Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Journalist, looking for next thing. Bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
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Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Hm yes true it happens all the time that a prominent insider Washington journalist has an affair with a prominent insider presidential candidate and source while another prominent insider Washington journalist sits on salacious info about alleged attempts to swing elections and destroy public health
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Hm yes true it happens all the time that a prominent insider Washington journalist has an affair with a prominent insider presidential candidate and source while another prominent insider Washington journalist sits on salacious info about alleged attempts to swing elections and destroy public health
Honestly if I’m repeatedly writing shit like this because of those two freaks skipping journalism ethics 101, well,,
In Mangling CDC Vaccine Pages, RFK Jr. Is Laughing In All of Our Faces
It's a schoolyard friend saying "I promise not to tell anyone your secret" and then shouting it from on top of the jungle gym, claiming he didn't tell "anyone," he told "the sky."
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November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Honestly if I’m repeatedly writing shit like this because of those two freaks skipping journalism ethics 101, well,,
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DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
What movie dystopia would you choose to live in, I’m going Blade Runner ‘cause I’d be a great replicant and the short life span means I don’t have to hear much about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
What movie dystopia would you choose to live in, I’m going Blade Runner ‘cause I’d be a great replicant and the short life span means I don’t have to hear much about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK
A fun way to go into thanksgiving is red-assed angry at the few terrible people making you regret the profession you chose
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A fun way to go into thanksgiving is red-assed angry at the few terrible people making you regret the profession you chose
I mostly want the relevant higher-ups at VF and New York to have a kinda shitty thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I mostly want the relevant higher-ups at VF and New York to have a kinda shitty thanksgiving
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
Anyway, once again, I (and many other journalists who have never engaged in cartoonish ethical absurdity) was laid off twice in a year and a half, please pay for the work from the non-worst people imaginable
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November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Anyway, once again, I (and many other journalists who have never engaged in cartoonish ethical absurdity) was laid off twice in a year and a half, please pay for the work from the non-worst people imaginable
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Look this is bad but also she got drunk with the boss at Vanity Fair and reminisced about how magazines used to be cool so who is to say if she deserves that high-level editor job
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Look this is bad but also she got drunk with the boss at Vanity Fair and reminisced about how magazines used to be cool so who is to say if she deserves that high-level editor job
Obv it's good that journalists can make money outside of the legacy system that has been crumbling and decaying for decades, but it does like a problem that there are essentially no ethical guardrails on that new paradigm
"I am withholding the most 'consequential, and newsworthy events' about both my ex and me potentially helping swing presidential elections and upending American public health in order to sell more newsletters" is a hell of an argument
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Obv it's good that journalists can make money outside of the legacy system that has been crumbling and decaying for decades, but it does like a problem that there are essentially no ethical guardrails on that new paradigm
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
Haven't read the entire new one (and won't pay for this gross shit) but the more he writes the more complicit in genuinely dark actions he seems
Re Lizza's "catch-and-kill" offhand accusation, either
1. It's true and BOTH of them (since he knew about it) are now not-even-that-tangentially responsible for RFK's attempts to destroy public health in America
2. It's false and both of these people should never have jobs in journalism again
1. It's true and BOTH of them (since he knew about it) are now not-even-that-tangentially responsible for RFK's attempts to destroy public health in America
2. It's false and both of these people should never have jobs in journalism again
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Haven't read the entire new one (and won't pay for this gross shit) but the more he writes the more complicit in genuinely dark actions he seems
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A cool Thanksgiving week thing to do is subscribe to a newsletter that does stuff like get exclusive recordings of National Cancer Institute director town halls and report on what fed employees think about Democrats caving on the shutdown
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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
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November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A cool Thanksgiving week thing to do is subscribe to a newsletter that does stuff like get exclusive recordings of National Cancer Institute director town halls and report on what fed employees think about Democrats caving on the shutdown
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A sequel/reboot where the trash robot constantly looks at the camera like it’s The Office called Fourth WALL-E
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A sequel/reboot where the trash robot constantly looks at the camera like it’s The Office called Fourth WALL-E
what was “administration pedophile protection project” one too many words
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
what was “administration pedophile protection project” one too many words
A cool Thanksgiving week thing to do is subscribe to a newsletter that does stuff like get exclusive recordings of National Cancer Institute director town halls and report on what fed employees think about Democrats caving on the shutdown
www.gravityisgone.com/new-nci-dire...
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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A cool Thanksgiving week thing to do is subscribe to a newsletter that does stuff like get exclusive recordings of National Cancer Institute director town halls and report on what fed employees think about Democrats caving on the shutdown
www.gravityisgone.com/new-nci-dire...
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Bolsonaro about to somehow get six new kinds of Covid in prison
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Bolsonaro about to somehow get six new kinds of Covid in prison
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I wrote about the absurdity of the COPs failing to make fossil fuels the villain.
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I wrote about the absurdity of the COPs failing to make fossil fuels the villain.
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
I already know every detail of this sordid affair and I am still cackling throughout this @brianphillips.bsky.social explainer
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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I already know every detail of this sordid affair and I am still cackling throughout this @brianphillips.bsky.social explainer
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Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
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If I am ever arrested for murder, just know that a gas-powered leaf blower made me do it
September 26, 2023 at 6:16 PM
If I am ever arrested for murder, just know that a gas-powered leaf blower made me do it