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5/5/2024
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LEVER WEEKLY: Airlines Want To Keep The Money They Owe You
Hundreds of millions of dollars are potentially at stake in the fight over airline refunds. LEVER WEEKLY: Airlines Want To Keep The Money They Owe You By David Sirota • 5 May 2024 View in browser View
5/4/2024
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Happy Math For Public Schools
Plus, free tax filing pays off, electric vehicles work double time, and pharmaceutical giants face scrutiny for outrageous pricing. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Happy Math For Public Schools By Katherine Li • 4
5/3/2024
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LEVER TIME: Big Brother Is Watching The Protesters, Sponsored By Corporate America
The intelligence community is using consumer tracking tools to spy on student protestors and everyone else they deem a threat. LEVER TIME: Big Brother Is Watching The Protesters, Sponsored By Corporate
5/2/2024
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SIROTA’S SIGNALS: We’ll Have To Wait Until 2065 — Unless This Changes
Plus, Boeing drops incriminating evidence on an attorney, gambling takes over old-fashioned arcade games, and that time Nixon almost fought climate change. SIROTA'S SIGNALS: We'll Have To Wait
5/1/2024
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The Homeowners’ Rebellion
Wall Street landlords face a heartland backlash that could set off a revolution. Check out our feature below on how deep in the American heartland, residents are taking a small but revolutionary step
4/30/2024
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Congress May Cancel Your Automatic Flight Refunds
Airline-bankrolled lawmakers just added language to a bill that could undermine Biden's promise of automatic refunds on canceled or delayed flights. Read below to learn how lawmakers are trying to
4/29/2024
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Why we’re all Jacobin magazine subscribers
It's important work, and we want The Lever subscribers to access it. Why we're all Jacobin magazine subscribers By David Sirota • 29 Apr 2024 View in browser View in browser Friends: Every now
4/29/2024
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The Great Unknown About Conflicts Of Interest In Arizona’s Abortion Ban
As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public. A powerful anti-abortion group wined and
4/28/2024
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LEVER WEEKLY: Pentagon Grifts And Zombie Pipelines
From insurance meltdowns and zombie pipelines to Pentagon grifts, here's all the news from The Lever this week. LEVER WEEKLY: Pentagon Grifts And Zombie Pipelines By The Lever • 28 Apr 2024 View in
4/27/2024
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Flying The Fairer Skies
Plus, employers can no longer stop employees from working for their rivals, and Big Oil loses some of its dominance over public lands nationwide. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Flying The Fairer Skies By
4/26/2024
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LEVER TIME: Amazon Is Eating The Economy
In a landmark lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, the government accuses Amazon of long being engaged in illegal market behavior. LEVER TIME: Amazon Is Eating The Economy By Arjun
4/25/2024
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SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Trump Could Get New Powers — With Dems’ Help
If bipartisan legislation passes and Trump wins, he'll have new power to punish nonprofits he deems to be “terrorist supporting.” SIROTA'S SIGNALS: Trump Could Get New Powers — With Dems'
4/24/2024
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The Rise Of Big Oil’s Zombie Pipelines
Big Oil is fighting to limit safety protections to expedite its build-out of experimental carbon dioxide pipelines, endangering nearby communities. While leaks from carbon dioxide pipelines have sent
4/23/2024
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The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle
For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts. For decades, the Defense Department has used taxpayer money to send
4/22/2024
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Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook. As the climate crisis wreaks havoc across the country, what happens when communities become uninsurable? In honor of
4/21/2024
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LEVER WEEKLY: Affordable Medicine Is Locked Up In The Ivory Tower
From public universities colluding with Big Pharma to Democrats crushing voter choice, here's all the news from The Lever this week. LEVER WEEKLY: Affordable Medicine Is Locked Up In The Ivory
4/20/2024
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Friends Of The Court Could Lose Their Benefits
Plus, a pipeline company is caught trespassing, corporations face heat for shady stock deals, and law enforcement's pseudoscience doesn't hold up. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Friends Of The Court Could
4/19/2024
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LEVER TIME: Democrats Will Not Tolerate Dissent
As part of a revamped and expanded weekly podcast series, David Sirota explores how the DNC crushed 2024 primary challengers — and might have hurt Biden's reelection chances. LEVER TIME: Democrats
4/18/2024
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SIROTA’S SIGNALS: The Dem States Embracing GOP Anti-Tax Zealotry
Plus, the obscure court circuit trying to repeal the 20th century, how your utility bill funds climate denial, the real reason conservatives oppose student debt relief. SIROTA'S SIGNALS: The Dem
4/17/2024
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Universities Are Making Billions Gatekeeping Your Meds
The University of California has raked in a previously undisclosed $1.6 billion from Xtandi sales, and now doesn't want the government lowering exorbitant drug costs. The University of California