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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

See this, too? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it’s a damn lie to say this is a straightforward boost to data centers. BAAJA forces data center operators to pay for grid upgrades they require and also allows states to impose further costs on them. Neither is the case under current law. See section 2107 of the bill

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I believe the proper expletive-enhanced name is “West By God Virginia”.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“We had a job to do” gets me every time

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If JRM is a Simpsons character he’s Milhouse

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what I don’t get. If Smith HAD been in Atlanta for a basketball game around when the Willis/Wade news broke… how would that even be proof they talked to each other?

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The next time they run an ad like this they’ll have learned their lesson and it will be an AI-generated Black woman.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Both won their first championship in 1969, too

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Josh Marshall made this exact point in a post on TPM yesterday

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think if you get to 58 you can (and should) amend the filibuster threshold to five-ninths (currently 56) *in statute* to make it harder for Republican to wield it later.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Precisely why polling the broadest possible phrasing of the question is dumb. Almost nobody would oppose deporting convicted foreign spies. Large majorities oppose deporting all the undocumented home care workers.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes. It’s actually important that the 2028 Dem nominee expresses support for it, AND that the 2028 GOP nominee campaigns against it as an argument for not electing a Dem trifecta. So that if we do get the trifecta, they won’t get cold feet.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mike Rogers will not be a Senator, Inshallah

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun fact: Neither Barnum nor his estate ever gave Nabisco permission to use his name, so they really put one over on all those stupid kids

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Professional linguist here, to me the claim is absurd on its face, and the fact that the paragraph counts “tone” and “rate of speech” as nonverbal even these literally relate to how the words are spoken is only part of the absurdity

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

More than a cameo, his character is actually important to the plot!

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My 7-year-old (who has never seen any of the old Coyote/Roadrunner shorts) loved it.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are definitely innovative and original things happening in music these days, but every album from the 2020s I’ve ever heard, you could’ve told me it was recorded 20 years earlier and I’d hear no reason not to believe you.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

God help us (help us lose our minds) These spreadsheet people help us understand

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There’s exactly one good Robert’s Rules joke in pop culture and it’s Stringer Bell’s “Is you takin’ NOTES on a CRIMINAL fuckin’ CONSPIRACY?!”

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My favorite is the ligature for “SUNDÆ”

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The obvious barrier to trying to indict Renee and Alex’s killers while the DOJ is still run by MAGA is that US Attorneys can move to try the case in federal court where the burden to convict Feds is much higher. A willing DOJ in 2029 can let these cases play out in state court.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You wrote so warmly of your friendship over the years. Condolences on your loss.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Earthsea but this time we don’t do it dirty

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What an incredible-looking list! I’ve seen maybe a half-dozen of these shows and now you’ve given me a lot more to dig into.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Little, Big is probably my favorite fantasy novel, ever.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Hey, campaign headquarters? Field staff here. We need more lawn signs. Yes, for the lawns— no. No, ok, I can see how you heard that, but John’s his opponent.”

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ironically the visual/audio of Travis Scott speaking in a more rhythmic cadence while marking the beat properly with his staff would have led some audiences to perceive historical INACCURACY (“it’s too much like modern rap!”) while being more true to the past.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Coppertone Girl is the Sun Incarnation Dreamworks Kid is the Moon Incarnation

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Mizrahim outnumber Ashkenazim in Israel.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That’s just what I’d expect Calliope, muse of heroic poetry, to say

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Of course, this could also be Wilson in the 2010s sneaking in a modern reference by way of a playful but largely accurate rendering of Homeric Greek. I’ll have to look at older translations to know for sure.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Well the song is from the early 20th century, same as the time period of the movie. Whether its title was inspired by Homer or not, I’m sure the Coens relished the synchronicity.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They took an original cartoon from the 60s and ran it through AI to colorize it, but it didn’t just add color, it mangled the details

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of the only people awarded both the Gold Star Order of Excellence by the US and the Order of Lenin by the USSR (though he never formally accepted the latter)

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It definitely is one of the most suspenseful movies ever, and it was talked about in the film class I went to 25+ years ago as such. It seems to have fallen off most critics’ all-time lists in recent years— but it’s still brilliant from its first scene to its last.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Pluralism is when one concerned parent can deny education to a bunch of other people’s kids. Clearly.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

He needed nine plus himself to make 67, that’s the Constitutional threshold to convict and bar from future office. I believe he had the pull to get it done if he’d wanted to.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I don’t buy the argument. The enthusiasm for Platner reflected in the polls was clearly real: He won the primary by ~40 points even after most of his terrible past was exposed. If Mills hadn’t suspended her campaign he likely still would’ve beaten her by over 20 points.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

At least it led to a funny scene in the Naked Gun remake.

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Andrew Levine @andrewlevine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Prettiest Star, one might even say

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