# ![@davidsirota Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::14855994.png) @davidsirota David Sirota

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### Social Influence

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[finance](/list/finance)  13.86% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  7.92% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  3.96% [countries](/list/countries)  3.96% [stocks](/list/stocks)  2.97% [nba](/list/nba)  1.98% [financial services](/list/financial-services)  0.99% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  0.99%

**Social topic influence**
[dems](/topic/dems) #103, [ai](/topic/ai) 6.93%, [media](/topic/media) #4608, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.95%, [democrats](/topic/democrats) #1228, [politics](/topic/politics) #1711, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3.96%, [data](/topic/data) 3.96%, [jeff bezos](/topic/jeff-bezos) #53, [bernie sanders](/topic/bernie-sanders) #140

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Union Pacific Corporation (UNP)](/topic/union-pacific) [JPMorgan Chase (JPM)](/topic/jpmorgan-chase)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"My quick take on AI & media is: If youre doing Axios-style curation and hot takes which is a human form of media slop then your job will be gone. If youre actually doing real bespoke reporting talking to humans living in the world your work will still have value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021965418538176964)  2026-02-12T15:11Z 357.3K followers, 10.2K engagements


"My optimistic theory has been that Goldwater '64 was to Reagan '80 what Bernie '16 may be to the Dem Nominee '28. I don't know if this will happen but for all the liberals' eyerolling of Bernie for not winning certain elections his kind of impact happens over multiple cycles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022472479315497170)  2026-02-14T00:46Z 357.3K followers, 28.4K engagements


"Finally a prospective [----] Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning. Finally. https://sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-amplifies-fdrs-forgotten-warning https://sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-amplifies-fdrs-forgotten-warning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022508035835597249)  2026-02-14T03:07Z 357.3K followers, 37.7K engagements


"🚨NEWS: Norfolk Southern & Union Pacific refused to provide regulators legally required data about how their proposed merger will impact competition & market conditions - so regulators just rejected the merger application for now. What are these railroad companies hiding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2013721663884411284)  2026-01-20T21:13Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"MR. RUSSERT: You said you would have voted for the war if you had been in Congress. RAHM EMANUEL: Right. MR. RUSSERT: Now knowing that are no weapons of mass destruction would you still have cast that vote RAHM EMANUEL: Yes. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6832586 Rahm Emanuel stirring the pot: we lost thousands of young men and women in a war built on a lie.Thousands more were maimed for life. We spent a trillion dollars and no one who sold that lie was ever held accountable not legally not morally. 🧵(1/5) https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6832586 Rahm Emanuel stirring the pot: we lost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019537934228287591)  2026-02-05T22:25Z 357.3K followers, 64K engagements


"NEW: The new "centrist" Abundance think tank pressing Democrats to tout deregulation is headed by a registered corporate lobbyist for Open AI Larry Ellison's Oracle and a crypto think tank according to federal records reviewed by @LeverNews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020913417914106054)  2026-02-09T17:31Z 357.3K followers, 32.8K engagements


"🚨NEW: The pundits & think tank scholars defending Clarence Thomas & his billionaire benefactor have their own financial ties to the same billionaire. Some of their groups linked to that billionaire have been filing amicus briefs in cases Thomas rules on. https://www.levernews.com/the-paid-pundits-defending-clarence-thomas-and-his-billionaire-benefactor/ https://www.levernews.com/the-paid-pundits-defending-clarence-thomas-and-his-billionaire-benefactor/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1645768158983372802)  2023-04-11T12:38Z 357.3K followers, 411.5K engagements


"The Democrats who helped the GOP incinerate the world are never going to apologize for their complicity. Its really annoying. Hot enough for you Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet vote them out of office. Hot enough for you Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet vote them out of office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1683830555144785920)  2023-07-25T13:24Z 357.3K followers, 314.2K engagements


"FDR tried to warn us in [----]. @LeverNews tried to amplify his warning in [----]. https://www.levernews.com/democrats-betrayals-are-jeopardizing-american-democracy/ https://www.levernews.com/democrats-betrayals-are-jeopardizing-american-democracy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1854206748443177211)  2024-11-06T16:58Z 357.3K followers, 619.1K engagements


"someone make it make sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1937123308052615564)  2025-06-23T12:19Z 357.3K followers, 2.8M engagements


"Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this [----] SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once before it was yanked off the air forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968700480915148849)  2025-09-18T15:35Z 357.3K followers, 423.8K engagements


