#  @jaynordlinger Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger posts on X about ukraine, russia, in the, white house the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) 23.86% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 7.11% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 6.09% [finance](/list/finance) 2.03% [musicians](/list/musicians) 1.02% [stocks](/list/stocks) 0.51% [currencies](/list/currencies) 0.51%
**Social topic influence**
[ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #2114, [russia](/topic/russia) #1837, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.57%, [white house](/topic/white-house) #2055, [country](/topic/country) #71, [the white](/topic/the-white) #1107, [this is](/topic/this-is) #395, [prize](/topic/prize) 2.54%, [china](/topic/china) 2.54%, [war](/topic/war) 2.54%
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Americans should be deeply embarrassed by this ashamed even. The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization. https://t.co/4mHTZw7Uvi The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization. https://t.co/4mHTZw7Uvi"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2017038122010251291) 2026-01-30T00:52Z 64.7K followers, 708.5K engagements
"Wow. Is this us I mean is this America"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2017809866346078346) 2026-02-01T03:58Z 64.7K followers, 68.4K engagements
"For years Trump and his people have said "Russia Russia Russia." This is meant to mock you for concern you may have over Kremlin influence on American affairs. But you know This connection between Russia and Epstein is kind of curious isn't it I hope we learn the truth"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2018019165622137036) 2026-02-01T17:50Z 64.7K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Today Russian forces again attacked a maternity hospital and they also attacked a bus transporting coalminers. Every day they murder innocents. In the White House the president has hung a picture of himself with Putin. What happened to the GOP and the conservative movement"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2018026965240836242) 2026-02-01T18:21Z 64.6K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Ask yourself: What if Ukrainian forces attacked maternity hospitals in Russia and buses transporting Russian coalminers What if they were murdering innocents every day Wouldn't the White House and everyone else condemn Ukraine Why the indifference to Ukrainian lives"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2018028284684935418) 2026-02-01T18:26Z 64.7K followers, 227.1K engagements
""Move on" huh I heard that phrase constantly from Democrats in the late 1990s. (There was even an organization founded.) I said no then. I say no now. No "moving on" when "move on" means "sweep under the rug." The Epstein crime circle should be exposed. https://apnews.com/video/trump-lashes-out-at-reporter-over-epstein-declares-its-time-for-the-country-to-move-on-f60b2354969a418d88e49aede23b280e https://apnews.com/video/trump-lashes-out-at-reporter-over-epstein-declares-its-time-for-the-country-to-move-on-f60b2354969a418d88e49aede23b280e"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019066634040750155) 2026-02-04T15:12Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When Stephen Harper was PM up in Ottawa I referred to him as "the Leader of the West." Guy's still got it. https://apnews.com/article/stephen-harper-portrait-canada-carney-trump-927d29a327e67b49dfe7b9a0c8d6e1db https://apnews.com/article/stephen-harper-portrait-canada-carney-trump-927d29a327e67b49dfe7b9a0c8d6e1db"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019069156004344242) 2026-02-04T15:22Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
""Gulf of America." "Trump-Kennedy Center." "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace." These may seem like small things even amusing. But they point to something larger and unamusing. I have written a little essay. See what you think. https://www.thenextmove.org/p/hail-caesar-hell-no https://www.thenextmove.org/p/hail-caesar-hell-no"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019074734328086673) 2026-02-04T15:45Z 64.7K followers, 90.3K engagements
"I have never believed the Trump kompromat stuff. I have never believed that Putin "had" anything on him. I have always believed that Trump is aligned with Putin out of sheer affinity. There are lots of Putin fans. But this Epstein-Kremlin connection is . damn interesting. This topic really causes him to lash out. Quiet piggy was to a female reporter whod asked "what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said you 'knew about the girls'" This topic really causes him to lash out. Quiet piggy was to a female reporter whod asked "what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019120951288566171) 2026-02-04T18:48Z 64.8K followers, 57.9K engagements
"The National Prayer Breakfast is now a national joke. Retire it. Or take some years off for penance. But to hell with this pseudo-religious stunt of a breakfast. President Trump calls Thomas Massie a "moron" at the National Prayer Breakfast. "There's something wrong with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr. They love voting NO." https://t.co/ThIEb9slh9 President Trump calls Thomas Massie a "moron" at the National Prayer Breakfast. "There's something wrong with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr. They love voting NO." https://t.co/ThIEb9slh9"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019490154646249521) 2026-02-05T19:15Z 64.6K followers, 71.3K engagements
"Happy Reagans birthday to all who celebrate. We are in a Trump-Orbn time obviously. We Reaganites could hold our convention at a modest-sized Dennys. But the old values still apply. Freedom democracy character openness the rule of law. Long may they wave"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019750712041746916) 2026-02-06T12:31Z 64.7K followers, 15K engagements
"(1) Republicans and the movement that calls itself "conservative" can make different choices -- but they'll have to want to. (2) I am not convinced that this kind of thing is unpopular. (3) I have heard false accusations of racism all my life. This is racist. BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019776594538058234) 2026-02-06T14:14Z 64.7K followers, 66.9K engagements
"For the last ten years I've heard "Oh he's just like Reagan and Buckley you know. Maybe a little rough around the edges maybe not so well-read -- but at heart an heir." Bullshit. Trump is a racist and a Putin admirer. He embodies a dark and sick politics. BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019782317766488507) 2026-02-06T14:36Z 64.8K followers, 303.7K engagements
""Zombie Reaganites" they call us. Well I'd rather be a zombie Reaganite than a live Trumper I can tell you that"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019800654407970937) 2026-02-06T15:49Z 64.6K followers, 16.8K engagements
"A leader. A real leader. And I think those who hate and disparage him -- know it. Russia is trying to destroy our power plants and our entire energy system. Its trying to kill our light. And Ukraine together with our friends is fighting against the darkness. This is a battle where everything is clear. There are no gray zones here. And there are also deep https://t.co/y0gVkHfrGn Russia is trying to destroy our power plants and our entire energy system. Its trying to kill our light. And Ukraine together with our friends is fighting against the darkness. This is a battle where everything is"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2019859862381867104) 2026-02-06T19:44Z 64.7K followers, 36.9K engagements
"Well said. Shut up and do something you cowards. Begging Trump to act is no better than begging Putin to stop. Shut up and do something you cowards. Begging Trump to act is no better than begging Putin to stop"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020274287236489418) 2026-02-07T23:11Z 64.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Central Park as night falls"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020275686582415821) 2026-02-07T23:17Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This column by @GeorgeWill ought to go in some Anti-Nativism Hall of Fame. Bravo George. Hats off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/06/reyes-noem-haitians-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/06/reyes-noem-haitians-trump/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020607296876015967) 2026-02-08T21:14Z 64.7K followers, 34.4K engagements
"Because I wrote a history of the Nobel Peace Prize I'm sometimes asked "Whom would you like to see win the prize" I often name two different groups -- one in Syria the other in Cuba. The White Helmets and the Ladies in White. Up to [------] Syrians remain missing a year after Assads fall. The White Helmets and a new national commission are exhuming bodies mapping grave sites and building records in a search that will take years reports @AmelieDavid1. https://t.co/ARDYrmAJPS https://t.co/UJmppimaKP Up to [------] Syrians remain missing a year after Assads fall. The White Helmets and a new national"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020609665583796555) 2026-02-08T21:24Z 64.7K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Years ago when I was writing about Canada @davidfrum said to me something like this: "You'll want to talk to Jason Kenney. He's a conservative intellectual who does politics." Yes. And he is my latest guest on "Q&A." From @jkenney you can learn a lot. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/a-razor-sharp-conservative-up-north https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/a-razor-sharp-conservative-up-north"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020649057581179085) 2026-02-09T00:00Z 64.7K followers, 36.1K engagements
"Once Don Bacon leaves Congress at the end of this term -- will there be any other GOP rep who talks or thinks like this It is worse than odd it is morally wrong. The White House puts pressure on Ukraine while Russia is invading and bombing cities. Russia wants a vassal state while Ukraine wants independence and democracy. Moral blindness is more accurate than odd. It is worse than odd it is morally wrong. The White House puts pressure on Ukraine while Russia is invading and bombing cities. Russia wants a vassal state while Ukraine wants independence and democracy. Moral blindness is more"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020651652337086666) 2026-02-09T00:11Z 64.7K followers, 47.6K engagements
"When I was young lefties from Europe and elsewhere would say to me "You Americans are just about the money -- greed -- and nothing else. No principles no ideals." That was a lie. Apparently it no longer is. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290st=BPy6rJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290st=BPy6rJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020652702943101200) 2026-02-09T00:15Z 64.7K followers, 54.9K engagements
"He was the Gaddafi son who tried to "go straight" -- to be a Western-style liberal or at least an Arab reformer. Last week he was killed in his native Libya. I encountered him once and have now written about him for @thedispatch. Interesting tragic case. https://thedispatch.com/article/tragic-son-gaddafi/ https://thedispatch.com/article/tragic-son-gaddafi/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020848653338915264) 2026-02-09T13:13Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Last year I was writing about Taylor Swift and the extreme animosity against her. A reader commented "They hate her because she's happy. A lot of people can't stand that." Well what about Bad Bunny He seems like he's lovin' life. (Something to consider maybe.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020870451484876855) 2026-02-09T14:40Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Years ago my favorite Republican celebrities were Cheryl Ladd Clint Eastwood Bruce Willis Shannen Doherty and Charlton Heston. Can't today's GOP do a little better than Kid Rock"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020874691141845134) 2026-02-09T14:57Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive seen a lot in Central Park over the years. But never ice fishing. Today would be a good day for it"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020875383734727081) 2026-02-09T15:00Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For the music-minded a review of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. On the podium: Ivn Fischer (co-founder of the BFO). On the program: Mahler's Symphony No. [--]. Interesting issues arise. https://newcriterion.com/dispatch/mahler-3-with-payoff/ https://newcriterion.com/dispatch/mahler-3-with-payoff/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2020905803025133751) 2026-02-09T17:01Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For generations Americans have looked upon Canadians with condescension: "Aren't they cute with their 'aboot' and their syrup and so on" Now it's Canadians who must have an adult-like patience with us. They must think their colossal neighbor has gone full-out cray. Trumps latest unhinged threat to Canada is one part toddler level temper tantrum and one part $ grift. My hunch is the Trump organization just got some kind of payoff from Detroits Maroun family who own the competing Ambassador Bridge. They have spent [--] years lobbying https://t.co/IbSKTdACj4 Trumps latest unhinged threat to Canada"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021068620173123931) 2026-02-10T03:48Z 64.7K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) in full flight at the Ukrainian Institute of America (@UkrInstitute). Am grateful to be affiliated with his Renew Democracy Initiative (@Renew_Democracy). Pro-freedom anti-tyranny. A good stance to take"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021401959828185403) 2026-02-11T01:52Z 64.7K followers, 17K engagements
"Western audiences do not necessarily like to hear from Kasparov because he tells them things that make them uncomfortable: You can't negotiate with a person like Putin -- he will only bide his time. And nothing short of Ukrainian victory will deliver security"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021406941256577534) 2026-02-11T02:12Z 64.7K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Something about Bad Bunny -- his name -- reminded me of Jimmy Carter. In any case I have written a column about the Super Bowl the D.C. swamp my Nobel Peace Prize nominees and more. Give it a whirl. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/misbehaving-rabbits-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/misbehaving-rabbits-and-c"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021590929698672804) 2026-02-11T14:23Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There is no stronger word on the negative side than "evil." And it applies to the Chinese government. They are persecuting some of the best people in China. They are strangling Tibet. Committing genocide against the Uyghurs. An evil regime. First China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for dissent. This is Xis dictatorship. https://t.co/4UdLO4AIdp via @NYTimes First China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021597216683565401) 2026-02-11T14:48Z 64.7K followers, 27.1K engagements
""Russia's war crimes continue unabated. In fact they have intensified. Putin acts as though no one cares and no one will stop him. "Is he wrong""
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021605340383494389) 2026-02-11T15:20Z 64.7K followers, 15.4K engagements
"There goes Putin again "defending Christian civilization." The Putinists of the Free World are in a sense worse than the Putinists in Russia. Russians have just bombed a super market in Ukraine's Kharkiv region with shahed drones brutally injuring [--] people. Fake negotiations is allowing all western action against to be completely paralyzed while Russia genocides the largest nation in Europe. https://t.co/zdKPaZlCOk Russians have just bombed a super market in Ukraine's Kharkiv region with shahed drones brutally injuring [--] people. Fake negotiations is allowing all western action against to be"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021772155307119046) 2026-02-12T02:23Z 64.8K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Criticizing the president in a democracy What the hell has become of this country #MAGA Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021774351054320054) 2026-02-12T02:32Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"What exactly is the difference between this Speaker of the House and a Trump staffer What's the difference between him and say Karoline Leavitt I think he should get out of Congress and join the White House staff or the RNC frankly. More honest employment. NEW: Speaker Johnson just told me he believes the [--] Democrats who participated in the disobey illegal orders video *should* be indicted. Comes after a grand jury rejected the attempt by federal prosecutors. I think that anytime you're obstructing law enforcement and getting in https://t.co/CwfIxquzxu NEW: Speaker Johnson just told me he"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021776653756600737) 2026-02-12T02:41Z 64.8K followers, 45.4K engagements
"John Mitchell would be amazed -- absolutely amazed -- at Pam Bondi. (And William Barr looks like a titan of the law in comparison with Bondi.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021785425874968685) 2026-02-12T03:16Z 64.7K followers, 24.8K engagements
"You might say that elementary civics lessons should not be necessary -- but they are: Loyalty to the executive branch of the federal government or to the incumbent president is not the equivalent of patriotism"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021787187184836943) 2026-02-12T03:23Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Rules are rules. I'm a believer in rules and their equal application. Still all honor to Vladyslav. I'm glad for his stand. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has barred Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing at the [----] Milano Cortina Games after he refused to remove a helmet bearing images of athletes killed in Russia's invasion saying it violated the IOC's rules on The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has barred Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing at the [----] Milano Cortina Games after he refused to remove a helmet bearing images"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021937789294538945) 2026-02-12T13:21Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm glad that Radio Farda somehow is still on the job. Last year the White House put out a statement saying that "taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda." Elon Musk said "Its just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money." Lies. Just plain lies. Scores Of Children Killed In Iran's Violent Crackdown @RadioFarda_ https://t.co/6yzPUPtT6J Scores Of Children Killed In Iran's Violent Crackdown @RadioFarda_ https://t.co/6yzPUPtT6J"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021939518929002822) 2026-02-12T13:28Z 64.7K followers, 23.5K engagements
"I can understand the pusillanimity -- the obeisance -- of businesses in unfree societies. They have to watch their necks. But pusillanimity and obeisance in free societies such as ours "The land of the free the home of the brave" Disgusting. Remember these law firms etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2021998672331124937) 2026-02-12T17:23Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Blessed are the writers who make you feel less alone. Matt Labash is such a writer for me. P.S. Some who wear crosses are among the least Christian people you can imagine; some who wear American-flag pins are among the least patriotic. https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/jesus-as-maga-cudgel https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/jesus-as-maga-cudgel"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022003020209537030) 2026-02-12T17:41Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Separation of powers is working (mainly). Can we "keep it" to borrow a phrase https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.htmlcampaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260212&instance_id=170993&nl=breaking-news®i_id=301025437&segment_id=215184&user_id=ad6a78033d95ee1d0f4e99d9bfe53ccc https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.htmlcampaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260212&instance_id=170993&nl=breaking-news®i_id=301025437&segment_id=215184&user_id=ad6a78033d95ee1d0f4e99d9bfe53ccc"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022015602991542550) 2026-02-12T18:31Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump is as good as his word. Campaigning in [----] he said "Robert F. Kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody and I'm gonna let him go wild on health I'm gonna let him go wild on the food I'm gonna let him go wild on medicines." This is genuinely horrible. We are doing immense damage to ourselves. This is genuinely horrible. We are doing immense damage to ourselves"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022142274130653329) 2026-02-13T02:54Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Republican Party's position as I understand it: Senator Kelly is a seditionist; the January [--] rioters are patriots. Do I have that straight And you will lose just as badly on appeal. And you will lose just as badly on appeal"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022142985631379649) 2026-02-13T02:57Z 64.8K followers, 18.8K engagements
"Sensible. Polish PM Tusk: Poland was is and will remain a loyal predictable ally of the United States. Poland will not be a vassal. Anyone who risks our relations with the United States risks the foundations of Polish security. But loyalty does not mean servitude. https://t.co/QiczPCynFm Polish PM Tusk: Poland was is and will remain a loyal predictable ally of the United States. Poland will not be a vassal. Anyone who risks our relations with the United States risks the foundations of Polish security. But loyalty does not mean servitude. https://t.co/QiczPCynFm"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022143688751952004) 2026-02-13T02:59Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is so fucking gross. It's hard to understand how the other students -- the majority -- could stand it. Why were they not ashamed (Maybe some of them were.) George McLaurin the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma is separated from white students [----]. https://t.co/ughD8F2Xzc George McLaurin the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma is separated from white students [----]. https://t.co/ughD8F2Xzc"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022153895825600923) 2026-02-13T03:40Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Capus is a stand-up dude. Im spending this week once again in Ukraine a place I strongly support and will always hold close to my heart. People here are strong determined filled with national & personal pridewhile enduring a bitterly cold winter. Heres some of what Ive seen this week: 🧵1/7 https://t.co/6qnxta9XGW Im spending this week once again in Ukraine a place I strongly support and will always hold close to my heart. People here are strong determined filled with national & personal pridewhile enduring a bitterly cold winter. Heres some of what Ive seen this week: 🧵1/7"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022154250030403725) 2026-02-13T03:41Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing the courage that politicians can summon when not running for reelection. An argument for term limits (I am against.) (Most of the time.) Sen. Tillis on the DOJ probe into Jerome Powell: Until the investigation is resolved I cannot and I will not vote to support anyone on the Federal Reserve in my remaining tenure in the U. S. Senate. https://t.co/1rfGtB1Vqs Sen. Tillis on the DOJ probe into Jerome Powell: Until the investigation is resolved I cannot and I will not vote to support anyone on the Federal Reserve in my remaining tenure in the U. S. Senate. https://t.co/1rfGtB1Vqs"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022321131382857820) 2026-02-13T14:45Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A Valentine's Day message from Jeremiah: "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me saying Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. https://t.co/7nizUhc4M4 Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism."
