Wall Street found four new ways to kill you — and call it efficiency.

More than 1,200 women say Pfizer’s birth-control shot caused brain tumors. Now the company is using a legal defense that could stop their cases before they’re heard.

This is what happens when billion-dollar platforms control the home-buying process from search to loan. Convenience for them. Higher payments for you. Listen to the full Lever Time episode: www.levernews.com/the-zillow-a...

Women say Depo-Provera caused their brain tumors. Pfizer is invoking a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them. www.levernews.com/brain-tumors...

“Every basis point counts.” — CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on how Rocket’s real-estate arm allegedly steered buyers to its own mortgage lender. Produced by @natalierbett.bsky.social for Lever Time 🏠 Full episode → link in bio #RohitChopra #HousingMarket #InvestigativeJournalism

After Trump cleared the way for Polymarket to operate legally in the U.S., Wall Street wants a piece of the prediction market’s profits. www.levernews.com/wall-street-...

At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Apple is preventing communities from sharing information about ICE raids. www.levernews.com/big-tech-doe...

Over at @levernews.com, we investigated how one-stop real estate shops like Zillow and Redfin may actually be hurting homebuyers – and the U.S. economy. For today's Lever Time episode, I spoke with @helenwsantoro.bsky.social about what her reporting uncovered: www.levernews.com/the-zillow-a...

Buying a home has never been easier — so what’s the catch? www.levernews.com/the-zillow-a...

Your airline is a bank, your bank is a coffee shop, and more from The Lever this week. www.levernews.com/lever-weekly...

NEWS: In a case with national implications, @governorwalz.mn.gov's officials are approving Blackrock's takeover of one of the Midwest’s largest utilities. Critics say the precedent-setting move paves the way for more Wall Street firms to buy utilities to further hike skyrocketing electricity rates.

The Lever's subscriptions are up a whopping 21 PERCENT in the last 90 days, driven by our big stories & by Lever Daily - our new free once-a-day newsletter filled with reporting & scoops you can't find anywhere else. Subscribe for free & pass it on: LeverNews.com/Daily

A library lends a hand to local journalism, Amazon pays up for its Prime scam, agencies band together to save farmers, and legislators take aim at health care conglomerates.

Regulators just greenlit BlackRock’s acquisition of a Midwestern power company — the latest deal in the private equity giant’s spending spree on public infrastructure. www.levernews.com/wall-streets...

🚨If you think the Bari Weiss/CBS News thing is new, here's a never-seen document showing CBS's president boasting about enforcing the far-right Powell Memo to ideologically "correct the situation at CBS News." Document is from our upcoming new book: LeverNews.com/book

A new class-action lawsuit claims many of the company’s biannual sale event markdowns aren’t deals at all. www.levernews.com/amazon-prime...

Big Tech’s ad machine shouldn’t decide which news you see.

NEWS: The Lever reported on Trump's authoritarian moves. For that thoughtcrime, we were threatened by a private group that helps ad giants & Big Tech identify which news outlets to target for blacklisting (read: shadowbanning & defunding). Subscribe to help us do more: LeverNews.com/subscribe

Why is every company now trying to be your bank? Hint: It's not about making stuff "frictionless" for you, as they claim. It's about squeezing profit out of you & putting you into permanent debt. What stage of capitalism is this? www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

For reporting on Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and the master plan to sell our democracy, NewsGuard’s media rating system has deemed us misleadingly liberal. www.levernews.com/reporting-re...

Turns out your frappuccino comes with a side of systemic risk. Full investigation by @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social 👇 Read it here: www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

From speculative investments to zero returns, the AI industry is looking a lot like the dot-com bubble. www.levernews.com/the-ai-bubbl...

From tech giants to airlines to health care providers, every company is becoming a bank — and that’s bad news for the rest of us. www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

🫧 Firms fueling AI mania know they're contributing to a bubble — it's part of their business strategy.

🎧LEVER TIME: A new White House memo could aim the government's post-9/11 anti-terrorism machine at Americans who criticize the Trump administration - and congressional Democrats are silent. Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app for the episode. www.levernews.com/are-you-on-t...

A new White House memorandum activates 9/11 counterterrorism units against the American public. www.levernews.com/are-you-on-t...

Big Tech’s new “earned-wage access” apps are ensnaring workers in borrowing cycles with absurdly high interest rates. www.levernews.com/silicon-vall...

California risks setting a dangerous precedent as states struggle to protect people from the oil industry’s buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines. www.levernews.com/a-climate-le...

Republican leaders are about to shut down the government over Democrats’ demands that they preserve health care coverage that disproportionately helps people in Republican states. What stage of the dystopia is this? www.levernews.com/why-your-hea...

Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all? www.levernews.com/welcome-to-t...

Under the guise of championing “school choice,” the new school voucher program will likely divert millions in taxpayer dollars to private equity firms. www.levernews.com/private-equi...

🎧LEVER TIME: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison on AGs fighting Trump & whether Dems should go populist or move rightward. Ellison also discussed political violence & his feelings after being named on the accused Minnesota shooter's kill list. www.levernews.com/executive-di...

America’s problems are simple to diagnose and solve. Let’s stop pretending everything is complex and entertainingly counterintuitive.

How state attorneys general are fighting Trump’s authoritarian agenda. www.levernews.com/executive-di...

The new plot against America, the secret origins of Kimmelgate, and more from The Lever this week. www.levernews.com/lever-weekly...

Paradise is not for sale, a state steps up for consumers, regulators aim for ticket sellers, and global leaders take a stand on the tech takeover.

We're weeks away from millions of Americans facing an economic cataclysm created entirely by Trump and Republican lawmakers' refusal to simply renew existing health care tax credits - and the devastation will be particularly acute in Republican states. www.levernews.com/why-your-hea...

Judging crime by media coverage is like judging a basketball player only by their missed shots. @equalityalec.bsky.social joins Lever Time to explain the real game. Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ps...

NEWS: Banks are paying depositors 0.4% interest while the government pays banks 4.3% - giving banks a $1 trillion windfall. McKinsey suggests banks offer rich people better rates while keeping everyone else's rates low. What stage of capitalism is this? www.levernews.com/this-is-a-re...

If you rob a bank, you’re probably a criminal. If you rob depositors, you’re probably a banker. www.levernews.com/this-is-a-re...

🎧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...