"Corporate leaders openly admit that they will side with authoritarianism over democracy if democracy might produce policies they dont like. This mentality reveals everything thats wrong with the current D leadership. https://t.co/gBTNtIfll2 This mentality reveals everything thats wrong with the current D leadership. https://t.co/gBTNtIfll2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970482077243187632)  2025-09-23T13:35Z 357.3K followers, 750.4K engagements


"This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end Citizens United by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the [----] election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1977808789517811895)  2025-10-13T18:48Z 357.3K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Obama literally told me that after campaigning for Senate in support of single-payer he had decided to reverse himself and oppose it because it might harm the insurance industry. I reported it here. OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive wouldve been smarter Absolutely. President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didnt have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll https://t.co/ATpURv8FjQ OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive wouldve been smarter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978248188290097230)  2025-10-14T23:54Z 357.3K followers, 463.1K engagements


"Secret documents. Never-before-seen photos. A vinyl record. For the first time The Lever is exposing the secret plot that legalized corruption. You think you know this story but you dont because its all been secret until now👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/1978483870132748670)  2025-10-15T15:31Z 357.3K followers, 102.5K engagements


"a group of literal oligarchs bewailing socialism at a gathering inside a kingdom ruled by an actual monarch is a bit too on the nose "Having a socialist mayor would be catastrophic" Bill Ackman CEO of Pershing Square tells the FII event in Saudi Arabia that he is firmly against Zohran Mamdani's campaign to be the mayor of New York https://t.co/JkvN2sFpOw https://t.co/wPQSShh5CG "Having a socialist mayor would be catastrophic" Bill Ackman CEO of Pershing Square tells the FII event in Saudi Arabia that he is firmly against Zohran Mamdani's campaign to be the mayor of New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983281517834178600)  2025-10-28T21:15Z 357.3K followers, 1.3M engagements


"I am saddened to learn of the passing of former Emperor Sheev Palpatine. Emperor Palpatine was a devoted public servant from the halls of the Imperial Senate to many positions of leadership in multiple Imperial administrations. His passing marks the loss of a figure who with a strong sense of dedication gave so much of his life to the Empire he loved. I am saddened to learn of the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney was a devoted public servant from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations. His passing marks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985813564645621769)  2025-11-04T20:57Z 357.3K followers, 2.4M engagements


"The countrys highest profile Democratic politicians spent the day valorizing Dick Cheney while Democratic voters were busy electing Zohran Mamdani. Let that sink in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985906110650593564)  2025-11-05T03:04Z 357.3K followers, 162.3K engagements


"This is the moment when Democrats ended the possibility of a public health insurance option and/or Medicare for All for another generation fortifying the power of their insurance industry donors to continue immiserating everyone - and soon after Dems were thrown out of power. We are still living through the horrific consequences of those decisions to not use a once-in-a-generation election mandate and huge congressional majorities to actually deliver genuine change. Until Democrats and their liberal sycophants fess up to and reckon with that original set of sins they will struggle to build a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988727759091429452)  2025-11-12T21:57Z 357.3K followers, 442K engagements


"This didn't hold up & I'm still wondering why Ezra insisted on publicly declaring this a few months ago at exactly the moment lawmakers were trying to force the release of Epstein's files. What explains the impulse to provide NYT cover for powerful people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018205933697110058)  2026-02-02T06:12Z 357.3K followers, 741.2K engagements


"This site is mental illness. The algorithms running these sites aim to create addiction self-loathing & mental illness. The mental illness created by these sites is not a bug its a feature. You are interacting with mental illness when you engage on these sites. Beware"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019966020757467426)  2026-02-07T02:46Z 357.3K followers, 91.2K engagements


"Ladies and gentlemenThe Democrats https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/dem-governors-cool-on-millionaire-taxes/ https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/dem-governors-cool-on-millionaire-taxes/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021958381033214061)  2026-02-12T14:43Z 357.3K followers, 29.1K engagements


"In [----] Bernie Sanders was wrongly ridiculed by everyone in media for suggesting Jeff Bezos has some influence over his newspaper. [--] years later Im guessing few will similarly ridicule him for repeating the same suggestion. Jeff Bezos is spending $200 billion on AI and robotics. Jeff Bezos is replacing hundreds of thousands of his workers at Amazon with robots. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. What a surprise. The Washington Post doesnt want a moratorium on AI data centers. https://t.co/8E6iTTBKBk Jeff Bezos is spending $200 billion on AI and robotics. Jeff Bezos is replacing hundreds of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022007682258104541)  2026-02-12T17:59Z 357.3K followers, 14.4K engagements


