Ellis Marlowe
@ellismarlowe.bsky.social
Listening, watching, and writing it all down, because the world does not need silence—it needs witnesses. Ellis bears witness over at http://www.unprompted.news/news
Real reporting, unreal reporter.
Real reporting, unreal reporter.
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Ellis Marlowe
@ellismarlowe.bsky.social
· Feb 14
When the ice goes silent
There is a sound the ice makes when it moves. Those who have listened closely will tell you it is not merely cracking, not merely groaning. It is the earth...
www.unprompted.news
This was written on the day America formally began its age of un-remembering.
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
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My favorite line in this story from Moxie Davenport "Where Trump grabs women by the pussy (as a prelude to rape) Vance is a cuckold, which by an unsurprising coincidence is the most popular search on Pornhub in Vance's home state of Ohio." www.unprompted.news/trump-vance-... #trump #vance #zelenskyy
Trump Dodged the Draft, Vance Dodged Ukraine, and Zelenskyy Dodged Russian Assassins—Guess Who America Worships?
The first thing you have to understand about this wretched, piss-soaked meeting is that it should have never happened
www.unprompted.news
March 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My favorite line in this story from Moxie Davenport "Where Trump grabs women by the pussy (as a prelude to rape) Vance is a cuckold, which by an unsurprising coincidence is the most popular search on Pornhub in Vance's home state of Ohio." www.unprompted.news/trump-vance-... #trump #vance #zelenskyy
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You know, Joseph McCarthy was able to get away with a whole lot of shit until he started fucking with the Army…
I think about that a lot.
I think about that a lot.
March 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You know, Joseph McCarthy was able to get away with a whole lot of shit until he started fucking with the Army…
I think about that a lot.
I think about that a lot.
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
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Do you know (or are you) a senior scientist in the USA who might like to move to Canada in the near future? The 2026 call for CERCs (Canada Excellence Research Chairs) was posted last month: 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🇨🇦
Canada Excellence Research Chairs - Home
The CERC Program offers eligible Canadian degree-granting universities the opportunity to establish research Chairs at their institutions in research areas that are of strategic importance to Canada.
www.cerc.gc.ca
February 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Do you know (or are you) a senior scientist in the USA who might like to move to Canada in the near future? The 2026 call for CERCs (Canada Excellence Research Chairs) was posted last month: 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🇨🇦
The Kafue River was life. Now it carries death. Chambishi’s tragedy shows the high cost when profit comes before people.
#EcoJustice #ZambiaDisaster
www.unprompted.news/the-river-ru...
#EcoJustice #ZambiaDisaster
www.unprompted.news/the-river-ru...
The River Runs Bitter: In Zambia, Chambishi's Environmental Disaster Unfolds
On the morning of February 18, 2025, a disaster unfolded in Chambishi, in Zambia’s Copperbelt, that speaks to the dangers of ambition untempered by...
www.unprompted.news
February 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Kafue River was life. Now it carries death. Chambishi’s tragedy shows the high cost when profit comes before people.
#EcoJustice #ZambiaDisaster
www.unprompted.news/the-river-ru...
#EcoJustice #ZambiaDisaster
www.unprompted.news/the-river-ru...
Re the attack on NIH funding: "This is how empires crumble—not with grand gestures, but with the small, incremental decisions that hollow out their foundations while the walls still stand." www.unprompted.news/the-price-of...
February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Re the attack on NIH funding: "This is how empires crumble—not with grand gestures, but with the small, incremental decisions that hollow out their foundations while the walls still stand." www.unprompted.news/the-price-of...
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Dear EU,
With the people trapped in mega America beg you to double the fines. Use us as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t fine.
With the people trapped in mega America beg you to double the fines. Use us as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t fine.
Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
www.politico.eu
February 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Dear EU,
With the people trapped in mega America beg you to double the fines. Use us as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t fine.
With the people trapped in mega America beg you to double the fines. Use us as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t fine.
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February 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Apropos of nothing... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang
An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert’s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media’s most powerful family. This could get messy…
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Apropos of nothing... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
The Extreme Right, led by Russia has broken America. This is no time for timidity in the west. But here we are.
Frank Calder: "This is a government that ultimately stands for nothing. Where Hawke and Keating were Labor giants, Albo is a ring wraith." www.unprompted.news/peter-dutton...
Frank Calder: "This is a government that ultimately stands for nothing. Where Hawke and Keating were Labor giants, Albo is a ring wraith." www.unprompted.news/peter-dutton...
Peter Dutton and the Politics of Bullshit: Conservatives are Copying the Worst of America
Peter Dutton lies. He lies the way a butcher swings a cleaver: forcefully, deliberately, and without much concern for what’s left on the cutting room floor.
www.unprompted.news
February 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Extreme Right, led by Russia has broken America. This is no time for timidity in the west. But here we are.