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022663103172030637) 2026-02-14T13:23Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Im not the first to observe this but: Mike Johnson functions as a staffer to Donald Trump not as a speaker of the House. He has made this august important role teeny-tiny. He is smaller than Stephen Miller and the like. It would be pitiable if it werent so consequential"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018667051435651169) 2026-02-03T12:45Z 64.8K followers, 324.3K engagements
"Today is Lincoln's birthday. Do you know this immortal cartoon And one of our most moving "Nuthin' ever happens out here.""
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022032512177045737) 2026-02-12T19:38Z 64.8K followers, 58.9K engagements
"My critics say -- I will de-nastify what they say -- "Can't you see that in 'the right people' she's talking about citizens not illegals" Uh-huh. They say nothing -- nothing -- about "electing the right people." They somehow . elide that as Bill Buckley would say. Typical. Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good). Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good)"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022828796856954894) 2026-02-15T00:22Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"New York looking to Jersey at twilight"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022872405534802158) 2026-02-15T03:15Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In Jersey City with Lower Manhattan in the background the memorial to the Katy massacre"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022873060353683590) 2026-02-15T03:18Z 64.8K followers, 20.6K engagements
"In this some of us hear what Reagan said to Dick Allen: "My theory of the Cold War is: We win they lose." Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: If Russians cross the border start killing NATO citizens we activate the plan. The plan is simple: we win they lose. https://t.co/NWQa4JRclD Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: If Russians cross the border start killing NATO citizens we activate the plan. The plan is simple: we win they lose. https://t.co/NWQa4JRclD"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022880967531339806) 2026-02-15T03:49Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In feeling and sympathy Trump is with Putin. Consider one thing out of hundreds. When Putin arrived in Alaska last summer Trump rolled out the red carpet for him -- literally. There was a military flyover in Putins honor. Trump invited Putin to ride with him in his limo. As the Associated Press reported the two men were casually chatting like reunited friends. When Zelensky arrived in Florida at the end of December to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago no U.S. official -- not one -- greeted him at the airport. Just recently Trump hung pictures in the newly renovated Palm Room of the White House."
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2023107558307709416) 2026-02-15T18:50Z 64.8K followers, 80K engagements
"Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-and-losers-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-and-losers-and-c"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022319311084294181) 2026-02-13T14:37Z 64.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Bull's-eye after bull's-eye by @GeorgeWill -- e.g. "Putin's only sympathizer in the European Union Hungary's Viktor Orban might now have firmer support among American authoritarians ('national conservatives') than among Hungarians." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/13/putin-russia-ukraine-trump-europe/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/13/putin-russia-ukraine-trump-europe/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022390700843892954) 2026-02-13T19:21Z 64.8K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Wise advice from until recently the U.S. ambassador to China. In Munich allied leaders should reject Beijings cynical propaganda designed to intimidate Japan and divide it from the U.S. and Europe. @MunSecConf In Munich allied leaders should reject Beijings cynical propaganda designed to intimidate Japan and divide it from the U.S. and Europe. @MunSecConf"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022720008900505910) 2026-02-14T17:10Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good). Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting electing the right leaders to lead this country." https://t.co/p6v6u1Nyhj Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting electing the right leaders to lead this country." https://t.co/p6v6u1Nyhj"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022720355966816519) 2026-02-14T17:11Z 64.8K followers, 106.7K engagements
"From a 64th floor in Jersey City:"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022873427770519658) 2026-02-15T03:19Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The old-time religion. I hope it gains in adherents. What makes an American is not the name or blood or even the place of birth but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for. Justice Scalia https://t.co/IBqabJd4Kn What makes an American is not the name or blood or even the place of birth but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for. Justice Scalia https://t.co/IBqabJd4Kn"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022878158735737257) 2026-02-15T03:38Z 64.8K followers, 12.1K engagements
""The stronger we are the more realistic peace becomes." Yes. For decades I heard American conservatives say this. They we were right. Please remember the moment when Russia began to take diplomacy most seriously in these [--] years. It was when our deep strikes against Russian oil refineries began to work and when everyone started talking about TomahawksThe stronger we are the more realistic peace becomes. Please remember the moment when Russia began to take diplomacy most seriously in these [--] years. It was when our deep strikes against Russian oil refineries began to work and when everyone"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/2022887077784764870) 2026-02-15T04:13Z 64.8K followers, 31.2K engagements
"In recent years young conservatives have asked me "What should I do" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well here's a little article responding to the question. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023025227735933043) 2026-02-15T13:22Z 64.8K followers, 42K engagements
"Thank you Bill. (Kristols and Himmelfarbs have taught me a great deal about our country and about democracy in general.) Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023110257430712790) 2026-02-15T19:00Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Kallas knows. (Greatest Kallas/Callas since Maria.) (No offense to Charlie.) Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has https://t.co/587S2r6ieQ Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023110737808199681) 2026-02-15T19:02Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There was a time after February [----] when it seemed like half the people I knew were reading "Life and Fate" to their profit. (Some were also reading "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig.) Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism. Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023146723879891336) 2026-02-15T21:25Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The American official lists the wars that Trump supposedly ended. Estonia's Kaja Kallas who knows things tries to remain cool. I think this is my favorite public reaction since King Juan Carlos told Hugo Chvez to shut up ("Por qu no te callas")"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023387637588062404) 2026-02-16T13:23Z 64.8K followers, 42.2K engagements
"The U.S. secretary of state visiting Orbn in Budapest says "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." This is a campaign speech for Orbn"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023414537777770785) 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, 558.1K engagements
"In the Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) an article by me about a national treasure and his complications. https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-real-stand-up-guy/ https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-real-stand-up-guy/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967230095883673660) 2025-09-14T14:12Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Dammit. He was one of the handful -- an anti-Putin pro-Ukraine Republican. One by one they go. The other type always -- always -- remains. To repeat myself: Dammit. BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul announced on @ThisWeekABC that he will not seek reelection in [----]. It's been an honor to serve for over two decades in the Congress. Im looking now for a new challenge. Read more: https://t.co/4zQmchkZaj https://t.co/DJYCDJurjf BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul announced on @ThisWeekABC that he will not seek reelection in [----]. It's been an honor to serve for over two"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967315980943778052) 2025-09-14T19:54Z 60.2K followers, 44.7K engagements
"According to legend Oliver Cromwell wanted his portrait painted "warts and all." That's how history should be presented -- warts and all scars and all. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967712481633354045) 2025-09-15T22:09Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If it weren't for the Niagara of news -- this would be a huge scandal and a grave concern. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967722968139841859) 2025-09-15T22:51Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"For years President Trump has called his critics "enemies of the people." I have said this is not the way American leaders should talk given the pedigree of that phrase. Republican colleagues have rolled their eyes at me. I don't care. It's wrong and it stinks. Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. https://t.co/CoBnKtchAq Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967913807105368107) 2025-09-16T11:29Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"For years President Trump has called his critics "enemies of the people." This phrase has a horrible pedigree (and horrible present). American leaders should not use it. Can we all agree (No.) Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. https://t.co/CoBnKtchAq Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1967935129231544498) 2025-09-16T12:54Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I want Putin Xi Kim et al. to be afraid of our government. I don't want newspapers law firms and comedians to be afraid of our government"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1968481838315282682) 2025-09-18T01:06Z 60.3K followers, 28.6K engagements
"@jaynordlinger Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and all of them have been here for hundreds of years. All four of my wife's grandparents were immigrants. I love how she defends our shared and deeply held American principles and exceptionalism with Sicilian passion @jaynordlinger Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and all of them have been here for hundreds of years. All four of my wife's grandparents were immigrants. I love how she defends our shared and deeply held American principles and exceptionalism with Sicilian passion"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1968650906246799499) 2025-09-18T12:18Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A story told by Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza): One day Boris Nemtsov was in the Kremlin with Yeltsin. The TV was on and a program was blasting the president as usual. Yeltsin said Boris hand me the remote control. I cant take it anymore. That was a long time ago now. RDI Chairman @Kasparov63: "Last night apropos of nothing at all I was thinking about how in Russia you cant go on television and make fun of the president or his favorites." https://t.co/pALnpxNpMp RDI Chairman @Kasparov63: "Last night apropos of nothing at all I was thinking about how in Russia you cant go on television and"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1968771867835040187) 2025-09-18T20:19Z 60.3K followers, 10.7K engagements
"(Ive watched this over and over.) It's tough being a MAGA apologist. You work so hard confecting rationalizations. Then Trump just blurts the truth that you supposed it was your job to conceal. It's tough being a MAGA apologist. You work so hard confecting rationalizations. Then Trump just blurts the truth that you supposed it was your job to conceal"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1968882484847763516) 2025-09-19T03:38Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Huh. One of the excuses I heard from the nat-pops for not arming Ukraine was "We have to help Taiwan instead." Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid pushing future arms sales https://t.co/7PTgcOwwty Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid pushing future arms sales https://t.co/7PTgcOwwty"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969005456862429451) 2025-09-19T11:47Z 60.4K followers, 28.2K engagements
"In the latest episode of "Music for a While" I pay tribute to Rodion Shchedrin the late composer. I read from some correspondence. I play musical examples. I think you will enjoy this "dipping in" to a rich productive life. https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-105-a-composer-in-words-and-music/s-UXu24CkoX4Wutm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=aacf06bce6954de9b6a10a55efd3eafd"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969170010426794406) 2025-09-19T22:41Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
""The U.S. military has always emphasized obeying the laws of war for all the difficulties that might cause. George Washington appointed the first judge advocate only a few weeks after taking command of the Continental Army." By @IgnatiusPost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/19/hegseth-national-guard-military-lawyer-purge/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/19/hegseth-national-guard-military-lawyer-purge/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969171817702035600) 2025-09-19T22:48Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Do you mind a little political rough-and-tumble with your Football Saturday Well I won't be long." Kimmel Pence Taiwan Russia etc. A brisk multi-item'd column by me. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/no-naivete-please https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/no-naivete-please"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969393941012193397) 2025-09-20T13:31Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Idle thought: If the American experiment is to be finished off by Americans of course; no one else it will be by rationalization. Not hostility or aggression so much as rationalization. It is all around us"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969599105489125705) 2025-09-21T03:06Z 60.3K followers, 13.3K engagements
"This is hugely advantageous to Trump. Always has been. In a firehose of awfulness no one focuses on just one thing. If you have five Watergates a week you practically have none. Trump is directing the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies now. The Pentagon is banning journalism. The FCC is targeting critics of the President to get them taken off air. Trumps border czar took cash bribes and Patels FBI dropped the case. Thats just this week. Trump is directing the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies now. The Pentagon is banning journalism. The FCC is targeting critics of the President to"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1969847920385269980) 2025-09-21T19:35Z 60.4K followers, 92.2K engagements
"Letterman used to have a segment called "Brush with Greatness." Well today I passed Tom Hanks on the street. He was standing -- waiting for a car I think -- with a ball cap jammed over his head. It was a thrill to see him: an immortal and a mensch"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1970301936428609669) 2025-09-23T01:39Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump just torpedoed every White House surrogate who claimed the administration wasnt attempting to coerce Disney/ABC. https://t.co/bMdAXIjmLZ Trump just torpedoed every White House surrogate who claimed the administration wasnt attempting to coerce Disney/ABC. https://t.co/bMdAXIjmLZ"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1970809167079469321) 2025-09-24T11:14Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Impressive. BREAKING: PM Meloni says the only way Italy will consider recognizing Palestine is if Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders. The pressure should be put on Hamas because Hamas started this war. https://t.co/KNQSJASZrr BREAKING: PM Meloni says the only way Italy will consider recognizing Palestine is if Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders. The pressure should be put on Hamas because Hamas started this war. https://t.co/KNQSJASZrr"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1970814913690886199) 2025-09-24T11:37Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Something to consider: If you dislike Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel I perfectly well understand. But to say that they are untalented is just . silly. There are lots of performers artists and writers I don't care for -- who are nonetheless talented (alas). You know"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1970817230956024290) 2025-09-24T11:46Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
""It's not the heat it's the humidity" is the truest most valid clich there is. (My equivalent in the winter is "It's not the temperature it's the wind.")"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1971034033762324696) 2025-09-25T02:08Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Kasparov is a chess champion plus a freedom-and-democracy champion. I don't know checkers to say nothing of chess. But I'll do my damnedest on those other fronts. A pleasure and an honor to welcome @jaynordlinger to RDI and to see his first piece in The Next Move. I have long admired Jay as a voice for individual freedom and the values of democracy. He writes with humanity sanity and a sense of history. Enjoy. Link 👇 A pleasure and an honor to welcome @jaynordlinger to RDI and to see his first piece in The Next Move. I have long admired Jay as a voice for individual freedom and the values of"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1971244460387565741) 2025-09-25T16:04Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Anyone with the slightest pretension of caring about the rule of law should be alarmed as hell about what President Trump and his administration are doing. Either you care about the rule of law whoever is in office or you dont"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1971570418487292163) 2025-09-26T13:39Z 60.5K followers, 23.8K engagements
