Joel Levi
Personal account. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 He/Him. Hope.
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- Reposted by Joel LeviI hope there are some *internal* consequences for the crew that fumbled through the later part of Biden's term and compromised the 2024 campaign, but it's ridiculous for anyone to think Dem leaders should hand Trump/GOP the gift of publicly blaming themselves. That won't accomplish squat.
- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
- Reposted by Joel LeviThe week after OpenAI announced its new commitment to advancing "democratic AI," Sam Altman's first big sales call is in... Saudi Arabia. www.techpolicy.press/openai-is-wr...
- Reposted by Joel LeviIn talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment. Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
- Reposted by Joel LeviKalyn Free put in her challenge in late February and won today. This whole response shows his immaturity and why he had no business being elected as Vice Chair. He is free to quit at any time.
- Reposted by Joel LeviIn a universe not so very long ago, Elise Stefanik was very very very upset over the idea of American institutions accepting large financial gifts from Qatar.
- Reposted by Joel Levi"Exaggeration"? If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying. 13.7m. It's a fact.
- In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- Reposted by Joel LeviLet's all play our favorite fun game "how would the media react if this was Joe Biden?" 🙃
- Reposted by Joel LeviHasan being detained exemplifies how important online communities and sentiment is to the Trump administration. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
- No one enjoys saying cockpit more than Sean Duffy.
- A president accepting a $400M gift from a foreign power is per se corrupt. But our NYT betters say it is only “potentially corrupt” unless it is solicitation and acceptance of a bribe. Just learned about this because I had muted this smug idiot sophist months ago. Failing NYT, failing democracy.
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- If you believe we are back where we started - no harm no foul - I’ve got a $400M “palace in the sky” jet-bribe from Qatar to sell you as no big deal.
- Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
- Reposted by Joel LeviWhen you read about each zig and zag of the Administration's tariff policy, remember to compare it with the status quo they inherited: Low tariff rates from just about every major trading partner, a reputation for stability and reliability, and our trade policy reinforcing our foreign policy.
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- Reposted by Joel LeviThe amnesia some older folks have over Reagan stubbornly defending South African apartheid is truly something else. Bring it up with any Reagan fan over 60, and they'll either deny it ever happened or just completely shut down.
- Reposted by Joel LeviHow many measles cases are in Florida? Who knows. Florida Department of Health surveillance data, which previously made public the number of current cases of each vaccine-preventable disease by county, has been removed from the state website.
- Reposted by Joel LeviThere's a reason the White House didn't reveal the text of the "agreement" when making their big press splash announcing their agreement: It's a cup of tea without the bag. Congrats to the journos who breathlessly reported on a US-UK deal that isn't. You got played (again).
- It's a "deal," not a deal: "This document serves to define the general terms for the EPD that set forth the shared desires of the US and the UK... Both the US and the UK recognize that this document does not constitute a legally binding agreement." ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
- Reposted by Joel LeviColumbia, the university that administers the Pulitzer Prizes, with a brutal crackdown on press freedom. There are no words for this Shame on Claire Shipman
- Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Joel LeviSeveral Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
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- Reposted by Joel LeviI really appreciate Trump and Vance swinging elections our way in Canada, Australia, and now the global Catholic Church. MVPs, honestly.
- Reposted by Joel LeviGreg Abbott has awakened a bipartisan, pro-public education movement. The same day he signed his billionaire voucher scam into law, Texans rejected anti-public education extremists in school board races across the state. Even in defeat, I see hope. A new movements is beginning.
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- Reposted by Joel LeviGavin Newsom becomes the latest Democrat to propose cooperation with the Trump admin, using its slogans and offering praise in an attempt to get something he wants. Why do Dems do this? Do they think flattery and playing on Trump/Musk terms will work? Is it a show? Expect to fail for a gotcha? Why?
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- Reposted by Joel LeviImagine if when we invaded Iraq, three years in we only took a sliver of the country at the cost of 800,000 men. Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
- Reposted by Joel Levisomeone tell alex thompson that he has a great chance to cover a president in mental decline if he wants to take it
- Reposted by Joel LeviNeil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...
- Reposted by Joel LeviBefore April 22, I would not have believed a Supreme Court justice would flat out lie- but as the author of the children's book in question, I can confirm that he absolutely did. Thanks @jaywillis.net for reporting on this- more people should be.
- Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...
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- Reposted by Joel LeviReport card: Paul Weiss, Skadden Arps, Kirkland & Ellis, Willkie Farr, A&O Shearman, Milbank, Cadwalader, Latham & Watkins: F Perkins Coie, Wilmer Hale, Susman Godfrey, Jenner & Block, Covington & Burling, Munger Tolles: A Metric: Courage & Conviction v Cowardice & Cravenness
- Reposted by Joel LeviPretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
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- Reposted by Joel LeviWho thinks this is the main thing the political press should be reckoning with and apologizing for over the past year? www.mediaite.com/news/axios-r...
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- Reposted by Joel LeviJust reposting this to say if you’re attending the WHCA dinner tonight, you’ve earned the flotilla of fuck yous that’s coming your way. Here, let me get it started: fuck you.
- Reposted by Joel LeviThe words of the Attorney General of the United States of America on FOX News yesterday, after the FBI arrested Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan and charged her with two federal felony offenses.
- Reposted by Joel LeviYes, we have and we will.
- The spreadsheet “names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories: “Caved to Administration” “Complying in Advance” “Other Negative Action” “Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks” .. or “No Response.” @klasfeldreports.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
- Reposted by Joel LeviNo biggie. It’s just the Secretary of the Treasury agreeing with the Chinese government that the President of the United States is brazenly lying about trade talks.
- Waiting for Trump’s deals… My column on why the President is finding it so hard to blow up the global trading system and force a peace on Russia’s terms… www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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- I’ve detested about 2/3 of fascism (the trains run on time vs. people in concentration camps) but these fascists are certainly spirited so you gotta hand it to them.
- Reposted by Joel LeviWe can talk about who should be the next mayor of New York City just as soon as we make sure that there is not one living resident of NYC who has not heard the sentence "DON'T RANK CUOMO."
- Reposted by Joel LeviI’d chalk it up as one of the worst failures of mainstream political news in the 2020 election: treating Trump’s “disavowals” of Project 2025 like there was any reason to think the conservative movement’s big money project for that year was suddenly just not going to happen because he lied about it.
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- Reposted by Joel Levi“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
- Reposted by Joel LeviNBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.
- Let’s see if they can find someone worse.
- Reposted by Joel LeviThe conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
- Reposted by Joel LeviBack on their bullshit I see www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
