Jesse Levine

Lawyer, human rights advocate. Self-hating Brooklynite. Opinions generally somebody else's.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

…it’s permanently locked and I’ll never have access to 15+ years of info again. So to be clear your lousy security was too weak to keep hackers from hacking my account and changing security data, all before I woke up, but it’s strong enough to keep me from my own data forever?

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

Hi @Microsoft
At 12:36am on 3/26, I got a notice of suspicious activity to my hotmail (incl OneDrive, where I store personal/business info). By 7:00am they’d removed my authentication email. Now support says bc the 2nd email was removed, the account can’t be recovered…

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@Microsoft I got an unusual sign-in notification after 12:00; then at 7:00 am I got a notification that my security info had been deleted. now I can't change my password because my alternate email's no longer connected to the account. I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW!

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@CafaClaa This follows the authoritarian playbook perfectly. Erode confidence in democratic institutions and you create a power vacuum for the authoritarian to fill. And universities are soft targets bc they’re too seldom treated as foundational, indispensable democratic institutions.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@squarespace @SquarespaceHelp Can you explain why it's been four days since I contacted you about my site being down and nobody's contacted me?

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@ijbailey I think you're absolutely right re process. Whatever's going on is a moving target. The Biden of the SOTU is not the Biden of Thursday night. And we can forgive both his family and the Democratic Party more generally for pushing forward based on the facts as they were months ago.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

Hi @TVietor08 I've really appreciated (and agreed with) your insights on what the Israel-Gaza situation demands of the Biden admin. Here, @AnshelPfeffer poses some challenging questions re the admin's actual leverage. Would love your thoughts. https://t.co/1dafUZFmMm

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@greg_price11 My dude. Reimbursement for a loan isn't "making money".

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

Impossible to overstate the bravery of scholars, students, and others telling the truth about their experiences under authoritarian rule in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua. #academicfreedom #cafa2023

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@TheRealRynnstar @Rav_Mike @vegvampire13 You’re right. But no one with any political power is pushing the US to cede land. The ruling authority in Gaza’s #1 policy item is violently removing Jews from the land at issue. So when ppl cast their lot with that agenda, it’s a tad more worrying.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@ijbailey This is all so true and so important. The thing I think he leaves out is the degree to which the country is in a blind rage. This is not just historic trauma. It’s a deep, freshly opened wound. The desire for revenge is so inevitable. The need for moral leadership is so dire.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@EzraMoGee @yashar You’re not wrong about erasing their suffering. But it kind of changes the calculus of blame to know that while their people were suffering and their rage was growing, Hamas was building places like these.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@yashar You're a mensch, @yashar. It turns out being human and extending empathy widely isn't that hard, although twitter would suggest otherwise.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@ijbailey General point understood. But these are apples and oranges. The truth or falsehood of the beheading stories doesn’t impact the moral culpability the perpetrators. The question of who’s responsible for the hospital incident, on the other hand, should have a huge impact.

[Scholars At Risk @ScholarsAtRisk]

Save the date! Next Tuesday, July 11, at 10 am CET, join SAR, @UruguayONUGva, @EU_UNGeneva, @PTMissionGeneva and @FranceONUGeneve for a hybrid discussion on implementing concrete human rights protections for #AcademicFreedom. Learn more: https://t.co/AYJfLkkp3r

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@glukianoff @YouTube @jordanbpeterson @RobertKennedyJr @RealFakeTalia @TheFIREorg This seems like a weird argument. Why is a private co obligated spread demonstrably false information? And what evidence is there that had YouTube kept the video up, 4M viewers wouldn’t have been 8M+? Particularly when YouTube’s algorithm is a primary vector for misinformation?

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@EricYoungArt @AoDespair Man, you're completely wrong on every point. Take the L. My legal expertise isn't scientific expertise; I have no scientific training, and if I claimed scientific "expertise" I'd get laughed out of court. RFK is just as unqualified to debate the science of vaccination.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@EricYoungArt @AoDespair No! I, like every other lawyer, would enlist an expert witness — someone in the relevant scientific community — to provide an expert opinion. My “investigation” of their research would have zero value in court.

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@EricYoungArt @AoDespair Lawyer here. I’m 100% not qualified to peer review scientific research because I went to law school, not science school. How is this lost on you?

[Jesse Levine @jesseplevine]

@JoshMalina Keep doing what you're doing, @joshmalina. It means the world to see a public figure with a strong Jewish identity who's ALSO capable of moral nuance when it comes to Israel. Also @leopoldstadtbwy was tremendous.