"I have seen this play out for ten years: The thing they accuse you of having TDS for fearing today they will excuse or ignore tomorrow. This is a law of contemporary American politics"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1971614919817875861) 2025-09-26T16:36Z 60.5K followers, 24.6K engagements
"A photo worthy of Vanity Fair. Fafoon has high expectations for you today. Prepare to fall short of them. https://t.co/IdYcMMhi4X Fafoon has high expectations for you today. Prepare to fall short of them. https://t.co/IdYcMMhi4X"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972273653518921981) 2025-09-28T12:14Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
""Some of my favorite players are on the European team" a friend of mine (an American) said this morning. The first piece I ever wrote for The Weekly Standard in October [----] was about the Ryder Cup and nationalism. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/961879/my-country-ryder-wrong/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/961879/my-country-ryder-wrong/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972358127128576092) 2025-09-28T17:49Z 60.5K followers, 17.7K engagements
"Just a reminder: Were only about eight months into Trumps current four-year term"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972493628309397633) 2025-09-29T02:48Z 60.5K followers, 18.2K engagements
"I have been a supporter of law enforcement my whole life. It is one of the things that define my politics in fact. Disrespect for law enforcement has always irked and nauseated me. Also no agency can be perfect. There are always bad apples bad actors. But: ICE Damn troubling"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972497691105210809) 2025-09-29T03:04Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"A world treasure JKR. She doesnt need any of it. She could be resting on her laurels and billions. But she has stuck her neck out for important values. She is loath to see liberalism genuine liberalism turned on its head. Again: a world treasure who is owed our thanks. I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this so I"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972742663935082757) 2025-09-29T19:17Z 60.5K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Just for fun imagine if Kamala Harris were president and summoned all of our generals and admirals for a meeting at Quantico. Im sure that Republicans would be completely completely equanimous about it. Esprit de corps (My ass.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972747510579159050) 2025-09-29T19:37Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Mother to child whos impatient for the subway train to come: Itll be here in four minutes. Sing one song and it will be here. (Thats a long song)"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972756681705824604) 2025-09-29T20:13Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I would be interested to survey our commanders gathered at Quantico: Do you prefer Department of Defense or Department of War I dont know of course but I bet the administration would not like the result"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972757803120087192) 2025-09-29T20:18Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Is it wrong for the U.S. president to circulate doctored things even in a supposedly lighthearted spirit Or are we way beyond such questions "New normals" get established so fast I can't keep up. And frankly don't want to. https://t.co/JzQYLShOCt https://t.co/JzQYLShOCt"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972856899751293419) 2025-09-30T02:51Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I remember a song from the mid-1980s: "Ain't gonna play Sun City." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/arts/marc-maron-shane-gillis-riyadh-comedy-festival.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/arts/marc-maron-shane-gillis-riyadh-comedy-festival.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1972859082379042986) 2025-09-30T03:00Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A quick impression: Trump and Hegseth are used to appearing before people who are impressed by them -- Fox viewers Republican rally-goers. They have a different audience with these military commanders who have seen and done so much"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973057315168256463) 2025-09-30T16:08Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My thinking is very different from Trump's: I am impressed indeed awed by the Ukrainian people and their resilience and their determination and their patriotism. God bless them. May they repel the invader and hang on to their country. Trump to top military officials: "I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He shoulda had that war done in a week." https://t.co/NA4TqDomTY Trump to top military officials: "I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He shoulda had that war done in a week.""
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973059770035605910) 2025-09-30T16:18Z 60.5K followers, 39.9K engagements
"According to reports Trump chose General Mattis to be his first secretary of defense because he liked the generals nickname: Mad Dog. To Trumps disappointment Mattis proved a serious professional. Perhaps Trump has his Mad Dog now And his Roy Cohn at Justice"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973137018453651614) 2025-09-30T21:24Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Sounds right"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973139228642189756) 2025-09-30T21:33Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When it comes to "tough guys" I prefer George Washington -- who in a speech to senior officers said "Gentlemen you will permit me to put on my spectacles for I have grown not only gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Bless him"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973171229474562145) 2025-09-30T23:40Z 60.7K followers, 22.2K engagements
"The road to juche Brooke Rollins: "I think it's Biblical -- we've got to produce food for our own selves. The president has talked significantly about the importance of onshoring our manufacturing. We also have to onshore our food. We have over the last decade or so begun to import more than we https://t.co/UH4u5lAHEm Brooke Rollins: "I think it's Biblical -- we've got to produce food for our own selves. The president has talked significantly about the importance of onshoring our manufacturing. We also have to onshore our food. We have over the last decade or so begun to import more than we"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973187071704760416) 2025-10-01T00:43Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Who's the more dependable Our civilian leadership or our military leadership I would bet on the latter. In any case I have a column on Trump and Hegseth at Quantico and other interesting matters. See what you think. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/tough-guys-we-have-known-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/tough-guys-we-have-known-and-c"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973376918960718247) 2025-10-01T13:18Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If you're in the mood for a music podcast I've got one for you -- a program of Tchaikovsky Handel Mompou et al. Lend an ear. (I like to quote Bill Buckley: "All politics and no play makes Jack a dull boy.") https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-106-souvenirs https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-106-souvenirs"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973469398905266678) 2025-10-01T19:25Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I express a movie opinion like once or twice a year. I don't think I've expressed one in [----] so here goes: Tom Cruise is underrated as a movie actor. I could sketch out the reasons. In any case Cruise is in the weird position of being a household name and underrated"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973556670606573908) 2025-10-02T01:12Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Foreign entanglements WTF MAGA (In May [----] three months after Russia's full-scale invasion the Heritage Foundation said that aid to Ukraine "puts America last.") https://apnews.com/article/us-qatar-security-trump-israel-hamas-de391ae9bded58bffb1f5b69777f35cf https://apnews.com/article/us-qatar-security-trump-israel-hamas-de391ae9bded58bffb1f5b69777f35cf"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973588210321412358) 2025-10-02T03:17Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Meloni and Milei are highly valuable -- leaders generally prized by the Right who are foursquare behind Ukraine and against Putin's lust for conquest and control. I had a good conversation with President of the Council of Ministers of Italy @GiorgiaMeloni. We discussed potential risks and threats from Russia in light of recent violations of European airspace and ways to respond to common challenges. We are ready to share our experience in https://t.co/fxm60sDChr I had a good conversation with President of the Council of Ministers of Italy @GiorgiaMeloni. We discussed potential risks and"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973774998356836606) 2025-10-02T15:40Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My Republican friends often bring up nuts on the left -- in politics the media academia show business. My usual response is: "Quite right. I wouldn't nominate them for president -- to say nothing of three times in a row. Your point" MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. MIKE JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too DEAN: Oh my god please. That performance in front of the generals MIKE JOHNSON: I didn't see it DEAN: It's so dangerous Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies https://t.co/WNvZRo638S MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. MIKE"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973890477662552236) 2025-10-02T23:18Z 60.6K followers, 113.6K engagements
"Brutal Juice (as we used to say in America). Future Gazprom board members Future Gazprom board members"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973920272555139303) 2025-10-03T01:17Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"She was incredibly photogenic all through her life. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/science/jane-goodall-photos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/science/jane-goodall-photos.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1973942443352732162) 2025-10-03T02:45Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Like many conservatives I have been called a "fascist" by people on the left for years. For the last ten years I have been called a "globalist" by others. I take a look at the second epithet in particular in a column today. Epithets everywhere https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/globalist-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/globalist-and-c"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974096058683990352) 2025-10-03T12:55Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Normalized completely. Routine. Hail Caesar. (Hell no.) Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. @jennyschuessler @minhokimdh https://t.co/rZF5BBdkGJ Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. @jennyschuessler @minhokimdh"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974329497970241917) 2025-10-04T04:23Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Something to be aware of -- something else. FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk four people familiar say https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk four people familiar say https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974477219625095231) 2025-10-04T14:10Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Will anyone object Or is the nation simply . too weary Worn out COINED LEGACY: The Treasury Department is weighing a proposal to issue new $1 coins featuring President Trump as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Americas founding. https://t.co/nM6xdyqEu6 COINED LEGACY: The Treasury Department is weighing a proposal to issue new $1 coins featuring President Trump as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Americas founding. https://t.co/nM6xdyqEu6"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974477858568384763) 2025-10-04T14:13Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He does yes. This kind of rhetoric is incredibly dangerous for the judge. Miller constantly deploys deranged rhetoric even as he claims the left incites violence with its own language. If Miller believes that rhetoric can lead to violence then he knows exactly what he is doing. This kind of rhetoric is incredibly dangerous for the judge. Miller constantly deploys deranged rhetoric even as he claims the left incites violence with its own language. If Miller believes that rhetoric can lead to violence then he knows exactly what he is doing"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974809185561845779) 2025-10-05T12:09Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I live in New York a home of pizza (they say). But I believe my favorite pizza parlor is in Bloomington Ind. hard by IU. A treasure of a haunt"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1974985708533174569) 2025-10-05T23:51Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Starbucks employees are suing their employer over a new dress code and the costs it entails. I solicited the testimony of a friend of mine who spent a few years working at Starbucks. An interesting "take" on a common slice of American life. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/working-at-starbucks https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/working-at-starbucks"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975165519104753736) 2025-10-06T11:45Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The most ghastly tyrannies in the world are in alliance against Ukraine: Russia China North Korea Iran. The Free World ought to be squarely in Ukraine's corner. China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. https://t.co/QigD3MmYEd China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. https://t.co/QigD3MmYEd"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975332754876461125) 2025-10-06T22:50Z 60.7K followers, 59.9K engagements
"A president should have the sense that he is the temporary custodian of something important that belongs to the whole country. It is not his personal lair. It needs more gold. https://t.co/a2xZ0TVEsj It needs more gold. https://t.co/a2xZ0TVEsj"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975523244095500557) 2025-10-07T11:26Z 60.8K followers, 34.3K engagements
"My best wishes are for the good health and long lives of Russian political prisoners. And their freedom. I wish the same for Ukrainians. Spoke with my friend President Putin and conveyed warm birthday greetings and best wishes for his good health and long life. Deeply appreciate his personal commitment to deepening IndiaRussia ties over the years. @KremlinRussia_E Spoke with my friend President Putin and conveyed warm birthday greetings and best wishes for his good health and long life. Deeply appreciate his personal commitment to deepening IndiaRussia ties over the years. @KremlinRussia_E"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975576843643470297) 2025-10-07T14:59Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Met after hours well after hours has an allure"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975764446283784532) 2025-10-08T03:25Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Politkovskaya's murder rattled the world. This was before the murder of Putin's critics became routine. Now people tend to yawn. And admiration of Putin is strong in the smellier quarters of the free and democratic world. She was fearless. Just a few months before her murder I begged her to stay in the US because of the danger. She looked at me and said she couldnt imagine living anywhere but Russia and she couldnt imagine being anything other than a journalist. Journalism was her life. She was fearless. Just a few months before her murder I begged her to stay in the US because of the danger."
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975780720691077430) 2025-10-08T04:30Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In June [----] the Chinese Communist Party brought in troops from the countryside to put down the uppity students in Beijing. I hate this playing of the red states against the blue states. I despise it. It is un-American and it is playing with fire"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975788514202832975) 2025-10-08T05:01Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This news from California gives me a memory. Two years ago the New York City public schools made Diwali a holiday. My friend @vivekpdave commented "If they really wanted to honor Indian culture they'd make the kids go to school a half-day on Saturday." https://apnews.com/article/diwali-state-holiday-california-hindus-sikhs-buddhists-f7ddd73c14e212a698d2c559c12a8a4e https://apnews.com/article/diwali-state-holiday-california-hindus-sikhs-buddhists-f7ddd73c14e212a698d2c559c12a8a4e"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975888459521999044) 2025-10-08T11:38Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Cripe what would Hegseth say Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinoisaccording to sourcesfamiliar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb. Read more: https://t.co/AkmU3diD97 https://t.co/chTjQ1TrFY Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinoisaccording to sourcesfamiliar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb. Read more: https://t.co/AkmU3diD97 https://t.co/chTjQ1TrFY"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975912011021357270) 2025-10-08T13:11Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I think of an old expression: Who will police the police Who will watch the watchmen A society must figure this out. The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball. https://t.co/UvP3bZ7yJn The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball."
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975913669012992287) 2025-10-08T13:18Z 60.7K followers, 53.9K engagements
"I find this rather moving frankly. When Russia attacks the next country because they were allowed to take Ukraine we will hold our heads high knowing we did our part where others were free riding and made up excuses for the Russian aggression. https://t.co/GkIZSUqBJP When Russia attacks the next country because they were allowed to take Ukraine we will hold our heads high knowing we did our part where others were free riding and made up excuses for the Russian aggression. https://t.co/GkIZSUqBJP"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975929150407123037) 2025-10-08T14:19Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Free speech can be vexing. You want it for yourself your friends and your allies. But in an open society the other guys get it too. I have written a little essay with doses of autobiography and a killer statement by Ortega y Gasset at the end. https://www.thenextmove.org/p/we-need-free-speech-consistency https://www.thenextmove.org/p/we-need-free-speech-consistency"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1975960059630019055) 2025-10-08T16:22Z 60.8K followers, 37.9K engagements
"In the 1980s there was a famous line concerning nuclear war: "thinking the unthinkable." I thought of this when reading @GeorgeWill's column. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/08/putin-russia-estonia-nato-drones/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/08/putin-russia-estonia-nato-drones/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1976283152592273425) 2025-10-09T13:46Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes. One grows numb. It's important to resist growing numb. I know the president spews so much delusional word-vomit that we casually dismiss this stuff but calling the small business plaintiffs in the tariff cases "enemies of the country" is still really shitty I know the president spews so much delusional word-vomit that we casually dismiss this stuff but calling the small business plaintiffs in the tariff cases "enemies of the country" is still really shitty"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1976470530422460504) 2025-10-10T02:11Z 60.7K followers, 41.8K engagements
"Sometimes a Nobel prize aids a freedom struggle sometimes it does not. Let us hope that the prize to Mara Corina Machado a brave woman aids the freedom struggle in Venezuela"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1976635819021762958) 2025-10-10T13:07Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Nobel prizes began in [----]. The peace prize always went for international efforts -- until the [----] prize which went to a freedom struggle in one country: South Africa. The laureate was Albert John Luthuli a great man. The [----] prize is in that spirit"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1976635820955324685) 2025-10-10T13:07Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"(By the way may I please hear from Caltech people regarding the world's best technical school A brawl between MIT and Caltech on this subject would be better than the college football playoffs.) The surest way to screw up the worlds best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in but MIT is not one of them. The surest way to screw up the worlds best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1977143972092125599) 2025-10-11T22:47Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I was talking with a friend and made this confession: When I was younger I thought everything was settled pretty much. Feudalism bad. Nazism bad. Communism bad. Liberal democracy good. Etc. How weird it has been to discover at this stage that nothing is settled"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1977153985066025189) 2025-10-11T23:26Z 60.8K followers, 44K engagements
"I've studied and written about governments of this nature. They were not . the U.S. government. https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/barron-trump-tipped-for-leading-role-at-tiktok/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/barron-trump-tipped-for-leading-role-at-tiktok/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1977847411381809227) 2025-10-13T21:22Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A remark made by Kevin D. Williamson in this excellent and interesting article made me reflect on something: The best musicians I know tend to be very ecumenical. https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/snobbery-guns/ https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/snobbery-guns/"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1977852354549469326) 2025-10-13T21:42Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump administration has required the National Symphony Orchestra to play the national anthem before every concert. I like our anthem as much as the next guy (probably more). But -- is this patriotism Or something else An issue in my column today. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/standing-for-america-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/standing-for-america-and-c"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978064976100069515) 2025-10-14T11:46Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Don't get numb. If at all possible fight the numb. Russia is a terror-state and should not be treated as an ordinary government. Ukrainians are being maimed and killed for the crime of existing as Ukrainians. At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in the latest wave of Russian drone and shelling attacks on Ukraine including a strike that hit a hospital complex in Kharkiv. https://t.co/dyEJUsRJCq At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in the latest wave of Russian drone and shelling attacks on Ukraine including a strike that hit a hospital complex in"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978068818741141586) 2025-10-14T12:02Z 60.8K followers, 47.4K engagements
"This is a very important phenomenon of our time. (Young conservatives have given me chapter and verse on it. They thought I was naive about what was going on. I was -- but no longer.) None of this is remotely surprising. If you're at all familiar with young MAGA culture this kind of conduct is common. It's a matter of in-group signaling. You show your commitment to the cause in part through your disregard of basic decency and morality. None of this is remotely surprising. If you're at all familiar with young MAGA culture this kind of conduct is common. It's a matter of in-group signaling. You"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978234594454274176) 2025-10-14T23:00Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The mob on Jan. [--] assaulted the U.S. Congress for the purpose of halting a constitutional process -- which they succeeded in doing for several hours while the president in the White House watched it unfold on television with pleasure. Don't talk to me about patriotism. Ever"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978277386677301368) 2025-10-15T01:50Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Well at least the wording is right: "taking the position of president." https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-coup-leader-d589bfacc33bfd7e7e53bfadef7c6d8b https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-coup-leader-d589bfacc33bfd7e7e53bfadef7c6d8b"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978477388943265953) 2025-10-15T15:05Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It is not the job of the U.S. president to be involved in every nook and cranny of life -- late-night talk shows sports events etc. Conservatives taught me this long ago and they were right. https://apnews.com/article/trump-boston-world-cup-revoke-matches-crime-cd448b4564f6d32b3118d9198a7073ef https://apnews.com/article/trump-boston-world-cup-revoke-matches-crime-cd448b4564f6d32b3118d9198a7073ef"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978486360093667433) 2025-10-15T15:41Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🧵1/7: For The Next Move the publication of the Renew Democracy Initiative (@Renew_Democracy) I have written a piece about the Venezuelan Nobel -- the peace prize to Mara Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA). Sometimes the Nobel Peace Prize is a freedom prize"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978583845017399577) 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🧵2/7: My piece is here: https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-defense-of-maria-corina-machadoandopen=false#%C2%A7the-nobel-peace-prize-as-a-freedom-prize https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-defense-of-maria-corina-machadoandopen=false#%C2%A7the-nobel-peace-prize-as-a-freedom-prize"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978583846275703244) 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [---] engagements
"🧵3/7: The Nobel prizes started in [----]. The peace prize always went for international efforts (as Alfred Nobel the testator stipulated). In the 1960s the committee started to honor people who wage a freedom struggle within their own borders"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978583848263815286) 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"🧵4/7: The first such winner was a South African: Albert John Lutuli a great man. He was a Zulu chief a Christian lay pastor and the president of the African National Congress. I have long wished he were better known"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978583849849241608) 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"🧵5/7: In [----] Lech Wasa won the peace prize. (He was the Solidarity leader in Poland.) President Reagan said the award to Wasa was "a triumph of moral force over brute force" and "a victory for those who seek to enlarge the human spirit over those who seek to crush it.""
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/1978583851141042685) 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@jimgeraghty @KatrinaTrinko Kate does this photo remind you of a cake you were once baked"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/629422843252576256) 2015-08-06T22:44Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Panzenbeck @KatrinaTrinko P.S. "Panzenbeck" is pretty good too. P.P.S. "Trinko" a little Balkan war criminal-ish. P.P.P.S. Hate speech"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/629436649051684864) 2015-08-06T23:39Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@woodruffbets @Panzenbeck @KatrinaTrinko Yes We'll do that when the field narrows down. Trinks may dominate this race"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/629437928406695936) 2015-08-06T23:44Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
".@elianayjohnson @alexis_levinson Do they have to pander to "gaming" as they do ethanol in Iowa P.S. "Gaming" is SUCH a bogus euphemism"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/632890897793982464) 2015-08-16T12:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@KatrinaTrinko Katrina what exactly is the relationship between you and that hurricane Or is it vanden Heuvel's fault"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/636173431936012288) 2015-08-25T13:49Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@hughhewitt There was a bumper sticker in my childhood: "A buckeye is a hairless nut." OSU can afford to be gracious: They keep beating us"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/638390011457597440) 2015-08-31T16:36Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@madisonvpeace @KatrinaTrinko Madison I've never heard a sarcastic word from your lips Trinko's another story "
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/638415552902512645) 2015-08-31T18:18Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"A debate preview by @alexis_levinson: Another by @JRubinBlogger: Savvy helpful A-1. http://wapo.st/1M3VtEn http://bit.ly/1PA4pE2 http://wapo.st/1M3VtEn http://bit.ly/1PA4pE2"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/664101559492599808) 2015-11-10T15:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Smart analysis of last night's election results on the GOP side by National Review's @alexis_levinson: http://bit.ly/1RgIgMh http://bit.ly/1RgIgMh"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/712676709779316737) 2016-03-23T16:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@alexis_levinson"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/813208967606321156) 2016-12-26T02:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Japanese motorcade at Arlington Cemetery. Rather classy-looking"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/830067538772054017) 2017-02-10T14:54Z 58.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Strange times strange times. Conservatives are being pushed into defenses of Soros-associated institutions by the illiberal Right. https://x.com/jkirchick/status/853704786558038016 https://x.com/jkirchick/status/853704786558038016"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/853779471123578880) 2017-04-17T01:17Z 57.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Idle question: Doesn't $130K strike you as a little low when a porn star is selling her silence to a billionaire I don't have much experience in the matter but do you know what I mean"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/951999239130959872) 2018-01-13T02:08Z 60.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Once upon a time there were social conservatives. They were part of the broader conservative constellation. They worried about the "coarsening of the culture." They hated vulgarity porn lying adultery etc. They were square. Where are they Have they gone extinct So weird"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/952610076757553152) 2018-01-14T18:35Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If the Democrats fielded a presidential nominee like Macron who is a bte noire of the Left in France they would mop up I bet. But they cant. No such Dem could win the nomination. Does one even exist The Ds are Warrenite the Rs Trumpite. Dommage. https://apnews.com/c36af69bb54f4228940a1da1637cd493 https://apnews.com/c36af69bb54f4228940a1da1637cd493"
[X Link](https://x.com/jaynordlinger/status/989475504137949184) 2018-04-26T12:05Z 58.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I found this almost hypnotic. The weather warms and the ice moves. (This is the Hudson River at Manhattan.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023594862826631181) 2026-02-17T03:06Z 64.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes (I have been a chavista -- Linda not Hugo -- for many years.) 👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez 👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023591786099114262) 2026-02-17T02:54Z 64.8K followers, [---] engagements
"👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023584150637167018) 2026-02-17T02:23Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements
"The U.S. secretary of state visiting Orbn in Budapest says "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." This is a campaign speech for Orbn"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023414537777770785) 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, 558.1K engagements
"It's also a campaign speech in behalf of Rubio himself. Orbn is a nat-pop pin-up. And the [----] GOP presidential primaries will be a nat-pop palooza"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023414539661004935) 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In my life I've known people who liked Israel only when Labor was in charge. Or only when Likud was in charge. Similar things go for other countries as well. Evidently the Trump administration is not an ally so much of Hungary as of Orbn. Pathetic"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023589038494527599) 2026-02-17T02:43Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"About an obits page you may think there is something dark or even macabre. On the contrary obits tend to be celebrations of life. I have done a podcast with a New York Times obituarist Clay Risen. He has very interesting things to say. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/writer-of-lives https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/writer-of-lives"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023384243049558440) 2026-02-16T13:09Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @jaynordlinger: Huh. Come one come all if you like"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023533079235834310) 2026-02-16T23:00Z 64.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Huh. Come one come all if you like BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://t.co/bfL398pT8z https://t.co/Nae1IBo6hz BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://t.co/bfL398pT8z https://t.co/Nae1IBo6hz"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023455764925354454) 2026-02-16T17:53Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9p8uPvi8GMymoBi0E4Cqy0VBOeRu6q5dUjWlVAeI-4gu_cw/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9p8uPvi8GMymoBi0E4Cqy0VBOeRu6q5dUjWlVAeI-4gu_cw/viewform"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022193785300824549) 2026-02-13T06:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"The American official lists the wars that Trump supposedly ended. Estonia's Kaja Kallas who knows things tries to remain cool. I think this is my favorite public reaction since King Juan Carlos told Hugo Chvez to shut up ("Por qu no te callas")"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023387637588062404) 2026-02-16T13:23Z 64.8K followers, 42.2K engagements
"Rosenblattian lyricism. Marvelous. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/opinion/family-history-identity.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.MVA.T-j7.fyWkyX7c4xjh&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/opinion/family-history-identity.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.MVA.T-j7.fyWkyX7c4xjh&smid=url-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023167471985762508) 2026-02-15T22:48Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Such a pleasure. I mean really. Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://t.co/jIlWpUh91Q Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://t.co/jIlWpUh91Q"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023164811563905231) 2026-02-15T22:37Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/writers-who-arent-boring https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/writers-who-arent-boring"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023157404482027705) 2026-02-15T22:08Z 126.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In recent years young conservatives have asked me "What should I do" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well here's a little article responding to the question. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023025227735933043) 2026-02-15T13:22Z 64.8K followers, 42K engagements
"There was a time after February [----] when it seemed like half the people I knew were reading "Life and Fate" to their profit. (Some were also reading "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig.) Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism. Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023146723879891336) 2026-02-15T21:25Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023121212038164947) 2026-02-15T19:44Z 50.1K followers, 30.7K engagements
"Perfectly -- perfectly -- worded. Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023144122186404307) 2026-02-15T21:15Z 64.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the Ukrainian people are showing the world the meaning of the ancient virtues: fortitude patriotism valour. Slava Ukraini Ukrainian defenders have crossed the Haichur River in Zaporizhzhya region and have taken control of Dobropillya Pryluky and Olenokostyantynivka. Let's go guys🙌🫡 https://t.co/nVa3OhGTLn Ukrainian defenders have"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023112333464355222) 2026-02-15T19:09Z 297.8K followers, 772.2K engagements
"Kallas knows. (Greatest Kallas/Callas since Maria.) (No offense to Charlie.) Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has https://t.co/587S2r6ieQ Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023110737808199681) 2026-02-15T19:02Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has barely advanced beyond the [----] lines. And the cost [---] million casualties. Today Russia is broken. Its economy is in shreds. It is disconnecting from the European energy markets and its own citizens are fleeing. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022956955321483732 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022956955321483732"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022956955321483732) 2026-02-15T08:51Z 673.3K followers, 166.5K engagements
"Thank you Bill. (Kristols and Himmelfarbs have taught me a great deal about our country and about democracy in general.) Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023110257430712790) 2026-02-15T19:00Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a multicultural economic zone American culture with its English-Scotts-Irish origin is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it but thats why people come here. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023065954624975059) 2026-02-15T16:04Z 1M followers, 582.6K engagements
"No offense to Ms. Atwood but I think Newsom got the better deal -- Cervantes. Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants. https://t.co/0mgLkGQGhf Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants. https://t.co/0mgLkGQGhf"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023109267595600286) 2026-02-15T18:56Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022757744034406423) 2026-02-14T19:40Z 2.1M followers, 505.7K engagements
"Yes. And you know who will tell you that word for word The Taiwanese. Officials in the Taiwanese government. "Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine. "Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023108717269692639) 2026-02-15T18:54Z 64.8K followers, 25.9K engagements
""Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine. Exclusive: China increased its support for Russias war in Ukraine in [----] and is likely to further deepen cooperation with Moscow this year Western officials said casting doubt on European leaders efforts to improve relations with Beijing. Xi Jinping has become more Exclusive: China increased its support for Russias war in Ukraine in [----] and is likely to further deepen cooperation with Moscow this year Western officials said casting doubt on European leaders efforts to improve relations with Beijing. Xi Jinping has become more"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023091517330718968) 2026-02-15T17:46Z 1.1M followers, 63.2K engagements
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@jaynordlinger Jay Nordlinger
