LEVER WEEKLY: It’s Dark Money’s Court, We Just Live Under It

This is Lever Weekly, a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it.

Stuff The Lever Reported This Week:

• Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Housing Crisis Worse — Landlords are using AI to screen their tenants, heightening errors and discrimination.

• The Supreme Court’s Next Gift For Its Billionaire Benefactors — After a nudge from billionaires’ think tank, justices agreed to hear a case designed to preemptively block a wealth tax.

• Care Denied: The Dirty Secret Behind Medicare Advantage — As Medicare becomes increasingly privatized, patients are speaking up about these for-profit insurers’ widespread practice of denying treatments they need.

• Alito Could Deliver Another Ruling For Billionaire Benefactor — Hedge fund of GOP mogul who funded luxury trip is trying to kill financial regs.

• YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Youth Climate Activists Turn Up The Heat — A look inside a ballsy new climate org and their latest actions. Plus, forever chemical manufacturers pay up and the Supreme Court protects elections. 

Stuff To Watch Or Listen To:

• LEVER TIME: The Supreme Court Has A Billionaire Problem — David Sirota and ProPublica’s Justin Elliott discuss new revelations surrounding the Supreme Court.

• THE AUDIT: Make Love, Not Culture War — The team gets physical with PragerU and discusses sex, dogma, and the obsession with wokeism.

• MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Good Burger (w/ Andrew Ti) — On this week’s MVC, a discussion about corporate competition in a ’90s kids movie.

• LEVER TIME PREMIUM: How New York Passed A Landmark Climate Law — In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, an interview with a New York-based organizer about the four year campaign to pass the BPRA.

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