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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David Sirota
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· Oct 15
Secret documents. Never-before-seen photos. A mysterious vinyl record.
For the first time, The Lever is exposing the secret plot that legalized corruption.
You think you know this story, but you don’t because it’s all been secret — until now👇
For the first time, The Lever is exposing the secret plot that legalized corruption.
You think you know this story, but you don’t because it’s all been secret — until now👇
A week ago, I decided to look at my LinkedIn account for the first time in 10 years.
Today LinkedIn sent me this, which tells me it remains as big a toxic garbage fire as all the other platforms.
Today LinkedIn sent me this, which tells me it remains as big a toxic garbage fire as all the other platforms.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A week ago, I decided to look at my LinkedIn account for the first time in 10 years.
Today LinkedIn sent me this, which tells me it remains as big a toxic garbage fire as all the other platforms.
Today LinkedIn sent me this, which tells me it remains as big a toxic garbage fire as all the other platforms.
Been off social because I’m utterly sick of the politics garbage fire & feel more burned out than at anytime in my life. Have logged in only to check Denver Nuggets news. Now whenever I login, the social algorithms are only serving me NBA content, rather than the politics garbage fire. It’s great.
December 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Been off social because I’m utterly sick of the politics garbage fire & feel more burned out than at anytime in my life. Have logged in only to check Denver Nuggets news. Now whenever I login, the social algorithms are only serving me NBA content, rather than the politics garbage fire. It’s great.
In signs for those waiting on lift lines, the ski monopoly today effectively bragged about how much it’s deciding to price gouge everyone as compared to what it charged in the 1960s.
$4 in 1961 is $43 in today’s money, or about 25% of the price of the same lift ticket today.
$4 in 1961 is $43 in today’s money, or about 25% of the price of the same lift ticket today.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
In signs for those waiting on lift lines, the ski monopoly today effectively bragged about how much it’s deciding to price gouge everyone as compared to what it charged in the 1960s.
$4 in 1961 is $43 in today’s money, or about 25% of the price of the same lift ticket today.
$4 in 1961 is $43 in today’s money, or about 25% of the price of the same lift ticket today.
This is an example of how corporate media has too often used its soft power as the tone policeman & arbiter of the discourse to aid and abet the Epstein cover-up.
Sometimes it’s been aiding via omission/lack of coverage, other times it’s been scoffing/eye-rolling like this.
Sometimes it’s been aiding via omission/lack of coverage, other times it’s been scoffing/eye-rolling like this.
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is an example of how corporate media has too often used its soft power as the tone policeman & arbiter of the discourse to aid and abet the Epstein cover-up.
Sometimes it’s been aiding via omission/lack of coverage, other times it’s been scoffing/eye-rolling like this.
Sometimes it’s been aiding via omission/lack of coverage, other times it’s been scoffing/eye-rolling like this.
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If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
www.levernews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
I don’t think Dem politicians should take advice from online marketers like Matt Yglesias, who have no experience in campaigns/elections.
But if they are gonna interact with the drivel produced by Matty’s clickbait content farm, this lawmaker shows how they should do it 👇
But if they are gonna interact with the drivel produced by Matty’s clickbait content farm, this lawmaker shows how they should do it 👇
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I don’t think Dem politicians should take advice from online marketers like Matt Yglesias, who have no experience in campaigns/elections.
But if they are gonna interact with the drivel produced by Matty’s clickbait content farm, this lawmaker shows how they should do it 👇
But if they are gonna interact with the drivel produced by Matty’s clickbait content farm, this lawmaker shows how they should do it 👇
Reposted by David Sirota
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
www.levernews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
NEW: Romney pushed tax cuts for his fellow moguls, vilified the bottom 47% as tax scofflaws & fortified a rigged system.
He now published a NYT oped calling for tax hikes, but offers no apology for his record.
Why do the powerful only change after they have no power to fix crises they created?
He now published a NYT oped calling for tax hikes, but offers no apology for his record.
Why do the powerful only change after they have no power to fix crises they created?
Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
www.levernews.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
NEW: Romney pushed tax cuts for his fellow moguls, vilified the bottom 47% as tax scofflaws & fortified a rigged system.
He now published a NYT oped calling for tax hikes, but offers no apology for his record.
Why do the powerful only change after they have no power to fix crises they created?
He now published a NYT oped calling for tax hikes, but offers no apology for his record.
Why do the powerful only change after they have no power to fix crises they created?
🎧LEVER TIME: How our culture & economy deliberately trap millions in jobs that focus on greed, self-enrichment & attention rather than on solving society's big problems.
Fascinating discussion with historian Rutger Bregman about "moral ambition."
Fascinating discussion with historian Rutger Bregman about "moral ambition."
Are We Trapped In Meaningless Jobs?
Why our economy wastes talent instead of solving the world’s biggest problems.
www.levernews.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
🎧LEVER TIME: How our culture & economy deliberately trap millions in jobs that focus on greed, self-enrichment & attention rather than on solving society's big problems.
Fascinating discussion with historian Rutger Bregman about "moral ambition."
Fascinating discussion with historian Rutger Bregman about "moral ambition."