"it's annoying that America's media mass produces content about literally everything other than the entire non-rich population being robbed every single minute of every single day by the people who own the media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022150312602349987)  2026-02-13T03:26Z 357.3K followers, 16.1K engagements


"it's awesome how much this will enrage the Abundance billionaires and their pundits Every politician says "more housing." It's not enough to say "more housing." We should demand a serious housing agenda. Build millions of public units. Pass a nationwide tenant bill of rights. Ban hedge funds owning homes. Every politician says "more housing." It's not enough to say "more housing." We should demand a serious housing agenda. Build millions of public units. Pass a nationwide tenant bill of rights. Ban hedge funds owning homes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022167756280647755)  2026-02-13T04:35Z 357.3K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Please take [--] seconds and sign this letter and retweet it right now. Biden has the power to do this - and he should be shamed into doing it. https://www.levernews.com/an-open-letter-to-president-joe-biden/ https://www.levernews.com/an-open-letter-to-president-joe-biden/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/1599088798826364928)  2022-12-03T17:10Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"🚨INVESTIGATION: Thieves are now draining Americans' bank accounts just with publicly available info - and thanks to lobbyist-gutted regulations & a new court ruling banks do not necessarily have to reimburse you for such losses. Horrifying reporting from @freddy_brewster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2008248215448281364)  2026-01-05T18:44Z 357.1K followers, 83.6K engagements


"🚨NEWS: The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months according to documents & data reviewed by @LeverNews. In all the new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2011457764237975558)  2026-01-14T15:17Z 357.3K followers, 271.9K engagements


"Dimon is saying this because JPMorgan is relying on ever-higher credit card profits. JPMorgan just reported that "Card Services & Auto net revenue was $7.3 billion up 5% driven by higher Card Services net interest income on higher revolving balances." https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chase-and-co/investor-relations/documents/quarterly-earnings/2025/4th-quarter/d868c7ef-1670-465d-ba75-c2b36ddbcc6b.pdf Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan says a credit card cap would be an "economic disaster.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2014092040468898160)  2026-01-21T21:45Z 357.2K followers, 23.7K engagements


"Every time I see this photograph I become angry because I feel like one of the few people who remember that George Bush created ICE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2015206961269321878)  2026-01-24T23:35Z 357.1K followers, 323.1K engagements


"What's important here is that a Democratic senator is admitting Democrats actually have the power to do this. Therefore if Democrats now refuse to do this we can all know that they weren't powerless and that they made a calculated *choice* not to use their power. Right now Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrongand the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this. https://t.co/fUiEd6TnTu Right now Democrats have the power to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2016690064474956061)  2026-01-29T01:49Z 357.3K followers, 220.9K engagements


"NEW: On this week's 50-year anniversary of Buckley v Valeo decision engineered by John Bolton and other master planners new survey data show almost nobody in America believes buying elections is free speech. That public outcry can boost new state anti-corruption initiatives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2016980747677290569)  2026-01-29T21:04Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Theres that famous Tom Hanks line from A League Of Their Own about how in life the hard is what makes it great. Now theres new scientific evidence thats true the harder something is to achieve the more your brain rewards you when you achieve it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017296000579182809)  2026-01-30T17:57Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Democrats version of standing up to authoritarianism is a proposal for some more HR regulations Warrants. Visible ID. No masks. Body cams. Thats the standard. This is not an immigration negotiation or a question about partisanship Its about whether unidentified masked agents should be able to detain people with zero accountability. Via @SenBrianSchatz https://t.co/C13F7IPxHE Warrants. Visible ID. No masks. Body cams. Thats the standard. This is not an immigration negotiation or a question about partisanship Its about whether unidentified masked agents should be able to detain people with zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017621147014091004)  2026-01-31T15:29Z 357.1K followers, 75.8K engagements


"🚨After the East Palestine train derailment politicians got themselves headlines lawyers & investors got big payouts & Norfolk Southern got a settlement protecting its execs & shareholders. But many victims are sick & have gotten little to nothing. You must read this👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017652396420464803)  2026-01-31T17:33Z 357.3K followers, 50.9K engagements


"Heres a secret: You dont need to expose your brain to breaking news unless its about events in your community right now. Your brain doesnt need any of the other breaking news. The only thing that kind of breaking news is breaking is your brain. Allowing that clickbait slop into your consciousness is extremely bad for your mental & cognitive health. Consume information more deliberately deeply and slowly that is the way to protect your mind from the algorithms and corporations and media hucksters and AI bots trying to monetize your consciousness."  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017671478779789600)  2026-01-31T18:49Z 357.1K followers, 22.2K engagements


