#TheLever is definetly a great media and its podcasts are both radical and unbiased (yes, it is possible).

Listening to the latest podcast of Augut 11th 2025, I discovered a movie from #AriAster, #Eddington

"You might recognize director Ari Aster from his groundbreaking horror films like Hereditary and Midsommar.

But Aster just dropped the scariest film of his career: Eddington, a dark COVID-19 comedy starring #JoaquinPhoenix, #PedroPascal, and #EmmaStone, about social media-driven polarization, gun violence, and the looming tech takeover.

Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Aster about the inspiration behind his all-too-prescient film.

Did the coronavirus pandemic break our brains, leaving our communities with no commonly accepted set of facts?
How do we navigate today’s AI slop-driven informational hellscape?
And is it possible to avoid the twisted fate of Eddington, Aster’s fictional New Mexico town?"

Listen to the podcast, it's 35 minutes of intelligent interview and thoughtful answers.

And, oh, go and see the movie, I definitely will, I will be the first time in ages I'll pay for a ticket rather than qBit it.

https://www.levernews.com/ari-aster-thinks-youre-being-manipulated/

#MassManipulation #NewMexico #Movies #Pandemic #Coronavirus #Covid19

"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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#podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime

I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;

https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_93a6dc63-3e91-4c9a-9e9b-0b7ee45674cc&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

The two couldn't have been more different.

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#podcasts #TheLever #TaxRevolt #TeaParty #OWS #Occupy

Under This Prez, The Bad Guys Win.

 The bad guys are winning. Despite a dire first quarter on Wall Street, the worst guys you know are doing just fine. That includes defense technology company Palantir (founder: megadonor Peter Thiel and leading the charge on AI warfare), infamous tobacco firm Philip Morris (which has long lobbied to keep Americans addicted to cigarettes), and the ubiquitous discount chain store Dollar General (yuk).

(THIS FROM #theLever)

Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/