one of the freaks." https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-maga-rights-antisemitism-problem-ddbc39cbmod=hp_opin_pos_2 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-maga-rights-antisemitism-problem-ddbc39cbmod=hp_opin_pos_2" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985206382489178602) 2025-11-03T04:44Z 248.6K followers, 69K engagements "Goebbels famously reflected that the Nazis would never have come to power in Germany if it were not for the radio perhaps in the future theyll make the same claim about social media. JD Vances close friend warns that 40% of GOP staffers under the age of [--] are Groypers. https://t.co/b7U5ZlyHBv JD Vances close friend warns that 40% of GOP staffers under the age of [--] are Groypers. https://t.co/b7U5ZlyHBv" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985596391893458964) 2025-11-04T06:34Z 248.8K followers, 47.9K engagements "Reminder that Teen Vogue is considered a reliable source on @Wikipedia while @Quillette is not" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985823260077158580) 2025-11-04T21:35Z 248.8K followers, 165.1K engagements "The Fuentes photo has clearly been edited post-production. His skin has been smoothed and jawline softened (very easy to do). But I have no idea *why* they would do this. Want to understand how media bias really works All of these photos were taken by the same @nytimes photographer. https://t.co/ep5MzcA8E4 Want to understand how media bias really works All of these photos were taken by the same @nytimes photographer. https://t.co/ep5MzcA8E4" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985825696145686964) 2025-11-04T21:45Z 248.6K followers, 180.4K engagements "Thankfully 21st Century economists were not in the room when they were deciding to build the Notre Dame https://x.com/db_econ/status/1985909091118825562 https://x.com/db_econ/status/1985909091118825562" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985954712248783313) 2025-11-05T06:17Z 248.6K followers, 35K engagements "@captgouda24 It's called the theory of evolution" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985968828761981311) 2025-11-05T07:14Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements ""While Carlson supported the Iraq War in [----] the Israeli government most certainly did not.They repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster." https://quillette.com/2025/11/05/despite-israel-not-because-of-it-iraq-war-bush-sharon-saddam-hussein/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/05/despite-israel-not-because-of-it-iraq-war-bush-sharon-saddam-hussein/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1985982458744173023) 2025-11-05T08:08Z 248.8K followers, 53.3K engagements "Yes. 3-storey townhouses and apartments should be permitted on all residential land in all capital cities to help fix Australias housing crisis. Building more homes will create cheaper housing and more productive cities. Our new report shows how. https://t.co/KMX1aFfh8c #auspol https://t.co/sbTGibkcmx 3-storey townhouses and apartments should be permitted on all residential land in all capital cities to help fix Australias housing crisis. Building more homes will create cheaper housing and more productive cities. Our new report shows how. https://t.co/KMX1aFfh8c #auspol https://t.co/sbTGibkcmx" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1986197276205982169) 2025-11-05T22:21Z 248.6K followers, 23.1K engagements "Aiming for net zero locally while shipping iron ore to China is like trying to sweep smoke to one side of a room. If we want to get real on the climate we need more focus on carbon capture reforestation nuclear & less focus on unrealistic slogans" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1986549613617422585) 2025-11-06T21:41Z 248.8K followers, 32.8K engagements ""Major news organisations such as Reuters and CNN have systematically obscured the cycle by which Hamas funds itself through stolen aid exerts violent control over Gaza and manipulates the global media into broadcasting its narratives." https://quillette.com/2025/11/07/starving-for-headlines-gaza-media-hamas/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/07/starving-for-headlines-gaza-media-hamas/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1986607131119001657) 2025-11-07T01:30Z 248.5K followers, 23.7K engagements "@JasonClareMP They should be learning trades not going into debt for useless degrees made obsolete by AI" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1986937355782267149) 2025-11-07T23:22Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements "We need kids to go into trades to become entrepreneurs and to build things. This desire to push everyone into higher education is madness. More Australians will start a uni degree next year than ever before. [--] in [--] young Australians have a uni degree but not everywhere. Not in Western Sydney. The reforms we are rolling out are about fixing that. That includes setting up University Study Hubs in Mt Druitt https://t.co/OGq1FCFHWZ More Australians will start a uni degree next year than ever before. [--] in [--] young Australians have a uni degree but not everywhere. Not in Western Sydney. The reforms" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1986937685131555044) 2025-11-07T23:23Z 248.7K followers, 93.5K engagements "I was struggling to understand why this would be promoted as a good thingbut then remembered that the average person may not understand compound interest. 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize [--] YEAR MORTGAGES to make it easier for young people to buy a home via lower monthly payments He cites FDR as when the 30-year mortgage started to spread nationwide 👀 https://t.co/4BD6ngnhdb 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize [--] YEAR MORTGAGES to make it easier for young people to buy a home via lower monthly payments He" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987297328601178370) 2025-11-08T23:12Z 248.7K followers, 69.7K engagements "Read about what happened in Japan and then reflect on where Australia might be in the cycle This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road solution and we've seen it before in Japan and it was CRAZY. In the 80s real estate prices in Tokyo were high so they started offering 50-year mortgages to make things "more affordable." if you stretch the loan the monthly payment looks This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road solution and we've seen it before in Japan and it was CRAZY. In the 80s real estate prices in Tokyo were high so they started offering 50-year mortgages to make things "more affordable." if you" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987368622994718852) 2025-11-09T03:56Z 248.7K followers, 67.6K engagements "@taipan168 The Full Levelised Cost of Electricity (F-LCOE) looks different. Once firming the grid + other system costs are included in the levelised cost renewables become much more expensive (hence rising power prices)" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987644579726987519) 2025-11-09T22:12Z 248.7K followers, 11K engagements "It's interesting that out of Palantir co-founders Peter Thiel - the old-school libertarian - appears more sympathetic to Gen Z economic woes than Alex Karp - who in [----] described himself as a socialist. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1987505703397769666s=20 The average Ivy League grad voting for Mamdani is annoyed their education is not that valuable and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession.I think that annoys the fuck out of these people" Palantir $PLTR CEO has said. https://t.co/STEVaM8zeO" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987652816740155787) 2025-11-09T22:45Z 248.7K followers, 43.2K engagements "@taipan168 Is that screenshot from GenCost" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987673379223269736) 2025-11-10T00:07Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements "The housing market is eating the real economy" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1987818160486297829) 2025-11-10T09:42Z 249K followers, 57.4K engagements "I wrote about this back in August--in a piece about Mamdani heralding the next generation of wokeness https://x.com/OddStockTrader/status/1987986524743627139s=20 Poor and middle class seeing how the RICH live on a daily basis via Instagram really COOKED our entire society man https://x.com/OddStockTrader/status/1987986524743627139s=20 Poor and middle class seeing how the RICH live on a daily basis via Instagram really COOKED our entire society man" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988088297634361748) 2025-11-11T03:36Z 248.8K followers, 25.8K engagements ""A gambling addict who sits in front of a slot machine until the small hours of the morning and forgets the passage of time is experiencing neither loneliness nor the active desire to be around other people.he forgets other people exist to be missed." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988362522177794453) 2025-11-11T21:45Z 248.8K followers, 10.1K engagements "Soul Man https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1988262194039939195s=20 The future Pope Leo in [----] https://t.co/QRrSGTiT9o https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1988262194039939195s=20 The future Pope Leo in [----] https://t.co/QRrSGTiT9o" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988388413343769013) 2025-11-11T23:28Z 248.8K followers, 12.8K engagements "Social contagions tend to happen among friendship groups & social media just makes these contagions more acute. Groyperism is the boy version of teen girls developing rapid onset gender dysphoria - it first happens among friends https://x.com/roddreher/status/1988326516946842104s=20 Strong disagree. [--] [--] years of illiberal wokeness in power plus mass migration plus sexual radicalization plus widespread institutional failures plus an economy that shuts out Zoomers plus the socially disintegrating effects of the Internet -- all had more to do with it." [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988411161306652955) 2025-11-12T00:58Z 248.7K followers, 157.6K engagements "@peterrhague You just repeat what she said back to her but using different words" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988727312595186170) 2025-11-12T21:55Z 248.8K followers, [----] engagements ""It is a view rooted in his democratic-socialist belief that wealth beyond a certain threshold is inherently exploitative. But this sentiment alone wont generate any revenue." - @aziz0nomics https://quillette.com/2025/11/12/the-limits-of-american-progressivism-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/12/the-limits-of-american-progressivism-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor/" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988756178349003217) 2025-11-12T23:49Z 248.7K followers, 13.5K engagements "Discretionary consumer goods are far cheaper than in our parents era while essentials--housing energy education health--are far