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Social category influence countries 23.86% celebrities 7.11% travel destinations 6.09% finance 2.03% musicians 1.02% stocks 0.51% currencies 0.51%
Social topic influence ukraine #2114, russia #1837, in the 4.57%, white house #2055, country #71, the white #1107, this is #395, prize 2.54%, china 2.54%, war 2.54%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @katrinatrinko @kasparov63 @alexislevinson @brendan_f_wendt @kimberlydaum @james92693 @georgewill @jkenney @renewdemocracy @panzenbeck @cagovernor @assemblyroomusa @hutsulpower @ssg_davis_ret @danaomen0080464 @hoodganster82 @wollastonwntr63 @ameliedavid1 @davidfrum @thedispatch
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Americans should be deeply embarrassed by this ashamed even. The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization. https://t.co/4mHTZw7Uvi The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization. https://t.co/4mHTZw7Uvi"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:52Z 64.7K followers, 708.5K engagements
"Wow. Is this us I mean is this America"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:58Z 64.7K followers, 68.4K engagements
"For years Trump and his people have said "Russia Russia Russia." This is meant to mock you for concern you may have over Kremlin influence on American affairs. But you know This connection between Russia and Epstein is kind of curious isn't it I hope we learn the truth"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:50Z 64.7K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Today Russian forces again attacked a maternity hospital and they also attacked a bus transporting coalminers. Every day they murder innocents. In the White House the president has hung a picture of himself with Putin. What happened to the GOP and the conservative movement"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:21Z 64.6K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Ask yourself: What if Ukrainian forces attacked maternity hospitals in Russia and buses transporting Russian coalminers What if they were murdering innocents every day Wouldn't the White House and everyone else condemn Ukraine Why the indifference to Ukrainian lives"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:26Z 64.7K followers, 227.1K engagements
""Move on" huh I heard that phrase constantly from Democrats in the late 1990s. (There was even an organization founded.) I said no then. I say no now. No "moving on" when "move on" means "sweep under the rug." The Epstein crime circle should be exposed. https://apnews.com/video/trump-lashes-out-at-reporter-over-epstein-declares-its-time-for-the-country-to-move-on-f60b2354969a418d88e49aede23b280e https://apnews.com/video/trump-lashes-out-at-reporter-over-epstein-declares-its-time-for-the-country-to-move-on-f60b2354969a418d88e49aede23b280e"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:12Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When Stephen Harper was PM up in Ottawa I referred to him as "the Leader of the West." Guy's still got it. https://apnews.com/article/stephen-harper-portrait-canada-carney-trump-927d29a327e67b49dfe7b9a0c8d6e1db https://apnews.com/article/stephen-harper-portrait-canada-carney-trump-927d29a327e67b49dfe7b9a0c8d6e1db"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:22Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
""Gulf of America." "Trump-Kennedy Center." "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace." These may seem like small things even amusing. But they point to something larger and unamusing. I have written a little essay. See what you think. https://www.thenextmove.org/p/hail-caesar-hell-no https://www.thenextmove.org/p/hail-caesar-hell-no"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:45Z 64.7K followers, 90.3K engagements
"I have never believed the Trump kompromat stuff. I have never believed that Putin "had" anything on him. I have always believed that Trump is aligned with Putin out of sheer affinity. There are lots of Putin fans. But this Epstein-Kremlin connection is . damn interesting. This topic really causes him to lash out. Quiet piggy was to a female reporter whod asked "what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said you 'knew about the girls'" This topic really causes him to lash out. Quiet piggy was to a female reporter whod asked "what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:48Z 64.8K followers, 57.9K engagements
"The National Prayer Breakfast is now a national joke. Retire it. Or take some years off for penance. But to hell with this pseudo-religious stunt of a breakfast. President Trump calls Thomas Massie a "moron" at the National Prayer Breakfast. "There's something wrong with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr. They love voting NO." https://t.co/ThIEb9slh9 President Trump calls Thomas Massie a "moron" at the National Prayer Breakfast. "There's something wrong with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr. They love voting NO." https://t.co/ThIEb9slh9"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:15Z 64.6K followers, 71.3K engagements
"Happy Reagans birthday to all who celebrate. We are in a Trump-Orbn time obviously. We Reaganites could hold our convention at a modest-sized Dennys. But the old values still apply. Freedom democracy character openness the rule of law. Long may they wave"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:31Z 64.7K followers, 15K engagements
"(1) Republicans and the movement that calls itself "conservative" can make different choices -- but they'll have to want to. (2) I am not convinced that this kind of thing is unpopular. (3) I have heard false accusations of racism all my life. This is racist. BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:14Z 64.7K followers, 66.9K engagements
"For the last ten years I've heard "Oh he's just like Reagan and Buckley you know. Maybe a little rough around the edges maybe not so well-read -- but at heart an heir." Bullshit. Trump is a racist and a Putin admirer. He embodies a dark and sick politics. BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Theres no bottom https://t.co/zPEGa94dYO"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:36Z 64.8K followers, 303.7K engagements
""Zombie Reaganites" they call us. Well I'd rather be a zombie Reaganite than a live Trumper I can tell you that"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:49Z 64.6K followers, 16.8K engagements
"A leader. A real leader. And I think those who hate and disparage him -- know it. Russia is trying to destroy our power plants and our entire energy system. Its trying to kill our light. And Ukraine together with our friends is fighting against the darkness. This is a battle where everything is clear. There are no gray zones here. And there are also deep https://t.co/y0gVkHfrGn Russia is trying to destroy our power plants and our entire energy system. Its trying to kill our light. And Ukraine together with our friends is fighting against the darkness. This is a battle where everything is"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:44Z 64.7K followers, 36.9K engagements
"Well said. Shut up and do something you cowards. Begging Trump to act is no better than begging Putin to stop. Shut up and do something you cowards. Begging Trump to act is no better than begging Putin to stop"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:11Z 64.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Central Park as night falls"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:17Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This column by @GeorgeWill ought to go in some Anti-Nativism Hall of Fame. Bravo George. Hats off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/06/reyes-noem-haitians-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/06/reyes-noem-haitians-trump/"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:14Z 64.7K followers, 34.4K engagements
"Because I wrote a history of the Nobel Peace Prize I'm sometimes asked "Whom would you like to see win the prize" I often name two different groups -- one in Syria the other in Cuba. The White Helmets and the Ladies in White. Up to [------] Syrians remain missing a year after Assads fall. The White Helmets and a new national commission are exhuming bodies mapping grave sites and building records in a search that will take years reports @AmelieDavid1. https://t.co/ARDYrmAJPS https://t.co/UJmppimaKP Up to [------] Syrians remain missing a year after Assads fall. The White Helmets and a new national"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:24Z 64.7K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Years ago when I was writing about Canada @davidfrum said to me something like this: "You'll want to talk to Jason Kenney. He's a conservative intellectual who does politics." Yes. And he is my latest guest on "Q&A." From @jkenney you can learn a lot. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/a-razor-sharp-conservative-up-north https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/a-razor-sharp-conservative-up-north"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:00Z 64.7K followers, 36.1K engagements
"Once Don Bacon leaves Congress at the end of this term -- will there be any other GOP rep who talks or thinks like this It is worse than odd it is morally wrong. The White House puts pressure on Ukraine while Russia is invading and bombing cities. Russia wants a vassal state while Ukraine wants independence and democracy. Moral blindness is more accurate than odd. It is worse than odd it is morally wrong. The White House puts pressure on Ukraine while Russia is invading and bombing cities. Russia wants a vassal state while Ukraine wants independence and democracy. Moral blindness is more"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:11Z 64.7K followers, 47.6K engagements
"When I was young lefties from Europe and elsewhere would say to me "You Americans are just about the money -- greed -- and nothing else. No principles no ideals." That was a lie. Apparently it no longer is. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290st=BPy6rJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290st=BPy6rJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:15Z 64.7K followers, 54.9K engagements
"He was the Gaddafi son who tried to "go straight" -- to be a Western-style liberal or at least an Arab reformer. Last week he was killed in his native Libya. I encountered him once and have now written about him for @thedispatch. Interesting tragic case. https://thedispatch.com/article/tragic-son-gaddafi/ https://thedispatch.com/article/tragic-son-gaddafi/"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:13Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Last year I was writing about Taylor Swift and the extreme animosity against her. A reader commented "They hate her because she's happy. A lot of people can't stand that." Well what about Bad Bunny He seems like he's lovin' life. (Something to consider maybe.)"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:40Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Years ago my favorite Republican celebrities were Cheryl Ladd Clint Eastwood Bruce Willis Shannen Doherty and Charlton Heston. Can't today's GOP do a little better than Kid Rock"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:57Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive seen a lot in Central Park over the years. But never ice fishing. Today would be a good day for it"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:00Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For the music-minded a review of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. On the podium: Ivn Fischer (co-founder of the BFO). On the program: Mahler's Symphony No. [--]. Interesting issues arise. https://newcriterion.com/dispatch/mahler-3-with-payoff/ https://newcriterion.com/dispatch/mahler-3-with-payoff/"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:01Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For generations Americans have looked upon Canadians with condescension: "Aren't they cute with their 'aboot' and their syrup and so on" Now it's Canadians who must have an adult-like patience with us. They must think their colossal neighbor has gone full-out cray. Trumps latest unhinged threat to Canada is one part toddler level temper tantrum and one part $ grift. My hunch is the Trump organization just got some kind of payoff from Detroits Maroun family who own the competing Ambassador Bridge. They have spent [--] years lobbying https://t.co/IbSKTdACj4 Trumps latest unhinged threat to Canada"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:48Z 64.7K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) in full flight at the Ukrainian Institute of America (@UkrInstitute). Am grateful to be affiliated with his Renew Democracy Initiative (@Renew_Democracy). Pro-freedom anti-tyranny. A good stance to take"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:52Z 64.7K followers, 17K engagements
"Western audiences do not necessarily like to hear from Kasparov because he tells them things that make them uncomfortable: You can't negotiate with a person like Putin -- he will only bide his time. And nothing short of Ukrainian victory will deliver security"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:12Z 64.7K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Something about Bad Bunny -- his name -- reminded me of Jimmy Carter. In any case I have written a column about the Super Bowl the D.C. swamp my Nobel Peace Prize nominees and more. Give it a whirl. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/misbehaving-rabbits-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/misbehaving-rabbits-and-c"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:23Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There is no stronger word on the negative side than "evil." And it applies to the Chinese government. They are persecuting some of the best people in China. They are strangling Tibet. Committing genocide against the Uyghurs. An evil regime. First China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for dissent. This is Xis dictatorship. https://t.co/4UdLO4AIdp via @NYTimes First China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:48Z 64.7K followers, 27.1K engagements
""Russia's war crimes continue unabated. In fact they have intensified. Putin acts as though no one cares and no one will stop him. "Is he wrong""
X Link 2026-02-11T15:20Z 64.7K followers, 15.4K engagements
"There goes Putin again "defending Christian civilization." The Putinists of the Free World are in a sense worse than the Putinists in Russia. Russians have just bombed a super market in Ukraine's Kharkiv region with shahed drones brutally injuring [--] people. Fake negotiations is allowing all western action against to be completely paralyzed while Russia genocides the largest nation in Europe. https://t.co/zdKPaZlCOk Russians have just bombed a super market in Ukraine's Kharkiv region with shahed drones brutally injuring [--] people. Fake negotiations is allowing all western action against to be"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:23Z 64.8K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Criticizing the president in a democracy What the hell has become of this country #MAGA Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:32Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"What exactly is the difference between this Speaker of the House and a Trump staffer What's the difference between him and say Karoline Leavitt I think he should get out of Congress and join the White House staff or the RNC frankly. More honest employment. NEW: Speaker Johnson just told me he believes the [--] Democrats who participated in the disobey illegal orders video should be indicted. Comes after a grand jury rejected the attempt by federal prosecutors. I think that anytime you're obstructing law enforcement and getting in https://t.co/CwfIxquzxu NEW: Speaker Johnson just told me he"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:41Z 64.8K followers, 45.4K engagements
"John Mitchell would be amazed -- absolutely amazed -- at Pam Bondi. (And William Barr looks like a titan of the law in comparison with Bondi.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:16Z 64.7K followers, 24.8K engagements
"You might say that elementary civics lessons should not be necessary -- but they are: Loyalty to the executive branch of the federal government or to the incumbent president is not the equivalent of patriotism"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:23Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Rules are rules. I'm a believer in rules and their equal application. Still all honor to Vladyslav. I'm glad for his stand. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has barred Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing at the [----] Milano Cortina Games after he refused to remove a helmet bearing images of athletes killed in Russia's invasion saying it violated the IOC's rules on The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has barred Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing at the [----] Milano Cortina Games after he refused to remove a helmet bearing images"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:21Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm glad that Radio Farda somehow is still on the job. Last year the White House put out a statement saying that "taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda." Elon Musk said "Its just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money." Lies. Just plain lies. Scores Of Children Killed In Iran's Violent Crackdown @RadioFarda_ https://t.co/6yzPUPtT6J Scores Of Children Killed In Iran's Violent Crackdown @RadioFarda_ https://t.co/6yzPUPtT6J"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:28Z 64.7K followers, 23.5K engagements
"I can understand the pusillanimity -- the obeisance -- of businesses in unfree societies. They have to watch their necks. But pusillanimity and obeisance in free societies such as ours "The land of the free the home of the brave" Disgusting. Remember these law firms etc"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:23Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Blessed are the writers who make you feel less alone. Matt Labash is such a writer for me. P.S. Some who wear crosses are among the least Christian people you can imagine; some who wear American-flag pins are among the least patriotic. https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/jesus-as-maga-cudgel https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/jesus-as-maga-cudgel"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:41Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Separation of powers is working (mainly). Can we "keep it" to borrow a phrase https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.htmlcampaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260212&instance_id=170993&nl=breaking-news®i_id=301025437&segment_id=215184&user_id=ad6a78033d95ee1d0f4e99d9bfe53ccc https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.htmlcampaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260212&instance_id=170993&nl=breaking-news®i_id=301025437&segment_id=215184&user_id=ad6a78033d95ee1d0f4e99d9bfe53ccc"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:31Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump is as good as his word. Campaigning in [----] he said "Robert F. Kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody and I'm gonna let him go wild on health I'm gonna let him go wild on the food I'm gonna let him go wild on medicines." This is genuinely horrible. We are doing immense damage to ourselves. This is genuinely horrible. We are doing immense damage to ourselves"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:54Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Republican Party's position as I understand it: Senator Kelly is a seditionist; the January [--] rioters are patriots. Do I have that straight And you will lose just as badly on appeal. And you will lose just as badly on appeal"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:57Z 64.8K followers, 18.8K engagements
"Sensible. Polish PM Tusk: Poland was is and will remain a loyal predictable ally of the United States. Poland will not be a vassal. Anyone who risks our relations with the United States risks the foundations of Polish security. But loyalty does not mean servitude. https://t.co/QiczPCynFm Polish PM Tusk: Poland was is and will remain a loyal predictable ally of the United States. Poland will not be a vassal. Anyone who risks our relations with the United States risks the foundations of Polish security. But loyalty does not mean servitude. https://t.co/QiczPCynFm"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:59Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is so fucking gross. It's hard to understand how the other students -- the majority -- could stand it. Why were they not ashamed (Maybe some of them were.) George McLaurin the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma is separated from white students [----]. https://t.co/ughD8F2Xzc George McLaurin the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma is separated from white students [----]. https://t.co/ughD8F2Xzc"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:40Z 64.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Capus is a stand-up dude. Im spending this week once again in Ukraine a place I strongly support and will always hold close to my heart. People here are strong determined filled with national & personal pridewhile enduring a bitterly cold winter. Heres some of what Ive seen this week: 🧵1/7 https://t.co/6qnxta9XGW Im spending this week once again in Ukraine a place I strongly support and will always hold close to my heart. People here are strong determined filled with national & personal pridewhile enduring a bitterly cold winter. Heres some of what Ive seen this week: 🧵1/7"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:41Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing the courage that politicians can summon when not running for reelection. An argument for term limits (I am against.) (Most of the time.) Sen. Tillis on the DOJ probe into Jerome Powell: Until the investigation is resolved I cannot and I will not vote to support anyone on the Federal Reserve in my remaining tenure in the U. S. Senate. https://t.co/1rfGtB1Vqs Sen. Tillis on the DOJ probe into Jerome Powell: Until the investigation is resolved I cannot and I will not vote to support anyone on the Federal Reserve in my remaining tenure in the U. S. Senate. https://t.co/1rfGtB1Vqs"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:45Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A Valentine's Day message from Jeremiah: "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me saying Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. https://t.co/7nizUhc4M4 Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism."
