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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.
🚨 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.
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?”
⚠️ 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.
🚨 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.
🚨 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.
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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 ⬇️
The Lauder family orbit extends into NYC politics, too ⬇️
January 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The Lauder family orbit extends into NYC politics, too ⬇️
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.
🚨 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.
🚨 ICE agents have a legal shield that makes it incredibly hard to sue them, even in deadly cases. A bill to end that protection already exists — and Democrats now have the leverage to force a vote by tying it to DHS funding. Here’s how. ⬇️
January 28, 2026 at 3:29 PM
🚨 ICE agents have a legal shield that makes it incredibly hard to sue them, even in deadly cases. A bill to end that protection already exists — and Democrats now have the leverage to force a vote by tying it to DHS funding. Here’s how. ⬇️
🚨 NEW: Lawmakers just pushed a bill to make taxpayers pay for a new committee of corporate executives to advise the SEC (the Wall Street regulator). The people who get hurt by corporate abuse aren’t included. The corporations are.
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
🚨 NEW: Lawmakers just pushed a bill to make taxpayers pay for a new committee of corporate executives to advise the SEC (the Wall Street regulator). The people who get hurt by corporate abuse aren’t included. The corporations are.
We are being medically looted, insurers are raking in billions, and a senior Democrat went to Congress to tell their CEOs “this isn’t your fault” — after taking their money. This is corruption in plain sight.
January 27, 2026 at 3:14 PM
We are being medically looted, insurers are raking in billions, and a senior Democrat went to Congress to tell their CEOs “this isn’t your fault” — after taking their money. This is corruption in plain sight.
🚨 NEW: TikTok’s new owners just expanded surveillance on Americans. After the Trump-backed sale, the app reversed location data protections and widened AI data collection. Some top creators are now exiting, pointing to censorship of political coverage.
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 PM
🚨 NEW: TikTok’s new owners just expanded surveillance on Americans. After the Trump-backed sale, the app reversed location data protections and widened AI data collection. Some top creators are now exiting, pointing to censorship of political coverage.
To know that it doesn’t have to be this way, just consider how Republicans would be acting in the counterfactual. As Matt Stoller reminds us:
January 24, 2026 at 10:19 PM
To know that it doesn’t have to be this way, just consider how Republicans would be acting in the counterfactual. As Matt Stoller reminds us:
🚨 ICE is killing people. A tycoon-funded Democratic think tank is attacking calls to cut its funding, while Democrats provide the votes to keep the agency funded.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
🚨 ICE is killing people. A tycoon-funded Democratic think tank is attacking calls to cut its funding, while Democrats provide the votes to keep the agency funded.
🚨 Industry-backed Democrats helped Republicans turn proposed ICE reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body-camera industry.
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
🚨 Industry-backed Democrats helped Republicans turn proposed ICE reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body-camera industry.
🚨Democrats say ICE body cameras improve oversight. But the provision largely benefits Axon, a law-enforcement contractor that spends spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year lobbying the government.
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM
🚨Democrats say ICE body cameras improve oversight. But the provision largely benefits Axon, a law-enforcement contractor that spends spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year lobbying the government.