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Walter Kirn

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Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy. Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, She Needed Me, Mission to America, My Hard Bargain, There's a Bear in the House!

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1Jul 20, '23Once again I find that I'm among the five or six people on a packed plane who care to look out the window at views unavailable to humankind for almost all of our history on earth122×5M46k3k1.2k
2Sep 1, '25Hello, world. Something to show you. A teaser trailer for The Rash, a script I wrote this year for Onset Creative & Nicole Shanahan. The feature film is now in the financing ph59.6×2.4M5.4k1.3k780
3Nov 13, '24Tulsi Gabbard just went from being secretly followed around airports this summer by dog teams and undercover agents (research it) to becoming the Director of National Intelligence.53.4×2.2M60k7.3k1.9k
4Jan 27, '25So I'd say AOC is done. Like done done. Newsom too is done. Josh Shapiro will keep quiet and bide his time and perhaps find an opening, but my guess is that if the Democrats want a53.4×2.2M19k1.3k1.1k
5Nov 30, '24When I learned yesterday from @pmarca on @joerogan about the prevalence of politicized "debanking" in the US it showed me how little I really know about our recent past. And the re50.8×2.1M12k1.9k682
6Feb 13, '25Shouldn't have murdered that squirrel.43.4×1.8M69k5k888
7Mar 1, '25Zelensky was put up to that, I'd say. His bit about the "ocean" protecting us, but perhaps not forever, and how we'll "feel" soon (bad, he implied, very bad) was quite clearly a th41.5×1.7M34k4.6k1.5k
8Jul 17, '24Evidence of a vibe shift, as told to me by a progressive twentysomething. And I quote; "Things are changing. People are saying 'retarded' and no one cares."39×1.6M19k1.1k1.1k
9Nov 12, '25Northern lights near Livingston, Montana32.2×1.3M41k4.3k1.3k
10Nov 2, '23Congratulations to @mtaibbi , @bariweiss & @shellenberger for winning the first annual Dao Prize from the National Journalism Center tonight in recognition of their reporting o30×1.2M8.1k1.4k72
11Sep 13, '25"Speech is violence so now I get to kill you." It will take some time to remove this line of code.28.9×1.2M19k2.1k748
12Oct 11, '23In about 6 years I'm going to take one of the 400 incandescent bulbs my wife has squirreled away and I'm going to secretly screw it into a lamp in a room full of young people who'v27.3×1.1M11k1.3k394
13Oct 29, '25OMG They inverted Animal Farm27.1×1.1M14k1.3k1.3k
14Aug 13, '24Most of the big media outlets gloating tonight about the problems of an overloaded X Spaces have never had to worry much about their sites crashing due to heavy traffic As time goe25.9×1.1M8.1k1.3k91
15Jan 30, '25The cowards are going to vote on Tulsi in secret Breathtaking25.4×1M7k1k82
16Nov 5, '25This is the ending of Animal Farm. The very ending. Read it while you still can and you'll know what I mean.24.6×1M14k2.1k1.4k
17Jul 25, '24Everyone falling in love with Harris now will be asked to fall in love again, I predict, and rather soon23.8×975k8.7k698207
18Feb 13, '25Wish I had a dollar for all the pros last year who told me Trump can't share the limelight and would never bring on Kennedy and the others Guy has shared more limelight than most p23.6×967k47k4.8k628
19Jan 23, '25Five days ago America didn't even know who the real president was. Now there's practically a livestream from the Oval Office & President Trump seems to be at his desk from 7 am23.5×961k60k5k1.1k
20Oct 5, '24Who is this "we?" Really. Who is this "we?"22.7×929k33k4.4k705
21Jan 19, '23What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters on earth are at stake (supposedly) yet the conferees don't argue. They don't debate. All21.7×887k19k4.5k232
22Jan 26, '25The confirmation process for RFK Jr will be a tidal political event of a kind you haven't quite seen before. Mark my words. There will be marches, perhaps. There will certainly be 19.8×811k13k1.7k332
23Feb 14, '25A photo I snapped of JD Vance last fall at a bouncy castle in Williamsport, PA as he unwound with his family before giving a speech in an adjacent gym. I thought you might like to 19.4×793k41k2k1.1k
24Jan 8, '25I owe @ShawnRyan762 an apology. On a Monday night podcast I said I thought he had been fooled by the emails sent by the apparent Las Vegas bomber. Yesterday the FBI affirmed that i18.6×762k13k505161
25Apr 3, '25The vision of the US as a giant bank served by a giant military and kept functioning by lots of poor people on bikes and in cars delivering food to the bankers and their adjuncts b17.4×711k15k2.5k1.6k
