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The Lever @levernews.com · 19h

1,200 women are fighting for answers.

Help us hold Pfizer — and the system that protects it — accountable.

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Brain Tumors, Big Pharma, And A Legal Escape Hatch

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

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The Lever @levernews.com · 19h

Pfizer says it’s protected by federal law. The company argues it couldn’t warn patients — because the FDA rejected its label change.

If the Florida judge agrees, it would exempt Pfizer from liability in all lawsuits alleging it failed to adequately warn consumers.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 19h

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 22h

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...

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

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...

Brain Tumors, Big Pharma, And A Legal Escape Hatch

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

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

“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

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

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.

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Wall Street Bets — On Polymarket

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 2d

At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Apple is preventing communities from sharing information about ICE raids.
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Big Tech Does ICE’s Bidding

At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Apple is preventing communities from sharing information about ICE raids.

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Natalie Bettendorf @natalierbett.bsky.social · 2d

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...

The Zillow And Redfin Convenience Trap

Buying a home has never been easier — so what’s the catch?

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The Lever @levernews.com · 3d

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

The Zillow And Redfin Convenience Trap

Buying a home has never been easier — so what’s the catch?

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The Lever @levernews.com · 3d

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

LEVER WEEKLY: One Nation, Under Bank

Your airline is a bank, your bank is a coffee shop, and more from The Lever this week.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 4d

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.

Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 4d

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The Lever @levernews.com · 4d

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.

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: What’s More Punk Than The Public Library?

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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...

Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

🚨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

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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...

Amazon Prime Day Is A Racket

A new class-action lawsuit claims many of the company’s biannual sale event markdowns aren’t deals at all.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 5d

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).

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Reporting Reality? That’s Partisan Now

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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).

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Reporting Reality? That’s Partisan Now

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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?

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Bankification Nation

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

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...

Reporting Reality? That’s Partisan Now

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 5d

Turns out your frappuccino comes with a side of systemic risk.

Full investigation by @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social 👇

Read it here: www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

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The Lever @levernews.com · 6d

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

The AI Bubble That Could Burst The Economy

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

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The Lever @levernews.com · 6d

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...

Bankification Nation

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.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 6d

Read the rest in our daily newsletter: www.levernews.com/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble That Could Burst The Economy

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

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