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Tani Levitt

@hateitorlevitt.bsky.social
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Journalist, award-winning podcast producer. Assistant Research Editor, Washingtonian Magazine. I’m the beatboxing reporter: SpeshFX

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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yuck
Green Bay Packers Rushing log

Marshawn Lloyd: 4 carries 11 yards
Kaleb Johnson: 4 carries 6 yards
Tucker Kraft: 1 carry 5 yards
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can’t wait for my job at the tricking and scaring people factory
Job posting: Head of PsyOps at Statecraft. Salary range: $120,000 - 170,000
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Actually I couldn’t give a flying fuck about that piece of garbage #7 and the leech who has built a career pretending that #7 is someone worth celebrating
ESPN Push notification
Title; you just hate to see this
Subtitle: Heartbreaking: IShowSpeed's flight gets canceled, causing him to miss Cristiano Ronaldo's first World Cup knockout goal
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Some real bootlicker stuff here from the world leader
ESPN push notification.
Title: where has Infantino been?
Subtitle: the fifa president clocks up to 24,000 miles on epic World Cup tour
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Future sadly typing on an iPhone
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m so glad Draftkings is committed to veterans. I’m sure they have those folks best interests at heart
Screenshot from a VA infographic: key section writes “Up to 5% of people may have a gambling problem. Among Veterans, these rates are even higher. In fact, up to 34% of Veterans may have problems caused by gambling behaviors.”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Go pats
WhatsApp messages from me:

First message: “I bought a 22 ounce thing of chocolate pudding”

Second message, responding to the first: “it’s pudding time”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I asked a spurs fan about Levy stepping down. Gotta say I enjoyed the interaction 😂
My Tottenham fan friend: Tottenham were spurs-y well before he came in and they will continue to be after he leaves

Me: ain't that the truth
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Cc: @pablo.show @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social
Text chat about folks in official sports league and league union apparel
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excited to see his grandson Taylor Tosfos debut in the future
Screenshot of Diamondbacks #54 relief pitcher Taylor Rashi
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Everybody watches women’s sports. Shoutout the Lynx
A bajaillion people came to hear some of the Minnesota Lynx speak at the Minnesota state fair in advance of the playoffs
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Weirdness of losing this game aside, this pitching line is LLWS stuff. 15 of 19 outs are strikeouts? wild
Headline: Middling Braces waste 15-strikeout effort from Grant Holmes
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Good primer, with sources in show notes:
Screenshot of It could happen here podcast episode. 

Title: “Nihilist Violent Extremism”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Beavers off to a 3-0 start, and deep-league fantasy players are starting to wonder if i'm worth an add for my pitching ratios
Tani Levitt baseball stats. 2 inning pitched with no runs and two striekouts. 2 singles, a strikout, and 1 RBI and 2 runs in 5 at bats with a hit by pitch and a sacrifice fly.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@jtkantor.bsky.social my friend is being honored at tonight’s game. She donated bone marrow and saved someone’s life. My friend and her recipient are meeting on field at the game so I asked them for requests to send to you. Any chance you could play these songs? Thanks so much!
Let your love flow by the Bellamy brothers (donor request)
Feel invincible by skillet (recipient request). Song requests for Josh Kantor to play at Fenway Park
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sunday was game 1 of my 2nd year in a DC Men's ⚾ League. Year 1 was tough, but I have high hopes for year 2. This is a stats thread. So far, so good
Tani Levitt baseball stats. 1 inning pitched with no runs and two striekouts. 1 single, 1 RBI and 1 run in 2 at bats with a hit by pitch and a sacrifice fly.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
White lotus:
Man yelling “they were who we thought they were!”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dean Norris, actor who plays Hank in breaking bad, tweets “sex gifs”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
With the world falling apart I’m extra appreciative of shabbos. Cooking with and for my family is so fortifying
A roasted and glazed chicken over vegetables. Skin looks crisp as fuckBeef kabobs and veggies on the grill
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Somehow these are the 11th and 12th paragraphs of the NYT write up of last nights congressional attack on American life
Screenshot of a New York Times article. Text reads:

The blueprint sets the contours for the legislation that House Republicans will now turn to writing. It puts a $4.5 trillion upper limit on the size of any tax cuts over the next 10 years, but does not dictate which taxes should be reduced, a complex and politically tricky question of its own that could take months to sort out.