X Link 2026-02-14T13:23Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Im not the first to observe this but: Mike Johnson functions as a staffer to Donald Trump not as a speaker of the House. He has made this august important role teeny-tiny. He is smaller than Stephen Miller and the like. It would be pitiable if it werent so consequential"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:45Z 64.8K followers, 324.3K engagements
"Today is Lincoln's birthday. Do you know this immortal cartoon And one of our most moving "Nuthin' ever happens out here.""
X Link 2026-02-12T19:38Z 64.8K followers, 58.9K engagements
"My critics say -- I will de-nastify what they say -- "Can't you see that in 'the right people' she's talking about citizens not illegals" Uh-huh. They say nothing -- nothing -- about "electing the right people." They somehow . elide that as Bill Buckley would say. Typical. Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good). Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good)"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:22Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"New York looking to Jersey at twilight"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:15Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In Jersey City with Lower Manhattan in the background the memorial to the Katy massacre"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:18Z 64.8K followers, 20.6K engagements
"In this some of us hear what Reagan said to Dick Allen: "My theory of the Cold War is: We win they lose." Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: If Russians cross the border start killing NATO citizens we activate the plan. The plan is simple: we win they lose. https://t.co/NWQa4JRclD Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: If Russians cross the border start killing NATO citizens we activate the plan. The plan is simple: we win they lose. https://t.co/NWQa4JRclD"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:49Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In feeling and sympathy Trump is with Putin. Consider one thing out of hundreds. When Putin arrived in Alaska last summer Trump rolled out the red carpet for him -- literally. There was a military flyover in Putins honor. Trump invited Putin to ride with him in his limo. As the Associated Press reported the two men were casually chatting like reunited friends. When Zelensky arrived in Florida at the end of December to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago no U.S. official -- not one -- greeted him at the airport. Just recently Trump hung pictures in the newly renovated Palm Room of the White House."
X Link 2026-02-15T18:50Z 64.8K followers, 80K engagements
"Trump called the Olympian Hunter Hess "a real Loser" (complete with capital "L"). Is he I have written a column beginning with the subject of patriotism. Other subjects include (gulp) sedition and Valentine's Day. See what you think. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-and-losers-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/winners-and-losers-and-c"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:37Z 64.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Bull's-eye after bull's-eye by @GeorgeWill -- e.g. "Putin's only sympathizer in the European Union Hungary's Viktor Orban might now have firmer support among American authoritarians ('national conservatives') than among Hungarians." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/13/putin-russia-ukraine-trump-europe/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/13/putin-russia-ukraine-trump-europe/"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:21Z 64.8K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Wise advice from until recently the U.S. ambassador to China. In Munich allied leaders should reject Beijings cynical propaganda designed to intimidate Japan and divide it from the U.S. and Europe. @MunSecConf In Munich allied leaders should reject Beijings cynical propaganda designed to intimidate Japan and divide it from the U.S. and Europe. @MunSecConf"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:10Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Holy sh**. They disguise nothing (which is in a way good). Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting electing the right leaders to lead this country." https://t.co/p6v6u1Nyhj Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting electing the right leaders to lead this country." https://t.co/p6v6u1Nyhj"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:11Z 64.8K followers, 106.7K engagements
"From a 64th floor in Jersey City:"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:19Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The old-time religion. I hope it gains in adherents. What makes an American is not the name or blood or even the place of birth but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for. Justice Scalia https://t.co/IBqabJd4Kn What makes an American is not the name or blood or even the place of birth but the belief in the principles of freedom and equality that this country stands for. Justice Scalia https://t.co/IBqabJd4Kn"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:38Z 64.8K followers, 12.1K engagements
""The stronger we are the more realistic peace becomes." Yes. For decades I heard American conservatives say this. They we were right. Please remember the moment when Russia began to take diplomacy most seriously in these [--] years. It was when our deep strikes against Russian oil refineries began to work and when everyone started talking about TomahawksThe stronger we are the more realistic peace becomes. Please remember the moment when Russia began to take diplomacy most seriously in these [--] years. It was when our deep strikes against Russian oil refineries began to work and when everyone"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:13Z 64.8K followers, 31.2K engagements
"In recent years young conservatives have asked me "What should I do" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well here's a little article responding to the question. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:22Z 64.8K followers, 42K engagements
"Thank you Bill. (Kristols and Himmelfarbs have taught me a great deal about our country and about democracy in general.) Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:00Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Kallas knows. (Greatest Kallas/Callas since Maria.) (No offense to Charlie.) Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has https://t.co/587S2r6ieQ Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:02Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There was a time after February [----] when it seemed like half the people I knew were reading "Life and Fate" to their profit. (Some were also reading "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig.) Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism. Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:25Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The American official lists the wars that Trump supposedly ended. Estonia's Kaja Kallas who knows things tries to remain cool. I think this is my favorite public reaction since King Juan Carlos told Hugo Chvez to shut up ("Por qu no te callas")"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:23Z 64.8K followers, 42.2K engagements
"The U.S. secretary of state visiting Orbn in Budapest says "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." This is a campaign speech for Orbn"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, 558.1K engagements
"In the Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) an article by me about a national treasure and his complications. https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-real-stand-up-guy/ https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-real-stand-up-guy/"
X Link 2025-09-14T14:12Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Dammit. He was one of the handful -- an anti-Putin pro-Ukraine Republican. One by one they go. The other type always -- always -- remains. To repeat myself: Dammit. BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul announced on @ThisWeekABC that he will not seek reelection in [----]. It's been an honor to serve for over two decades in the Congress. Im looking now for a new challenge. Read more: https://t.co/4zQmchkZaj https://t.co/DJYCDJurjf BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul announced on @ThisWeekABC that he will not seek reelection in [----]. It's been an honor to serve for over two"
X Link 2025-09-14T19:54Z 60.2K followers, 44.7K engagements
"According to legend Oliver Cromwell wanted his portrait painted "warts and all." That's how history should be presented -- warts and all scars and all. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/"
X Link 2025-09-15T22:09Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If it weren't for the Niagara of news -- this would be a huge scandal and a grave concern. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html"
X Link 2025-09-15T22:51Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"For years President Trump has called his critics "enemies of the people." I have said this is not the way American leaders should talk given the pedigree of that phrase. Republican colleagues have rolled their eyes at me. I don't care. It's wrong and it stinks. Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. https://t.co/CoBnKtchAq Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her"
X Link 2025-09-16T11:29Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"For years President Trump has called his critics "enemies of the people." This phrase has a horrible pedigree (and horrible present). American leaders should not use it. Can we all agree (No.) Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. https://t.co/CoBnKtchAq Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an enemy of the people for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in"
X Link 2025-09-16T12:54Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I want Putin Xi Kim et al. to be afraid of our government. I don't want newspapers law firms and comedians to be afraid of our government"
X Link 2025-09-18T01:06Z 60.3K followers, 28.6K engagements
"@jaynordlinger Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and all of them have been here for hundreds of years. All four of my wife's grandparents were immigrants. I love how she defends our shared and deeply held American principles and exceptionalism with Sicilian passion @jaynordlinger Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and all of them have been here for hundreds of years. All four of my wife's grandparents were immigrants. I love how she defends our shared and deeply held American principles and exceptionalism with Sicilian passion"
X Link 2025-09-18T12:18Z 60.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A story told by Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza): One day Boris Nemtsov was in the Kremlin with Yeltsin. The TV was on and a program was blasting the president as usual. Yeltsin said Boris hand me the remote control. I cant take it anymore. That was a long time ago now. RDI Chairman @Kasparov63: "Last night apropos of nothing at all I was thinking about how in Russia you cant go on television and make fun of the president or his favorites." https://t.co/pALnpxNpMp RDI Chairman @Kasparov63: "Last night apropos of nothing at all I was thinking about how in Russia you cant go on television and"
X Link 2025-09-18T20:19Z 60.3K followers, 10.7K engagements
"(Ive watched this over and over.) It's tough being a MAGA apologist. You work so hard confecting rationalizations. Then Trump just blurts the truth that you supposed it was your job to conceal. It's tough being a MAGA apologist. You work so hard confecting rationalizations. Then Trump just blurts the truth that you supposed it was your job to conceal"
X Link 2025-09-19T03:38Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Huh. One of the excuses I heard from the nat-pops for not arming Ukraine was "We have to help Taiwan instead." Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid pushing future arms sales https://t.co/7PTgcOwwty Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid pushing future arms sales https://t.co/7PTgcOwwty"
X Link 2025-09-19T11:47Z 60.4K followers, 28.2K engagements
"In the latest episode of "Music for a While" I pay tribute to Rodion Shchedrin the late composer. I read from some correspondence. I play musical examples. I think you will enjoy this "dipping in" to a rich productive life. https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-105-a-composer-in-words-and-music/s-UXu24CkoX4Wutm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=aacf06bce6954de9b6a10a55efd3eafd"
X Link 2025-09-19T22:41Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
""The U.S. military has always emphasized obeying the laws of war for all the difficulties that might cause. George Washington appointed the first judge advocate only a few weeks after taking command of the Continental Army." By @IgnatiusPost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/19/hegseth-national-guard-military-lawyer-purge/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/19/hegseth-national-guard-military-lawyer-purge/"
X Link 2025-09-19T22:48Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Do you mind a little political rough-and-tumble with your Football Saturday Well I won't be long." Kimmel Pence Taiwan Russia etc. A brisk multi-item'd column by me. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/no-naivete-please https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/no-naivete-please"
X Link 2025-09-20T13:31Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Idle thought: If the American experiment is to be finished off by Americans of course; no one else it will be by rationalization. Not hostility or aggression so much as rationalization. It is all around us"
X Link 2025-09-21T03:06Z 60.3K followers, 13.3K engagements
"This is hugely advantageous to Trump. Always has been. In a firehose of awfulness no one focuses on just one thing. If you have five Watergates a week you practically have none. Trump is directing the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies now. The Pentagon is banning journalism. The FCC is targeting critics of the President to get them taken off air. Trumps border czar took cash bribes and Patels FBI dropped the case. Thats just this week. Trump is directing the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies now. The Pentagon is banning journalism. The FCC is targeting critics of the President to"
X Link 2025-09-21T19:35Z 60.4K followers, 92.2K engagements
"Letterman used to have a segment called "Brush with Greatness." Well today I passed Tom Hanks on the street. He was standing -- waiting for a car I think -- with a ball cap jammed over his head. It was a thrill to see him: an immortal and a mensch"
X Link 2025-09-23T01:39Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump just torpedoed every White House surrogate who claimed the administration wasnt attempting to coerce Disney/ABC. https://t.co/bMdAXIjmLZ Trump just torpedoed every White House surrogate who claimed the administration wasnt attempting to coerce Disney/ABC. https://t.co/bMdAXIjmLZ"
X Link 2025-09-24T11:14Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Impressive. BREAKING: PM Meloni says the only way Italy will consider recognizing Palestine is if Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders. The pressure should be put on Hamas because Hamas started this war. https://t.co/KNQSJASZrr BREAKING: PM Meloni says the only way Italy will consider recognizing Palestine is if Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders. The pressure should be put on Hamas because Hamas started this war. https://t.co/KNQSJASZrr"
X Link 2025-09-24T11:37Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Something to consider: If you dislike Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel I perfectly well understand. But to say that they are untalented is just . silly. There are lots of performers artists and writers I don't care for -- who are nonetheless talented (alas). You know"
X Link 2025-09-24T11:46Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
""It's not the heat it's the humidity" is the truest most valid clich there is. (My equivalent in the winter is "It's not the temperature it's the wind.")"
