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  1. The stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out
    – in extremely personal terms
    – over Donald Trump’s decision to enter the United States into a conflict with Iran.

    While it can be hard to cleanly group the warring factions,
    much of the fighting has centered on disagreements about whether the US is too deferential to Israeli interests.

    Those arguing that position most prominently include former Fox News hosts Tucker #Carlson and Megyn #Kelly,

    while conservative media personalities like Mark #Levin (a current Fox News host) and Ben #Shapiro have strongly supported both the American intervention in Iran and collaboration with Israel.

    “There are the classic neocons,
    there is the populist right,
    and there are the anti-anti neocons,” said Curt Mills, executive director of the American Conservative magazine.

    On Tuesday, Shapiro defended Levin, called Kelly an “unbelievable coward” and accused her of eliding her criticism of President Trump. “You don’t like President Trump? You don’t like what he’s saying? Just say his name, you coward,” Shapiro said. “You unbelievable coward. Tucker and Megyn both – unbelievable cowardice.”

    The tension between Carlson and Levin traces back to at least June 2025,
    when Carlson accused Levin of
    “lobbying for war with Iran” during a private lunch with Trump at the White House.

    Levin called Carlson a “maggot”,
    and Carlson referred to Levin as a “warmonger”.

    He used the same label for another former Fox News colleague,
    Sean Hannity.

    (This week, Kelly called her former colleague Hannity “a supplicant to Donald Trump”
    and said
    “he would never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up”.)
    theguardian.com/media/2026/mar

  2. Donald #Trump is eager to fill out his autocratic profile with a display of #military might in the form of a military #parade. Anti-Trump activists are planning mass #protests across the #UnitedStates. Ezra #Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, talks with Rachel #Maddow about the effects protests are having on the Trump administration and the importance of local #activism.

  3. I'm listening to an RNZ report on the Levin tornado;

    rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

    A mention of the Mayor going door-to-door to check on residents, got me thinking about how the council is tracking whether households have or haven't been visited. Could OSM map data and software be used?

    A software package that made this easier would be useful in a wide range of situations. Any organising body in a natural disaster, or any political party canvassing voters, for a start.

    #RNZ #Levin #tornado

  4. On Thursday, I, along with some 4,500 others, tuned in to one of Indivisible’s weekly Zoom meetings led by Indivisible founders
    #Ezra #Levin and
    #Leah #Greenberg. There are about 1,600 local Indivisible groups scattered around the country
    -- and more are springing up each day.

    “Throughout history,” said Levin, “there has been no solution to creeping authoritarianism other than all of us — mass, broad-based organizing from people all over the country, from all walks life.”

    “If your ideas are popular and you have a mandate for change,” Greenberg said
    “you do not hide from your constituents.
    We are the ones who are out there,
    who are unafraid and organizing and showing up in public because our ideas are popular.
    When people hear what we have to say, they want that, not them.”

    The April 5 protests are meant to be a show of strength.

    “‘Hands Off,’” said Greenberg, “is a message about everything that is happening, right?

    It’s hands off Medicaid,
    hands off our democracy,
    hands off Social Security,
    hands off our environment,
    hands off veterans benefits.”

    Now, for those who think that firebombing Tesla dealerships is a better tactic than nonviolent protests,
    I would remind you of the world-changing work of Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

    And I would also tell you about the work of Harvard political scientist #Erica #Chenoweth and her colleagues.

    To Chenoweth’s surprise — shock, actually — she discovered that over time, nonviolent protests are far more successful than violent ones.

    Between 1900 and 2006, she says, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns.

    She also came up with the so-called 3.5% rule:
    No government can withstand a challenge from around 3.5% of its population without accommodating the movement.

  5. Cf "La mort d'un millier de soldats est une statistique. La mort d'un soldat est une tragédie." - Staline.

    #schank #abelson #psychology #marmion #biaiscognitif #simons #levin #science #connaissance #psy

  6. 🍀 Unser kleiner Skeptiker 🍀
    📣News:
    Unsere liebe Sandra hat sich Zeit genommen und sich über eine halbe Stunde mit Levin beschäftigt. Er holte sich Leckerli ab, ließ sich vorsichtig am Schnäuzchen berühren. Seine Skepsis ist verständlich, kennt er seit über 3 Jahren nichts als seinen Kennel. Aber der tolle Hundemann blieb defensiv und sobald Leckerli dabei waren, war er wieder mutig und holte sie ab.
    🔍prodogromania.de/alle-hunde/le
    #prodogromania #dogs #dogsofmastodon #adoptdontshop #levin

  7. #levin
    youtu.be/DdXcV3dXa_4

    human mindstates are incredibly complex. to copy an idea to another we have to converse. its unclear what the second mind state will take from the conversation. but the communication is never meant to be perfect because each mind is very different so the receiver will expand out the communication into a new complex mindstate and take what they need out of that.

    it sounds so eerily similar to the way catterpillars pass memories onto there butterfly self ,,

  8. Wedding at Waterford Courthouse.
    The bride and groom were Ester Levin of John Street, Waterford (22), and Myer Stein of Raymond Street, Dublin (25), and the wedding took place in early September 1901. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

    #Levin #Stein #Waterford #Dublin #Ireland

  9. #levin #ai #intelligence

    osf.io/preprints/osf/gz3km

    a great paper trying to take a moment to organize the debate between machine vs living intelligence.

    so many people on mastodon proclaim one way or the other and are so certain and yet i wish more people would just spend the time exploring the notion of what even is intelligence.

  10. Donald Trump shared a slew of videos online attacking Vice President Kamala Harris,
    after a favorability poll aired on Fox News found ⭐️she was leading him in key swing states. ⭐️

    The new poll, conducted July 22–24 and released Sunday, found that Harris’s approval rating had surpassed Trump’s in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan.

    In Michigan, Harris was leading Trump in favorability by a whopping 57 percent to 47 percent. 

    Many online predicted that Trump would be incensed over the results.

    “The ketchup is going to hit the wall in Mar-a-Lago after this new Fox News poll,” remarked former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin on X (formerly Twitter).

    Within hours, Trump posted five separate videos on Truth Social of one of his longtime favorite Fox News hosts, #Mark #Levin,
    whom Rolling Stone once called a
    🔸“bomb-throwing Trump sycophant,” 🔸
    attacking Harris.  

    In one of the videos from Life, Liberty & Levin,
    Levin labeled Harris as a🤣 “rabid Marxist scholar,” 🤣specifically decrying her past statements about the need for equity
    —the idea that every person should be given access to the resources needed to be successful
    —so that, as Harris put it, every citizen could “end up in the same place.”

    “‘So we all end up in the same place’? Doesn’t this sound like we’re all going to end up in a gulag?” Levin said.

    He called equity a “prescription for tyranny and totalitarianism,”
    ranting that it was
    🔹“not the government’s job” to improve the quality of life of American citizens. 🔹

    In another video posted to Trump’s account, Levin criticized Harris for comparing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan
    for causing fear and intimidation in immigrant communities.

    “The combination of stupidity and arrogance is on full display, right here,” said Levin. 

    Levin continued to incorrectly call her the “border czar,”
    -- although she was never responsible for border security. 

    Unfortunately for Trump, arguments like Levin’s don’t seem to be nearly as convincing to the rest of America.

    In just one week,
    🔥Harris’s overall favorability jumped from 35 percent to 43 percent 🔥
    and her unfavorability fell from 46 percent to 42 percent, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted on Friday and Saturday.

    newrepublic.com/post/184330/tr