Nostr notes by Jacob T. Levy

If you had told me at any point in Lula's 1st or 2nd term not ...

2026-10-25T22:33:14Z

If you had told me at any point in Lula's 1st or 2nd term not only that I would be rooting for him in the future ... but also that I'd be rooting for his *4th* term, when he's *80*, after multiple corruption convictions... and that I would think it was of *urgent global importance* for him to win...

Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth wearing a bandolier of Fireball ...

2026-10-12T15:45:04Z

Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth wearing a bandolier of Fireball shot bottles cracks me up.
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I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably ...

2026-10-12T03:46:44Z

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, ...

2026-10-04T03:03:08Z

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional ...

2026-09-20T12:00:47Z

1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day.

2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."

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dooo iiiiiiittttt ...

2026-09-13T20:36:42Z

dooo iiiiiiittttt

[www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/13/canada-eyes-associate-member-status-with-eu-amid-us-tensions-wsj-reports )

[Canada eyes ‘associate member’...](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/13/canada-eyes-associate-member-status-with-eu-amid-us-tensions-wsj-reports )

It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now ...

2026-09-12T15:56:30Z

It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ycoas2dud4x2ybcpodfxadxo/post/3mvcsvjuk4c25

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / ...

2026-09-12T14:09:24Z

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process.
1/
[www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/lutnick-trump-5000-check-taxpayer-funds-rcna597092 )

[Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 ch...](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/lutnick-trump-5000-check-taxpayer-funds-rcna597092 )

On this day in 2018. Kieran ...

2026-08-24T12:46:36Z

On this day in 2018.

Kieran [@kjhealy.co@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr ) ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece.
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Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. ...

2026-07-02T08:48:23Z

Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text.

This is a Redeemer administration.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o... [Opinion | U.S. Support Is ...

2026-06-24T13:58:51Z

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...

[Opinion | U.S. Support Is Isra...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/opinion/israel-iran-palestinians-us.html )

!!! RE: ...

2026-05-21T15:27:27Z

!!!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3mmebce33im2i

I am pretty sure Trump would not go to Taiwan's defense, and ...

2026-05-15T14:23:10Z

I am pretty sure Trump would not go to Taiwan's defense, and I suspect Xi also thinks so. That's bad, indeed potentially disastrous.

But the refusal to commit explicitly to such defense, either to Xi or to a reporter, is actually correct longstanding US policy.

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not today Satan ...

2026-04-24T18:39:36Z

not today Satan
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First meeting to start to understand the AI apocalypse, like ...

2026-04-10T17:41:08Z

First meeting to start to understand the AI apocalypse, like
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Striking for this to appear at AEI. ...

2026-04-03T23:19:23Z

Striking for this to appear at AEI.

[www.aei.org/op-eds/birth...](https://www.aei.org/op-eds/birthright-citizenship-and-the-making-of-citizens/ )

“Birthright Citizenship and the Making of Citizens”

[aei.org/op-eds/birthri...](https://www.aei.org/op-eds/birthright-citizenship-and-the-making-of-citizens/ )

According to the rules conservatives established after Charlie ...

2026-03-21T18:02:37Z

According to the rules conservatives established after Charlie Kirk, Trump can be fired for this, right?
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Is $200 billion a lot to fight a war that’s already been ...

2026-03-19T15:32:52Z

Is $200 billion a lot to fight a war that’s already been decisively, comprehensively, bigly won? It seems like a lot.

just plainly evil. ...

2026-03-16T19:57:54Z

just plainly evil.
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Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t ...

2026-02-20T02:35:01Z

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

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Some people pretended to think that the phrase "happy ...

2026-02-05T14:57:40Z

Some people pretended to think that the phrase "happy holidays" expressed contempt for Christianity and so they had to, just had to, make this guy the most powerful man in the world.

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Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving ...

2026-01-24T12:31:03Z

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a3anzwkj4bnz2w6mglhs4xfe/post/3md4qzpoke22o

The real answer is that Obama's deportations were primarily ...

2026-01-19T16:52:44Z

The real answer is that Obama's deportations were primarily of those apprehended while trying to cross the southern border. That doesn't actually mean they had due process or were humane— neither is true— but they didn't require visible militarization and invasion of the rest of the country.

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I will admit that none of us had "destroy transatlantic ...

2026-01-19T16:47:14Z

I will admit that none of us had "destroy transatlantic security *and* trade for the sake of 19th c Manifest Destiny/ spheres of influence-style territorial acquisition of Greenland" on our bingo cards.
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This is probably obvious, but: at this point no country should ...

