What New York’s Socialists Know That Democrats Don’t
#TheLever
Jun 25, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVXrhc_Xqk
#LeverTime #dsa #nyc #DavidSirota #ZephyrTeachout #BhaskarSunkara #jacobin #Mamdani


Chuck Schumer Should Resign!
Democrats never learned the lessons of Trump’s successes on tariffs and trade. Now the party’s leaders must take responsibility for their failure to embrace economic populism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chuck-schumer-resign-democrats/
By #ZephyrTeachout in @thenation
At the Federal Trade Commission, Chair Lina Khan's mission is breaking illegal monopolies, blocking mergers that stifle competition, and protecting consumers.
#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
#5yrsago Here’s the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on #AIAndSecurity https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens
#5yrsago #ZephyrTeachout wins the New York Times’s endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/zephyr-teachout-new-york-attorney-general.html
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#5yrsago When #ZephyrTeachout is elected New York Attorney General, she’s gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/zephyr-teachout-is-running-for-attorney-general-but-her-real-target-is-trump.html
#5yrsago When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0-EXEC-SUMMARY_Oxygen_of_Amplification_DS.pdf
#5yrsago #WellsFargo: we stole houses and we’re being investigated for dirty low-income housing credits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/wells-fargo-faces-u-s-probe-on-low-income-tax-credit-purchases
#1yrago A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented #indenture https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose
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At the end of *Break 'Em Up,* #ZephyrTeachout's outstanding 2020 book on #monopolies, Teachout has some choice words for "#consumerism" as a theory of change. She writes that if you're on your way to a protest against a new #Amazon warehouse but you never make it because you waste too much time looking for a mom-and-pop stationers to sell you a marker to write your protest sign, Amazon wins:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up
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