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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I bet Caitlin Clark, preparing for Game 2 in her team’s WNBA playoff series tonight, was royally surprised, maybe even shocked, to hear her name come up in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gift article, anyone can read. On point essay. Most importantly, I hope Mainers read it, in particular any Mainer considering voting to return Collins to the Senate for the 6th time. Susan Collins Delivered Maine Up to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

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Opinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running Out (Gift Article)

The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dems are talking abundance while Trump and his MAGA regime are delivering scarcity. CNBC: Costco hikes motor oil prices and puts limits on how much members can buy

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Big Brotherism in Moscow. Sounds like they’re just a few AI and microchip developments away from requiring that everyone get a brain chip implant so Big Brother can read everyone’s thoughts. The New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...

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The New Moscow: A Digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap

Cutting-edge technologies have reshaped the Russian capital, making it safer, more convenient — and more closely watched.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Biden’s Executive Order 14401 was “titled ‘Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.’” “Trump revoked Executive Order 14401 on Jan. 20, 2025” Instead of doing all the things he promised to do on Day 1, Trump did that. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanity

On AI and climate, it’s the same story of mass destruction

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unity only when your favored candidate wins🤦‍♂️: “Her primary win so shocked some Democratic leaders that a unity rally, planned on the assumption that her rival would win, was scrapped.” She’s Been Fighting for 20 Years. Has Angie Nixon’s Moment Come? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

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Angie Nixon, Candidate for Senate, Takes Florida by Storm

The Democratic nominee for Senate faces strong headwinds in a decidedly Republican-leaning state. She has been a fighter, and an underdog, for years.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As Lou Grant might say, she’s got spunk, but I think the more correct term for her is moxie. And unlike Lou, I like spunk, and moxie even more so. Go, Angie!! Is Florida Ready for Angie Nixon? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

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Angie Nixon, Candidate for Senate, Takes Florida by Storm

The Democratic nominee for Senate faces strong headwinds in a decidedly Republican-leaning state. She has been a fighter, and an underdog, for years.

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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🚨 5.4 MILLION views. And counting. Trump doesn’t want you watching this interview. So naturally, we should get it to 10 MILLION. Let’s make sure Trump sees just how many people are watching. 10 million views. One Texas Senate seat. Let's fucking go Texas. Let’s fucking go, Texas.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shocking to learn we’ve been lied to again by our lying POTUS. And to try to send people to jail based on that lie is, what was that word Hillary Clinton used a decade ago—right, deplorable. Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...

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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just wondering if anyone in the audience paused and maybe feeling a little concerned looked around at their fellow MAGAs when he got to the “cheat like hell” part, or did they all just barrel on through with the pledge.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Imagine for a second that you’re the president of the United States and somehow you feel the need to make shit like this up. SMH!!

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unfortunately, as this NYT Guest Essay helps to show, Sasha was all too right in her short convo with Adam below—the damage is, of course, world-wide, not restricted to the the U.S. Trump Isn’t Just Trolling Canada. He’s Helping Push It Apart. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/o...

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Last 6 paragraphs are from a terrific Buttigieg speech this week. The man is brilliant and knows how to take on the right as he willingly goes on Fox and speaks truth to its viewers. Would make a great POTUS. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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August 22, 2026

On Tuesday, August 18, during a debate for a runoff to win the South Carolina Republican senatorial primary, Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) answered a question about Taiwan and the importance of the So...

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NYT: “This week she became the subject of a political attack line delivered by Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator from Georgia, who said of the president: “He doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie…” Hey NYT: Natalie Harp is NOT the subject of the attack!

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Based on his good relationship, he says, with a brutal dictator, who is also sending thousands of troops to help Russia with its invasion of a sovereign, young democratic nation. Almost unbelievable, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is truly unbelievable with this awful man.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thank goodness FDR had a different attitude about that ocean and the land on the other side of it.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Love this story. Such a great listen. Shows what dedicated caregivers, i.e., doctors and nurses, will do to take care of patients, sometimes heroically (see doctor here), and even when they might no longer be hospital employed (see nurse at end of story). www.thisamericanlife.org/894/i-couldn...

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Closing Time - This American Life

A doctor trained as a midwife tells the eye-popping story of how she and others came together to save a baby during a birth that suddenly went wrong, in a part of rural Maine where the local labo...

