Tom Ellison

Pre-2025: you soyboys are ruining America

2025: We all have to eat this soy because Donald Trump ruined our trade relationships

California! Set a reminder in your phone to call the gov’s office to tell Newsom to sign these five bills.

The guy’s mercenary as hell so if he thinks the wind is shifting in favor of trans rights (it never shifted! Trans rights are human rights!) we could flip him. Info below.

Call: 916.445.2841

Keir Starmer to warn Labour that battle with Reform is ‘fight for soul of the nation’ Exclusive: PM says history will not forgive his government if it fails to confront and defeat the populist right

A 'fight for the soul of the nation' - but one in which the Labour Party uses the language of the enemy in a pathetic chase after right-wing voters who won't return to the fold, and further alienates the younger, winnable voters they're losing to the left.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

A Foreign Policy article titled “Trump is Learning Geopolitics 101 in Real Time”

My man is on his 5th year of being the President of the United States

The flattening of political conflict into "people I like" vs "everybody else" elides that the far-right option ("authoritarian nihilism") is actually materially worse for a lot of people than neoliberalism

Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive | CNN Business President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery costs. But his administration’s policies are contributing to an acceleration in prices, food economists and companies say.

I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention

David Petraeus greeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Concordia Summit in NYC. When Petraeus was a 3-star in Iraq in 2004-6, Sharaa was fighting the US as a member of the al-Qaida branch there; when Petraeus was a 4-star, Sharaa was teaching fellow Camp Bucca detainees classical Arabic

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours.

www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

TNC identified as the last well known American columnist with a spine:

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

How’s that for timing

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Bill Kristol showing more courage and humanity here than most Democratic leaders. Amazing.

Again.

One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat

These media outlets are more than ready to carry water for the far-right dream of trans genocide.

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.

The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

From the NYT newsletter: • "Alien: Earth," now in its first season, continues the half-century-old "Alien" franchise. But the true horrors aren't ravenous xenomorphs anymore; they're tech companies.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

this mentality is, ironically, one of the main reasons we're losing the tech race with China on much more important things, like clean energy

US Journalism challenge: Publish what he said

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Van Hollen, Merkley Release Report Detailing Findings on Humanitarian Situation in Gaza YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

Today @merkley.senate.gov and I released a report on our recent trip to the Middle East.

Our inescapable conclusion: the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Tune in as we discuss what we saw and where we go from here:

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school. Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

In the future, soup will be AI. 10110111011101 (that’s “yum!” in binary)

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

Nathan Fielder stolen valor

Seems as good a time as any to re-up this: