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Ryan Thorpe
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Ryan Thorpe
@rk_thorpe
Senior Investigative Reporter @ManhattanInst. Words in @CityJournal, @nypost, @californiapost. Long-suffering Miami Dolphins fan. Views my own.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Apr 29, 2025
    Whether it’s a majority or minority, the fact Canadians looked at the government who presided over this and chose to give them a *fourth* term in office is objectively insane.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Aug 15, 2025
    Days after Trump was re-elected, Northwestern held a faculty senate meeting with more than 100 professors in attendance. Things quickly turned hysterical, with professors melting down from the floor while comparing America to Nazi Germany. The irony is that, for all their talk
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Jun 12, 2025
    A whistleblower at Lockheed Martin has come forward with explosive allegations: Lockheed required managers to issue bonuses to employees on the basis of their skin color alone, contrary to their documented performance. My latest in @CityJournal with @christopherrufo.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Dec 17, 2022
    Replying to @BrettKollmann
    Legit needs to be firings. Not a Vikings or a Colts fan, don’t have a dog in this fight, just gob smacked at how bad this is…
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Apr 28, 2022
    Replying to @UncleDrewStan and @nikostratis
    ‘Sometimes I like to take a toothpick and throw it in the woods and shout: you’re home.’ Greatest non-sequiter joke writer ever.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Dec 17, 2022
    Replying to @RGIII
    Overcame a 33-0 deficit AND the refs spotted the Colts 14 points. Wild. Another Matt Ryan collapse.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Jul 24, 2025
    Marathon Petroleum is one of America’s largest crude oil refiners. In 2021, MP removed a key safety metric from its annual employee bonus programs, while introducing a new DEI metric. The new DEI metric: racial hiring quotas. My latest in @CityJournal with @christopherrufo.
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    City Journal
    @CityJournal
    Jul 24, 2025
    In 2021, Marathon Petroleum added racial hiring goals to its bonus compensation formula while eliminating a safety metric. Read the story from @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe:
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Apr 28, 2022
    Replying to @nikostratis
    ‘I order the club sandwich all the time. I’m not even a member. I don’t know how I get away with it.’
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Aug 10, 2022
    Replying to @rk_thorpe
    After establishing ground rules (reporters aren’t an investigative wing of law enforcement) I agreed to meet. They presented me with this letter. To my frustration, they would provide no additional information other than what is stated below.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Aug 10, 2022
    Replying to @rk_thorpe
    The following was provided to me by @ZacharyKamel It’s a transcript from the bail hearing of Richard Tobin, a dual member of the Base and Atomwaffen, who had been involved in efforts to get Mathews from Canada into the US.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Jun 27, 2025
    ICYMI: My latest in @CityJournal, with @christopherrufo, on Cornell University's discriminatory hiring practices.
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    City Journal
    @CityJournal
    Jun 26, 2025
    Whistleblowers at Cornell describe a system of intentional discrimination in faculty hiring that rewards and punishes individuals according to their ancestry, rather than their ability. Read the reporting from @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe:
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Dec 16, 2022
    Replying to @rk_thorpe
    History will not be kind to us.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Jan 8, 2023
    Replying to @MattVerderame
    Sometimes it's really difficult to try and figure out what is going through Staley's head. Just baffling decision making at times.
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    Ryan Thorpe
    @rk_thorpe
    Aug 15, 2025
    Replying to @rk_thorpe
    Racial Preferences at Northwestern University?
    From city-journal.org
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