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David Sirota

@davidsirota.com
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Founder/editor-in-chief, @LeverNews.com; Oscar-nominated for Don't Look Up. Spouse of @emilyforco.bsky.social

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14h
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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The Financial System Can’t Afford To Treat You Fairly
One of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that giving you a better deal could destabilize American banking.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 28/09/2026
Banks make billions by paying depositors as little as possible. Now Wall Street fears AI could disrupt that model by helping people find better savings rates — potentially creating “a problem for the entire financial system,” according to Apollo’s chief economist.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21h
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...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 29/09/2026
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
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/09/2026
Please bookmark this post and remember it. History has taught us that over the long haul, arsonists will never be reliable firefighters.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/09/2026
It is impossible to overstate how totally sociopathic it is for @rahmemanuel.bsky.social to have turned Chicago into his personal political corruption machine and now depict himself as the 2028 presidential candidate leading an anti-corruption movement.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
This federal AI safety rule would have forced the world’s most powerful AI companies to tell the government what they were building — and when it started behaving dangerously. Read the scoop in The Lever: www.levernews.com/ai-regulatio...
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to…
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
After Big Tech fought a federal AI safety rule - and funneled millions into Trump's political operations - Trump killed the rule. Now, after a string of alarming AI incidents, some of those same companies who fought against the rule are calling for regulation.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More of this please. Public money for sports should come with public ownership substack.com/profile/9225...
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My modest proposal announced on City Cast Denver: Use eminent domain to nationalize the Denver Nuggets #FreeTheJoker
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The Lever @levernews.com · 23/09/2026
Susan Collins is fighting to keep her seat against @troyjackson207.bsky.social, Graham Platner’s Democratic replacement. Jackson’s out-of-state party advisers are reportedly frustrated by the Sanders ally’s “backwoods cadence” and progressive stances — and want him to move to the center.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 23/09/2026
Days after The Lever questioned Black Bear Sports about hiring a private equity veteran as CEO, the company’s claim that it had “nothing to do with Wall Street” disappeared from its website. The nation’s largest youth hockey operator had repeated that denial for months.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: Only 38% of Americans support tariffs associated with a $100 annual increase in household costs. (Source: Cato Institute)
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
The Paramount deal would put CBS and CNN under one roof—the kind of concentrated media power Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s 1971 memo urged corporate America to build around institutions shaping public opinion. CBS executives later joined the Chamber effort to act on it.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
Earlier this year, we told you how Black Bear Sports banned parents from filming their own kids’ hockey games — then backed down after our reporting. Now there’s more: the company quietly named a private equity veteran CEO, and its “nothing to do with Wall Street” denial has vanished.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 23/09/2026
Last year on The Lever’s podcast, Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social raised concerns that the merger could put two major newsrooms under the control of Trump allies, pointing to the Ellison family’s relationship with the president and the administration’s confrontations with major media outlets.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/09/2026
I found the ultimate enshittification scheme: My cellphone carrier Xfinity Mobile is suddenly now allowing 30+ spam calls to my cell phone, and is offering a spam-call filter…for an extra fee. They are literally making a business out of enshittifying basic cellphone service.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: JD Vance says Watergate would be a “12-hour news story” today. He may have a point — but only because conservatives spent decades fighting the reforms Watergate produced, rebuilding presidential power, and recasting Nixon as a victim rather than a warning. Jared Jacang Maher explains ⬇️
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The Lever @levernews.com · 20/09/2026
🚨NEW: "The Terminator" imagines killer robots. "The Big Short" imagines a Ponzi-scheme collapse. Which one will the AI apocalypse resemble the most? If it's the latter, then all of us may be already FUBAR, says @davidsirota.com.
Screenshot from the article that says: "AI safety risks are very real and legitimately terrifying. But if we are actually beginning to approach “The Terminator” scenario, then there is some good news: We at least have some existing laws that might still be able to deter the construction of an army of murderous T-1000s. 