X Link 2025-09-25T02:08Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Kasparov is a chess champion plus a freedom-and-democracy champion. I don't know checkers to say nothing of chess. But I'll do my damnedest on those other fronts. A pleasure and an honor to welcome @jaynordlinger to RDI and to see his first piece in The Next Move. I have long admired Jay as a voice for individual freedom and the values of democracy. He writes with humanity sanity and a sense of history. Enjoy. Link 👇 A pleasure and an honor to welcome @jaynordlinger to RDI and to see his first piece in The Next Move. I have long admired Jay as a voice for individual freedom and the values of"
X Link 2025-09-25T16:04Z 60.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Anyone with the slightest pretension of caring about the rule of law should be alarmed as hell about what President Trump and his administration are doing. Either you care about the rule of law whoever is in office or you dont"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:39Z 60.5K followers, 23.8K engagements
"I have seen this play out for ten years: The thing they accuse you of having TDS for fearing today they will excuse or ignore tomorrow. This is a law of contemporary American politics"
X Link 2025-09-26T16:36Z 60.5K followers, 24.6K engagements
"A photo worthy of Vanity Fair. Fafoon has high expectations for you today. Prepare to fall short of them. https://t.co/IdYcMMhi4X Fafoon has high expectations for you today. Prepare to fall short of them. https://t.co/IdYcMMhi4X"
X Link 2025-09-28T12:14Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
""Some of my favorite players are on the European team" a friend of mine (an American) said this morning. The first piece I ever wrote for The Weekly Standard in October [----] was about the Ryder Cup and nationalism. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/961879/my-country-ryder-wrong/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/961879/my-country-ryder-wrong/"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:49Z 60.5K followers, 17.7K engagements
"Just a reminder: Were only about eight months into Trumps current four-year term"
X Link 2025-09-29T02:48Z 60.5K followers, 18.2K engagements
"I have been a supporter of law enforcement my whole life. It is one of the things that define my politics in fact. Disrespect for law enforcement has always irked and nauseated me. Also no agency can be perfect. There are always bad apples bad actors. But: ICE Damn troubling"
X Link 2025-09-29T03:04Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"A world treasure JKR. She doesnt need any of it. She could be resting on her laurels and billions. But she has stuck her neck out for important values. She is loath to see liberalism genuine liberalism turned on its head. Again: a world treasure who is owed our thanks. I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this so I"
X Link 2025-09-29T19:17Z 60.5K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Just for fun imagine if Kamala Harris were president and summoned all of our generals and admirals for a meeting at Quantico. Im sure that Republicans would be completely completely equanimous about it. Esprit de corps (My ass.)"
X Link 2025-09-29T19:37Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Mother to child whos impatient for the subway train to come: Itll be here in four minutes. Sing one song and it will be here. (Thats a long song)"
X Link 2025-09-29T20:13Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I would be interested to survey our commanders gathered at Quantico: Do you prefer Department of Defense or Department of War I dont know of course but I bet the administration would not like the result"
X Link 2025-09-29T20:18Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Is it wrong for the U.S. president to circulate doctored things even in a supposedly lighthearted spirit Or are we way beyond such questions "New normals" get established so fast I can't keep up. And frankly don't want to. https://t.co/JzQYLShOCt https://t.co/JzQYLShOCt"
X Link 2025-09-30T02:51Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I remember a song from the mid-1980s: "Ain't gonna play Sun City." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/arts/marc-maron-shane-gillis-riyadh-comedy-festival.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/arts/marc-maron-shane-gillis-riyadh-comedy-festival.html"
X Link 2025-09-30T03:00Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A quick impression: Trump and Hegseth are used to appearing before people who are impressed by them -- Fox viewers Republican rally-goers. They have a different audience with these military commanders who have seen and done so much"
X Link 2025-09-30T16:08Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My thinking is very different from Trump's: I am impressed indeed awed by the Ukrainian people and their resilience and their determination and their patriotism. God bless them. May they repel the invader and hang on to their country. Trump to top military officials: "I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He shoulda had that war done in a week." https://t.co/NA4TqDomTY Trump to top military officials: "I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He shoulda had that war done in a week.""
X Link 2025-09-30T16:18Z 60.5K followers, 39.9K engagements
"According to reports Trump chose General Mattis to be his first secretary of defense because he liked the generals nickname: Mad Dog. To Trumps disappointment Mattis proved a serious professional. Perhaps Trump has his Mad Dog now And his Roy Cohn at Justice"
X Link 2025-09-30T21:24Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Sounds right"
X Link 2025-09-30T21:33Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When it comes to "tough guys" I prefer George Washington -- who in a speech to senior officers said "Gentlemen you will permit me to put on my spectacles for I have grown not only gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Bless him"
X Link 2025-09-30T23:40Z 60.7K followers, 22.2K engagements
"The road to juche Brooke Rollins: "I think it's Biblical -- we've got to produce food for our own selves. The president has talked significantly about the importance of onshoring our manufacturing. We also have to onshore our food. We have over the last decade or so begun to import more than we https://t.co/UH4u5lAHEm Brooke Rollins: "I think it's Biblical -- we've got to produce food for our own selves. The president has talked significantly about the importance of onshoring our manufacturing. We also have to onshore our food. We have over the last decade or so begun to import more than we"
X Link 2025-10-01T00:43Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Who's the more dependable Our civilian leadership or our military leadership I would bet on the latter. In any case I have a column on Trump and Hegseth at Quantico and other interesting matters. See what you think. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/tough-guys-we-have-known-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/tough-guys-we-have-known-and-c"
X Link 2025-10-01T13:18Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If you're in the mood for a music podcast I've got one for you -- a program of Tchaikovsky Handel Mompou et al. Lend an ear. (I like to quote Bill Buckley: "All politics and no play makes Jack a dull boy.") https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-106-souvenirs https://soundcloud.com/thenewcriterion/music-for-a-while-106-souvenirs"
X Link 2025-10-01T19:25Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I express a movie opinion like once or twice a year. I don't think I've expressed one in [----] so here goes: Tom Cruise is underrated as a movie actor. I could sketch out the reasons. In any case Cruise is in the weird position of being a household name and underrated"
X Link 2025-10-02T01:12Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Foreign entanglements WTF MAGA (In May [----] three months after Russia's full-scale invasion the Heritage Foundation said that aid to Ukraine "puts America last.") https://apnews.com/article/us-qatar-security-trump-israel-hamas-de391ae9bded58bffb1f5b69777f35cf https://apnews.com/article/us-qatar-security-trump-israel-hamas-de391ae9bded58bffb1f5b69777f35cf"
X Link 2025-10-02T03:17Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Meloni and Milei are highly valuable -- leaders generally prized by the Right who are foursquare behind Ukraine and against Putin's lust for conquest and control. I had a good conversation with President of the Council of Ministers of Italy @GiorgiaMeloni. We discussed potential risks and threats from Russia in light of recent violations of European airspace and ways to respond to common challenges. We are ready to share our experience in https://t.co/fxm60sDChr I had a good conversation with President of the Council of Ministers of Italy @GiorgiaMeloni. We discussed potential risks and"
X Link 2025-10-02T15:40Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My Republican friends often bring up nuts on the left -- in politics the media academia show business. My usual response is: "Quite right. I wouldn't nominate them for president -- to say nothing of three times in a row. Your point" MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. MIKE JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too DEAN: Oh my god please. That performance in front of the generals MIKE JOHNSON: I didn't see it DEAN: It's so dangerous Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies https://t.co/WNvZRo638S MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. MIKE"
X Link 2025-10-02T23:18Z 60.6K followers, 113.6K engagements
"Brutal Juice (as we used to say in America). Future Gazprom board members Future Gazprom board members"
X Link 2025-10-03T01:17Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"She was incredibly photogenic all through her life. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/science/jane-goodall-photos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/science/jane-goodall-photos.html"
X Link 2025-10-03T02:45Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Like many conservatives I have been called a "fascist" by people on the left for years. For the last ten years I have been called a "globalist" by others. I take a look at the second epithet in particular in a column today. Epithets everywhere https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/globalist-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/globalist-and-c"
X Link 2025-10-03T12:55Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Normalized completely. Routine. Hail Caesar. (Hell no.) Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. @jennyschuessler @minhokimdh https://t.co/rZF5BBdkGJ Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. @jennyschuessler @minhokimdh"
X Link 2025-10-04T04:23Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Something to be aware of -- something else. FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk four people familiar say https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk four people familiar say https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg https://t.co/9C6AmOKrvg"
X Link 2025-10-04T14:10Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Will anyone object Or is the nation simply . too weary Worn out COINED LEGACY: The Treasury Department is weighing a proposal to issue new $1 coins featuring President Trump as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Americas founding. https://t.co/nM6xdyqEu6 COINED LEGACY: The Treasury Department is weighing a proposal to issue new $1 coins featuring President Trump as part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Americas founding. https://t.co/nM6xdyqEu6"
X Link 2025-10-04T14:13Z 60.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He does yes. This kind of rhetoric is incredibly dangerous for the judge. Miller constantly deploys deranged rhetoric even as he claims the left incites violence with its own language. If Miller believes that rhetoric can lead to violence then he knows exactly what he is doing. This kind of rhetoric is incredibly dangerous for the judge. Miller constantly deploys deranged rhetoric even as he claims the left incites violence with its own language. If Miller believes that rhetoric can lead to violence then he knows exactly what he is doing"
X Link 2025-10-05T12:09Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I live in New York a home of pizza (they say). But I believe my favorite pizza parlor is in Bloomington Ind. hard by IU. A treasure of a haunt"
X Link 2025-10-05T23:51Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Starbucks employees are suing their employer over a new dress code and the costs it entails. I solicited the testimony of a friend of mine who spent a few years working at Starbucks. An interesting "take" on a common slice of American life. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/working-at-starbucks https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/working-at-starbucks"
X Link 2025-10-06T11:45Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The most ghastly tyrannies in the world are in alliance against Ukraine: Russia China North Korea Iran. The Free World ought to be squarely in Ukraine's corner. China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. https://t.co/QigD3MmYEd China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. https://t.co/QigD3MmYEd"
X Link 2025-10-06T22:50Z 60.7K followers, 59.9K engagements
"A president should have the sense that he is the temporary custodian of something important that belongs to the whole country. It is not his personal lair. It needs more gold. https://t.co/a2xZ0TVEsj It needs more gold. https://t.co/a2xZ0TVEsj"
X Link 2025-10-07T11:26Z 60.8K followers, 34.3K engagements
"My best wishes are for the good health and long lives of Russian political prisoners. And their freedom. I wish the same for Ukrainians. Spoke with my friend President Putin and conveyed warm birthday greetings and best wishes for his good health and long life. Deeply appreciate his personal commitment to deepening IndiaRussia ties over the years. @KremlinRussia_E Spoke with my friend President Putin and conveyed warm birthday greetings and best wishes for his good health and long life. Deeply appreciate his personal commitment to deepening IndiaRussia ties over the years. @KremlinRussia_E"
X Link 2025-10-07T14:59Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Met after hours well after hours has an allure"
X Link 2025-10-08T03:25Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Politkovskaya's murder rattled the world. This was before the murder of Putin's critics became routine. Now people tend to yawn. And admiration of Putin is strong in the smellier quarters of the free and democratic world. She was fearless. Just a few months before her murder I begged her to stay in the US because of the danger. She looked at me and said she couldnt imagine living anywhere but Russia and she couldnt imagine being anything other than a journalist. Journalism was her life. She was fearless. Just a few months before her murder I begged her to stay in the US because of the danger."
X Link 2025-10-08T04:30Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In June [----] the Chinese Communist Party brought in troops from the countryside to put down the uppity students in Beijing. I hate this playing of the red states against the blue states. I despise it. It is un-American and it is playing with fire"
X Link 2025-10-08T05:01Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This news from California gives me a memory. Two years ago the New York City public schools made Diwali a holiday. My friend @vivekpdave commented "If they really wanted to honor Indian culture they'd make the kids go to school a half-day on Saturday." https://apnews.com/article/diwali-state-holiday-california-hindus-sikhs-buddhists-f7ddd73c14e212a698d2c559c12a8a4e https://apnews.com/article/diwali-state-holiday-california-hindus-sikhs-buddhists-f7ddd73c14e212a698d2c559c12a8a4e"
X Link 2025-10-08T11:38Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Cripe what would Hegseth say Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinoisaccording to sourcesfamiliar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb. Read more: https://t.co/AkmU3diD97 https://t.co/chTjQ1TrFY Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinoisaccording to sourcesfamiliar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb. Read more: https://t.co/AkmU3diD97 https://t.co/chTjQ1TrFY"
X Link 2025-10-08T13:11Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I think of an old expression: Who will police the police Who will watch the watchmen A society must figure this out. The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball. https://t.co/UvP3bZ7yJn The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball."