26Sep 8, '24Prediction. Mark it The debate, from the Harris side, will take the form of a trial. She will, of course, play the prosecutor and instantly try to cast Trump as "the defendant." Th16.9×692k11k1.3k1.1k
27Sep 25, '25I was asked recently by a certain group if I'd be willing to read from a banned book for Banned Books Week. I said yes. Well what do you know, I was just told that because I'm cont15.7×644k21k2.5k513
28Jan 20, '25Melania looks like she will personally oversee the final judgments of those who fucked with her, possibly from the deck of a yacht and accompanied by her designer15.3×627k32k1.8k587
29Sep 17, '25Someone in showbiz told me it was a little scary what's happened to Kimmel and Colbert and I said actually it's heartening: It means Hollywood is back in the business of pleasing t15×612k27k2.5k528
30Feb 16, '25Mark Twain's whole message to America was don't be too impressed by Europe14.3×584k22k1.4k820
31Aug 18, '24Sometimes a national figure comes along whose special type of phoniness is glaring to you but not to others because of your own particular upbringing and background For me it's Tim14.1×578k10k766237
32Apr 28, '22Mr @elonmusk has invited the world to abuse him verbally on his own property. That’s my definition of a generous and gracious host14×0125k7.8k299
33Jul 17, '25Other problem with NPR is that they cultivated a creepy vocal style that is basically the voice used by passive-agressive adult authority figures when you get in trouble as a kid.13.7×561k16k1.2k776
34Jan 10, '23It's tough watching my friend & colleague @mtaibbi take endless abuse for working himself to the bone on one of the most important stories of our time, the Twitter Files. That 13.4×547k13k2k42
35Oct 8, '24This deceptive post-broadcast edit appears to be real, and if indeed it is real it's a shocking breach of ethics that I can only imagine was the result of a fierce pressure campaig12.6×517k12k3.3k738
36Jan 20, '25Holy shit the American working class just legally overthrew a corrupt pseudo-aristocracy supported by the greatest, richest propaganda machine in history12×493k30k3.9k1.1k
37Sep 23, '24How does this strike young progressives? I'm genuinely curious.11×452k8.4k1.1k322
38Jan 30, '25Fauci gets a pardon RFK gets abused Because he might find out why Fauci needed a pardon This is your government and your Democratic party And it's that simple10.7×439k26k4.7k383
39Nov 11, '24Don't ever use the word "disinformation" again Just say "lie" or "mistake" or "scam" or something The health of the English language must be tended to after its long slow poisoning10.6×434k13k2k352
40Feb 9, '24The WH press corps got the signal tonight that it was safe to go into attack mode & make up for lost time. It duly obeyed. Reporters who once competed to throw softballs sudden10.3×423k7.8k1.4k257
41Oct 8, '24Bill Whitaker is a credit to CBS and to his profession. Serious, composed, and masterful. Thank you, sir. Beyond that, I don't know what to say about this interview. I just don't.10.0×409k8.2k924293
42Mar 26, '25Hollywood ending. The good guy won. @DrJBhattacharya now has the very job last held by one of his leading persecutors. And he's going to be great at it. Someone should make a movie9.9×406k7.9k1.2k92
43Oct 6, '25My apologies to @megynkelly for missing her show this morning, on which I was supposed to guest. I made the rookie mistake of thinking the invitation was on Mountain Time, not EST.9.7×398k9.5k189158
44Sep 10, '25My military sources detect signs of a professional or at least organized assassination. Misdirection in the crowd to allow for the gunman to escape. Long precise shot from an eleva9.5×389k8.2k1.1k530
45Aug 15, '24With crime at a 50 year low, supposedly, would someone please unlock the toothbrush case at Walgreens, please?9.5×388k16k2.9k219
46Apr 20, '25Happy Easter to all. Is death the end? I never quite thought so, even as a kid, I really don't know why. Later, though, older, I grew sophisticated and learned to say, "What does i9.2×376k7.2k836963
47Oct 29, '25So it all basically happens the way you imagine it does. People sitting around in comfortable private settings planning your world for you. Very cozy. Drinks included.7.4×304k7.9k2.3k684
48Aug 9, '25Reading the NYT and The New Yorker, it's like Obama is still president. They are a full decade behind the culture.7.1×293k8.4k754201
49Apr 5, '25Just watched Dem politicians go from scalding critics of wealth and "oligarchy" to champions of Wall Street in a matter of two weeks. Actors.7.1×291k9.5k1.6k237
50Nov 18, '24The Democratic party decided Biden was unfit to run as president but competent to escalate war with Russia even after the party lost It isn't really a party anymore but a piracy op7.1×289k14k3.3k343
