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.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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…
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why is it always “we cut thousands of employees to save money” and never “we cut millions from our CEOs salaries to save money”
Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees, representing 6% of its workforce, in what is the streamer's biggest layoff to date.
Most of the layoffs will affect workers in Netflix’s product, technology, legal and HR teams.
“Our mission — to entertain the world — is ambitious, and delivering on it requires us to be disciplined about where we prioritize our people and resources,” co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters wrote in an email.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/net…
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It’s important to ask yourself, “How did we end up in a world where the act of reading is more embarrassing than not reading?” There’s a reason the children of CEOs attend schools where screens are forbidden while public school kids are increasingly unable to read. We’ve been fed relentless propaganda about how books are for losers because a literate population threatens the unchecked power of the super-wealthy.
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Billionaires buying elections and spending millions to spread misinformation and propaganda does infinitely more damage to our "election integrity," than the less than 0.0001% ballots cast by undocumented immigrants.
NYT: Elon Musk quietly drops $276M on GOP midterms—$158M alone to Senate super PAC in one of the largest political donations ever. Biggest known donor trying to save Republican majority
nytimes.com/2026/10/12/us/po…
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🚨 Online traffic to the entire European far-right collapsing after a successful Ukrainian attack on a Russian data centre feels like quite a big story.
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The maximum amount an individual can donate to a candidate is $3500.
Elon Musk has spent $366 million on the 2026 midterms — so far.
Billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections — and this shouldn’t be controversial to anyone who claims to care about “election integrity.”
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We are in the heyday of movies about tech founders which recognize their subjects are terrible people but cannot abandon this belief that they are geniuses who were just too ambitious. These people are petty, stupid, and cynical. Any other representation is hagiography.
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BEZOS: “We have real affordability problems.”
48.4% of Amazon workers are paid so little that they’re forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets, like Medicaid and SNAP, to survive.
The affordability problem is a billionaire greed problem.
Q: Why is socialism taking off in some quarters?
BEZOS: We have real affordability problems. Housing is a good example—it's a place where a lot of the government intervention that has happened has been counterproductive. If you put in place government programs that subsidize demand and constrain supply, you are going to get high prices.
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The only institution responding thoughtfully to AI is the 2000 year old Roman Imperial Church.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Oh
Lung cancer patients who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine lived nearly twice as long as unvaccinated patients.
Lung cancer patients who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy lived nearly twice as long as unvaccinated patients. sciencenews.org/article/canc…
