Dave Levitan @davelevitan Twitter profile

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2 years

What if, instead of gas prices going up for everybody, oil companies simply made less money

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4 years

Shoutout to all the politicians rapturously memorializing John Lewis today while simultaneously working as hard as they possibly can to restrict voting rights.

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Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, but I have the impression that the best climate models and projections didn't really have "all the rivers are gonna dry up, like now-ish" in there

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Teachers can legally only deduct up to $250 of their work-related expenses.

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Let's not forget the real victims here, Fox News hosts

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Honestly it's such a weird disconnect. The rhetoric now is all "of course" the war will impact gas prices, "obviously" people will take a hit here, while at the same time the oil companies are celebrating. Why is this all just a given??

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We all just have to make sacrifices sometimes

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5 years

remember how like 1000 real editors and journalists were laid off like two weeks ago

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CNN's new political editor has worked for every Republican but hasn't done any journalism

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If you're driving in a Tesla and you say the word "Toyota" out loud it immediately drives into a bridge pylon.

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"This will cause gas prices to rise" skips a step and grants a weird passive voice construction to a thing done by people at companies. "This will cause oil companies to raise gas prices to maintain profits" is more accurate, though it still acts like the process is inevitable.

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Here's Biden today, on banning Russian oil imports. Why, exactly, can't "defending freedom" cost Exxon for a change?

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4 years

Weird that no one had to invoke the Defense Production Act to make enough tear gas

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2 years

"Suddenly"

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3 years

Do you realize how absolutely screwed America would be right now if 99.whatever percent of the population wasn't vaccinated against polio decades ago

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2 years

Like yes the Colorado, for a variety of reasons (). But the Rhine, the Yangtze, the Po -- shit's bad!

The Colorado River drought is the first climate disaster the U.S. legally has to deal with

Mismanagement and warming are combining to cause a water catastrophe in the Southwest.

themessenger.com

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2 years

Even this idea just accepts the principle! "We get it -- supply and demand -- that prices go up." Ordinary people need to sacrifice but corporations get to maintain profit margins at any cost. What a system!

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@SenWarren

2 years

Putin's war is causing gas prices to rise, but this is no excuse for large oil companies to pad their bottom line with war-fueled profits. Senate Democrats are watching closely — and already working on a windfall profits tax.

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1 year

The original Memphis police statement from January 8 is completely obscene

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5 years

Remember—when someone tries to claim that @AOC ’s or @JayInslee ’s or whoever’s climate change plan will cost too much, show them how much more doing nothing will cost:

The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing

Republicans keep saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan is too expensive. But their own plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so.

newrepublic.com

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4 years

Al Gore used to wake up staffers at the Office of Science and Tech Policy in the middle of the night with phone calls when he wanted to discuss some new paper in Nature or Science.

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4 years

"I watched Liz McDonald. She's fantastic. I watched Fox Business. I watched Lou Dobbs last night, Sean Hannity last night, Tucker last night, Laura. I watched Fox & Friends in the morning." -- Trump

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5 years

For… reasons… I am reading a 1983 EPA report titled “Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming?” and it is inCREDible. Stunning consistency since then: “Current estimates suggest that a 2 degrees C increase could occur by the middle of the next century… 5 degrees C increase by 2100”

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New #GreenNewDeal rollout plan: @AOC somehow gets @foxandfriends to show what’s coming for Mar A Lago

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3 years

Honestly confused why there are even discussions about procedural compromises with the party that held up confirmation of an Obama nominee for two years *until she died* for no reason except spite.

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2 years

Thank you Mr. President

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2 years

Yes totally your hands are just tied here, huh

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2 years

Not specific to rivers, but: extreme drought and obscene flooding, in the same place, one after the other. Shit's gonna keep coming.

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1 year

A trial in Ohio's biggest bribery scandal ever, involving $60 million and an energy bill that hurt renewables and bailed out coal, starts this week. Also, Ohio just passed a bill saying natural gas is "green" energy. These are two things. My latest:

An Ohio law defining natural gas as ‘green energy’ — and backed by dark money — lays out the next...

How a group with ties to the state’s biggest corruption scandal ever was behind the move.

themessenger.com

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3 years

"My chances of dying if I run a residential area red light in my massive semi truck are essentially nil, so why should I stop?" - Joe Rogan, probably

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4 years

Just curious, how many women on here have been threatened with rape and murder and been told how awesome it would be if they died in various gruesome ways, with zero consequence for all the people doing the fantasizing? Like, a few? Yes?

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Twitter says that it will suspend people who openly hope for Trump’s death on the platform.