It also calls for slashing $2 trillion in spending over the same period, without specifying which programs should be cut, though top Republicans have targeted Medicaid and food aid programs for poor Americans. And it directs increases of about $300 billion for border enforcement and defense programs, alongside a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The funniest version of this is that the king in question is Eric Adams. Nonetheless we live in the shadow realm and I hate it
Donald Trump posts on Truth Social "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🤨
Screenshot of an article from CNBC. Title: “Could an Eagles Super Bowl victory tank the stock market? History says yes, but logic says no”
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
SpeshFX is just me, and I travel across North America and, when I can, the world to do on-site reporting. Some of the stories are free for all, and a bunch are behind a paywall. Please subscribe, paid or free, I think you'll enjoy what you see. done/x speshfx.com#/portal/signup
The SpeshFX logo. Deep pink transitions into black from bottom to top of a square. On top of the pink and black, the word SpeshFX is written in white, with the FX written in pink atop a speaker in white.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The newsletter covers the nitty-gritty of the bbx scene, but I also cover the basics. This stuff I often pitch to general interest publications like Brooklyn Magazine, the New York Times, and Celebrate Arkansas, to name a few. You can find links to all this work under "Elsewhere in the News" 4/x
Screenshot of SpeshFX's "Elsewhere in the News" section. The displayed article links to a story for Celebrate Arkansas, about World Beatbox Champion 808Banon.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The podcast led to more original reporting on the bbx scene, and I now share that reporting in a newsletter, also called SpeshFX. The newsletter has profiles, investigative reporting, and some informed essays about the state of beatbox. 4/x
A screeenshot of the SpeshFX newsletter. The title of the displayed article is "Are we watching the Enshittification of Swissbeatbox?" and it is accompanied by a collage of negative comments on the r/beatbox subreddit.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It all starts with the original podcast SpeshFX, a narrative exploration of beatbox. It takes you from curiosity to obsession the same way it happened to me 2/x
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Quick Costco run in advance of the wedding…
Lots of hard liquor and boxes of beer and fancy olives hidden under a folding table until my wedding
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Zackary Van Drese, ZVD, is the 2024 USA Beatbox Champion. The favorite coming into the event, ZVD swept past the competition, sweeping the judge votes every round until the final #beatbox
Zackary Van Drese, ZVD, is crowned the 2024 USA Beatbox Champion by 2023 World Champion FootboxG. Runner up Bizkit applauds.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
JSanch of Austin TX is the 2024 USA beatbox Loopstation champion, the second 17 year old in a row to take the national title after 808Banon
JSanch of Austin TX is crowned the 2024 USA beatbox Loopstation champion by NaPoM. Runner up Mr. Esuoh looks on.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Forest Fire, Match and Plant, are the 2024 USA tag team beatbox champions. The pair win their first major title after competing together for seven years.
Match and Plant, aka Forest Fire celebrate their USA tag team beatbox championship. Runners up Lotus and judge Pono applaud.
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
USA Beatbox Loopstation Championship was crazy. Grand Beatbox Battle champion Bizkit (performing here) was upset in the semifinals
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hey @heathcummings.bsky.social can you grade the trade? 1Qb, 3wr, 2rb, 1 flex. 0.5 ppr. I’m getting the two #fantasyfootball
Fantasy football trade.
Give: Kyler Murray, Devonta Smith, Isaiah Pecheco
Get: Jalen Hurts, Jonathan Taylor
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Texts referenced in the above post:

Me: You are really into “gotta hand it to em” content these days. I subskeeted you, sorry. 

Him: what’s a subskeet

Me: it’s a subtweet on bluesky
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Haven’t done a writing prompt in ages but I did one tonight with my Hebrew school kids. Wrote about turning 18
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Tani Levitt @hateitorlevitt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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