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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.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10/10/2026

The fear that someone like @aoc.bsky.social couldn’t win nationally is “by now so misplaced," says @walshfreedom.bsky.social.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10/10/2026

“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.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/10/2026

“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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 07/10/2026

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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The Lever @levernews.com · 08/10/2026

.@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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The Lever @levernews.com · 08/10/2026

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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What Would An El-Sayed Win Mean For American Zionism?

Pro-Israel Democrats oppose the Michigan Democrat’s views, yes. But they also fear his election would make them politically irrelevant.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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 )

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 08/10/2026

This was basically the entire point of conservatives' Master Plan that legalized corruption and bribery. masterplanpodcast.com - pass it on

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 07/10/2026

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 06/10/2026

Your water bill could be 67% higher simply because a corporation owns your water system. A new analysis found households served by for-profit providers paid about $823 a year for drinking water in 2025. Public-system households paid just $494.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/10/2026

🚨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 👇

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Two Obama-Era Democrats Say There’s No Going Back

Michael Bennet And Josh Shapiro On Why It’s Time For Democrats To “Get Shit Done.”

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/10/2026

🚨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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Black Power: Brought To You By Walmart?

Corporate sponsors have long bankrolled Washington’s premier Black political event. A new wave of leaders is finally calling them out.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 05/10/2026

Jay Clayton personally signed off on an Epstein files release that exposed potential victims’ names, emails and nude photos. Asked who was responsible, he said: “For the Southern District documents, it was me.” Trump’s response? Put him in charge of U.S. intelligence AND AI policy.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

The biggest deception of the digital age is a media ecosystem that seems on its face like it offers a diversity of perspectives and open access to the public square, all while oligarchs’ algorithms imperceptibly control the entire discourse in service of their desired political outcomes.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

Whether you loved or hated our film, I think it’s safe to say it holds up, considering this monologue all by itself could be Democrats’ entire closing message in the 2026 midterms, and much of the country would nod along in agreement.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

A Democratic Party that refused to use its power to deliver for the working class ended up being a delivery system for Trump. If Democrats win power and once again do the same thing, they will be a delivery system for an even worse version of Trump - pass it on.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/10/2026

If you asked me to summarize the most significant existential political truth that I fear too few liberals truly understand, it would be this.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 03/10/2026

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👇

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The Bulwark Now Tries To Rewrite History

On the defensive, Sarah Longwell pretends Democrats campaigning with Liz Cheney was fine. Polling data suggests otherwise.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/10/2026

Read it here - and pass it on www.levernews.com/bulwark-neoc...

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/10/2026

the kind of populist Democrat I’m proud to support

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/10/2026

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.

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It’s Not A Bulwark. It’s A Plot.

The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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.

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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

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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.

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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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