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David Sirota
David Sirota
@davidsirota.com
Founder/editor-in-chief, @LeverNews.com; Oscar-nominated for Don't Look Up. Spouse of @emilyforco.bsky.social
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🚨NEWS: A new poll shows a majority of voters in major swing states and districts want Democrats to replace @schumer.senate.gov as Senate leader, and a plurality want Democrats to replace @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social as House leader.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AIPAC is funneling cash into elections through a secret network of groups that are branded to popular liberal causes - and that have nothing to do with Israel. For the first time, @levernews.com exposes the entire secret scheme👇
🚨INVESTIGATION: @levernews.com for the first time exposes the secret network of shadowy groups allowing AIPAC cash to flood into elections with no disclosure of its involvement. Cash boosted candidates through groups branded to popular causes that had nothing to do with Israel.
Serious question: Literally what is the point of blue states being blue if their Democratic tycoons-turn-governors shield billionaires from tax hikes as millions are thrown off healthcare? Isn't the point of voting blue supposed to be electing Dem leaders who don't just do what Republicans do?
NEW: @rahmemanuel.bsky.social's new plan is a way for his fellow millionaires to win, and for Dems to keep losing forever. To justify their donors' agenda, Corporate Dems punch left and pretend key swing voters are a handful of rich country-club Republicans rather than the enraged working class.
🚨NEWS: After raking in a $3 million payday as a corporate lawyer, Obama's former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is spearheading the campaign to block a ballot measure that would raise taxes on his fellow millionaires, cut taxes for 95% of voters & prevent huge health care cuts.
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“Democrats’ highest virtue is not their ability to enact big ideas, but instead their willingness to replace the GOP as the new party of no.” In Medicare for None, David Sirota examines why party leaders are pushing back against popular demands for universal healthcare.
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How many deaths is an AI model worth? Anthropic’s draft bill would let the federal government block a model’s release only if it risks 50+ deaths or $1B in damage.
I've spent 30 years in media/politics pushing for an anti-corruption election & pressing Dems to articulate the link between corruption & the economic crisis. I've been eyerolled and vilified, but it's finally happened: the 2026 election is a referendum on the master plan that legalized corruption.
The 2026 Senate race comes down to one thing: connecting corruption to the affordability crisis. @ossoff.bsky.social, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @troyjackson207.bsky.social are all doing it, and it’s working.
I broke down these key races on @democracynow.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bH-...
🚨WE ARE HIRING Thanks to subscriber support, @levernews.com is now expanding our newsroom. We are hiring: - Director of Audio & Video - Social Media Producer - Video Field Reporter - Multimedia Producer - Senior Investigative Reporter Find jobs at LeverNews [dot] com [slash] jobs & pass it on
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Our editor-in-chief @davidsirota.com spoke on @cnn.com last week about the significance of @abdulelsayed.bsky.social campaigning with @barackobama.bsky.social 👇
@cnn.com's Becky Anderson asked me about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's past criticism of Obama. My take: it's in his favor. Independent and anti-establishment voters want candidates who aren’t just a generic Republican or a generic Democrat. AES speaking candidly about Obama passes that test.
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Why did 12 Democratic AGs agree to a settlement allowing the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger to proceed? Minnesota AG @keithellison.bsky.social was one of them. @davidsirota.com presses him on why Democrats helped clear the way for a media takeover benefiting Trump's allies.
@cnn.com's Becky Anderson asked me about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's past criticism of Obama. My take: it's in his favor. Independent and anti-establishment voters want candidates who aren’t just a generic Republican or a generic Democrat. AES speaking candidly about Obama passes that test.
I asked Republican-turned-Democrat @walshfreedom.bsky.social where he stands now. His answer: he’ll probably leave the Democratic Party, he’ll never be a Republican again, and in 2028 he’d work to elect @aoc.bsky.social over @jd-vance-1.bsky.social.