51Sep 18, '25No one is going to buy the left's reinvention itself as some libertarian champion of free expression. Not after the decade of woke mania. Not after their misinformation and disinfo6.8×280k8.7k1.6k546
52Jul 23, '25When the Russians know your American presidential candidate (HRC) is physically sick, psychologically unstable, and on heavy tranquilizers, but you out there in TV land don't know 6.7×273k15k3.5k435
53Jun 14, '25Believe absolutely nothing about these Minnesota shootings, including the probably guilt or motivations of the suspect. I'm telling you now that these events, which unduly steer ou6.7×273k7.2k917427
54Feb 8, '25What's amazing is that DOGE has turned up in a few days what would be many years worth of headline-worth scandals, none of which the press ever breathed a word about He's doing the6.5×267k12k2.2k241
55Sep 26, '25Darkest guy on the scene right now. Hate his vibe of always looking like he's about to cry as he bullies you at the same time.6.4×262k8k927246
56Jul 21, '24It's official. In terms of the 2024 presidential race, Dem voters have had no say whatsoever in anything6.4×262k7.6k1.4k115
57Jan 26, '25I mean what are they afraid RFK Jr will do if he's confirmed? Authorize research that kicks off a deadly global pandemic and then bungle the response in a way that destroys the liv6.4×261k15k3.2k638
58Jan 29, '25Wow I have had all kinds of inner debates pro and con about Bernie over the years Seeing him in action just once has settled them Hatchet man camouflaged as idealist Rarely has see6.0×246k11k1.4k222
59Jul 19, '25It's important to remember: The insiders knew. Almost from the start, they all knew. The newspaper biggies and the cable TV titans, they knew. They just didn't want you to know. Mo5.9×243k9.2k1.6k292
60Nov 8, '24Maddow is a mental illness vector. She practices a dark art. Her snarky hectoring and hammy shows of disgusted urgency, her impersonation of urban intellectualism, her condescensio5.9×243k11k1.6k574
61Feb 17, '25Last 20 seconds is the creepiest footage of the year. The inanity of evil. Banality is too elevated a word.5.4×223k7.8k880678
62Apr 4, '25My friend and podcast partner @mtaibbi , the most honorable person I've ever worked with and possibly the finest investigative journalist we have, was smeared in front of Congress 5.4×221k10k1.4k134
63Oct 14, '24How cunning it was of the wily Trump to forego becoming a fascist dictator in his first term and wait until he maybe won a second term Most power-mad monsters don't have that kind 5.4×221k14k1.7k340
64Oct 20, '24Some of the most extraordinary people in American life have formed a team and are asking to take on the problems that face the country, staking their reputations on the outcome And5.2×213k8k1.8k292
65Jul 9, '25The secret to the Jake Tapper character is acting all shocked and surprised when he digs up a skeleton that he himself helped bury five or six years earlier.4.8×197k9.9k1.3k131
66Aug 23, '24Occasionally one is compelled to speak directly RFK just rendered the entire presidential campaign of his old party, and the party itself as it presently exists, a brittle, dried-o4.8×196k8.3k1.6k220
67Jan 29, '25More later, but here it is; The Dems resembled a panel of nasty unhappy pharma lawyers. Wow. What an unmasking. The Rs seem like kindly smart farmers and business folk who want thi4.6×186k8.3k1.1k151
68Feb 28, '25Almost everything you weren't allowed to say for the last few years was the truth. Almost everything you were encouraged to say was a lie.4.3×178k7.6k1.4k232
69Oct 5, '24The private reports I'm getting on the Appalachian flooding make 2 points: The death & destruction is far worse than most know Official relief efforts have been feeble (at best4.3×177k9.2k2.6k248
70Oct 14, '24Vance is basically going on these news shows now to get in a nice light mental dumb-bell workout to keep himself toned4.3×177k7.7k716219
71Aug 25, '25There are a couple of people walking around in DC right now who will never know that they are the ones who didn't get murdered last week.4.3×177k8k88598
72Jan 26, '25Tulsi Gabbard, deemed unqualified by the very nat'l security entitities that failed to foresee 9/11 and then spent 20 years losing the wars that followed it4.1×167k8.7k1.5k117
73Feb 10, '25Progressivism: Rich people accusing middle-class people of not caring enough about poor people4.1×166k8.6k1.5k466
74Feb 12, '25I took these two pictures of two men taking up their positions at the RFK Jr confirmation hearings. One is being confirmed today as the Secretary of HHS. The other has suffered a t4.0×164k7.4k91895
75Aug 28, '25It should be noted that Jesus too was praying as he was killed. He went on to have great influence.3.9×160k10k1.2k139
76Mar 2, '25Because it was a threat3.8×155k8.6k1.2k246
