Antonio Vivaldi , the composer of "The Four Seasons" was a Catholic Priest!
— Trad West (@trad_west_) July 24, 2026
Antonio Vivaldi was an ordained Catholic priest, known as "The Red Priest" because of his red hair.
He suffered from severe asthma, which prevented him from praying Mass, so he was given a dispensation… pic.twitter.com/XxRRkdO5EA
Funny. In Europe you have pro-Iran demonstrations without a single Iranian in them and anti-Iran demonstrations composed almost entirely of Iranians.
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) July 24, 2026
A SpaceX intern once described eating lunch next to Elon Musk in the company cafeteria.
— Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) July 21, 2026
The intern said Elon sat down at a regular table with a regular tray of food. No entourage. No reserved section. He sat next to two junior engineers who were clearly terrified. One of them…
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells” pic.twitter.com/RAAxqaZHEf
— Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) July 21, 2026
This fantastic figure by @jburnmurdoch is Exhibit 1 of what an aging society means for the political game: public investment, which is choosing future rewards over present consumption, gets squeezed out.
— Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (@JesusFerna7026) July 20, 2026
Still not convinced this is a first-order challenge? pic.twitter.com/MLyV3a7WCE
This is a (true) story that goes around alot in the circles.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) July 24, 2026
You really have to imagine it. The entire mission control is stunned as Apollo 12 is about to come crashing down with all the astronauts aboard. (Think Challenger explosion but worse.)
A junior engineer says 'Try… https://t.co/ntD9EImu11
This map is actually an important teaching tool.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 10, 2025
You may notice that the countries listed as "most diverse" are all one-race African or Stani states. Congo and Afghanistan are "more diverse" than the USA...so is Mexico, for that matter.
This is nonsensical, in any normal… https://t.co/HfUbmZYboy
Red sky at night, sailor's delight?
— Max Evans (@_MaxQ_) July 23, 2026
A vibrant sunset envelops the skies of Starbase, Texas as the full stack of Booster 20 and Ship 40 beds down for potentially their last night on Pad 2.
Spot the workers on the chopsticks?
📸- @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/fsoRTzg7xg
In short this is not a women's sports league. It's a joyless, angry, violent, race obsessed non-stop 2018 Oberlin struggle session filled with entitled lunatics unable to survive without someone else picking up the bill. They whine when they don't get attention, and whine 10x…
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 23, 2026
32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text. pic.twitter.com/yjcsVND4aT
— Boochie is the Name (@stoppfeenin) July 23, 2026
On This Day in 1851: The Window Tax Abolished: The British government officially repealed the highly controversial Window Tax. Originally introduced in 1696, the tax assessed property values based on the number of windows a house had. To avoid the fee, many London residents… pic.twitter.com/1a5qepjv1V
— Knowledge of London (@Knowledgepoint) July 24, 2026
My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.
— Henry Shevlin (@dioscuri) July 23, 2026
Sound of hail falling on rocks. pic.twitter.com/mDXm5lna3R
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
And he was just about to start his 16th year of college. This is devastating. https://t.co/t481wzxYLD
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) July 21, 2026
ZERO percent of education papers were replicable, by my discipline's (dark blue) standard. https://t.co/oziCSbI4y5
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 22, 2026
Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares. pic.twitter.com/eO7jlEBxWi
Shouldn't we all be eternally thankful to Christopher Nolan that, thanks to his new movie, a large part of the world population now knows there is a great story from antiquity called The Odyssey?
— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) July 23, 2026
And know the key story beats?
(Might even - gasp - check out the book?) pic.twitter.com/RCDpshmU5x
Call of the cassowary 🦖🔊
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 23, 2026
📽: suryantoraptor/igpic.twitter.com/HOYCWakHtE
Dogs and their skill of befriending literally everything. pic.twitter.com/pUqwoVamkK
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
People with advanced degrees, but mid to lower incomes are most likely to vote Democrat.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 21, 2026
People without college degrees, but mid to higher incomes are least likely to vote Democrat.
Tells you everything you need to know. https://t.co/68nAavKFSk
This is one of the most remarkable surviving treasures of early English Christianity. A silver pectoral cross, discovered in the Galloway Hoard and buried around AD 900, was almost certainly worn by a senior churchman. Experts believe it was likely made in Northumbria, reflecting… pic.twitter.com/yg0d92LzGx
— Mark Lambert (@sitsio) July 22, 2026
Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) July 17, 2026
Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.