costlier. When people cant afford the basics they buy what they can. https://x.com/4nt1p4tt3rn/status/1988255681225412933s=20 You want a house Cool cool. When are you gonna give up your $1500 smartphone that you buy the new version of every year or so When are you cancelling all your subscription services When are you giving up Uber and UberEats When are you going to stop buying a $7 https://x.com/4nt1p4tt3rn/status/1988255681225412933s=20 You want a house Cool cool." [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988778722900812279) 2025-11-13T01:19Z 248.7K followers, 31.6K engagements "@4nt1p4tt3rn No-one lives like this" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988778788113772580) 2025-11-13T01:19Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements "Checks out https://x.com/sentientist/status/1988721797756301502s=20 An analysis of Hitler's genome reveals he had Kallmann syndrome a disorder that can prevent sexual development and causes low testosterone. He also had a top 1% polygenic score for schizophrenia autism and bipolar. Hitler had no Jewish ancestry. https://t.co/vJX5FrjRPT https://x.com/sentientist/status/1988721797756301502s=20 An analysis of Hitler's genome reveals he had Kallmann syndrome a disorder that can prevent sexual development and causes low testosterone. He also had a top 1% polygenic score for schizophrenia autism" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988780273904001075) 2025-11-13T01:25Z 248.8K followers, 51.6K engagements "Americans complaining that their houses cost 5x the median salary" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988851851920314741) 2025-11-13T06:10Z 248.7K followers, 24.6K engagements "(Ours cost well over 10x a median salary in Sydney its 17x)" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988852295946096895) 2025-11-13T06:11Z 248.8K followers, 20.9K engagements "@PanirL17903 Would play a role for sure" [X Link](https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1988856797948445148) 2025-11-13T06:29Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@clairlemon Claire LehmannClaire Lehmann posts on X about australia, sydney, china, countries the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence countries finance technology brands travel destinations social networks celebrities us election stocks automotive brands currencies
Social topic influence australia, sydney, china, countries, israel, rfk, money, hamas, in the #6595, if you #4245
Top assets mentioned Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"You should write an academic paper on your theory you might get some citations https://x.com/matthewasears/status/1016039363547783168s=21 https://x.com/matthewasears/status/1016039363547783168s=21"
X Link 2018-07-09T00:24Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Gay_Alcorn Handle is different from identify"
X Link 2018-09-07T00:42Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@Gay_Alcorn Am not denying that the issue is complicated & I can't see how you would take that reading from what I wrote"
X Link 2018-09-07T00:50Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Too many women have been persuaded to sacrifice their fertile years in order to make profits for disinterested others https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html"
X Link 2018-11-29T20:08Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Woke Pam https://x.com/pamfoundation/status/1069559265713668096s=21 I despise violence.but what is the violence of all these people and burned luxurious cars compared to the structural violence of the French -and global - elites https://x.com/pamfoundation/status/1069559265713668096s=21 I despise violence.but what is the violence of all these people and burned luxurious cars compared to the structural violence of the French -and global - elites"
X Link 2018-12-03T20:11Z 249.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Switch on ABC news & some ex-politician is arguing that to stop psychopaths from raping & murdering strangers we need more programs in schools about respectful relationships & toxic masculinity. Am struggling to comprehend how stupidity can reach such depths"
X Link 2019-01-19T21:50Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements
"When are marketing companies going to start doing false flag outrages.i.e. get on Twitter & pretend to cause a rucus just so their brand gets free press coverage for zero spend Or is this already https://x.com/australian/status/1093639529502789637 https://x.com/australian/status/1093639529502789637"
X Link 2019-02-07T22:49Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I read this book review and it honestly felt like I'd been transported to another planet. The world which it describes is simply unrecognisable. https://unherd.com/2019/03/the-inescapable-misogyny-of-the-modern-world/=sideshare https://unherd.com/2019/03/the-inescapable-misogyny-of-the-modern-world/=sideshare"
X Link 2019-03-11T08:48Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Just read the multiple threads written by academics about how dangerous Quillette is over the past few days. Theyre really scared that theyre no longer the gatekeepers arent they"
X Link 2019-03-21T07:14Z 250.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I want to write a book about why so many books that are written & published shouldn't have been written or published https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/books/naomi-wolf-outrages-errors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/books/naomi-wolf-outrages-errors.html"
X Link 2019-06-15T22:40Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Wtf kind of fact checking is this Andy Ngo is indeed an editor with us he is a journalist. And no @Quillette is not conservative we are all political moderates of a liberal centrist persuasion https://x.com/snopes/status/1145394834926166018s=21 Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) who describes himself as an editor at the conservative website @Quillette and says he is hated by antifa said he was attacked by anti-fascist protesters and had to be taken to the hospital to treat injuries to his face and head. https://t.co/AEj0YhDo0y https://x.com/snopes/status/1145394834926166018s=21 Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) who"
X Link 2019-06-30T21:11Z 250.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Try doing it with accused and witchcraft https://x.com/juliacarriew/status/1190669830954766338s=21 A fun exercise in reading this article is to replace the verb forms of cancel with criticize and the adjectival forms of cancelled with bigoted and see where you end up https://t.co/mASs1cUeyQ https://x.com/juliacarriew/status/1190669830954766338s=21 A fun exercise in reading this article is to replace the verb forms of cancel with criticize and the adjectival forms of cancelled with bigoted and see where you end up https://t.co/mASs1cUeyQ"
X Link 2019-11-03T00:28Z 248.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Like something out of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel 🦕 Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era https://t.co/9maPvLdRqe https://t.co/Et6RA9DI1Q Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era https://t.co/9maPvLdRqe https://t.co/Et6RA9DI1Q"
X Link 2020-01-11T04:29Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Medium took down the post Evidence over HysteriaCOVID-19 and Twitter flagged the link as unsafe presumably for misinformation. But what I want to know is why so many US conservatives want to believe it I thought conservatives had greater sensitivity to pathogens"
X Link 2020-03-22T06:09Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Definitely number #6 https://x.com/lithub/status/1247582133301981185s=20 https://t.co/mB9S3owgvH https://x.com/lithub/status/1247582133301981185s=20 https://t.co/mB9S3owgvH"
X Link 2020-04-08T03:18Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I've got no problem at all with Vox asking for financial contributions from readers--that's what we do at Quillette & have done so for years now. But what on earth did they spend $US300M of investment on Manhattan real estate Cocktail and uber bills Executive salaries🤷"
X Link 2020-04-10T00:27Z 249.4K followers, [----] engagements
"You get rid of unfair privileges in society by looking DEEPER. Looking at a person's character & behaviour not their clothes or their post-code or god-forbid their skin colour. Giving people the benefit of the doubt. Forgiving"
X Link 2020-07-08T01:06Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Money (or lack of it) is not always the problem "having worked as a doctor in some of the poorest countries.I have little hesitation in saying that the mental cultural emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass is the greatest of any large group of people I have encountered" https://t.co/hZyeZO5q8q https://t.co/AVu8D28k1q "having worked as a doctor in some of the poorest countries.I have little hesitation in saying that the mental cultural emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass is the greatest of any large group of people I have encountered""
X Link 2020-08-19T07:39Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The New York Times is enlisting former Buzzfeed hacks to write hit-pieces on respected American journalists now"
X Link 2020-08-31T21:14Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@j4mi3p Probably the most played are Blood on the Tracks Hard Rain (live album) and Time out of Mind"
X Link 2020-12-20T06:36Z 249.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Can someone who understands money explain this to me: - the USD was backed by gold then oil then economic growth; - If there is no growth & the US government keeps printing. - what prevents hyperinflation"
X Link 2021-01-26T23:18Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If you have to be hospitalised in the ICU for Covid the average stay is [--] days. An ICU bed in Australia costs $4375 per day so an [--] day stay costs taxpayers $35000. Compare that cost to that of an AstraZeneca jab which is $3"
X Link 2021-08-01T02:10Z 249K followers, [----] engagements
""American Express which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islams founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil." 🤣🤡 https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist/ https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist/"
X Link 2021-08-12T00:53Z 249.1K followers, [---] engagements
"I've waited since yesterday for @simonahac to explain what he thinks the errors are. If any genuine errors are found I'll apologise & correct the record. But lobbing these these accusations--without substantiation--is unethical & bordering on harassment. https://x.com/simonahac/status/1688040809289879552s=20 🤦♂ another hot mess of an energy piece from @clairlemon. so many errors. would be great if claire consulted with actual energy experts before misrepresenting @CSIROs GenCost & @AEMO_Energys ISP. and if the @australian fact checked opinion pieces masquerading as exposes."
