Jared Jacang Maher
@jjmaher.bsky.social
Producer, author. MasterPlanPodcast.com @levernews.com
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Jared Jacang Maher
@jjmaher.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Democracy is in crisis, in no small part because of the decision he authored. slate.trib.al/YzS7emE
This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.
The story of how corruption became legal in America isn't just about memos, movements, and legal strategies.
slate.trib.al
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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November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🧠 NEW: Wall Street. Epstein files. Ticketmaster chaos.
Let’s see if you’re paying attention.
www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...
Let’s see if you’re paying attention.
www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...
Quick News Quiz: Can You Get These Right?
YouTube video by The Lever
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🧠 NEW: Wall Street. Epstein files. Ticketmaster chaos.
Let’s see if you’re paying attention.
www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...
Let’s see if you’re paying attention.
www.youtube.com/shorts/SUSAi...
Whatever you say about Trump, his innate sense of knowing when to time a plot-twist to keep the audience watching is uncanny. Wow
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Whatever you say about Trump, his innate sense of knowing when to time a plot-twist to keep the audience watching is uncanny. Wow
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?
Forget retaliation: To cut tariffs President Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery.
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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?
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
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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
The only way this happens is using chatGPT to write your paper. Unbelievable. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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.
www.notus.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The only way this happens is using chatGPT to write your paper. Unbelievable. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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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...
www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
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.
www.levernews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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...
www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
this chart can be retitled as "Motherf**kin' Boomers, Man"
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November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
this chart can be retitled as "Motherf**kin' Boomers, Man"
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Loving exploring this new @moreperfectunion.bsky.social interactive database perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...
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.
perfectunion.us
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Loving exploring this new @moreperfectunion.bsky.social interactive database perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...
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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
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
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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
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
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...
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.
www.pbs.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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...
I just unloaded a year’s worth of thoughts on Anthony Kennedy’s legacy in a new piece for @slate.com 👇
Democracy is in crisis, in no small part because of the decision he authored. slate.trib.al/YzS7emE
This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.
The story of how corruption became legal in America isn't just about memos, movements, and legal strategies.
slate.trib.al
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I just unloaded a year’s worth of thoughts on Anthony Kennedy’s legacy in a new piece for @slate.com 👇
👇what’s new is old
What looks like a sudden shift in media is actually a 50-year plot to capture it.
@DavidSirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social uncover how CBS executives joined the original campaign to turn news into corporate propaganda.
Read in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@DavidSirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social uncover how CBS executives joined the original campaign to turn news into corporate propaganda.
Read in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher
A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to…
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
👇what’s new is old
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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...
"They are afraid of people of faith."
religionnews.com/2025/10/15/i...
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.
religionnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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...
"They are afraid of people of faith."
religionnews.com/2025/10/15/i...
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!
EXCLUSIVE: Katie Porter tears into a staffer in a newly released video, telling them: "Get out of my f--king shot."
‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video
Porter in the July 2021 video call exclusively obtained by POLITICO also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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!
My new book I coauthored with @davidsirota.com is out now! The epic history of how corruption was legalized in America.
Get the book at LeverNews.com/book - or wherever you buy your books. And please pass it on!
MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America
A new book adapted from the award-winning podcast.
LeverNews.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My new book I coauthored with @davidsirota.com is out now! The epic history of how corruption was legalized in America.
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/
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.
truthout.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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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
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
September 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
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
The revolution will not be caffeinated
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The revolution will not be caffeinated
An “expansive view of presidential authority…”
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
September 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
An “expansive view of presidential authority…”
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...
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.
www.cnn.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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...
I always say please in my prompts to ChatGPT. I can’t help it on.ft.com/41ZIce2
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
on.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I always say please in my prompts to ChatGPT. I can’t help it on.ft.com/41ZIce2
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🚨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...
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...
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.
www.levernews.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
🚨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...
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...
New write up. Thx @ceprdc.bsky.social
Private equity firms systematically bought up and sold out skateboarding companies, killing the counterculture. www.levernews.com/how-private-...
How Private Equity Thrashed Skateboarding’s Soul
Private equity firms systematically bought up and sold out skateboarding companies, killing the counterculture.
www.levernews.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New write up. Thx @ceprdc.bsky.social