Great video 👇 https://t.co/RTyN8glRbX
Umberto Eco owned around 50,000 books between his two libraries. He once said about buying books:
— Barbarian Herodotus (@BBHerodotus) July 22, 2026
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like… pic.twitter.com/23sxjgFRXn
Following a standard workplace safety check, I have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the shelves in my office is described as "the unnecessary storing of combustible materials". pic.twitter.com/0f7z2OLsSS
— Christopher Fear (@ChristopherF198) July 22, 2026
A majority of judges are women in all EU countries except Ireland pic.twitter.com/bqN46nxPyd
— Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert) July 17, 2026
Captain Edward Fogarty Fegen might be the purest example of self-sacrifice in the whole war at sea during WW2.
— Hidden History (@HiddenHistoryYT) July 21, 2026
On 5 November 1940, Fegen was escorting Convoy HX84, thirty-seven merchant ships crawling across the Atlantic from Halifax to Britain, loaded with the food, fuel, and… pic.twitter.com/DWqU2SyKB7
An extreme commitment to the truth makes relationships acutely dysfunctional but systems chronically functional (think Elon Musk).
— William Meijer (@williameijer) October 27, 2025
An extreme commitment to kindness makes relationships acutely functional but systems chronically dysfunctional (think Sweden, UK) pic.twitter.com/FShs8icvJW
Antler shedding 🦌🪸🍂pic.twitter.com/wSL7CvGhX5
— Cosmic Gaia (@CosmicGaiaX) July 22, 2026
Sunny Hostin: "No one is above the law"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 19, 2026
Sunny Hostin now: "How dare you arrest my son? My name is Sunny Hostin!" pic.twitter.com/MOS41bOOvs
The Flow of American Religion from childhood to adulthood.
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) July 16, 2026
70% of Protestants stay.
3% become Catholic
4% become another faith group.
23% become none.
56% of Catholics stay.
13% become Protestants.
4% become another faith group.
26% become nones. pic.twitter.com/hFcmC75E9X
Ask most people to name the best British general of World War Two and they will say Montgomery. Ask the historians who study it closely and a lot of them will quietly tell you the real answer is a man most people have never heard of. His name was William Slim, and his soldiers… pic.twitter.com/xBUO9zYcr4
— Voices of WW2 (@VoicesofWW2) July 19, 2026
Richard Nixon's brutal truth on happiness that hits harder in 2026:
— Teddy - PolyBackTest.com (@Bitcoin_Teddy) July 16, 2026
"The unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places—south coast of France, Newport, Palm Springs, Palm Beach—parties every night, golf every afternoon, bridge, too much drinking, too much… pic.twitter.com/MDDH4Vs2n2
Karl Marx & Frederick Douglass were both born in 1818. Marx grew up in comfort, Douglass in chains. Marx thought the world owed him more comfort; Douglass only demanded liberty, & he'd do the rest. https://t.co/jRy659r5mT
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) July 21, 2026
Relevant: https://t.co/QaL7Fos8Oa pic.twitter.com/1zcSCblD2T
— Chris Freiman (@cafreiman) July 17, 2026
Gender equality is the most potent contraceptive (r ≈ 0.81) pic.twitter.com/lCvlOMKk51
— William Meijer (@williameijer) June 18, 2026
Today is the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 17, 2026
The nationalist coup started in the Morocco protectorate and encountered little resistance there.
Three year later, Franco defeated the last elements of the Republican forces in their last hold-out in SE Spain pic.twitter.com/ZfGNREm3Qs
“In true liberal education, the essential activity of the student is to relate the facts learned into a unified, organic whole, to assimilate them as the rose assimilates food from the soil and increases in size, vitality, and beauty.”
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) July 16, 2026
— Sister Miriam Joseph pic.twitter.com/ytOGxPThh9
Lee Kuan Yew on the Communist threat to Singapore. Sit your ass down and listen to this. pic.twitter.com/HFfB8ctgkH
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) July 18, 2026
He’ll be telling his friends about this forever pic.twitter.com/AoNUl2EBji
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 17, 2026
Sweden got rich under laissez-faire and nearly wrecked itself trying to forget it. Between 1870 and 1970, Sweden ran one of the freest economies in Europe: low taxes, open trade, sound money, and entrepreneurs like the Wallenbergs and Ingvar Kamprad building world-class firms. By… pic.twitter.com/VFaWtOaFW2
— Handre (@Handre) July 17, 2026
Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants.
— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) July 16, 2026
The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech industry: Jevons and Baumol. One is… https://t.co/4uGZh2NtZ4
Life cycle of a strawberry pic.twitter.com/UR6JKaM0uV
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 17, 2026
In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.
— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) July 17, 2026
I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.
Six minutes later I was holding chicken.
I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water…
This is so cool!!! The power of social media🇺🇸🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/cHRokpozPm
— Freddy🇩🇪 (@FreddyLA7) July 16, 2026
You know the pamphlet "Common Sense," the one that convinced America to break from Britain. You know Thomas Paine wrote it. Here's what you probably don't know. Another man talked Paine into writing it, and gave it that title. Meet Dr. Benjamin Rush.
— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) July 16, 2026
Rush is arguably the most… pic.twitter.com/uTM7q7HGD2
"Why Industrial Policy Fails," by Lindsay Graham
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 16, 2026
https://t.co/u6aCGI0us2 pic.twitter.com/dXYfADnyQw
Amazing Physics pic.twitter.com/kTtEZkMzsQ
— Amazing Physics (@amazing_physics) July 17, 2026
the most confusing part of the odyssey is how this took 10 years pic.twitter.com/WQxnpx1xzB
— Matt Slotnick (@matt_slotnick) July 16, 2026
Encore un scandale.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) July 11, 2026
On accuse Elon Musk sans arrêt de se servir de Grok pour faire passer ses idées.
Pourtant, le @neutralityorg vient de sortir The Neutrality Project : une étude indépendante qui prouve l’inverse.
Sur 18 modèles IA testés, 54 positions sur 60 atterrissent à… pic.twitter.com/Fb30BjtgpB
This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) July 16, 2026
His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy… pic.twitter.com/ei6gB8pS6B
You often hear “why don’t the IDF allow journalists into Gaza”. Here’s an interesting perspective.
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) November 26, 2024
About a month ago, the IDF offered the chance of a visit to a captured Hezbollah tunnel. Amongst those who accepted were me and a small pack of journalists from Israel, Greece, the… pic.twitter.com/vKg1OPQk2r
Amazing Nature
— Amazing Nature (@AmazingNature00) July 16, 2026
A camera recorded from start to finish how a bird built its nest and had its chicks.pic.twitter.com/y0Feuh3Hiw
The chances of a rabbit kicking you off your scooter are incredibly low… but never zero 😭 pic.twitter.com/DZ5HXs9nPz
— 🚘Brutal Cams🎥 (@brutalcams) July 30, 2026
Fun fact: The man who popularized and designed the Playground in America, Joseph Lee, financed the Immigration Restriction League.
— Prowler (@derzum_) July 13, 2026
Lee promoted the strictest immigration laws in U.S. history, and believed if a people did not make a good playmate, they were not fit to assimilate. pic.twitter.com/9zfKIJd3qW
Whoa.@CynicalPublius @infantrydort @RobManess https://t.co/TncrFj0Ji0
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 12, 2026
I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit. pic.twitter.com/Sjm4UFgOs6
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) July 31, 2026
It keeps getting more wild pic.twitter.com/soYb1Jge1a
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) July 13, 2026
This is dire.
— Caleb (OSH Cut) (@CalebChamberla6) July 13, 2026
Just had a meeting with our insurance brokers to discuss strategy for our company plan next year. Our carrier wants to ramp up premiums by 18%.
We are big enough that we are probably going to self-fund, to try controlling costs better.
