@levnation1.bsky.social
Interests vary (ultimate frisbee, hockey, reading, games w family) but definitely want out of that other social media hellscape.
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Our perceptions of security are out of alignment with the reality of our adversaries.
We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain.
This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course.
My latest:
www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain.
This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course.
My latest:
www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
2025, the atomization of reality, and the failure of imagination… (part 1)
The free world is thinking small. Our adversaries are not.
www.greatpower.us
December 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Our perceptions of security are out of alignment with the reality of our adversaries.
We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain.
This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course.
My latest:
www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain.
This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course.
My latest:
www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
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BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
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From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
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Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
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If it made the news at all, that's a win...
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If it made the news at all, that's a win...
Hey, you 8 senators who gave up, you might think the “old way of doing things” was a way to get things done. But the old way of doing things is exactly what got us into this mess. Dems tried something new, it worked & even yielded great electoral wins last week. Pathetic. You should be primaried.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hey, you 8 senators who gave up, you might think the “old way of doing things” was a way to get things done. But the old way of doing things is exactly what got us into this mess. Dems tried something new, it worked & even yielded great electoral wins last week. Pathetic. You should be primaried.
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Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
Simple right? Not if you’re the “own goal” Dems. Geez way to lose.
"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Simple right? Not if you’re the “own goal” Dems. Geez way to lose.
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Hey folks:
Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning.
You can catch it here:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning.
You can catch it here:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
m.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hey folks:
Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning.
You can catch it here:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning.
You can catch it here:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Copying Putin & his cronies, this admin says, “hold my beer. Per The Intercept:
Following the announcement of the approval for the Ambler Road Project, Burgum stated that the Dept of War & the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a Canadian mining company w/ claims in the area.
Following the announcement of the approval for the Ambler Road Project, Burgum stated that the Dept of War & the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a Canadian mining company w/ claims in the area.
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Copying Putin & his cronies, this admin says, “hold my beer. Per The Intercept:
Following the announcement of the approval for the Ambler Road Project, Burgum stated that the Dept of War & the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a Canadian mining company w/ claims in the area.
Following the announcement of the approval for the Ambler Road Project, Burgum stated that the Dept of War & the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a Canadian mining company w/ claims in the area.
💯 it’s also because expertise can be trained to shine a spotlight on “feelings” to make them evaporate in the light of facts. Or put another way, expertise is threatening bec it’s the basis of, and leads to accountability.
To Trump supporters, expertise itself is proof of corruption. The more qualified you are, the more you must be part of “the deep state.”
It’s coordinated, purposeful dumb. It’s the De-Enlightenment: a deliberate inversion of the values that built modern society. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
It’s coordinated, purposeful dumb. It’s the De-Enlightenment: a deliberate inversion of the values that built modern society. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Smart People Are Dumb, Dumb People Are Experts:
Welcome to the De-Enlightenment
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
💯 it’s also because expertise can be trained to shine a spotlight on “feelings” to make them evaporate in the light of facts. Or put another way, expertise is threatening bec it’s the basis of, and leads to accountability.
Follow Sam Wang. Always insightful about the workings of gerrymandering.
Utah has a chance to dial down the gerrymandering wars. If legislators accede to the latest court ruling, they can break the partisan fever - and avoid disrupting state politics for the sake of just one Congressional seat.
My latest, in the Deseret News w/Dave Daley: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
My latest, in the Deseret News w/Dave Daley: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Perspective: Keep Utah out of the gerrymandering wars
Research we’ve done at Princeton University shows that the best paths to a balanced and competitive map are an independent citizen commission or a court order — both of which are now at play in Utah.
www.deseret.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Follow Sam Wang. Always insightful about the workings of gerrymandering.
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UPDATE:
🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.
😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.
🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.
😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
UPDATE:
🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.
😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.
🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.
😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.
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Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
August 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
So important to set the frame correctly. Great advice.
On DC: When we say "crime is down" or "murder rate fell," we are bringing crime and murder top of mind. We have seen this backfire consistently. Say what you're for and have created, not what you fight and have eliminated.
Far better to say, "in DC we have proven solutions for safety..."
Far better to say, "in DC we have proven solutions for safety..."
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
So important to set the frame correctly. Great advice.
Denver calls it perfectly…would be a parody headline if it weren’t so depressingly true.
August 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Denver calls it perfectly…would be a parody headline if it weren’t so depressingly true.
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@arjunsingh92.bsky.social Absolutely enjoyed The Tax Revolt (and everything that you & the team do at The Lever). My 1 quibble w the interview w Norquist is that he seemed to walk all over you without interrupting or consistently challenging his frames. Def was expecting more feet held to fire.
July 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@arjunsingh92.bsky.social Absolutely enjoyed The Tax Revolt (and everything that you & the team do at The Lever). My 1 quibble w the interview w Norquist is that he seemed to walk all over you without interrupting or consistently challenging his frames. Def was expecting more feet held to fire.
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ABC News with a superb inventory of the 300 GIGABYTES OF EPSTEIN DATA that @AGPamBondi is NOT releasing as she does her part in Trump's Epstein Cover-up: abcnews.go.com/US/unrelease...
What the government evidence list tells us about the unreleased Epstein files
Unreleased Epstein files include logbooks for private island, records show.
abcnews.go.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ABC News with a superb inventory of the 300 GIGABYTES OF EPSTEIN DATA that @AGPamBondi is NOT releasing as she does her part in Trump's Epstein Cover-up: abcnews.go.com/US/unrelease...
Such a great listen on messaging, testing, polling and Democrat’s own goals, by two experts I can’t get enough of.
pca.st/episode/8196...
pca.st/episode/8196...
Say What You're For, with Anat Shenker-Osorio
pca.st
July 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Such a great listen on messaging, testing, polling and Democrat’s own goals, by two experts I can’t get enough of.
pca.st/episode/8196...
pca.st/episode/8196...
Explain it to me like I’m a five yr old. Thank you! More please.
Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five…
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo
July 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Explain it to me like I’m a five yr old. Thank you! More please.
#MAGAMurderBill Call it what it is. Kills humans, kills jobs, kills progress…now call your senators and reps.
Everyone wanting to have their very own moniker for this bill means that even now, most voters have heard almost nothing about it. Obviously I am 100% partial but the name #MAGAMurderBill is what encapsulates this shit.
June 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
#MAGAMurderBill Call it what it is. Kills humans, kills jobs, kills progress…now call your senators and reps.