A different way to say this is: Bernie is the Goldwater — he lost the presidential race but won the larger ideological battle inside the party.
Those of us on the populist side who've endured shaming & hate from corporate libs for 30 years — we won.
The corporatists have lost — at least for now.
The health care system is a disaster thanks both to GOP obstruction AND to Dems using a near-supermajority to marginalize Medicare for All & create a public-option-free Heritage Foundation-style ACA empowering insurers to enrich themselves & fleece everyone else.
Thanks for attending my TED talk.
🚨NEWS: A surveillance giant getting government contracts is trying to block its own shareholders from voting to force execs to disclose dark money spending.
Trump's SEC is boosting such efforts to kill these initiatives & create a precedent letting companies more easily hide political spending.
Liberal pundits/influencers like this are thisclose to getting it - but they still can't let themselves take the next step.
They still can't let themselves understand how turning hope & change into more of the same was a key moment of demoralization that catalyzed the subsequent disaster.
Serious question: If you are allegedly so much smarter than everyone else in realizing that politics is meaningless and nothing can possibly change, then why are you also spending most of your finite time alive logging onto websites like this to post comments about politics?
🚨NEWS: In the last day, a first-time Polymarket user has suddenly bet more than $20,000 that U.S. forces will enter Iran by March 14 — raising new concerns about whether government insiders are betting on their intel & inside information.
Story here - pass it on: www.levernews.com/how-to-save-...
Focus on the cartoonishly Orwellian CNN chyron here.
The press corps is literally *manufacturing* the idea that Dems are in a "bind" over whether to stand with the majority of Americans who oppose the Iran War.
There's no bind.
(reminder: CNN is about to be subsumed by Trump's billionaire ally)
Everyone should call their lawmakers to tell them to pass this bill. Right now.
Obviously, I’m under no illusion that this bill has an easy path — but I’m also under no illusion that trying to pass it is pointless. We’re talking about the prospect of a nuclear apocalypse.
So pass this on.
I can't prove it, but I suspect we'll learn in the future that a large portion of reply-guy comments on most of the social media hellsites are part of a sophisticated algorithmically boosted psyop aiming to convince people that nothing could possibly be done to stop or slow Trump & his minions.
Everyone should call their lawmakers to tell them to pass this bill. Right now.
Obviously, I’m under no illusion that this bill has an easy path — but I’m also under no illusion that trying to pass it is pointless. We’re talking about the prospect of a nuclear apocalypse.
So pass this on.
Amid intensifying fears of Trump now launching a nuclear war, it seems worth pointing out that there’s been legislation in Congress since 2017 to prohibit a president from launching a preemptive nuclear strike without the explicit authorization of Congress.
The Denver Nuggets collapse is not helping my already tenuous mental state during these end times
Join us today at 5:45pm ET to talk to Rep. Ro Khanna about whether Congress can stop the war — and why some Democrats are floating the idea of supporting a new bill to fund it.
www.levernews.com/breaking-new...
For the first time in my entire lifetime, Democrats' corporate wing is losing its power to win primaries, control the party & crush its voters' will - which is why all of those corporate/billionaire front groups are now freaking out and trying to call the manager.
Mamdani & Talarico both ran explicitly against billionaires. Anti-oligarchy was the central theme of both of their campaigns.
It’s very on brand that the Abundance Guy l doesn’t acknowledge that and instead insinuates that their success is mostly about them just seeming nice.
🚨NEWS: Last night, The Lever exposed Polymarket creating a market for gambling on nuclear war/nuclear detonation — the subsequent public outcry has now prompted Polymarket to shut it down.
www.levernews.com/betting-on-a...
tfw you won your Polymarket bet
UPDATE: Polymarket has now shut down this betting after my social media post went viral. www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...
For the first time in my entire lifetime, Democrats' corporate wing is losing its power to win primaries, control the party & crush its voters' will - which is why all of those corporate/billionaire front groups are now freaking out and trying to call the manager.
My social media post exposing Polymarket betting on nuclear war went so viral that Polymarket decided to shut down its nuclear war market. www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
I asked Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner why anyone should believe that if he wins, he won’t become John Fetterman & betray his promises.
Platner’s answers were interesting.
www.levernews.com/graham-platn...
If you only watch one thing today, watch this exchange between Pod Save America’s @jonfavs.bsky.social & Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine.bsky.social.
This clip explains the divide in the Dem Party & illustrates how the party elite still doesn’t understand what happened in this country.
If you only watch one thing today, watch this exchange between Pod Save America’s @jonfavs.bsky.social & Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine.bsky.social.
This clip explains the divide in the Dem Party & illustrates how the party elite still doesn’t understand what happened in this country.
Trump could be forced to refund $170B in illegal tariffs.
But will you ever see it?
🎧 On Lever Time, David Sirota explains how $170B in tariff refunds could mean corporations keep the money.
www.youtube.com/shorts/HZp16...
Related: It's increasingly likely that my generation - Generation X - will be the first to be truly skipped over in positions of power/leadership both because our generation sucks but also because the older generation refuses to relinquish power in a way no previous generation ever has.
It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.
Other than billionaires, Trump and his family, Mar a Lago members & corporate lobbyists, does anyone think things are going great right now?
Like, is literally anyone in America waking up in the morning, looking around at all this shit & thinking “yo this is awesome for me”?
Exactly 20 years ago, Alito was asked if a president could invade Iran without congressional approval or an imminent threat.
Alito asserted the "authority of the president to take military action on his own."
This is how the court may now legalize Trump's wars.
www.levernews.com/how-the-supr...
NEW: In video unearthed by @levernews.com, Alito was asked if a president could invade Iran with no authorization - his answer & a John Roberts memo suggest the court’s conservatives aim to kill the War Powers Act & enshrine presidents' power to launch wars with no congressional approval.
