NEW POD
How a fitness company lured small biz owners into predatory relationships, threatened a franchise owner with violence and pressured studios to defy pandemic shutdowns or face bankruptcy
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NEW POD
The story of how @Capitol_Forum's reporting into overbilling by one firm led to them being delisted from the NASDAQ, and what happened when the company's CEO tried to target the lead reporter and his family in retaliation.
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Over at @levernews.com, we investigated how one-stop real estate shops like Zillow and Redfin may actually be hurting homebuyers – and the U.S. economy.
For today's Lever Time episode, I spoke with @helenwsantoro.bsky.social about what her reporting uncovered: www.levernews.com/the-zillow-a...
So, they handed it off to a group called the Internet Engineering Task Force who specialize in standards for internet protocols. I’m not sure if that means progress or it’s in development hell, but those people would be the ones who could make it more broadly usable
King of Comedy. Taxi Driver refined and one of Scorsese’s best
The AT protocol is here, it’s just absurdly difficult to use and a lot of third parties have had trouble working with it
🎉 We look forward to welcoming @arjunsingh92.bsky.social to our team in September!
I'm excited to announce I'll be heading to
@capitolforum.bsky.social next month to be a senior podcast producer.
It's a great outlet leading the charge on corporate investigations, antitrust policy and the world of M/A.
Stay tuned for some cool audio projects down the line! thecapitolforum.com
Reed Richards invoking Trump Doctrine to fight Galactus
Yeah, I agree. I was focused more on getting audio for the third episode and learning about his world view, but should have been more active in that interview knowing we would release it in full
We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social.
The results are **stark.**
Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.
They did. In 2015. Then Trump ripped it up.
🚨TAX REVOLT, EPISODE 4: The Lever's interview with GOP anti-tax enforcer Grover Norquist, who's led a 30-year crusade to make high-income tax cuts Republican orthodoxy.
Fascinating discussion as Trump TODAY just explicitly pushed back against Norquist. www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-p...
Episode 3 of our pod series TAX REVOLT is out.
How zombie Reaganism devoured Bush's brains and ensured no Republican would ever raise taxes again, setting the stage for Trump's efforts to defund the government.
Listen now
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Episode 3 of our pod series TAX REVOLT is out.
How zombie Reaganism devoured Bush's brains and ensured no Republican would ever raise taxes again, setting the stage for Trump's efforts to defund the government.
Listen now
www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-p...
Subscribe to our new podcast miniseries TAX REVOLT
A 4 part story of how anti-government and free market radicals hijacked American politics setting the stage for DOGE.
First 2 episodes out now
Episode 2 of Lever Time’s podcast miniseries TAX REVOLT is out now.
It tells the story of how the Reagan Revolution set the stage for Elon Musk DOGE.
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Episode 2 of Lever Time’s podcast miniseries TAX REVOLT is out now.
It tells the story of how the Reagan Revolution set the stage for Elon Musk DOGE.
LISTEN NOW
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🚨NEWS🚨
Recently fired FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya sits down with @levernews.com, just hours after Trump fired him.
Bedoya says he was in the process of suing Meta, Amazon and Elon Musk for wrongdoing when he was let go.
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We’ve got big news coming soon exclusively for @levernews.com subscribers.
We sit down with one of the FTC commissioners Trump is trying to fire on Lever Time.
Pod coming soon. Become a subscriber here.
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This is awesome!!!!
33 today, which means for at least one year, I’m in my Larry Bird era
So, Trump’s DHS just admitted that undocumented immigrants actually do pay taxes www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
High stakes diplomacy
Musk's DOGE fired 132 FAA employees + he publicly bashes the FAA's computer system. Then his company lands a giant contract to overhaul the FAA computer system.
This is the kind of corruption my dad saw in India in the 70s. He's mortified America is embracing it in 2025.
It is happening here.
I find few things make me happier than flipping through my copy of American Fried.
In all the nonsense of the world, this was one of the first pieces of journalism that really spoke to me. An effort to find a through line of American culinary culture (which gets a bad rap, but is brilliant!)
