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I knew the rules, but the rules did not know me.
Jan 15 4 tweets 2 min read
Political scientists & data quants have been telling us this for half a decade.

Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & unchanged.

And you can see it across the data: Image It’s not just the U.S. Image
Nov 23, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
Julian Schwinger, the great theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, was once asked if he could teach the 8 a.m. Quantum Electrodynamics class at Harvard.
His reply: “I’d love to, but I’m not sure I can stay up that late.” Image
Oct 1, 2025 16 tweets 5 min read
In just the last 5 years, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has poured nearly $20 billion into overwhelmingly woke causes.

By contrast, over the course of his entire life, stretching back to the 1970s, George Soros has donated $32 billion Image Illustrative cancershot breakdown: Image
Sep 7, 2025 5 tweets 3 min read
1 out of every 22 black men in America will commit murder in their lifetime (vs. 1 in 425 white men).

And that does not account for repeat offenders. Accounting for repeat offenders, it’s 1 out of every 17. Image
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And then realize this is also happening in many other blue cities.

The crime stats we have are just the floor. The actual numbers are higher.
Jul 12, 2025 5 tweets 2 min read
Jul 2, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
An ongoing scandal over Indian remote workers scamming Western firms highlights a deeper clash: low-trust Indian scam culture vs high-trust Western norms. Here an Indian VC *in the West* literally does not understand why lying is wrong & needs to be told by commenters. Unreal. 🤯 Image Many things we take for granted in the West simply aren’t possible in a low-trust culture, where no one can be relied on, and everyone’s constantly looking over their shoulder, wondering how many different ways they could be taken advantage of this time by everyone else they come across.

High-trust culture is rare. It’s fragile. And those who import low-trust norms erode its foundations. They’re not worth the cost of having.
Mar 8, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
One reason the left won’t be able to easily shed its fixation with woke identity politics—despite the hopes of its more economically minded factions (e.g., the Bernie wing)—is that blacks seem utterly incapable of being part of any political coalition without ultimately derailing it in a myopic attempt to make it all about themselves.

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Nov 1, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
"adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ…

…boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)"

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Jun 11, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
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