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

NYT headline today: Progress Toward Deal Led Trump to Call Off Strikes on Iran, He Says” The NYT is an incredible newspaper with many of its reporters doing fantastic in-depth work. But sometimes their headlines! I mean throwing in “He Says,” at the very end as if it’s sort of an afterthought. 🤦‍♂️

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hahaha. So, no vandalism. “On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was ‘the result of flawed installation.’” Charges to Be Dropped Against Former Olympian in Reflecting Pool Case www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

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Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As long as we’re re-litigating the handling of the COVID pandemic, Sasha would like a word or many:

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I listened to two renowned infectious disease scientists say today that the preponderance of evidence supports that the Covid virus was born in nature. Now I listen to the distinguished former football coach Tommy Tuberville, and I just don’t know.🤔

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

When he pulled out his Trump 2028 hat, some clapped. Are you kidding me?🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ “Is This Supposed to Be Fun?’ Trump Hurls Insults at Correspondents’ Dinner www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

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At Correspondents’ Dinner, a Rambling Trump Hurls Insults

President Trump gave the keynote speech as relations between his administration and the press continue to deteriorate.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

21st century GOP presidential rhetoric vs. reality: GWB: argues for humble foreign policy in debate with Gore. Reality: initiates wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Trump: insists no forever wars. Reality: initiates war with Iran, beginning to look like forever war/quagmire.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Meanwhile, we’re sliding right down a vertical cliff into fascism. None of this soft slippery slope nonsense.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think the first promise the Dem presidential nominee in’ ‘28 should make is to remove all that crappy, tacky gold-plated shit from the Oval Office by 6 pm 1/20/2029.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

From Paul Krugman today, on Trump’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods: “Also, one has to wonder whether Trump is feeling upset at the way he was massively booed at the World Cup final — while Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister and his co-host, was not.” How small can a supposedly 6’3” man be!

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An instant meme is born. Better than the sitting Bernie with gloves one.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

How about we stop trying to arrest for deportation purposes people in moving cars? Obvious now that with ICE as it’s currently constituted, it’s inherently dangerous.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Perhaps someone upstairs actually wanted to save American democracy.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Aside from the delusional nature of this, you know who actually couldn’t walk? The greatest POTUS of the 20th century, that’s who, and he earned tremendous respect from those countries that now comprise NATO.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When the movie about the Trump administration is made, it will be titled “All the Wrong Moves.”

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“…in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” — Thomas Paine open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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July 2, 2026

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are ...

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

From NYT today: Tom Kean “…also was scheduled to participate in a fund-raising reception on Tuesday evening in Washington, according to an email obtained by The Times that confirmed an earlier report by Politico.” First day back after missing 116 days, and he intends to fund-raise.🤦‍♂️

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Convo between Adam and Sasha on November 9, 2016 still holds up ten years later, perhaps to an even greater degree than Sasha thought:

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Somehow I think the lawsuit will be dropped fairly soon.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Snuff films for the POTUS. How far we have fallen.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New Yorkers: Do not let this man Blakeman become governor of your (my former) state! DO NOT!! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

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Blakeman Suggests Lander, a Jewish Politician, Would Have Aided Nazis

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

When you substitute the word orthodox for crooked: “Mr. Trump’s unorthodox approach to clemency has spawned a seamy cottage industry…” Trump Administration Shuttered a Criminal Probe Into Fraudster’s Clemency www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

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Trump Administration Shuttered a Criminal Probe Into Fraudster’s Clemency

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

From David French today: “…a federal agent shot a woman five times, and the administration publicly accused her of being a domestic terrorist, then charged her with assault—only to dismiss the case after… evidence…contradicted the government’s account.” Crooked — from terrorist to nah, never mind🤦‍♂️.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This story about what’s going on at the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial, the White House grounds, and the man who occupies the White House merits about 1000 face palms. I’ll only add a few here:🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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June 13, 2026

Those of you celebrating the Knicks’ victory in the NBA Championship should enjoy yourselves and leave this one for later.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

From NYT this morning, about the Dem nominee for governor in Nevada: “…Mr. Ford said in an election night speech. ‘On day one, we’re going to lower costs.’” Please, please, Dem candidates, do NOT make this promise. You will have little control over prices, and you will likely fail.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don’t know why rather than writing “Government Data Disagrees,” they don’t just write, “They’re Lying.” ICE Says Detainees Are ‘Worst of the Worst.’ Government Data Disagrees. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/n...

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ICE Says Detainees Are ‘Worst of the Worst.’ Government Data Disagrees.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How very strange, a US president commending the people and soldiers of allied nations across the globe instead of railing against those nations and their leaders while admiring the world’s best known dictators and autocrats. Thank you, FDR! June 5, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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June 5, 2026

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people when he gave his twenty-ninth Fireside Chat on June 5, 1944.

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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lest people have forgot after nearly 5 1/2 years, within last night’s HC Richardson letter is a good description of the brutality of J6. So important that we don’t forget! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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May 20, 2026

Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S.

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