🚨 SCOOP: Trump's admin is sabotaging a critical program that provides legal defense for unaccompanied migrant children. An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).

A private investigator. Psychics. Calls to the FBI. Dozens of reports to regulators. A million dollar legal battle. A restraining order. An arrest warrant. American surrogacy raked in approximately $5 billion in 2024. What can go wrong?

🚨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. www.levernews.com/ceo-says-tru...

Amid a near-total asylum ban, the Trump admin is using funds reserved for the most vulnerable refugees to resettle white South Africans in the U.S. The first group of Afrikaners could arrive within days, per internal documents viewed by @katyaschwenk.bsky.social www.levernews.com/trump-taps-r...

Tariffs are looming, but the United States is still exporting its most extreme ideas. 🤝 Canada's conservative groups are covertly trying to create their own DOGE — and they're being spurred on by Big Oil and Big Tech, as reported by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social www.levernews.com/the-conserva...

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...

✈️ private equity firms moving into the increasingly outsourced, unregulated industry responsible for fixing airplanes ? seems fine. @katyaschwenk.bsky.social reports on yet another distressing new aviation trend for you to start worrying about www.levernews.com/wall-street-...

😮‍💨 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...

I saw a $15 carton of eggs last week 🥚 (Eggflation is real). But, as @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social reports, factory farms are blaming high prices on animal welfare laws in order to boost their margins, crush independent farms + expand CAFOs (despite the avian flu). www.levernews.com/animal-farm-...

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...

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incredible story from @sampollak.bsky.social

aaaand now it all makes sense

California’s oil and gas companies have starved California's budget of billions in taxes for decades, as the state was routinely forced to cut funding for firefighters. New from @freddy-brewster.bsky.social and me @levernews.com www.levernews.com/how-big-oil-...

🚨 NEW: Fossil fuel giants have spent decades exploiting an obscure California state tax break to avoid paying up to $146M of annual tax revenue — revenue that could be used to fight the fires currently raging across LA. www.levernews.com/how-big-oil-...

The insurance companies that dropped homeowners' fire coverage in California are simultaneously offering coverage to fossil fuel companies that are creating the climate-crisis conditions for ever larger and more destructive wildfires.

unions for cops 🤝 but not for striking workers

Prisoners are denied basic rights — including the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. When they bring their claims of egregious medical neglect, sexual violence, and brutality to court, federal courts systematically fail them. www.businessinsider.com/eighth-amend...

🚨BREAKING: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield tells us they will NOT go forward with previously planned changes to their anesthesia coverage. "There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result, we have decided to not proceed."

"Victor Hidalgo is the most recent delivery worker killed this year. On Oct. 30 while delivering for Capsule, an online prescription-delivery service app, Hidalgo was hit by an ambulance." documentedny.com/2024/12/05/d...

The reporting team at @levernews.com spoke last night with @jeffhauser.bsky.social about the kind of corruption we can expect in a second Trump administration. Listen here 👇 www.levernews.com/live-event-d...

NEW | @hajmedd.bsky.social and I spent the last several months digging into McKinsey's work with its fossil fuel clients. Here's our story with the Guardian, ft. Koch Industries, China and a controversial Saudi government program to hook poor countries on oil www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump's transportation secretary pick isn't just a notorious reality TV star - he's a longtime airline industry shill. Important @levernews.com reporting from @katyaaaa.bsky.social & @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social: www.levernews.com/trump-gives-...

Great background here on Trump’s Transportation pick that goes beyond “reality TV star.” His background lobbying for deregulation in the airline industry (among other issues) could make travel more dangerous via @katyaaaa.bsky.social @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social www.levernews.com/trumps-trans...

“The fact is that in this market, we have an oligopoly. And the people that Mr. Duffy represented as a lobbyist — they are that oligopoly,” @wjm-air.bsky.social told me and @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social on Trump's pick for Transportation Secretary: www.levernews.com/trumps-trans...

🚨NEWS: Trump’s pick to head the Department of Transportation could make travel more dangerous. Sean Duffy, former airline lobbyist, wants to deregulate the industry even further 👇 www.levernews.com/trumps-trans...

back on The New Abnormal with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social to discuss the @levernews.com story I reported about our impending regulatory disaster 👍 www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...

posting is embarrassing enough without having to post the same thing on two identical platforms...

The New Abnormal Podcast w/ Danielle( @daniellemoodie.bsky.social )Moodie & Andy( @andylevy.net )Levy "Don’t Overlook How Bad This Lesser-Known Trump Nominee Is" Lucy Dean( @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social )Stockton, Jared( @jaredlholt.bsky.social )Holt www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...

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Thanks to Dem gambles & GOP deregulatory frenzy, 800+ Biden reforms could soon be repealed, including lead poisoning protections, emission reductions, and automatic flight refunds. Huge new @levernews.bsky.social story from @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social www.levernews.com/the-biden-re...

A Republican deregulatory frenzy and a series of Democratic gambles could make hundreds of Biden's final policy initiatives and landmark rules, from lead remediation to methane regulation, vulnerable to permanent repeal. www.levernews.com/the-biden-re...

Thanks to Republican deregulatory frenzy and Democratic gambles, many of Biden's final policy initiatives and landmark rules, from lead poisoning protections to methane regulations, could soon be wiped away — forever. www.levernews.com/the-biden-re...

for the record, I've always been against edgelords :)

last week was the acceptance part of the serenity prayer, this week and forevermore is the courage part :)

chances are there's a corporation profiting off your misery and a politician letting it happen just fyi

Insightful stuff via The Lever on how democracy has been hijacked by corporations and rich. They "buy public policy", eroding faith in government, Blue or Red, and so to "the down-ballot" horror Tuesday night. www.levernews.com/the-democrac... @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social @miloprcohen.bsky.social

🚨TODAY: Join the The Lever’s team of journalists as they break down what actually happened last night. Our LIVE discussion begins at 12P ET — don’t miss it: www.levernews.com/postelection...

if one more person tells me "at least this will be good for [journalism] business" I'm gonna flip

The New Abnormal Podcast w/ Danielle( @daniellemoodie.bsky.social )Moodie & Andy( @andylevy.net )Levy "Donald Trump Could Be Elon Musk’s Ultimate Cash Cow" Lucy( @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social )Dean Stockton, Gabriel( @gabrielsnyder.bsky.social )Snyder www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...

ExxonMobil isn't betting the "transition away from fossil fuels will play out at a much slower pace than the White House plans." ExxonMobil is paying off Congress to delay it — $12,174,325 in campaign donations since 2014. The corruption is killing us.

miss the little blue bird if ykwim