Join us today at 5:45pm ET to talk to Rep. Ro Khanna about whether Congress can stop the war — and why some Democrats are floating the idea of supporting a new bill to fund it.
www.levernews.com/breaking-new...
For the first time in my entire lifetime, Democrats' corporate wing is losing its power to win primaries, control the party & crush its voters' will - which is why all of those corporate/billionaire front groups are now freaking out and trying to call the manager.
Mamdani & Talarico both ran explicitly against billionaires. Anti-oligarchy was the central theme of both of their campaigns.
It’s very on brand that the Abundance Guy l doesn’t acknowledge that and instead insinuates that their success is mostly about them just seeming nice.
🚨NEWS: Last night, The Lever exposed Polymarket creating a market for gambling on nuclear war/nuclear detonation — the subsequent public outcry has now prompted Polymarket to shut it down.
www.levernews.com/betting-on-a...
tfw you won your Polymarket bet
UPDATE: Polymarket has now shut down this betting after my social media post went viral. www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...
For the first time in my entire lifetime, Democrats' corporate wing is losing its power to win primaries, control the party & crush its voters' will - which is why all of those corporate/billionaire front groups are now freaking out and trying to call the manager.
My social media post exposing Polymarket betting on nuclear war went so viral that Polymarket decided to shut down its nuclear war market. www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
I asked Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner why anyone should believe that if he wins, he won’t become John Fetterman & betray his promises.
Platner’s answers were interesting.
www.levernews.com/graham-platn...
If you only watch one thing today, watch this exchange between Pod Save America’s @jonfavs.bsky.social & Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine.bsky.social.
This clip explains the divide in the Dem Party & illustrates how the party elite still doesn’t understand what happened in this country.
If you only watch one thing today, watch this exchange between Pod Save America’s @jonfavs.bsky.social & Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine.bsky.social.
This clip explains the divide in the Dem Party & illustrates how the party elite still doesn’t understand what happened in this country.
Trump could be forced to refund $170B in illegal tariffs.
But will you ever see it?
🎧 On Lever Time, David Sirota explains how $170B in tariff refunds could mean corporations keep the money.
www.youtube.com/shorts/HZp16...
Related: It's increasingly likely that my generation - Generation X - will be the first to be truly skipped over in positions of power/leadership both because our generation sucks but also because the older generation refuses to relinquish power in a way no previous generation ever has.
It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.
Other than billionaires, Trump and his family, Mar a Lago members & corporate lobbyists, does anyone think things are going great right now?
Like, is literally anyone in America waking up in the morning, looking around at all this shit & thinking “yo this is awesome for me”?
Exactly 20 years ago, Alito was asked if a president could invade Iran without congressional approval or an imminent threat.
Alito asserted the "authority of the president to take military action on his own."
This is how the court may now legalize Trump's wars.
www.levernews.com/how-the-supr...
NEW: In video unearthed by @levernews.com, Alito was asked if a president could invade Iran with no authorization - his answer & a John Roberts memo suggest the court’s conservatives aim to kill the War Powers Act & enshrine presidents' power to launch wars with no congressional approval.
How can GOP Sen. Mike Lee write the thing on the left in 2020 & then say the thing on the right in 2025 & vote against a bill explicitly requiring the president to secure congressional authorization for an Iran War?
These people have literally zero principles.
🚨NEW: Inside the dark money network that's been pushing America toward a war with Iran.
www.levernews.com/the-shadow-c...
The supreme court has struck a blow to Trump’s corruption machine | David Sirota
My new reporting on MAGA super PAC donors getting special tariff exemptions from Trump is now the second most read piece at The Guardian.
Read it here & pass it on: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
NEW: How special tariff exemptions benefited Trump's family and corporations that funneled cash to the MAGA Inc. super PAC and the White House ballroom.
Being on C-Span's Booknotes this week was amazing - Brian Lamb had me reflect on the swim-upstream career that led to the creation of @levernews.com.
I'd never taken stock of my whole life in this way. Doing so made me grateful for everyone who's supported me in this difficult & wonderful journey.
behold the message discipline of oligarchy
🚨NEW: How Trump made sure any tariff refunds you are now owed are likely to instead be pocketed by billionaires & the corporations that jacked up your prices.
Congress could make sure you actually get your refund - but so far, lawmakers are not defying the corporate lobby.
🚨NEW: Previously unreported Epstein Files offer a rare glimpse into one of the largest Wall Street firms that makes huge money off workers' retirement savings and off schemes to buy up more and more of America.
www.levernews.com/lifestyles-o...
🚨NEW: Trump's tariffs raised your prices, now Amazon could pocket your refund - pass it on.
www.levernews.com/how-tariff-s...
It's honor to be on this week's C-Span Booknotes with the legendary Brian Lamb.
Our discussion included untold tales from my work with Bernie Sanders, my battles against corrupt House Dems while working with John Podesta & how it all put me on a path of anti-corruption accountability journalism.
these are two headlines in the last 24 hours...humanity had a good run