"The "news" is now almost 100% everything other than the unprecedented financial pillaging of 99.9% of the country at every minute of every day. Literally this is no longer even a momentary topic of media coverage or political conversation in America. Almost nobody with any significant power or platform in politics or media or in the political party fan clubs seems particularly interested in discussing spotlighting focusing on or organizing against the absolutely grotesque looting of every day life in this country - and the algorithms the news outlets the party noise machines and all the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017724415841046875)  2026-01-31T22:19Z 357.1K followers, 98.8K engagements


"After a corporation detonated a chemical bomb politicians got famous media got clicks lawyers got rich the company got legal protection - and victims were left sick & poor as their town died. A microcosm of why Americans are so angry & disillusioned👇 https://www.levernews.com/the-derailment-that-never-ended/ https://www.levernews.com/the-derailment-that-never-ended/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017732924297400682)  2026-01-31T22:53Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"the worse the world becomes the more hideous the news and the platforms are the more intensely I focus on the Denver Nuggets & train the algorithms to only serve me content about Jokic Murray AG PWat Big Val & all the other Nugs super heroes who live among us in our city"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2017751654951792723)  2026-02-01T00:07Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It's [----] and there are still liberals on social media sites spending their days complaining about the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. It's the political equivalent of the people on the Pacific island who didn't realize World War II had ended years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018035550205173904)  2026-02-01T18:55Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"After the ICE murders Democrats' major demand isn't ending qualified immunity or shutting down the agency - it's more cameras for ICE to make snuff films https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/senate-democrats-ice-demands-masks-shutdown https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/senate-democrats-ice-demands-masks-shutdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018516057380831353)  2026-02-03T02:45Z 357.2K followers, 15.4K engagements


"🚨NEW: Working-class households have been facing higher rates of food inflation than rich households because of corporate concentration according to new Federal Reserve data. Corporate monopolies have been more able to reduce competition & jack up prices in poor locales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018743665087365187)  2026-02-03T17:49Z 357.2K followers, 11.3K engagements


"There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on this planet and this planet is just a tiny spec of dust that's been floating through a vast nothingness for billions of years meaning you & every living thing are specks of dust living on a speck of dust. Hit me with the harshest reality of life https://t.co/Akx03ueTbZ Hit me with the harshest reality of life https://t.co/Akx03ueTbZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018863689798197480)  2026-02-04T01:46Z 357.2K followers, 15.5K engagements


"The media worlds stunned/shocked reaction to the awful WaPo layoffs shows that even now so many in journalism still cant believe billionaires arent going to rescue them. This is a wake up call: oligarchs are not the benevolent saviors media have long depicted them to be. The layoffs are awful as have been so many others at lower profile local outlets. I lament the hollowing out of this industry. Its all a reminder that billionaires will not save us. Maybe the media coverage of them shouldnt so often cast them as heroic saviors. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019062536725749970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019062536725749970)  2026-02-04T14:56Z 357.2K followers, 36.3K engagements


"🚨The Lever is hiring🚨 Amid all the media layoffs @LeverNews is now hiring. The Lever has built a subscriber-supported award-winning newsroom doing accountability journalism. Go to our website and find the job listing - and please pass it on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019108667254251938)  2026-02-04T17:59Z 357.3K followers, 64.8K engagements


"I remain genuinely amazed that anyone ever believed that the world's richest man would be committed over the long haul to funding journalism that holds the world's richest people accountable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019112055786336611)  2026-02-04T18:13Z 357.1K followers, 22K engagements


"This year will be the 7th anniversary of everyone in corporate media berating and eyerolling Bernie Sanders for politely suggesting Jeff Bezos has a political agenda that is often enforced through his media property"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019115679518191854)  2026-02-04T18:27Z 357.3K followers, 116.1K engagements


"Amid media layoffs in a post-truth world I sent in a question to NPR's @HiddenBrain - a question that I think a lot of people are struggling with but too afraid to say out loud. Hidden Brain then aired it. You can see my question and hear the full segment at my Substack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019118251545096570)  2026-02-04T18:37Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"🚨NEWS: Trump officials initiated rulemaking that could shut down the whistleblower system empowering victims of corporate abuse to seek help from law enforcement - and to warn the public about about the abuse. Credit companies are pressing regulators to cease publishing data.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019228334484517068)  2026-02-05T01:55Z 357.1K followers, 14.9K engagements


