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<title><![CDATA[Mike Solana - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/45546.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mike Solana]]></description><category domain="45546">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Pratt Shatters the Honesty Taboo in Los Angeles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/pratt-summer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let the screaming and crying commence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Billionaire Christmas Wish List]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/my-billionaire-christmas-wish-list</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gentlemen, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m just going to lay it out for you as clearly as I can: you can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take your money with you when you die, and anyway there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good chance you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re going to have it taken from you long before you do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Day Guide for Americans of Class and Taste]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-thanksgiving-day-guide-for-americans</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tour of my table with respect for the classics, and tossing out those bullshit recipes, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a pirate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s guide for thanksgiving day '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' with tips on how to run your kitchen like a king.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A NYC Voting Guide for People Who Aren't Insane]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-nyc-voting-guide-for-people-who</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City, endorsements for human civilization, 2025]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abundant Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/abundant-delusion/684124/?gift=Q35XJoEoo6msMJ1jwMkBtH4roplXck9YodV0fsXNM1w&amp;utm_source=mikesolana</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I mean, what even is a Democrat at this point?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Age of Balls]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/age-of-balls</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was 3AM or so a few weeks back when Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old working with the Social Security Administration in Washington D.C., walked Emily Bryant back to her car after a party, and a small mob attacked them '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' around ten people, according to police who witnessed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/american-power</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Nolan only met Lee Robinson a couple weeks before, and under much more casual circumstances. But that afternoon of their second meeting they had business to discuss.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Thought of American Greatness']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-thought-of-american-greatness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Solana, vice president of Founders Fund and owner of Pirate Wares, sits down with The American Conservative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Brought TikTok Back to Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/why-trump-brought-tiktok-back-to-life</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[the complete history of tiktok's divestiture journey from 2020 to 2025, tiktok dies and trump brings]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moon Should Be a State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/moon-should-be-a-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The case for an america that grows, breaking down the moon thesis]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Total Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/total-victory</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Madness, memes, and media malfeasance (must be Tuesday). It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s embarrassing to admit, but just a little earlier this year I thought the election would be boring.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Vanishing Internet: Interview With Dr. Larry Sanger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/our-vanishing-internet-interview-dr-larry-sanger</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.piratewires.com/p/our-vanishing-internet-interview-dr-larry-sanger]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[wikipedia cofounder dr. larry sanger on the establishment takeover of wikipedia, corporate control of online knowledge,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DEI Hivemind That Led to Gemini's Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'impossible to ship good products at Google'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity and Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/diversity-equity-and-delusion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A little bigotry, for a treat. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been over ten months since I wrote about America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vibe shift, and a great release of the regressive worm-brained hold on culture '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the thought policing, the stylish self-loathing, and the relentless bigotry in service, we were told for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Peter Thiel: The Diversity Myth, a Retrospective]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/peter-thiel-the-diversity-myth-a</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.piratewires.com/p/peter-thiel-the-diversity-myth-a]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[my interview with peter thiel, and reflections on 'the diversity myth' thirty years later; stagnation, from science and economics to faith and politics; and back to the future]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Wild, Free Twitter Is Still Our Last Hope of a Free Country]]></title>
							<link>https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night Meta launched Threads, Mark Zuckerberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hotly-anticipated Twitter clone, and almost immediately blew a 10 million-person sized hole in the endless debate over Twitter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fate: will the House that Dorsey Built survive a little more freedom of speech, or will this be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Love Watching the Meltdown Over Musk and Twitter]]></title>
							<link>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/elon-conquers-the-twitterverse?s=r</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/elon-conquers-the-twitterverse?s=r]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our chattering class claims Musk is a supervillain. The truth is simpler: He wants free speech. They don't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Twitter Is About to Get Way Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/twitter-is-about-to-get-way-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Solana</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Defending free speech in a time of ascendent authoritarianism was always a losing battle. But Jack Dorsey tried.]]></description>
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