David Rompf

Writing in: The New Yorker, The New York Times, L.A. Times, Harvard Review, MarketWatch, etc.

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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.
https://t.co/GlGanfz7aX #Space #Michigan @UpperPeninsula

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@MaureenLangloss That must have been one killer slice.

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Lawful gun owners, take note: now the federal government and the Trump administration are coming for you. Gift article:

https://t.co/P2lsyfCsEZ

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Journalists being arrested for peacefully covering a protest is a dangerous assault on democracy. (Free gift article). https://t.co/1y5aD0CxR3

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“Trump Is Lying To Our Faces” (Gift article from The New York Times.) https://t.co/BkzmsAcWri

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

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Digging into the mysteries, truths, and fictions of New York’s cemeteries: honored to have this essay in Slag Glass City.
https://t.co/YMbUpj30Wc

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"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

https://t.co/JfxEZBzDc9

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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

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

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✨Join us on June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!✨
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @WilliamWButler, @susanmgaines, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elmckenzie1, @DavidRompf, @VecchioneAuthor

Details: https://t.co/pmKpzOfxp8

#literaryevents, #writingcommunity

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@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).

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@TheRickWilson Rue du jour.

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

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

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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. https://t.co/tKbIUmD5O0

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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 https://t.co/Yfv50qK2BH

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"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

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"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.

https://t.co/izIAuWYGR5

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

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@JenSeniorNY @ClaireLombardo Hello, Pulitzer fiction committee.

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