David Sirota

Hours after a poll shows California voters want to tax oligarchs, the oligarchs announced plans to simply buy all of California's elections.

What stage of oligarchy is this?

🚨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 their political spending that buy elections.

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 they now lament.

🚨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 and inside information.

Story here - pass it on: https://www.levernews.com/how-to-save-the-world/

Focus on the cartoonishly Orwellian CNN headline 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)

I can't prove it, but I suspect we will 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, slow or obstruct Donald Trump & his minions.

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-that-xs-algorithm-can-push-users-to-lean-more-conservative-2000723017

Everyone should call their lawmakers to tell them to pass this bill.

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 it on.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-trump-from-blowing-up

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.

https://www.levernews.com/breaking-news-from-the-war-power-resolution-vote-with-rep-ro-khanna/

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.

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.

https://www.levernews.com/the-democratic-partys-moment-of-reckoning/

My social media post exposing Polymarket betting on nuclear war went so viral that Polymarket decided to shut down its nuclear war market.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymarket-shelves-nuclear-detonation-markets-after-outcry

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?

https://polymarket.com/event/nuclear-weapon-detonation-by-562

It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.

Related: It's increasingly likely that my entire generation - Generation X - will be the first to be truly skipped over in positions of power both because our generation sucks but also because the older generation refuses to relinquish power in a way no previous generation ever has.

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 prior to Trump launching the Iran War, Sam Alito was asked whether 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.

https://www.levernews.com/how-the-supreme-court-could-legalize-trumps-iran-war/

These two things from Republican Sen. Mike Lee are just a few years apart.

How can you write the thing on the left in 2020, and then say the thing on the right in 2025 and vote against a bill explicitly requiring the president to secure congressional authorization for a war against Iran?

These people have literally zero principles.

🚨NEW: Inside the dark money network that's been pushing America toward a war with Iran.

https://www.levernews.com/the-shadow-campaign-behind-the-iran-strike/

My new reporting on MAGA super PAC donors getting special tariff exemptions from Trump is now the second most read piece at The Guardian.

Read it here & pass it on: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/27/trumps-tariffs-economic-policy-corruption

behold the message discipline of oligarchy

Two adjacent headlines from Elon Musk's algorithm accidentally tell a story: People are mad that AI overlords are now pricing people out of housing, so the AI overlords are trying to buy the 2026 elections.

🚨NEWS: Trump quietly dismantled ICE's civil liberties enforcement office as the agency faces 6,000 complaints, according to court records reviewed by The Lever.

Without the office, Congress-mandated ICE reforms could go unenforced.

Dems have not been pressing to reverse the cuts. https://www.levernews.com/the-watchdog-designed-to-keep-ice-in-check-is-being-quietly-erased/

As the climate crisis threatens all life on the planet, the difference between today's Lever home page & today's typical cable TV news home page explains why I originally created The Lever, why independent media is necessary, and why corporate media is ruining the world.

love to see Sam Jackson going full Sam Jackson on the billionaires