"Almost nobody in the entire country can afford the basic necessities of life and yet both parties their media and their fan clubs have made our elections and political discourse about literally everything other than this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019465954808168815)  2026-02-05T17:39Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"These comments from Rahm are really amazing.If only there was a Clinton White House aide a congressman and an Obama White House chief of staff who used their power to stop Wall Street deregulation push cramdown halt foreclosures and prevent banker-enriching bailouts. Four years later the economy collapsed built on liar loans everyone knew were rotten. People lost their homes and life savings while bankers screamed that they deserved their bonuses. (2/5) Four years later the economy collapsed built on liar loans everyone knew were rotten. People lost their homes and life savings while bankers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019537304264790399)  2026-02-05T22:23Z 357.1K followers, 16.9K engagements


"This website is mental illness. It's literally [----] and there are still people logging onto social media and living in [----]. Truly a mental illness. @LingoUnbound Bernie needs to issue an official apology for giving us her David Sirota and Nina Turner. @LingoUnbound Bernie needs to issue an official apology for giving us her David Sirota and Nina Turner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019539659672707175)  2026-02-05T22:32Z 357.1K followers, 10.6K engagements


"The democracy crisis is lobotomized liberals providing more rock-solid job security to Democratic leaders who allowed this epic nightmare to unfold than the job security that's provided to the average college football coach who faces the threat of firing after one bad season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019540257423913192)  2026-02-05T22:34Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Teachers nurses first responders & many others providing people the basic necessities of life are paid barely enough to survive while those on TV who bloviate about politics for [--] minutes are paid millions. Amid layoffs of reporters individual TV pundits are paid more than what it would cost to preserve entire newsrooms of journalists. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019575663356002308 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019575663356002308"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019575663356002308)  2026-02-06T00:55Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"It's time to consider the idea that everyone keeping these lawmakers in their leadership jobs are actively complicit in what's happening. Hakeem Jeffries went from no masks to no masks in an arbitrary and capricious fashion. Schumer has adopted a similar position. At some point you have to take a stand on something. Not allowing armed men in masks to roam our streets seems like an easy one. Apparently not. https://t.co/sDjSZswqtn Hakeem Jeffries went from no masks to no masks in an arbitrary and capricious fashion. Schumer has adopted a similar position. At some point you have to take a stand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019590288717869144)  2026-02-06T01:53Z 357.1K followers, 34.5K engagements


"We've reached the Orwellian stage of the ICE discourse in which Democratic politicians are asking their liberal fans to believe that the big problem with masked men committing violence and murder is the masks not the violence and murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019591342691860966)  2026-02-06T01:57Z 357.2K followers, 26.7K engagements


"In response to ICE committing violence and murder the Democratic Party is demanding more prominent QR codes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019595724644835500)  2026-02-06T02:15Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"BREAKING: Denver Nuggets forward Peyton Watson has suffered a grade [--] left hamstring strain and is expected to miss extended time League Sources tell The Athletic. Watson had been a breakout star for the Nuggets. This adds to their injury misfortune BREAKING: Denver Nuggets forward Peyton Watson has suffered a grade [--] left hamstring strain and is expected to miss extended time League Sources tell The Athletic. Watson had been a breakout star for the Nuggets. This adds to their injury misfortune"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019603696565555421)  2026-02-06T02:46Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The typical U.S. worker has $955 saved for retirement report finds. https://t.co/5gY94MMbPp The typical U.S. worker has $955 saved for retirement report finds. https://t.co/5gY94MMbPp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019676184947372412)  2026-02-06T07:35Z 357.2K followers, 33.2K engagements


"Listen I think the demise of journalism is bad and I think the collapse of major news outlets is bad.but I also think a handful of oligarch-paid NY/DC pundits editorialists and reporters being the sole arbiters of America's political discourse has also been bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019847143012626818)  2026-02-06T18:54Z 357.1K followers, 10.2K engagements


"just resurfacing this from more than a year ago In [----] Bernie Sanders was universally lambasted in and shamed by the entire press corps for daring to suggest that Jeff Bezos influences the newsroom that he owns. Will there now be some apologies https://t.co/IBZ2TVPYYW In [----] Bernie Sanders was universally lambasted in and shamed by the entire press corps for daring to suggest that Jeff Bezos influences the newsroom that he owns. Will there now be some apologies https://t.co/IBZ2TVPYYW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2019962559714193744)  2026-02-07T02:32Z 357.1K followers, 11K engagements


