NEW: Romney pushed tax cuts for his fellow moguls, vilified the bottom 47% as tax scofflaws & fortified a rigged system. He now published a NYT oped calling for tax hikes, but offers no apology for his record. Why do the powerful only change after they have no power to fix crises they created?

In 2016, data showed lawmakers on key committees were getting sweetheart loans. Now, lawmakers who ascend to leadership see a 47 point gain in stock returns. And Trump is using pardons to end corruption prosecutions. The master plan has created a national emergency.

This #GivingTuesday my wife Molly and I will DOUBLE the first $50K in donations to St. Joseph Center - a great organization that does so much to help our friends and neighbors who need a boost. stjosephctr.org/jimmyandmoll...

⚡️NEW: U.S. Mercenary Firm Tied to Notorious Aid Scheme Is Recruiting for New Gaza Deployment UG Solutions, which provided security for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been interviewing ex-soldiers for “robust security” operations. By Sharif Abdel Kouddous www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-ghf-u...

NEWS: Airlines raked in $157 BILLION of "ancillary" revenue last year off fees for bags, seat selection and other junk fees. Trump's Transportation Department - which is headed by former airline lobbyist Sean Duffy - is repealing consumer protection rules for airline customers.

As a part of the Miss Piggy generation, I just want to leave this right here. 😘

THREAD. One of the most damning flaws in the worldviews of essentially every pundit on MSNBC, columnist in the New York Times, peddler of "Abundance," and consultant for Democrats is that they downplay or ignore the repressive power of the punishment bureaucracy and associated industries.

Oligarchs executed a master plan to deregulate campaign finance & kill off anti-bribery laws so they could buy elections. Their elite panic about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the oligarchy showing how afraid they are that their master plan is no longer working. LeverNews.com/book

A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%. Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance. America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance. Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.

In this election, the people have two separate but equally important choices: a city they can afford or the billionaire-backed politics of the past. Our new ad just aired during Law & Order.

In fact, Cuomo set up a "pass-through company" specifically to hide the names of his clients. What little we know was only revealed by investigative reporting. And it's not pretty.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

Here's my full interview with Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com.

At @levernews.com, we do a lot of health care reporting. It is great to see it amplified by @lastweektonight.com Subscribe to The Lever’s free daily newsletter at LeverNews.com/daily — and please repost this.

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

New York City is not for sale. Our new ad begins airing tomorrow.

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Joe Gebbia is the billionaire co-founder of AirBnB, a close friend of Elon Musk, and worked to gut the federal government with DOGE. And he just gave the single largest donation to Cuomo’s super PAC since the primary.

An important message to the people of New York City. More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

The billionaire takeover of media is designed to shield oligarchs & politicians from accountability. It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book. We preview the documents today in The Guardian. Order the book: LeverNews.com/book

What stage of capitalism is this? “The airline industry is contesting a new FAA rule that would force airlines to address serious flaws in potentially thousands of Boeing 737 planes — and they have powerful industry-connected allies in the Trump administration.”

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

"This is the pro-Israel looking after one of its own. This is DEI for pro-Israel folks. This is, 'How do we help Bari Weiss and how do we help ourselves control CBS News?'" Me on 'Ask the Editor' yesterday on CBS's purchase of The Free Press. Full show: zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...

David Letterman on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful, or because you’re trying to suck up to an authoritarian— a criminal—administration in the Oval Office.

🎧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...

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Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann lays bare the origins of the scheme to take from the poor and give to the rich in his brilliant book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism. #MustRead @hartmannreport.com gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...

My hope is that with his death, Charlie Kirk achieves a more positive influence on America than he did in his entire racist, anti-LBGTQ life: to highlight the scourge of gun violence that is singularly destroying our country.

Charlie Kirk wasn't killed by political violence. Charlie Kirk was killed by *gun* violence.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Just did The Breakfast Show with Charlamagne and the team, talking Zohran Mamdani and Trump, and also responding to Ben Shapiro on Gaza and genocide. Out tomorrow.

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.

Bless these brave women!

Last night I signed Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files. Time to see who fights for the people, and who fights for the corrupt elites.

There’s a reason the White House is pushing hard against this discharge petition.   I’m signing so that the truth comes out. The survivors of Epstein’s abuse—and the American people—deserve answers.

WTAF? www.tiktok.com/@moreperfect...

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

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Understand that Israel assassinated Anas Al-Sharif after approving the plan to invade Gaza City. They knew he would not leave the city and would cover the assault and killed him ahead of it. Let’s just be very clear here.

1997 Trump victim 🥲🫶 Amy Dorris Age: 24, Location: US Open “[Trump] shoved his tongue down my throat…I was pushing him off…his grip became tighter & his hands were very gropey & all over my butt, breasts, back, everything. I was in his grip, & I couldn’t get out of it.” Release the #EpsteinFiles

THE Cuomo Dossier

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Wake up Lefties open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...

Master Plan won the 2025 National Press Club Award and the NY Festivals gold award for investigative journalism. Just got the trophies. Thanks to The Lever’s audio team that made the series’ first season. Stay tuned for news of the second season! MasterPlanPodcast.com

Because Epstein’s death is in the news, I thought I’d share this video from 2019.