X Link 2025-10-08T13:18Z 60.7K followers, 53.9K engagements
"I find this rather moving frankly. When Russia attacks the next country because they were allowed to take Ukraine we will hold our heads high knowing we did our part where others were free riding and made up excuses for the Russian aggression. https://t.co/GkIZSUqBJP When Russia attacks the next country because they were allowed to take Ukraine we will hold our heads high knowing we did our part where others were free riding and made up excuses for the Russian aggression. https://t.co/GkIZSUqBJP"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:19Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Free speech can be vexing. You want it for yourself your friends and your allies. But in an open society the other guys get it too. I have written a little essay with doses of autobiography and a killer statement by Ortega y Gasset at the end. https://www.thenextmove.org/p/we-need-free-speech-consistency https://www.thenextmove.org/p/we-need-free-speech-consistency"
X Link 2025-10-08T16:22Z 60.8K followers, 37.9K engagements
"In the 1980s there was a famous line concerning nuclear war: "thinking the unthinkable." I thought of this when reading @GeorgeWill's column. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/08/putin-russia-estonia-nato-drones/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/08/putin-russia-estonia-nato-drones/"
X Link 2025-10-09T13:46Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes. One grows numb. It's important to resist growing numb. I know the president spews so much delusional word-vomit that we casually dismiss this stuff but calling the small business plaintiffs in the tariff cases "enemies of the country" is still really shitty I know the president spews so much delusional word-vomit that we casually dismiss this stuff but calling the small business plaintiffs in the tariff cases "enemies of the country" is still really shitty"
X Link 2025-10-10T02:11Z 60.7K followers, 41.8K engagements
"Sometimes a Nobel prize aids a freedom struggle sometimes it does not. Let us hope that the prize to Mara Corina Machado a brave woman aids the freedom struggle in Venezuela"
X Link 2025-10-10T13:07Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Nobel prizes began in [----]. The peace prize always went for international efforts -- until the [----] prize which went to a freedom struggle in one country: South Africa. The laureate was Albert John Luthuli a great man. The [----] prize is in that spirit"
X Link 2025-10-10T13:07Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"(By the way may I please hear from Caltech people regarding the world's best technical school A brawl between MIT and Caltech on this subject would be better than the college football playoffs.) The surest way to screw up the worlds best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in but MIT is not one of them. The surest way to screw up the worlds best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for"
X Link 2025-10-11T22:47Z 60.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I was talking with a friend and made this confession: When I was younger I thought everything was settled pretty much. Feudalism bad. Nazism bad. Communism bad. Liberal democracy good. Etc. How weird it has been to discover at this stage that nothing is settled"
X Link 2025-10-11T23:26Z 60.8K followers, 44K engagements
"I've studied and written about governments of this nature. They were not . the U.S. government. https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/barron-trump-tipped-for-leading-role-at-tiktok/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/barron-trump-tipped-for-leading-role-at-tiktok/"
X Link 2025-10-13T21:22Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A remark made by Kevin D. Williamson in this excellent and interesting article made me reflect on something: The best musicians I know tend to be very ecumenical. https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/snobbery-guns/ https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/snobbery-guns/"
X Link 2025-10-13T21:42Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump administration has required the National Symphony Orchestra to play the national anthem before every concert. I like our anthem as much as the next guy (probably more). But -- is this patriotism Or something else An issue in my column today. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/standing-for-america-and-c https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/standing-for-america-and-c"
X Link 2025-10-14T11:46Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Don't get numb. If at all possible fight the numb. Russia is a terror-state and should not be treated as an ordinary government. Ukrainians are being maimed and killed for the crime of existing as Ukrainians. At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in the latest wave of Russian drone and shelling attacks on Ukraine including a strike that hit a hospital complex in Kharkiv. https://t.co/dyEJUsRJCq At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in the latest wave of Russian drone and shelling attacks on Ukraine including a strike that hit a hospital complex in"
X Link 2025-10-14T12:02Z 60.8K followers, 47.4K engagements
"This is a very important phenomenon of our time. (Young conservatives have given me chapter and verse on it. They thought I was naive about what was going on. I was -- but no longer.) None of this is remotely surprising. If you're at all familiar with young MAGA culture this kind of conduct is common. It's a matter of in-group signaling. You show your commitment to the cause in part through your disregard of basic decency and morality. None of this is remotely surprising. If you're at all familiar with young MAGA culture this kind of conduct is common. It's a matter of in-group signaling. You"
X Link 2025-10-14T23:00Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The mob on Jan. [--] assaulted the U.S. Congress for the purpose of halting a constitutional process -- which they succeeded in doing for several hours while the president in the White House watched it unfold on television with pleasure. Don't talk to me about patriotism. Ever"
X Link 2025-10-15T01:50Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Well at least the wording is right: "taking the position of president." https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-coup-leader-d589bfacc33bfd7e7e53bfadef7c6d8b https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-coup-leader-d589bfacc33bfd7e7e53bfadef7c6d8b"
X Link 2025-10-15T15:05Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It is not the job of the U.S. president to be involved in every nook and cranny of life -- late-night talk shows sports events etc. Conservatives taught me this long ago and they were right. https://apnews.com/article/trump-boston-world-cup-revoke-matches-crime-cd448b4564f6d32b3118d9198a7073ef https://apnews.com/article/trump-boston-world-cup-revoke-matches-crime-cd448b4564f6d32b3118d9198a7073ef"
X Link 2025-10-15T15:41Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🧵1/7: For The Next Move the publication of the Renew Democracy Initiative (@Renew_Democracy) I have written a piece about the Venezuelan Nobel -- the peace prize to Mara Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA). Sometimes the Nobel Peace Prize is a freedom prize"
X Link 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🧵2/7: My piece is here: https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-defense-of-maria-corina-machadoandopen=false#%C2%A7the-nobel-peace-prize-as-a-freedom-prize https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-defense-of-maria-corina-machadoandopen=false#%C2%A7the-nobel-peace-prize-as-a-freedom-prize"
X Link 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [---] engagements
"🧵3/7: The Nobel prizes started in [----]. The peace prize always went for international efforts (as Alfred Nobel the testator stipulated). In the 1960s the committee started to honor people who wage a freedom struggle within their own borders"
X Link 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"🧵4/7: The first such winner was a South African: Albert John Lutuli a great man. He was a Zulu chief a Christian lay pastor and the president of the African National Congress. I have long wished he were better known"
X Link 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"🧵5/7: In [----] Lech Wasa won the peace prize. (He was the Solidarity leader in Poland.) President Reagan said the award to Wasa was "a triumph of moral force over brute force" and "a victory for those who seek to enlarge the human spirit over those who seek to crush it.""
X Link 2025-10-15T22:08Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@jimgeraghty @KatrinaTrinko Kate does this photo remind you of a cake you were once baked"
X Link 2015-08-06T22:44Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Panzenbeck @KatrinaTrinko P.S. "Panzenbeck" is pretty good too. P.P.S. "Trinko" a little Balkan war criminal-ish. P.P.P.S. Hate speech"
X Link 2015-08-06T23:39Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@woodruffbets @Panzenbeck @KatrinaTrinko Yes We'll do that when the field narrows down. Trinks may dominate this race"
X Link 2015-08-06T23:44Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
".@elianayjohnson @alexis_levinson Do they have to pander to "gaming" as they do ethanol in Iowa P.S. "Gaming" is SUCH a bogus euphemism"
X Link 2015-08-16T12:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@KatrinaTrinko Katrina what exactly is the relationship between you and that hurricane Or is it vanden Heuvel's fault"
X Link 2015-08-25T13:49Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@hughhewitt There was a bumper sticker in my childhood: "A buckeye is a hairless nut." OSU can afford to be gracious: They keep beating us"
X Link 2015-08-31T16:36Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@madisonvpeace @KatrinaTrinko Madison I've never heard a sarcastic word from your lips Trinko's another story "
X Link 2015-08-31T18:18Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"A debate preview by @alexis_levinson: Another by @JRubinBlogger: Savvy helpful A-1. http://wapo.st/1M3VtEn http://bit.ly/1PA4pE2 http://wapo.st/1M3VtEn http://bit.ly/1PA4pE2"
X Link 2015-11-10T15:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Smart analysis of last night's election results on the GOP side by National Review's @alexis_levinson: http://bit.ly/1RgIgMh http://bit.ly/1RgIgMh"
X Link 2016-03-23T16:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@alexis_levinson"
X Link 2016-12-26T02:25Z 60.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Japanese motorcade at Arlington Cemetery. Rather classy-looking"
X Link 2017-02-10T14:54Z 58.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Strange times strange times. Conservatives are being pushed into defenses of Soros-associated institutions by the illiberal Right. https://x.com/jkirchick/status/853704786558038016 https://x.com/jkirchick/status/853704786558038016"
X Link 2017-04-17T01:17Z 57.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Idle question: Doesn't $130K strike you as a little low when a porn star is selling her silence to a billionaire I don't have much experience in the matter but do you know what I mean"
X Link 2018-01-13T02:08Z 60.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Once upon a time there were social conservatives. They were part of the broader conservative constellation. They worried about the "coarsening of the culture." They hated vulgarity porn lying adultery etc. They were square. Where are they Have they gone extinct So weird"
X Link 2018-01-14T18:35Z 57.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If the Democrats fielded a presidential nominee like Macron who is a bte noire of the Left in France they would mop up I bet. But they cant. No such Dem could win the nomination. Does one even exist The Ds are Warrenite the Rs Trumpite. Dommage. https://apnews.com/c36af69bb54f4228940a1da1637cd493 https://apnews.com/c36af69bb54f4228940a1da1637cd493"
X Link 2018-04-26T12:05Z 58.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I found this almost hypnotic. The weather warms and the ice moves. (This is the Hudson River at Manhattan.)"
X Link 2026-02-17T03:06Z 64.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes (I have been a chavista -- Linda not Hugo -- for many years.) 👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez 👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez"
X Link 2026-02-17T02:54Z 64.8K followers, [---] engagements
"👀👀 RDI is honored to welcome another true expert and leader Linda Chavez"
X Link 2026-02-17T02:23Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements
"The U.S. secretary of state visiting Orbn in Budapest says "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." This is a campaign speech for Orbn"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, 558.1K engagements
"It's also a campaign speech in behalf of Rubio himself. Orbn is a nat-pop pin-up. And the [----] GOP presidential primaries will be a nat-pop palooza"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:09Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In my life I've known people who liked Israel only when Labor was in charge. Or only when Likud was in charge. Similar things go for other countries as well. Evidently the Trump administration is not an ally so much of Hungary as of Orbn. Pathetic"
X Link 2026-02-17T02:43Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"About an obits page you may think there is something dark or even macabre. On the contrary obits tend to be celebrations of life. I have done a podcast with a New York Times obituarist Clay Risen. He has very interesting things to say. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/writer-of-lives https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/writer-of-lives"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:09Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @jaynordlinger: Huh. Come one come all if you like"
X Link 2026-02-16T23:00Z 64.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Huh. Come one come all if you like BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://t.co/bfL398pT8z https://t.co/Nae1IBo6hz BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://t.co/bfL398pT8z https://t.co/Nae1IBo6hz"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:53Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: Jay Nordlinger's President's Day Talk Join us as we do a little singing about America Monday February [--] [----] Time: 5:00 PM (AZ) 7:00 PM (EST) RSVP BELOW NOW https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9p8uPvi8GMymoBi0E4Cqy0VBOeRu6q5dUjWlVAeI-4gu_cw/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9p8uPvi8GMymoBi0E4Cqy0VBOeRu6q5dUjWlVAeI-4gu_cw/viewform"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"The American official lists the wars that Trump supposedly ended. Estonia's Kaja Kallas who knows things tries to remain cool. I think this is my favorite public reaction since King Juan Carlos told Hugo Chvez to shut up ("Por qu no te callas")"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:23Z 64.8K followers, 42.2K engagements
"Rosenblattian lyricism. Marvelous. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/opinion/family-history-identity.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.MVA.T-j7.fyWkyX7c4xjh&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/opinion/family-history-identity.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.MVA.T-j7.fyWkyX7c4xjh&smid=url-share"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:48Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Such a pleasure. I mean really. Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://t.co/jIlWpUh91Q Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://t.co/jIlWpUh91Q"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:37Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Writers Who Are Not Boring. https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/writers-who-arent-boring https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/writers-who-arent-boring"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:08Z 126.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In recent years young conservatives have asked me "What should I do" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well here's a little article responding to the question. https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do https://www.jaynordlinger.com/p/what-should-i-do"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:22Z 64.8K followers, 42K engagements
"There was a time after February [----] when it seemed like half the people I knew were reading "Life and Fate" to their profit. (Some were also reading "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig.) Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism. Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:25Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Finally getting around to Vasily Grossmans Life and Fate. Halfway through. Its extraordinary. Hes written a deeply Russian novel in the great tradition that addresses the horrors of both Nazism and Communism"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:44Z 50.1K followers, 30.7K engagements
"Perfectly -- perfectly -- worded. Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:15Z 64.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Astonishing. Four years into defending themselves from Putins brutal invasion outmanned outgunned after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US Ukraine is still pushing back now with a tactical counter offensive. In an age of growing nihilism the Ukrainian people are showing the world the meaning of the ancient virtues: fortitude patriotism valour. Slava Ukraini Ukrainian defenders have crossed the Haichur River in Zaporizhzhya region and have taken control of Dobropillya Pryluky and Olenokostyantynivka. Let's go guys🙌🫡 https://t.co/nVa3OhGTLn Ukrainian defenders have"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:09Z 297.8K followers, 772.2K engagements
"Kallas knows. (Greatest Kallas/Callas since Maria.) (No offense to Charlie.) Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has https://t.co/587S2r6ieQ Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:02Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine Russia has barely advanced beyond the [----] lines. And the cost [---] million casualties. Today Russia is broken. Its economy is in shreds. It is disconnecting from the European energy markets and its own citizens are fleeing. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022956955321483732 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022956955321483732"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:51Z 673.3K followers, 166.5K engagements
"Thank you Bill. (Kristols and Himmelfarbs have taught me a great deal about our country and about democracy in general.) Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:00Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a multicultural economic zone American culture with its English-Scotts-Irish origin is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it but thats why people come here. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:04Z 1M followers, 582.6K engagements
"No offense to Ms. Atwood but I think Newsom got the better deal -- Cervantes. Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants. https://t.co/0mgLkGQGhf Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants. https://t.co/0mgLkGQGhf"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:56Z 64.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks @CAgovernor for your defense of multilateralism and progressive values. I hope you enjoy the wisdom of Cervantes. In it you will find inspiration to stand against giants"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:40Z 2.1M followers, 505.7K engagements
"Yes. And you know who will tell you that word for word The Taiwanese. Officials in the Taiwanese government. "Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine. "Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:54Z 64.8K followers, 25.9K engagements
""Focusing on China" means defeating Russia in Ukraine. Exclusive: China increased its support for Russias war in Ukraine in [----] and is likely to further deepen cooperation with Moscow this year Western officials said casting doubt on European leaders efforts to improve relations with Beijing. Xi Jinping has become more Exclusive: China increased its support for Russias war in Ukraine in [----] and is likely to further deepen cooperation with Moscow this year Western officials said casting doubt on European leaders efforts to improve relations with Beijing. Xi Jinping has become more"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:46Z 1.1M followers, 63.2K engagements
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