Quick H/T to @propublica.org's new financial disclosure search tool — which helped surface the ethics filing behind our DHS scoop. A former Anduril Industries insider is now overseeing Department of Homeland Security’s massive biometric surveillance dragnet.
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
As news of the House Iran war powers vote hits, we're hosting a live event to get Rep. Ro Khanna’s immediate insights. Join us RIGHT NOW: www.levernews.com/breaking-new...
We’re just playing all the greatest hits. By next week we’ll be selling weapons to Iran and the CIA will be clandestinely dosing American citizens with LSD
Fuck it, let’s just watch the American Empire’s memories flash before our eyes one last time while the empire dies
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
Had a lovely coffee and chat with Bend mayor @melaniekebler.bsky.social this morning. The city is growing like crazy but also rapidly densifying, adding bike lanes, reforming zoning, pushing back on new gas, etc. Fascinating case study & just a wonderful place.
Hey, wanna get a beer and I can tell you why you're wrong? 😁
But seriously, I'd love to tell you about Bend's history and evolution and how we're working on that next evolution to less car dependency and more multifamily and missing middle homes.
Justice Gorsuch’s tariff-decision concurrence underscores a broader truth: The Supreme Court is no less political — or conniving — than everyone else in power. www.levernews.com/the-lesson-o...
as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction
the White House should really come with a cat, that every president has to deal with respectfully, as a reminder that the office is bigger than them
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
Finally, a few top Democrats, including
@aoc.bsky.social are explicitly arguing that working-class economic populism is needed to stave off authoritarianism and defend democracy.
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
Teachers, nurses, first responders are paid barely enough to survive, while those on TV who bloviate about politics for 5 minutes are paid millions.
Amid layoffs of reporters, individual TV pundits are paid more than what it would cost to preserve entire newsrooms of journalists.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
all the creators in the world will never fill the hole created by the degradation and loss of media institutions, despite all their problems
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
🚨 NEW: Wall Street is reviving the same mortgage securities that fueled the 2008 crash, while pushing regulators to weaken disclosure rules. We have seen how this ends.
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
4. The business side of Epstein is a massive vindication of
@naomiaklein.bsky.social's Shock Doctrine (2007) and
@leninology.bsky.social's
more resent Disaster Capitalism.
I cannot believe there is a dumpster diver to reactionary centrist pipeline but we now have two strong data points
History tells us that without sustained and intense pressure, Democrats will set a new land speed record for political capitulation. www.levernews.com/how-democrat...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
NEW: Amid ICE's rampage, Dems provided votes to fund ICE, Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip votes against the funding, Dem Senate candidates opposed another Dem calling for ICE to be abolished - and a Dem think tank demanded Dems back "an aggressive plan to rebuild ICE."
As ICE terrorizes cities and murders people, a tycoon-funded Democratic think tank is criticizing those saying lawmakers should reduce the agency’s funding — all while Democrats provide enough congressional votes to keep ICE flush with cash.
www.levernews.com/how-democrat...
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
The author can't even make his own argument without including a bunch of "to be sure" paragraphs that negate the entire premise. Not only are Dems serious about tackling fraud, but these efforts sometimes prevent recipients from getting it! If anything, the system is *too* focused on fraud.
