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Dave Levitan

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Science journalist, bylines all over the place. Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton). www.davelevitan.com Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com

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Do you know how easy it is to NOT trip over your own dick into Nazi shit. To not go on Nazi podcasts or retweet Nazis or have Nazi tattoos. It’s the easiest thing most of us have ever done. We all do that every day.

02.03.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
An absurd Somerset village road with the sun setting, with a low wall and stone houses and trees

An absurd Somerset village road with the sun setting, with a low wall and stone houses and trees

Six years ago today we arrived in the UK for a lovely one-month stay that lasted a year and a half, weird stuff

02.03.2026 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Combine a chief executive who lacks object permanence and theory of mind with a cavorting devilry of a cabinet and administration with the ability to make money off the specific timing of their next atrocity and you’ve got enough potential depravity to embarrass Caligula

02.03.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The more I think about it the more their existence feels like endtimes shit

02.03.2026 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Ad for tonight’s Sixers-Celtics game just had narration saying β€œtwo teams that never rebuild” which is RICH about a team that β€œrebuilt” so hard that the Process became a proper noun.

#NBAsky

01.03.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

01.03.2026 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2749    πŸ” 746    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 25

I have once again exsanguinated. Had way too much. Donate blood if you can, they give you snacks.

01.03.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway I’m sure the terrifying situation involving some of the dumbest, bloodthirstiest people on the planet will resolve in non-horrifying fashion

01.03.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A functional country would yeet polymarket and kalshi into the sun

01.03.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

It is, in fact, in the special.

01.03.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Bari like "we need to restore trust in news" and then 20 minutes later like "hell yeah murdergovs let's DO this"

28.02.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

28.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7765    πŸ” 1144    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 91
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The least human thing you can do I read a story just now about a man in Chicago who saved a baby after its carriage had been blown into the harbor by heavy gusts of wind. Lio Cundiff – who is a trans man not that it should matter her...

Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you.

Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.

28.02.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1375    πŸ” 363    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 23

You know what's weird? The DOJ's Epstein files search function is pretty good?

28.02.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that a sock she brought outside to show us? Who can say.

28.02.2026 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tesco the golden retriever standing out on the porch in the sun, smiling real big at the camera like a very good girl

Tesco the golden retriever standing out on the porch in the sun, smiling real big at the camera like a very good girl

Things bad, dogs good

28.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 379    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

Been reading some 70s era spy novels and the part that seems most absurd is when the big thing or whatever gets exposed and Congress, uh, acts

28.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, senior Israeli official tells Reuters.

28.02.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 46

Starting wars must be so easy when you lack object permanence

17.06.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

It's just too bad Congress isn't around to see this

28.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The smallest of points but he absolutely is intentional in timing these things like a thief in the night

28.02.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 255    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

jfc

28.02.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
Flight tracking map showing the Middle East, where there is a broad blank space over Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, part of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, with hundreds of little yellow planes surrounding that area

Flight tracking map showing the Middle East, where there is a broad blank space over Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, part of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, with hundreds of little yellow planes surrounding that area

Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Doha usually among the world's busiest airports

28.02.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

I miss when β€œFriday news dump” meant like a fast food chain quietly settled the tacos-made-a-bunch-of-people-poop-their-pants lawsuit or whatever and not the president launching an illegal war of regime change at 3 in the morning for literally no reason.

28.02.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 568    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2
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Ok Chocolate Thunder and Clyde the Glide are in the, uh, top 11

28.02.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Pistol Pete can be 10th but the Admiral… meh

28.02.2026 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dr J and Magic somehow exist outside of this category. They are not nicknames, just names.

28.02.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes okay this should have been… let’s say 4 on the list

28.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s weird but I just think that’s his name rather than a nickname

28.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0