The Lever - Essential Reading Alert: Drop Site News

At a time when the world desperately needs hard-hitting journalism and establishment corporate media outlets are failing the public and democracy itself, our trusted colleagues at Drop Site News have established themselves as a powerful investigative reporting force committed to uncovering truths that others might overlook. 

Founded by veteran investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim, Drop Site is consistently exposing the crimes of the powerful — particularly in overt and secret conflicts where the U.S. government is playing a key role. 

Just this past week, Drop Site reporting revealed that Brian Hook ― known from Trump’s first term to be a major Iran hawk ― was being tapped to run the transition at the State Department. In a follow-up report, they exposed a lobbying campaign involving Hook, Hugh Hewitt, David Urban, and other neoconservatives to bring war hawk Mike Pompeo, who plotted to assassinate Julian Assange during the previous Trump years, back into the cabinet. 

The impact was immediate. After their reporting circulated through MAGA world, Trump took to Truth Social to definitively declare he would "not be inviting" Pompeo to join the administration. Drop Site’s reporting is already influencing the internal debate within Trump's circle, helping counter the neocons he promised to reject, even as those warhawks make gains elsewhere.

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Like The Lever, Drop Site is entirely reader supported and independent. This means they have the freedom to pursue stories that corporate mainstream media ignores. 

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