But the system is broken. https://t.co/AEMqomlk41
Near Basingstoke are the faint traces of the Roman road running from #Silchester to #Chichester on the coast. If the troops of Constantius Chlorus marched inland in 296 it would have been along this route. This detachment of troops was lead by the Prefect Asclepiodotus pic.twitter.com/fFdYEep6AH
— Pete Savin (@pete_savin) July 13, 2026
“Until quite recently, Christians could assume the goodwill, if not the active belief, of the powerful in society. That assumption can no longer be made. Our beliefs are under attack from influential & militant atheists on one hand & Muslim extremists on the other”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) July 13, 2026
Charles Moore pic.twitter.com/0ghoZ22yzd
The crow solved a brand new three-step puzzle in 30 seconds to get a bedtime snack! He even had time to make sure he didn't miss any cashews. That's really amazing! 🐦⬛👏 pic.twitter.com/scPn2mZfre
— Nature is Phenomenal (@AnimalGeoLife) July 31, 2026
If one can get it on Amazon by 7pm tomorrow, its not banned. These people drive me insane. https://t.co/DQjoAtta6T
— KenFarmer ⒶⓋ (@KenFarmer) July 12, 2026
It's notable in every chart which has mental health + political ideology, you see people on the left having more problems (and it wasn't always like this). Truly one side of the political spectrum has succeeded in pathologizing the population and making mental illness a virtue pic.twitter.com/ZPYIpCDqEO
— Adam Singer (@AdamSinger) July 13, 2026
You sent your kid to cuneiform school to learn to read and he sends you back a letter guilt-tripping you into buying him stuff:
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) July 12, 2026
"you have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam, whose father is only an assistant of my father, (has) two new sets of clothes while you fuss… https://t.co/6SJsGZcE5l
What Gramsci couldn't wrap his head around is that the culture produced by communism is not organically accepted because it is untethered from biological reality. That is why he was so hell-bent on educating the children among others to achieve his "oppositional culture." https://t.co/53uWlClZsa pic.twitter.com/GFOTkFeyLd
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 (@JDHaltigan) July 13, 2026
Pacific Swallow looks like a jet fighter. pic.twitter.com/xqwAye5tOt
— World's Amazing Things (@Hana_b30) July 31, 2026
This story about the leftist consultants who discovered Graham Platner is full of absolutely wild tidbits pic.twitter.com/YKZtYoFDQL
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) July 13, 2026
What people consider a "mental illness" has shifted dramatically. Fifteen years ago, only 20% of young Americans thought that normal, temporary mood changes (like occasionally feeling sad, worried, or having trouble sleeping) counted as a mental illness. Today, more than half of…
— Marian L Tupy (@Marian_L_Tupy) July 11, 2026
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Where are the palletized load/unload features and trailer?
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) August 17, 2026
It also has to tow things as well as be towable to be a true logistical asset in a birthrate constrained Western military. https://t.co/ajHD6ndSaI
SMS Emden was heading for the Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands) to destroy the important British radio station located there. When the ship arrived on November 9, 1914, the station crew managed to send a radio message in time, revealing the exact position of the German warship. The… pic.twitter.com/TEX6MtQcXk
— Hidden History (@HiddenHistoryYT) July 13, 2026
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
— Бианка (@BiankaB12) July 11, 2026
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New… pic.twitter.com/7XSnJ8vae9
All women are the same, no matter what kind they are. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/RyxcZl6duO
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 31, 2026
Graves disturbios en Suiza tras quedar eliminados pic.twitter.com/7yA3C8yAQ0
— Andy Olivera (@soyandyolivera) July 12, 2026
LOL, people just say anything they want without even looking at the data. Americans commute less than Europeans or Asians. Here's data from the OECD. https://t.co/r0aNadD3Fq pic.twitter.com/DDst02Hj7i
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) July 12, 2026
On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.
— Voices of WW2 (@VoicesofWW2) July 12, 2026
He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World… pic.twitter.com/PKn7BpsAhI
The moral argument against a wealth tax is simple:
— Rock Chartrand (@RockChartrand) July 10, 2026
Your wealth is not a public resource simply because other people are envious of it.
If it was earned voluntarily and without violating anyone's rights, others have no moral claim to it. https://t.co/hr4cuLXpmU
These are the larvae of the Bunaea alcinoe moth, one of the most unusual species of silkworms in the world.
— Interesting Channel (@ChannelInteres) July 31, 2026
Although they look very menacing because of their large spikes, as well as their red and black colors, in fact these creatures are absolutely safe. pic.twitter.com/C1noB0Poww
Oof this para from @NellieBowles on Britain's economic situation: pic.twitter.com/DEnhoOJ05N
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 11, 2026
It seems counter-intuitive to say, but on a geological time scale, Earth remains in a period of long-term cooling.
— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) July 12, 2026
We are still in the Quaternary Ice Age, which began some 2.58 million years ago. Today's warm pulse is real, but it's temporary. Global temperatures remain… pic.twitter.com/Hrb310IjHv
But the Mongols made barbarism a strategic asset, a force multiplier. The fate of Bukhara was used to conquer Samarqand.Despite his obvious qualities as a general the eldest son, Jochi, was ruled out because of doubts about his paternity. His mother, Borte, had given birth to him after being rescued from the Merkids, who had captured and raped her soon after her marriage to the young Genghis.
However, the majority of the population had been allowed to escape, to roam the countryside and seek refuge where they could, and take with them terrible accounts of the fate of Bukhara. The object was to terrify and demoralize the inhabitants of Samarqand, the Khwarazm Shah’s capital. When Genghis approached that city he forced prisoners from Bukhara to march ahead, which swelled the ranks of his army and, of course, provided shields against the enemy’s arrows. Samarqand was expected to hold out for a year; it capitulated after five days. Neither Genghis Khan nor any of his army had ever seen anything quite like it. They roamed the streets and avenues, drinking at the fountains and gorging themselves on the exotic fruits and sherbets. The Turkish garrison, all 30000, were put to the sword. The population was divided into sections; women were set apart to be raped and then sent off as slaves; the clerics were all spared; while the entire population of craftsmen and artisans were also transported to the Mongol homeland where they would be employed at Genghis’s court.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck."
Mycenaean Galley Reconstruction — Aegean Late Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) pic.twitter.com/9S62DoGpZq
— Remy06 (@Re_my_06) July 12, 2026
Brown University is one of the most elite universities in the world.
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) July 10, 2026
All the students lie and cheat.
When they become politicians, doctors, lawyers, scientists, business leaders, they keep cheating.
If you wonder why things are the way they are, that is why. https://t.co/0H4Ek7yq4N
🪰Everyone knows the dragonfly from childhood, but isn't it surprising to learn that before it flies, it is an aquatic insect?pic.twitter.com/ysAp0nKlfG
— Amazing Nature (@AmazingNature00) July 13, 2026
Marry a woman who looks at you like a boat sales guy looks at you 😌 https://t.co/QzZcAxSlSi
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) July 12, 2026
It’s insane how the only racial violence the media really covers is white on black, which is statistically almost nonexistent. https://t.co/ab7pT3Dxdw
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 11, 2026
There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
Carrots were originally purple, white, yellow, and red.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 12, 2026
The orange carrots we know today became popular after Dutch farmers selectively bred them in the 16th–17th centuries. pic.twitter.com/dww5mtlFk2
The overthrow of the Czar in Russia was motivated by two factors: inflation and the war. The initial desire on the part of reformers was to stop both and establish a republican form of government. The transition government led by Alexander Kerensky failed to achieve the goal,… pic.twitter.com/mn2HkYKUWW
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) July 11, 2026
There’s an episode from Cheers where Frasier and another guy are quoting from Richard II and Cyrano de Bergerac.
— 🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 (@nonregemesse) July 12, 2026
34 million Americans watched this episode. https://t.co/VZasvH2fBa pic.twitter.com/93AACnkMt5
Welcome to the jungle..🐕🐾😅
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 12, 2026
📹2huskyteers pic.twitter.com/eruuZtzVfV
The US is the largest country in the world that speaks one language, has many power poles/major cities, and you are allowed to just get up and move to any of them without bureaucracy. https://t.co/ORo7rIaJb6 pic.twitter.com/Jt8LIo9quM
— Sven Etienne (@Sven_Etienne) July 11, 2026
I'm not going to pay for a subscription to a propagandistic rag like "The Atlantic," but this X post's phrasing is illuminating.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 11, 2026
Unless a civilian leader is giving an illegal order, a senior general's or admiral's "obedience to civilian leaders" and "duty to the Constitution"… https://t.co/UEcz7UbPlr
This 1937 Austrian leaflet depicts a Nazi, a Communist, and a social democrat. It reads, "And when they found each other, they understood each other immediately."
