Notices by David Sirota (davidsirota@mastodon.online)

🚨 SCOOP: The Winklevoss Twins funneled $20 million of bitcoin to Trump's super PAC just after Trump officials administration moved to vacate an action against the brothers’ crypto exchange, according to new documents.

Details at LeverNews [dot] com

my statement on the passing of Senator Sheev Palpatine (R-Naboo)

a reminder the next time you hear your politician bewail the parliamentarian or some other fake excuse

Nobody can afford food, gas, electricity, housing and health care - and the elites of both parties not only don't seem to care, they seem intent on live broadcasting their lavish parties with their sides' celebrities as the rest of the country starves.

This is "let them eat" cake - but blasted out 24-7 to millions of people's screens. It's genuinely unprecedented in human history.

two local headlines on the same day

every now and then the TV people scream the quiet part and expose the intensely sociopathic culture coursing through corporate media

🚨SCOOP: Trump officials are quietly adding a line into government contracts that would force AI companies to remove safety & privacy guardrails as Trump officials advance plans for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, according to contract text reviewed by The Lever.

https://www.levernews.com/trump-contracting-clause-would-override-ai-safeguards/

🚨AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE STAT: The amount that's already been spent on just two weeks of the Iran War is more than the government estimate of the cost of a paid family/medical leave program covering every single private-sector worker in America.

https://www.levernews.com/the-aid-cuts-before-the-iran-missile-strikes/

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?

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

The Roberts Court listens to corporations & Trump - in that order.

When the two conflict, the Roberts Court defers to corporations & limits Trump's power.

The Roberts Court does not listen to anyone other than corporations when considering arguments about limiting Trump's power.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/who-the-supreme-court-really-listens

two headlines tell the story of America

corporate media are fighting

🚨INVESTIGATION: After a flood of campaign cash from bank donors, Republican lawmakers are now spearheading legislation to boost Trump's attempt to overturn a recent court ruling & help bank donors invalidate all state usury laws limiting credit card & loan interest rates.

https://www.levernews.com/the-gop-plot-to-help-banks-jack-up-your-credit-card-bills/

Bernie Sanders was ridiculed by media elites for his critique of the media industry. But re-reading Bernie’s 2019 oped this week - the week after Jeff Bezos gutted The Washington Post - well, it makes the Vermont senator seem like Nostradamus accurately predicting the future.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/bernies-prophetic-warning-about-media

This isn’t just a general attempt to silence any old generic Democrat — they are specifically trying to silence a state lawmaker who regularly criticizes billionaires & who’s made his Senate candidacy all about reducing billionaires’ power.

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-amplifies-fdrs-forgotten-warning

The White House put out this press release 72 hours after the CBS News headline.

I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the rise of social media has happened at the same time as a societal mental health crisis.

People telling each other 24-7 that they’re pieces of shit or that they’re living better lives than everyone else has to be partially driving it.

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable.

There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage.

Pass it on. https://sirota.substack.com/p/how-dems-could-end-immunity-for-ice