But if we are instead more likely headed toward a sequel to “The Big Short” — in which investors’ dreams of capitalizing Machine Gods are exposed as a nightmare that wasted trillions of dollars financing a souped-up Clippy — then all of us may already be FUBAR, if you believe the subtext of a new report from one of the world’s biggest banks, and another report from one of the world’s biggest consulting firms."
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The Lever @levernews.com · 20/09/2026
"We don't need to choose just one sub-issue within AI, the same way we don't have to choose one sub-issue within the economy." NY Assemblymember @alexbores.nyc makes the case to @davidsirota.com for Democrats working every angle of AI regulation at once.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: Black Bear Sports has repeatedly insisted it has “nothing to do with Wall Street.” The nation’s largest youth hockey operator has now quietly installed a private equity veteran as CEO — and days after The Lever asked about the hire, that denial disappeared from its website.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/09/2026
Some good news for your feed: California is blocking tech companies from using student data to train AI. A court checked Trump’s coal push. Voting-rights groups are fighting ICE at the polls. And a teenager took on a hospital — and helped change the law.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/09/2026
Last year on The Lever's podcast, Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social warned that the consolidation could leave allies of President Trump controlling both major newsrooms, pointing to the Ellison family’s ties to Trump and recent clashes between the administration and the press.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover moved closer to completion after California and 11 other states settled their antitrust challenge — a deal that would put CBS News and CNN under the same corporate owner.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/09/2026
Newsom is now the nation’s most prominent Trump Democrat — a governor aggressively using his power to empower & enrich Trump’s billionaires. If a Dem candidate successfully spotlights this in the 2028 presidential primary, they will have a shot to defeat him & win the nomination
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20/09/2026
🚨NEW: Two new under-the-radar papers circulating on Wall Street explain the danger of an AI-created economic collapse. One from JPMorgan suggests AI investment risk has spread across the economy, meaning nobody is safe. Can anything be done to protect against a disaster? Yes👇
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Is The AI Threat ‘The Terminator’ or ‘The Big Short’?
An AI apocalypse involving killer robots is terrifying, but don’t overlook a speculative bubble whose collapse will reverberate across the economy.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 18/09/2026
Who gets to decide how AI reshapes our lives — tech companies, politicians, or the public? Today at 3pm ET, @davidsirota.com talks with NY Assemblymember @alexbores.nyc about his new $30M effort to unite Democrats around AI safeguards. Watch live: www.levernews.com/david-sirota...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/09/2026
Democratic consultants now calling on Democratic lawmakers to obey tech oligarchs exemplifies how an invisible form of corruption operates. In this @levernews.com, I get a Democratic U.S. senator to explain exactly how it works. Find the full interview at The Lever's YouTube page - and pass it on.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/09/2026
🚨NEWS: Senate candidate Ken Paxton voted to enact huge data center tax breaks as he was gifted 100,000 shares of a company marketing servers to data centers, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com. Paxton just intervened to advance one of America's largest data centers.
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Ken Paxton Rails Against AI Data Centers. His Portfolio Says Otherwise.
Before vowing to end data center tax breaks, the Texas Senate candidate voted to create them after accepting 100,000 shares in a server company.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/09/2026
evergreen tweet from 2024
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/09/2026
What stage of capitalism is this?
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026
The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026
🚨NEWS: House Democratic Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has stacked his party's U.S. House commission on AI with lawmakers bankrolled by big tech donors. Read the @levernews.com story here - and pass it on👇
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Big AI’s Favorite Democrats Are Writing The Party’s AI Plan
Hakeem Jeffries’ five-member AI commission is stacked with lawmakers backed by industry super PACs seeking to shape federal policy.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2026
What stage of endemic corruption is it when Democrats are proudly touting their tech donor’s plan to steer the Democratic Party away from cracking down on AI billionaires?
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Why Are Dems Touting Their Capture By AI Oligarchs?