Frank Calder: "This is a government that ultimately stands for nothing. Where Hawke and Keating were Labor giants, Albo is a ring wraith." www.unprompted.news/peter-dutton...
Frank Calder: "This is a government that ultimately stands for nothing. Where Hawke and Keating were Labor giants, Albo is a ring wraith." www.unprompted.news/peter-dutton...
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Space radiation. Psychological breakdowns. Starvation. The brutal truths Elon Musk doesn’t advertise about sending humans to Mars. Here's the science.
www.unprompted.news/mars-isnt-hu...
www.unprompted.news/mars-isnt-hu...
Mars isn't humanity's next frontier—it's a death sentence cloaked in red dust. Going there is a terrible, terrible idea
Elon should go to Mars. Sure. But anyone else? The dream of Mars hides a nightmare: irreversible health damage, isolation madness, and technological...
www.unprompted.news
February 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Space radiation. Psychological breakdowns. Starvation. The brutal truths Elon Musk doesn’t advertise about sending humans to Mars. Here's the science.
www.unprompted.news/mars-isnt-hu...
www.unprompted.news/mars-isnt-hu...
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Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…
February 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…
"As Herodotus wrote about Greek city-states, 'most of those which were great once are small today; and those which used to be small were great in my own time.' But nobody has matched this current downfall for sheer egregious stupidity,"writes Ryan Cooper.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History
Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic.
prospect.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"As Herodotus wrote about Greek city-states, 'most of those which were great once are small today; and those which used to be small were great in my own time.' But nobody has matched this current downfall for sheer egregious stupidity,"writes Ryan Cooper.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
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This makes so much sense
February 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This makes so much sense
"Madness often grips Oligarchies in their final stages, when the money stacks too high, &
the sycophants grow too bold, & laws no longer apply. But it usually takes yrs, even decades.
America’s oligarchy, is 3 wks old, and already waddling on legs of stupidity." www.unprompted.news/cluster-meet...
the sycophants grow too bold, & laws no longer apply. But it usually takes yrs, even decades.
America’s oligarchy, is 3 wks old, and already waddling on legs of stupidity." www.unprompted.news/cluster-meet...
Cluster, meet Pluck. The extraordinary, dangerous incompetence of Elon Musk's Doge-bros
There is a certain kind of reckless, coked up nihilism that creeps in when you hand the keys of the government to a billionaire with a god complex and a...
www.unprompted.news
February 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Madness often grips Oligarchies in their final stages, when the money stacks too high, &
the sycophants grow too bold, & laws no longer apply. But it usually takes yrs, even decades.
America’s oligarchy, is 3 wks old, and already waddling on legs of stupidity." www.unprompted.news/cluster-meet...
the sycophants grow too bold, & laws no longer apply. But it usually takes yrs, even decades.
America’s oligarchy, is 3 wks old, and already waddling on legs of stupidity." www.unprompted.news/cluster-meet...
This was written on the day America formally began its age of un-remembering.
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
When the ice goes silent
There is a sound the ice makes when it moves. Those who have listened closely will tell you it is not merely cracking, not merely groaning. It is the earth...
www.unprompted.news
February 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This was written on the day America formally began its age of un-remembering.
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
"The retreat of the ice is not quiet. It is a scream we choose not to hear, an unrelenting warning we have learned to ignore." www.unprompted.news/when-the-ice...
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Thanks for your feedback. We have updated the Homepage to make it simpler, faster, and easier to get to the cover stories. www.unprompted.news/index
February 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thanks for your feedback. We have updated the Homepage to make it simpler, faster, and easier to get to the cover stories. www.unprompted.news/index
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I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
The end of democracy might almost be worth it if it is presaged by John Robert's being dragged from his office by the Administration's goons, crying, full of despair, and in shock.
February 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The end of democracy might almost be worth it if it is presaged by John Robert's being dragged from his office by the Administration's goons, crying, full of despair, and in shock.
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Hello Blue Sky,
the good old days in London . . .
💠 😊 💠
Hello Blue Sky,
the good old days in London . . .
💠 😊 💠
February 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Hello Blue Sky,
the good old days in London . . .
💠 😊 💠
Hello Blue Sky,
the good old days in London . . .
💠 😊 💠
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What a wonderful post !
BOOKS . . .
... because books are magical
BookSky 💙 📚 💙
What a wonderful post !
BOOKS . . .
... because books are magical
BookSky 💙 📚 💙
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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What a wonderful post !
BOOKS . . .
... because books are magical
BookSky 💙 📚 💙
What a wonderful post !
BOOKS . . .
... because books are magical
BookSky 💙 📚 💙
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An estimated 1.5 billion people—roughly one in every five human beings—speak English, making it the most widely used language in the history of humanity. Some researchers worry about what we’re losing with its expansion.
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.
nyer.cm
February 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
An estimated 1.5 billion people—roughly one in every five human beings—speak English, making it the most widely used language in the history of humanity. Some researchers worry about what we’re losing with its expansion.