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🚨WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: On 4/18, The Lever is launching TAX REVOLT - a new investigative series exposing the anti-tax movement now culminating in Trump's tax cuts for billionaires. Add the series to your podcast app here: LeverNews.com/TaxRevolt Watch & retweet the trailer👇
After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums. levernews.com/eye-popping-ra…
Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies. levernews.com/health-insurer…
Private equity is coming for your teeth — and it's not looking good. In 2018, one PE-backed dental chain was ordered to pay nearly $24M after performing likely unnecessary root canals on children and then fraudulently billing Medicaid. levernews.com/private-equity…
AIPAC has successfully inserted provisions in an advancing congressional defense policy bill to send tens of millions more a year to Israel to develop AI military technologies
The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy. levernews.com/aipac-funded-l…
Investors are staking an aggressive claim in the dental industry, to the detriment of patients. levernews.com/private-equity…
“What is the real goal of Abundance™ and its acolytes? When pressed, criticized, or held to account on the details, suddenly nobody can really say — other than to tell you to pay no attention to the abundance of oligarchs behind the curtain.” levernews.com/how-to-end-dem…
🎧LEVER TIME: Trump's libel suits aim to make it cost-prohibitive for journalists to challenge power - now, corporations & billionaires are threatening Americans who dissent. Sirota talks to NYT reporter @DavidEnrich about the murder of the truth. levernews.com/trump-colbert-…
Why Stephen Colbert is a victim of a larger movement to silence free speech. levernews.com/trump-colbert-…
the climate crisis and the related insurance crisis are not abundance
Really wild how there are two housing markets now. If you live in the northeast or Midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you. If you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you. And if you live in Florida, the bottom’s falling out.
Why Trump is hiding the Epstein files, the absurd handouts in the tax bill, and more from The Lever this week. levernews.com/lever-weekly-b…
In 2006, The Lever's David Sirota appeared on The Colbert Report warning that corruption was taking over American politics. The warnings are as relevant today as they were back then.
🚨As you see the Colbert situation, recall this document: CBS's president saying he agrees with the Powell Memo Task Force, declaring "our free enterprise system is in danger" & promising he's "correct(ing) the situation at CBS News with some results." MasterPlanPodcast.com
🚨As you see the Colbert situation, recall this document: CBS's president saying he agrees with the Powell Memo Task Force, declaring "our free enterprise system is in danger" & promising he's "correct(ing) the situation at CBS News with some results." MasterPlanPodcast.com
States stand up to ICE, a class act in the Garden State, wildlife crossings get a boost, and an agency backtracks on DOGE cuts. levernews.com/you-love-to-se…
🚨NEWS: Health insurers are pushing to raise premiums by as much as 66 PERCENT - all while reporting over $1 trillion in revenue, $31 billion in net income & doing stock buybacks/dividends. State regulators will decide whether to approve the increases. levernews.com/health-insurer…
🚨NEWS: Health insurers are pushing to raise your premium by as much as 66 PERCENT - while reporting over $1 trillion in revenue, $31 billion in net income & doing stock buybacks/dividends. State regulators will decide whether to approve the increases. levernews.com/health-insurer…
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Stock Buybacks $7 billion Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my insurance company is dying levernews.com/health-insurer…
"This case reflects the problem of elite impunity. America is an accountability-free zone for the rich, powerful & famous. Even in death, Epstein & those around him still enjoy impunity." Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app for the episode with @RoKhanna & @jkbjournalist.
“May every day be another wonderful secret.” More at levernews.com/why-theyre-pro…
One of the world’s largest private security firms is poised to rake in millions from the Trump administration’s historic deportation spending blitz. levernews.com/how-ice-is-out…
