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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Yes it will make [thing] worse too

reading your posts

There are already some big wildfires burning out there and the entire western US is under a combination of heat and red flag (fire weather) warnings

Good morning to shoebill storks and shoebill storks only

Enjoy the weekend, everyone

SHOTS FIRED

Apropos of nothing, a few years ago I wrote whole-ass book proposal for a book all about bats and how they can explain/teach a lot about people, that didn't go anywhere. It was called Great Whirling Circles, based on this quote from Dracula. If any agents or publishers feel like getting in touch.

Antarctic sea ice extent is super low but not even close to last year's *super* weird situation

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

Birthday country hot

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

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

Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

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

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Paddyboy

Sure is www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Tesco and Max, during and after

Two of the top 3 opinion pieces on the home page right now. Feels like something else happened yesterday, can't put a finger on it...

A good day at the dog park

When the play hit too hard to make it back to the car

Doing the Lord's work

Here's cumulative CO2 emissions for various countries including two that are about to get absolutely trucked by the earliest forming category 4 hurricane in recorded history

It's been days and eight of nine links at the top of the NYT right now are about the same thing

The sun dog

You're KILLING me here

Mad Enough to Blog It™

Deadly Heat Wave or Killer Beach Day?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.

Heat risk will reach "extreme" for areas across California on July 4 and 5

Hurricane Beryl now forecast to hit the Windward Islands as "an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane" early on Monday.