2026-01-18T14:56:51Z

This is probably obvious, but: at this point no country should cede *anything* important to the Trump administration in response to a tariff threat given that Trump actively wants to do the tariffs and will find another excuse in a couple of months. #itistimeforsomegametheory

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a ...

2026-01-15T02:39:46Z

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

[stares in Jessica Jones] ...

2025-12-12T18:45:25Z

[stares in Jessica Jones]

[www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-gunn-supergirl-milly-alcock-teaser-trailer-1236447785/ )
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It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' ...

2025-12-06T12:38:38Z

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference ...

2025-11-27T17:11:30Z

Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to ...

2025-11-27T00:06:14Z

It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.

[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/politics/trump-rubio-mass-migration.html )

[U.S. to Press Europe and Other...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/politics/trump-rubio-mass-migration.html )

Such a pit in my stomach about the Georgia case. Such a wasted ...

2025-11-26T19:09:18Z

*Such* a pit in my stomach about the Georgia case. Such a wasted possibility. It's hard to avoid simultaneously crediting Willis for a strong, convincing, aggressive, and important set of indictments, and blaming her for the catastrophic misjudgment that made it impossible to have a trial in 2024.

To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country ...

2025-11-26T08:10:11Z

To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to encounter lots of place names one vaguely knows from books/ movies/ TV shows in which the place name is meant to immediately evoke some highly particular class/ culture/ accent/ norms matrix, understanding none of it.

One thing I don’t understand is why Republicans have been ...

2025-11-14T10:56:28Z

One thing I don’t understand is why Republicans have been fighting the Epstein resolution *so* hard, given that there is zero chance it will become law, and less than zero chance that Bondi would comply with it even if it did.

They’re still fighting the House vote as if Trump’s life depends on it.

Was just pointed to this. When I think about the energy that has ...

2025-10-31T12:34:59Z

Was just pointed to this. When I think about the energy that has been spent on panics about razor blades in apples and LSD-laced candy, and then the reality of kids getting killed on Halloween just by plain old drivers...

[www.washingtonpost.com/business/201...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/28/heres-why-halloween-is-deadliest-day-year-child-pedestrians/ )

[Here’s why Halloween is the de...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/28/heres-why-halloween-is-deadliest-day-year-child-pedestrians/ )

Constant chaos, and yet now almost four months of static polling ...

2025-10-26T13:59:26Z

Constant chaos, and yet now almost four months of static polling (NYT average 53 plus or minus 1 disapproval, 43 plus or minus 1 approval). No boost from Israel/ Gaza or stock market. No hit from the shutdown or the invasions of US cities or blowing up fishing boats. No nuthin' from nuthin'.
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Adding Brooklyn Nine-Nine to the list of "how 'come ...

2025-10-25T01:20:00Z

Adding Brooklyn Nine-Nine to the list of "how 'come nobody told me that I'd obviously enjoy this, except for all the people who told me so whom I ignored?" movies and TV shows.

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough ...

2025-10-24T11:34:20Z

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech.

This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.

[www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/24/us/trump-canada-news )

[Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off T...](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/24/us/trump-canada-news )

Are republicans on the talk shows today going to be shown the ...

2025-10-19T13:34:15Z

Are republicans on the talk shows today going to be shown the video Trump posted and asked for comment, or nah?

Brown rejected the compact! ...

2025-10-15T19:15:57Z

Brown rejected the compact!

[www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...](https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf )

[brown.edu/sites/default/...](https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf )

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the ...

2025-09-20T17:23:24Z

An absolute clown show.

Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.”

[www.politico.com/news/2025/09...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/donald-trump-h1b-visas-overhaul-00574345 )

[Trump administration tries to ...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/donald-trump-h1b-visas-overhaul-00574345 )

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2025-09-15T11:03:56Z

[www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/12/5-more-faculty-staff-removed-kirk-comments )

The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

[5 More Faculty, Staff Removed ...](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/12/5-more-faculty-staff-removed-kirk-comments )

“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech ...

2025-09-13T21:28:34Z

“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech hero by firing a bunch of people for saying mean things about him” is the kind of thing Tom Lehrer could have done roper justice to.

Was "Trump is dying or dead" just a meme-joke over the ...

2025-08-30T13:07:49Z

Was "Trump is dying or dead" just a meme-joke over the last couple of days, or was there some new event that prompted it?

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of ...

2025-08-19T21:50:23Z

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence ...

2025-08-19T18:09:28Z

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3lwrhyzw5xc2c
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Happy 50th anniversary of RHPS! This song is titled "The Time ...

