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Tom Ellison

@123tomellison.bsky.social

-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc. -Climate change, security, & disinformation by day -Preorder my Alpha male satire: MANTHOLOGY, by Chud Buffly https://tinyurl.com/msa64vc3 Personal views

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 4d ago

If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d ago

I could add that some people are seen as representing their category and the whole category is judged by a single person's conduct. The category on which that has never levied is straight white Christian men.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d ago

A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

Joseph D. Ortiz@earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Short-hop, BEV aircraft are coming. Heart Aerospace completes successful test flight of its experimental 15 passenger X-1 BEV aircraft (27 minutes; $5 worth of electricity for power). 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 www.travelpulse.com/news/airline...

World's Largest Electric Aircraft Completes First Flight

Heart Aerospace has successfully completed the first flight of its X1 electric aircraft, advancing the development of the ES-30 hybrid-electric regional airliner amid rising jet fuel costs.

travelpulse.com

hannah gais@hannahgais.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Third Way people can't: 1) explain what "extremism" is; 2) explain their position on NSPM-7, which similarly targets "extremism" that's poorly and broadly defined.

Kate deGruyter @KatedeGruyter · 18h There are 100 people at Third Way doing things like prepping amendments for votearama to highlight Rs jeopardizing public safety, doing polling on Trump actions that are and aren’t breaking through with voters we must win, building out new policy ideas like ending medical debt, and prepping Dems to grill Trump Admin officials. So forgive my eye roll about one new position. Quote Adam Carlson @admcrlsn · Aug 12 I personally think that $140-$150K could be better spent on a “Director of Defeating Republicans” — especially since we’re 83 days out from existentially important midterm elections — but you do you I guess. x.com/petersterne/st… hannah gais @hannahgais · 15h NYT just published a long report on the governments efforts to investigate left-leaning groups engaged in First Amendment protected activity, and you don’t see how a position investigating supposed left-wing extremism isn’t received well? Chris Kennedy @ChrisJKennedy · 15h If you care about defeating the authoritarian right, you should support efforts to ensure the viability of candidates running against authoritarian lawmakers. That means early and robust opposition research!hannah gais @hannahgais · 13h That doesn’t answer my question. So the goal of this position is just opposition research? Then why use the term “extremism”? There’s some quite robust literature on it, and Third Way’s usage here is certainly, uh, interesting. From mitpress.mit.edu Kate deGruyter @KatedeGruyter · 13h You don’t think abolishing police and prisons, defunding the DOD, eliminating the Senate and letting Congress (not voters!) pick the president and Supreme Court, and government control of companies and industries is extreme? That’s what they say they are for in their new platform. From program.dsausa.org hannah gais @hannahgais · 13h There’s a giant different between “extreme” (subjective, etc.) and “extremism” (has actual academic definitions). No, I don’t think it’s “extremism.” Who’s the out-group? What do you think of NSPM-7 and how it’s been applied?
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · last wk.

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

from job listing: As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include… Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners; Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates; Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics; Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure; Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism; Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d ago

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism@globalextremism.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trump administration is preparing a nearly $5 million State Department initiative to fund organizations promoting anti-immigrant narratives across Europe. The grants raise new concerns about Washington using public funds to influence European politics while strengthening far-right networks.

State Department Plans $5 Million Push for ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ in Europe

The Trump administration is launching a nearly $5 million State Department program to fund organizations across Europe that promote anti-immigrant narratives, Christian nationalist rhetoric, and the d...

globalextremism.org

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

theguardian.com

Chelsea Harvey@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: The Trump administration withheld for months millions of dollars in wildfire prevention funds from two Spokane communities now fighting devastating blazes. The delays occurred amid a dispute over new USDA grant terms requiring compliance on DEI and immigration. www.eenews.net/articles/dei...

DEI dispute delayed wildfire grants for area engulfed in blazes

A fight over USDA immigration and diversity policies held up $15 million in wildfire-prevention grants for an area in Washington state that’s now burning.

eenews.net

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 2w ago

What. Took. You. So. Long? "[W]e will continue to punish members of either party who want to play politics with American jobs, energy security, and utility prices. The entire map is in play"-- chair of Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, said in a statement. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

How solar donors helped take down a Trump-backed Republican

A pro-renewable energy political action committee was behind Rep. Andy Ogles' primary loss Thursday.

politico.com

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.

ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

mediamatters.org