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I thought I knew all you could about Dark Money but Master Plan has new revelations about corporate influence on the Supreme Court, like Justice Lewis Powell wearing a tobacco company’s logo on his black robe? Check it out: the.levernews.com/master-plan/

She'll arguably have more experience than Obama, Carter, Trump and W. Bush, given her time in the Senate and sitting on the Intelligence and Homeland Security committees. It's actually more remarkable when someone enters the presidency with genuine foreign policy experience

👀Whenever anyone suggests advertisers can influence major news outlets' coverage, there's eyerolling as if that's conspiracy theory. But in MASTER PLAN Episode 4, you'll learn how Roger Ailes told a Powell Memo Task Force of corporate execs to do that. levernews.com/master-plan-ep…

What a time to be alive.

Not a surprise, but big money interests have intensified their campaign for Kamala Harris to fire Lina Khan. Only they are being publicly quiet because they realize Khan is popular and they were being idiots before. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW POD: Harris says she fought banks and got money for California homeowners wrongly foreclosed in as AG. But the settlement benefited the banks instead. We tell the story of why California residents are still bitter about it this week on Lever Time tinyurl.com/638rknn7

You can get yelled at on twitter for pointing it out but it's long been clear that inflation-adjusted income was lower in 2021 and 2022 than it was in 2019. 2023 finally caught up, which is good

I don’t know, maybe because there are astronauts stuck in space because a private space company’s technology failed on them

Sounds like venture capitalists

Great example of how unserious these debates have become. The legacy media and political press really need to stop propping these useless exercises up and demand candidates engage in a discourse about things that actually impact Americans in a way that won’t sound like the WWE.

Great work by Lee Pace moderating that debate yesterday

I was curious so I looked up the criminal cases in Clark County, Ohio, where Springfield is. Here's everything that was being processed yesterday. I don't even see any Haitian names (which would be French-Creole). These crimes don't matter to GOP because they ain't immigrants.

They sure do

Part two of our audio series on what Kamala Harris's record says about whether or not she would try to follow through on her populist campaign promises. Excellent reporting from Arjun Singh - this is real journalism. levernews.com/will-the-real-…

Every day on here MAGA voters are allowing themselves to be led by the nose to hate Haitian immigrants, or Venezuelans, or an Algerian boxer, or whatever scares them that day. Parroting hysteria from Trump, Vance, Musk, MAGA influencers, et al. All of it fiction.

JD Vance: I’m a populist. Also JD Vance: I’m a multi-millionaire venture capitalist who voted to weaken the NLRB, against the PRO Act, and only visited a picket line to fight electric vehicle production

Our new two-part audio series on Kamala Harris’s record — and what it says about a potential presidency — are now two of our best performing podcast episodes. Really original reporting here by Arjun Singh — take a listen. levernews.com/will-the-real-…