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NEW: After a $1 million inauguration donation from Boeing, Trump ordered law enforcement resources diverted from corporate crime prosecutions into immigration enforcement — soon after came ICE raid chaos, a get-out-of-jail-free deal in Boeing’s safety case, and then a Boeing plane crash.

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JP Morgan just announced that in the last quarter, it made $255 million every day by charging borrowers far higher interest rates than it pays its depositors, even as the Fed offers the bank lucrative deposit interest payments not offered to the public. www.levernews.com/the-great-ba...

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this is how the Republican Party used to talk about immigration www.levernews.com/amid-trumps-...

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NEWS: Florida lawmakers are on the verge of enacting a first-of-its-kind law waiving risk rules to let politicians funnel more taxpayer cash to the Netanyahu regime’s war effort. The law is a template for other states to open the floodgates for money for Israel’s war.

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NEW: After a $1 million inauguration donation from Boeing, Trump ordered law enforcement resources diverted from corporate crime prosecutions into immigration enforcement — soon after came ICE raid chaos, a get-out-of-jail-free deal in Boeing’s safety case, and then a Boeing plane crash.

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I feel seen

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Trump officials issued orders deprioritizing corporate crime prosecution & telling law enforcement to instead focus on immigration. Then they dropped criminal prosecution of Boeing over safety & a Boeing plane crashed as resources went into ICE raids.

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🚨NEW: Before the ICE raid chaos & Boeing crash, Trump’s orders deprioritized corporate crime prosecution, reallocated resources to immigration raids & gave Boeing a get-out-of-jail free deal. How Trump’s culture war serves his economic class war 👇 www.levernews.com/the-trump-er...

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🚨NEW: Before the ICE raid chaos & Boeing crash, Trump’s orders deprioritized corporate crime prosecution, reallocated resources to immigration raids & gave Boeing a get-out-of-jail free deal. How Trump’s culture war serves his economic class war 👇 www.levernews.com/the-trump-er...

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🚨NEWS: Florida is about to ban risk standards when local governments invest public cash in bonds funding Israel’s government – as a credit agency warns the bonds risk default. It’s a template for other states/cities to invest huge sums in Israel’s war. www.levernews.com/israels-war-...

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RIP (also...this is Ghostbusters II erasure)

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Still an idiot.

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Electing Andrew Cuomo mayor would be New Yorkers declaring that they supported this and actually want more of it the next time.

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The debt & deficit matter - but not for the reasons you probably think they do. I had a mind-blowing conversation with economist @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about the Trump tax cut bill, the credit downgrade, inflation, and what you should actually keep your eye on.

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my grand unifying theory is that we’re living thru the result of oligarchs turning the GOP into an authoritarian culture war that distracts from the class war & libs turning the Dem Party into an identitarian brunch club uninterested in the economic struggles of the working class

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🚨SCOOP: Republicans just quietly added a provision to the Big Beautiful Bill that gives a massive deregulatory gift to the Chilean billionaire who rented his D.C. mansion to the Trump family. www.levernews.com/a-chilean-bi...

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In 2020, we launched @levernews.com with nothing & began building our outlet from scratch. 5 years later, our newsroom is breaking open huge stories - and inspiring much larger news outlets to follow & build on our scoops & coverage. It's great to see (and we appreciate the credit from @wired.com!)

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NEWS: The Lever exposed for the first time that the airline industry is selling private passenger info to Trump's immigration enforcement agency. Great to see other news outlets a month later now doing follow up reporting on our exclusive story: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

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🚨NEWS: Ezra Klein created a viral Jon Stewart clip pretending Dems made broadband funding too complex (it was Republicans & corp lobbyists), so now in the name of abundance, Trump may give the cash to Musk & force states to block AI rules. Abundance!

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Andrew Cuomo engineered a cover up and helped his huge donors shield themselves from legal consequences after the COVID massacre of New Yorkers. After thousands and thousands of deaths, New Yorkers may now reward him by making him their mayor.

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🚨NEWS: Ezra Klein created a viral Jon Stewart clip pretending Dems made broadband funding too complex (it was Republicans & corp lobbyists), so now in the name of abundance, Trump may give the cash to Musk & force states to block AI rules. Abundance!

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The union representing more than 27,000 state employees in Colorado announced Monday it is joining a whistleblower lawsuit against Gov. Jared Polis. By @brumerdelilah.bsky.social

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I spent two years working on an entire audio series with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social about how Obama turning hope and change into more of the same created the conditions for Trump's ascent. Find it here: adbl.co/meltdown

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NEW DATA: “Pro-gun PACs increase contributions by 30% to candidates in districts with fatal school shootings…within 2 months of Election Day, contributions increase by 1,730%…the magnitude & timing suggest a counter-mobilization to maintain influence.” www.levernews.com/for-wall-str...

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x.com/davidaxelrod...

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I feel like one of about 7 people who remembers Ezra Klein spending the Obama years forging a media career dunking on those pressuring Obama to follow through on his promises. He helped make sure Dems did the policies he wanted. Now he’s complaining?

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The pretend surprise that oligarchs aren’t fighting an oligarch president is only topped by the genuinely deranged assertion that “business leaders used to stand up to power.” Just absolutely crazy stuff right here — completely beyond parody

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War is peace, freedom is slavery, and fossil fuels are now "clean energy," according to new legislation advancing across the country.

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🚨NEWS: A special tax break for affordable housing & community development has been exploited to deliver more than $16 billion to a handful of Wall Street firms with little evidence it’s helping communities. Abundance!

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Many liberals on this website have convinced themselves that anyone who doesn’t always vote for Dems must be racist. Racism is a real thing, but nobody is buying this liberal bullshit election explanation anymore, and if liberals keep screaming this nonsense, Dems are gonna lose more elections.

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images of Waymo fires automatically become Johnny Cab in my mind

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Excellent essay from @matthewstoller.bsky.social about the Ivy League, fancy people pushing bad policy & his experience waking up. Most people — especially those in politics/media — don’t have the guts to apologize or do any self-reflection. Matt does. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

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Devastating piece. Liberals still haven’t come to terms with how much Obama’s betrayals created the conditions for Trump’s rise, nor how much his desire for celebrity has led him to disappear from a political moment that he pretended to worry about.

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On the left is this weekend’s column from Ezra Klein, the guy who spent the Obama years defending Dems from those demandinng they fulfill their promises to pass something better than the insurance-industry-coddling Obamacare. On the right is Obamacare.

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On his new podcast episode, Bill Burr offers a provocative analysis of how the media defines different people. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Repealing the ACA’s consumer protections & Medicaid subsidies would be bad, but it’s also true that Obamacare fortifying the power of insurance companies has been a disaster & none of the Abundance Guys who shit on the left for warning about this at the time have ever apologized.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

In Democratic politics and liberal/corporate media, there are literally zero benefits to being correct about really big stuff & endless benefits in being wrong about that stuff.

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I’ve come to realize that in a goldfish society that forgets its entire world every 15 minutes, it is actually a cruel curse to have a photographic long-term memory for the things I hate

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There are some fine points here, but my overall take: If you behold this world in which corporations/billionaires control all & the left has no power & yet you’re insisting the problem isnt oligarchy, then it’s likely your theory of career ascension is to venerate oligarchs who pay speaking fees.

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MASTER PLAN is the story of the secret plot to legalize corruption in America. The new book follows The Lever’s award-winning audio series & includes new reporting from the Trump era. Pre-order now & share - it's coming soon 👇 the.levernews.com/master-plan-...

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Important piece (as always) from @stevevladeck.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federa...

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