Lucy Dean Stockton

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

incredible story from @gbrockell.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 SCOOP: Three years after a train full of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, the lawyers have been paid. The company hired to run the settlement has taken its fees.
But many of the people who were told relief was coming are still waiting.

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Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.

Read the story here at @levernews.com 👇
www.levernews.com/trump-is-poi...

🚨 SCOOP: Trump's admin is sabotaging a critical program that provides legal defense for unaccompanied migrant children.

An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).

A private investigator. Psychics. Calls to the FBI. Dozens of reports to regulators. A million dollar legal battle. A restraining order. An arrest warrant.

American surrogacy raked in approximately $5 billion in 2024. What can go wrong?

CEO Says Trump’s IRS Pick Promised Big Benefits Recordings reveal a finance executive claiming he offered Trump’s IRS nominee Billy Long an inauguration ticket — and was promised tax benefits if confirmed.

🚨BREAKING: A CEO says he offered Trump IRS pick Billy Long an inauguration ticket & was promised an IRS "private letter ruling" by Long, according to recordings reviewed by The Lever.

The Lever recently exposed donors enriching Long after his nomination. www.levernews.com/ceo-says-tru...

Trump Taps Refugee Fund To Welcome White South Africans Within Days Amid a near-total asylum ban, government sources say Trump officials are planning to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate imminent Afrikaner resettlement.

Amid a near-total asylum ban, the Trump admin is using funds reserved for the most vulnerable refugees to resettle white South Africans in the U.S.

The first group of Afrikaners could arrive within days, per internal documents viewed by @katyaschwenk.bsky.social
www.levernews.com/trump-taps-r...

The Conservative Plan To Bring DOGE To Canada Audio reveals how Canadian conservatives are plotting with energy and tech executives to slash services “more quickly” than Trump.

Tariffs are looming, but the United States is still exporting its most extreme ideas. 🤝

Canada's conservative groups are covertly trying to create their own DOGE — and they're being spurred on by Big Oil and Big Tech, as reported by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
www.levernews.com/the-conserva...

Trump IRS Pick Was Just Enriched By Tax Schemers New documents show Billy Long’s $130,000 personal debt was suddenly paid off by donors at firms policed by the tax agency he’d lead.

Truly insane story that involves executives who allegedly made fake tax shelters helping pay off the campaign debt of the man set to oversee the IRS and potential investigations into their schemes.

www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

Wall Street Wants To Fix Your Airplane The airline-repair business has been beset by corporate outsourcing and spotty oversight — now, venture capitalists want a piece of the action.

✈️ private equity firms moving into the increasingly outsourced, unregulated industry responsible for fixing airplanes ? seems fine.

@katyaschwenk.bsky.social reports on yet another distressing new aviation trend for you to start worrying about
www.levernews.com/wall-street-...

Trump Lets “Good” Banks Hide Their Bad Fees Last year, credit unions were forced to disclose the billions they made charging their members unnecessary junk fees. Now Trump is once again hiding their grift.

😮‍💨 Credit unions are supposed to be the good guys.

But @freddy-brewster.bsky.social found that they're just as interested in charging (and hiding) the junk fees they charge consumers (from overdraft penalties to insufficient fund fees) as the big, bad banks.
www.levernews.com/trump-lets-g...

Animal Farm: Eggflation’s Monopoly Problem Factory farms are blaming eggflation on animal welfare laws in an attempt to boost their margins and crush their competitors.

I saw a $15 carton of eggs last week 🥚 (Eggflation is real).

But, as @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social reports, factory farms are blaming high prices on animal welfare laws in order to boost their margins, crush independent farms + expand CAFOs (despite the avian flu).
www.levernews.com/animal-farm-...

A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.

Leonard Leo is sooo back (to dismantle the government).

@freddy-brewster.bsky.social found that more than a dozen groups he's affiliated with filed amicus briefs in the latest case pushing SCOTUS to further gut federal agencies' power. 🤠
www.levernews.com/a-dark-money...

so proud of my colleagues for producing such excellent work and thankful to our subscribers for making this all possible — it's an exciting time to be part of an independent newsroom ⭐️

incredible story from @sampollak.bsky.social

aaaand now it all makes sense

How Big Oil Hindered The Fight Against L.A.’s Wildfires California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.