The fear that someone like @aoc.bsky.social couldn’t win nationally is “by now so misplaced," says @walshfreedom.bsky.social.
“Donald Trump is the last dying gasp of older white America.” That’s former Tea Party congressman @walshfreedom.bsky.social, who says the real fight starts after Trump: whether Democrats will embrace the political reform that follows.
“We have no f---ing business telling the Democratic Party where they should be on healthcare or immigration.” Former Tea Party congressman @walshfreedom.bsky.social to the ex-Republicans now working inside the Democratic Party.
See my full conversation with @walshfreedom.bsky.social here: www.levernews.com/joe-walsh-de...
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Did Gaza cost Kamala Harris the White House? @DavidSirota.com asked @governorwalz.mn.gov His answer: "We did the most terrible thing you can do in politics... We kind of tried to walk the middle."
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.@governorwalz.mn.gov says Democrats’ 2024 strategy of campaigning with @lizcheney.bsky.social risked losing sight of their own base. Asked whether @kamalaharris.com’s appearances with Cheney misread who the real swing voter was, Walz said yes.
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NEW: If @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins, experts say it could expose the limits of @aipac.org's power. Michigan’s Senate race is becoming a test of whether the pro-Israel establishment still has veto power inside Democratic politics.
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SIROTA: “Did Gaza cost Kamala the White House?” GOV. WALZ: "We did the most terrible thing you can do in politics — We tried to walk the middle… the idea that criticizing 🇮🇱 is antisemitic is untrue… Palestinian protestors had a point…” (H/T @levernews.com )
This was basically the entire point of conservatives' Master Plan that legalized corruption and bribery. masterplanpodcast.com - pass it on
The Democratic establishment spent years insisting the left was the problem. Now Rahm Emanuel says DSA should effectively be outside the party — while Michael Bennet, a longtime centrist Democrat, calls that “a huge mistake.” That tells you something about where this fight is headed.
New: @rahmemanuel.bsky.social says DSA is “their own party” and “aren’t part of the Democratic Party.” @bennet.senate.gov says pushing them out would be “a huge mistake.”
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: In new interviews with me, two Obama Democrats - one a governor, one a senator - say their party cannot go back to the Obama Era of pretend powerlessness & must deliver more if the party regains power. A look at whether the Dem Party is turning the page from Obama 👇
🚨NEW: In a room full of corporate lobbyists that bankroll the Congressional Black Caucus, Florida Senate candidate @angieforfl.bsky.social teed off on big corporations fleecing workers while getting rich off the government. Important report on new Black leaders challenging the CBC's corporate ties.
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After @levernews.com published my essay about @thebulwark.com today - and it trended across social media - The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell pretended there’s no data suggesting neocons’ election strategy of embracing Liz Cheney had anything to do with Dems’ 2024 loss. That’s false. See the data here👇
New from me: What do Never Trump Republicans want and are they experts at defeating the GOP they helped create? We don't have to speculate. They've already said it - they want neocons to take over the Democratic Party & they don't want blame when Democrats adopt their agenda & then lose.
I'm all for a popular front against Trump & I don't think @thebulwark.com is all bad. I appreciated working with them & I appreciate at least one of them (@timmiller.bsky.social) apologizing for helping create today's GOP. But they're a neocon project willing to sabotage Dems for their ideology.
You put your money in a savings account & get paid on average 0.37% interest, according to FDIC data. The bank can then put your cash at the Fed & get paid 4% interest. Bank lobbyists have blocked the bill to let you cut out the middle man & put your cash at the Fed. This is called "capitalism."
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David Sirota: "If every household used AI agents to optimize the return on their cash balances, banks could lose a large share of the cheap deposits they rely on to make loans, which would be a problem for the entire financial system.” www.levernews.com/the-financia...
it seems we're facing the prospect of oligarchs’ robots mass murdering every human being on Earth, not because we don't know how to stop the robots, but simply because our government is too corrupt to even try to stop them