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Jared Jacang Maher

@jjmaher.bsky.social
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Producer, author. MasterPlanPodcast.com @levernews.com

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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/c768... Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S-1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new lawsuit say Trump’s war is unconstitutional 👇https://www.levernews.com/iran-war-victims-put-trumps-power-grab-on-trial/
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Iran War Victims Put Trump’s Power Grab On Trial
An unprecedented lawsuit from Iranian-American families challenges Trump’s ability to wage war without Congress.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My weekend listening locked and loaded. New season of The Plot Thickens about Stanley Kubrick👇🎧
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👇Ep 6, Obama’s Kill List—Master Plan-The Kingmakers
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Podcast listeners: We’re almost done with the latest season of Master Plan, and the final episodes of the Kingmakers are killer. LITERALLY! 👇
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This detail in a story about the CEO of Wildberries (the female ‘Jeff Bezos’ of Russia) is nuts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/w...
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This story should be a giant earthshaking political scandal but it will barely get noticed nowadays www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 16/07/2026
A Republican megadonor’s family is trying to build a $111 billion media empire — and is accused of promising Trump favorable coverage for government approval. Now 12 states are suing to block the deal, as FCC officials face scrutiny for accepting gifts from Paramount.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/07/2026
Going… going… gone.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sickening. I can easily imagine this being me when I was 25 or one of my friends
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The Lever @levernews.com · 29/11/2025
🗣️ Want your holiday spending to actually make an impact? Support the Lever and get a major discount on Master Plan, our new bestselling book exposing the hidden plot to legalize corruption in America.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/11/2025
This is the MASTER PLAN - pass it on. LeverNews.com/book
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/11/2025
🧠 NEW: Wall Street. Epstein files. Ticketmaster chaos. Let’s see if you’re paying attention. www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...
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Quick News Quiz: Can You Get These Right?
YouTube video by The Lever
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Whatever you say about Trump, his innate sense of knowing when to time a plot-twist to keep the audience watching is uncanny. Wow
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I wonder what fmr. Sen Bob Menendez, who was convicted for taking a gold bar bribe from foreign agents, is thinking right now from his prison cell?
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hockey is already one of the most expensive youth sports. I couldn’t imagine paying costs like this for my kids. Read this crazy story by @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The only way this happens is using chatGPT to write your paper. Unbelievable. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 12/11/2025
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
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Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this chart can be retitled as "Motherf**kin' Boomers, Man" (via @levernews.com daily newsletter levernews.com/new-yorks-sore-winners/)
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Loving exploring this new @moreperfectunion.bsky.social interactive database perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...
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Trump's Corporate Colluders - More Perfect Union
We analyzed more than 150 top donors to Trump's inauguration fund and the White House ballroom construction to figure out which corporations are donating — and what they got in return.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/10/2025
He wrote the decision that legalized political bribery. Now he wants to rewrite his legacy. Too late. From Master Plan, the new book by @davidsirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social on how corruption became law. 📖 Read the adapted excerpt in @Slate.com
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
And here it is. Next is SBF. Along with George Santos the whole fraudster class of 2024 will be free by end of year www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
Zhao served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I just unloaded a year’s worth of thoughts on Anthony Kennedy’s legacy in a new piece for @slate.com 👇
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
👇what’s new is old
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 15/10/2025
The Catholic Church showed up in Chicago on Saturday. And, we need to keep showing up. "They are afraid of people of faith." religionnews.com/2025/10/15/i...
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ICE turned away the body of Christ. Catholics must keep showing up anyway.
(RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I watched the whole thing. As a producer who has directed 100’s of videos, I can say: Katie Porter was right. Get the fuck out of the shot!
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My new book I coauthored with @davidsirota.com is out now! The epic history of how corruption was legalized in America.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I’ve been digging into a SCOTUS case that could gut what’s left of campaign finance law — letting parties openly coordinate with mega-donors. My new @levernews.com investigation: truthout.org/articles/inside-the-campaign-to-dismantle-the-last-remaining-limits-on-campaign-spending/
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Inside the Campaign to Dismantle the Last Remaining Limits on Campaign Spending
Trump has picked a corporate litigator to defend a Supreme Court case that could unleash unlimited political spending.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/09/2025
An early copy of our new book MASTER PLAN in the wild… The book exposes the hidden plot to legalize corruption in America. You may think you know the story — but you don’t. This book includes never-before-reported documents, photos & transcripts. Pre-order — and share: LeverNews.com/book
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The revolution will not be caffeinated
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
An “expansive view of presidential authority…”
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Dalio’s someone that investors and wall street actually listens to. So for him to state this so directly shows how global money people are thinking about where things are headed. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/b...
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The US is transforming into a 1930s-style autocracy, says billionaire Ray Dalio | CNN Business
The United States is sliding into 1930s-style autocratic politics, billionaire Ray Dalio has warned.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I always say please in my prompts to ChatGPT. I can’t help it on.ft.com/41ZIce2
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Should you say ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT?
If we don’t watch our manners with machines we may forget to treat people with respect, too
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/08/2025
🚨CRUEL SUMMER 2025 ICE is now hiding mass deportation flights by using an obscure legal loophole created by the private jet lobby & designed for (and used by) celebrities like Taylor Swift. www.levernews.com/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using Taylor Swift’s Loophole To Hide Deportation Flights
Aviation regulators have been making it harder to track celebrities’ private jets. Now, Trump’s immigration enforcers are taking advantage.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New write up. Thx @ceprdc.bsky.social
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/08/2025
The story that inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.
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“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Trump’s Invasion Of D.C. Started On K Street www.levernews.com/trumps-invas...
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Trump’s Invasion Of D.C. Started On K Street
Before the president seized control of Washington, D.C.’s police, corporate lobbyists posed as local businesses to drum up panic about local crime.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The internet is truly cooking our brains
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/08/2025
During the Gilded Age, demonstrations and political organizing led to reforms that reduced corporate influence over elections. Today, intense pressure from the public is needed to fight corruption and restore accountability. bit.ly/4mcMsPL
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Corruption in the United States
The threat that corruption poses to democracy has never been greater, requiring bold reforms to return power to the American people.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This little detail in the NYT story about Zuck’s house compound in Palo Alto stood out for me
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This story of how a reporter spent years fighting to get government records about the sale of a Wu-Tang album is pretty wild >>>
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I can't even. How? apnews.com/article/mort...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac ordered to consider crypto as an asset when buying mortgages
The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer’s cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mo...
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Dem lawmakers are pretending to be anti corruption as cover to unleash crypto into banking system www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...
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Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat
A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Facing Trump’s increasingly undeniable fascist designs, the impulse to forge cross‑ideological alliances to defend what remains of the rule of law is understandable—indeed, essential. But the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.” www.weekendreading.net/p/trumps-spl...
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Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Whatever “abundance” meant when liberal Dems started using it, this forum with Chamber types proves it’s jumped the shark. I Ctrl+F’d “abundance”… 34 times! RIP, abundance. It’s now the 2025 buzzword for mega-capitalists to soft-pedal their same old agenda. www.youtube.com/live/15Ccc7W...
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The Energy Future Forum - 2025
YouTube video by RealClearPolitics
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Denver Westword @westword.com · 27/05/2025
David Sirota Denver-Based Podcast Wins National Press Club Award
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David Sirota's Master Plan Wins National Podcast Award
In 2022, The Lever evolved into a fledgling investigative reporting team. Now its podcast just won top honors from the National Press Club.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
mazel tov! great news — and a great series. well done!!
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
dark money for me, but not for thee kansasreflector.com/2025/05/19/k...
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Kansas abortion rights advocacy group sues state officials over law banning foreign contributions • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas reproductive rights advocacy group, backed by a Washington, D.C. law firm, sued state officials over a new law banning financial contributions from “foreign nationals” to support or oppose co...
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Jared Jacang Maher @jjmaher.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
With each passing week it becomes more clear that the Unitary Executive theory is the core doctrine of this Administration at every level. newrepublic.com/post/195519/...
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Marco Rubio Says No Judge Has Authority Over Him in Alarming Testimony
Trump’s secretary of state made a shocking confession in a testy exchange with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen.
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