X Link 2023-08-06T22:54Z 248.5K followers, 190.2K engagements
"@Bowenchris"
X Link 2023-08-26T00:26Z 248.5K followers, 12.3K engagements
"@ShepJoel @Meta @Quillette Seriously Unbelievable"
X Link 2023-11-11T05:12Z 249.1K followers, [---] engagements
"What happens if the plagiarism probe finds that rates of duplicative language are not equally distributed among student/faculty groups 🤔"
X Link 2024-01-07T03:29Z 249.2K followers, 189.5K engagements
""It is worth examining the South African application in order to understand how poorly it is constructed as a matter of law and how deceptive it is as propaganda" writes Holocaust historian Norman J.W Goda for @Quillette https://quillette.com/2024/01/17/lawfare-at-the-hague/ https://quillette.com/2024/01/17/lawfare-at-the-hague/"
X Link 2024-01-17T05:44Z 249.1K followers, 17.4K engagements
"In universities across the world humanities departments have over time come to reject the notion that there is such a thing as objective truth. This nihilistic outlook was originally promoted by a small group of academics in the mid-20th century but is now the dominant philosophy in a range of disciplines from literary criticism to gender and cultural studies. And while the doctrine has quietly swallowed the humanities many thought it would never infiltrate the hard sciences. If one is engineering a bridge for example it would be reckless to reject the objective truth of gravity. If one is"
X Link 2024-04-21T22:55Z 249.4K followers, 441.5K engagements
"@DrewPavlou Personality disorder"
X Link 2024-07-22T00:22Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@eyeslasho Yes but once you reach a certain threshold (e.g. one or two standard deviations above the mean) personality traits do make a huge difference. The problem is not articulating where or what that threshold is"
X Link 2024-08-24T00:15Z 248.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@humpheryjenner Hi Mark would you be interested in writing an article about this for an international audience at @quillette"
X Link 2024-09-16T02:14Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I am skeptical that natural birth and breastfeeding are actively bad https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1843673299508940891 Here's the rule of thumb with pregnancy and babies: Everything "natural" (e.g. natural birth home birth breastfeeding) is overrated or actively bad; everything that people generally look down upon (e.g. C-sections formula feeding screen time) is fine or actively good. https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1843673299508940891 Here's the rule of thumb with pregnancy and babies: Everything "natural" (e.g. natural birth home birth breastfeeding) is overrated or actively bad;"
X Link 2024-10-08T22:50Z 248.6K followers, 22.9K engagements
"@TomChivers If he didn't want people to make such an inference he could have included the possibility that natural practices can be actively good &/or beneficial as well. This shouldn't be too difficult for a science journalist"
X Link 2024-10-09T07:33Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Sydneys median house price (1.65M AUD/1.1M USD) is 42% higher than the most expensive state in the US. The median house price in California is $776K. This is the main reason I left California and moved to Tennessee in [----]. Best decision ever. https://t.co/85uUYCsJB9 The median house price in California is $776K. This is the main reason I left California and moved to Tennessee in [----]. Best decision ever. https://t.co/85uUYCsJB9"
X Link 2024-11-21T05:25Z 248.7K followers, 246.6K engagements
"RFK Jr wants to run an experiment where people who havent been vaccinated are compared with people who have. People who lived in the past never got vaccinated So we can check out how long they lived & compare it to life expectancy today. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy"
X Link 2024-11-23T21:58Z 248.5K followers, 257.2K engagements
"Even smart people have no idea what life expectancy used to be before vaccination was invented and how much human life was just one Sisyphean battle against infectious disease. Were so comfortable now weve collectively erased it from our memory"
X Link 2024-11-23T22:07Z 248.5K followers, 196.9K engagements
"@DrZhana Yes I understand confounding variables. But when measles deaths plummet immediately after vaccine introduction - in different countries at different times controlling for other factors - that's pretty compelling evidence. Science isn't just about perfectly controlled trials"
X Link 2024-11-24T01:15Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@DrZhana My post was satirising RFK Jr's call for vax/unvax experiments. He says we need to run controlled trials comparing vaxxed vs unvaxxed kids. I was pointing out the absurdity - we've already seen what a world without vaccines looks like. Perhaps you need to take a class in satire"
X Link 2024-11-24T01:31Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I fully support ongoing research into vaccine safety - just not experiments that deliberately leave children unprotected. We have ethical ways to study new vaccines: clinical trials surveillance systems large cohort studies. But suggesting we create an unvaccinated control group is dangerous"
X Link 2024-11-24T02:14Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@DrZhana RFK Jr's quote "show me a vaccinated population & an unvaccinated population & show me that the vaccinated population is healthier" was about the complete vaccine schedule not individual vaccines. https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859648556933529797 https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859648556933529797"
X Link 2024-11-24T02:51Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Anyone can commit suicide if they want to. Terminally ill people receive palliative care which makes the end less painful. The so-called "right to die" is simply euphemism for training doctors to kill people. https://x.com/polanskydj/status/1862650107780297146 When there was only one set of slippers it was then that The Economist carried you https://t.co/ocQV34iPxu https://x.com/polanskydj/status/1862650107780297146 When there was only one set of slippers it was then that The Economist carried you https://t.co/ocQV34iPxu"
X Link 2024-11-30T00:21Z 248.5K followers, 187.5K engagements
"You can find all the interesting people to follow on the other site from the block lists. Super convenient"
X Link 2024-12-02T02:21Z 248.7K followers, 53.3K engagements
""No matter how deranged Kennedys various pronouncements about human health & welfare may be @VPrasadMDMPH & his editors are unwilling to countenance the idea that he is worse than the @nytimes or the other elites they hold in contempt" TL;DR: He's worse https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/sanitising-a-paranoid-crank-rfk-trump-hhs/ https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/sanitising-a-paranoid-crank-rfk-trump-hhs/"
X Link 2024-12-04T00:01Z 248.5K followers, 22.3K engagements
"@DrZhana @VPrasadMDMPH @nytimes 🥱"
X Link 2024-12-04T00:55Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] average life expectancy was [--] (in US) [--] (in AU) & people died from infections/accidents. Today we live to our 80s which is long enough to develop arthritis/diabetes/heart disease. Rising chronic illness isn't a public health failure. It's a side effect of longevity"
X Link 2024-12-04T05:05Z 248.5K followers, 115.3K engagements
"People like this have never run a company & it shows. When it comes to specialised work you do with your brain 99% of a population wont be able do it. Salary is irrelevant"
X Link 2024-12-26T00:20Z 250.1K followers, 677.5K engagements
"We must acknowledge three uncomfortable truths. Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive politically unpopular measures. Such measures include burying power lines despite the cost restricting development in fire-prone areas despite property rights concerns and regular controlled burns despite air quality complaints . Just as in Australia fire belongs in Californias landscape. What doesnt belong is a refusal to adapt. The devastation in Los Angeles shows the cost of this refusal: lives have been lost"
X Link 2025-01-12T10:15Z 248.5K followers, 184.9K engagements
"Tucker implies that Western Civilisation stopped after WWII. "Where is it" he asks shaking his head. Well here are some achievements of Western Civ since 1945: Penicillin (1945) TV (1946-50) Transistor radio (1947) Discovery of DNA structure (1953) Elvis Presley (1954-57) Motown Records founded (1959) The Beatles (1962-70) Bob Dylan (1962-present) Satellites (1962) William Eggleston photography (1965) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick (1968) Moon landing (1969) The Godfather - Coppola (1972) Sydney Opera House - Jrn Utzon (1973) PCs (1975) MRI (1977) GPS (1978) Internet protocols (1983) World"
X Link 2025-02-01T05:06Z 242.8K followers, 266.7K engagements
"Manufacturing depth matters more than GDP in real conflicts & China has far more depth + 4x population. Ukraine shows numbers still matter in war. Americans are delusional about US power being permanent. "Bullying" allies while China uses soft power to make friends = acceleration of decline"
X Link 2025-02-04T02:25Z 243.2K followers, 211.6K engagements
"Schizophrenia is a shockingly debilitative illness any uptick in rates is an absolute disaster. https://x.com/NTFabiano/status/1887116529466065370 Since legalization new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled. 🧵1/9 https://t.co/cUqx7WlCLG https://x.com/NTFabiano/status/1887116529466065370 Since legalization new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled. 🧵1/9 https://t.co/cUqx7WlCLG"
X Link 2025-02-05T21:51Z 248.5K followers, 46.1K engagements
"Built [--] new internal systems for my team this week (leave requests/customer support) using code generated by Claude. Took me [--] day in total & saved us $5-10K in consultant costs. If an english/psychology grad like me can use code to build stuff any wordcel can"
X Link 2025-02-07T20:54Z 242.9K followers, 60.3K engagements
"How do people get through life with this kind of attitude"
X Link 2025-02-08T02:41Z 242.9K followers, 96.1K engagements
"I got into the 42nd (Shrek) percentile 🫤 (according to this survey) https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1888061426637619396 What's your sexual market value After months of work I have a comprehensive survey based on a ton of data from how people ranked nearly every conceivable trait. So: How hot a commodity are you in the dating arena I'd love to see your scores Link below https://t.co/1Ak5vIF2nu https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1888061426637619396 What's your sexual market value After months of work I have a comprehensive survey based on a ton of data from how people ranked nearly every"
X Link 2025-02-08T06:08Z 243.3K followers, 41.2K engagements
"It's amazing how fast this is all happening. Suggests that these policies were less about ideology than we thought and were just about going along with the crowd. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1888705792443904264 NYT reports that Trumps executive orders on diversity have swept through scientific institutions. The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine is an independent 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1888705792443904264 NYT reports that Trumps executive orders on diversity"
