Holy shit. This is insanely unethical

One of the country's most temperate cities, with natural air conditioning, should build a lot more housing so more people can live there and not some sweltering part of the country (or the state)

Powerful and chilling stuff

The DOJ keeps changing its reasons on why you shouldn't see the Epstein files www.levernews.com/court-record...

The DOJ keeps changing its reasons on why you shouldn't see the Epstein files www.levernews.com/court-record...

🚨 New Abundance discourse just dropped: California Democrats are trying to create new red tape to stall millionaire taxes that fund affordable housing — all to the benefit of corporate monopolists limiting new home construction. www.levernews.com/the-abundanc...

Local officials begged for money to fund a new flood warning system. Lawmakers rejected the requests & instead passed tax cuts for their wealthy donors. 99% of rivers are now unmonitored for floods — your town could be next. Pass it on. www.levernews.com/is-america-p...

🚨NEWS: While passing huge tax cuts for billionaires, lawmakers refused to fully fund the federal flood warning network, leaving 99% of rivers unmonitored, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. Trump is right now pushing a 22% budget cut. www.levernews.com/amid-deadly-...

“How do you take on a powerful, shadowy force that most people have never heard of? Can a bureaucratic system be held responsible for the death of someone’s son? Does one person, no matter how angry, stand a chance to make a difference?” My latest for @levernews.com www.levernews.com/can-one-angr...

jesus FUCK bsky.app/profile/dvnj...

I wrote about Pablo Torre's reporting on the NFL collusion case and what it means for sportswriting and labor politics www.wideleft.football/p/guaranteed...

At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.

Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods. The program would cost just $130 million. www.levernews.com/amid-deadly-...

Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods. The program would cost just $130 million. www.levernews.com/amid-deadly-...

"'If Dems bail on [the GENIUS Act], they will get 0 dollars going forward,' said Avichal Garg, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Electric Capital, which focuses on digital asset technology like cryptocurrency. 'It would be political suicide for them not to support it.'"

Remember when Cory Booker talked for a long time though

The Lever's @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social and @freddy-brewster.bsky.social are out with a devastating piece on the ways the crypto industry is absolutely pulling the strings of pro-crypto Democrats. ‪Trump's corruption? Who cares. Financial stability? Fuck it. They want a payoff. Now.

A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway. www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...

a multimillionaire reality TV star has made a single Florida county the world's biggest investor in Israel's genocide, & now has ensured there are no state restrictions to invest in junk war bonds! this could funnel millions more public $ to Israel: www.levernews.com/israels-war-...

BREAKING: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly forcing employees to break state laws by complying with a Trump ICE subpoena to hand over sensitive immigration information. www.levernews.com/whistleblowe...

🚨 NEWS: Trump’s SEC just handed Elon yet another win www.levernews.com/teslas-great...

🚨 NEWS: Trump’s SEC just handed Elon yet another win www.levernews.com/teslas-great...

SCOOP: Billy Long was invited to attend Trump’s inauguration as the guest of a financial services CEO who said Long promised him benefits for his company, according to a recording obtained by The Lever www.levernews.com/ceo-says-tru...

It should be deeply concerning to Dems & Republicans alike that executives at companies accused of selling fraudulent tax credits have literally lined the pockets of the man nominated to lead the IRS. This concerning conduct should disqualify Long from leading the IRS issueone.org/press/issue-...

Great reporting but failing to mention CalMatters’ own CEO played a critical role in this bill’s destruction and that CalMatters gets a ton of Google money is insanely unethical.

Reporting done by me and my @levernews.com colleagues helped spur a Senate investigation into Trump's IRS nominee www.levernews.com/senators-pro...

cutting health care for the working class in order to fund a special tax break for gun silencers

As Republicans try to slash Medicaid, their tax bill including a new tax cut on purchases of gun silencers. waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u...

🚨 NEWS: A California bill being pushed by Big Tech-backed Dems could inadvertently give Trump control of the state's energy markets. A State Senate analysis warns: "Under this bill, California would open the state up to federal challenges.” www.levernews.com/a-potential-...

great thread on our reporting on how an airline-owned financial intermediary is selling your travel data to ICE:

“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.” www.levernews.com/airlines-are...

What #RachelMaddow was talking about in a segment of #TheRachelMaddowShow on Friday April 18 on #MSNBC TV 📺. She womansplained what went on, so even I could understand it! ❗❕👇👇👇

NEW and EXCLUSIVE: Biden's DOJ promised to crackdown on corporate crime, instead Biden's prosecutors ushered in one of the most lenient eras in modern history for white collar criminals. www.levernews.com/bidens-soft-...

Truly insane story that involves executives who allegedly made fake tax shelters helping pay off the campaign debt of the man set to oversee the IRS and potential investigations into their schemes. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

Political donors just paid off IRS Commissioner-nominee Billy Long's $130,000 debt with this one weird trick. Read more from @levernews.com citing @issueonereform.bsky.social www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

Truly insane story that involves executives who allegedly made fake tax shelters helping pay off the campaign debt of the man set to oversee the IRS and potential investigations into their schemes. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

😮‍💨 Credit unions are supposed to be the good guys. But @freddy-brewster.bsky.social found that they're just as interested in charging (and hiding) the junk fees they charge consumers (from overdraft penalties to insufficient fund fees) as the big, bad banks. www.levernews.com/trump-lets-g...

Leonard Leo is sooo back (to dismantle the government). @freddy-brewster.bsky.social found that more than a dozen groups he's affiliated with filed amicus briefs in the latest case pushing SCOTUS to further gut federal agencies' power. 🤠 www.levernews.com/a-dark-money...

Watching these groups in action is like a swarm of droids going after a target. And they’re all being controlled by one guy.

🚨 SCOOP: Leonard Leo's dark money machine is not only bankrolling one of the involved parties on the case, it has also dumped more than $20 million into 13 legal groups that filed amicus briefs with SCOTUS. www.levernews.com/a-dark-money...

www.levernews.com/the-secret-s... @freddy-brewster.bsky.social

Terrific reporting from @freddy-brewster.bsky.social @levernews.com on big business's dark-money efforts to squash a judicial proposal to bring sunlight to the shadowy world of amicus brief influence. www.levernews.com/the-secret-s...

🚨 NEWS: The Trump EPA is trying to limit states' ability to regulate glyphosate, the chemical used in RoundUp which has links to cancer, and other Big Ag chemicals. www.levernews.com/the-plan-to-...

🚨 NEWS: The Trump EPA is trying to limit states' ability to regulate glyphosate, the chemical used in RoundUp which has links to cancer, and other Big Ag chemicals. www.levernews.com/the-plan-to-...

"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Trump’s administration is working at a breakneck pace to rewrite the federal government in favor of billionaires and corporate interests. Where will this leave the rest of us non-billionaires? Join us TONIGHT at 8pm ET on Zoom with Accountable.US to discuss.

"Preemptively retreating doesn't seem like the kind of strategy we want!" @davidsirota.com on how Dems should be confronting Trump's fake populism with real economic populism.

👀NEWS: Documents show the Senate Banking Committee chairman has been pressing regulators to let banks charge you higher fees - all while he's raking in millions of dollars of Wall St campaign cash. Now he's trying to kill a rule limiting overdraft fees.

🚨 NEWS: Tim Scott has received more than $5.3 million in campaign donations from banking, securities, and investment interests since 2009. And he is "proud" to let his donors charge their customers junk fees. www.levernews.com/tim-scott-is...

To understand what’s behind “Red, White, and Blueland,” you have to know what Trump donors’ financial interests in Greenland are. Read more: www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-... @levernews.com