Everyone knows Jeffrey Epstein as a sex trafficker. But his story goes back further — into the shadows of Iran-Contra, arms smuggling, and elite power. On Lever Time, @natalierbett talks with @MazMHussain about the strange connections behind Epstein’s rise.

.@TomSteyer on a walking tour of Berkeley yesterday with @adenaishii

🚨 NEW: On Lever Time, David Sirota asks American Prestige hosts Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison what Trump’s Iran war is really costing Americans — from surging gas prices to a deeper failure: the U.S. clinging to oil while China races ahead on clean energy.

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba - Arabic for “catastrophe” - referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when they were expelled from their historic and ancestral land by Zionist militias. — in pictures aje.news/jqvmtm

what you're seeing right now with the oppo piece on El-Sayed is the full-coordinated force of Majority Democrats, the Bench, and the Searchlight Institute--separate arms of a massive dark money operation intervening in dem primaries this cycle

All five Flyers in the penalty box. Playoff hockey.

If you want to know why LAUSD is rolling back ed tech, it's because of a group of parents who started speaking out about what they saw happening with their kids I was the first to report on it back in December --> nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/l…

🚨 SCOOP: Three Democrats blocking an effort to stop Trump from escalating war with Iran have taken a combined $1.7 million from a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group backing Trump’s military offensive.

🟢 Israel agreed to a “ceasefire” in Gaza on October 10. Since then, Israeli forces have: ➤ Launched 852 airstrikes and artillery attacks ➤ Opened fire on Palestinians 665 times ➤ Committed 1,856 armed violations on the ground 🔴 Israel Killed: ➤ 198 Children ➤ 85 Women ➤ 23 Elderly Citizens 648 Palestinians total 🔴 Israel Wounded: ➤ 507 Children ➤ 337 Women ➤ 89 Elderly Citizens 1666 Palestinians total The Palestinian resistance in Gaza shared on Day 137 (February 25) of the “ceasefire” a report detailing “sustained and systematic” Israeli violations of the truce. ➤ It recorded that children, women, and the elderly make up 47.2% of those killed during the “ceasefire.” ➤ It documents 1,856 Israeli field violations, averaging 13.5 violations per day, including live fire, drone strikes, artillery shelling, demolitions, and naval gunfire. ➤ The most severe violations, according to the report, concern aid. The ceasefire requires 600 trucks per day, including 50 fuel trucks. The document states that only 43.2% (260 of 600 agreed trucks) have entered overall, and just 15.1% of required fuel. ➤ It accuses Israel of providing “misleading figures” to mediators and refusing independent monitoring, calling the fuel restrictions a deliberate obstruction of recovery and basic services. ➤ Only 1,753 of 4,200 scheduled travelers were allowed to pass through Rafah in both directions — a compliance rate of just 41.7%. The report concludes that the violations form a “continuous and systematic pattern” that has stripped the ceasefire of practical substance.

Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes trib.al/oHHBpq0

We all owe a debt of gratitude to @jkbjournalist, whose groundbreaking reporting helped force this global moment of reckoning.

On this week's episode of Lever Time, Katya's story of how she followed the money in East Palestine: levernews.com/when-disaster-…

In November, I went to East Palestine, Ohio, to understand how the "historic" $600 million settlement over the 2023 derailment has so badly failed residents, but made some lawyers and shady companies very rich.

“Walmart has always been more of a tech and data company than it gets credit for.” New: Olivia Paschal on making Walmart modern. nplusonemag.com/online-only/…

Israel has singlehandedly desensitized Western audiences to extrajudicial murder. In the past 24 hours, the US has killed 14 people *today* in their murderous campaign on fishing vessels. Just low enough to not raise rage, just like Israel does daily. aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2…

A truly great piece

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