X Link 2025-02-09T22:11Z 242.9K followers, 126K engagements
"I run home through a leafy Sydney suburb after dropping my daughter at school in the morning. The only advertising I see is for Chinese property platforms (Juwai Fang). Now houses have "COMING SOON" signs out the front as if they're about to premiere. Something's not right"
X Link 2025-02-11T22:50Z 247.9K followers, 72.8K engagements
"So this doctor & nurse will presumably be fired & banned from practicing ever again but the NSW Health Minister @ChrisMinnsMP & @AlboMP are going to have to front up & explain to Australians what the hell is going on. Nuclear level scandal. https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1889426549079994403 🚨SHOCKING: Chilling footage has emerged of a NSW Health doctor and his nurse claiming to have killed Israeli patients Please spread this video to help identify the racist perpetrators https://t.co/RZmlTI5Y6x https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1889426549079994403 🚨SHOCKING: Chilling footage has emerged of a"
X Link 2025-02-11T23:35Z 243.4K followers, 241.5K engagements
"@ArtemisConsort What the fuck"
X Link 2025-02-12T22:31Z 242.9K followers, 12.9K engagements
"A city of [--] million is brought to a standstill once again (0% of trains are on time) after months of prolonged strike action and why They want $200K a [--] hr work week & a $5k bonus for every train driver. On what planet is this not criminal Lets fuck the network up awful awful stuff @unionsnsw https://t.co/5iuNUrvsHX Lets fuck the network up awful awful stuff @unionsnsw https://t.co/5iuNUrvsHX"
X Link 2025-02-14T03:20Z 249K followers, 34.7K engagements
"For every alpha male with a harem theres about [--] males (or more) who miss out on a mate altogether. Polygyny is frowned upon by conservatives because it destabilises societies the right at nauseam: procreate make babies become a mom save civilization woman decides to use objectively the best sperm available on the planet to get pregnant and have a baby the right: NO NOT LIKE THAT the right at nauseam: procreate make babies become a mom save civilization woman decides to use objectively the best sperm available on the planet to get pregnant and have a baby the right: NO NOT LIKE THAT"
X Link 2025-02-15T03:44Z 250.1K followers, 573.4K engagements
"David Geary: Girls and women typically do better on whats called episodic memorymemory for personal experiencesverbal memory short-term and long-term memory. If you give them a list of words to remember and ask them to recall it a few minutes later they perform better. Or if you ask how quickly they can generate names of plants girls and women generally do better in those areas. Boys and men generally do better in visual-spatial tasks like navigating from one place to another or generating and manipulating visual images. Whats really interesting is that these differences are smaller in"
X Link 2025-02-15T08:25Z 243.3K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Steve Jobs denied paternity of his daughter even after a paternity test showed he was the father. Some men who do great things can also be amoral & cruel. The Elon/Ashley thing is actually pretty sad. Not ideal having to get in touch with your childs father via tweet as hes trolling you to his hundreds of millions of followers. Would be better if he cared less about being the main character & more about being a dad I guess. The Elon/Ashley thing is actually pretty sad. Not ideal having to get in touch with your childs father via tweet as hes trolling you to his hundreds of millions of"
X Link 2025-02-16T01:08Z 243.4K followers, 124K engagements
"The Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War captures the trauma of the 60s better than any other cultural artefact in my opinion. On the one hand you had kids waving Viet Cong flags on the other you had kids coming home in body bags. People say "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well no. It has seemed comparatively crazier before. Imagine that you are an American parent in [----]. You are a veteran of WW2. Your wife has never worked. You're the average American family. Now fast forward five People say "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well no. It has seemed"
X Link 2025-02-16T21:02Z 243.3K followers, 48K engagements
"German thoroughness Frank Michael Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about [---] hate speech cases in Germany over the past four years. https://t.co/XG1T319q60 Frank Michael Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about [---] hate speech cases in Germany over the past four years. https://t.co/XG1T319q60"
X Link 2025-02-17T20:12Z 243.4K followers, 16K engagements
"Went to ARC last year. The organisers mean well. But I was surprised that there were no talks on housing & urban planning & nothing on tech or scientific progress. If conservatives want to recruit young people they need to engage with these issues (rather than whatever this is) At the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference conservative thought-leader Oliver Anthony delivers a rallying cry to world leaders about the dangers of the technological society https://t.co/VL0ZlUytPb At the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference conservative thought-leader Oliver Anthony delivers a"
X Link 2025-02-19T07:11Z 243.4K followers, 20.4K engagements
"This is so embarrassing This is the only party with the resources connections and know-how to win seats and effect change at the next Federal election. I fully support the Trumpet of Patriots and will be working closely with their candidates. https://t.co/tXJ6EgVvSv This is the only party with the resources connections and know-how to win seats and effect change at the next Federal election. I fully support the Trumpet of Patriots and will be working closely with their candidates. https://t.co/tXJ6EgVvSv"
X Link 2025-02-19T07:47Z 243.4K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Even if you are committed to ending the war through negotiation with Putin that doesnt necessitate parroting propaganda which casts Zelenskyy as aggressor"
X Link 2025-02-19T19:16Z 243.6K followers, 83.2K engagements
"Relationships heal people https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1892326601326547037 Adam Sandler denazified Kanye https://t.co/InEbARn5g1 https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1892326601326547037 Adam Sandler denazified Kanye https://t.co/InEbARn5g1"
X Link 2025-02-20T00:49Z 243.3K followers, 17.9K engagements
""hes spent years talking about how it wouldnt have happened on his watch and can settle it in a day and now basically hes decided the best way to do that is to make Ukraine the warmonger in his own head." https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/what-did-trump-just-say-about-ukraine-what/ https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/what-did-trump-just-say-about-ukraine-what/"
X Link 2025-02-20T02:15Z 243.7K followers, 28.8K engagements
"A cultural backlash to the Woke Left propelled Trump's [----] win. Will the inevitable backlash to the MAGA Right bring left-wing economic populists to power I won't be surprised if it does. https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1892158386600382478 If you haven't seen it yet here is the full video that Bernie Sanders shared on TikTok that got almost [--] million views: https://t.co/tq7Tti1Epi https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1892158386600382478 If you haven't seen it yet here is the full video that Bernie Sanders shared on TikTok that got almost [--] million views: https://t.co/tq7Tti1Epi"
X Link 2025-02-20T05:35Z 243.7K followers, 81.6K engagements
"The Greek playwrights would understand Musk. The villains of their tragedies arent really villains at all they are great men undone by hubris. In Musks case hubris has worked for him & will continue to work for him until it doesnt. I've already said that before but Musk is honestly a mystery to me. I usually have a model of how people work but with him I really don't know. He's obviously extremely smart and I actually agree with him directionally in a lot of cases yet he also says a lot of dumb shit I've already said that before but Musk is honestly a mystery to me. I usually have a model of"
X Link 2025-02-20T21:39Z 243.7K followers, 66.2K engagements
"From the @WSJ: John Bolton Trumps former national security adviser who turned against his former boss said the president doesnt have a coherent enough ideology to dismantle the global order. This is one mans view but unfortunately hes the president Bolton said. His advice to allies: Just grit your teeth. https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-zelensky-foreign-policy-world-alliances-a3592bc4mod=hp_lead_pos2 https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-zelensky-foreign-policy-world-alliances-a3592bc4mod=hp_lead_pos2"
X Link 2025-02-20T23:20Z 243.3K followers, 25.7K engagements
"The creation of both Tesla and Space X were acts of genius. Kanye West's Graduation & Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy were acts of genius. Creativity & insanity don't always go together but sometimes they do in the most tragic of ways. https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 @clairlemon Genius Really https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 https://x.com/True_Canuck1/status/1892715696343110123 @clairlemon Genius Really"
X Link 2025-02-20T23:25Z 243.7K followers, 66.2K engagements
"Now that the wokes have gone to bluesky people like @CathyYoung63 @thomaschattwill & me are the Left to the MAGA hordes. And we will be treated accordingly. famous left winger @clairlemon editor of famously left wing outlet @Quillette famous left winger @clairlemon editor of famously left wing outlet @Quillette"
X Link 2025-02-21T05:27Z 243.7K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Multiple bus explosions in Israel China conducting military drills off the coast of Australia the US switching sides in Russia/Ukraine. Feels like something important has died in the last [--] hours"
X Link 2025-02-21T05:34Z 243.7K followers, 48.2K engagements
"Remember the majority voters have positions that are economically to the left socially to the right. Bernie Sanders launched an anti-oligarchy tour and it's the only thing that has popularly resonated within the Democratic Party base. That's fascinating and notable. Bernie Sanders launched an anti-oligarchy tour and it's the only thing that has popularly resonated within the Democratic Party base. That's fascinating and notable"
X Link 2025-02-23T00:01Z 243.7K followers, 41.6K engagements
"Bad deal unless youre already [--] have a high paying career & no kids. But for a never-married woman in their 20s Crazy choice. I feel like a lot of women would be open to being paid like a one-time fee of a million dollars to anonymously have Elns baby with zero obligations for him after that point. At first I was like why hasnt he done this But now Im like actually he probably has I feel like a lot of women would be open to being paid like a one-time fee of a million dollars to anonymously have Elns baby with zero obligations for him after that point. At first I was like why hasnt he done"
