Chris Levesque
"Loquacious history bastard." PhD in military history, adjunct professor of history, librarian, archivist. Focus on atrocities in Vietnam, Cold War culture, & religion.
The opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer.
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- Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueTomorrow's Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft, a company experiencing the stagnation of all of its core products that's using OpenAI's billions in inference spend to cover up the collapse of Azure's growth. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueATTENTION: DOMESTICATED CATS WERE PRESENT IN POLAND 8000 YEARS AGO WHICH IS FAR OLDER THAN IN EGYPT
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueCastle High School students in Kaneohe, Hawaii walk out to oppose ICE trying to destroy their communities. Multiple levels of bravery from bullies in the school admin who threatened to suspend them and in their peer groups. #Solidarity
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueAll the former spooks with whom I’m mutuals have been too. Whatever Wyden is signaling by releasing the letter about his concerns regarding CIA activities, it’s serious.
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueBitcoin hit a high of $126,000 last year. Then it dropped to $120K, $110K, $100K, $90K, $80K, $70K and is no hovering around $60K. More than a trillion in notional "value" wiped out. There is no Fed or Treasury ready to bail it out. But Congress is close to blessing it...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueTo everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueTomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:” Dumb History, AI Slop, and Why It Matters Right Now—a LOT Friday 10AM ET m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueOrganically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueHideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver
- Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.
- I’m still not sure what I think of Starfleet Academy.
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueReally can't make this stuff up I did not have a fast-tracked FCC application for an actual megaconstellation (1 million satellites) justified as "taking the first step towards becoming a Kardashev Il-level civilization" on my 2026 bingo card What are we doing friends
- Reposted by Chris Levesquethe Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueAs far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).
- Reposted by Chris Levesquenow how tf am i gonna curl my hair
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- Norovirus at the Olympics... apnews.com/article/wint...
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueBREAKING: BRAD KARP OUT AS CHAIR OF PAUL WEISS.
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueCrazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
- Reposted by Chris Levesqueour government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueThe Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails: aftermath.site/steam-machine-...
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueWhat Bannon is proposing is illegal. Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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- Reposted by Chris Levesquecan’t not hear and see:
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueState vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity. It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
- Reposted by Chris Levesquewell here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueHere's another email where Epstein states more explicitly that Bill Clinton was never on Epstein Island. This appears to be an email exchange with one of Epstein's many attorneys or private investigators trying to discredit Virginia Giuffre.
- Reposted by Chris Levesque*BREAKING: Rubio is out as acting Archivist, and has illegally named an ineligble political appointee to "to serve and perform the functions of archivist"—which he did not have the authority to do. My reporting expands on @federalnewsnetwork.com's scoop: 🧵 lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Chris LevesqueThe GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueI've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.
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- Vibe coding relies on OSS, but is also killing it. arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
- Animate isn't actually going away. www.theverge.com/tech/873621/...
- Reposted by Chris LevesqueThe proposal to open all 83,000 acres of Conecuh National Forest to oil and gas leasing raises serious questions about risk and reward. The forest has low development potential, minimal existing leasing, and acknowledged environmental risks. Yet climate impacts aren’t addressed. #UnmuteAlabama
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- We have the Sunshine requirements for a reason. ricksblog.biz/lawmakers-ca...
- Water is life ishttps://coloradosun.com/2026/02/02/kawuneeche-valley-restoration-wetlands-beavers-rmnp/
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- Reposted by Chris LevesqueThis is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)
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