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David Sirota

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Founder, @LeverNews; Host/Author, Master Plan podcast & book; Oscar nominee for #DontLookUp; spouse of @EmilyforCO; Denverite, dad, member of Nuggets Nation.

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I stopped being a big NBA fan at the end of the 1990s. I came back to it in the last few years. I feel like I came back to something that is a fundamentally different game. It's almost not the same sport. This simply didn't exist back in the 1990s.

I stopped being a big NBA fan at the end of the 1990s. I came back to it in the last few years. I feel like I came back to something that is a fundamentally different game. It's almost not the same sport. This simply didn't exist back in the 1990s.

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live shot of all of American politics, culture and society right now

live shot of all of American politics, culture and society right now

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this scene now feels almost too on the nose

this scene now feels almost too on the nose

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The neoliberal project inside the Dem Party can't be reasoned with or bargained with. There's too much money at stake & there will always be grifter-warriors for its side. It will have to be politically defeated by populists, because it will never voluntarily relinquish power.

The neoliberal project inside the Dem Party can't be reasoned with or bargained with. There's too much money at stake & there will always be grifter-warriors for its side. It will have to be politically defeated by populists, because it will never voluntarily relinquish power.

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literally every time you think the old, decrepit, corrupt, incompetent Democratic Party machine must finally be dead...

literally every time you think the old, decrepit, corrupt, incompetent Democratic Party machine must finally be dead...

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Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

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I just spoke with @GrahamForMaine about Tucker Carlson telling the NY Times' Lulu NYT he wants to meet Platner. I asked Platner if he'd appear on Tucker's show - and how he thinks about engaging with conservative media. Full interview will be on The Lever's YouTube page.

I just spoke with @GrahamForMaine about Tucker Carlson telling the NY Times' Lulu NYT he wants to meet Platner. I asked Platner if he'd appear on Tucker's show - and how he thinks about engaging with conservative media. Full interview will be on The Lever's YouTube page.

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A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here.

A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here.

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This didn't hold up & I'm still wondering why Ezra insisted on publicly declaring this a few months ago at exactly the moment lawmakers were trying to force the release of Epstein's files. What explains the impulse to provide NYT cover for powerful people?

This didn't hold up & I'm still wondering why Ezra insisted on publicly declaring this a few months ago at exactly the moment lawmakers were trying to force the release of Epstein's files. What explains the impulse to provide NYT cover for powerful people?

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Here is Graham Platner for Senate responding directly to GOP Sen. Mike Lee about this allegation in specific

Here is Graham Platner for Senate responding directly to GOP Sen. Mike Lee about this allegation in specific

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I don’t know who this dude is, but what he said is correct (and everyone else on the panel looking shellshocked is pretty hilarious).

I don’t know who this dude is, but what he said is correct (and everyone else on the panel looking shellshocked is pretty hilarious).

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🚨MASTER PLAN SEASON 2 IS HERE 🚨 Unearthing never-before-seen documents, we expose the secret plot to turn the presidency into a king. Trump is the culmination of a 50-year plan that spanned presidencies of both parties. Watch here & pass it on👇

🚨MASTER PLAN SEASON 2 IS HERE 🚨 Unearthing never-before-seen documents, we expose the secret plot to turn the presidency into a king. Trump is the culmination of a 50-year plan that spanned presidencies of both parties. Watch here & pass it on👇

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People might not remember it, but Stephen Colbert first emerged doing a terrific show that was the one place on national TV that allowed non-corporate viewpoints. I had the chance to twice be on that show to talk about corruption & the economic chaos that was coming. With Colbert being kicked off the air tonight, I went back and watched those clips. I feel both sad for how much of a broken record I've ended up sounding like over the last 20 years, and also in awe of what a talent Colbert is. Watch this clip to see him berate me as Che Guevara, then watch him ask whether in the future he will still get to keep his TV show. It's eerily prescient.

People might not remember it, but Stephen Colbert first emerged doing a terrific show that was the one place on national TV that allowed non-corporate viewpoints. I had the chance to twice be on that show to talk about corruption & the economic chaos that was coming. With Colbert being kicked off the air tonight, I went back and watched those clips. I feel both sad for how much of a broken record I've ended up sounding like over the last 20 years, and also in awe of what a talent Colbert is. Watch this clip to see him berate me as Che Guevara, then watch him ask whether in the future he will still get to keep his TV show. It's eerily prescient.

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"I think the first thing to understand about John Fetterman is that he is an asshole." - Democratic State Rep. @ChrisRabb Rabb is now surging in the polls in his run for Congress against AIPAC money

"I think the first thing to understand about John Fetterman is that he is an asshole." - Democratic State Rep. @ChrisRabb Rabb is now surging in the polls in his run for Congress against AIPAC money

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The best part of this clip is 4 seconds in when the camera quickly goes back to @EzraKlein and he's rightly gaping at Trump's former deputy national security adviser in just utter disbelief. I laughed out loud. Whoever made that camera cut decision - excellent work.

