Dave Levitan

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

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.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:04 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:57 UTC

I am going to become the joker

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:47 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

“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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

Pretty close

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

Back to our regularly scheduled programming

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Sure is

www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

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.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Tesco and Max, during and after

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

Excited to get "we've made the product worse and your subscription more expensive" emails every month forever

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:17 UTC

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...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:41 UTC

Up to 90% of houses on some islands were flattened. And then Beryl got *stronger*, the earliest category 5 ever recorded, with sustained winds of 165 mph. It will reach Jamaica tomorrow.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:33 UTC

[pundit being fanned and fed grapes] We could have avoided this situation if all of my specific political and strategic preferences were indulged over the course of decades

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:14 UTC

While we’re all like “this is the most nonsensical legal opinion ever issued” they’re just going to blissful sleep on a bed of Heritage Institute branded feathers

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:07 UTC

Any reply beginning with “No, “ is gonna suck

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:42 UTC

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that James Madison called you an asswipe

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

Feels a bit odd that the WH briefing room site doesn’t have his remarks on the immunity ruling?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

Also extremely cool

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:29 UTC

Klay Thompson’s 13 years in Golden State are over, so once again, 37 points in a quarter was one of the coolest things ever done on an NBA court

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Extremely cool that a Trump-appointed judge can say Biden’s pause on new permit approvals for liquified natural gas export facilities is causing “irreparable harm” to states like Louisiana from lost revenue and such but no one can do shit all about the irreparable harm from burning the stuff

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 23:04 UTC

I think about James Earl Jones in Sneakers saying "We are the United States Government. We don't DO that sort of thing" like at least twice a day.

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