Steve Rustad

Novelist, progressive activist. Seeking a literary agent for my Ukraine war novel, I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL. Stand with Ukraine!

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

38,000 gun deaths a year . . . GOP opposes gun control laws.

2 cases of voter fraud a year . . . GOP passes 361 new voter suppression laws.

Fascist assholes.

#EnoughIsEnough #GunReformNow Uvalde Apalachee High School Guns Walzes The NRA Rick Scott AR-15 Thoughts and Prayers

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.

When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?

From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Pete Hegseth demanded his team to bring Eisenhower's globe in his office, despite warnings that only historians should move the iconic globe.

His staff dropped it and broke it.

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

@DracoRuddy Fucking Idiot.

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

Zelensky defending Ukraine is a disgrace???

Fuck you, Trump.

The fucking disgrace is a chickenshit draft dodging asshole parading around as America's Commander-in-Chief.

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

As long as we are doing DNA tests now, someone should DNA test Vivek Mother Fucking Ramaswamy to see if he is even a fucking human being.

[Anny Mation @MationMiss]

You guys should be breaking everything like the French over this

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.

I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.

Wonder what’s changed?

[AnatolijUkraine @AnatoliUkraine]

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:

“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.

But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?

I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”

Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kellogg: “I’d burn down every one of the goddamn refineries that Russia has today, take them all out, it’s a military target. I said [to Zelenskyy], ‘Make them pay the price, take it home.’”

He is saying very accurate and basic things, but compared to the insanity of the Trump administration, it almost sounds revolutionary in a good way. I’m glad there are still reasonable people around.

It’s also very obvious why Russia wanted to exclude Kellogg from the negotiation process.

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

@Xnarkycritic FUCK YOU.

MAGA SHITHEAD.

BURN IN HELL.

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

@JimmieIronic The Laken Riley Act was propaganda bullshit.

Go fuck yourself.

[jackie @jax_americana]

Keep bombing data centers, it makes the internet more tolerable

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Ukraine should bomb every refinery and data center in Russia. Burn it all down.

[Steve Rustad @SteveRustad1]

@BGomez7p62 LOL.

Fucking idiot.

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@agentMJ2 Brainwashed shithead.

Go fuck yourself.

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@DanaSharpe18 @JoeFirerce LOL.

Fuck off.