Notices by David Sirota (davidsirota@mastodon.online)

🚨BREAKING: House Republicans circulated a blueprint for defunding climate groups in lead up to today’s House passage of legislation empowering Trump to try to shut them down by ending their nonprofit tax status. https://www.levernews.com/gop-takes-first-steps-to-shut-down-climate-groups/

Do you like lead in your water?

Do you like methane emissions near your home?

Do you like airlines stealing your money when they cancel flights?

If you do - then you're gonna LOVE the GOP using an esoteric old law to repeal rules & make all that happen.

https://www.levernews.com/the-biden-reforms-that-will-be-first-to-go/

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MASTER PLAN went viral & became a breakout podcast success, so we're inviting listeners to a special live event with one of the series' central characters: U.S. @SenWhitehouse.

We'll discuss how 2024 became The Master Planners' Election. Post your questions in this thread and we will try to ask them. https://www.levernews.com/the-master-planners-election-with-senator-sheldon-whitehouse/

If you’re under 20, you’ve never been alive when a Republican won the most votes in a presidential election.

If you are a Colorado voter, please read this from Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. He's 100% correct. Initiative 131 is funded by a health care mogul. It is designed to trick voters into empowering oligarchs, all under the guise of "democracy."

Read more on it: https://www.levernews.com/the-plutocrats-plot-to-control-america/

The Gulf Coast areas being evacuated right now are represented in Congress by people who are currently trying to block the federal government from declaring a climate emergency - all while they rake in massive campaign contributions from oil/gas donors. https://www.levernews.com/amid-hurricane-milton-florida-republicans-aim-to-block-climate-emergency-declaration/

🚨NEWS: FTC chair Lina Khan responds to pushback against her work: “Monopolies not only have economic power, but use that power to buy political power,” she told The Lever.

Dems’ billionaire Microsoft megadonor Reid Hoffman called for her ouster.

https://www.levernews.com/ftc-chair-lina-khan-responds-to-calls-for-her-firing/

🚨EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance recently pressed regulators to let police in anti-abortion states access women’s private medical records in order to hunt down & prosecute those seeking legal abortions in other states, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/j-d-vance-wants-police-to-track-people-who-have-abortions/

🚨NEWS: In the weeks before the assassination attempt, GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania helped the NRA block a bill to ban sales of the type of assault rifle used to shoot Trump.

They blocked it, even as the Trump-packed SCOTUS was allowing such state bans. https://www.levernews.com/pennsylvania-gop-fought-a-ban-on-the-gun-used-in-trump-shooting/

🚨NEW REPORT: If Biden steps down, the obscure DNC committee that could install his replacement is stocked with corporate lobbyists seeking favors from the next president.

The lobbyists' clients include Boeing, Big Pharma and Big Tech.

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court just officially legalized bribery in a 6-3 decision. The ruling was engineered by the justices who have been accepting billionaire gifts.

The Lever did the definitive deep dive reporting on the Snyder case, way back in March.

Here's that big story that went viral - now the ruling was just handed down this morning. https://www.levernews.com/the-supreme-court-case-designed-to-legalize-bribery/

Big Tech is using its political influence to hide AI’s energy consumption, while utilities jack up your electricity rates to subsidize data centers.

Google’s AI-powered search is on track to use as much electricity as a whole country.

More than half of U.S. counties now have limited or no local reporting.

Two studies now show political corruption is skyrocketing in locales that have no local media.

But a new kind of media is also emerging. Semafor's Ben Smith and I explore what's coming next👇

https://www.levernews.com/the-world-after-billionaire-media/

Your taxes could be easy and free to file, like it is in other countries.

But lobbyists are funneling campaign cash to U.S. lawmakers who deliberately keep the process of paying taxes an expensive time suck that drives you insane every year.

This is the story of that maniacally evil scheme👇

https://www.levernews.com/americas-biggest-tax-scam-may-finally-end/

🚨NEWS: Corporations tried to block a rule forcing them to disclose CEO & worker pay.

The rule went into effect - now data show CEOs have been jacking up their pay while slashing workers' pay.

The CEO/worker pay gap grew 34 PERCENT in the last 5 years. https://www.levernews.com/ceos-got-raises-as-they-cut-workers-pay/

🚨BIG STORY: Exxon just filed an unprecedented lawsuit in a GOP court designed to punish shareholders raising climate concerns.

The suit aims to intimidate shareholders out of ever raising such questions in the future, under threat of financial punishment. https://www.levernews.com/exxon-declares-war-on-its-dissenters/

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: Private donors including big-box stores, fossil fuel companies & tech giants are secretly giving hundreds of millions of dollars to police groups, allowing them to buy specialized weapons & surveillance tech with almost no public oversight.

Critics say this dark money makes police forces beholden to the companies and donors bankrolling them, rather than the communities they are sworn to serve. https://www.levernews.com/the-police-have-a-dark-money-slush-fund/

🚨NEWS: The company that chartered the ship that destroyed the Key Bridge was just sanctioned by regulators for silencing whistleblowers raising safety concerns.

Maersk’s policy violated the law, according to federal documents reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/feds-recently-hit-cargo-giant-in-baltimore-disaster-for-silencing-whistleblowers/

🚨Two billionaire-sponsored conservative groups funded 251 trips for more than 100 judges, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

Leonard Leo's Federalist Society funded more than 40 PERCENT of all travel-related payments reported by federal judges. https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-are-bankrolling-judges-luxury-travel/

🚨Microsoft officials appear to be hiding their knowledge of something extremely dangerous about their AI plans.

We’ve learned that the fossil fuel industry hid its early knowledge of the climate crisis. Is this Big Tech’s version of a similar coverup? https://www.levernews.com/sirotas-signals-what-is-microsoft-hiding-about-ai/