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Climate change The internet 🤝 A little bit of everything, all of the time

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3 years

Love to take a break from jury duty to discuss trial strategy with the defense lawyers

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@Yamiche

3 years

A meeting between Trump's lawyers and GOP senators -- including Graham and Cruz -- just ended. Trump lawyer David Schoen said the meeting was about "procedure." Cruz said senators were talking about the legal "strategy for tomorrow" and where arguments are and where to go.

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lol he's just a retiree eating shitty roast beef at a buffet in Florida now

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Happy Elected Officials Who Constantly Vote for Horrendously Racist Policies Tweet Out Inspirational Civil Rights Quotes Day

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I am starting to think the global reliance on fossil fuels may have had its downsides

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The US's deadliest day of the 10-month-old pandemic was yesterday. Almost 4,000 people died.

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We’re on pace for 1,340 cases of measles in the US this year, double the biggest year since measles was eliminated in 2000. Fun! This is fun. We’re having fun.

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4 years

500 people, or around 0.0000000625% of the world's population, own about 7% of the global GDP.

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The world's 500 wealthiest people gained $1.2 trillion this year, boosting their collective net worth 25% to $5.9 trillion

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3 years

The price gouging/deal to maintain a monopoly are obviously ugly as hell, but the EpiPen two-pack scam is so incredibly brazen. "They NEED this or they might die, so they'll pay for two if we make them. Two gives us more money than one." From @ryangrim

Heather Bresch, Joe Manchin's Daughter, Played Direct Part in EpiPen Price Inflation Scandal

A new email shows Heather Bresch, then CEO of Mylan, worked with her counterpart at Pfizer to corner the market and keep costs up.

theintercept.com

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4 years

There is going to be real, sustained, intense pressure to just "move on" from the gross criminality and incompetence of this era. This is a good piece about why the people in charge will need to resist that.

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My new piece in ⁦ @VanityFair ⁩. Even if Democrats retake the White House, we’ll still need a full accounting of the Trump administration’s misdeeds and full accountability for those responsible for them.

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4 years

This dog nearby has trained me to play fetch through his gate

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3 years

Just going to keep saying that as long as the filibuster exists there will be no John Lewis Voting Rights Act to at least somewhat arrest the GOP's zealous efforts to prevent minorities from voting.

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2 years

If an entire party internalizes the idea that elections are jokes that you can only win by cheating, well, they might get some ideas

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A MASSIVE signature forgery scandal just broke in Michigan. Investigators think "at least" 68,000 signatures across 10 candidates' petitions are invalid. Signature gatherers worked for multiple campaigns. 5 GOP governor hopefuls may be disqualified, including 2 leading candidates

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By mid-February, 2006, about six months after the storm, a single Senate committee had held 18 hearings on Hurricane Katrina.

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Hey @SenateMajLdr @SpeakerRyan : any chance of some kind of formal inquiry into 3000 Americans who died on your watch? Maybe, if you could squeeze it in this fall, that would be great.

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4 years

I mean, what is the Hague even for?

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3 years

In the second one Monty has just made an excruciating but clever pun and he is waiting for everyone to get it and groan.

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This is Monty. He’s getting his passpawt photo taken but won’t stop making silly faces. Going to be here all day. Still 13/10

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Russia has drained a reservoir in Ukraine, joining a tradition of using/attacking water in wars that dates to antiquity. And climate change will make it worse. My latest for @gridnews :

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6 years

@DonaldJTrumpJr She literally did it to testify

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We've been making our way through Taskmaster series and like weeks later I am still laughing at "Rosalind is a fucking nightmare". I sing it to myself like 30 times a day.

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Here’s the song @RealBobMortimer @sallyephillips & I made in 20mins about a lady we had 5mins to question about her life. @Taskmaster #stars

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One of my favorite weird internet things: From ANY wikipedia page, click the first non-italicized, non-parenthetical link. Keep doing so on each subsequent page. You will eventually reach the page for philosophy. For example, here’s the sequence from the CA 6th district:

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4 years

Obviously, I could more or less do this all day, so let's go ahead and cap it off with this one:

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Rep. Barry Loudermilk

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Still working on the whole bed concept

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Hey sure, I’ll join the pile-on as I read Gladwell’s big pot story (). I’m two paragraphs in and I already went to the report he’s citing and found some bullshit. Here’s what he writes versus one thing the report says:

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“It’s better if the president just keeps golfing” is some real failed-state shit

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Shell the latest oil giant to report a record 2022 profit: $42.3 billion, *double* 2021 and probably a record for any company based in the UK. Anyway:

Record 2022 profits show the oil and gas industry remains strong as climate change worsens

Meeting climate targets would mean a rapidly shrinking oil and gas sector, but companies are raking in money and expanding aggressively.

themessenger.com

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3 years

Poll finds people can name two most recent presidents

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@thehill

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Poll finds Obama named best US president, Trump worst

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Rep. Glenn Thompson

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It can be "earth-shattering news about the former president that highlights threats to democracy" or it can be "a tidbit I sat on for eight months to help sell books" but it can't be both.

