Dave Levitan

Portland sure seems to burn entirely to the ground pretty often

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Once more because I'm still thinking about it/annoyed: me on the theoretical Trump Presidential Library and the gift from Miami Dade College and the state of Florida of a plot of land in Miami worth *hundreds of millions of dollars* on which they will probably build a hotel/condos.

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Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

Yet another interesting story about crypto's primary use case — to do, and have done to you, crimes

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Imagine all the people like this we haven’t heard about at all and might never hear about

Imagine going home from the theater and deciding “you know what, I AM this much of a loser”

[nodding]

Okay everyone go watch Sneakers and then come back and discuss

[Kingsley + Redford in Sneakers]

-Posit: The government insists cities are in crisis

-Consequence: They send troops to manage the crises

-Result: Pretty soon the cities *are* in crisis

-Conclusion: You can make city governments fail—

-Bzzt! I might be able to bring down the whole damn system.

This is obviously not data-based or anything but just based on the news stories and videos proliferating it sure feels like ICE and other police/agencies have really internalized the degree of impunity and violent go-ahead they now have over the last few weeks or so.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

you know what i love, is one of my favorite experiences, is when im using a product that i use daily to do some work and i want to just get it done and move on but when i go to it i get a popup that says "Hey! Welcome to our new redesign. Let's take a tour!" and i have to click Next 30 times

Maybe! I'm going to assume otherwise because it's more fun.

List of countries/territories including the Isle of Man, Kenya, Cambodia, Morocco, Mongolia, Panama, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Holy See

Shoutout to the single recent visitors to Gravity Is Gone from the Holy See, Mongolia, the Isle of Man, and a few others. I guess also to the multiple visitors from 40 or so other countries but less so.

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National Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic basin showing a yellow X in the gulf of mexico with a low chance of becoming a cyclone and an orange X off the coast of Africa heading to the west and slightly north toward the Caribbean, with a 60% chance of cyclone formation in the next seven days

Atlantic still trying to throw some shots this season

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Been hearing so much about the Ellisons I thought about this thing I wrote more than a year ago now

Genuine medieval peasant brain who gets to vote on whether we go to war

hm spacing and lack of punctuation raise the question of whether MSNBC is a factory where assclowns are made or if it is simply a clown factory so poor as to deserve the adjective "ass"

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Once more because I'm still thinking about it/annoyed: me on the theoretical Trump Presidential Library and the gift from Miami Dade College and the state of Florida of a plot of land in Miami worth *hundreds of millions of dollars* on which they will probably build a hotel/condos.

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The “fuck the law we’re putting Trump on a coin” thing is once again making me marvel at how many people apparently grew up without learning how to be grotesquely embarrassed

Not really sure how to counter people so willing and eager to repeat things like "war-ravaged Portland" with a completely straight face, like arguing with toddlers only they control the largest military in human history

Are all the republicans in Congress on the record on whether they think it's cool for the admin to continue murdering people on boats thousands of miles from the US or nah

Trump Family confidently crossing $10 billion in corruption in less than year since Trump won election. This corruption hurts US: ties for foreign government undermines national security, fact everyone knows policy & law are for sale undermines democracy & rule-of-law, and corruption bad for economy

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What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library? Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! A week ago, a plot of incredibly valuable land in downtown Miami belonged to public Miami Dade Co...

Did you know that the Trump Presidential LIbrary Foundation (run by Eric Trump, of course) was given a piece of Miami real estate likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars this week. Like, just donated to them. By the state. For nothing. On which they can build anything.

Ok lots of good suggestions (and a bunch from like 2017, c’mon), the ones I agree are in the conversation are Zone of Interest, Sinners, Killers of the Flower Moon, Nope, RRR, Aftersun, and Barbenheimer… maybe one or two others

Parasite was 2019!

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

in a what now

Imagine a historian ten years from now, wandering in some side door to the supposed archive to do a bit of research on what, exactly, happened with that whole hurricanes-and-sharpies thing, and needing to dodge hosts of Palm Beach car dealership owners paying $1,125 a night for rooms facing away from the bay on their way to a $25,000-a-plate dinner at which the former president who has not been seen without a ventilator in 18 months has promised to gladhand the donors. The documents our lonely historian requested will, of course, not be available.

I find the very concept to be almost impossibly grim

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