X Link 2025-02-23T00:13Z 243.6K followers, 29.9K engagements
"Why does anyone pay attention to this unkempt slob They are getting far way comfortable inciting violence against antizionist jews. This is scary af. https://t.co/cKgG12iOY6 They are getting far way comfortable inciting violence against antizionist jews. This is scary af. https://t.co/cKgG12iOY6"
X Link 2025-02-23T00:15Z 244.7K followers, 50.7K engagements
"Good news out of Germany https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1893772516486713517 the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can really achieve independence from the usa. - next german chancellor friedrich merz unthinkable words even two months ago https://t.co/vZLZFP5Gsw https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1893772516486713517 the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can really achieve independence from the usa. - next german chancellor friedrich merz unthinkable words even two months ago"
X Link 2025-02-23T21:33Z 243.7K followers, 46.9K engagements
"Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1893752415872045378 Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. After Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary. https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1893752415872045378 Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure"
X Link 2025-02-23T21:47Z 243.7K followers, 74.1K engagements
"@SarahTheHaider It's likely to have downstream effects for the average American though. https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779744153391169 Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://t.co/Hg14TmIfzR https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1893779744153391169 Can anyone explain to me what happens to the global dominance of the US dollar if nations such as Germany start decoupling https://t.co/Hg14TmIfzR"
X Link 2025-02-23T21:48Z 243.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The world uses USD to buy & sell stuff partly because the US provides security guarantees. BUT if security guarantees are no longer reliable the world may stop using USD for trade. When that system breaks Americans may end up paying more for everything https://x.com/SubBeck/status/1893817928388059216 @clairlemon If they want to pay for their own defense I don't see how this it hurts the dollar. US will be saving dollars. https://x.com/SubBeck/status/1893817928388059216 @clairlemon If they want to pay for their own defense I don't see how this it hurts the dollar. US will be saving dollars"
X Link 2025-02-24T00:33Z 248.7K followers, 76.1K engagements
"@john23089884 Stability comes from security - and the fact that other countries use it"
X Link 2025-02-24T00:45Z 243.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes but you can seperate this out from the post-WWII security architecture which the US itself designed. https://x.com/dbinthed/status/1893823062673342618 @clairlemon The US is at the center of the global monetary system because it's economy is 25% of global GDP never defaulted and stable relative to emerging markets. Very very very little to do with security quid pro quo. https://x.com/dbinthed/status/1893823062673342618 @clairlemon The US is at the center of the global monetary system because it's economy is 25% of global GDP never defaulted and stable relative to emerging markets. Very"
X Link 2025-02-24T00:48Z 243.7K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Sorry - was tweeting while doing something else. Here is a more informative link. Key quote: The Ukrainian peace the Trump administration appears likely to embrace may also cause the international financial system to splinter. Security guarantees have long formed a pillar of the US dollars dominance and the exorbitant privilege this affords the US. That is why Russias [----] invasion of the Ukraine which bolstered support for NATO and led to the strengthening of security guarantees for Taiwan reinforced the dollars primacy. Americas abandonment of Ukraine and rejection of NATO together with its"
X Link 2025-02-24T02:06Z 243.5K followers, [---] engagements
"My X feed right now is just a cascade of leaders from Germany Sweden Netherlands France Poland--even the US--expressing support for Zelensky as if Ukraine were just hit w/ a terrorist attack. Have never seen such an outpour in my life. All provoked by disgust for [--] men"
X Link 2025-02-28T21:27Z 250.1K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Theyre promoting this moment as if it looks good for them. Deranged. Have you said thank you once @VP JD Vance https://t.co/kDu0o6gDd4 Have you said thank you once @VP JD Vance https://t.co/kDu0o6gDd4"
X Link 2025-03-01T00:10Z 250.1K followers, 10.5M engagements
"@eyeslasho He wasnt the one shouting and waving his finger like his was on Jerry Springer"
X Link 2025-03-01T00:22Z 250.1K followers, 253.2K engagements
"@DavidSacks What the fuck is wrong with you"
X Link 2025-03-01T00:26Z 247K followers, 85K engagements
"@eyeslasho But why was Vance spoiling for a fight"
X Link 2025-03-01T00:51Z 245.6K followers, 67.8K engagements
""We are now living in a post-NATO world where black is white up is down friends are foes (and vice versa) and once-unthinkable impossibilities have become our new reality." https://quillette.com/2025/03/01/the-sixth-impossible-thing-nato-trump-putin-russia-asia/ https://quillette.com/2025/03/01/the-sixth-impossible-thing-nato-trump-putin-russia-asia/"
X Link 2025-03-01T21:02Z 249.4K followers, 49.3K engagements
"@carney Mate these polls were taken before the leader of the free world decided to align with Putin. So they may need to be updated in light of current events"
X Link 2025-03-01T22:32Z 248.7K followers, 21.8K engagements
"Why do MAGA X users get upset if you suggest countries other than the US can & should militarise and provide security agreements to liberal democracies Isn't that what they want"
X Link 2025-03-01T23:45Z 249.4K followers, 118.1K engagements
"The strategic argument is that if Putins invasion is rewarded today it will lead to a much larger war tomorrow. Does anyone else find it deeply unsettling that the primary argument for prolonging the war in Ukraine is purely emotional The loudest voices advocating for continued conflict are the same hawkish figures who pushed for interventions in Iraq and Syriapeople hailed as foreign Does anyone else find it deeply unsettling that the primary argument for prolonging the war in Ukraine is purely emotional The loudest voices advocating for continued conflict are the same hawkish figures who"
X Link 2025-03-02T06:29Z 248.5K followers, 224.5K engagements
"New World Order just dropped We are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. https://t.co/ip4d3z9kQx We are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. https://t.co/ip4d3z9kQx"
X Link 2025-03-02T22:23Z 249K followers, 87.2K engagements
"Wheres the ETF for this I want in. Breaking news: In a frenzied start to trading shares in Rheinmetall Germanys largest defence company jumped 18% London-based BAE Systems was up 14% in London and Leonardo climbed 15% in Milan. https://t.co/Wt3E9JdCVU https://t.co/EsTwkuhT0j Breaking news: In a frenzied start to trading shares in Rheinmetall Germanys largest defence company jumped 18% London-based BAE Systems was up 14% in London and Leonardo climbed 15% in Milan. https://t.co/Wt3E9JdCVU https://t.co/EsTwkuhT0j"
X Link 2025-03-03T09:33Z 248.7K followers, 86.9K engagements
"Disappointing but not all that surprising that a bunch of Substackers & podcasters who built huge audiences between 2020-24 for being brave anti-establishment truth-tellers can't bring themselves to criticise the establishment now that it's changed hands"
X Link 2025-03-03T19:46Z 250.1K followers, 642.5K engagements
"MAGAtards would betray their own mother if Trump told them to"
X Link 2025-03-04T06:34Z 248.7K followers, 111.8K engagements
"So what youre saying is we should: shut down Pine Gap boot US marines & nuclear bombers currently stationed in the NT rip up the $368bn aukus submarine deal Which one first @nw3 @clairlemon We don't need Australia for anything we've got the Philippines Japan South Korea and India who are mortal enemies of the Chinese. The Australians are becoming even more fascist than the Brits when it comes to freedom of speech and protecting the Australian working people. @nw3 @clairlemon We don't need Australia for anything we've got the Philippines Japan South Korea and India who are mortal enemies of"
X Link 2025-03-04T19:52Z 248.9K followers, 34.4K engagements
"Newsflash: people are cowards"
X Link 2025-03-07T04:01Z 249.4K followers, 313.7K engagements
"The great @tylercowen in defence of expertise in @TheFP"
X Link 2025-04-22T05:32Z 249.4K followers, 2.1M engagements
"To be honest I don't really understand why. Is it because there are now more educated women than men & so there aren't enough eligible matches (according to these women's standards) to go around https://x.com/signulll/status/1936477159369109835 its absolutely remarkable that so many people have a hard time understanding the why behind this. https://t.co/kWqwabN9OJ https://x.com/signulll/status/1936477159369109835 its absolutely remarkable that so many people have a hard time understanding the why behind this. https://t.co/kWqwabN9OJ"
X Link 2025-06-21T23:49Z 249.1K followers, 273.5K engagements
"Funny how the phrase 'toxic masculinity' is never applied to men working in day care centres - the one context where it probably should"
X Link 2025-07-02T08:16Z 249.2K followers, 21.4K engagements
"I don't really understand this justification. Even if someone has autogynephilia why does that mean that visceral anger/hatred/bullying is a valid response"
X Link 2025-07-02T22:27Z 249K followers, 1.4M engagements
"@evolutionarypsy Avene is a great brand (I have sensitive skin)"
X Link 2025-07-05T00:53Z 249.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Incredibly sad story https://x.com/nypost/status/1950606201852453302 23-year-old who died of cancer after refusing chemo had five coffee enemas a day https://t.co/0vYancxdgl https://t.co/3xuNwvBdtT https://x.com/nypost/status/1950606201852453302 23-year-old who died of cancer after refusing chemo had five coffee enemas a day https://t.co/0vYancxdgl https://t.co/3xuNwvBdtT"
X Link 2025-07-31T00:46Z 249K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Amazing how many VCs & technologists close to the Trump admin go silent on RFK Jr. killing mRNA research. Power & money is more important than technology & idealism apparently"
X Link 2025-08-08T22:48Z 249.2K followers, 64K engagements
"Some VCs will fight to the death for your right to stare at TikTok all day but wont lift a finger for mRNA tech that saved millions"
X Link 2025-08-08T22:52Z 249.2K followers, 93K engagements
"Link via @DegenRolf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585325000711#s0055 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585325000711#s0055"