It’s important to remember that fossil fuel proponents aren’t just creating a climate crisis threatening the livable atmosphere, they’re also pushing a more expensive form of energy than what is available with renewables.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants
Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal
www.scientificamerican.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s important to remember that fossil fuel proponents aren’t just creating a climate crisis threatening the livable atmosphere, they’re also pushing a more expensive form of energy than what is available with renewables.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
This was one of the most oft-quoted jokes in our film. It was supposed to be a cautionary tale. It most definitely was not supposed to be a guidebook for a Matt Yglesias screed published and boosted by the New York Times.
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This was one of the most oft-quoted jokes in our film. It was supposed to be a cautionary tale. It most definitely was not supposed to be a guidebook for a Matt Yglesias screed published and boosted by the New York Times.
Less than 24 hours after the actual journalists at the NY Times published a story about Trump dismantling the federal climate agency, the NY Times opinion page decided it was time to blast out a Matt Ygelsias rant demanding liberals show more fealty to the fossil fuel industry.
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Less than 24 hours after the actual journalists at the NY Times published a story about Trump dismantling the federal climate agency, the NY Times opinion page decided it was time to blast out a Matt Ygelsias rant demanding liberals show more fealty to the fossil fuel industry.
“Now is not the time” has been the mantra of the Democratic Party elite for literally the entire time I’ve been alive - and the prominence of that mantra has coincided with Dems destroying their New Deal coalition, losing power, and handing the government over to MAGA
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“Now is not the time” has been the mantra of the Democratic Party elite for literally the entire time I’ve been alive - and the prominence of that mantra has coincided with Dems destroying their New Deal coalition, losing power, and handing the government over to MAGA
Less than 24 hours after Trump announced he’s dismantling the nation’s climate science agency, the New York Times opinion page this morning blasted out this Matt Yglesias screed to millions of its liberal readers.
That’s one hell of an editorial choice.
That’s one hell of an editorial choice.
December 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Less than 24 hours after Trump announced he’s dismantling the nation’s climate science agency, the New York Times opinion page this morning blasted out this Matt Yglesias screed to millions of its liberal readers.
That’s one hell of an editorial choice.
That’s one hell of an editorial choice.
🚨NEWS: There has been a big uptick in investors shorting AI companies - using the kind of credit default swaps that proliferated in the lead up to the Big Short and the financial crisis.
The Big Short 2: AI Boogaloo
An increasing number of Wall Street investors are betting against artificial intelligence.
www.levernews.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🚨NEWS: There has been a big uptick in investors shorting AI companies - using the kind of credit default swaps that proliferated in the lead up to the Big Short and the financial crisis.
let’s all take a moment to appreciate the dictionary people immediately dunking on Time Magazine and all the other corporate media outlets that constantly valorize the tech oligarchs
these were just a few days apart…*chef kiss*
these were just a few days apart…*chef kiss*
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
let’s all take a moment to appreciate the dictionary people immediately dunking on Time Magazine and all the other corporate media outlets that constantly valorize the tech oligarchs
these were just a few days apart…*chef kiss*
these were just a few days apart…*chef kiss*
I was 10 when Stand By Me came out - it's hard to describe to those who weren't around back then what a phenomenon it felt like. I recently rewatched it & it holds up so well.
Same for so many others - Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men.
RIP Rob Reiner - a master.
Same for so many others - Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men.
RIP Rob Reiner - a master.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I was 10 when Stand By Me came out - it's hard to describe to those who weren't around back then what a phenomenon it felt like. I recently rewatched it & it holds up so well.
Same for so many others - Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men.
RIP Rob Reiner - a master.
Same for so many others - Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men.
RIP Rob Reiner - a master.
Amid the crushing of labor as a political force over the last 30 years, antitrust/anti-oligarchy is the only new movement thats made real policy change threatening the power of big money.
This is likely why billionaires, corporations, liberals, neoliberals, elite Dems & country club Repubs hate it.
This is likely why billionaires, corporations, liberals, neoliberals, elite Dems & country club Repubs hate it.
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Amid the crushing of labor as a political force over the last 30 years, antitrust/anti-oligarchy is the only new movement thats made real policy change threatening the power of big money.
This is likely why billionaires, corporations, liberals, neoliberals, elite Dems & country club Repubs hate it.
This is likely why billionaires, corporations, liberals, neoliberals, elite Dems & country club Repubs hate it.
Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires
I hadn't logged on or touched my LinkedIn page in 10+ years, and wasn't even sure it was still a website anymore. But someone told me it's a better social media experience than a lot of the other hellsites. So I'm over there now - if you're there, you can find me here: www.linkedin.com/in/dsirota/
David Sirota - The Lever | LinkedIn
David Sirota is an award-winning journalist, podcast host and bestselling author living… · Experience: The Lever · Education: Northwestern University · Location: Denver Metropolitan Area · 500+ connec...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I hadn't logged on or touched my LinkedIn page in 10+ years, and wasn't even sure it was still a website anymore. But someone told me it's a better social media experience than a lot of the other hellsites. So I'm over there now - if you're there, you can find me here: www.linkedin.com/in/dsirota/
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🎧LEVER TIME: How Wall Street is quietly shorting its own AI investments as chips are depreciating faster than they can come online.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
It’s Not An AI Bubble. It’s A Black Hole.
How $400 billion in AI spending became a gravitational force that's distorting the entire economy.
www.levernews.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🎧LEVER TIME: How Wall Street is quietly shorting its own AI investments as chips are depreciating faster than they can come online.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers
Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.
www.levernews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.