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Dave Levitan

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Journalist, looking for next thing. Bylines all over the place. Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton). Signal: @davelevitan.26 www.davelevitan.com Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5d

Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23m

"The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, though if it happens to be a hot and sunny day it might also be correct; at worst, though, it is active market manipulation."

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Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence

The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 45m

I wrote about McKinsey's latest fossil fuel projections going up. Because McKinsey.

Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence

The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think Mike Johnson is built to be on tv this much and I think he is losing his mind

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1h

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

Good afternoon

Tesco the golden retriever stands on some grass happily holding a stick in her mouth

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

One question I do have: do the ghosts just not give a shit what happens all summer

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

If I were the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel I would simply not succumb to the building and its denizens’ haunting demands

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16h

Me looking at the sad perennials every fall

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, with blood on his face in the rain, with a little grin, saying “time to die”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

I should add, the NBA people who do post here are great ( @stevejones20.bsky.social, @howardbeck.bsky.social, @michaelvpina.bsky.social etc), and I can add others to the #NBAsky feed I made if people have suggestions

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

And look I’m not gonna head back there to convince anyone so feel free to be annoyed, but if you’re still there, just do it and be legends

#NBAsky

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

Obv a long shot but I dunno people like @zachlowenba.bsky.social could wield significant influence. It’s overall a small thing but man… I dunno.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

I think the phrase is “hell yeah”

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

Like “this is just where the people we talk about basketball with are” is not a good argument at a certain (two years ago) point. Lead your friends somewhere else (here) to talk about basketball and leave the cesspool behind.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18h

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

The NBA has historically been such a leader on civil rights and related issues (think 2020 protests for a recent example), the community’s collective shrug about staying on the Nazi platform has been so frustrating

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18h

My wish for the upcoming NBA season is that any #NBAsky media folks or similar who still also post over there because not enough basketball people left is that you explain to a colleague or other relevant prominent person why that is nihilist tautological bullshit. Also tell them video works here.

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 19h

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

apnews.com/article/pent...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

apnews.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

Oh are we doing starter packs again for the influx, well here’s the one I made like a year-plus ago of “under the radar” accounts who now fucking own this place and rightfully so

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h

I agree, it's just a rare thing to see! People competitive enough to make it that far often just can't seem to stop!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h

seems bad

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h

It's interesting to see pretty good NBA players just... stop playing. Brogdon is 32; he has made around $130 million in nine years. He *debuted* as Lebron started his *14th* season — or, fine, he's an outlier, Durant's 10th, Westbrook's (who just signed with the Kings) 9th. Anyway.

#NBAsky

Knicks' Brogdon retiring after nine NBA seasons

Knicks guard Malcolm Brogdon, a former NBA Rookie of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year, has decided to retire after nine NBA seasons, he told ESPN.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23h

Lenny on the Simpsons changing out the zero on a “days without GOP Nazi shit” sign

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Oct 17

All of us when bluesky is down

Simpsons screenshot with Homer saying to Marge "I'm hungry and lonesome and there's no one there to hear my various witty remarks."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Today in wholesome spam texts

Let’s gather the crew and go for a day of mini-golf!

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