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🎧 On Lever Time: The anxious generation, brought to you by the algorithm.
⬇️ Spend five minutes reading this 995-word newsletter to learn about:
- LEVER SCOOP: Musk targets ed contracts while getting a new deal with NASA.
- A potential bid to trade California for Greenland.
- The big bills funding the pro-penny lobby.
- A new push to get teenagers off “behavioral cocaine.”
TODAY'S NUGGETS
🤝 A match made in Greenland — or Red, White, and Blueland. Just weeks after a California initiative to secede from the union advanced, more than 200,000 Danes signed a petition in support of buying the West Coast state. Will California be traded for Greenland and a first-round draft pick for a country to be named later? And will Greenland get renamed, as one Republican congressman is proposing? Weirder things have happened (here’s looking at you, Gulf of America).
- Today on the Hill, Sen. Ted Cruz is convening a committee hearing titled “Nuuk and Cranny: Looking at the Arctic and Greenland’s Geostrategic Importance to U.S. Interests.” A recent investigation by The Lever found that a U.S. takeover of Greenland would most likely enrich the president’s billionaire tech donors, whose investments target the island’s natural resources.
🎢 We’re all trying to find the guys who did this. Disney executives are suddenly concerned that their $200-per-person park tickets are pricing out middle-class families. Insert Hot Dog Guy Meme.
