Ryan Thorpe

Senior Investigative Reporter @ManhattanInst. Words in @CityJournal, @nypost, @californiapost. Long-suffering Miami Dolphins fan. Views my own.

[City Journal @CityJournal]

Rats in L.A. have caused the number of typhus cases there to skyrocket by 2,300% since 2009. Some patients have died. The authorities responsible for protecting the public admit that they lack the resources they need to get the situation under control.

Read more from @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe: https://t.co/2MzcZJRyjp

[City Journal @CityJournal]

NEW: Cases of typhus, a medieval disease that is spread by infected rat fleas, have skyrocketed in L.A.

Last year, the county recorded more cases than at any point in its history. Since 2009, the number of flea-borne typhus cases in L.A. has increased by 2,300%.

The authorities responsible for protecting the public said they lack the resources they need to get the situation under control.

@christopherrufo & @rk_thorpe’s latest: https://t.co/6h77H4UsCH

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: The are millions of rats breeding under the streets of Los Angeles and they're carrying medieval diseases like typhus. We obtained more than 1,000 pages of documents from the county health department—and they are not ready for the next major outbreak.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: California Democrats are rapidly moving toward a South Africa-style racialist government: anti-whiteness as a governing principle; racial commissars in every institution; $500 billion in reparations; land seizures in the name of "equity."
https://t.co/bp5z2iqd2k

[City Journal @CityJournal]

🚨NEW: An investigation by @christopherrufo & @rk_thorpe reveals that during the past 15 years of one-party rule, California Democrats have worked to import South Africa’s post-apartheid playbook to the Golden State.

Race is becoming an organizing principle of public policy, shaping everything from education and data collection to bureaucratic decision-making and wealth redistribution.
https://t.co/OMPOFGlMnH

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Gavin Newsom has effectively legalized an open-air sex market in the middle of Los Angeles. In 2022, he signed legislation decriminalizing loitering with intent to commit prostitution. Now, gangs are pimping girls as young as 14 and branding them with tattoos—all in the open.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: In the past decade, the Los Angeles Metro has reduced fare enforcement by more than 99 percent—and crime has doubled.

We rode the trains for 24 hours to see the nightmare up close. Vagrants, drugs, shootings, robberies, rape. And political leaders who do nothing.

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

California officials have a term for reporting that holds them to account when they fail to deliver for their state: "coordinated outrage cycle."

Most people call it investigative journalism.

So far in 2026, @realchrisrufo, @austenhufford, @StrackHaley, @rk_thorpe, @kennethschrupp, @Maddie_Rowley_ and @CityJournal have documented a $900M solar subsidy program that can't spend its own money, a wildlife bridge that cost multiples of comparable projects and arrived years late, costly and unconstitutional procurement rules, and wildfire prevention funding that isn't preventing wildfires (to name just a few of their stories).

Holding elected officials and their appointees accountable for waste, misgovernance, and fraud is what a free press is supposed to do. And the City Journal California team is built for it.

Thanks to @politico for highlighting the efficacy of their important work.

https://t.co/z5Y46jdx9I

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

We submitted a FOIA asking the San Francisco Police Department how many illegal migrants from Honduras have been arrested for dealing fentanyl.

They sent us hundreds of pages of documents that look like this. They don't want the public to know what is happening in their city.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: Honduran drug gangs have taken over the streets of San Francisco. We spent three nights documenting "the Hondos," who have cornered the market for fentanyl and meth—and who will slash you with a machete if you oppose them.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

This is the scene in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. They're smoking ISO, a new drug that's up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl.

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

4,087 people died of overdoses in San Francisco between 2020 and 2025. Many clustered in one neighborhood: the Tenderloin.

New @CityJournal investigation from @christopherrufo @rk_thorpe and @choeshow reveals how gangs of illegal Honduran immigrants ("the Hondos") cornered the city's fentanyl market.

Cops are barred from asking immigration status. The dealers they do manage to deport come right back. Often on the same corners.

https://t.co/WkpyjCuCzH

[City Journal @CityJournal]

NEW: A foreign drug gang has taken over an entire neighborhood in downtown San Francisco and turned it into an open-air drug market.

City Journal reporters spent 3 days and nights in the Tenderloin, and what they discovered is shocking.

In the Tenderloin, the Hondos rule.

[Ryan Thorpe @rk_thorpe]

RT @Jesse_Leg: “Manhattan Institute: the right-wing think tank responsible for all of the anti-CRT initiatives, the anti-DEI initiatives.”…

[City Journal @CityJournal]

BREAKING: @JDVance announces that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of California.

"The simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously."

City Journal has done extensive reporting on the shocking amount of fraud in California. It's great to see that the administration is taking this issue seriously.

[Scott Jennings Show @JenningsShow]

Is California funding extremism? 🏛️📉

Today, Scott Jennings welcomes investigative journalist @rk_thorpe of the @ManhattanInst & @CityJournal to discuss a massive failure in taxpayer accountability. Thorpe’s reporting reveals that California has funneled millions in state funds to organizations linked to radical and extremist ideologies.

[City Journal @CityJournal]

In the last five years, the California Department of Social Services has rubberstamped at least $41 million in funding to a state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has alleged connections to Hamas.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

By comparison, Florida and Texas have designated CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization.

[NY Post Opinion @NYPostOpinion]

Gavin Newsom’s California funds radical Islamists at CAIR with taxpayer dollars https://t.co/mONIKzk8ZZ

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

CAIR-CA executive director Hussam Ayloush claims that "Syrians today have way more freedom than the average person in America."

Gavin Newsom gave him $40 million of taxpayer funds.