Brad Levinson

My daughter is currently staring at my old Lion King CD in the same way I used to stare at my dad's old records. It's the Circle of Media Life.

Why we need F**k You Optimism. 🧵

The world is on fire – sometimes literally, sometimes metaphorically. Every day we wake up to headlines that feel like dystopian plot points: climate collapse, political rot, algorithmic overlords harvesting our attention for profit.

Can confirm.

It’s feeling like the early social/Web 2.0 days, like Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody…before everybody came and ruined it.

Thanks for compiling and sharing all these, Matt – these are some really great recommendations as we all ponder the way forward.

Dusted off the 2016-2020 political/existential music playlist. Was cathartic, but man, was really glad to be done with that one at the time. It really goes there.

Greetings from Philly. Looking forward to your continued leadership over these next difficult years.

Been thinking more and more about this lately. Part of this seems to be how to effectively communicate and create modes of pervasive media in governing mode, as well. I truly believe the Biden admin was extremely effective and made an economic difference for so many, and people just had no idea.

Our 6 year old daughter just asked us what "late" and "early" mean, and she was 100% completely serious. All the times in our lives that I've said "hurry up, we're going to be late" and she just...had no idea what I meant. How did this happen?

2004 me to 2024 me right now: don’t you dare look at those exit polls. Don’t you dare.

It’s times like this when I really wish I had a small orange sanitation worker vest that fits on a pumpkin.

Was thinking the same just a few mins ago - he’s back to fighting Joe Biden.

Every time Trump calls the US a "garbage can," which has now happened again today, all I can think about is this:

It's so disappointing, especially after a few months of feeling like folks/the media/the collective "we" weren't falling for the distraction this time.

I recently caught myself saying "youse" unironically after living in South Philly for the last 12 years and it frightened me.

Jumping on the BlueSky bandwagon! Hoping for some old school Twitter sanity and community.