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1Dec 9, '24The alleged CEO shooter is Luigi Mangione:1530×37.8M102k3k18k
2Sep 2, '25Malcom Gladwell says he is “ashamed” of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women’s sports. He says he was “cowed” into saying so. “Trans at156×3.8M7.2k9161.1k
3Feb 4, '25A lot of people are portraying USAID as some sort of bastion of looney DEI excesses. Let’s take a look at what the sudden arresting of their operation is doing to global health. Pl149×3.7M15k3k3.4k
4May 7, '24I worked the Met Gala as a waiter a few times. It’s your basic gala dinner. A lot of hobnobbing and table hopping. The placement of people’s tables is *very* political. The last ye146×3.6M26k8322.8k
5Jun 11, '24I have people over for dinner about 15 to 20 times a year. I am typically invited over to dinner once or no times per year. No one else has a table as far as I know.140×3.5M3.6k2472.3k
6Sep 10, '25Charlie Kirk was scheduled to debate a progressive influencer, Hasan Piker, at Dartmouth College on Sept. 25. On his Twitch live stream, Piker reacted to the news with horror, urgi130×3.2M25k1.7k2.6k
7Jan 19, '25I have people over to dinner about 15 to 20 times per year. I am invited over to dinner zero to one time per year. People often behave as if a social invitation is an onerous burde110×2.7M9.7k3501.9k
8Nov 15, '24John Oliver, in arguing how the Dems should respond to the trans kids issue, falsely claims “there is no evidence” trans kids “pose any threat” to fairness in sports. There absolut104×2.6M7k459752
9Sep 13, '25Update: Now The Guardian has cut from this article about Tyler Robinson the quote from the unnamed high school friend about his being “leftist”.97.2×2.4M3.4k670405
11Aug 1, '23After the Covid vaccine came out, the adjusted excess death rate in Ohio and Florida was 43% higher among Republican voters compared with Democratic voters, this study found. There51.9×1.3M2.2k728285
12Nov 9, '24This @CNN clip centers on a fierce dispute over whether calling transgender girls “boys who play in girls’ sports” is a slur. The man who says it isn’t one says that most people ar51.3×1.3M2.9k260435
14Apr 20, '24This is my cousin, then 16, mourning her best friend, Cassie, who was murdered 25 years ago today, along with 14 others at Columbine High School. The anguish in her voice before th37.1×917k16k769460
15Apr 23, '24I'd never seen this 2013 article before. It asks whether the notion that Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay was, in fact, a myth. That's me on the right in the picture, on 36.1×892k2.1k212894
16Oct 20, '25NEWS: Trans and nonbinary identities are indeed in free-fall in college age Americans. Prof. Jean Twenge @jean_twenge found new survey data that supports @epkaufm's much disputed c33.2×820k4.1k7121.4k
17May 20, '24Elon Musk has started restricting accounts who use that word that means someone isn't trans, calling it a slur.29.9×739k14k763261
18Sep 11, '25The New York Times editorial board writes: America Mourns Charlie Kirk The assassination of Charlie Kirk — the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize moder28.6×707k2.2k399442
19Jul 12, '24Pamela Paul writes for @NYTOpinion: In U.S. Gender Medicine, Ideology Eclipses Science. It Hurts Kids. Imagine a comprehensive review of research on a treatment for children found 25.7×635k3.5k896737
20Sep 22, '25Hepatitis B is not solely transmitted through sex. It is also transmitted through blood, including sharing drug-use materials, and from mother to child (perinatally). Before univer24.4×603k2.4k483272
22Dec 6, '24BREAKING: Detransitioner Sues Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a Top Pediatric Gender Medicine Doctor, For Medical Negligence 🧵⬇️⬇️I report: Dr. Olson-Kennedy is the most prominent doctor y21×519k4k703505
25Oct 23, '24NEWS: U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in chi19.9×491k2.6k610667
26Jul 20, '24Two years ago today, addled with chemo brain, I tweeted a typo that would change history:19.4×478k3.8k220123
27Jun 25, '24Unsealed Court Documents Show That Admiral Rachel Levine Pressured WPATH To Remove Age Guidelines From The Latest Standards Of Care A head-on collision between science and politics18.9×467k2.1k642307
29Nov 14, '24Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC took her pronouns out of her X bio. According to the Internet Archive, this happened at some point between Aug. 3, 2023 and May 18, 2024. In Nov.17.4×429k1.8k322138
32Aug 31, '25I interviewed a number of the first monkeypox (mpox) cases in 2022. They were largely affluent gay men who enjoyed traveling around the world and going to sex parties. I am not cer15.2×375k5.2k856852
33Feb 25, '25Speaking about pediatric gender medicine with @BillMaher on @PodSaveAmerica, @JonLovett claims that “study after study shows that gender-affirming care saves lives.” This is false.15.2×374k3.2k472527
35Feb 8, '25George W. Bish believed that as the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation, it was his duty as a Christian to save sub-Saharan Africa from widespread societal collapse under t13.5×334k6.3k563410
36Feb 12, '25One day, activist-blogger Erin Reed said 80 incorrect things about pediatric gender medicine, so I fact checked her 80 times. She cannot defend herself on the merits of her words, 13.3×329k7.6k395262
37Oct 17, '24The top reader’s pic comment on ⁦@nickconfessore⁩’s NYT Mag article on the DEI debacle at U Mich:13×322k3.4k517656
