Live shot of the 2026 election night map if Democrats embrace the Abundance strategy of telling Americans that price-gouging landlords and real estate investment tycoons are actually the good guys.

The American male's persistent aversion to apologizing or admitting fault for literally anything is so deeply ingrained that it was a recurring joke on a classic television show. Watch and laugh: dai.ly/x26yzgd

In the 20+ years since I wrote that, I've repeatedly spoken written about how I was wrong on that. I haven't gotten everything right in 25 years in this work, and I apologize when my views change. We live in a society where nobody apologizes for anything, but admitting wrong is part of my faith.

The former John Fetterman aide who runs a new billionaire-funded think tank is now blaming our movie Don't Look Up for not singularly solving the climate crisis. I'm sorry, everyone. My bad.

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I thought we’d hit rock bottom of the Democratic Consulting Class’s idiocy but we now have new Dem think tanks, Substacks & DC conferences insinuating that Dems can win by telling Americans that real estate oligarchs & rent-gouging landlords are actually heroes, so no, we havent yet hit rock bottom.

There’s a very steal-everything-not-nailed-down-to-the-floor-before-the-entire-building-collapses vibe coursing through America right now.

There's a hilarious gap between my actual life scratching together a living as an independent journalist married to a modestly-paid state legislator here in a middle class neighborhood & the life of yacht-owning superwealth that my critics imagine flowed to me from an Oscar nomination. It's weird.

I'm the spouse of @emilyforco.bsky.social. She's been working hard to raise grassroots money for her senate run. Fundraising is hard because she's the legislature's thorn in the side of oligarchy. But shes got a shot to win. Please pitch in if you can at this link. Sorry to ask but it's important👇

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“Anyone who criticizes real estate oligarchs, predatory landlords and corporate housing monopolists is a NIMBY” is not going to work. Nobody buys this horseshit. Find a better message. You sound like an absolute freak.

FDR warned Democrats that if they didn’t deliver material gains for the working class, then American democracy might disappear. www.levernews.com/democrats-be...

Abundance Guys engineered a debate about housing that somehow never mentions Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bill to simply repeal the oligarch-backed GOP law that limits the amount of affordable housing local governments can build. It's almost as if this omission is a deliberate act of deception.

I’ve said it before and will say it again: I find it genuinely hilarious that my criticism of oligarchs has Abundance Guys trying to call me NIMBY when I literally *just* helped pass a major housing YIMBY law in my own neighborhood/city.

Here's what happens when Abundance pretends problems can be fixed exclusively with more supply but no check on corporate power: You get housing monopolists selling off the supply to investors rather than supply creating lower prices that benefit regular people. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

"It's very important that at this trying time for democracy, you must remain mad at literally everyone other than the oligarchs buying elections, controlling policy, and ruining your life."

The new Searchlight Institute is funded by billionaires and its mission is to tell Democrats to stop listening to grassroots groups. This guy Scott is one of their policy staffers. Here was his response to substantive criticism.

FEDERAL RESERVE STUDY: "Investors raise rents at 60% higher rates than the average increase...and higher investor share in a neighborhood is correlated with faster rent increases for non-investor landlords." But sure...go ahead & insist investor landlords have nothing to do with the housing crisis.

Quick reminder: Billionaires who made their money fleecing people and amassing disproportionate political power typically fund organizations that studiously avoid suggesting that billionaires should be prevented from fleecing people and amassing disproportionate political power.

I hate to break it to everyone but Blackstone For All will not solve the housing and retirement crises. Sorry.

NEWS: Instead of letting a glut of new housing supply lower prices for family homebuyers, housing giant Lennar has launched an online portal to sell off more housing to investors who can jack up rents. Ladies and gentlemen...Abundance! www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

It’s amazing that even at this late hour, liberals & media elites remain steadfastly committed to pretending that neoliberalism & corporatism didn’t create the backlash conditions for Trump’s rise, and that Trump is just a unique anomaly rather than a symptom of a deeper crisis.

I made an unobjectionable comment that most people agree with. Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.

I made an unobjectionable comment that most people agree with. Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.

Hey Siri, show me what happens to a politician's brain when that politician spends most of her adult life talking only to oligarchs, lobbyists, corporate CEOs, political operatives, pundits, and big donors.

🚨NEWS: Rather than letting an abundant supply of housing now reduce prices for family homebuyers, housing giant Lennar has launched a new portal for real estate investors to buy up even more housing & reap even more cash off high rents. Abundance!

There should be better options in American politics than just neoliberal corporatism on one side, and authoritarian nihilism on the other side.

Please behold these two images one after the other — and remember that Manchin now works at a lobbying firm and is a private equity adviser

The final stage of the Master Plan is here - the stage when people in power stop trying to hide anything, stop trying to create a pretense, and proudly declare that they "do not care" about corruption. MasterPlanPodcast.com

this book’s entire premise did not age well

A good example of bad & good choices. Amplifying/platforming a purveyor of incendiary divisiveness like Shapiro is bad, pointless & doesn't help bring the temperature down. Amplifying/platforming a GOP governor like Cox who's been trying to lower the temperature - that's good.

This is coming from the leader of the Dem faction that spent a decade writing Wall Street critics out of the party & then spent 8 years vilifying "Bernie Bros." And notably - she's not saying expand the tent to include critics of corporate power. x.com/neeratanden/...

What part of the Hamilton sequel is it when the American president shuts down the First Amendment and then immediately goes and hangs out with literally the King of England?

I’m so old I worked on the campaign of a populist Democrat who won two elections in a red state campaigning in support of single-payer health care.

When Stillwater sells out and becomes a crypto VC firm

John Fetterman's former chief of staff running a billionaire-funded Beltway think tank telling Democrats to go out and shit on their own voters is almost too on the nose, as is this staff picture that looks like the advertisement for a VC firm that invests in crypto www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

The strange thing about this @ezraklein.bsky.social demand that Democrats run anti-choice candidates is that voters in these three states just rejected the anti-choice position in statewide ballot measures.

"If you actually follow the money behind what happened, there's a whole different story going on here..." Oscar-nominated co-writer of 'Don't Look Up', David Sirota, on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. #Newsnight

Stay tuned.

As my 4th book publishes, I realized they together tell the whole story of this era: 1. Hostile Takeover: the corporate takeover 2. The Uprising: the populist backlash 3. Back To Our Future: the dominance of 1980s Trumpy politics 4. Master Plan: the legalization of corruption LeverNews.com/book

As my 4th book publishes, I realized they together tell the whole story of this era: 1. Hostile Takeover: the corporate takeover 2. The Uprising: the populist backlash 3. Back To Our Future: the dominance of 1980s Trumpy politics 4. Master Plan: the legalization of corruption LeverNews.com/book

Here is some very good news: Despite the best efforts of the Trump administration, a giant fireball is on the verge of saving humanity. www.levernews.com/the-giant-fi...

The Dem Party’s response to the billionaire takeover of America is: - Launching a billionaire-funded deregulatory agenda called “abundance” - Launching a billionaire-funded Substack to create “arguments” - Launching a billionaire-funded think tank shitting on grassroots groups

I know the algorithms shadowban good news, but this is some legit great news - it's made me more optimistic about the future than I've felt in a very long time. If you're exhausted and bummed out, check this out. A giant fireball is going to save us. www.levernews.com/the-giant-fi...

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s wife is Willow Bay — dean of the USC School of Journalism. I wonder what she thinks of Bob Iger suspending Jimmy Kimmel & firing ABC News’ Terry Moran for the crime of offending Donald Trump.

I was on BBC Newsnight discussing the assault on the First Amendment. We need people to become subscribers to reader-supported news outlets. Consider becoming a subscriber to The Lever - but even if not us, go subscribe to another outlet. Corporate media won't save us. LeverNews.com/subscribe

I was on BBC Newsnight discussing the assault on the First Amendment. We need people to become subscribers to reader-supported news outlets. Consider becoming a subscriber to The Lever - but even if not us, go subscribe to another outlet. Corporate media won't save us. LeverNews.com/subscribe

"These companies have business before the very government and politicians that they are supposed to be holding accountable." – @davidsirota.com on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social, discussing the real reason Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off late night. More here: www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

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