Eric Levitz
@ericlevitz.bsky.social
A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance
And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
www.vox.com/politics/477...
And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
www.vox.com/politics/477...
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance
And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
www.vox.com/politics/477...
And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
www.vox.com/politics/477...
Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...
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After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate
January 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM
After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate
Gotta admit, I too fell for this.
When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.
But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.
But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Gotta admit, I too fell for this.
When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.
But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.
But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents.
It is a scandal that they still hold their positions
www.vox.com/politics/476...
It is a scandal that they still hold their positions
www.vox.com/politics/476...
The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti
A baby-step back from the brink.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents.
It is a scandal that they still hold their positions
www.vox.com/politics/476...
It is a scandal that they still hold their positions
www.vox.com/politics/476...
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Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies
You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...
January 23, 2026 at 8:47 PM
You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...
Wall Street buying up single-family homes is good, actually
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www.vox.com/politics/476...
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Wall Street buying up single-family homes is good, actually
www.vox.com/politics/476...
www.vox.com/politics/476...
Won't somebody *please* think of the landlords who own only 10-to-12 properties
Bessent on institutional investors: "I's a good idea to have them out of the [housing] market. We're going to give guidance to see what is a mom & pop. Maybe your parents for their retirement bought 10 or 12 homes. We don't want to push the mom & pops out, we just want to push everyone else out"
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Won't somebody *please* think of the landlords who own only 10-to-12 properties
In the 1990s, cable news networks discovered that viewers were less likely to click away from coverage of culture war issues than coverage of economic matters.
TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...
TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In the 1990s, cable news networks discovered that viewers were less likely to click away from coverage of culture war issues than coverage of economic matters.
TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...
TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...
In the 20th century, poor whites voted to the left of rich ones.
But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...
But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
In the 20th century, poor whites voted to the left of rich ones.
But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...
But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...
Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left.
A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...
A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left.
A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...
A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...
The president is all-but encouraging pogroms against specific Somali-owned businesses, on the grounds that they serve customers who pay in food stamps (much like countless Walmarts in heavily Republican rural areas)
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The president is all-but encouraging pogroms against specific Somali-owned businesses, on the grounds that they serve customers who pay in food stamps (much like countless Walmarts in heavily Republican rural areas)
The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering
www.vox.com/politics/475...
www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering
www.vox.com/politics/475...
www.vox.com/politics/475...
ICE's official recruitment ads are suffused with allusions to white nationalist memes and books.
The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...
The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
ICE's official recruitment ads are suffused with allusions to white nationalist memes and books.
The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...
The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...
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What's happening in Venezuela? Senior correspondents @joshuakeating.bsky.social and @ericlevitz.bsky.social walk through the US attacks on Venezuela from the first strikes in late 2025 to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and the uncertainty that has followed, exclusively on Patreon.
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Many of the left and right's contemporary debates may be rooted in one fundamental disagreement: How much less should we trust/care about strangers, compared to "our people?" www.vox.com/the-highligh...
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Many of the left and right's contemporary debates may be rooted in one fundamental disagreement: How much less should we trust/care about strangers, compared to "our people?" www.vox.com/the-highligh...
What's the essential, philosophical disagreement that cleaves the left from the right?
Some argue: There is none. "The left" and "the right" are just two contingent coalitions that propagandize for their members' interests.
I think they are 30% right
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Some argue: There is none. "The left" and "the right" are just two contingent coalitions that propagandize for their members' interests.
I think they are 30% right
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
What's the essential, philosophical disagreement that cleaves the left from the right?
Some argue: There is none. "The left" and "the right" are just two contingent coalitions that propagandize for their members' interests.
I think they are 30% right
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Some argue: There is none. "The left" and "the right" are just two contingent coalitions that propagandize for their members' interests.
I think they are 30% right
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Putting Trump's 2020 statement on George Floyd next to his remarks on Renee Nicole Good is illuminating.
Trump once felt compelled to suggest that his vision of “law and order” did not entail impunity for armed agents of the state
Now, he doesn't.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
Trump once felt compelled to suggest that his vision of “law and order” did not entail impunity for armed agents of the state
Now, he doesn't.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
January 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Putting Trump's 2020 statement on George Floyd next to his remarks on Renee Nicole Good is illuminating.
Trump once felt compelled to suggest that his vision of “law and order” did not entail impunity for armed agents of the state
Now, he doesn't.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
Trump once felt compelled to suggest that his vision of “law and order” did not entail impunity for armed agents of the state
Now, he doesn't.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
I wrote about the president's menacingly dishonest response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
www.vox.com/politics/474...
www.vox.com/politics/474...
January 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I wrote about the president's menacingly dishonest response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
www.vox.com/politics/474...
www.vox.com/politics/474...
After Venezuela, do we need to take Trump's most outlandish military threats seriously? Will US troops storm the beaches of Greenland?
There's definitely cause for worry. But Trump's warmongering still appears to be limited by one major constraint www.vox.com/politics/474...
There's definitely cause for worry. But Trump's warmongering still appears to be limited by one major constraint www.vox.com/politics/474...
The one line that Trump’s foreign policy still hasn’t crossed
After Venezuela, how far could Trump really go?
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January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
After Venezuela, do we need to take Trump's most outlandish military threats seriously? Will US troops storm the beaches of Greenland?
There's definitely cause for worry. But Trump's warmongering still appears to be limited by one major constraint www.vox.com/politics/474...
There's definitely cause for worry. But Trump's warmongering still appears to be limited by one major constraint www.vox.com/politics/474...
In truth, Trump's war in Venezuela does not actually serve the American oil industry's interests.
It might nonetheless be motivated by oil, but only because Trump personally loves the idea of pillaging conquered lands
www.vox.com/politics/473...
It might nonetheless be motivated by oil, but only because Trump personally loves the idea of pillaging conquered lands
www.vox.com/politics/473...
January 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In truth, Trump's war in Venezuela does not actually serve the American oil industry's interests.
It might nonetheless be motivated by oil, but only because Trump personally loves the idea of pillaging conquered lands
www.vox.com/politics/473...
It might nonetheless be motivated by oil, but only because Trump personally loves the idea of pillaging conquered lands
www.vox.com/politics/473...
Trump didn't wage war in Venezuela to advance the oil lobby's interests. His motives appear much less coherent -- and more superficial -- than that www.vox.com/politics/473...
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Trump didn't wage war in Venezuela to advance the oil lobby's interests. His motives appear much less coherent -- and more superficial -- than that www.vox.com/politics/473...
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM