Dave Levitan

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Currently: Deputy editor, Splinter. Previous: The Messenger/Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Puppy dad. NBA junky. Davelevitan{at}gmail.com

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Agree. There’s a sense of The Purge: Fireworks to this but everyone’s still fucken angry tomorrow.

the hobbyist fireworks are really out of control. stuck on an essay and went for a walk around the block and man, sounded like a damn artillery cannonade

I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome

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Happy fourth

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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

Still thinking about the collection of decisions that had to be made, by how many different people, to publish this on indegoddamnpendence day

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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If you turn Paris upside down it becomes one of the alien ships from Independence Day

Lol: “The Conservative party would be making a big mistake if it thought it could just conveniently blame one person – even Liz Truss”

Tories reeling from ‘catastrophic’ election poll forecast | General election 2024 | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com Conservatives predicted to lose more than 200 seats in worst election result since party’s founding

Exit polling suggests 410 seats for Labour and only 130 for the Tories, which “would be the worst defeat for the Conservatives in the nearly 200-year history of the party”

If you turn Paris upside down it becomes one of the alien ships from Independence Day

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

Birthday country hot

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This 4th of July it’s important to remember that it’s not fireworks your dog is afraid of but rather the unfettered corruption of the American government

Just remembered today is Thursday, what is this bullshit

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It's a choice to publish this ... on July 4.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

What if the shark knew it was the 4th of July and was simply trying to warn against the dangers of burgeoning hyper-nationalism

Good evening

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I hate when the chaotic status of my houseboat indicates to my visitors that I’m maybe not doing so hot

I am going to become the joker www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Anyway I’m sure that the most ghoulish weird freaks in the country are celebrating like it’s Christmas is totally fine

“which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be” is the kind of thing kids in some other country that didn’t burn itself to the ground read about it in history class in 100 years

Pretty close

They’re not gonna be subtle or secretive about how they’ll use this, there will probably be a Project 2025 Addendum: Crimes Against Immunity published on Heritage’s site in like a week

Back to our regularly scheduled programming

The decision in question said Biden's pause on LNG permitting was "completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy." [sic], obviously. Fun that weird idiots get to be semi in charge of a 5-billion ton carbon bomb permitting process.

I wrote about a much-overshadowed bad legal decision from yesterday

What Is 'Irreparable Harm' Anyway?www.splinter.com Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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JK Rowling the runaway all-time winner of the "you could have just quietly enjoyed the money and adoration" award

I wrote about a much-overshadowed bad legal decision from yesterday

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I hate when the material of the web I’m attempting to unravel turns out to be lies

Tesco and Max, during and after

I would say kids will study this SCOTUS decision in school in the future like we did Dredd Scott but lol they're gonna get rid of public schools too