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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was one of the officials raising safety concerns about the airline-backed bill that Congress passed in the months before the disaster at Washington National Airport.

🚨NEW: Airline-bankrolled lawmakers ignored safety warnings & quietly passed a bill to add more flights to DC's airport: levernews.com/before-d-c-a... They were backed by this Delta-backed group's ad campaign insisting "experts agree DCA has the capacity to handle more flights" 👇

🚨BREAKING: Months before tonight's fatal DC plane crash, lawmakers brushed off dire safety warnings & passed an industry-backed bill adding more flight traffic at the airport. "Increasing slots at this airport undermines safety," an opponent pleaded.

Before D.C. Airport Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings And Boosted Flights

Despite midflight near-misses and dire pleas, airline-bankrolled lawmakers recently expanded flight traffic at Washington’s busy airport.

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HUGE new @levernews.com investigation, months in the making, that raises big questions about the safety and efficacy of celebrated new Alzheimer's drugs Leqembi and Aduhelm. www.levernews.com/the-deadly-s...

The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs

Regulators approved controversial therapies amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest.

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🚨NEWS: The nation’s top private health insurers have spent over $120 BILLION lining top shareholders’ pockets with lucrative stock buybacks. It’s no coincidence that among those top investors are the very executives who authorize buybacks in the first place 👇 www.levernews.com/health-insur...

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UnitedHealth executives pressed the company’s rank-and-file employees to pressure lawmakers to block a public health insurance option. www.levernews.com/health-insur...

Health Insurer Pressured Employees To Fight State Public Option

Video shows UnitedHealth exec slamming Connecticut proposal’s “artificially low premiums” and pushing employees to lobby against the bill.

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Anthem is backtracking on their dangerous insurance coverage change after @helenwsantoro.bsky.social's excellent reporting revealed they would no longer pay for anesthesia for surgeries that ran too long.

🚨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."

🚨NEW POD: We investigated just how elastic the truth can get in the social media era — and how politicians like Trump use manipulation and deception similar to the way a magician would 👇 www.levernews.com/trump-magic-...

Trump, Magic, and Misdirection

Magicians rely on misdirection and deception to create an illusion. The science behind their craft may explain how politicians manipulate the public in a post-truth era.

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What's up with Republicans and dogs?

Trump Nominee Pressured IRS To Crush The Humane Society

Billy Long pushed the agency to target the group after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. Long could get new power to target more nonprofits.

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Making America Inhumane Again.

BREAKING: Trump’s pick to head the IRS pressed the agency to strip the leading animal welfare group of its tax status after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. If confirmed, he could potentially effectively shutter nonprofits he disagrees with. www.levernews.com/trump-nomine...

What stage of capitalism is this?

🚨 A major health insurance company says it will no longer automatically pay for patients’ anesthesia if a medical procedure takes longer than a predetermined time limit, regardless of complications or other factors that impact operation time. www.levernews.com/big-insurer-...

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It’s Dark Money-Giving Tuesday

A new study reveals that charitable giving will soon be dominated by Wall Street dark-money funds that enrich the wealthy and never have to give to working charities.

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Important post on game publishers' profit-gouging efforts to stop the archiving of video game history. "Imagine not being able to go to a library and read the works of Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, or any other historical author." It's the same for video games. www.forbes.com/sites/ollieb...

Publishers Have Finally Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games

In a recent move against the archiving of video game history, publishers have finally come clean on why they dislike retro games so much.

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