X Link 2025-08-09T05:52Z 249.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Whats the correlation between urban density and the total fertility rate Are people having fewer babies now because they have no space The wealthiest and most populous city in China has a fertility rate of [----] (about one-quarter the population replacement rate). The wealthiest and most populous city in China has a fertility rate of [----] (about one-quarter the population replacement rate)"
X Link 2025-08-15T02:30Z 249.2K followers, 56.9K engagements
"Australia once a convict island now has its own convict islands. Australia will send more than [---] foreign-born criminals including convicted killers to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed off on a multi-milli on-dollar deal. https://t.co/EDudYvogTp Australia will send more than [---] foreign-born criminals including convicted killers to Nauru after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke signed off on a multi-milli on-dollar deal. https://t.co/EDudYvogTp"
X Link 2025-08-30T03:25Z 248.8K followers, 32.9K engagements
"Still can't wrap my head around Florida scrapping polio and measles vaccines for kids attending school. It's like a government shutting down the sewage system on the basis that not having shit in one's drinking water is a matter of personal choice. It's just uncivilised"
X Link 2025-09-07T00:51Z 248.5K followers, 207.9K engagements
"Florida is not alone. There are other governments that have scrapped polio vaccination requirements as well"
X Link 2025-09-07T01:19Z 248.7K followers, 59.9K engagements
"Can guarantee you that this truth-telling will not include what the expected lifespan was of people living in pre colonial Australia"
X Link 2025-09-09T06:39Z 248.7K followers, 77.4K engagements
"University students should be reading the Quran They should be reading all the canonical texts of the world's great religions. This is what education is. https://x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1965169406289609039 Went to the Columbia University bookstorethese are some of the books students are reading this semester. A bookstore employee told me the Qur'an is required reading for all freshman. https://t.co/NBF8eErJYv https://x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1965169406289609039 Went to the Columbia University bookstorethese are some of the books students are reading this semester. A bookstore"
X Link 2025-09-09T22:22Z 249.1K followers, 46.9K engagements
"I was piled on a while back when I shared that I don't let my [--] yr old son play video games (aside from online chess). But to me your number [--] job as a parent today is to keep your kids off the screens for as long as possible https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1966587367738802459 Tyler Robinson was almost assuredly radicalized online. Everything I'm seeing about him indicates he was terminally online. - [----] 'slav squat' meme - The "OWO what's this" reference on the bullets - Early access to a computer not just a phone - "gifted" kid https://t.co/M04yK4eqgm"
X Link 2025-09-13T06:38Z 248.4K followers, 400.8K engagements
"On the plane returning home from London I tried to watch three different Paramount+ showsall were unwatchable. Theres so much high-production-value garbage being made right now. Is it more than usual or am I just late in noticing"
X Link 2025-09-29T04:26Z 248.6K followers, 85.8K engagements
"When the housing bubble eventually bursts our entire financial system including the banks will be at risk of collapse. This intervention is less about first home buyers than it is about preventing this scenario (same goes for immigration policy) Starting tomorrow youll only need a 5% deposit to buy your first home. https://t.co/1RTTBi9Zgl Starting tomorrow youll only need a 5% deposit to buy your first home. https://t.co/1RTTBi9Zgl"
X Link 2025-09-30T09:50Z 248.7K followers, 59.1K engagements
"@SteveMichaels11 There's lots of speculation in the Australian housing market"
X Link 2025-10-01T21:52Z 248.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Who names their kid "Jihad" https://x.com/BBCBreaking/status/1973844963147575775 Manchester police say they believe synagogue attacker is Jihad Al-Shamie - a Briton of Syrian descent https://t.co/peD5onxTRH https://x.com/BBCBreaking/status/1973844963147575775 Manchester police say they believe synagogue attacker is Jihad Al-Shamie - a Briton of Syrian descent https://t.co/peD5onxTRH"
X Link 2025-10-02T20:55Z 250.1K followers, 641.6K engagements
"Haussmann cracked the code on what makes a beautiful medium-density city. Why is it then that we can't replicate this all around the world Genuine question. https://x.com/Parisianaes1/status/1975609566072348910 What is preventing you from moving to Paris https://t.co/zjE40VnEXo https://x.com/Parisianaes1/status/1975609566072348910 What is preventing you from moving to Paris https://t.co/zjE40VnEXo"
X Link 2025-10-08T06:51Z 248.8K followers, 656.6K engagements
""The starvation story was based on incorrect data and an echo chamber of circular reporting whereby NGOs and media outlets repeated each others alarming allegations without investigating the original data" -- @Mr_Andrew_Fox https://quillette.com/2025/10/09/the-genocide-libel-besa-report-israel-gaza/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/09/the-genocide-libel-besa-report-israel-gaza/"
X Link 2025-10-09T04:12Z 249K followers, 63.7K engagements
"Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world intelligence is not the bottleneck"
X Link 2025-10-09T23:29Z 248.5K followers, 236.1K engagements
"It has been enabled for a long time though. I was publishing articles about Candace Owens being a malicious hack back in 2018-2020mainstream conservatives didnt care. Ben Shapiro Warns the Conspiratorial Right Is Taking Over Social Media https://t.co/zBdbZPJ3qf Ben Shapiro Warns the Conspiratorial Right Is Taking Over Social Media https://t.co/zBdbZPJ3qf"
X Link 2025-10-10T21:57Z 248.4K followers, 93.2K engagements
"Credit to @CathyYoung63 https://quillette.com/2018/05/08/problem-candace-owens/ https://quillette.com/2018/05/08/problem-candace-owens/"
X Link 2025-10-10T21:57Z 248.4K followers, 18.5K engagements
"Excellent piece from @AndrewIBushnell on Melbourne's crimewave https://quillette.com/2025/10/11/the-melbourne-crimewave-australia-victoria-youth-gangs/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/11/the-melbourne-crimewave-australia-victoria-youth-gangs/"
X Link 2025-10-11T08:12Z 248.4K followers, 23.4K engagements
"@hollowearthterf If you have kids in your 20s before your collagen drops nothing bad happens. This is me after [--] babies (in my 30s.) Scaring women is only going to make them wait longer which is not ideal from a body-perspective"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:15Z 248.4K followers, 18.8K engagements
"They've all shifted into pro-Palestinian activism. Wokeness shapeshifts -- it doesn't go away -- but if you measure it on the movements of a few years ago it will look like it has. https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1977295552560742852 Share of young Swedish women and men who view "the environment/climate" and "gender equality/feminism" as one of the five most engaging political questions. Substantial drop since 2017/2019. https://t.co/5X8EAGiHrp https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1977295552560742852 Share of young Swedish women and men who view "the environment/climate" and "gender"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:26Z 248.6K followers, 101.6K engagements
"I'll be in conversation with Janet Albrechtsen Timothy Lynch and Nick Jensen at tonight at the Mint for the @australian. I hope to see some of you there https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/events/tap-oct-25-october-event https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/events/tap-oct-25-october-event"
X Link 2025-10-14T22:38Z 248.4K followers, [----] engagements
""Over the past [--] years the IDF has managed to destroy only some 3050% of Hamass tunnel network. Meanwhile Hamas has recruited thousands of new fighters." Benny Morris writing from Tel Aviv explains why this is an uneasy peace for @Quillette https://quillette.com/2025/10/15/peace-at-last-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-trump/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/15/peace-at-last-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-trump/"
X Link 2025-10-15T23:02Z 248.4K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Wow she is one toxic lady Ana Kasparian: For any Israelis watching this. I want you to understand this okay You are hated internationally.🔥 https://t.co/oPjU8umNuq Ana Kasparian: For any Israelis watching this. I want you to understand this okay You are hated internationally.🔥 https://t.co/oPjU8umNuq"
X Link 2025-10-16T04:02Z 248.4K followers, 84.6K engagements
"Victimhood culture stems from over-feminisation; honour culture from over-masculinisation. Dignity culture restrains both. I wrote about the "feminization" discourse. In recent years the right has become more masculine taking in bro podcasters and tech bros. Has it gotten more "truth seeking" as a result This entire discourse should be seen as partisan hackery. https://t.co/75FCGdwDWv I wrote about the "feminization" discourse. In recent years the right has become more masculine taking in bro podcasters and tech bros. Has it gotten more "truth seeking" as a result This entire discourse should"
X Link 2025-10-17T21:34Z 248.3K followers, 140.9K engagements
"Ive looked into this: theres no evidence that she is trans. Her social media history is more indicative of a mental illness / drug use What a huge shock. The Melbourne stabber is trans. Meanwhile they're shutting down Helen Joyce talks. What a huge shock. The Melbourne stabber is trans. Meanwhile they're shutting down Helen Joyce talks"
X Link 2025-10-17T22:05Z 248.4K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Back to their roots https://x.com/AscendedYield/status/1980000838824140800 Britain is drifting into an inheritocracy where the route from the middle to the top is not work but owning scarce assets early or inheriting them. Mobility slows age and parent balance sheets trump effort and politics hardens around defending scarcity rather than creating https://t.co/agSyRgx3Wi https://x.com/AscendedYield/status/1980000838824140800 Britain is drifting into an inheritocracy where the route from the middle to the top is not work but owning scarce assets early or inheriting them. Mobility slows age and"
X Link 2025-10-19T22:53Z 248.5K followers, 21.4K engagements
"Adelaide and Brisbane are pleasant cities of course but they should not be more unaffordable than London or San Francisco World's most unaffordable housing markets [--]. Hong Kong [--]. Sydney [--]. San Jose [--]. Vancouver [--]. Los Angeles [--]. Adelaide [--]. Honolulu [--]. San Francisco [--]. Melbourne [--]. San Diego [--]. Brisbane [--]. London [--]. Toronto [--]. Perth [--]. Miami World's most unaffordable housing markets [--]. Hong Kong [--]. Sydney [--]. San Jose [--]. Vancouver [--]. Los Angeles [--]. Adelaide [--]. Honolulu [--]. San Francisco [--]. Melbourne [--]. San Diego [--]. Brisbane [--]. London [--]. Toronto [--]. Perth [--]. Miami"
X Link 2025-10-21T03:51Z 248.5K followers, 123.4K engagements
