Shawn Leventhal

Entrepreneur. Producer. Vintage enthusiast. Mentor. Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship NY Board @nfte Agent of change. NYC & Texas.

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@adup512 @markyzaguirre Exactly. It’s insane that there is no rapid frequent train service between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. And you could add OKC on New Orleans.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Beyond the staggering moral dimensions, the wholesale destruction of USAID in the blink of an eye last year will live as one of the worst foreign policy and national security blunders in American history.
@SamanthaJPower lists just some of the tragic, immediate costs and consequences below.
Longterm, it will mean a world less stable and free--with more violence and conflict; disease, pandemics and mass migrations. Neither oceans nor the military can shield the U.S. from the impacts.
AND this shameful and foolish abandonment will result in less respect for, and allegiance to, the United States of America.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Yesterday I posted that I am against the new Texas law requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. I got a lot agreement, quite a few angry responses, and some genuine questions about why a Christian pastor would be against state-mandated Bible study.

So, I decided to write an article about it. I hope it’s helpful.
https://t.co/nePKMpevim

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Tapper: "I just looked at the State Department's website. They have a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Haiti…That doesn't sound safe to me."

Mullin: "That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home."

Tapper: "It doesn't sound safe."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Forcibly sending families to dire conditions is a legacy all leaders should seek to avoid. To that end, my brother bishops and I call upon Congress to act — to meet this moment with the moral fortitude that is desperately needed."

Congress: Extend TPS!

https://t.co/fVBeVZCTrq

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@BlueGeorgia @joshhart

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@joshhart You are my favorite player but this hurts. Watch this: https://t.co/Bh6PKJG75R

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@KevinOConnor Amen!

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@mcten @NotoriousOHM @nba it is so silly that players get announced for the wrong teams

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@MTA weird gasoline smell at uptown nqrw platform at Times Square

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

No one actually knows what’s in Trump’s deal with Iran since the administration refuses to release the text, but here’s what I would like to hear Democrats say about what we know based on news reports:

✅Ending the war immediately and reopening the Strait is the best available outcome. Every day Trump delayed would’ve made things worse.

✅Trump lost the war to Iran. Iran now knows it can control the Strait of Hormuz at any time and cripple the global economy.

✅Trump achieved none of his core objectives: Iran still possesses its highly enriched uranium, most of its ballistic missile and drone arsenal, and will almost certainly continue to support proxy groups.

✅The US/Israeli regime change strikes were a disaster for the Iranian people. Iran now has a younger, hard-line Supreme Leader and a more powerful IRGC in place.

✅If the reports about the unfreezing of assets/sanctions relief/reconstruction fund are true, Iran will have access to far more money than it ever got from the JCPOA.

✅Trump could have had a strengthened JCPOA-like deal through negotiations. He was just too impatient to try, and his team was too inexperienced to understand what was on the tabl

✅America did enormous damage to its standing in the world and real harm to poor and developing economies all over the world, which will still face fuel crises and potential famine in the foreseeable future as a direct result of the war.

✅We still don’t know the full scope of the damage to US military bases in the Middle East because the Pentagon is covering them up, but it's safe to estimate this disaster could cost up to $100B in direct costs.

✅Democrats should be skeptical of every claim this administration makes about what's in the deal, and whether Iran follows up. Trump wants this humiliation to go away and change the subject. The result would be an emboldened Iran with de facto control of the Strait.

The reason I want to hear Democrats making all of these arguments is because the narrative around this conflict will be set in the coming weeks, and we need to kill off for good this insane, hawkish neocon/FDD worldview that the US can bomb its way to peace.

[The Ringer @ringer]

“Tonight, if I have any tears, it will be tears of joy,” said Patrick Ewing. @HowardBeck on a Knicks championship 53 years in the making:

https://t.co/I0QV0CDZjw

[The Knicks Wall @TheKnicksWall]

THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS OF BASKETBALL THE KNICKS HAVE WON IT ALL THE KNICKS HAVE WON IT ALL THE NEW KNICKS HAVE WON THE NBA TITLE

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@SbondyNBA It also looks like the Spurs want loose balls more than we do

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@YourManDevine Mickey Guyton singing anthem is Mitch extra hyped?

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@tomhaberstroh Adam Silver is in the building go find him

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@NYCMayor @BKLYNlibrary Steinway street next!

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@Krisplashed Did anyone ask about the wemby flagrant??

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@tomhaberstroh Please tell me you have Serge Ibaka as your next guest

[Shawn Leventhal @shawnleventhal]

@Krisplashed They should put the Wemby fragrant on the big screen