Tom Ellison
@tomellison123.bsky.social
-Climate change, disinformation, security
-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc.
-Board, Homes Not Borders
-Rule of 3 disregarder
Humor writing at: www.tom-ellison.com
Personal views
-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc.
-Board, Homes Not Borders
-Rule of 3 disregarder
Humor writing at: www.tom-ellison.com
Personal views
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Tom Ellison
@tomellison123.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Possibly the acquisition my coworkers have been most excited about ever
I can finally share that my satire of the masculinity-industrial complex will be a real book! Chud Buffly's Alpha Male Manhood Manual: How to Know Everything, Feel Nothing, Get Jacked, and Never Die will come out in 2026 from Quirk Books (once I finish writing, but Chud's grindset tips will help).
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Honestly, this would be like if when Kennedy was president, the entire Republican opposition was a bunch of Herbert Hoover staffers and their hangers on.
And this isn't your imagination, or a fake problem I'm fabricating to get mad at. It's a few weeks until 2026 and we still have the opinions of *James Carville* force-fed to us like fois gras geese every 2-3 months. This is not normal. It's not. It's not supposed to work like this.
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Honestly, this would be like if when Kennedy was president, the entire Republican opposition was a bunch of Herbert Hoover staffers and their hangers on.
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🏭🧑💻 Untangling Russian information manipulation on climate issues begins with understanding Putin's strategic interests, the tools and methods available for disinformation campaigns, and existing vulnerabilities and interests.
Dive in with the latest CCS report from @tomellison123.bsky.social:
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Putin, Permafrost, and Propaganda: Russian Information Manipulation in a Changing Climate - The Council on Strategic Risks
Exploring key aspects of Russian information and influence activities related to climate change and security.
councilonstrategicrisks.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🏭🧑💻 Untangling Russian information manipulation on climate issues begins with understanding Putin's strategic interests, the tools and methods available for disinformation campaigns, and existing vulnerabilities and interests.
Dive in with the latest CCS report from @tomellison123.bsky.social:
Dive in with the latest CCS report from @tomellison123.bsky.social:
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Never been retroactively prouder of making it 4 pages into a book and giving up.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Never been retroactively prouder of making it 4 pages into a book and giving up.
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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it is happening again theonion.com/this-war-wil...
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
it is happening again theonion.com/this-war-wil...
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
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also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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My great uncle Herb Bilus was a US Coast Guard officer who transported waves of GIs to Omaha Beach on D-Day, and I'm fairly sure he saw the swastika as a hate symbol
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My great uncle Herb Bilus was a US Coast Guard officer who transported waves of GIs to Omaha Beach on D-Day, and I'm fairly sure he saw the swastika as a hate symbol
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this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
this thread is unbelievable
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At last, they found the #CensorshipIndustrialComplex! DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the department would "contact Facebook and social media companies to do more to stop the rampant misinformation and disinformation circulating online"
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
At last, they found the #CensorshipIndustrialComplex! DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the department would "contact Facebook and social media companies to do more to stop the rampant misinformation and disinformation circulating online"
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This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
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Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate Money
www.homesnotborders.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Among 1,000 other things, it's always weird to see that the most powerful people in the world have the email stylings of your least favorite uncle.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Among 1,000 other things, it's always weird to see that the most powerful people in the world have the email stylings of your least favorite uncle.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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They turned Indivisible into an officially anti-Democratic incumbent organization overnight. Just remarkable stuff!
a man in a pink shirt is standing in front of a fence holding a hose .
Alt: mustachioed Elijah Wood tracing his hand sensually along a white wire fence before turning to the camera and saying "Terrific!!"
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
They turned Indivisible into an officially anti-Democratic incumbent organization overnight. Just remarkable stuff!
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is