How AI Is Taking Over Your Government | Lever Time

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"We took it for granted because we stopped listening, we started confining ourselves to bubbles. Which is why I tweeted yesterday about the move off of X, into BlueSky and other platforms, only limits our ability to listen, learn, understand and ingratiate ourselves to others."

#DeanPhillips, Democrat Congressman, 2024

https://www.levernews.com/the-democrat-who-tried-to-warn-us-with-rep-dean_phillips/

Way to miss the point. Yes, *politicians* need to be on X, or anywhere their constituents might be.

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The Democrat Who Tried To Warn Us (With Rep. Dean Phillips)

In this bonus Lever Time episode, Rep. Dean Phillips talks with David Sirota and Arjun Singh about how Democrats’ self-sabotage handed Trump the presidency.

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"In order to appease this right-wing coalition which was keeping him in power, [Netanyahu] actually strengthened Hamas. And ... he seems not to care that much about getting the hostages back, and seems to be interested in engaging in a forever war", in order to be able, once again, to stay in power and to elude the consequences of his own actions."

https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/

#podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime #Israel #Netanyahu #Hamas #corruption

The Secret Recordings Netanyahu Wants Censored

A new documentary exposes never-before-seen video of the Israeli leader — and argues he’s prolonged the Gaza War to evade corruption charges.

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"... Israel at the time was in the middle of a kind if identity crisis, over attempts by Netanyahu to alter the power of the judicial system. In part that was to appease his right-wing coalition, who desperately wanted to expand settlements in the West Bank, and also, this was a gambit by Netanyahu to actually influence the judiciary at a time when he was facing the judicial music, in the form of a corruption trial."

https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/

#podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime #Israel #Netanyahu

The Secret Recordings Netanyahu Wants Censored

A new documentary exposes never-before-seen video of the Israeli leader — and argues he’s prolonged the Gaza War to evade corruption charges.

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Me:
> Even organised labour can't see enough sunlight between the candidates to express a preference

"Lever Time senior podcast producer Arjun Singh unpacks the cultural and economic trends that have turned working-class voters away from the Democratic Party and explores how the Republican Party is now working to win them over."

https://share.transistor.fm/s/439b138b

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Lever Time with David Sirota | Why The Working Class Could Deliver A Trump Victory

For decades, major labor unions like the Teamsters have endorsed the Democratic ticket in presidential elections — but not this year. In a surprise move, the Teamsters declined to endorse either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris. The development — and Trump’s...