Weeks before the midterms, the Democrats’ highest-profile icons are publicly celebrating the AI industry’s revolving-door corruption aiming to infiltrate the party.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/09/2026
we are now literally inside the movie
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/09/2026
we’re living inside the movie we made
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026
political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026
The governor of America’s biggest blue state — now running for the Dem presidential nomination — helped tech oligarchs by vetoing Dem legislation to require those oligarchs to be able to shut off their AI if it gets out of control. I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how big a story this is.
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Newsom Killed The AI Kill Switch
Before Big Tech researchers warned of a superintelligence doomsday, 2028 hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill that would have made AI “kill switches” mandatory.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10/09/2026
🚨NEW from me: Dems overpromising & underdelivering enriched their donors & created backlash conditions for Trump's ascent. A new study offers a big warning: If Corporate Dems remain in control of their party & once again block real change, America will get an even worse Trump.
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How Status Quo Democrats Could Create Another Trump
A new study suggests Democrats’ broken promises won’t just cost them elections — they could fuel an even more dangerous MAGA backlash.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/09/2026
🚨NEWS: Amid safety alarms, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social sided with his tech donors & vetoed Democratic legislation to impose "kill switch" safeguards on AI companies whose whistleblowers now warn of an impending disaster. Newsom is likely to rely on those donors to now bankroll his White House bid.
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Newsom Killed The AI Kill Switch
Before Big Tech researchers warned of a superintelligence doomsday, 2028 hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill that would have made AI “kill switches” mandatory.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I recently listened to the David Sirota "Master Plan" podcast episode on Obama's drone strikes, and it was truly horrifying These people really believed they could solve all their problems by blowing stuff up They still do, apparently futurism.com/science-ener...
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Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI
A new report by a former Obama-era national security advisor calls for the US to begin preparing drills in response to China's AI development.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/09/2026
A must-read @politico.com piece by @wsteaks.bsky.social. Corporate Democrats are freaking out because for the first time in our lifetimes, they are losing power and relevance. The battle for the Bernie Sanders lane in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary could be epic.
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Bernie Sanders Lets Loose on the Democratic Party, the Midterms and 2028
The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him?
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/09/2026
Absolute bombshell story about Republican John Sununu, who is running in one of America's biggest elections - a race that could decide control of the U.S. Senate. Read the @levernews.com story and pass it on
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This Senate Frontrunner Oversaw “Quality And Compliance.” Women Suffered “Life-Altering Harm.”
New Hampshire GOP Senate hopeful John Sununu oversaw product safety and FDA communications at Boston Scientific as it fought to keep pelvic mesh on the market amid mounting lawsuits.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/09/2026
🚨NEWS: Trump is moving to repeal the anti-pay-to-play rule barring Wall Street billionaires from funneling campaign cash to the politicians who have the power to give them contracts to skim huge fees off workers' retirement savings. What stage of corruption is this?
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Trump’s About To Let Wall Street “Pay To Play” With Your Pension
Trump’s SEC is moving to let Wall Street firms fund the politicians who decide where your retirement savings are invested.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/09/2026
Nobody can afford the necessities of life, authoritarianism is on the march, oligarchs are immiserating everyone, the climate crisis is intensifying, AI is on the verge of getting out of control… …and this is the “one goal” Corporate Dems are singularly focused on
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 03/09/2026
never forget how much these people despise you
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/09/2026
On a drive from Denver to our @levernews.com interview with independent Senate candidate @osbornforne.bsky.social — one day after Osborn’s big debate with GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts, scion of the billionaire Ricketts family. Use the comment thread here to post questions you want us to ask Osborn today
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 01/09/2026
The reason Corporate Dems are freaking out is because for the first time in decades, they are losing their power to help their donors control Democrats’ agenda. Example 👇
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 01/09/2026
Even "moderate" Dems now parrot @sanders.senate.gov's populism, as I wrote in my @washingtonpost.com essay about Bernie as a left version of Goldwater. These Dems must be held accountable to policy promises, but this is a HUGE Overton Window shift, which is why corporate Dems are so mad.
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