🎧LEVER TIME: Violent crime has hit a historic low but media tells the public that violent crime is skyrocketing - now Trump is using the misconception to militarily occupy cities ahead of the 2026 election & Dems are validating his crime demagoguery. www.levernews.com/trumps-crime...

How “copaganda” is helping expand Trump’s authoritarian rule. www.levernews.com/trumps-crime...

🚨NEWS: Trump's DOJ just abandoned the defense of anti-corruption laws in a JD Vance case aiming to expand Citizens United. To defend the law, the Supreme Court has appointed a former Roberts clerk who argued to limit the scope of anti-bribery laws. www.levernews.com/citizens-unl...

With regulators on the sidelines, a corporate litigator close to conservative Supreme Court justices is stepping in to defend a case that could unleash unlimited political spending. www.levernews.com/citizens-unl...

Today in LEVER DAILY: Robot umps.

As Congress investigates social media radicalization, Trump’s allies are spared. www.levernews.com/were-all-loo...

NEW: How Bill Clinton & corporate Dems joined with Republicans to destroy local & independent media & create Big Media’s consolidated censorship machine that controls America’s discourse. A case for Dems repealing Clinton’s law if they ever regain power. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...

A 1996 law from a Democratic president created Donald Trump’s censorship machine by consolidating media, broadband, and tech firms. We can stop it. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...

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...

The Trump administration asked corporations to identify regulatory “burdens” — now they’re building a hit list of their most hated consumer protection laws. www.levernews.com/corporate-am...

🚨 NEW: Loeffler cashes out... again.

Big Pharma is turning to mergers and acquisitions as the industry is set to lose billions to expired patents by 2030. www.levernews.com/pharmas-236-...

While announcing a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa workers, the Trump administration outlined the path to lucrative exceptions for its allies. www.levernews.com/pay-for-play...

The last week has made painfully clear for all to see that corporate media will never hold the powerful accountable. Now is the time to take a stand & build independent media. Directly fund The Lever's independent investigative journalism with this 50% off discount: www.levernews.com/50-off-social

The real reason they pulled Jimmy Kimmel, the new paramilitary contractor in town, and more from The Lever this week. www.levernews.com/lever-weekly...

What part of the upcoming 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?

"This is the energy that makes sense going forward." @billmckibben.bsky.social discusses the solar energy revolution's positive tipping point & the Sun Day nationwide action taking place tomorrow. Hear the full Lever Time episode: www.levernews.com/the-giant-fi...

Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up. www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...

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...

Homebuilding giant Lennar has launched an e-marketplace, with a potential “kickback scheme,” to help corporate landlords buy up properties and raise rents. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

Sixteen states have bucked new Trump restrictions and allow all residents to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but major pharmacy chains’ websites still say otherwise. www.levernews.com/pharmacies-b...

The algorithms shadowban good news, but this is some legit great news. If you're exhausted and bummed out, check this out. A giant fireball might actually save us. www.levernews.com/the-giant-fi...

America’s real-life Lorax says the climate apocalypse might be averted after all. www.levernews.com/the-giant-fi...

Sirota was on BBC Newsnight discussing the assault on the First Amendment. We need more robust 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...

First, they cancelled Stephen Colbert; now they’ve pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air. The common denominator? Corporate power. Help build independent media now with 50% off The Lever forever: levernews.com/50-off-social

NEWS: FCC Chair Brendan Carr abruptly shifted his position on censorship & speech policing after being appointed by Trump — a reminder that Senate Repubs once warned “an independent agency like the FCC could be so unduly influenced by the White House” www.levernews.com/swipe-right-...

Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data. www.levernews.com/mychart-rewr...

The corporate capture of America’s media is reaching its terrifying conclusion. 🚨 Support independent media right now with this 50% off forever discount: levernews.com/50-off-social

TIMELINE: - Kimmel makes late-night joke - FCC chair threatens companies running Kimmel - Nexstar throws Kimmel off its stations as it begs FCC chair for merger approval - Disney suspends Kimmel as it begs Trump DOJ to approve Fubo deal FOLLOW THE MONEY👇 www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

🎧LEVER TIME: In the Trump Era, CEOs see capitulation to government censorship as a tolerable cost of doing business. This isn’t a left-vs-right spat about a comic. This is a follow-the-money scandal about monopoly & your free speech rights. Podcast👇 www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

This censorship isn’t about jokes — it’s about serving corporate interests. www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

🚨NEWS: Nexstar's decision to remove Jimmy Kimmel comes as the company is asking the Trump administration for merger approval and also lobbying the Trump FCC to end local ownership rules so that the company can buy up more markets.

🎧LEVER TIME: Billionaire-owned algorithms are monetizing everyone’s work and anger — all to fund the gigayachts, luxury bunkers and spaceships that keep billionaires at a comfortable distance from the mayhem they are profiting from. www.levernews.com/the-grotesqu...

Automated medical scribes are tapped into your therapy session... and they want to use it to train more AI.

Today in LEVER DAILY: The Department of Defense’s multimillion-dollar push to control the narrative through sports, culture, and entertainment.

🚨BIG NEWS: Republicans just quietly added a line to a defense bill that would empower the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth to deploy armed private mercenaries inside the U.S. at the southern border for the first time in American history. www.levernews.com/defense-bill...

🚨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? www.levernews.com/your-therapy...

Artificial intelligence note-takers are listening in on your therapy sessions while retaining the right to “exploit” patient data. www.levernews.com/your-therapy...

"It's not enough to have the right policies. If you have the right policies and you don't have the capacity to educate the public, you might as well be on the moon, or on the outer rings of Saturn." – @rbreich.bsky.social Full episode: www.levernews.com/robert-reich...

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🎧LEVER TIME PODCAST: A frank conversation with Robert Reich about his own difficult journey and his self-critical argument about the Boomer generation’s failures sowing the seeds of much of what we’re now living through. www.levernews.com/how-the-boom...

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: How Zillow & Rocket’s promises of simple one-click homebuying can camouflage schemes to monopolize home lending & funnel Americans into more expensive high-fee mortgages. Really important reporting from Helen Santoro👇 www.levernews.com/one-stop-rea...

Behind the convenience of Zillow and Rocket Mortgage’s all-in-one homebuying services, experts warn of a debt system that deceives and squeezes consumers. www.levernews.com/one-stop-rea...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged from hiding to praise some of the Biden Administration’s closest corporate allies. www.levernews.com/kamala-harri...

"There is no center between fascism and democracy." – @rbreich.bsky.social Full episode at www.levernews.com/robert-reich...

Conservative operations tied to judicial puppetmaster Leonard Leo are backing a rule that would ban VA-provided abortions, even in life-threatening situations. www.levernews.com/dark-money-g...

🎧LEVER TIME: Robert Reich recounts his experience working with presidents & seeing the Dem Party’s capitulation to corporate power — which he says helped create conditions for Trump’s rise. He discusses how to fight corruption & save the country. www.levernews.com/robert-reich...

Robert Reich explains how his generation’s political flaws fueled Trump’s rise and the demise of the Democrats. www.levernews.com/how-the-boom...

After decades advising presidents, the former Secretary of Labor is sounding the alarm. www.levernews.com/robert-reich...