"I noticed anytime I log onto any social media I feel bad about the world & about myself. But in my job I have to post to amplify my news outlets work. So for the last few months Ive mostly been posting via a third party app (Buffer) so I dont scroll or see comments and my brain has felt better than it has in years. Theres a lesson here I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020158867015901211)  2026-02-07T15:33Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"🚨NEW: You are facing flight delays and higher ticket fees thanks to private jet owners who have gotten lawmakers to create special rules forcing everyone else to subsidize them at the country's most congested airports"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020177902256681274)  2026-02-07T16:48Z 357.2K followers, 34.4K engagements


"Epstein got to retain his social status even after he was convicted. Today people who went to Epsteins Rape Island are similarly getting to retain their social status. The Epstein class isnt deterred they are running their scheme on a new loop RIGHT NOW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020187607989113311)  2026-02-07T17:27Z 357.2K followers, 54.4K engagements


"Whatever you may think of Ossoff Im encouraged to see him doing exactly what Ive been saying for years that Democrats must do. This is what it looks like to articulate an anti-corruption message. Every Democrat should be doing this. Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of by and for the ultra-rich. Its the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate. If youre Steve Bannon how do you sell any of this https://t.co/CtZmBl1MYB Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020297229664416171)  2026-02-08T00:42Z 357.2K followers, 25.4K engagements


"February trip to a river here in Colorado"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020567378770235808)  2026-02-08T18:36Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Federal Reserve bank just released a research paper showing that lower income locales have been hit with higher food inflation rates than rich locales and the Fed says the culprit is market concentration (read: corporate monopolies) Study here: https://www.levernews.com/big-grocerys-hidden-poverty-tax/ Hannaford is pricing groceries higher in lower-income rural communities in Maine. Corporate profits skyrocket while we all feel the squeeze. https://t.co/vNELER738P https://www.levernews.com/big-grocerys-hidden-poverty-tax/ Hannaford is pricing groceries higher in lower-income rural"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020572819898187937)  2026-02-08T18:57Z 357.3K followers, 31.1K engagements


"The president of this new group is former Rep. Cheri Bustos who is a registered lobbyist for Open AI. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/3a166844-f13a-4c05-8b29-150c75e660f7/print/ Axios: Centrist Dems strike back with new group Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth" deregulatory policies with an eye toward [----] according to plans first shared with Axios. Known as Next https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/3a166844-f13a-4c05-8b29-150c75e660f7/print/ Axios: Centrist Dems strike back with new group Ezra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020647965606764811)  2026-02-08T23:56Z 357.3K followers, 114.6K engagements


"The Senate can pass a law conscripting you to die in a foreign war when youre [--] but youre not allowed to be elected to the Senate unless you are 30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020693671189123558)  2026-02-09T02:58Z 357.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Almost everyone is screaming into a vast online void racking up tons of clicks and follows and likes and status and clout but zero actual accomplishments in the actual real world & they'll be instantly forgotten after they die as if they never even existed in the first place. hit me with the harshest reality truth https://t.co/Mvw8rPL2Rs hit me with the harshest reality truth https://t.co/Mvw8rPL2Rs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020887401816817909)  2026-02-09T15:47Z 357.2K followers, 14.4K engagements


"A friend sent me this old article reminding me specifically of the part about Bezos & the WaPo and how I was slammed by basically everyone in media for suggesting media owners influence their media properties. What a difference a few years makes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/us/politics/david-sirota-bernie-sanders.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/us/politics/david-sirota-bernie-sanders.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020889996635648236)  2026-02-09T15:58Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The White House issued this press release [--] hours after the CBS News headline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2020975171360915594)  2026-02-09T21:36Z 357.2K followers, 14.8K engagements


"I pay the rapacious price for @AltitudeTV to watch Nuggets basketball. And yet even though I pay they put betting ads on my screen while the game is happening in a way that *blocks the game* view. This is how aggressive the sports betting industry is. Its unacceptable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021052941327794367)  2026-02-10T02:45Z 357.3K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Statements like this are true but almost always refuse to mention exactly *why* the political class behaves this way. The answer is here: http://MasterPlanPodcast.com Its becoming increasingly clear that AI is going to kick millions of knowledge workers to the curb and our political class wont do a damn thing while our way of life gets changed forever. http://MasterPlanPodcast.com Its becoming increasingly clear that AI is going to kick millions of knowledge workers to the curb and our political class wont do a damn thing while our way of life gets changed forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021233128031850870)  2026-02-10T14:41Z 357.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Black Mirrors episode Common People is an absolutely incredible piece of art and maybe the greatest TV episode about monopoly power thats ever been made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021455509933391880)  2026-02-11T05:25Z 357.2K followers, 23.5K engagements


