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🧠 NEW: Wall Street. Epstein files. Ticketmaster chaos. Let’s see if you’re paying attention. www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...

Whatever you say about Trump, his innate sense of knowing when to time a plot-twist to keep the audience watching is uncanny. Wow

I wonder what fmr. Sen Bob Menendez, who was convicted for taking a gold bar bribe from foreign agents, is thinking right now from his prison cell?

Hockey is already one of the most expensive youth sports. I couldn’t imagine paying costs like this for my kids. Read this crazy story by @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social

The only way this happens is using chatGPT to write your paper. Unbelievable. www.notus.org/health-scien...

After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...

this chart can be retitled as "Motherf**kin' Boomers, Man" (via @levernews.com daily newsletter levernews.com/new-yorks-sore-winners/)

Loving exploring this new @moreperfectunion.bsky.social interactive database perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...

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And here it is. Next is SBF. Along with George Santos the whole fraudster class of 2024 will be free by end of year www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I just unloaded a year’s worth of thoughts on Anthony Kennedy’s legacy in a new piece for @slate.com 👇

👇what’s new is old

The Catholic Church showed up in Chicago on Saturday. And, we need to keep showing up. "They are afraid of people of faith." religionnews.com/2025/10/15/i...

I watched the whole thing. As a producer who has directed 100’s of videos, I can say: Katie Porter was right. Get the fuck out of the shot!

My new book I coauthored with @davidsirota.com is out now! The epic history of how corruption was legalized in America.

I’ve been digging into a SCOTUS case that could gut what’s left of campaign finance law — letting parties openly coordinate with mega-donors. My new @levernews.com investigation: truthout.org/articles/inside-the-campaign-to-dismantle-the-last-remaining-limits-on-campaign-spending/

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The revolution will not be caffeinated

An “expansive view of presidential authority…”

Dalio’s someone that investors and wall street actually listens to. So for him to state this so directly shows how global money people are thinking about where things are headed. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/b...

I always say please in my prompts to ChatGPT. I can’t help it on.ft.com/41ZIce2

🚨CRUEL SUMMER 2025 ICE is now hiding mass deportation flights by using an obscure legal loophole created by the private jet lobby & designed for (and used by) celebrities like Taylor Swift. www.levernews.com/ice-is-using...

New write up. Thx @ceprdc.bsky.social

The story that inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.

Trump’s Invasion Of D.C. Started On K Street www.levernews.com/trumps-invas...

The internet is truly cooking our brains

During the Gilded Age, demonstrations and political organizing led to reforms that reduced corporate influence over elections. Today, intense pressure from the public is needed to fight corruption and restore accountability. bit.ly/4mcMsPL

This little detail in the NYT story about Zuck’s house compound in Palo Alto stood out for me

This story of how a reporter spent years fighting to get government records about the sale of a Wu-Tang album is pretty wild >>>

I can't even. How? apnews.com/article/mort...

Dem lawmakers are pretending to be anti corruption as cover to unleash crypto into banking system www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...

“Facing Trump’s increasingly undeniable fascist designs, the impulse to forge cross‑ideological alliances to defend what remains of the rule of law is understandable—indeed, essential. But the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.” www.weekendreading.net/p/trumps-spl...

Whatever “abundance” meant when liberal Dems started using it, this forum with Chamber types proves it’s jumped the shark. I Ctrl+F’d “abundance”… 34 times! RIP, abundance. It’s now the 2025 buzzword for mega-capitalists to soft-pedal their same old agenda. www.youtube.com/live/15Ccc7W...

David Sirota Denver-Based Podcast Wins National Press Club Award

mazel tov! great news — and a great series. well done!!

dark money for me, but not for thee kansasreflector.com/2025/05/19/k...

With each passing week it becomes more clear that the Unitary Executive theory is the core doctrine of this Administration at every level. newrepublic.com/post/195519/...

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Great example of #FollowTheMoney from @opensecrets.org: CSI Aviation has scored $650 million in ICE contracts—including a $219m no-bid deal for deportation flights. The company is owned by longtime GOP donors Allen and Rebecca Weh… and even hosted a Trump campaign rally in Albuquerque.

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A disturbing revelation by @katyaschwenk.bsky.social

More crypto and the Trump family. What a historic grift these people are pulling off nypost.com/2025/05/06/b...

Amazing www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Podcasts for shows have replaced this and they work just as well IMO

Is trump’s crypto scheme the most openly corrupt thing that has ever happened in America? I’m actually wondering if there’s a example in US history that is this level of bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

“Wiping and disposing”? Or wiping and giving to some undisclosed 3rd party to sell?

The backstory to the podcast …Tax Revolt

So to brace for the massive tariff crisis, Stellantis shareholders decided to loot the register instead of investing in factories? Huh. Guess they skipped the part in Trump’s EOs about reindustrializing America.