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) July 16, 2026
Amazing how the more things change, the more they remain the same. pic.twitter.com/kZULa4z4QX
This was a profoundly necessary, cathartic moment, giving voice to the righteous fury and disgust of millions. It marked a striking departure from his typically charming, winsome, humorous, bipartisanship-minded demeanor. Arguably his finest hour. Thank you, Senator. RIP. https://t.co/lXJd4jdD4g
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 12, 2026
The obvious reason we haven’t invested in this is that there’s a widely available third option that costs about $40 worth of gas. https://t.co/jAHQnm5qFo
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 11, 2026
I invite you to imagine how you would want our government to respond if a single rocket was fired into a neighborhood near you by an enemy sworn to kill you all. Now watch this video and remember it isn't rain you're seeing. https://t.co/YXhYpwKQhY
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 11, 2026
I periodically repost this to get our paper on Hidden Figures to a few more people who will be around for longer than I will. It would be a shame if the episode continues to be treated as genuine for so long that it is eventually codified as history. https://t.co/XmOlc3NobH
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) July 12, 2026
Most ancient philosophers taught that the way to happiness was by controlling desires, not satisfying them. Modern abundance should make this easier by removing the element of desperation, but it's become harder. Why? https://t.co/9kE5Z2D6fl
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) July 11, 2026
Fun fact.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 12, 2026
The Monarch butterfly migration is one of the longest-known, multi-generational insect migrations on our planet. Every fourth generation lives 8 times longer than the previous generations and travels 10 times farther. pic.twitter.com/ejFVEFyLoH
Tom Gauld
— mr_eIon_Xnews (@Musk_DaiIy_news) July 12, 2026
Scottish cartoonist
Quite a bit of his work has been used by American publication 'The New Yorker ' pic.twitter.com/aIBDFxSdlg
Your occasional reminder that high school graduation rates are the phoniest statistic in education. https://t.co/bEpgog9WW9
— Robert Pondiscio (@rpondiscio) July 10, 2026
We trace the family origins of Members of Congress (MC) born between 1830 and 1950, linking each MC, their parents, and their brothers to the complete-count censuses. Future MCs have always been economic outliers. By 1940, close to 60 percent of MCs aged 18--40 held a college degree, against under 5 percent of comparable young men outside Congress. In the 19th-century censuses, MCs as adults held roughly three times the wealth of demographically matched controls. They also come from economically elite families: their fathers earn more, attain more education, and hold more wealth. The brothers of future MCs sit between the population and the MCs themselves. Across the socioeconomic measures we compare, we calculate that roughly half of an MC's adult premium is shared with his brother and the other half is his own. Even as the American economy and political system have changed, the family background gap has widened over the last century and a half. Wealth, household servants, and four separate occupation-based scores all show the gap holding or growing across cohorts. We study four Progressive-Era reforms in a triple-difference design---women's suffrage, the secret ballot, direct primaries, and the direct election of senators---and none produce detectable shifts in who reaches Congress. Our results document a Congress drawn from the most fortunate families in American society in every cohort we observe.
Cf. 'Seeing like a State' by James C. Scott. Once the state has your information, it's going to use it. It will keep you 'safe' but you will have to show 'compliance.' It will give you benefits so long as you obey. The history of Legalism in China since the Qin shows that what… https://t.co/gyhGEHFZxm
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) July 11, 2026
Frédéric Bastiat captured the essence of modern politics in a single sentence:
— Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) July 11, 2026
“The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
Once the state becomes the primary mechanism for distributing resources, politics stops being about… pic.twitter.com/BcgmSq9Zrt
The patterns of light on the sea floor.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 12, 2026
They are called caustics: they are created by light refracted and reflected from the air/water interface. Water acts as a dynamic magnifying glass. pic.twitter.com/OzJtYxZq7e
I seem to be alone here but I'm going to admit something: for years, I didn't know the cart return was such a sensitive thing.
— Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋 (@SharylAttkisson) July 11, 2026
I usually returned it to the right place, but when it's been 0-degrees and windy or pouring rain, I might leave it nestled securely on a grass… https://t.co/9SQnTWkXf9
Just over a decade ago, 1% of LSATs were taken under disability accommodations.
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 10, 2026
By 2023, it was 11%.
Disability accommodations are killing the ability of standardized tests to be a force for merit. We're now rewarding liars and cheats. https://t.co/sJK69coX6H pic.twitter.com/5H68iNoxKf
The Art of Conversation, 1963 by René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967)
At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and 1am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. I also hold one or two beliefs that are more difficult to put shortly. For example, I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people’s feelings by satisfying our own egos. And I think we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters. Above all, I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.
I said at the beginning that it is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Fifty years ago W. B. Yeats, who was more like a man of genius than anyone I have ever known, wrote a famous prophetic poem.Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.
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