Tom Ellison

What… the fuck?

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I'll be teaching a webinar on translating between "serious" writing of law, news, analysis, etc. and short humor writing of McSweeney's style, in May for WritingWorkshops.com. Enroll below (spots are already filling up!).

Andrew Huberman segments coming soon to CBS:

-Optimizing Your Dog’s Morning Routine: What the Science Says
-Dwindling Share of US Kindergarten Students in Flow State
-How to Get Grandma Jacked for Summer

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I'll trade you any humor writing help I can offer, in exchange for a donation to a good cause! 👇

Man seeing neighbors in the streets all sharing snow shovels and clearing old folks’ walkways and stuff really hits the spot in these times.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

This was the most helpful IR paper I’ve read in a long time.

Sometimes I get jealous because he’s never sent an email

…emailed feedback on a McSweeney’s style humor piece draft (<800 words), or a 30 min Google Meet on any writing-related topic I can be useful on (short humor writing, the agent querying/book deal process, etc.)

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Trying to find a more helpful use of my energies. So, for writing/humor folks, the first 10 ppl who DM me a donation receipt of $100+ to Homes Not Borders or to one of the MN orgs linked here are entitled to…

www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/

www.standwithminnesota.com

…emailed feedback on a McSweeney’s style humor piece draft (<800 words), or a 30 min Google Meet on any writing-related topic I can be useful on (short humor writing, the agent querying/book deal process, etc.)

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Trying to find a more helpful use of my energies. So, for writing/humor folks, the first 10 ppl who DM me a donation receipt of $100+ to Homes Not Borders or to one of the MN orgs linked here are entitled to…

www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/

www.standwithminnesota.com

DC must end its cooperation with ICE — a rogue and dangerous agency that tramples on our civil liberties and attacks our neighbors.

I join every DC resident expressing their outrage and disgust.

Like Minnesotans, we will stand up for humanity, compassion, and justice.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help

An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

this is worth watching in full

Seth Moulton figured it out! Seth Moulton! none of the rest of them have any excuse

Something something “affordability”

it's honestly insane how DOGE managed to make absolutely no impact on the spending trendline while also gutting a bunch of programs that were incredibly efficient at turning money into saved lives

MAHA has long told a story about a chronic disease "epidemic" caused by corrupt elites, pharmaceutical products, processed food, and vaccines. It blends some real grievances-ultraprocessed food, environmental degradation, legitimate anger at real misconduct by drug companies-with discredited claims about vaccines causing autism, SSRI antidepressants as a conspiratorial plot, and so on. Now, from its foothold in the administration and perch at the helm at Health and Human Services, MAHA launders misinformation through the federal brand. The National Academies report gestures at "competing interests," "public relations," and "societal forces" as well as wellness influencers and fringe groups corrupting the information environment, but it does not fully conceptualize health populism as a political project with the explicit aim of redefining what "science" the state will endorse. "Misinformation" is the mobilizing content, not the end state; the false claims help build the army, but outside voices are delegitimized. What MAHA produces, what Children's Health Defense and the anti-vaccine movement's influencers and media have long produced, is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project. The term "misinformation" treats this as a knowledge problem. It's a power problem.

I wrote this today: MAHA understands it is playing a power politics game and everyone else countering the movement needs to wake up to that, too. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/misi...

Cool graph alert 😎 📈

We need to document how this ownership change shifts the content. Would love to see scientists studying and reporting on this as it happens, as well as everyday people documenting the changes in their feeds with TikTok diaries or something similar. I’ll assume we won’t have much if any API access.

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Jack Handey in "Deep Thoughts," or Trump at Davos?

"These are young, young people, look like you. Look like some of you, right in the front row. They go to war. Their parents are so proud. Oh, there he goes. Comes back two weeks later, they get a call that says, “Your son’s head’s been blown off."

This looks like the poster for a movie where 1776 Minutemen fall into a wormhole and have to fight the 2026 US military, to preserve the true meaning of liberty. It’s called Time Patriots, stars Glen Powell, and has 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yes, it's true, the demand curve intersects the supply curve

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