Notices by David Sirota (davidsirota@mastodon.online)

🚨NEWS: Republicans quietly put a line in their 1,000-page tax bill blocking states from preventing tech companies from using AI to raise your rent & deny you health insurance.

The provision has been a priority of Silicon Valley & the Abundance movement. https://www.levernews.com/gop-chooses-ai-dominance-over-democracy/

NEWS: Republicans are trying to throw people off Medicaid and then use the savings to pay for a new tax break for gun silencers, according to legislative text reviewed by The Lever.

That is happening right now in the U.S. House. Pass it on 👇 https://www.levernews.com/a-tax-cut-for-mass-shootings/

🚨NEWS: Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid & use some of the savings to fund a tax cut for purchases of gun silencers.

The Lever discovered that the GOP slipped the gun-silencer tax break into the budget bill being debated in the U.S. House right now. https://www.levernews.com/a-tax-cut-for-mass-shootings/

🚨NEWS: Trump's EPA just shut down the government website letting you know where toxic chemical disasters could erupt in your community.

The move came after lobbying by chemical companies - and after big donations to Trump's inauguration. https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pick to oversee Americans’ retirement savings pressed to block retiree lawsuits aiming to stop corporations from looting workers' 401ks, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. https://www.levernews.com/the-corporate-crusade-of-trumps-top-retirement-cop/

🚨NEWS: The Federal Reserve says that as prices increase, corporate profits have hit at an unprecedented share of national income & that the profiteering is “driven by an increase in dividends rewarding shareholders” — while worker compensation declines. https://www.levernews.com/how-shareholder-payouts-fuel-corporate-profiteering/

🚨NEWS: Big Tech lobby groups & data brokers are pressing Trump to kill a federal privacy rule designed to limit the buying & selling of your Social Security number, home address, & other sensitive personal info, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/the-tech-companies-fighting-to-sell-your-data/

70% of Republican voters want to raise taxes on the rich, according to new poll data.

Grover Norquist is calling Republicans pushing the idea “traitors.”

Inside the GOP’s new civil war 👇 https://www.levernews.com/is-the-gops-tax-revolt-collapsing/

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration just hid data that lets communities know about dangerous chemical facilities in their midst.

The move came after lobbying from the chemical industry — and after massive inauguration donations from chemical companies. https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/

David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025

🚨NEWS: Trump’s move to shut down the IRS’s popular free tax filing system followed TurboTax delivering $1 million to his inauguration.

TurboTax’s corporate documents say the program threatens their profits.

Details: https://www.levernews.com/defunding-the-big-tech-police/

A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that $79 TRILLION was taken from the bottom 90% of the country.

America’s problem is not a lack of “abundance.”

America’s problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance for themselves while everyone else suffers. https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

This is insane. https://www.levernews.com/doge-weaponizes-ai-to-surveil-federal-workers/

A new RAND study just found that $79 trillion was taken from the bottom 90%.

We don't have an abundance problem.

We have an oligarchy problem - the oligarchs are hoarding the abundance for themselves. https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

NEWS: As Amazon warehouse workers are injured at above average rates, billionaire Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker just vetoed Democratic legislation to protect those workers from quotas requiring them to work even faster. https://www.levernews.com/billionaire-pritzker-boosts-billionaire-bezos/

An important story reminding everyone why JD Vance is going to Greenland today. https://www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-donors-have-big-plans-for_greenland/

Dems are giving Trump congressional votes, helping MAGA in the bluest states & resurrecting their party's unpopular has-beens rather than letting new leaders emerge.

In response, new polls show Dems are more loathed by voters than at any time in decades. https://www.levernews.com/how-dems-are-destroying-their-party/

The White House just waived ethics/conflict-of-interest laws for the crypto mogul Trump appointed to sculpt federal crypto policy.

Pass it on. https://www.levernews.com/trump-issues-ethics-waiver-for-his-ai-crypto-czar/

INVESTIGATION: The U.S. government spent $6 billion of taxpayer money to develop Ozempic, according to data obtained by @levernews.

Now, after pharma-bankrolled lawmakers killed pricing regs, Americans are charged the world's highest prices for the drug. https://www.levernews.com/youve-already-paid-6-billion-for-weight-loss-drugs-you-cant-afford/

I spoke with FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya the night Trump tried to fire him amid his investigation into Trump’s corporate boosters.

Bedoya made a key point: this power grab aims to create a more intense form of corruption.

Our discussion👇 https://www.levernews.com/trumps-tuesday-night-massacre/