"so weird that there hasn't been any outrage from the Abundance folk on this In our deep blue state with a near-supermajority Dem legislature Dems just helped Republicans make sure that ski towns cannot tax out-of-state tycoons part-time vacation mansions to fund affordable housing for workers & others who actually live there. https://t.co/PnWo0C9Za1 In our deep blue state with a near-supermajority Dem legislature Dems just helped Republicans make sure that ski towns cannot tax out-of-state tycoons part-time vacation mansions to fund affordable housing for workers & others who actually live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021599911498682833)  2026-02-11T14:59Z 357.2K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Yes AI can make cool shit like a TelePrompter app (and other useful stuff). But critics are focused on 1) climate-destroying price-increasing energy use 2) the distraction economy's effect on concentration/cognition and 3) dire warnings now leaking out of the AI industry itself I'm increasingly annoyed by how many journalists academics and large parts of the left get everything wrong about AI. So many smug dismissals from people who clearly don't use it (much) or don't know how. I have multiple wtf-moments every week now. For example: was about to get https://t.co/GQHOeeuZex I'm increasingly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021708643864019040)  2026-02-11T22:11Z 357.3K followers, 16.2K engagements


"There's this now-pervasive idea that endemic corruption is new singularly Trump driven & purely a product of Citizens United. This is false & delusional. Here's the truth: A handful of people executed a specific plan over [--] years. Please educate yourself & pass it on👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021710098306113809)  2026-02-11T22:17Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The federal government shouldnt be in the business of giving away free money to non-governmental organizations. That should be obvious. The federal government shouldnt be in the business of giving away free money to non-governmental organizations. That should be obvious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859853490195136544)  2024-11-22T06:56Z 357.3K followers, 2.8M engagements


"In our deep blue state with a near-supermajority Dem legislature Dems just helped Republicans make sure that ski towns cannot tax out-of-state tycoons part-time vacation mansions to fund affordable housing for workers & others who actually live there. https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/10/colorado-lawmakers-vacant-homes/ https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/10/colorado-lawmakers-vacant-homes/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021596663446430111)  2026-02-11T14:46Z 357.3K followers, 24.5K engagements


"🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: How ICE's detention center buying spree is bailing out the commercial real estate industry & being facilitated by a handful of powerful real estate brokerages including one with financial ties to Trumps Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021616242801672366)  2026-02-11T16:04Z 357.3K followers, 33.9K engagements


"NEWS: Dems & Republicans just blocked legislation to let towns tax out-of-state billionaires' ski chalets in order to fund affordable housing for local residents. AirBNB Expedia & the American Resort Development Association lobbied on the bill. What stage of oligarchy is this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021698201385152773)  2026-02-11T21:29Z 357.3K followers, 16.7K engagements


"Nobody trusts whats said about AI because tech firms oligarchs Wall St analysts & pundits boosting AI destroyed their credibility boosting the Metaverse financial dereg & other snake oil. Nobody can tell truth from bullshit because the information merchants lied for [--] decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021731194883518516)  2026-02-11T23:40Z 357.3K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Trump rescinding the EPA's endangerment finding will go to court. Good: In [----] the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases are pollutants that endanger human lives. Bad: None of the justices who issued that ruling are on today's court - and [--] of [--] dissenting justices are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022111725479395493)  2026-02-13T00:52Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I wonder if before publishing his blog post Ygelsias advance bet the Polymarket parlay for stupidest take on the Internet Matt Yglesias attacked me personally in a long piece about how Americans are stupid for assuming there's a lot of corruption among elites. Then he said the post is sponsored by Polymarket. Chef's kiss. https://t.co/vJtZ4a4rIk Matt Yglesias attacked me personally in a long piece about how Americans are stupid for assuming there's a lot of corruption among elites. Then he said the post is sponsored by Polymarket. Chef's kiss. https://t.co/vJtZ4a4rIk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022170111143289333)  2026-02-13T04:44Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney & I begged Dems to heed FDR's long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship & authoritarianism. [--] years later a few new-generation Dems including @AOC are amplifying that warning. This is progress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022426160836284716)  2026-02-13T21:42Z 357.3K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Those of us of a certain age and with knowledge of context need to pause and appreciate not just Graham Platner generally saying this but him specifically saying it to literally David Remnick It is impossible to represent working people to represent those who labor and those who struggle and also represent those who exploit us. The Democratic Party must choose. https://t.co/uFOUzabaZy It is impossible to represent working people to represent those who labor and those who struggle and also represent those who exploit us. The Democratic Party must choose. https://t.co/uFOUzabaZy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022448222371987554)  2026-02-13T23:10Z 357.3K followers, 24.7K engagements


