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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A get out the vote ad that just says “do you really want the FRENCH to beat us?”

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When the France election results are good

Yes it will make [thing] worse too

reading your posts

Hundreds of candidates dropped out of the runoff to help block a far-right takeover

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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[nodding so hard I pop a piece of my neck off like a piece of a cybertruck on the freeway]

I for one am glad the Cybertruck exists bc what other vehicle is out there providing nonstop hits like this

[lead singer from America as a weatherman] The heat was hot [anchor] [sigh] Thanks Dewey

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in real life when a piano falls on your head you'd be lucky if even just one or two keys became your teeth

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Enjoy the weekend, everyone

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You can't intellectualize the entire universe, man. Can you "measure" time? Could one "quantify" intelligence, or "weigh" a human heart? You’re gonna “test” my blood alcohol level?? Give me back my gun, officer, and be on your way.

I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

One-sixth of earth’s gravity would fix me

Imagine setting foot on this man’s space ships

I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

Biden's mistake is still being lucid and clear a good deal of the time

This was a speech during which he did not have to answer any questions, he supposedly knew where he was going to be several days ahead of time, and this is what he came up with

I hate when my counterpart in the enemy spy agency is one step ahead of me, yet again

“It’s clear this is the most important story right now,” say journalists who have completely ignored every other story for a week

[knowingly, wisely] “nothing can be done”

In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

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

I believe Trump hasn’t read a word of Project 2025 because he hasn’t read a word of anything, but he’ll happily let his little zealots try and implement the whole thing to the letter while he watches tv and plays golf.

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

At least there’s almost a full year for the inflationary effect of endless campaigns to escalate the fascist violent rhetoric to ever darker extremes!

Enjoy the weekend, everyone

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SHOTS FIRED

If "for the good of the country" pundits truly considered Trump a genuine danger wouldn't it be much more logical to try and help Biden win -- a thing he has literally shown he can do already -- in a few months and then go nuts telling him to resign? This version just seems like they love the drama.

Like two-thirds of the sentences in any given Trump rally literally do not make sense

Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

bats are very cool

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.

Sorry still kinda stuck on the proud originalists entirely making up a new law making us a monarchy, I'm sure I'll get past it soon

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler