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Dave Levitan

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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 www.davelevitan.com Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

Good evening

Tesco the golden retriever lies on some grass with her favorite blue and orange ball in front of her, tongue way out, tired and happy as hell

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

There is good news on renewable energy vs. fossil fuels, just not here

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h

Thinking again about the Trump admin forcing coal plants to stay open past planned retirement to address the "energy emergency"

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h

To the accounts on here who now reply "release the epstein files" to more or less anything -- I swear I don't have them

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

IMO it is bad that congressional hearings involving Cabinet members have transformed entirely into public lying and groveling competitions for an audience of one

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16h

I am once again amused by the contrast in urgency between Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences IMMEDIATE RELEASE email subject lines and the contents of the studies they describe

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey if anyone at CBS ever has any info on the glorious tenure of your new boss that you'd like independent media to know about/cover/etc, Signal is davelevitan.26

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

A few late 70s/early 80s "The ____" horror movies I caught up on to start up spooky season, ranked:

1. Brood (Cronenberg)
2. Fury (De Palma)
3. Howling (Joe Dante)

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Apr 17

I have been fired for my beliefs

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I got laid off twice in a year and a half including less than two months ago, subscribe to this for independent writing and reporting

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a high bar but I'm not sure there is a more cynical rise through American society — at least through media — in recent memory than that of Bari Weiss. Like if the term "bad faith" had arms and legs and was given $150 million and allowed to run CBS News.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Portland sure seems to burn entirely to the ground pretty often

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

Once more because I'm still thinking about it/annoyed: me on the theoretical Trump Presidential Library and the gift from Miami Dade College and the state of Florida of a plot of land in Miami worth *hundreds of millions of dollars* on which they will probably build a hotel/condos.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Yet another interesting story about crypto's primary use case — to do, and have done to you, crimes

[🎁]

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine all the people like this we haven’t heard about at all and might never hear about

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine going home from the theater and deciding “you know what, I AM this much of a loser”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

“Woke Movie promotes VIOLENCE against
ICE”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

[nodding]

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21d

I didn’t even include a Sneakers line with immense relevance today:

“Everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality—

—but the perception of reality.”

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote about Robert Redford's environmentalism and, obviously, Sneakers.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

Okay everyone go watch Sneakers and then come back and discuss

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

[Kingsley + Redford in Sneakers]

-Posit: The government insists cities are in crisis

-Consequence: They send troops to manage the crises

-Result: Pretty soon the cities *are* in crisis

-Conclusion: You can make city governments fail—

-Bzzt! I might be able to bring down the whole damn system.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

This is obviously not data-based or anything but just based on the news stories and videos proliferating it sure feels like ICE and other police/agencies have really internalized the degree of impunity and violent go-ahead they now have over the last few weeks or so.

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