The best part of this clip is 4 seconds in when the camera quickly goes back to @EzraKlein and he's rightly gaping at Trump's former deputy national security adviser in just utter disbelief. I laughed out loud. Whoever made that camera cut decision - excellent work.

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Here is Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani Zohran Kwame Mamdani responding to billionaire Ken Griffin threatening to leave New York City if billionaires have to pay more taxes — pass it on 👇

Here is Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani Zohran Kwame Mamdani responding to billionaire Ken Griffin threatening to leave New York City if billionaires have to pay more taxes — pass it on 👇

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🔥NEW: @GrahamForMaine on Abundance Bros "There's this idea that getting rid of bureaucratic idiocy is the ideology (but) it's just one part of a broader conversation. My frustration is it just becomes about deregulation & I have no patience for that."

🔥NEW: @GrahamForMaine on Abundance Bros "There's this idea that getting rid of bureaucratic idiocy is the ideology (but) it's just one part of a broader conversation. My frustration is it just becomes about deregulation & I have no patience for that."

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🚨Dem congressional candidate Chris Rabb tees off on the disillusionment that happened during the Obama era that led to Trump, and what Democrats must now do: "(Democrats) were complicit in the corporate duopoly, where when the Democratic president is in office, they listen to the Democrats at Goldman Sachs & when it's a Republican in office, they listen to the Republicans at Goldman Sachs. "There's this very naive belief that we gotta come together and not look backwards. No, we need to punish the people who are responsible for the largest theft of American household wealth in modern history...If we don't use our authority and have moral clarity around going after them, we don't deserve to lead and to govern." Go subscribe to the The Lever YouTube channel for these kind of livestreams - and pass it on.

🚨Dem congressional candidate Chris Rabb tees off on the disillusionment that happened during the Obama era that led to Trump, and what Democrats must now do: "(Democrats) were complicit in the corporate duopoly, where when the Democratic president is in office, they listen to the Democrats at Goldman Sachs & when it's a Republican in office, they listen to the Republicans at Goldman Sachs. "There's this very naive belief that we gotta come together and not look backwards. No, we need to punish the people who are responsible for the largest theft of American household wealth in modern history...If we don't use our authority and have moral clarity around going after them, we don't deserve to lead and to govern." Go subscribe to the The Lever YouTube channel for these kind of livestreams - and pass it on.

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Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever.

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever.

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As you slog through tax paperwork today, remember that 40 years ago Ronald Reagan gave an Oval Office address calling for a return-free tax system like the one that exists in other countries. Then remember Reagan's GOP has spent 40 years helping lobbyists block the proposal.

As you slog through tax paperwork today, remember that 40 years ago Ronald Reagan gave an Oval Office address calling for a return-free tax system like the one that exists in other countries. Then remember Reagan's GOP has spent 40 years helping lobbyists block the proposal.

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Dan Aykroyd = the tech oligarchs trying to build data centers everywhere and pillage everything John Candy = the rest of us pass it on

Dan Aykroyd = the tech oligarchs trying to build data centers everywhere and pillage everything John Candy = the rest of us pass it on

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Almost 40 years later, this remains probably the most brutal takedown in any nationally televised political debate in the history of the country. Come for the windmill dunk, stay for the look on his face after he got posterized.

Almost 40 years later, this remains probably the most brutal takedown in any nationally televised political debate in the history of the country. Come for the windmill dunk, stay for the look on his face after he got posterized.

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It's interesting that at the end of the 2024 campaign, The Bulwark folk were thrilled that they'd succeeded in convincing Kamala Harris to close with their anti-populist centrist message - and they worried that if she lost, that meant it was their fault.

It's interesting that at the end of the 2024 campaign, The Bulwark folk were thrilled that they'd succeeded in convincing Kamala Harris to close with their anti-populist centrist message - and they worried that if she lost, that meant it was their fault.

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It is notable that in Maine’s crucial swing House seat, Matt Dunlap has been airing ads appealing to working-class voters by touting his links to Bernie Sanders — and then Hakeem Jeffries’ DCCC decided to intervene to try to crush his candidacy.

It is notable that in Maine’s crucial swing House seat, Matt Dunlap has been airing ads appealing to working-class voters by touting his links to Bernie Sanders — and then Hakeem Jeffries’ DCCC decided to intervene to try to crush his candidacy.

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Here’s the audio of Trump’s billionaire private equity donor saying his “dream” is letting private equity tap the $8 trillion in Americans’ 401k accounts. Trump is reportedly about to sign an executive order today making that dream a reality.

Here’s the audio of Trump’s billionaire private equity donor saying his “dream” is letting private equity tap the $8 trillion in Americans’ 401k accounts. Trump is reportedly about to sign an executive order today making that dream a reality.

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