Dave Levitan - Gravity Is Gone (Page 3)

Donald Trump sits at the center of a long table, surrounded by his cabinet and other official

What Do These Ghouls Even Want

Every week there is some cabinet member or other official or striving red state governor laying bare their grotesque yearnings to the world, or more likely to the television they hope the big guy is currently watching.

Russell Vought speaks at a podium with Trump next to him and other men behind them

"Shut It All Down": Largely Kept in the Dark, Many Federal Employees Are Itching For a Fight

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! On Thursday morning, one part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration held an "emergency" all-hands meeting. The gist, according to a source who attended, was more or less that leadership had

Donald Trump speaks at a podium flanked by RFK Jr and Dr. Oz

A Collection of Responses to the "Dangerously Irresponsible" White House Press Conference on Tylenol and Autism

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It was genuinely hard to watch without starting to smash things. The press conference delivered on Monday by the president, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and various other walking Dunning-Kruger demonstrations was so filled

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Companies Keep Buying Future Fusion Power That Definitely, For Sure, Absolutely Will Exist

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The Italian oil and gas giant Eni announced an agreement on Monday to buy electricity "worth more than $1 billion" from a power plant that has not been built but totally, definitely, no-question-about-it

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Why Is the DOJ Telling NIH Staff They Can't Attend a Public Health Conference?

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone On Wednesday, employees at various parts of the National Institutes of Health received an odd email. Shared with me by multiple sources, the messages informed them that they should not

Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone Robert Redford died on Tuesday, at 89. You can head literally anywhere else to read full obituaries about one of Hollywood's best and most beautiful leading men — we&

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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

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'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