77Apr 9, '18Twitter sells conflict. Instagram sells envy. Facebook sells you.3.7×018k9.3k182
78May 20, '25Only these questions matter: Who was commanding the military? Who was pardoning people? Who was the acting president? Who knew the truth and wasn't saying? And who was telling what3.4×139k7.4k1.6k199
79Jul 20, '25Colbert gets fired from a 15 million $ a year job & throws himself a nationally televised pity party w/ big politicians instead of sucking it up & having some dignity while3.4×138k7.6k91394
80Jan 30, '22One reason truck drivers get my attention & have my respect when they decide to take a stand is that they live their days, their weeks, their years, their decades in hard-worki3.3×025k4.1k87
81Sep 11, '25Charlie Kirk was 31. That's a kid to me. He was still learning and changing and he struck me as almost painfully obedient to the dictates of his conscience as they presented themse3.2×132k7.8k554142
82Jan 29, '25So this Senate confirmation hearing is a kind of bullying session in which people who have manifestly failed to keep America healthy -- and overseem its steep decline -- harass som3.0×125k11k2.1k141
83Oct 20, '25My tennis playing, highly active 81 year old father couldn't lift his right foot 4 weeks after his flu and shingle shots in Oct 2019. Limb by limb it proceeded. 6 months later he c2.9×117k7.8k1.1k246
84Jan 29, '25Personally I find it nauseating watching these clowns who ruined childrens' lives with their COVID policies wax moralistic about their guardianship of the youth2.8×115k10k1.4k92
85Dec 13, '22This is baldly inaccurate. @mtaibbi is not a conservative journalist, as anyone familiar with his work knows.2.8×019k2.8k121
86Jan 8, '22The idiocy and ignorance on display at the Supreme Court today caught even me, a cynic, by surprise. It breached a reservoir of faith — in the basic intellectual competence of high2.6×019k3.2k185
87Sep 25, '25Sure he's my friend, but objectively speaking @greggutfeld is so crazily far beyond his talk show host rivals mentally, verbally, and in every other way (except height) that it's l2.6×106k9.1k63175
88Nov 28, '24Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger, the immigrant action star from Austria, looked into the camera during COVID and growled at Americans "Fuck your freedom!" That was the day Holl2.6×104k8.1k1k107
89Oct 28, '22What a curious sort of democracy we have, that free speech would be a threat to it.2.4×016k3.1k102
90Apr 15, '22I love it. Suddenly Twitter is some sort of sacred public trust that mustn’t be tampered with by evil capitalists while it is also an independent corporation answering only to shar2.3×017k3k122
91Feb 2, '22So CNN was basically Studio 54 with a broadcast facility in front1.9×015k1.7k22
92Jan 17, '22So the nations of the world are flying their greatest athletes to COVID ground-zero in the midst of the pandemic — and then flying them back home — but pre-schoolers are being barr1.8×012k2.9k89
93Jan 26, '25I support the nomination of @RobertKennedyJr to head HHS Strongly So did the voters The Senate should affirm their will1.7×69k7.4k1.1k32
94Oct 7, '21Usually when a president’s popularity plummets you see a lot of adjusting & retreating aimed at restoring it. But not now, for some reason. Now, you see the pedal to the metal,1.4×09.5k1.7k62
95Sep 29, '21So in case you younger people are wondering if this is a 1) uniquely troubling historical period or 2) a rocky patch, I’m here to tell you that it’s way closer to 1) Congratulation1.3×010k1.6k123
96Aug 3, '21My late father, a patent attorney & chemist who spent much of his life suing companies like J&J, told me that pharma being allowed to start advertising on TV & thereby 1.3×08.7k1.9k193
97Nov 25, '22Twitter pulled the canned applause track and a number of well-known figures here who can't hold a real audience are fleeing. They are pretending it's out of principle.1.3×010k1.3k42
98Nov 27, '22While the Iranian and Chinese people rise up in the streets to claim their civil rights, American progressives take to their keyboards and fight alongside their Fortune 500 corpora1.2×08.4k1.9k36
99Nov 1, '22My father died of ALS in May 2020. I can't even count how many silly COVID emergency rules and regs I and others had to break in order to be with him, keep him comfortable, & s1.2×09.2k1.3k22
100Jul 3, '22I grew up working in gas stations. They aren’t predatory money machines. Can’t afford to be due to intense competition, because there’s usually another one just down the block — wh1.1×08.1k1.5k49
101Aug 13, '18Angered by Trump’s charge that it feigns independence while acting as a unified, coordinated attack machine, the press responds with a coordinated, unified attack on Trump. Smart.1.1×06k2.2k18

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