Mikel Ellcessor

Now: Strategic comms consultant & executive/ personal coach

Then: Radiolab & Tell Me Something True co-creator

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

Way too much going on here.

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

@jaredlholt Yeah, there ain't enough bleach in the world to wash away this guy's trail of sewage.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN put together a collection of clips of Netanyahu warning Iran is close to a nuclear weapon going back to 1996

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

@PaulJacobsMedia leopardface

[Bradley Hope @bradleyhope]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump's DOJ just killed its elite anti-corruption unit, our sources say. The Kleptocracy Initiative - famous for seizing Russian oligarchs' yachts and prosecuting the $4.5B 1MDB fraud - was quietly disbanded last night.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

BREAKING: Middle Tennessee teen plotted 'another Christchurch' massacre, choosing Nashville mosque as target, FBI says https://t.co/T32hKgMBNj

[Stones Throw @stonesthrow]

Please help @madlib and his family rebuild after losing their home in the Los Angeles wildfires this past week. Your donation will help Madlib continue creating the music that has touched so many lives.

Donate: https://t.co/EDFQSCGRZ1

[Josh Kaplan @js_kaplan]

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd done a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

Note that these fear grifters stay silent when the facts about the perpetrator come to light. It takes a special kind of depravity to exploit fear for personal financial gain.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

I told you this was coming, @sarahadams told you this was coming, @RooftopLeader told you this was coming, @realLegendAfg told you this was coming, @AhmadMassoud told you this was coming. Congress funded it (you heard this on my show), we warned them, we warned you. Nobody did a damn thing. Now we will continue to see the reality and the consequences of what open borders, and funding terrorism does. Remember, terrorists organizations that Bin Laden’s son leads are saying 50-60 Thousand Americans will die, and we are funding it.

The Mayor of New Orleans calls the New Year’s Day incident a terrorist attack after a pickup truck plowed into a crowd followed by gunfire leaving 12 dead with Improvised explosive device being discovered

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

Tech billionaire Mark Andreessen is invested in Prospera, a for profit “startup up city” in Honduras. He’s now advising DOGE & hanging with Trump who has embraced the idea “freedom cities.” Here’s how things turned out in Honduras…. 1/ #NetworkStates https://t.co/c2H1jGfNV5

[David Jeans @DavidJeans2]

New: As Silicon Valley leaders decry ‘wokeism,’ I profiled a group called New Founding that says it's at the center of a Christian-MAGA-tech movement building a new blueprint for VC.

And Marc Andreessen is in. https://t.co/EOoRIJrZn5

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Featuring:
MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
THE ANDERSON TAPES (Sidney Lumet, 1971)
THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971)
THE CONVERSATION Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
CAMERA BUFF Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1979)
DEATH WATCH (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980)
BODY DOUBLE Double (Brian De Palma, 1984)
SLIVER (Phillip Noyce, 1993)*
GATTACA (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
THE END OF VIOLENCE (Wim Wenders, 1997)
THE TRUMAN SHOW (Peter Weir, 1998)
DEMONLOVER (Olivier Assayas, 2002)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
https://t.co/7Nv8lT8k1h

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

In a study of over 600,000 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010, MMR vaccination was associated with a non-significant *reduction* in autism risk after controls.

[psychotronica @psychotronica_]

ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

The Scene - Model 500 - No UFOs
1985 / WGPR Detroit / Nat Morris
🔥sound on🔥

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

@MelissaMesku The comments on the original post are the proof of why this exists. They are using *words* I recognize, but the language is utterly foreign. They deserve each other.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccination.

Massachusetts is one of those places.

From 1842-1877, 70% of all deaths were from diseases which we today have vaccines to prevent.

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

@mattmillsap Who posted this, uh...clarification?

[Stephen Henderson @SHDetroit]

Some news:

At the end of this week, I’ve decided to leave WDET, after 10 years as host of the station’s morning public affairs show - formerly Detroit Today, now Created Equal, a daily examination of the tensions between inequality and opportunity in America, with a focus on how those issues play out here in Detroit.

I’ve made this decision in response to nearly three years of disinvestment by the station in the show, and my work and ideas. That culminated during recent contract negotiations, when the station proposed cutting the show back to once a week, with no full-time staff assigned.

The station faces severe financial difficulties and must make difficult decisions about which programming to keep, and support. But the proposed cuts to Created Equal represent, in my judgment, an unsustainable withdrawal of commitment to the show (the station’s most-listened-to local program) and its mission. Budgets are moral documents - statements of our values and priorities, reflections of the things we hold dear and those we see as expendable. WDET has chosen not to give Created Equal what it needs to thrive. The last episode of Created Equal will air on WDET Nov. 22, 2024.

I want to thank all my WDET colleagues, present and past, for the honor of working with them through pivotal and tumultuous times - elections, the profound changes unfolding in Detroit, the pandemic.

Most of all, I want to thank the broad community of listeners, in Detroit and beyond, who’ve made this last 10 years so meaningful. My goal on radio was always to build a community space where critical issues could be explored, discussed and debated, in civil and constructive ways. We did that - against many odds on a media landscape that is increasingly harsh and reductionist.

The work will continue - for now, on other platforms: at BridgeDetroit, the non-profit news and engagement organization I co-founded in 2020; and on DetroitPBS, where I host American Black Journal and am a contributor to One Detroit.

My work with Detroit News Editorial Page Editor Nolan Finley at our Great Lakes Civility Project also continues, and Wayne State University Press will publish a book we’ve co-written in spring 2025.

I’ve got other work in development, as well, and will continue, of course, to focus on the kind of journalism, engagement and dialogue that I cherish and deeply enjoy.

[Mikel Ellcessor @mikelellcessor]

@samvanhallgren Was just talking about this after seeing Conclave last night...Ralph Fiennes. Have to see one of this Shakespeare performances.

[Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords]

When #LouDonaldson hooked up with drummer Idris Muhammad on 1967's "Alligator Bogaloo" it began a run of funky soul jazz classics featuring tracks that would be heavily sampled in hip-hop.

"Most Sampled" https://t.co/rnC2F6GG7I
"Lou Donaldson: The Finest" https://t.co/meFtgMs26j

[Women Posting W's @womenpostingws]

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique songs. After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by student Maggie Rogers, he explained why he had "zero, zero, zero notes for that”: