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  1. "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

    levernews.com/the-democrat-who

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

    (1/?)

    #podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime

  2. "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."

    levernews.com/the-secret-recor

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

  3. "... 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."

    levernews.com/the-secret-recor

    #podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime #Israel #Netanyahu

  4. 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."

    share.transistor.fm/s/439b138b

    #podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime #ArjunSingh #OrganisedLabour