LEVER WEEKLY: Biden’s Austerity Rhetoric Returns From The Memory Hole

Stuff The Lever Reported This Week:

• Big Oil Tries To Buy Its Own Courts — Texas oil and gas companies could soon have their business cases heard by judges handpicked by a close ally: Gov. Greg Abbott.

• Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts And Family Payments — The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.

• Here’s The Real Goal Of Supreme Court Corruption — The prospect of luxury gifts and outside cash is designed to halt the historical trend of GOP appointees becoming more liberal.

• Big Tech Is Big Tobacco — When it comes to the dangers of AI, the Peter Isherwells are using cigarette-makers’ old strategy.

• YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: New York’s Green New Deal — Also, rail companies and airlines could face tougher regulations, workers are challenging Amazon, a new production company takes on Big Oil, and more.

Stuff To Listen To:

• LEVER TIME: This Right-Wing “University” Is Coming For Your Kids — David unpacks the dangerous influence of PragerU with the hosts of The Audit podcast.

• MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: V for Vendetta (w/ Evan from LOTP) — Rivka and Frank discuss 2005’s subversive action-thriller V for Vendetta.

• THE AUDIT: George Washington Was Tall and Brave — The team explores PragerU’s treatment of the founding fathers.

• LEVER TIME PREMIUM: The Race To Artificial Super Intelligence — David Sirota continues his conversation with one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence on the growing debate around AI.

• LEVER LIVE: Should We Worry About The Debt Ceiling? — David Sirota and Andrew Perez are joined by The American Prospect’s David Dayen to discuss the perennial fight over the debt ceiling.

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