David Rompf

Will rockets launch from Michigan's Upper Peninsula? My article for @NewYorker explores a polarizing initiative to build a spaceport on the edge of Lake Superior. newyorker.com/news/us-journa… #Space #Michigan @UpperPeninsula

Lawful gun owners, take note: now the federal government and the Trump administration are coming for you. Gift article: nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/…

Journalists being arrested for peacefully covering a protest is a dangerous assault on democracy. (Free gift article). nytimes.com/live/2026/01/3…

“Trump Is Lying To Our Faces” (Gift article from The New York Times.) nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opi…

“Maine will not be intimidated. I will not be intimidated.” - Janet Mills, governor of Maine and candidate for U.S. senate. #Election2026 @JanetMillsforME

Digging into the mysteries, truths, and fictions of New York’s cemeteries: honored to have this essay in Slag Glass City. slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyr…

"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.Your remarks over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties & are not fit for the auspicious office you occupy." - Gov. JB Pritzker youtube.com/watch?v=EemtWj…

When your flight is delayed at SFO, you can go to a drag show. My former home town is one of a kind, and I left my heart here. #sanfrancisco #pride

Thrilled to have a story from my collection in the beautiful @CatamaranLit.

@elonmusk Not true. In 2022, households led by undocumented immigrants paid $75.6B in total taxes. This includes $29.0B in state and local taxes and $46.6B in federal taxes. However, these people cannot receive the benefits from the taxes they pay (e.g. SS).

The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. That’s what it’s all about. Truth.

@TheRickWilson Rue du jour.

RUE THE DAY!

@RadioFreeTom Technically, a battery. (With discoverable evidence: her husband’s video.)

@RepMTG Clearly the ability to count isn’t a requirement for being a U.S. representative from Georgia

Democrats OWN the shutdown.

Peaceful protest: Maori members of New Zealand's parliament staged a "haka" to disrupt the vote on a bill that would have reinterpreted a 184-year-old treaty between Britain and the indigenous people. youtube.com/watch?v=N__OF4…

Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel, “Orbital,” a gorgeous, profound love letter to Earth, to the universe, and to humanity. If you need perspective or need to be transported, read this astonishing book. #Booker #reading #hope theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

"We are a nation of immigrants." #KamalaHarris Remembering my great-grandmother Amelia Frankovic, who was put on a ship at age 10 without her parents, and no money, and sent to the U.S. in 1907. As a child she worked cleaning boarding houses in Minnesota. #ellipse #2024Election

"The Saturday Shift": A piece about my brief, bewildering life as a waiter in England. (I set the dining room on fire, and then this happened....). Many thanks to @Pangyrus for publishing this #essay. pangyrus.com/zest/the-satur…

@emmabo Hell yes. We need a Montaigne of drive-thrus.

what if i wrote a collection of essays examining the reasons why i have cried in drive-thrus. it will be 800 pages long

@JenSeniorNY @ClaireLombardo Hello, Pulitzer fiction committee.

Just finished @ClaireLombardo's epic "Same as it Ever Was," and I have no idea why she isn't getting the same treatment Jonathan Franzen did years ago. She writes with the same verbal dexterity, four times the psychological acuity, ten times the magic, and twenty times the heart.

@postcardsfrmv Said Sayrafiezadeh Clare Keegan Lucia Berlin Yiyun Li Ishiguro (One of his stories from Nocturnes) Kenan Orhan

@deziree_a_brown @CarlosAGLive King of Pawns, @DavidRompf readwildness.com/33/rompf-king