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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).
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music dog
Tesco the golden retriever looks up at the camera with her face near an electric guitar
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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She was born in 1993
Meanwhile, with characteristic instincts for the loci of power, she began going to San Vicente Bungalows and the Sunset Tower Hotel. It was there, last July, that she had dinner with Mark Guiducci, Vanity Fair's new global director of editorial content. They "closed the place down," he said, [highlight] talking about the old glamour of magazines and how to reinvent that in the digital era. [/highlight]
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Thinking about this picture again, no reason
NYT editor Joe Kahn sitting on a fancy rug on his floor, wearing a white shirt and dark tie and gray pants, with the Times spread out on the floor in front of him, looking like a ridiculous dipshit
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...she said, in the New York Times, in a story/advertisement for her upcoming book, having landed a cushy editor job mere months after committing one of journalism's cardinal sins

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Nuzzi shrugged. “I destroyed mine for less,” she said.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Good evening
Tesco the golden retriever extremely curled up into a ball, her nose tucked in toward her paws, fast asleep
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Just checking in with my pedophile buddy about what to ask a presidential candidate
Email from Michael Wolff to Epstein on 5/25/2016 reading "I'm interviewing him this afternoon. Anything you think I should ask?"
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Normal journalist stuff to do a few days before an election
Email from Michael Wolff to Epstein on 10/29/2016 reading: "There's an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?"
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Love to give advice to a sex criminal

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Mr. Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Mr. Wolff emailed Mr. Epstein and warned him that CNN was “planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.” Mr. Epstein wrote back, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Mr. Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that Mr. Trump might try to deny a close association with Mr. Epstein. “I think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Mr. Trump. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency” that could be used to “hang him” later or “save him, generating a debt.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Okay thank you everyone now I just need 9,000 more
Total members 1,000
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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DOGE was not a "cost-cutting measure," the assault on universities was not a "fight against anti-semitism," and the extra-judicial murder spree sure as shit is not an "anti-drug campaign."

You do not have to just take their word for everything.
U.S. aircraft carrier nears Latin America as Venezuela tensions simmer The USS Gerald R. Ford joins a sprawling buildup that has fueled speculation that the Trump administration intends to dramatically escalate its [highlight] antidrug campaign. [/highlight]
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Made me think at least a bit about a post I wrote for my much earlier iteration of Gravity Is Gone back in 2019, about nuking hurricanes and the White House science fair...

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Trump couldn’t handle mingling with middle schoolers and asking how their projects work. He would interrupt them at every turn, and then shout across the room to Kellyanne that he was the one who invented baking soda volcanoes, in fact no one had heard that term before, but now after he said it we’re hearing it more and more.
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this

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"Nobody is better at turning victory into defeat than Chuck Schumer," said the NIH staffer. "After Tuesday I started to have hope again for... the first time since Schumer caved the first time. So much for that, I got nearly a week of not being hideously depressed." Another federal employee said Schumer and Durbin must resign. "What just happened in the Senate was a betrayal. We are governed by cowards all around," they said. "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Deandre Hunter just did something extremely rude to Josh Giddey

#NBAsky
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Here’s how FEMA describes its National Disaster and Emergency Management University. But if you click on those links you get… FEMA.

training.fema.gov

Volunteers and others may have little or no access to required trainings right now, though individual states may be offering them. Fun.
National Disaster and Emergency Management University The National Disaster and Emergency. Management University_(NDEMU), formerly known as the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), is the premier institution for emergency management training and education in the United States. NDEMU offers professional development and training programs to enhance the abilities of officials at federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as members of volunteer organizations and the private sector, to minimize the impact of disasters.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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lol they changed this, only the correction they appended is lying about it — it was NOT just the subheading, it was the text itself as well, which they also changed
Call this good-ish news. Slower emissions growth means the arc of temperature increase has curved downward over the past 10 years. If countries stick to current policies, the global average temperature is projected to rise by 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. That’s a significant improvement from where we were 10 years ago: In 2015, scientific models said we were on track to increase the global average temperature by up to 3.8 degrees Celsius. Correction: Nov. 7, 2025 Because of an editing error, a section headline in an earlier version of this article misstated the trajectory of global emissions. They are rising more slowly than they once were. They are not declining.
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Uh. No they haven't?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1. [highlight] Emissions have come down, [/highlight] but there’s still far to go. Call this good-ish news. Lower emissions mean the arc of temperature increase has curved downward over the past 10 years. If countries stick to current policies, the global average temperature is projected to rise by 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. That’s a significant improvement from where we were 10 years ago: In 2015, scientific models said we were on track to increase the global average temperature by up to 3.8 degrees Celsius. Chart titled "Global CO2 emissions from energy combustion and industrial processes and their annual change, 1900-2023" showing a steadily increasing curve, including since 2015 to 2024, with a downward pandemic blip in 2020 Figure from recent UN emissions gap report showing 2024's record-setting emissions of 57.7 gigatons of greenhouse gas equivalents, the highest in history
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I don’t know how Fincher did it but he cast the physical embodiment of the 70s for a ten second role in Zodiac
A guy with bad teeth, dark hair, wild eyes, wearing a brown leather jacket, in front of some electrical infrastructure outside. He looks like every 70s Al Pacino character mushed together in a meat grinder and made 35% sweatier.
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I know they're just doing it to everything, and they don't like science, and so on, but gutting NASA remains insane. Everyone likes NASA.

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Pew Research chart titled "Large majorities of Americans see the National Park Service, U.S. Postal Service and NASA favorably" with NASA in third place among agencies with 12% unfavorable, 67% favorable, and 20% not sure for a net fav of +55, behind the National Park Service and the USPS
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Still from the end of 12 Angry Men when Lee Cobb is hunched over crying as he repeats “not guilty”
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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When you absolutely hate someone else grabbing the spotlight for a minute
Still from the video of someone passing out at an Oval Office event, there are lots of people gathered around the guy on the ground and some staffers shooing the press out and Trump is just standing stone-faced at his desk not paying attention to the drama next to him
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Good afternoon
Tesco the golden retriever in closeup lying on a couch with her head on some blankets. She is sleepy but looking up at the camera.
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Lovely cursive script reading "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey over a pleasant beach scene
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The number of infuriating quotes from decades-old climate reports that maintain prominent perches inside my brain is distressing.

Anyway, read more about 60 years of failure, and please subscribe:

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The blame, throughout appendix Y4, was put squarely on its proper target: "We can conclude with fair assurance that at the present time, fossil fuels are the only source of CO2 being added to the ocean-atmosphere-biosphere system." It even offered estimates of the excess carbon that might be added in the future based on recoverable reserves of coal, oil, and gas — and we have found a lot more of the stuff since then. I think, more often than is healthy, about a line from yet another decades-old climate change report, from EPA authors in 1983: [highlight] gradually and therefore less expensively if energy policies were adopted now rather than several decades later." [/highlight]
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Back then they knew a lot less about climate sensitivity and other specifics, but they did know warming was on its way. They were a bit off on how fast we would get there, though.

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They estimated that a 25-percent increase in atmospheric CO2 "compared to the amount present during the 19th century" could yield a temperature increase between 0.6° Celsius and 4.0° C (1.1° F to 7.2° F). They guessed that milestone would arrive around the turn of the century — they were wrong. In November 1965, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 had risen from that pre-industrial level of about 280 parts-per-million to 319 ppm; it crossed 350 ppm, that 25 percent threshold, in 1988. Today it sits at 425 ppm, more than 50 percent higher than before humans got busy burning things.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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lol fuck entirely off
ANALYSIS For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM