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One small piece of good news in the otherwise depressing world of campaign finance.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:46 AM
One small piece of good news in the otherwise depressing world of campaign finance.
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Tactics include misleading borrowers through “membership” fees, embedding offers in rental-payment portals to entice renters at checkout, and partnering with existing “buy now, pay later” apps.
February 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Tactics include misleading borrowers through “membership” fees, embedding offers in rental-payment portals to entice renters at checkout, and partnering with existing “buy now, pay later” apps.
🚨 NEW: A top AI CEO says superintelligence could “destroy all life on Earth.” Meanwhile, Silicon Valley is spending big to weaken AI rules ahead of the 2026 elections.
🎧 Today on Lever Time – What Tech Wants: God In The Machine
www.youtube.com/shorts/jqGwQ...
🎧 Today on Lever Time – What Tech Wants: God In The Machine
www.youtube.com/shorts/jqGwQ...
AI Could “Destroy All Life” — So Why Is Big Tech Fighting Regulation?
YouTube video by The Lever
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February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
🚨 NEW: A top AI CEO says superintelligence could “destroy all life on Earth.” Meanwhile, Silicon Valley is spending big to weaken AI rules ahead of the 2026 elections.
🎧 Today on Lever Time – What Tech Wants: God In The Machine
www.youtube.com/shorts/jqGwQ...
🎧 Today on Lever Time – What Tech Wants: God In The Machine
www.youtube.com/shorts/jqGwQ...
🚨 Commercial passengers are helping to foot the bill for billionaires’ private jet mania.
February 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM
🚨 Commercial passengers are helping to foot the bill for billionaires’ private jet mania.
🚨 NEW: The final episode of our three part series on what happens when the richest industry in history decides democracy is just another system to hack.
www.youtube.com/shorts/60QG2...
www.youtube.com/shorts/60QG2...
What Tech Wants: How Tech Billionaires Are Taking Over Politics
YouTube video by The Lever
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February 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
🚨 NEW: The final episode of our three part series on what happens when the richest industry in history decides democracy is just another system to hack.
www.youtube.com/shorts/60QG2...
www.youtube.com/shorts/60QG2...
Silicon Valley isn’t just building AI. They’re trying to build superintelligence at any cost, and reshaping elections so no one can slow them down.
This week on Lever Time: the billionaires chasing “God in the machine.” ⚡🎧
This week on Lever Time: the billionaires chasing “God in the machine.” ⚡🎧
February 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Silicon Valley isn’t just building AI. They’re trying to build superintelligence at any cost, and reshaping elections so no one can slow them down.
This week on Lever Time: the billionaires chasing “God in the machine.” ⚡🎧
This week on Lever Time: the billionaires chasing “God in the machine.” ⚡🎧
A tax on $5M+ property sales raised $1B for housing.
Now the anti-tax machine is moving to roll it back.
This is exactly the kind of story you only get in Lever Daily.
Now the anti-tax machine is moving to roll it back.
This is exactly the kind of story you only get in Lever Daily.
February 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A tax on $5M+ property sales raised $1B for housing.
Now the anti-tax machine is moving to roll it back.
This is exactly the kind of story you only get in Lever Daily.
Now the anti-tax machine is moving to roll it back.
This is exactly the kind of story you only get in Lever Daily.
Millions of complaints about credit report errors
Credit bureaus: “Have we tried simply hiding the complaints?”
Credit bureaus: “Have we tried simply hiding the complaints?”
February 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Millions of complaints about credit report errors
Credit bureaus: “Have we tried simply hiding the complaints?”
Credit bureaus: “Have we tried simply hiding the complaints?”
🚨The Lever is hiring🚨
Our newsroom won the 2025 National Press Club Award - and now we're expanding.
We're looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Investigative Reporter to join our remote team.
Interested? Email a cover letter, resume, and 3 clips to [email protected]
Our newsroom won the 2025 National Press Club Award - and now we're expanding.
We're looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Investigative Reporter to join our remote team.
Interested? Email a cover letter, resume, and 3 clips to [email protected]
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
🚨The Lever is hiring🚨
Our newsroom won the 2025 National Press Club Award - and now we're expanding.
We're looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Investigative Reporter to join our remote team.
Interested? Email a cover letter, resume, and 3 clips to [email protected]
Our newsroom won the 2025 National Press Club Award - and now we're expanding.
We're looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Investigative Reporter to join our remote team.
Interested? Email a cover letter, resume, and 3 clips to [email protected]
Bitcoin might be heading into another crash – and it’s not just “crypto people” who’d feel it.
Retirement money, banks, and dollar-linked stablecoins are pulling more people into the risk. ⬇️
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Retirement money, banks, and dollar-linked stablecoins are pulling more people into the risk. ⬇️
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Think You’re Not in Crypto? Think Again.
YouTube video by The Lever
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February 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Bitcoin might be heading into another crash – and it’s not just “crypto people” who’d feel it.
Retirement money, banks, and dollar-linked stablecoins are pulling more people into the risk. ⬇️
youtube.com/shorts/NlYyq...
Retirement money, banks, and dollar-linked stablecoins are pulling more people into the risk. ⬇️
youtube.com/shorts/NlYyq...
⚠️ This is what happens when essential news institutions are owned by billionaires and run like corporate assets — not public trusts.
February 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
⚠️ This is what happens when essential news institutions are owned by billionaires and run like corporate assets — not public trusts.
🚨 NEW: Michigan says Big Oil didn’t just lie about climate change, but illegally teamed up to kill electric vehicles and clean energy for decades. A literal “capture-and-kill” strategy.
February 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
🚨 NEW: Michigan says Big Oil didn’t just lie about climate change, but illegally teamed up to kill electric vehicles and clean energy for decades. A literal “capture-and-kill” strategy.
Bluesky – Have you noticed that the “news” is now almost 100 percent anything other than the unprecedented financial pillaging of the entire country, at every single minute of every single day?
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Bluesky – Have you noticed that the “news” is now almost 100 percent anything other than the unprecedented financial pillaging of the entire country, at every single minute of every single day?
🚨 NEW: Wall Street is reviving the same mortgage securities that fueled the 2008 crash, while pushing regulators to weaken disclosure rules. We have seen how this ends.
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
🚨 NEW: Wall Street is reviving the same mortgage securities that fueled the 2008 crash, while pushing regulators to weaken disclosure rules. We have seen how this ends.
Three years after the Ohio train derailment in East Palestine, residents say they still haven’t received the settlement money they were promised.
@katyaschwenk.bsky.social travelled to the town. Here's what she found ⬇️
@katyaschwenk.bsky.social travelled to the town. Here's what she found ⬇️
Ohio Train Derailment: Residents Still Waiting on Settlement Money
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February 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Three years after the Ohio train derailment in East Palestine, residents say they still haven’t received the settlement money they were promised.
@katyaschwenk.bsky.social travelled to the town. Here's what she found ⬇️
@katyaschwenk.bsky.social travelled to the town. Here's what she found ⬇️
🚨 Before Citizens United, there was another Supreme Court decision that opened the door to this.
That ruling opened the door. It armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
That ruling opened the door. It armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
February 2, 2026 at 7:18 PM
🚨 Before Citizens United, there was another Supreme Court decision that opened the door to this.
That ruling opened the door. It armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
That ruling opened the door. It armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
🚨 Before Citizens United, there was another Supreme Court decision that opened the door to this.
That ruling armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
@davidsirota.com
That ruling armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
@davidsirota.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
🚨 Before Citizens United, there was another Supreme Court decision that opened the door to this.
That ruling armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
@davidsirota.com
That ruling armed billionaires and corporate power brokers with the constitutional cover they still use to shape elections.
@davidsirota.com
This is what life looks like for some families in East Palestine, years after the toxic train derailment. Our investigation by Katya Schwenk examines what happened to the $600 million settlement meant to help residents recover.
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This is what life looks like for some families in East Palestine, years after the toxic train derailment. Our investigation by Katya Schwenk examines what happened to the $600 million settlement meant to help residents recover.
A $600 million settlement was meant to help East Palestine residents rebuild after a toxic train derailed in their town. But many say they’re still waiting for the relief they were promised.
Katya Schwenk investigates ⬇️
Katya Schwenk investigates ⬇️
January 30, 2026 at 10:48 PM
A $600 million settlement was meant to help East Palestine residents rebuild after a toxic train derailed in their town. But many say they’re still waiting for the relief they were promised.
Katya Schwenk investigates ⬇️
Katya Schwenk investigates ⬇️
Trump’s reported Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh isn’t just a former central banker.
He’s married into the family of Ronald Lauder – longtime Trump ally, donor, and occasional policy whisperer, including on Greenland.
It’s a small room.
He’s married into the family of Ronald Lauder – longtime Trump ally, donor, and occasional policy whisperer, including on Greenland.
It’s a small room.
January 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Trump’s reported Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh isn’t just a former central banker.
He’s married into the family of Ronald Lauder – longtime Trump ally, donor, and occasional policy whisperer, including on Greenland.
It’s a small room.
He’s married into the family of Ronald Lauder – longtime Trump ally, donor, and occasional policy whisperer, including on Greenland.
It’s a small room.
🚨 SCOOP: Three years after a train full of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, the lawyers have been paid. The company hired to run the settlement has taken its fees.
But many of the people who were told relief was coming are still waiting.
But many of the people who were told relief was coming are still waiting.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
🚨 SCOOP: Three years after a train full of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, the lawyers have been paid. The company hired to run the settlement has taken its fees.
But many of the people who were told relief was coming are still waiting.
But many of the people who were told relief was coming are still waiting.
🚨 In 2024, the cryptocurrency industry spent more than $130 million to influence elections nationwide. Their donations and lobbying efforts turned the tables for their risky boom-and-bust business, which is now poised to overtake our entire financial system.
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 PM
🚨 In 2024, the cryptocurrency industry spent more than $130 million to influence elections nationwide. Their donations and lobbying efforts turned the tables for their risky boom-and-bust business, which is now poised to overtake our entire financial system.
🚨 Jared Kushner is involved in plans for a U.S.-backed governing authority over “New Gaza.”
Oh, and he’s also tied to finance firms invested in regional real estate.
Oh, and he’s also tied to finance firms invested in regional real estate.
January 28, 2026 at 11:06 PM
🚨 Jared Kushner is involved in plans for a U.S.-backed governing authority over “New Gaza.”
Oh, and he’s also tied to finance firms invested in regional real estate.
Oh, and he’s also tied to finance firms invested in regional real estate.
Much of detainee medical care is handled by private contractors. Investigators have documented repeated failures to meet medical standards. But federal spending on detention keeps rising.
January 28, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Much of detainee medical care is handled by private contractors. Investigators have documented repeated failures to meet medical standards. But federal spending on detention keeps rising.
🚨 NEW: Trump’s Wall Street regulators just made shareholder communication harder for ordinary investors, while the richest still have clear channels. Less coordination for the many, more power for the few.
January 28, 2026 at 10:45 PM
🚨 NEW: Trump’s Wall Street regulators just made shareholder communication harder for ordinary investors, while the richest still have clear channels. Less coordination for the many, more power for the few.