Joel Levi
Personal account. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 He/Him. Hope.
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- Screenshots here of an amazing exchange on X. Axios reporter Alex Thompson's new book on Biden claims (with no sources) that Biden shook DNC chair Jaime Harrison's hand without recognizing him. Harrison posts "it never happened". Then Axios editor Jake Wilkins - wow - tells Harrison he's wrong! 1/
- Working on revisions for the Shelby County turnout gap paper and, uh... This is striking! The turnout gap has *exploded* in Republican counties that were covered under Section 5, relative to similar Republican counties that were not
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- I miss the days when we fretted about foreign dignitaries and domestic grifters spending $800 a night at the Trump hotel down the block from the White House.
- Trump's first-term corruption seemed huge, but it's already been dwarfed by the ongoing, unchecked festival of domestic and foreign corruption four months into in his second term. Blame the Supreme Court and the Republican Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-unqu...
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- this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
- leaving this up ^ as i don't think it materially changes what we're talking about here, but adding this note bsky.app/profile/kaim...
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- Can check off heckling Cuomo from my bucket list. "I was Gov for 11 years" "You resigned in disgrace!"
- DOGE took control of the FAA, fired hundreds of air traffic employees—and then our air traffic control system mysteriously started shitting itself. Probably just a coincidence!
- IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
- Yes, I know. People are being sent to foreign gulags without due process. RFK Jr. is killing our public health. Trump is driving the economy off a cliff. Don't let this fall under the radar: DOGE wants *your* personal info sucked into mass systems—data very tempting for an authoritarian to use.
- That annoying, ridiculous book is on the front page of the WaPo, above the fold. You know what stirs fresh trauma, for sentient people? Every fucking day living under Trump and his fascist clowns.
- Americans don't care if Trump sells out all of our interests to other countries if it's Trump. They only hold Democrats accountable.
- It's the 'boys will be boys' shield of politics. Republicans will be shitty, and Democrats have to clean it up exactly to each individual citizens preferences within 2 years or they'll let Republicans fuck it up some more
- "David Hogg is a 25-year-old Democrat who couldn’t carry Jim Clyburn’s jock strap with a wheelbarrow and two more white boys...He is an avatar for the white people who believe they know what’s better for Black people more than actual, real-life Black people." www.contrabandcamp.com/p/david-hogg...
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- I 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
- Impossible to even describe how cooked your brain must be if you think school closures in early 2021 caused a broad nationwide swing against your party in late 2024 and you could fix this by apologizing sometime in 2026
- The 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...
- Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
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- Media & Political Elite spent last 6 months telling US Republicans now own votes of (white) working families, so Democrats need to shift their policies right to win them back, without mentioning fact that Republican policies will literally kill working families.
- Republicans want to take away people's health care in order to line the pockets of the rich. thehill.com/policy/healt...
- “It also appears those most likely to die of Wuhan virus fit the same profile as flu fatalities: people over 65, those with compromised immune systems and those with serious pre-existing conditions.” This is from January 2020. Social Darwinism has always been endemic on the right.
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- For 25 years most of the Left has stopped trying to convince a majority of Democratic voters (never mind voters in general) to support their positions but instead has settled on a strategy of extortion and blackmail: hand over power to us or we will let the Right win. This is not just
- i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally
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- I sure hope the beltway scum keep focusing on Joe Biden and selling books.
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- In 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.
- These fauxgressives are crashing out when told NO. You want the position, earn it. There are no participation trophies. stop expecting things to be handed to you. Learn how to win instead of whining about the rules.
- "hillary should just apologize for using a private email server"
- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
- I wouldn't be out there if I didn't believe that America can come through this moment, if each of us is prepared to play our role in demanding and delivering a better future.
- Kalyn 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.
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- This makes me think that some of the people Biden blames for the force-out— a list I would guess includes Mark Warner and Gavin Newsom— are worried about blowback tbh
- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
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- Yes, yes caring about Medicaid for 10 million people makes me a servant of capitalism, thank you. Definitely more Harpo than Karl, babe
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- The intellectual error(s) at the heart of Trump's trade policies.
- Every single word of this by @justinwolfers.bsky.social. Take a moment and have a listen.👇
