Ronin journalist. Radio/pod talker. Comic book writer. And some other crap. Views strictly my own and don't represent anyone I've ever worked with, for or on.
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Mark Rahner retweeted
Grok says the best estimates show @elonmusk is responsible for at least 500,000 deaths so far and millions over the coming years due to his destruction of USAID.
Reliable estimates vary by methodology and assumptions. A July 2025 Lancet study projected over 14 million excess deaths by 2030 (uncertainty 8.5-19.7 million), including 4.5 million children under 5, from an 83% USAID cut, based on historical mortality reductions. Center for Global Development analyses of 2025 spending put annual lives lost at 500,000-1.6 million. Boston University’s Impact Counter estimated 750,000-781,000 deaths in the first year. Actual totals remain uncertain due to disrupted data and other factors.
"MAHA"?
Breaking News: The Trump administration is set to relax rules restricting the emission of methane, a gas considered to be a “super pollutant.” nyti.ms/3WP2qaG
Mark Rahner retweeted
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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The Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk:
“A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”
@WGAEast @WGAWest
Mark Rahner retweeted
Even @Variety is trashing @billmaher — his entire show has become an image rehab program for fascists and liars. @hbomax
Where would this malignant narcissist be without an audience forced to laugh and his terrible jokes? 🦗 🦗
variety.com/2026/tv/news/bil…
Mark Rahner retweeted
Billionaires buying elections will always be a greater threat to democracy than the 0.0001% of votes that are cast by undocumented immigrants.
One of my career highlights as a newspaper pop culture writer was watching ALIEN with Tom Skerritt in his Seattle basement. Lovely fellow who’ll be well remembered for a long time.
Tom Skerritt, Star of 'Picket Fences' and 'Alien,' Dies at 93 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here …”
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham Paid Off 3 Male Escorts, Including One Who Was 17 at the Time — Explosive Documentary Alleges mediaite.com/media/news/brea…
Mark Rahner retweeted
Whenever I see ppl criticizing former students for college debt, I think of those PPP loans that the govt automatically forgave, as in actual free money. The interest is what kills, no one should have to pay $90k on a $40k student loan and still owe thousands and remain in debt
Mark Rahner retweeted
The maximum amount someone can legally donate to a candidate is $3500.
Elon Musk is allowed to buy an election because Citizens United gave billionaires like him a loophole to undermine democracy.
Billionaires are a bigger threat to elections than immigrants ever could be.
Mark Rahner retweeted
What is the point of inviting on liars every night in prime time to lie again and again and then have the host and other panelists call out the lie? Who does this help? How is this journalism? Why not just not invite her back on again once she has demonstrably + shamelessly lied?
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Mark Rahner retweeted
A rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll who has zero qualifications to be running national TV network is in fact running a national TV network and trying to get it to behave like a rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll.
Mark Rahner retweeted
He stopped the shooter, but he didn't stop the shooting. That's the difference. Three kids and their teacher were already dead, and an unarmed teacher had tackled him first. YOU spent decades blocking laws that keep guns away from kids. Now you're taking a victory lap? Fuck that.
Sickening cruelty. I'm siding with the bears.
🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration has finalized a rule allowing hunters to lure black and brown bears with donuts, bacon grease, and other food before shooting them at close range in Alaska’s national preserves.
The move reverses a Biden-era ban despite warnings from wildlife advocates about risks to bears and public safety. meidasnews.com/news/trump-ad…
They were freed from the burden of having healthcare. Nice.
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But the chainsaw bit was comedy gold, right?
Alex Gibney: “There was an estimate that what [Elon Musk] did by suddenly cutting USAID would cost through disease and starvation as many as 14M lives. Even if you discount that, we know within a year of those cuts where they were literally burning food going to starving children, 500K children died. This is really a crime against humanity, but he makes a joke about it, I put USAID into the woodchipper. What he put into the woodchipper were children”
Righteous.
Pleased to announce @Curaffairs has put in place one of the strictest anti-AI policies in publishing.
Newsrooms across the country are embracing AI writing and laying off writers. Our magazine is doing the opposite, ensuring we remain handmade.
currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
Mark Rahner retweeted
People are keen to blame anyone but themselves for the fact that recreational reading is in its death throes. The awful truth is that we were born into the most literate era in history, we had access to all the world's knowledge, and we willingly gave it up.
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading.
Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
