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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Joined August 2008
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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…
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?
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…
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…
Mark Rahner retweeted
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…
Mark Rahner retweeted
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.
Mark Rahner retweeted
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…
Mark Rahner retweeted
🚨 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.
