David Sirota

Founder/editor-in-chief, The Lever. Oscar nominated for "Dont Look Up." Denverite.

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2026-05-03 21:42:50 UTC

giant overflow crowd at an event for Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner in Old Town, Maine on a rainy Sunday evening
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2026-04-15 21:13:13 UTC

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: A little-noticed IRS report show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited.
The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.
https://www.levernews.com/offshore-accounts-for-me-turbotax-for-thee/

2026-03-12 19:53:26 UTC

Hours after a poll shows California voters want to tax oligarchs, the oligarchs announced plans to simply buy all of California's elections.
What stage of oligarchy is this?
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2026-03-04 12:22:24 UTC

My social media post exposing Polymarket betting on nuclear war went so viral that Polymarket decided to shut down its nuclear war market.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymarket-shelves-nuclear-detonation-markets-after-outcry

2026-03-04 00:11:15 UTC

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
https://polymarket.com/event/nuclear-weapon-detonation-by-562
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2026-02-25 18:17:15 UTC

these are two headlines in the last 24 hours...humanity had a good run
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2026-02-18 23:51:20 UTC

🚨The Lever is now hiring 🚨
Amid mass layoffs of journalists, our award-winning, reader-supported news outlet is hiring reporters who want to do accountability journalism.
Please pass on this job listing to anyone you know who may be interested.
https://www.levernews.com/now-hiring-senior-investigative-reporter_2026/

2026-02-18 14:28:01 UTC

Obama and his entourage were so totally out of touch & entitled, they literally couldn’t believe that promising hope and change — and then bailing out their bank donors who were throwing 10 million families out of their homes — might create the kind of backlash FDR warned about.
What they did should be a cautionary tale for the Democratic Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/obama-trump-oral-history.html
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2026-02-13 00:52:34 UTC

Trump rescinding the EPA's endangerment finding will go to court.
Good: In 2007, the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases are pollutants that endanger human lives.
Bad: None of the justices who issued that ruling are on today's court - and 3 of 4 dissenting justices are.
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2026-02-13 00:25:40 UTC

just posting these two headlines here on the off chance that when a future civilization unearths the social media archives from the wreckage, they'll have a clue about one of the causes of the collapse
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2026-02-10 14:13:45 UTC

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2026-02-09 01:43:50 UTC

I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the rise of social media has happened at the same time as a societal mental health crisis.
People telling each other 24-7 that they’re pieces of shit or that they’re living better lives than everyone else has to be partially driving it.

2026-02-07 16:47:47 UTC

🚨NEW: You are facing flight delays and higher ticket fees thanks to private jet owners, who have gotten lawmakers to create special rules forcing everyone else to subsidize them at the country's most congested airports.
https://www.levernews.com/snakes-on-a-plane/

2026-02-04 14:29:41 UTC

The media world’s stunned “I can’t believe it” reaction to the awful WaPo layoffs shows that even now, so many in journalism implicitly assumed billionaires were going to rescue them.
This is another wake up call: oligarchs are not the benevolent saviors media have long depicted them to be.

2026-01-28 01:44:02 UTC

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable.
There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage.
Pass it on. https://sirota.substack.com/p/how-dems-could-end-immunity-for-ice

2026-01-26 20:54:47 UTC

I worked on my first campaign 30 years ago. It was against JB Pritzker. I learned a lesson about the problematic power of billionaire money in politics — a lesson that guided my life’s work. I recounted it in this new WashPost story about Pritzker (who I do think has been an OK gov).
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2026-01-25 20:09:05 UTC

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.
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2026-01-22 16:33:20 UTC

Part of the "democracy crisis" is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries having far more job security than the average NFL coach.

2026-01-18 05:24:53 UTC

If you loathe Trump & all that he's doing, you should be pissed at the opposition party that had all the power, money, celebrity & leverage to stop him - but refused to because they feared doing what was necessary to stop him mighta made their media pals & their donors too mad.

