Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

Think out loud for New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer. eric.levitz@nymag.com

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    21 Oct 2018

    Tribalism is not the primary cause of democratic dysfunction in the U.S. The extraordinary level of economic power -- and political organization -- that reactionary elites have amassed is.

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    10 hours ago

    Fentanyl is killing so many longtime drug users, especially older African-Americans in cities like Baltimore, that many are now pining for less-deadly heroin, which is increasingly hard to find. A harrowing, dystopian piece by the great :

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    9 hours ago

    Mexicans can squeeze through pre-approved cracks as needed. Just don’t humanize them.

    Huh. Trump signals that he has some concerns about the impact that mandatory use of E-Verify would have on some employers, such as farms, because it's too "tough." "You ... have to have a world of some practicality," he says in Fox News interview
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    10 hours ago

    I’m not a Pete guy but props for this — like Bernie, he’s doing Fox properly. Fox viewers will never be shown this snippet again but it’s good he gave it anyway

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    Buttigieg on decision to appear on a Fox News town hall.
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    May 18

    please do not let the dude who seems to be an insubstantial pretty-boy but is actually a thoughtful weirdo with a morbid streak play the cape boy

    DC fans launch multiple petitions against Robert Pattinson playing Batman
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    13 hours ago

    Folks, The president is threatening Iran because of a Fox News segment. Left, Fox, 4:16 pm Right, Trump, 4:25 pm

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    16 hours ago

    I think some of my friends in the education reform space underrate the practical and moral force of the argument that the strength or weakness of the labor movement will be the decisive factor in whether or not the country goes fascist and that matters more than school quality.

    Thread. Here's my take on the game behind Bernie's charter play yesterday. And let's be clear, it is political machinations, not policy or ideology that is driving this.
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    17 hours ago

    Not most glam way of approaching the primary (& not something that'd be directly answered), but something I think about: If working with a GOP Congress, what are 'lines in sand' that each Dem would never agree to as part of a 'grand bargain'? Many items here came up in 90s/2010s.

    I found the "bipartisan" list the GOP will work with establishment Dems on: - Raising the retirement age - Cutting Social Security COLAs - Extending Trump's tax cuts - The TPP - Estate tax repeal - Another war - Privatizing the VA & Medicare - Fracking - Wall Street deregulation
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    17 hours ago

    This guy voted for Trump, then the Administration deported his wife. He might vote for Trump again because of abortion.

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    19 hours ago

    Fox News host: Allegedly stabbing a teenage captive to death and sniping a school-age girl and an old man are just “tough calls” soldiers make on the battlefield

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    Here's how Fox & Friends described the servicemen Trump is considering pardoning (one is accused of sniping a school-age girl and stabbing a teenaged prisoner to death with a hunting knife)
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  11. 19 hours ago

    (I can understand where the Times reporter was coming from -- from a horserace perspective, whether Bernie supported Central Americans who evinced insufficient gratitude for US war crimes probably does matter more than those war crimes, themselves. America ❤️ its war criminals)

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  12. 19 hours ago

    The Times's compulsion to hold Bernie accountable for supporting Nicaraguans who chanted anti-U.S things -- while the U.S was funding war crimes to overthrow their elected government -- and Trump's impending pardon of Gallagher are symptoms of the same national sickness, imo

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    May 18

    Reading tweets about this interview all day it’s really quite the Rorschach test. (I grew up boycotting El Salvador and with parents deeply suspicious of a video game called “Contra” so you know how I see it)

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    May 18

    Interesting angle RE Amash; his patrons have been the DeVos family. They supported his first run, & stuck w him in 2014 when theChamber & most big GR Repub donors backed his primary opponent. Suspect they’ll take this as betrayal (esp since Erik Prince is in murky legal waters).

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    May 18

    “One day, from his sniper nest, Chief Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the other girls dragged her away.” Trump is preparing to pardon this war criminal.

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    20 hours ago

    I don’t know a single person who thinks it’s ok that in a country with so much money and food we charge children for lunch at school and if they don’t have the money penalize and leave them hungry. A shameful relic of bad government bureaucracy and backwards priorities.

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    21 hours ago

    If he does this, Trump will effectively be cutting a recruitment ad for extremists. Ours and theirs.

    Breaking News: President Trump is showing signs he will pardon several servicemen accused of war crimes. He asked for paperwork to be prepared by Memorial Day
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    May 18

    this *Republican* Congressman is more honest about the state of play than Pelosi, Hoyer & Nadler are

    Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.
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    May 18

    Here are my principal conclusions: 1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report. 2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. 3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances. 4. Few members of Congress have read the report.

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    May 18

    OK I am so heartened to see running on federal efforts to desegregate public schools. This has been missing from presidential politics for a long time

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