Rob Levine
@roblevine82.bsky.social
Photographer, drone pilot, writer, editor, web developer, media critic (not necessarily in that order). Proprietor at edhivemn.com, roblevinephotography.com, intheairphotography.com, threatenedwaters.com. Minneapolis
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And here it is... your moment of Zen.
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
And here it is... your moment of Zen.
Republican goons roaming my city
BREAKING: Tricia McLaughlin of DHS says they're going to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to investigate the Nick Shirley hoax, and they're already going to people's homes and knocking on their doors. So far zero arrests have been made and zero fraud has been found - because there isn't any.
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Republican goons roaming my city
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Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
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Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
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Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity
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If you're sincere about rooting out fraud, send teams of investigators and prosecute. If you want to put a whole lot of innocent people in danger and stoke hate for an entire class of people, send social media teams trying to go viral.
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
If you're sincere about rooting out fraud, send teams of investigators and prosecute. If you want to put a whole lot of innocent people in danger and stoke hate for an entire class of people, send social media teams trying to go viral.
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
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The Likudnik-right's embrace of Nazi eugenics is astonishing.
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The Likudnik-right's embrace of Nazi eugenics is astonishing.
Walz brought in UnitedHealth! GTFO asshole. Time for a governor interested in governing
You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.
Perry: Trusted providers are being unfairly swept up in Minnesota’s fraud crackdown
As the state's new anti-fraud screening system went into effect, the Holland Center expected to receive $212,000 in payments. It instead received $22,000, David M. Perry writes. If nothing changes soo...
www.startribune.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Walz brought in UnitedHealth! GTFO asshole. Time for a governor interested in governing
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"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
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so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts
‘Scorched-Earth Attack’: Trump Admin Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States | Common Dreams
"My team and I are exploring all our legal options to ensure that critical childcare services do not get abruptly slashed based on pretext and grandstanding," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ell...
www.commondreams.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts
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In Oklahoma, yet another MAGA Republican officeholder is caught and charged with sex crimes involving children. Nearly all his victims were under 10. kfor.com/news/local/w...
Warr Acres City Council member arrested, accused of child sex crimes
A Warr Acres City Council member is behind bars, accused of disturbing sex crimes involving children.
kfor.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
In Oklahoma, yet another MAGA Republican officeholder is caught and charged with sex crimes involving children. Nearly all his victims were under 10. kfor.com/news/local/w...
The whole health care provision paradigm in Minnesota hinges on legally allowing private care monopolies - even encouraging them! The upshot is the closure of a lot of rural clinics, skyrocketing costs, and coverage confusion
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
The whole health care provision paradigm in Minnesota hinges on legally allowing private care monopolies - even encouraging them! The upshot is the closure of a lot of rural clinics, skyrocketing costs, and coverage confusion
Republican vandals against knowledge everywhere
The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away."
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Republican vandals against knowledge everywhere
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
Tell me what is the exact mechanism for a viewer to hold this douche accountable? They don't even EVER broadcast letters or op-eds from viewers.
January 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Tell me what is the exact mechanism for a viewer to hold this douche accountable? They don't even EVER broadcast letters or op-eds from viewers.
Why does @startribune.com put its two best reporters on a story only to wreck it with a headline written by third grader? If the school board meets you don't headline the story " School board meets" - you headline with what happened!
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Why does @startribune.com put its two best reporters on a story only to wreck it with a headline written by third grader? If the school board meets you don't headline the story " School board meets" - you headline with what happened!
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
Believe it or not that after more than a decade of Trumpism, neither @startribune.com nor @mprnews.org have ever pointed out Republicans' systematic & strategic lying. Now it's the lie of the year
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
PolitiFact names 2025 the Year of the Lies
“It’s time to revisit the basics of why it’s important to call out lies. They’re more than just words. Lies harm livelihoods and families.” Read why PolitiFact named 2025 the Year of the Lies, from Ed...
www.politifact.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Believe it or not that after more than a decade of Trumpism, neither @startribune.com nor @mprnews.org have ever pointed out Republicans' systematic & strategic lying. Now it's the lie of the year
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
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The difference today is you get 56 stories in the Strib taking this seriously before the first tentative debunking. Grovism!
Just remembering back to March '19 when Laura Loomer, Jacob Wohl & Ali Alexander were running around scary Mpls in bullet proof vests, while filming a hit piece "documentary" about then freshman MOC Ilhan Omar. www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...
Laura Loomer tried to doorstep a congresswoman. It went very wrong
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has already made waves since taking office in January, causing a stir among her own party after criticising the influence of Israeli lobbyists in Washington.Her cri...
www.indy100.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The difference today is you get 56 stories in the Strib taking this seriously before the first tentative debunking. Grovism!
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Chuck is on the platform at the Mamdani swearing in ceremony at City Hall. I'm hearing that everywhere he travels in NYC today, people come up to him to suggest that it's time to retire. His constituents would like to see a fresh new face, like the one who is being sworn in.
Chuck Schumer has lowest approval rating of all top US political leaders, poll shows
Grumpy Americans are giving sacks of coals to the nation’s top political leaders — especially Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has the lowest job approval rating among DC power broke…
nypost.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Chuck is on the platform at the Mamdani swearing in ceremony at City Hall. I'm hearing that everywhere he travels in NYC today, people come up to him to suggest that it's time to retire. His constituents would like to see a fresh new face, like the one who is being sworn in.
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#SchoolVoucherScams ended 2025 w/ 25 stories that show how vouchers lack accountability, & force taxpayers to pay for private schools for the wealthy.
Example: FL Private school accepted state vouchers for students 130 miles away networkforpubliceduc...
Example: FL Private school accepted state vouchers for students 130 miles away networkforpubliceduc...
Voucher School Scam$ - Network For Public Education
#SchoolVoucherScam$ is now an interactive research tool. Scandals can be sorted by category/state and searched with keywords.
networkforpubliceducation.org
January 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
#SchoolVoucherScams ended 2025 w/ 25 stories that show how vouchers lack accountability, & force taxpayers to pay for private schools for the wealthy.
Example: FL Private school accepted state vouchers for students 130 miles away networkforpubliceduc...
Example: FL Private school accepted state vouchers for students 130 miles away networkforpubliceduc...
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"Bill Ackman just took a shit in a toilet connected to a municipal sewer line! Is this creeping (or crapping) socialism?"
January 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
"Bill Ackman just took a shit in a toilet connected to a municipal sewer line! Is this creeping (or crapping) socialism?"