2025-09-26 13:47:38 UTC

We're weeks away from millions of Americans facing an economic cataclysm created entirely by Trump and Republican lawmakers' refusal to simply renew existing health care tax credits - and the devastation will be particularly acute in Republican states.
https://www.levernews.com/why-your-health-insurance-premiums-could-explode-next-year/
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2025-09-18 14:52:29 UTC

Remember when literally everyone in corporate media ridiculed Bernie Sanders for daring to say that oligarchs influence the media outlets they own? Good times.
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2025-09-18 13:32:31 UTC

If you truly want a free press & real journalism, it will have to be subscriber-supported independent media. Corporate media will not save us.
It’s why I’ve devoted my life to building an outlet from scratch.
Subscribe to an independent outlet today.
LeverNews.com/subscribe

2025-09-16 20:11:03 UTC

🚨INVESTIGATION: Tech firms marketing AI note-taking software to therapists have quietly included fine print that allows patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.
What stage of capitalism is this?
https://www.levernews.com/your-therapy-session-just-became-fodder-for-ai/

2025-09-15 18:54:15 UTC

If we’re not gonna force Big Tech to make their algorithms transparent, then at least these social media platforms should be required to provide users the option to only see posts from those they choose to follow in chronological order.
Call it the Don’t Algorithm Me, Bro law.

2025-09-13 16:37:01 UTC

It has always been tough to start something from scratch & it has always been tough to do independent non-corporate journalism.
Under today's political/economic conditions, it's especially difficult.
Huge thanks to The Lever's subscribers for making our work possible. Onward.

2025-09-11 13:12:43 UTC

I hesitate to even post this on the kind of platform fueling the crisis we're in.
It's almost certainly futile, as the algorithms don't want anyone to hear this kind of sentiment - which is a big part of the problem.
https://www.levernews.com/we-must-stop-this-civil-war-before-its-unstoppable/

2025-09-08 00:30:39 UTC

There's a health care cataclysm about to crash into you & your family.
We've been warning you about it.
Republicans are now feeling the pressure & are reportedly considering doing something to stop it.
If they don't, it'll be a disaster.
Pass it on👇
https://www.levernews.com/why-your-health-insurance-premiums-could-explode-next-year/

2025-09-05 00:36:15 UTC

Ticketmaster just quietly changed its fine print so that the next time you buy a ticket to a concert or a game, you'll be forced to sign away your legal rights.
Pass it on.
https://www.levernews.com/ticketmaster-just-locked-you-in-a-new-legal-prison/

2025-09-04 23:54:20 UTC

well, it’s truth in advertising and it’s honest, which is rare for Trump
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2025-09-04 15:58:30 UTC

This is what manufacturing consent looks like in 2025.
Elite media is asking you to believe that Democrats literally losing means they're winning, and elite media is also asking you to believe a Democrat who is actually winning is too risky.
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2025-09-01 14:58:19 UTC

LEVER TIME: How billionaires are trying to physically secede from the society they own.
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos shows how worker exploitation buys gigayachts, bunkers & spaceships — all powered by sociopathic greed & a desire to leave us behind.
https://www.levernews.com/the-grotesque-fruits-of-your-labor/

2025-08-30 23:59:23 UTC

A recent Rand study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90% of income earners.
The problem in America is not a lack of abundance.
The problem in America is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding all the abundance for themselves.
https://www.levernews.com/how-to-end-democrats-civil-war/

2025-08-26 22:38:12 UTC

🚨NEW STUDY: Large media outlets systematically omitted mention of data showing corporate profits helped drive inflation, instead citing industry talking points.
Lawmakers then cited those media narratives to justify ending aid to the working class.
https://www.levernews.com/greedflation-with-a-side-of-gaslighting/

2025-08-23 21:26:57 UTC

In the next few months, you & your family are likely to be pulverized by health insurance premium increases - and you probably haven't even heard about it.
But this absolutely IS happening - and more folks should probably be aware, because a lot of people are going to be seriously hurt.
https://www.levernews.com/why-your-health-insurance-premiums-could-explode-next-year/

2025-08-22 01:37:36 UTC

🚨BREAKING: Hours after The Lever's reporting, lawmakers abruptly defanged Big Tech's stealth legislation that could have shielded AI giants from consumer protection lawsuits.
Incredible accountability journalism from The Lever's Helen Santoro👇
https://www.levernews.com/lawmakers-backtrack-on-ais-get-out-of-jail-free-bill/

2025-08-21 20:22:55 UTC

American taxpayers spent $6 billion to develop Ozempic's key ingredient & yet now a foreign corporation gets to use our patent laws to charge Americans the world's highest prices for that drug that we already paid for.
What stage of capitalism is this?
https://www.levernews.com/youve-already-paid-6-billion-for-weight-loss-drugs-you-cant-afford/

2025-08-21 19:02:43 UTC

In a few months, a national healthcare disaster is likely to crush you and your family.
It could be prevented — but so far the Trump/media distraction machine has made sure few know about it & thus theres little pressure to stop the impending calamity.
https://www.levernews.com/why-your-health-insurance-premiums-could-explode-next-year/

2025-08-19 21:12:07 UTC

Trump's recent exec order will let private equity moguls tap your 401k.
Days after the order, data show private equity firms have been giving better investment returns to rich people & worse returns to workers.
That's about to happen at a mass scale.
https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-great-401-k-fib/

2025-08-17 18:47:56 UTC

Always read Tom Geoghegan. He speaks the truth.
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2025-08-15 15:31:55 UTC

The loneliness crisis afflicting men is real — and it’s altering our politics, our culture & our communities.
This is a deeply personal convo with NYT writer Sam Graham-Felsen about some of my own struggles with this & what can be done about the problem.
https://www.levernews.com/why-everybody-should-care-that-men-are-losing-their-deep-friendships/

2025-08-13 13:31:03 UTC

👀 INVESTIGATION: Millions of Americans may now be unknowingly trapped in employment agreements whose fine print lets their employers saddle them with fees & massive debt if they try to quit their jobs, according to court records reviewed by The Lever.
https://www.levernews.com/corporate-americas-new-ploy-to-trap-workers/

2025-08-11 13:06:39 UTC

I talk to director Ari Aster about his new Joaquin Phoenix/Pedro Pascal film, which shows how we’re being manipulated into hating & killing each other by oligarchs monetizing our anger.
https://www.levernews.com/ari-aster-thinks-youre-being-manipulated/

2025-08-07 18:29:15 UTC

Trump is about to let private equity billionaires loot 70 million Americans’ 401k accounts.
This could be history’s largest wealth transfer from workers to billionaires.
And it will barely be one day of headlines.
https://www.levernews.com/your-401-k-is-billionaires-next-bailout-scheme/

2025-08-05 12:08:14 UTC

Trump is considering an exec order to let private equity billionaires tap your 401k to bail themselves out.
One of the largest asset managers just admitted private equity is a Ponzi scheme.
Private equity owes $1.5 trillion to its current investors.
https://www.levernews.com/your-401-k-is-billionaires-next-bailout-scheme/

2025-08-04 15:57:50 UTC

Private equity firms owe their investors $1.5 trillion.
So private equity billionaires are pressing Trump to let them use your 401k to bail themselves out.
https://www.levernews.com/your-401-k-is-billionaires-next-bailout-scheme/

2025-08-01 20:41:54 UTC

just a reminder that in the last election no significant swath of voters actually voted for this and/or wanted this
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2025-07-21 15:24:03 UTC

🎧LEVER TIME: Trump's libel suits aim to make it cost-prohibitive for anyone to challenge power - big corporations & billionaires are now using the same tactics to threaten Americans who dissent.
NY Times reporter David Enrich on the murder of the truth. https://www.levernews.com/trump-colbert-and-the-war-on-truth/

2025-07-20 20:52:53 UTC

some good life advice
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2025-07-15 19:31:10 UTC

Republicans are throwing people off Medicaid in order to pay for a new tax break for Wall Street moguls when they take over companies and fire workers.
Here are the 8 most insane provisions they never told you they put in the One Big Beautiful Bill. https://www.levernews.com/eight-dirty-tricks-hiding-in-trumps-tax-bill/

2025-07-11 01:18:20 UTC

In the lead up to the Texas disaster, officials begged GOP lawmakers to fund a flood warning system — but those lawmakers & the Trump administration prioritized tax cuts as the requests were ignored.
Now, 99% of waterways are unmonitored for floods.
https://www.levernews.com/is-america-prepared-for-the-next-big-flood/

2025-07-03 00:27:58 UTC

this is media newspeak for "the bill robs the working class and enriches billionaires" - they're not allowed to just come out and say those facts, so it has to be more polite
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2025-07-02 23:34:18 UTC

Who's afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
- Billionaires who are being enriched by the affordability crisis
- Media people paid by billionaires
- Lawmakers, political operatives & think tank people bankrolled by billionaires
Pass it on👇
https://www.levernews.com/whos-afraid-of-zohran-mamdani/

2025-07-02 01:42:39 UTC

NEWS: Republican lawmakers quietly buried an obscure line in their tax cut bill that gives a $200 billion tax cut to their private equity donors when they take over companies, load them up with debt and fire all their workers. https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

2025-07-01 22:41:53 UTC

Trump's tax bill defunds the police who target Wall Street criminals (CFPB) and uses the savings to boost funding for the police who target immigrants (ICE).
This is what I mean when I say the Trump tax cut bill is the class war in legislative form. https://www.levernews.com/why-is-trump-rushing-to-pass-the-tax-cut-bill/

2025-07-01 18:20:38 UTC

New on LEVER TIME: PA Gov. Shapiro on why Republicans are rushing to pass the tax cut bill before the public learns whats in it & how it harms GOP voters who gave Trump the White House.
Shapiro is pressing PA Repubs to block it in the upcoming House vote.
https://www.levernews.com/why-is-trump-rushing-to-pass-the-tax-cut-bill/

2025-07-01 01:36:00 UTC

The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office reports that the One Big Beautiful Bill will reduce the yearly income of the poorest Americans by $1,600 & increase the yearly income of the richest Americans by $12,000.
Pass it on.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-06/61387-Distributional-Effects.pdf
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2025-06-28 18:37:46 UTC

The elite panic over Zorhan Mamdani's win is not about his strong-but-hardly-radical agenda.
The intensity of elites' freakout signals their bigger fear: for the first time, they couldnt buy an election, which makes them fear they may be losing power.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/zohran-mamdani-oligarchy-scared-new-york-1235373756/
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2025-06-28 14:15:13 UTC

How close are we to nuclear war? WAY closer than you think - and the world would end just 72 minutes after the launch of one nuke.
On LEVER TIME, I talk to one of the world's nuclear experts - and it was one of the scariest conversations I've ever had. https://www.levernews.com/seventy-two-minutes-until-the-end-of-the-world/

2025-06-27 16:24:20 UTC

NEW from me co-pubbed w/Rolling Stone:
The elite panic about Zohran Mamdani is about him being the first candidate to defeat the oligarchy & its master plan in a nationalized election. They fear they've lost power to determine political outcomes.
It's also why Obama-era Dem elites are panicking. https://www.levernews.com/whos-afraid-of-zohran-mamdani/

2025-06-26 19:47:31 UTC

This is the standard playbook by corporate media, Democratic pundits & politicians: pretend a winning lefty candidate’s success was style, charisma, “energy” & vibes, not their policy program.
It’s an attempt to delegitimize & kill any policy mandate.
https://www.levernews.com/zohran-mamdanis-mandate-is-a-democratic-earthquake/
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2025-06-24 16:59:25 UTC

NEWS: Stephen Miller invests in and stands to financially gain from the immigration crackdown that he's spearheading, according to new financial disclosure documents. https://www.levernews.com/dividends-for-stephen-miller-deportations-for-everyone-else/

2025-06-24 12:46:48 UTC

This is your Election Day reminder that Andrew Cuomo’s response to the mass death of his own voters was to rake in campaign money and try to block victims’ families from holding his donors accountable.
Cast your mayoral vote accordingly — pass it on. https://www.levernews.com/investigation-cuomo-gave-immunity/

2025-06-21 16:44:16 UTC

NEWS: Lawmakers added a line to Trump's tax bill that provides a tax break to private equity firms that buy up companies, load them up with debt, fire their workers & drive them into bankruptcy.
In effect, your boss gets a tax cut for firing you. https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

2025-06-20 16:39:11 UTC

SCOOP: Senators just quietly added a line to Trump's tax bill that gives private equity billionaires a tax break rewarding them for buying your company, loading it up with debt, slashing your pay & then firing you & your fellow workers.
https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

2025-06-20 00:48:27 UTC

🚨BIG SCOOP: Republicans quietly put a line in their tax bill that rewards their Wall Street donors with billions of dollars when they buy companies & then slash pay, close factories & fire workers, according to bill text reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/trump-tax-bill-bails-out-private-equitys-layoff-scheme/

2025-06-17 15:32:33 UTC

🚨NEW: Big Tech’s data centers are getting tax breaks, access to cheap power & new transmission lines — all funded by jacking up your electricity bills.
Example: Maryland Gov. Moore is helping tech moguls’ scheme amid huge rate hikes on the working class. https://www.levernews.com/big-tech-is-behind-your-massive-electric-bill/

2025-06-15 23:12:35 UTC

🚨NEWS: Senators bankrolled by crypto donors put a line in the crypto bill that says in bank collapses, holders of bank cryptocurrency get “priority” over regular depositors, meaning savings/checking accounts could be raided to bail out crypto investors. https://www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-bailout-fund-your-savings-account/

2025-06-12 00:59:03 UTC

🚨NEWS: Florida is about to ban risk standards when local governments invest public cash in bonds funding Israel’s government – as a credit agency warns the bonds risk default.
It’s a template for other states/cities to invest huge sums in Israel’s war. https://www.levernews.com/israels-war-is-floridas-new-investment/

2025-06-07 23:25:00 UTC

What stage of capitalism is this?
https://www.levernews.com/fda-approved-and-ineffective/
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2025-06-07 23:04:28 UTC

"Hundreds of drugs have been approved by the FDA on the basis of flimsy or nonexistent evidence that they offer any benefit & in many cases amid clear signs they pose a risk of serious harm."
Absolutely incredible investigative reporting - please share👇
https://www.levernews.com/fda-approved-and-ineffective/

2025-06-05 19:08:08 UTC

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors.
The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.
https://www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-bailout-fund-your-savings-account/
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2025-05-29 02:05:07 UTC

To disaffected voters, Trump doing Wall Street favors looks like Clinton, Bush & Obama doing the same; his library’s Qatari plane looks like the Clinton, Bush & Obama library boondoggles; His family grifting off the DC swamp looks the Bidens & Pelosis. https://www.levernews.com/how-to-combat-americas-culture-warrior-in-chief/

2025-05-20 22:26:33 UTC

🚨BREAKING: A CEO says he offered Trump IRS pick Billy Long an inauguration ticket & was promised an IRS "private letter ruling" by Long, according to recordings reviewed by The Lever.
The Lever recently exposed donors enriching Long after his nomination. https://www.levernews.com/ceo-says-trumps-irs-pick-promised-big-benefits/

2025-05-17 17:46:08 UTC

🚨NEWS: Republicans quietly put a line in their 1,000-page tax bill blocking states from preventing tech companies from using AI to raise your rent & deny you health insurance.
The provision has been a priority of Silicon Valley & the Abundance movement. https://www.levernews.com/gop-chooses-ai-dominance-over-democracy/

2025-05-14 17:43:55 UTC

🚨NEWS: Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid & use some of the savings to fund a tax cut for purchases of gun silencers.
The Lever discovered that the GOP slipped the gun-silencer tax break into the budget bill being debated in the U.S. House right now. https://www.levernews.com/a-tax-cut-for-mass-shootings/

2025-05-12 19:25:45 UTC

🚨NEWS: Pharma stocks jumped today after Trump's executive order this morning excluded using the one federal law that could actually reduce medicine prices.
Trump tried to block future presidents from ever using that law & RFK pledged not to invoke it. https://www.levernews.com/trump-already-disarmed-the-war-on-drug-prices/

2025-05-09 15:45:03 UTC

🚨INVESTIGATION: The aviation industry's corporate clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights is now selling that private info to the Trump administration's immigration police, according to federal documents reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/

2025-05-06 22:49:26 UTC

🚨THIS JUST HAPPENED: Last year, two oil CEOs were busted for conspiring with foreign governments to raise Americans' gas prices.
Then the pair of oil CEOs funneled cash to Trump's political machine.
Now Trump's regulators are ending their punishment. https://www.levernews.com/they-inflated-your-gas-prices-now-trump-wants-to-let-them-off-the-hook/

2025-04-26 14:14:49 UTC

🚨NEWS: Trump's EPA just shut down the government website letting you know where toxic chemical disasters could erupt in your community.
The move came after lobbying by chemical companies - and after big donations to Trump's inauguration. https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/

2025-04-21 20:04:59 UTC

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration just hid data that lets communities know about dangerous chemical facilities in their midst.
The move came after lobbying from the chemical industry — and after massive inauguration donations from chemical companies. https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/

2025-04-20 18:03:40 UTC

NEWS: Trump ended a federal probe of surveillance pricing — and now corporations are plotting to use his threat of tariffs to justify permanently raising prices on consumers.
“Now is the time to take advantage,” said one “price optimization” consultant https://www.levernews.com/how-trump-is-helping-price-gougers-exploit-his-tariffs/

2025-04-18 15:10:55 UTC

🚨NEWS: Citing The Lever’s reporting, a top Senate Democrat is calling for the withdrawal of Trump’s IRS nominee, who just received huge donations from campaign contributors at tax consultancies — and then used the cash to pay off his personal debt.
https://www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pick-was-just-enriched-by-tax-schemers/
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2025-04-18 01:29:09 UTC

David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025
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2025-04-17 18:22:31 UTC

#DontLookUp
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2025-04-12 22:24:18 UTC

A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that $79 TRILLION was taken from the bottom 90% of the country.
America’s problem is not a lack of “abundance.”
America’s problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance for themselves while everyone else suffers. https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

2025-04-12 21:11:08 UTC

An absolutely riveting, insane story about the industry that extracts massive profits from America’s prisoners.
Come for the Lamborghini, stay for the yacht named “Convict.” https://www.levernews.com/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/

2025-04-04 17:52:26 UTC

🚨NEWS: After a supermajority of Florida voters passed a minimum wage ballot measure, Republican lawmakers are now trying to gut the measure in an attempt to let employers underpay subminimum-wage workers — including children. https://www.levernews.com/florida-republicans-seek-to-gut-wildly-popular-minimum-wage-law/

2025-03-25 16:12:00 UTC

🚨NEWS: Gov. JB Pritzker just vetoed Dem legislation to protect Amazon workers.
The veto follows a Senate report showing Amazon workers face 30% more injuries than industry average. Injury rates at Amazon's Chicago warehouses have been above the average. https://www.levernews.com/billionaire-pritzker-boosts-billionaire-bezos/

2025-03-23 03:07:50 UTC

look I really genuinely like the Beatles but I’m not sure it’s getting better all the time

2025-03-22 19:16:41 UTC

Trump’s EPA is advancing a plan to block states from requiring companies to warn consumers about chemicals in food — and help block cancer victims’ herbicide lawsuits. https://www.levernews.com/the-plan-to-make-america-hazardous-again/

2025-03-20 19:01:00 UTC

NEW DATA: The Federal Reserve reports that just 4% of American households own any crypto, and most of it is in the hands of a tiny group of rich investors.
Trump’s new crypto bailout is a big wealth transfer from the working-class to a handful of moguls. https://www.levernews.com/who-actually-owns-crypto/

2025-03-20 12:32:44 UTC

Luxury cars, mansions, a superyacht called Convict, and wined-and-dined sheriffs — a legal war is exposing the business of extracting profits from prisoners.
Incredible reporting. A true must read. https://www.levernews.com/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/

2025-03-18 20:08:32 UTC

👀Trump just rescinded the rule designed to prevent bank collapses - and subsequent taxpayer bailouts of banks and their wealthy uninsured depositors.
The rule was put in place right after the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. https://www.levernews.com/bank-failures-for-all/

2025-03-18 18:09:23 UTC

🚨NEWS: Trump’s bank regulators just made a quiet move in court to help credit card companies try to kill state laws capping interest rates.
The legal filing came months after Trump promised to push credit card interest rate caps. https://www.levernews.com/trumps-gift-to-loan-sharks/

2025-03-13 23:29:34 UTC

🚨BREAKING: Trump just issued a blanket ethics waiver for the crypto mogul he appointed to oversee crypto & AI policy, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
David Sacks remains listed as a partner in a firm that invests in crypto & AI companies. https://www.levernews.com/trump-issues-ethics-waiver-for-his-ai-crypto-czar/

2025-03-10 21:29:28 UTC

🚨MUST READ: How Elon Musk's lawyers drafted legislation in a tiny state that could deliver Musk the largest payout in history - and permanently shield all corporate CEOs from shareholders & workers aiming to hold them accountable for wrongdoing. https://www.levernews.com/musk-has-triggered-a-corporate-deregulation-bomb/

2025-02-27 20:05:39 UTC

🚨SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has just imposed a $1 limit on firefighting officials' credit cards, blocking them from buying emergency firefighting supplies & travel to wildfires.
Trump has fired 3,400 forest service employees ahead of wildfire season. https://www.levernews.com/the-firefighting-fire-sale/

2025-02-26 23:31:27 UTC

NEWS: The Supreme Court just gave scammers and robocallers the legal right to endlessly spam your phone and harass you.
https://www.levernews.com/musks-empire-is-reaping-2-million-per-day-from-trump/
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2025-02-25 18:24:57 UTC

🚨NEWS: A radio giant funneled cash to a Ted Cruz super PAC that produces his podcast & then Cruz began pushing a bill to enrich the radio giant & boost GOP talk radio - in a way that may now raise car prices.
Cruz just got the FEC to legalize the scheme. https://www.levernews.com/ted-cruz-just-legalized-more-corruption/

2025-02-15 21:00:44 UTC

This is the real gulf of America
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