David Sirota

Trump’s New Merger Scandal Is Swampier Than Watergate After hiring MAGA lawyers, a tech giant got its antitrust case settled, and monopoly cops were fired. Can a Nixon-era law save the day?

A telecom giant gave $400K to the RNC & Nixon killed a case against its merger - a scandal prompting a new anti-corruption law.

A tech giant gave $250K to Trump's inauguration & Trump aides killed a case against its merger, despite that Watergate-era law.

History rhymes.

The Red Queen Fallacy Humans weren't made to tick off checklists and clear inboxes. We've lost sight of who we are, amid the mindless excesses of hustle culture and a drive-thru existence. Here's the case for slowing down.

P.S. This from @brianklaas.bsky.social was a good read to launch me into the abyss. Bye.

Doing my annual disappearing act - gonna (try to) be (mostly) offline the next few weeks to heal the brain from the hazards of journalism & today's toxic information environment.

The Lever staff may be posting @levernews.com stories on this account - but I'll be out. See you down the road!

America is a reality TV production company that also has a nuclear arsenal

24 million Americans are about to be priced out of medical care, there’s a famine in Gaza, fewer and fewer people can afford groceries…

…and here’s what corporate media chooses to tell you the “big news” is.

I grew up in the era of "it's the economy, stupid" - the idea being that political engagement is determined by voters' experience of the economy.

I dunno if thats the case today. Oligarch media succeeded in making the culture war the only thing most folks care about - as oligarchs steal everything.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

The "democracy crisis" is 24 million people about to be priced out of medical care and the press deciding that The Political Discourse™ must focus on a celebrity's ads for denim pants.

At PERA, Retirees Face Cuts While Wall Street Gets Millions The Colorado Legislature is still working on a fix for PERA, but it won't solve the real problem.

If you’re a teacher, firefighter, cop, first responder or any other kind of government worker, it’s a good bet that your retirement savings are being looted as you read this tweet.

This is from 2018 — it’s only gotten worse since then.

For at least the last 20 years, watching the Democrats has been like watching someone intentionally drive a car into a brick wall over and over and over, then getting yelled at for having predicted what would happen every single solitary time.

This is what liberals and Democrats have snobbishly told the working-class for about 25 years. And then somehow these same liberals and Democrats wonder why entire swaths of the country that were once Democratic stopped voting for Democrats.

The Washington Generals’ terrible play, lack of talent & deliberate failures enable the Harlem Globetrotters to win.

Democrats’ terrible leadership, lack of vision & deliberate failures enable MAGA to win.

I don’t know why this is so difficult for liberals to understand.

Tens of millions of Americans are about to be priced out of their health insurance in the next few months, and yet this is what media has decided is the big topic to be discussing. It's truly incredible.

The largest ongoing upward transfer of wealth is from pensions/endowments to Wall St firms charging high fees for returns that don't beat cheap index funds.

A new study of 374,000 nonprofits shows "endowments that pay higher fees earn lower net returns."

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Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

24 million Americans are a few months away from be priced out of their medical care, and yet the big topic in The Discourse is a Sydney Sweeney jeans ad.

Don't Look Up was a documentary.

Some warned that Dems breaking from the New Deal & embracing neoliberalism — deindustrialization, financial dereg, gutting the safety net, destroying unions & legalizing corruption — would convince the working class *both* parties are bad & that wouldn’t work out well for Dems.

Now here we are.

If President Sanders had unilaterally imposed tariffs in the name of fairer trade, there woulda been an instant military coup.

Listen, it's 2025 now. If you're still incessantly logging onto the Internet and angrily posting about the staffing decisions of Bernie Sanders' campaigns, it's a very good sign that you are mentally ill and need to seek help. Like seriously - for your own good, get help.

Trump’s New Merger Scandal Is Swampier Than Watergate After hiring MAGA lawyers, a tech giant got its antitrust case settled, and monopoly cops were fired. Can a Nixon-era law save the day?

A telecom giant gave $400K to the RNC & Nixon killed a case against its merger - a scandal prompting a new anti-corruption law.

A tech giant gave $250K to Trump's inauguration & Trump aides killed a case against its merger, despite that Watergate-era law.

History rhymes.

The Case For Calling Gaza A Genocide A frank discussion about Israel’s mass violence — and why linguistic choices matter.

The saying is "never again."

It is not “never again, except this one other time.”

www.levernews.com/the-case-for...

just a reminder that in the last election no significant swath of voters actually voted for this and/or wanted this

Trump’s New Merger Scandal Is Swampier Than Watergate After hiring MAGA lawyers, a tech giant got its antitrust case settled, and monopoly cops were fired. Can a Nixon-era law save the day?

🚨NEWS: A tech giant poured cash into Trump’s inauguration & soon after Trump ended the government’s antitrust challenge to the company’s merger and fired two federal antitrust enforcers.

This eerily mirrors a scandal that was a key part of Watergate.

www.levernews.com/trumps-new-m...

24 million Americans are about to be priced out of their health care and this is what corporate media is doing. It exudes total and complete contempt for the working class.

www.levernews.com/health-insur...

🎧LEVER TIME: The Watergate-ish scandal tearing through Trump's DOJ.

Listen below to the incredible Watergate tapes catching a past president ordering antitrust enforcers to back off his donor. A similar scandal is now unfolding.

Find the episode at LeverTimePodcast.com

Wall Street’s Top Cop Scores Tax Break For Mysterious “Pre-Bribe” Trump’s SEC chair just sold his financial services firm for more than $25 million to an unknown buyer — and is set to receive a massive tax break on the proceeds.

🚨NEWS: Trump's top securities regulator just sold his financial firm for up to $50 million & refuses to disclose the buyer, which may have interests before the SEC he now runs.

He also gets a special tax break only offered to government officials.

www.levernews.com/wall-streets...

Do you notice how the only policies depicted as "realistic" or "acceptable" by media, politicians, and think tankers are the policies that don't inconvenience the owners of/donors to media, politicians and think tankers?

Yeah, that's not a bug. That's a feature.

24 million Americans are about to be priced out of their existing health insurance, and this is what elite media is choosing to make The Discourse.

🎧 LEVER TIME: Inside the Watergate-esque scandal tearing thru Trump's DOJ.

It's an INSANE story of "boozy" negotiations & a settlement for a Big Tech donor to Trump's inauguration - echoing a wild Nixon-era scandal.

Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app for the episode.

LEVER TIME: Inside the Watergate-esque scandal now tearing through Trump's DOJ.

It's an insane story of influence peddling, "boozy" negotiations & a settlement for a Big Tech donor to Trump's inauguration - echoing a wild Nixon-era scandal.

Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app for the episode.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

It’s deeply disturbing that 24 million Americans are about to be priced out of the medical care they need to stay alive…and this is nowhere in the political discourse as the algorithm inundates us with a stuff like people being mad about a celebrity’s jeans ad.

Dems Hand Private Equity The Equal Opportunity To Grift A bipartisan bill passed unanimously by the House would sell out working-class investors to private equity under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Sarah McBride became famous as Congress’s first transgender lawmaker.

She just passed her first bill — it helps private equity & hedge fund billionaires prey on the working-class.

McBride touted it as a benefit to Black women & marginalized communities. www.levernews.com/dems-hand-pr...