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Virtually every pro athlete saying dumb shit about vaccines attended colleges that required proof of multiple vaccines before they could enroll or play.

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4 years

I decided to do a bit of a close read of one particular part of a 1965 report sent to Lyndon Johnson, on atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because I hate myself, you see.

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Don’t steal packages off porches, folks. Incredible revengineering from @MarkRober .

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Rep. Fred Upton

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Sen. Roy Blunt

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vaccines are coming soon, last chance to kill your parents

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New: TSA screened a record number of people at airports nationwide on Sunday, breaking a pandemic air travel record. 1,284,599 people passed through security checkpoints - the highest level since March 15th.

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Really says something about the evolution of right-wing delusion that they're not even photoshopping the crowds this time, just posting actual pictures of a couple hundred weirdos milling around and claiming it's the largest crowd in DC history.

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@realDonaldTrump I feel like there are better people to ask than us.

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AP reporter asks if Acosta knew whether Epstein was “an intelligence asset.” Which was followed by an EPIC non-denial-denial.

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Imagine thinking "I should blog about this" and that being the most important issue that comes to mind. Incredible brain.

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That the NYT is publishing long pieces, in 2019, blaming SCIENTISTS for our failures to act, is INSANE. There is no debate about why we didn't act! It wasn't because we thought it might not be that bad! It was because of evil people who wanted more money! I am done yelling now!

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Republicans celebrating MLK Day with inspirational tweets who also joined a Supreme Court brief in support of the Texas AG's attempt to nullify millions of Black votes: a thread

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Fun fact, one of the team members of Jared Kushner's fund that, per @kenklippenstein , touted Trump connections to get Saudi investment money is married to the judge who today struck down the federal transportation mask mandate.

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Rep. John Joyce

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A significant chunk of government resources are going toward a racist blame campaign rather than, you know, fixing the pandemic.

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The White House is launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies that focuses on accusing Beijing of orchestrating a "cover-up" and creating a global pandemic, according to two U.S. officials and a cable obtained by The Daily Beast.

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The two titles of conservative NYT opinion columns: 1. 1000 MORE Words On How Conservative Voices Are Being Silenced 2. Democrats Should Do More To Appeal to Me, A Republican

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lol at Biden touting signing 89 bills last year #SOTU

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Sen. Kelly Loeffler

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Even if this were true, which it isn’t, I bet it is SUPER fun to have an actual deadline for your peace of mind and actual well-being.

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For all of those (DACA) that are concerned about your status during the 6 month period, you have nothing to worry about - No action!

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“In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”

Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews (Published 2023)

His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.

www.nytimes.com

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Okay I received some requests and these seem relevant. Sen. David Perdue

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Honestly it's *wild* that Cruz and Hawley and all of them helped cause THAT and are just kinda back at work like nothing happened!

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Rep. Steve Chabot

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"The election that I won was fraudulent" is a hell of an argument

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I note that all the newly elected senators are on board with sedition. The next generation of Republicans is going to be crazier than this one

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The trump admin has cracked the code for getting away with corruption:

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4 years

People like @tedcruz seem to have completely lost the thread connecting the things they say to the actual world. It’s weird and dark and legitimately dangerous.

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Someone’s going to get hurt, maybe even killed, because @tedcruz doesn’t want Don Jr to tweet something mean about him. Jesus.

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As #Florence bears down on North Carolina, reminder that in 2012 that state’s legislature effectively tried to magick sea level rise away.

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"There is no question that was an atomic bomb," said the NBA writer after watching one cell phone video

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I escaped the climate beat briefly today, covered some health/policy news: Polling from the CDC suggests well over half of Americans would support bans on the sale of ALL tobacco products. Almost 2/3 would support a ban on menthol cigs. More:

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@IwriteOK 75% increase this year in physical attacks on the grid over a few years back, we covered this a couple days ago

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As the story itself carefully notes, there is no evidence that his death is in any way linked to the vaccine. But hey, get them clicks!

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Yes, it was the scientists who were wrong. They have doomed us all.

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7 years

Can we talk about how @washingtonpost learned about their IN DECEMBER, but worked for months to get confirmation?

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Halloween would be a very different movie if Donald Pleasence showed up and was like "Look, what's the harm in humoring him, he'll get tired of this eventually."

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@KevinMKruse @MSNBCDaily Paragraph breaks are a liberal conspiracy

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