California’s oil and gas companies have starved California's budget of billions in taxes for decades, as the state was routinely forced to cut funding for firefighters.

New from @freddy-brewster.bsky.social and me @levernews.com
www.levernews.com/how-big-oil-...

How Big Oil Hindered The Fight Against L.A.’s Wildfires California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.

🚨 NEW: Fossil fuel giants have spent decades exploiting an obscure California state tax break to avoid paying up to $146M of annual tax revenue — revenue that could be used to fight the fires currently raging across LA.

www.levernews.com/how-big-oil-...

“What If I Can’t Insure My Home At All?” Insurance companies are leaving homeowners at the mercy of climate catastrophes they helped create.

The insurance companies that dropped homeowners' fire coverage in California are simultaneously offering coverage to fossil fuel companies that are creating the climate-crisis conditions for ever larger and more destructive wildfires.

unions for cops 🤝 but not for striking workers

Very proud to have helped with legal research for this project, hanks to the generous mentorship and bold vision of @hannahbeckler.bsky.social and the @businessinsider.com team — they committed years of reporting and rigorous attention to detail in the pursuit of justice for incarcerated people.

The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect against prisoner abuse. Less than 1% of cases succeed. The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws have obliterated it.

Prisoners are denied basic rights — including the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment.

When they bring their claims of egregious medical neglect, sexual violence, and brutality to court, federal courts systematically fail them.
www.businessinsider.com/eighth-amend...

🚨BREAKING: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield tells us they will NOT go forward with previously planned changes to their anesthesia coverage.

"There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result, we have decided to not proceed."

Unsafe at Any Speed: Delivery Workers Deaths Are on the Rise in 2024 - Documented 10 immigrant delivery workers died on the streets of New York this year, marking a stark increase from the last two years.

"Victor Hidalgo is the most recent delivery worker killed this year. On Oct. 30 while delivering for Capsule, an online prescription-delivery service app, Hidalgo was hit by an ambulance."
documentedny.com/2024/12/05/d...

LIVE EVENT REPLAY: Dissecting Trump’s Cabinet With The Revolving Door Project A wide-ranging discussion about the conflicts of interest plaguing President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks.

The reporting team at @levernews.com spoke last night with @jeffhauser.bsky.social about the kind of corruption we can expect in a second Trump administration. Listen here 👇
www.levernews.com/live-event-d...

‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis

NEW | @hajmedd.bsky.social and I spent the last several months digging into McKinsey's work with its fossil fuel clients. Here's our story with the Guardian, ft. Koch Industries, China and a controversial Saudi government program to hook poor countries on oil www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump Gives Airlines Their Deregulator Sean Duffy, a former representative-turned-airline industry lobbyist and reality TV star, could now oversee the industry he wants to deregulate.

Trump's transportation secretary pick isn't just a notorious reality TV star - he's a longtime airline industry shill. Important @levernews.com reporting from @katyaaaa.bsky.social & @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social: www.levernews.com/trump-gives-...

Trump’s Transportation Pick Could Make Travel More Dangerous Sean Duffy, a former representative-turned-airline industry lobbyist and reality TV star, could now oversee the industry he wants to deregulate.

Great background here on Trump’s Transportation pick that goes beyond “reality TV star.” His background lobbying for deregulation in the airline industry (among other issues) could make travel more dangerous via @katyaaaa.bsky.social @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social

www.levernews.com/trumps-trans...

Trump’s Transportation Pick Could Make Travel More Dangerous Sean Duffy, a former representative-turned-airline industry lobbyist and reality TV star, could now oversee the industry he wants to deregulate.

“The fact is that in this market, we have an oligopoly. And the people that Mr. Duffy represented as a lobbyist — they are that oligopoly,” @wjm-air.bsky.social told me and @lucydeanstockton.bsky.social on Trump's pick for Transportation Secretary: www.levernews.com/trumps-trans...