2025-08-15T03:54:41Z

Happy 50th anniversary of RHPS!
This song is titled "The Time Warp" but begins w Riff singing "I remember doing the time warp." Everyone repeatedly sings "let's do the time warp again." Through the opaque curtain of nostalgia we never actually encounter the time warp.
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E8yVJIS4 )

[Rocky Horror Picture Show The ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E8yVJIS4 )

"Stop publishing the employment data because we don't ...

2025-08-12T18:56:19Z

"Stop publishing the employment data because we don't like the answers economists give" and "subject the Smithsonian to searching ideological censorship because we don't like the answers historians give" all on the same day.

Today in space policy: kill a satellite that measures greenhouse ...

2025-08-05T01:49:35Z

Today in space policy: kill a satellite that measures greenhouse gases, make up a pretend plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

[www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...](https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened )

[www.politico.com/news/2025/08...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172 )
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2025-07-26T08:48:25Z

[www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLxdZJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHq-Atz0rkRsioZU1vkk2otlAmMR1W4UfnlSBc6bPHnfyHve_R_QrhySb9ld9_aem_vTqW10W_Mbd_l6J_fUIFaA )

[Immigration agents told a teen...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLxdZJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHq-Atz0rkRsioZU1vkk2otlAmMR1W4UfnlSBc6bPHnfyHve_R_QrhySb9ld9_aem_vTqW10W_Mbd_l6J_fUIFaA )

I would like Trump's letter to Brazil to live on as one of ...

2025-07-11T13:15:28Z

I would like Trump's letter to Brazil to live on as one of the important primary source documents of the Trump era, linking trade restrictions in historical memory to impunity for criminal behavior, right-wing nationalist authoritarian politics, coups, domestic illegality, and simple illiteracy.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me ...

2025-06-16T13:37:43Z

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

very freedom. much republic. so liberty. ...

2025-06-14T17:23:57Z

very freedom. much republic. so liberty.
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is ...

2025-06-12T14:18:15Z

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my ...

2025-06-09T15:27:29Z

One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my perspective is… I didn’t leave Twitter for Bluesky.

I left twitter. Then well over a year later, there was Bluesky, and I joined it. (In between, tried Threads and Mastadon.)

If Bluesky disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t go back to Twitter.

Re-upping for the afternoon. In which I try to connect ...

2025-05-12T19:51:53Z

Re-upping for the afternoon. In which I try to connect yesterday's story to the big overarching problems of corruption, lawlessness, favoritism, and personalism that add up to a crisis of American governance.

Plus, presidential libraries are bad.

[www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/qatar-jumbo-jet-gift-loophole/ )

[Opinion | Qatar’s gift to Trum...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/qatar-jumbo-jet-gift-loophole/ )

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is ...

2025-05-09T23:19:03Z

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Trump tweeted out a picture of himself as Pope, and then look ...

2025-05-08T19:33:15Z

Trump tweeted out a picture of himself as Pope, and then look what happened.
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Remember when you could just run an errand, without a phone call ...

2025-05-02T14:03:48Z

Remember when you could just run an errand, without a phone call two days in advance asking you to confirm, a text message the day before asking you to confirm, and and endless escalating series of messages afterward demanding your participation in a customer satisfaction survey?

This might be the zuckerbergiest thing that’s ever zuckerberged ...

2025-05-01T13:55:08Z

This might be the zuckerbergiest thing that’s ever zuckerberged

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I don't understand the amount of hopium it takes to move ...

2025-04-23T14:06:53Z

I don't understand the amount of hopium it takes to move markets like this just because Trump says something like “I have no intention of firing” Powell.

a) He lies all the time!
b) He changes his intentions all the time!
c) He's definitely *not* disavowing the *authority* to fire Powell!
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Without comment ...

2025-04-22T02:46:41Z

Without comment
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The Secret Service and the Secretary of Homeland Security both ...

2025-04-21T14:39:21Z

The Secret Service *and* the Secretary of Homeland Security both come off looking pretty unimpressive.

I hope the thief then broke into her apartment to rescue her dog from getting shot.

[www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html )
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the ...

2025-04-14T16:41:52Z

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Shall we play a game? ...

2025-04-03T18:49:50Z

Shall we play a game?
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I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential ...

2025-03-08T02:09:35Z

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.
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We say that people don't notice constitutional regime ...

2025-01-29T23:39:02Z

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Are you kidding me with this? “A central pillar of American ...

2024-11-19T13:54:36Z

Are you kidding me with this?

“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.”

[www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/trump-criminal-cases.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare )

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