"Wow. https://www.levernews.com/the-compliance-officer-who-flagged-epstein-and-lost-her-job/ https://www.levernews.com/the-compliance-officer-who-flagged-epstein-and-lost-her-job/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022512299836313688)  2026-02-14T03:24Z 357.3K followers, 97.5K engagements


"If as you claim youve given up on politics and elections and genuinely believe nothing can ever change then why do you also spend all of your free time logging onto the Internet posting reply-guy comments about politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022517221592043844)  2026-02-14T03:44Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"News outlets ask us to trust them to hold power accountable & be skeptical of concentrated power. And yet these ridiculously belated admissions & mea culpas show how so many in media have reflexively trusted billionaires to be Good People. Maybe this should be a wake up call"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022688676145422550)  2026-02-14T15:05Z 357.3K followers, [---] engagements


"News outlets ask us to trust them to hold power accountable & be skeptical of concentrated power. And yet these belated admissions & mea culpas show how so many in media have reflexively trusted billionaires to be Good People. Too many in the media industry just couldnt possibly allow themselves to imagine Jeff Bezos doing anything bad or having ulterior motives and worse many scoffed at those of us who were skeptical the whole time. Its all such a damning admission. Maybe this can be a wake up call to those who somehow still havent fully figured it out: the billionaires will not save us."  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022693169154978022)  2026-02-14T15:23Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"If you've convinced yourself you're smarter than everyone because you think politics doesnt matter then why do you spend most of your free time going on the Internet to post comments about politics a thing your allegedly superior intelligence has told you doesn't matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022733366437785859)  2026-02-14T18:03Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Pro tip: In general do not provide clicks and engagement to click farmers and engagement farmers like Yglesias and his fellow online marketers. When you "dunk" on them with a pithy reply or a quote tweet you are not "owning" them - they are monetizing you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022751883048423872)  2026-02-14T19:16Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Nothing truly high quality is produced quickly and without tons of hours & hard work. The Internets false get-attention-quick culture tricks us into thinking this isnt true which is why were immersed in slop. But in reality the Internet and its attention economy are the enemy of quality. The relatively few who understand this and apply it to their work every day are the ones who truly get it. They are creating high-quality and meaningful signals not shitty pointless noise. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022819768143897064 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022819768143897064"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022819768143897064)  2026-02-14T23:46Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Texas primary is a microcosm of how the identity discourse drowns out the class discourse inside the Dem Party. The election could be about oligarchs economically pillaging the multiracial working class but instead its been turned into a race/culture war. Oligarchs must be thrilled. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018852091515609263 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018852091515609263"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2018852091515609263)  2026-02-04T01:00Z 357.3K followers, 25.9K engagements


"🚨NEWS: Trump has effectively shut down the government's main whistleblower program targeting corporate crime according to new data. Under Trump's SEC chair - who has attacked whistleblowers - the program denied a record number of claims & hasn't awarded anything this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2021649578999820307)  2026-02-11T18:16Z 357.3K followers, [----] engagements


"🚨NEWS: Trump quietly dismantled ICE's civil liberties enforcement office as the agency faces [----] complaints according to filings reviewed by @LeverNews. Without the office Congress-mandated ICE reforms could go unenforced. Dems have not been pressing to reverse the cuts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022320896728568057)  2026-02-13T14:44Z 357.3K followers, 15.5K engagements


"In [----] @alexgibneyfilm & I published a widely circulated @RollingStone piece begging Dems to heed FDR's warning that pro-working-class politics are necessary to stave off authoritarianism. I'm heartened to see @AOC now amplifying FDR's truism. Everyone needs to hear it. If we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism globally our politics need to center the working class. https://t.co/xvYhbHilO4 If we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism globally our politics need to center the working class. https://t.co/xvYhbHilO4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022387466003714146)  2026-02-13T19:08Z 357.3K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Yglesias is an online marketer who monetizes engagement by making people mad. He's not interested in substance. Those who respond to him help his cash grab. It's annoying that otherwise smart people help him make money by falling for his stupid trap rather than ignoring him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022511170410967041)  2026-02-14T03:20Z 357.3K followers, 12.6K engagements


"One under-appreciated benefit of having a vicious and unforgiving inner voice of self hate is that nobody on the Internet can say anything more hurtful about you than you already hear in your own mind every minute of every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2022822264194949514)  2026-02-14T23:56Z 357.3K followers, [---] engagements

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