Dave Levitan - Gravity Is Gone (Page 2)

A view from a small boat heading toward five offshore wind turbines in the distance on a cloudy day.

The Attempted Murder of Offshore Wind Power

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone On Friday, the Trump administration filed a motion in the US District Court in Baltimore requesting that the court revoke government approval for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project. The government

HHS Foists Halucination Machine on Entire Department

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! On Tuesday morning, leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services sent an email to its entire tens of thousands of staff. Shared with me by a source inside HHS, it proudly announced that

The wall in the lobby at the National Institutes of Health, where it says the NIH is "dedicated to fostering discovery at the frontiers of science and medicine."

'The Walls Are Collapsing': The View From Inside NIH as Shutdown Looms

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The public and Congressional attention focused on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recent weeks is, obviously, understandable. There is an immediacy to an assault on the country's premier public health

Florida's surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo announcing the end of vaccine mandates in the state

Mississippi, Florida, and the Coming Vaccine Apocalypse

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone Consider Mississippi. According to a memo from the state's Department of Health in March of this year, "There have been no reported cases of measles in Mississippi

Trump with Cabinet Secretaries Howard Lutnick (Commerce), Lee Zeldin (EPA), Chris Wright (DOE), Doug Burgum (DOI), and Sean Duffy (Transportation and, somehow, NASA)

Government abandons climate science, but climate scientists won't abandon government

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It is an uphill battle, of course, when faced with such clear-eyed farce. There is a sense of bringing a powerpoint presentation to a food fight — a collection of more than 85 climate scientists have

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks across a table to President Trump during a cabinet meeting, with Doug Burgum and Marco Rubio looking on

What can be done with RFK Jr.'s aggressive ignorance?

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! There is no shortage of absurdities at the periodic debasement competitions that are Trump Cabinet meetings. At this week's version, one could find the Labor Secretary encouraging the president to go look at

Signs above the door for FEMA at Federal Center Plaza

'A lot of folks are terrified': FEMA joins EPA in retaliation against dissenting staff

The result of all that is an obvious chilling of the federal workforce's speech.

Gravity Relaunched

The media industry: great fun forever. Last week, I was laid off from my role as deputy editor of Splinter, where I spent about a year and a half covering — among other things — climate change, science, public health, and their intersection with politics and policy. Over the seven months of