David Sirota

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After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums. levernews.com/eye-popping-ra…

Private equity is coming for your teeth — and it's not looking good. In 2018, one PE-backed dental chain was ordered to pay nearly $24M after performing likely unnecessary root canals on children and then fraudulently billing Medicaid. levernews.com/private-equity…

What are the First Amendment implications of the chairman of the FCC — literally the government regulator of the media — now making public declarations about what he considers acceptable and objectionable political speech, all while he makes policy decisions governing the press?

the path to selling out is paved by people insisting they are moral and doing it for the Greater Good

In media, there are vast rewards for moving right - status, job security, media platforms. Doing the opposite incurs pain - defunding, deplatforming, denigration, job insecurity. Not surprisingly, many go for the reward, not the pain. It's why this kind of story is so banal.…

Remember when Barack Obama wrote in his memoirs that his administration couldn't prosecute bankers because that would do violence to the social order? The culture of elite impunity infects both parties - and is at the root of almost every problem in this country.

The Epstein case is not a distraction or a sideshow - it's about the central problem in our society: elite impunity. America is an accountability-free zone for the rich, powerful & famous. Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app for the full episode.

This is an actual national emergency. In the next few months, tens of millions of people are going to be hit with astronomical increases in health care premiums unless there’s a policy intervention.

Millions of Americans are about to be priced out of their existing health insurance in the next few months… …and it seems as if the political discourse doesn’t care even a little bit. It’s barely been mentioned. levernews.com/health-insurer…

Very sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. I met him when I did a 1980s doc for NatGeo. It was a thrill - many people my age felt like we grew up with him. For those who didnt live through that TV era, it's hard to overstate how big a star he was. RIP.

🎧LEVER TIME: Trump's libel suits are part of a master plan to make it cost-prohibitive for anyone to challenge power - big corporations & billionaires are using the same tactics to threaten Americans who dissent. @DavidEnrich on the murder of the truth. levernews.com/trump-colbert-…

🎧LEVER TIME: Trump's libel suits aim to make it cost-prohibitive for journalists to challenge power - now, corporations & billionaires are threatening Americans who dissent. Sirota talks to NYT reporter @DavidEnrich about the murder of the truth. levernews.com/trump-colbert-…

There’s this thing in elite media when someone gets fired by corporate overlords it is depicted as their “failure.” What’s even weirder is that Megyn herself was fired by NBC. You can love or hate these people — but judging them via what corporate suits think is weird.