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🔥 Today’s Lever Time episode: Journalist Julie K. Brown broke open the cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme — and she says the government is still hiding the truth.

👇 Spend three minutes reading this 961-word newsletter to learn about: 

  • The Epstein investigator that Trump just fired.
  • A loyalty questionnaire now included in federal job applications.
  • The “bossware” making your life worse.
  • What happens when executives for Big Tech, Big Oil, and Big Money all walk into a room.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS

🤫 Zuck buys silence days before testimony. Just days into a civil trial where leaders at Meta were set to deliver blockbuster testimony over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal, the company settled this morning. Meta’s shareholders sued the firm for $8 billion, alleging that Meta knowingly violated federal privacy laws and later bailed itself out by paying hefty settlements, which shareholders now want to be compensated for.