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Gregg Levine

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Reporter/Editor/Analyst | Flâneur/gadabout/gimlet eye | bys @NewYorker @TheNation @Guardian @NewRepublic @AJAM | 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · Aug 18

Prophylaxis is praxis.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 15

Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is."

It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 3h

It’s an invasion from within!

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 3h

I love that TBS is letting Teoscar Hernandez and Pedro Martinez go on about the DR in Spanish. Even if I barely understand, it feels like a statement for our time.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 3h

If you got it, flaunt it, baby, flaunt it!

Screen grab of Yoshi Yamamoto smiling after he pitched the first Dodgers post season complete game in 21 years. Text reads/

GAME 2
LAD LEADS 2-0

NLCS
YOSHINOBU
YAMAMOTO
DODGERS POSTSEASON
FIRST COMPLETE GAME SINCE JOSE LIMA (2004 NLDS GM 3 vs STL)

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

In her defense, she didn’t lose it alone. What’s the saying? Oh yeah, “it takes a village.”

But yeah, Pelosi was a Nobel Laureate in amassing power—but as for using that power for something besides more donations… for the sake of brevity, I’ll say, “results were mixed.”

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

I’m constantly amazed that so many peers who’d go to the mat for facts & science on virtually any other Trump-era issue—who rightly rail against injustice & the empathy gap seen in this epoch—blithely reject public health & pandemic precautions as soon as it gets in the way of [checks notes] brunch.

#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 17h

Really disappointed & surprised to see this unscientific & unkind take from you, @jamellebouie.net. COVID is still dangerous: it can cause organ- & immune system damage. New damning studies—that aren’t reported by the media—come out regularly.

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

Leadership gets to be leadership by raising a lot of money and then doling it out for campaigns in exchange for loyalty. (It is not a coincidence that Chuck & Hakeem are proximate—physically & politically—to Wall St.)

Grassroots candidates can really screw with this model.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

It continues to amaze me that so many peers who would go to the mat for facts & science on virtually every other Trump-era issue—who rightly rail against the injustices & the empathy gap seen in this epoch—blithely reject public health & pandemic precautions as soon as it gets in the way of brunch.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

The recruitment (& it apparently took a lot of convincing) of 78 going on 79-year-old Mills also exposes another consistent failure of Dem leaders: defining every race as only “anti Trump.”

Maybe beltway Dems like that framing because it doesn’t commit the party to any specific policy changes.

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 9h

Democratic leadership didn’t recruit Janet Mills because they are worried Graham Platner couldn’t win the general; they recruited Mills because they are worried he could.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12h

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 21h

I only have a few days left to find my inflatable murrain costume for the No Kings demo.

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 21h

“Tell him we don’t want any!”

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 22h

“Why can’t they make my cover look good like Time always used to?”

Time Magazine cover from 1936 showing B&W photo of Adolf Hitler doing bent arm salute.

FIFTEEN CENTS
April 13, 1936
TIME
The Weekly Newsmagazine

ADOLF HITLER

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 22h

Going full Riefenstahl wasn’t enough?

He probably fell asleep during daddy’s home movie night screening of “TRIUMPH of the Will” and missed Time’s allusion.

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 1d

In the 1980s, when NBC got the World Series alternate years, he did TV with Joe Garagiola… and I feel like around the same time, he might have had a national radio deal some years.

Vin used to do national game of the week casts for a while, and football and golf, too, but again that was 70s-80s.