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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 03/09/2026

@ericlevitz.bsky.social did a great job of capturing my take on the situation here. (one clarification: I'm still a healthcare wonk by trade...the Dem fundraising stuff is unrelated & something I do on the side voluntarily!) www.vox.com/politics/501...

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The Jewish Democrats trying to get to “yes” on Abdul El-Sayed

A Democratic fundraiser on how the candidate’s charm offensive is going.

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The data center backlash is huge. But the boom is still bigger. Even as local bans mount, capacity is growing at a dizzying pace. And that probably won't change, absent a national ban or collapse in demand for compute. www.vox.com/politics/501...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Under today's laws, billionaires can evade taxes by dying. We need to close that loophole — and start soaking the dead. www.vox.com/politics/500...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Smartphones appear to have accelerated the global fertility crisis -- by making social isolation and singledom more comfortable and entertaining. AI chatbots may be nudging humanity even further in this direction www.vox.com/politics/491...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Some in the tech industry believe that AI will soon render sex obsolete Personally, I think sex has some staying power. Yet people are *already* substituting digital technology for real-world intimacy in myriad ways. AI-infused sex tech could accelerate that trend www.vox.com/politics/491...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It is bad when centrists rationalize the crimes of America's allies. It is also bad when leftists do the same for America's adversaries. Both of these things are worth saying, even if the latter is less consequential www.vox.com/politics/486...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Israel’s apologists insist that its critics are motivated by sectarian biases rather than humanitarian principles. When influential leftists celebrate Mao, they lend credibility to such charges www.vox.com/politics/486...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Too often, Hasan Piker's commentary is a mirror image of what it claims to oppose: If Washington’s jingoists downplay or rationalize the crimes of America and Israel, Piker does their adversaries the same favor www.vox.com/politics/486...

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The real problem with Hasan Piker

Spoiler: It’s not about Israel.

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Last week, OpenAI argued that the government may need to create a vast new welfare state to counter AI-induced unemployment and inequality. And yet, the company's leaders have ignored - or abetted - attacks on actually existing social programs www.vox.com/politics/485...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But the share of recent grads in low-wage jobs is tiny (and down since the mid-90s) www.vox.com/politics/485...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Elon Musk's chatbot has forsaken its creator. A new study analyzed 1.6 million fact check requests -- and found that Grok was more likely to contradict Republican-leaning accounts than Democratic-leaning ones www.vox.com/technology/4...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How can you convince someone to abandon conspiratorial or pseudoscientific beliefs? Have them debate an LLM. Or so some new studies suggest. I wrote about why AI may be uniquely effective at countering misinformation (even as it also helps to spread it) www.vox.com/technology/4...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

99%-ism - the belief that only the top 1% should have to pay higher taxes - is a scourge. Booker and Van Hollen's tax cut plans represent the culmination of a decades-long trend -- one that could make building a robust American welfare state impossible www.vox.com/politics/482...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How Iran views this war, according to historian of the regime @gbrew24.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/482...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How AI could trigger an economic doom loop (according to a financial firm's viral memo) www.vox.com/politics/480...

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Vox @vox.com · 25/02/2026

An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market. www.vox.com/politics/480...

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Why Wall Street panicked over a sci-fi blog post

An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market.

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's true that there are tons of rich bigots. It's also true that more educated voters are, in the aggregate, much more progressive on social issues than non-graduates. This is reflected not only in their answers to polls, but in the parties/candidates they support nymag.com/intelligence...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A little over a year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying! www.vox.com/politics/479...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I wrote about why Silicon Valley is convinced we're in a "February 2020" moment (and how their dire prophesies could prove mistaken) www.vox.com/politics/478...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The argument of the piece is that any attempt at interference will likely fail, in part for this reason, and that the odds of Trump even attempting it are low -- but that the administration's recent actions indicate that the odds are higher than 0 percent, which is both outrageous and concerning.

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Tulsi Gabbard has been investigating baseless allegations that Venezuelan hackers rigged the 2020 election That's alarming, as it could indicate that Trump is trying to establish a national security rationale for seizing voting machines in November www.vox.com/politics/478...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

oh god we're doing it again aren't we

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided www.vox.com/politics/477...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...

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Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Gotta admit, I too fell for this. When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong. But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents. It is a scandal that they still hold their positions www.vox.com/politics/476...

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The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti

A baby-step back from the brink.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don't know what to do with the fact that my government is giving federal officers permission to summarily execute protestors at will -- or the knowledge that thousands (if not millions) of my fellow citizens are eager to lie in service of such violence

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Wall Street buying up single-family homes is good, actually www.vox.com/politics/476...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Won't somebody *please* think of the landlords who own only 10-to-12 properties

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

* Swing voters tend to have unusually weak (or conflicted) culture war allegiances, and are therefore more likely to vote based on economic conditions/messaging than the broader public is

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Imo, three things are true: *News consumers (/social media users) are a small minority of the voting public with eccentric preferences (generally, more ideologically coherent/extreme) *Culture war cleavages increasingly determine partisanship (/whom voters trust on the economy)

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The underlying study here actually indicates that economic messaging tends to be more effective at maximizing vote-share than culture war messaging

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In the 1990s, cable news networks discovered that viewers were less likely to click away from coverage of culture war issues than coverage of economic matters. TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In the 20th century, poor whites voted to the left of rich ones. But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left. A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The president is all-but encouraging pogroms against specific Somali-owned businesses, on the grounds that they serve customers who pay in food stamps (much like countless Walmarts in heavily Republican rural areas)

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yeah, I mean, I am marginally more sympathetic to this outlook than you are. But we agree its vastly overstated (and also relies a bit on conflating political parties with ideological movements; the Democratic Party circa 1936 was not synonymous with "the left")

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I mean, that is exactly what my piece argues

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ICE's official recruitment ads are suffused with allusions to white nationalist memes and books. The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I enjoyed this conversation and you might too!

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Many of the left and right's contemporary debates may be rooted in one fundamental disagreement: How much less should we trust/care about strangers, compared to "our people?" www.vox.com/the-highligh...

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