39Mar 25, '25“It’s a bloodbath,” a source from the NIH told me today, regarding the sweeping cancellation of research grants.12.1×300k2.1k797164
40Sep 30, '24Welcome to the typo club.11.2×277k5.9k231273
41Feb 7, '24Um, hello:10.6×262k2.6k170107
42Nov 7, '24After making a series of fiercely ideological and political statements on social media in the wake of Trump’s win and being pilloried for doing so, @SciAm editor in chief Laura Hel10.5×258k1.9k279125
46Jul 21, '24Kennedy asserts that the Cass Review “has already been discredited by 3 peer-reviewed publications.” She cites: 1) Cal Horton’s criticism of Cass’s interim report, which Horton pub9.1×225k2.6k387406
54Oct 17, '24BREAKING: The State of Texas has sued Dr. May C Lau, a pediatrician at UT Southwestern for allegedly prescribing testosterone to at least 21 natal girls under the age of 18 contrar7.7×189k3.1k591189
56Dec 25, '24It is time for someone to investigate and deconstruct the wildly profitable 24/7 Meghan Markle media and social-media hate machine.7.1×176k2.1k365141
57Apr 28, '25This is the second to last time that I am going to lament that many people don't know what "penultimate" means.7.1×175k5k30367
60Jun 8, '25Trump pardoned all the Jan 6ers who assaulted cops.6.1×151k2.2k39938
61Oct 20, '24A new report by @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalen UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls finds that transgender women (natal males) competing in women's sports won at least 6.0×148k2.3k779420
62Nov 19, '24I sat in on a web meeting today run by public-health leaders who, distraught and horrified by Trump’s win, discussed the myriad ways he would likely make their job hellish. The mee6.0×148k1.8k10263
64Apr 23, '25The reason the HPV vaccine is recommended for preadolescent children is that the goal is to get them to finish the sequence *before* they become sexually active. The vaccine is sho5.8×142k3.6k296120
71Feb 7, '25UCSF child psychiatrist and pediatric gender-transition treatment advocate Jack Turban has resigned from an NCAA committee that advised about competitiveness safeguards after it ca4.9×122k2.5k261111
73Dec 2, '24Trans people banned from women’s changing rooms, under proposed NHS guidelines4.6×115k4.4k20252
74Jan 3, '25Before you join the Meghan Markle pile-on, stop and ask yourself what forces might have created the global Markle hate machine, which is a wildly lucrative business generating coun4.6×115k2.5k32069
76May 17, '24For the first time, a detransitioner medical-malpractice lawsuit will proceed in court, deemed by a judge to be legally viable. Prisha Mosley @detransaqua has sued in North Carolin4.5×110k2.1k491141
77Nov 11, '24The reason the public is reacting so strongly to the @CNN clip is because trans girls, for the purpose of fairness in sports, are not in fact girls, full stop, as Mr Michaelson arg4.5×110k2.3k20299
82Jul 21, '22I would once again like to apologize for inadvertently causing the entire global #monkeypox outbreak by typing too fast and leaving out a crucial consonant.4.0×07.4k553106
83Oct 26, '24Journalist @MegynKelly, speaking with impassioned moral indignation, tells @BillMaher that pediatric gender transition treatment is “the issue of our time with respect to children 4.0×99k2.1k291141
85Oct 25, '24Saying, “I don’t know.”3.6×89k2.5k23833
86May 18, '25When I was in the seventh grade, the girls in my class arbitrarily chose a girl to socially ostracize and torment into a fine powder. The girl finally switched schools. This is the3.5×87k1.9k13675
87Dec 22, '24I saw Timothée Chalamet’s off-Broadway debut in John Patrick Shanley’s Prodigal Son in 2016. It counts among the top 5 stage performances I’ve ever seen. A star was clearly born.3.3×83k2k61106
88Oct 2, '24Fact check: The regret rate after gender-transition surgery among adults is unknown due to large loss to follow-up in the few efforts to study this. And as for the regret rate for 2.9×71k1.8k335160
89Jan 29, '23Finally, Whole Foods has a Harry Styles section.2.9×71k2.6k14718
91Jun 28, '22🔔Breaking: Biden administration announces mass #monkeypox vaccination plan. The US will release supplies of Jynneos vaccine (which requires 2 doses 4 weeks apart): 56,000 doses im2.8×03.4k995206
92Jul 19, '21Today the federal government advised health insurance companies that they must cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV with no cost sharing. That means that people on PrE2.6×03.6k91794
93Jul 23, '22Eric Feigl-Ding's constant fear mongering is deeply harmful. A new @NEJM #monkeypox study of 528 global cases found just 0.6% were from household transmission; 95% were likely tran2.2×02.8k778148
94Nov 20, '22Colorado Rep ⁦@laurenboebert⁩ recently expressed disappointment that she was not the number one person on the list tweeting the anti-#LGBTQ slur “groomer”.2.1×02.4k90841
95Jan 2, '25Meghan Markle is releasing a cooking and home décor show on @Netflix and the haters are going to lose their damn minds.1.9×47k1.8k18019
97Jul 7, '22I simply cannot believe that @WashingtonPost ran an oped by Eric Feigl-Ding about #monkeypox. He is not an expert in this subject and has already developed an egregious history of 1.8×02.7k37483
98Sep 7, '21"A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postm1.7×02.7k60316
100Jul 21, '22My typo is teaching people about global pubic health! #monkeypox0.9×01.7k9330
101Oct 13NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home. Gustavo Gordillo ha0.2×5.4k6475

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