"Paul Kelly credits Rudd with the critical minerals deal. Rudd a fluent mandarin speaker has long advocated for supply chain resilience as a hedge against China. The deal is not only good for the US strategicallyit creates a new industry for Australia"
X Link 2025-10-21T19:55Z 248.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@ColinJSharpe @nathancofnas How do you think the modern world came to exist without financial credit"
X Link 2025-10-22T02:40Z 248.4K followers, [----] engagements
"What does the Bible say about taking money from the Kremlin to run a clandestine influence operation Usury is a sin the Bible is explicitly clear on this Muslims structure their banking and financial systems specifically to avoid it why can't Christians Usury is a sin the Bible is explicitly clear on this Muslims structure their banking and financial systems specifically to avoid it why can't Christians"
X Link 2025-10-22T02:50Z 248.5K followers, 119K engagements
"What if theyre innocent"
X Link 2025-10-22T20:51Z 248.3K followers, 18.9K engagements
"The teenage years for a girl represent peak fecundity but not peak fertility. The body isn't quite ready for childbirth yet (you can see what happens to girls who give birth in their teens in Africa--its not pretty). Fertility peaks in the mid-twenties. https://x.com/tbpn/status/1980737625351938522 "Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're [--] [--] [--]. And be done by the time you're in your 20s." @PalmerLuckey says we should be having kids in our teens 👇 https://t.co/Ik9sw1toce https://x.com/tbpn/status/1980737625351938522 "Let's not be"
X Link 2025-10-22T21:30Z 248.5K followers, 138.8K engagements
"Have to admit that I do enjoy Grok's influence on this site"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:07Z 248.3K followers, 17.3K engagements
"A reality check from @UCLA_Eagle"
X Link 2025-10-24T06:32Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Link: https://quillette.com/2025/10/24/the-middle-east-will-not-improve-lebanon-saudi-arabia-egypt-israel/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/24/the-middle-east-will-not-improve-lebanon-saudi-arabia-egypt-israel/"
X Link 2025-10-24T06:33Z 248.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Looks like an AI rip off of @kittypurrzogs book being sold on @AmazonAustralia. Not good. I mean WTF is this https://t.co/2ZHOkOPjmb I mean WTF is this https://t.co/2ZHOkOPjmb"
X Link 2025-10-26T22:31Z 249.4K followers, 24.1K engagements
"@Imresal @kittypurrzog @AmazonAustralia Nope. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/amazons-ai-book-problem-fake-authors-flogging-sloppy-content/news-story/835f2ed38d0be5e8a82c7f9cbc6c2359 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/amazons-ai-book-problem-fake-authors-flogging-sloppy-content/news-story/835f2ed38d0be5e8a82c7f9cbc6c2359"
X Link 2025-10-26T22:39Z 249.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mazemoore https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/ https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/"
X Link 2025-10-27T02:27Z 248.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Predators are drawn to child care for the same reason that fishermen are drawn to the place where theres the most fish. @4corners has investigated the rising rate of sex-offending in Australia's childcare industry"
X Link 2025-10-27T03:18Z 248.7K followers, 28.9K engagements
""Nester does his best to locate a human being beneath the evil. Stalin liked movies & operas.He was an 'avid reader'.But these efforts eventually run aground. Stalin was.'brutal paranoid cruel devious cunning sadistic'" https://quillette.com/2025/10/25/a-self-created-tyrant-joseph-stalin-art-of-tyranny-william-nester-review/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/25/a-self-created-tyrant-joseph-stalin-art-of-tyranny-william-nester-review/"
X Link 2025-10-27T08:07Z 248.6K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Dont be daft. Anyone who doesnt like Joy Division / New Order is a Philistine. I like that our PM has decent taste. Australian Prime Minister Albo knowingly wore a Joy Division shirt on disembarking in front of international media. That shirt represents Jewish women held by SS Nazi Soldiers as sex slaves. He asked media to edit it out. Albo is a Nazi Sympathiser https://t.co/ZXMF8mkByQ Australian Prime Minister Albo knowingly wore a Joy Division shirt on disembarking in front of international media. That shirt represents Jewish women held by SS Nazi Soldiers as sex slaves. He asked media to"
X Link 2025-10-27T20:43Z 248.6K followers, 24.6K engagements
"Ive got a piece up at @thedispatch about the medievalism of the online right and the enduring popularity of conspiracy story-telling"
X Link 2025-10-27T20:48Z 248.6K followers, 36.8K engagements
"This @4corners investigation is deeply unsettling. Around 1-5% of the population has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children. Australian childcare is known internationally among pedophile networks. The growth in online CSA material is exponential https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/hunting-ground-four-corners-childcare/105939378 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/hunting-ground-four-corners-childcare/105939378"
X Link 2025-10-28T01:53Z 248.6K followers, 13.5K engagements
"I just realised that @Meanjin --one of Australia's oldest literary journals-- shut down. According to the deputy editor they weren't shut down because they were insolvent but because they "ran afoul of Zionist lobby groups." Gimme a break https://overland.org.au/2025/09/no-guernicas-no-sacred-places-on-the-closure-of-meanjin/ https://overland.org.au/2025/09/no-guernicas-no-sacred-places-on-the-closure-of-meanjin/"
X Link 2025-10-28T03:41Z 248.6K followers, 12.6K engagements
"This is so dumb Sussan Ley has given a speech to parliament (and then issued a transcript in case you missed it) criticising Anthony Albanese for wearing a t-shirt of post-punk band Joy Division Ley has often talked about "punk phase" which led to her adding the extra 'S' to her name https://t.co/u7dKiJ4hTt Sussan Ley has given a speech to parliament (and then issued a transcript in case you missed it) criticising Anthony Albanese for wearing a t-shirt of post-punk band Joy Division Ley has often talked about "punk phase" which led to her adding the extra 'S' to her name"
X Link 2025-10-28T05:47Z 248.5K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Whatever other innovation crypto offers we can now see that its #1 use case is being a vehicle for bribery and corruption"
X Link 2025-10-28T21:21Z 248.5K followers, 18.9K engagements
"@Lisa9Sophia This is retarded"
X Link 2025-10-28T22:28Z 248.5K followers, 17.8K engagements
"@john_macgowan @Lisa9Sophia fun read. I definitely could not go to the Anne Frank museum on mushrooms 🥴"
X Link 2025-10-29T04:06Z 248.5K followers, [---] engagements
""By the 2020s the memory and impact of the Holocaust had faded.old-style Muslim antisemitism now washed across Europe persuading ignorant Europeans that their fathers antisemitism had actually been legitimate." https://quillette.com/2025/10/28/a-perfect-storm-israel-gaza-palestine/ https://quillette.com/2025/10/28/a-perfect-storm-israel-gaza-palestine/"
X Link 2025-10-29T04:44Z 248.6K followers, 35.8K engagements
"Damn I hope no-one bought a house with a 5% deposit 😬"
X Link 2025-10-29T06:58Z 248.6K followers, 79K engagements
"Between Mamdanis rise in the Democratic Party and the most popular news podcaster in the country normalising Nazism I would be a tad nervous to be Jewish in America (not that its much better anywhere else.)"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:48Z 248.6K followers, 515.3K engagements
"@S___Elliott Tucker"
X Link 2025-10-29T21:39Z 248.6K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Iranian official: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. https://t.co/volRTXw58l Iranian official: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. https://t.co/volRTXw58l"
X Link 2025-10-30T21:43Z 248.6K followers, 136.1K engagements
"Amazed to see Australia coming in at number #3 considering our punitive income tax https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1984139885511667944 In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy. https://t.co/l8uBLJMfck https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1984139885511667944 In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy."
X Link 2025-11-01T00:27Z 248.6K followers, 22.4K engagements
"It can be hard to get a piece published on Qatari influence in the US because so many media orgs and think tanks have partnerships with the Gulf state. New long read in @Quillette"
X Link 2025-11-01T21:19Z 248.7K followers, 245.9K engagements
"Its hard in DC everyone has interests with the Qataris"
X Link 2025-11-01T21:21Z 248.6K followers, 20K engagements
"Ten billion dollars a quarter. 🫠https://x.com/sethharpesq/status/1984650050421543090 The biggest capital outlay ever for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island. https://t.co/pc4mUzOZcy https://x.com/sethharpesq/status/1984650050421543090 The biggest capital outlay ever for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for"
X Link 2025-11-01T22:06Z 248.6K followers, 29.6K engagements
"@RichardHanania @Quillette Yes people complain because they fund Hamas"
X Link 2025-11-02T02:07Z 248.6K followers, 19K engagements
"Indeed. But it comes with $38 Trillion dollars worth of national debt. (That's [--] Trillion in AUD -- 58x our own national debt) https://x.com/nonestlex/status/1984903063124181304 The Australian mind cannot comprehend a top tax bracket of US$626351 (which is over $900k AUD btw) https://t.co/T15zmBSKvg https://x.com/nonestlex/status/1984903063124181304 The Australian mind cannot comprehend a top tax bracket of US$626351 (which is over $900k AUD btw) https://t.co/T15zmBSKvg"
X Link 2025-11-02T21:09Z 248.6K followers, 29.6K engagements
"Temporal justice Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health. In The Lancet Healthy Longevity authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: https://t.co/S3AVviAnZY https://t.co/MU1u65qrn5 Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health. In The Lancet Healthy Longevity authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: https://t.co/S3AVviAnZY"
X Link 2025-11-03T01:11Z 248.6K followers, 19.9K engagements
"WEIRD cultures are guilt cultures. https://x.com/whyvert/status/1985180550026657978 One of the best pieces of research looked a which nations' UN diplomats in NYC used diplomatic immunity to violate parking laws with impunity. UK Canada Australia Denmark Netherlands did not. Other nations' elites not so prosocial or trustworthy. The chief malefactors: https://t.co/9HZeO8Co2Z https://x.com/whyvert/status/1985180550026657978 One of the best pieces of research looked a which nations' UN diplomats in NYC used diplomatic immunity to violate parking laws with impunity. UK Canada Australia Denmark"
X Link 2025-11-03T03:40Z 248.6K followers, 97.5K engagements
""There is always a market for the circus but Mr. Carlson has become one of the freaks." https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-maga-rights-antisemitism-problem-ddbc39cbmod=hp_opin_pos_2 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-maga-rights-antisemitism-problem-ddbc39cbmod=hp_opin_pos_2"
X Link 2025-11-03T04:44Z 248.6K followers, 69K engagements
"Goebbels famously reflected that the Nazis would never have come to power in Germany if it were not for the radio perhaps in the future theyll make the same claim about social media. JD Vances close friend warns that 40% of GOP staffers under the age of [--] are Groypers. https://t.co/b7U5ZlyHBv JD Vances close friend warns that 40% of GOP staffers under the age of [--] are Groypers. https://t.co/b7U5ZlyHBv"
X Link 2025-11-04T06:34Z 248.8K followers, 47.9K engagements
"Reminder that Teen Vogue is considered a reliable source on @Wikipedia while @Quillette is not"
X Link 2025-11-04T21:35Z 248.8K followers, 165.1K engagements
"The Fuentes photo has clearly been edited post-production. His skin has been smoothed and jawline softened (very easy to do). But I have no idea why they would do this. Want to understand how media bias really works All of these photos were taken by the same @nytimes photographer. https://t.co/ep5MzcA8E4 Want to understand how media bias really works All of these photos were taken by the same @nytimes photographer. https://t.co/ep5MzcA8E4"
X Link 2025-11-04T21:45Z 248.6K followers, 180.4K engagements
"Thankfully 21st Century economists were not in the room when they were deciding to build the Notre Dame https://x.com/db_econ/status/1985909091118825562 https://x.com/db_econ/status/1985909091118825562"
X Link 2025-11-05T06:17Z 248.6K followers, 35K engagements
"@captgouda24 It's called the theory of evolution"
X Link 2025-11-05T07:14Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements
""While Carlson supported the Iraq War in [----] the Israeli government most certainly did not.They repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster." https://quillette.com/2025/11/05/despite-israel-not-because-of-it-iraq-war-bush-sharon-saddam-hussein/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/05/despite-israel-not-because-of-it-iraq-war-bush-sharon-saddam-hussein/"
X Link 2025-11-05T08:08Z 248.8K followers, 53.3K engagements
"Yes. 3-storey townhouses and apartments should be permitted on all residential land in all capital cities to help fix Australias housing crisis. Building more homes will create cheaper housing and more productive cities. Our new report shows how. https://t.co/KMX1aFfh8c #auspol https://t.co/sbTGibkcmx 3-storey townhouses and apartments should be permitted on all residential land in all capital cities to help fix Australias housing crisis. Building more homes will create cheaper housing and more productive cities. Our new report shows how. https://t.co/KMX1aFfh8c #auspol https://t.co/sbTGibkcmx"
X Link 2025-11-05T22:21Z 248.6K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Aiming for net zero locally while shipping iron ore to China is like trying to sweep smoke to one side of a room. If we want to get real on the climate we need more focus on carbon capture reforestation nuclear & less focus on unrealistic slogans"
X Link 2025-11-06T21:41Z 248.8K followers, 32.8K engagements
""Major news organisations such as Reuters and CNN have systematically obscured the cycle by which Hamas funds itself through stolen aid exerts violent control over Gaza and manipulates the global media into broadcasting its narratives." https://quillette.com/2025/11/07/starving-for-headlines-gaza-media-hamas/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/07/starving-for-headlines-gaza-media-hamas/"
X Link 2025-11-07T01:30Z 248.5K followers, 23.7K engagements
"@JasonClareMP They should be learning trades not going into debt for useless degrees made obsolete by AI"
X Link 2025-11-07T23:22Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements
"We need kids to go into trades to become entrepreneurs and to build things. This desire to push everyone into higher education is madness. More Australians will start a uni degree next year than ever before. [--] in [--] young Australians have a uni degree but not everywhere. Not in Western Sydney. The reforms we are rolling out are about fixing that. That includes setting up University Study Hubs in Mt Druitt https://t.co/OGq1FCFHWZ More Australians will start a uni degree next year than ever before. [--] in [--] young Australians have a uni degree but not everywhere. Not in Western Sydney. The reforms"
X Link 2025-11-07T23:23Z 248.7K followers, 93.5K engagements
"I was struggling to understand why this would be promoted as a good thingbut then remembered that the average person may not understand compound interest. 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize [--] YEAR MORTGAGES to make it easier for young people to buy a home via lower monthly payments He cites FDR as when the 30-year mortgage started to spread nationwide 👀 https://t.co/4BD6ngnhdb 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize [--] YEAR MORTGAGES to make it easier for young people to buy a home via lower monthly payments He"
X Link 2025-11-08T23:12Z 248.7K followers, 69.7K engagements
"Read about what happened in Japan and then reflect on where Australia might be in the cycle This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road solution and we've seen it before in Japan and it was CRAZY. In the 80s real estate prices in Tokyo were high so they started offering 50-year mortgages to make things "more affordable." if you stretch the loan the monthly payment looks This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road solution and we've seen it before in Japan and it was CRAZY. In the 80s real estate prices in Tokyo were high so they started offering 50-year mortgages to make things "more affordable." if you"
X Link 2025-11-09T03:56Z 248.7K followers, 67.6K engagements
"@taipan168 The Full Levelised Cost of Electricity (F-LCOE) looks different. Once firming the grid + other system costs are included in the levelised cost renewables become much more expensive (hence rising power prices)"
X Link 2025-11-09T22:12Z 248.7K followers, 11K engagements
"It's interesting that out of Palantir co-founders Peter Thiel - the old-school libertarian - appears more sympathetic to Gen Z economic woes than Alex Karp - who in [----] described himself as a socialist. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1987505703397769666s=20 The average Ivy League grad voting for Mamdani is annoyed their education is not that valuable and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession.I think that annoys the fuck out of these people" Palantir $PLTR CEO has said. https://t.co/STEVaM8zeO"
X Link 2025-11-09T22:45Z 248.7K followers, 43.2K engagements
"@taipan168 Is that screenshot from GenCost"
X Link 2025-11-10T00:07Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The housing market is eating the real economy"
X Link 2025-11-10T09:42Z 249K followers, 57.4K engagements
"I wrote about this back in August--in a piece about Mamdani heralding the next generation of wokeness https://x.com/OddStockTrader/status/1987986524743627139s=20 Poor and middle class seeing how the RICH live on a daily basis via Instagram really COOKED our entire society man https://x.com/OddStockTrader/status/1987986524743627139s=20 Poor and middle class seeing how the RICH live on a daily basis via Instagram really COOKED our entire society man"
X Link 2025-11-11T03:36Z 248.8K followers, 25.8K engagements
""A gambling addict who sits in front of a slot machine until the small hours of the morning and forgets the passage of time is experiencing neither loneliness nor the active desire to be around other people.he forgets other people exist to be missed." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino"
X Link 2025-11-11T21:45Z 248.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Soul Man https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1988262194039939195s=20 The future Pope Leo in [----] https://t.co/QRrSGTiT9o https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1988262194039939195s=20 The future Pope Leo in [----] https://t.co/QRrSGTiT9o"
X Link 2025-11-11T23:28Z 248.8K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Social contagions tend to happen among friendship groups & social media just makes these contagions more acute. Groyperism is the boy version of teen girls developing rapid onset gender dysphoria - it first happens among friends https://x.com/roddreher/status/1988326516946842104s=20 Strong disagree. [--] [--] years of illiberal wokeness in power plus mass migration plus sexual radicalization plus widespread institutional failures plus an economy that shuts out Zoomers plus the socially disintegrating effects of the Internet -- all had more to do with it."
X Link 2025-11-12T00:58Z 248.7K followers, 157.6K engagements
"@peterrhague You just repeat what she said back to her but using different words"
X Link 2025-11-12T21:55Z 248.8K followers, [----] engagements
""It is a view rooted in his democratic-socialist belief that wealth beyond a certain threshold is inherently exploitative. But this sentiment alone wont generate any revenue." - @aziz0nomics https://quillette.com/2025/11/12/the-limits-of-american-progressivism-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor/ https://quillette.com/2025/11/12/the-limits-of-american-progressivism-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor/"
X Link 2025-11-12T23:49Z 248.7K followers, 13.5K engagements
"Discretionary consumer goods are far cheaper than in our parents era while essentials--housing energy education health--are far costlier. When people cant afford the basics they buy what they can. https://x.com/4nt1p4tt3rn/status/1988255681225412933s=20 You want a house Cool cool. When are you gonna give up your $1500 smartphone that you buy the new version of every year or so When are you cancelling all your subscription services When are you giving up Uber and UberEats When are you going to stop buying a $7 https://x.com/4nt1p4tt3rn/status/1988255681225412933s=20 You want a house Cool cool."
X Link 2025-11-13T01:19Z 248.7K followers, 31.6K engagements
"@4nt1p4tt3rn No-one lives like this"
X Link 2025-11-13T01:19Z 248.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Checks out https://x.com/sentientist/status/1988721797756301502s=20 An analysis of Hitler's genome reveals he had Kallmann syndrome a disorder that can prevent sexual development and causes low testosterone. He also had a top 1% polygenic score for schizophrenia autism and bipolar. Hitler had no Jewish ancestry. https://t.co/vJX5FrjRPT https://x.com/sentientist/status/1988721797756301502s=20 An analysis of Hitler's genome reveals he had Kallmann syndrome a disorder that can prevent sexual development and causes low testosterone. He also had a top 1% polygenic score for schizophrenia autism"
X Link 2025-11-13T01:25Z 248.8K followers, 51.6K engagements
"Americans complaining that their houses cost 5x the median salary"
X Link 2025-11-13T06:10Z 248.7K followers, 24.6K engagements
"(Ours cost well over 10x a median salary in Sydney its 17x)"
X Link 2025-11-13T06:11Z 248.8K followers, 20.9K engagements
"@PanirL17903 Would play a role for sure"
X Link 2025-11-13T06:29Z 248.6K followers, [---] engagements
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