How Racism Shapes Tax Policy

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Typical Academia
How a mysterious man fooled a Harvard scholar into believing the ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ was real
In 2012 scholar Karen King announced the academic discovery of a lifetime: a scrap of papyrus, purportedly from the early days of Christianity, in which Jesus refers to a woman as “my wife.” A new book says King was fooled by a brazen forgery.

Enjoy The Routes of Racism Queen Elizabeth’s family and Firm

Evidence that Bankers are Thieves Commit Fraud 2020
ALL OF THE FRAUD IS DONE BY BANKS, BANKERS AND COUNTRIES WHO COULD CARE LESS.

Dripping with oil built from father’s involvement in Russia.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/10/charles-koch-should-be-on-the-presidential-debate-stage-tonight-not-donald-trump/

Democracy Journal: Limbaugh Was Partly Scalia and Bork’s Fault

My grimly ironic conversation with Trump, the fourth horseman of our media apocalypse

AGARIC https://agaric.coop/initiatives
Large growth of unions and coops are probably our best practical oppositions to pervasive corporate capitalism.

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Zoom paid $0 in federal income taxes on 4,000% profit increase during pandemic: report

What are Facebook and YouTube thinking?!
Trump Insurrection Update https://twitter.com/ultraviolet

More State Lawmakers Should Consider How Racism Shapes Tax Policy
State lawmakers nationwide can learn from the Oregon House Revenue Committee’s efforts to understand and account for the effects of racism on the state’s revenue-raising system. In February the committee held a hearing, convened by the legislature’s Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Caucus, examining Oregon tax policy through a racial equity lens, the ways in which the state’s revenue system harms communities of color, and what can be done to repair that harm.

Persecutors are self promoting schmucks who should not be allowed to speak publicly about cases – see Ghouliani
US Court Judge Amit Mehta warned Justice Department prosecutors about comments made in recent news interviews regarding the US Capitol riot investigation and said he would impose a gag order if such remarks continue. The matter of a “60 Minutes” interview of Michael Sherwin, former interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, has been referred to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility for review
Full Story: National Public Radio (3/23),  CNN (3/24)

The US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on Tuesday examined the extent of police officers’ authority to use a secret camera for continuous monitoring of a suspect’s home in Massachusetts. The case, which involves family members charged with drug trafficking, also addresses the issue of when a warrant is necessary to conduct such surveillance.

Full Story: Courthouse News Service

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Lina Khan, an expert in antitrust issues who advised House lawmakers during a probe of technology giants, for a Federal Trade Commission seat. Khan teaches antitrust law at Columbia Law School and was an employee of Rohit Chopra, a former FTC member. Full Story: Axios
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that a federal agency citing poor performance in dismissing an employee must prove that performance problems occurred before the employee was placed on a performance improvement plan. The decision reverses Merit Systems Protection Board precedent, and the MSPB will now review the case to determine whether a former NASA employee faced retaliation because of his military service.

Full Story: Federal Times

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Right-wing white evangelical #MAGA “Christian” movement.

Finds crude bigotry, petty resentments, hypocrisy, authoritarian personality cults & violent idolatry.

Separation of church and state? Anyone? Born to rule elites? Dynastic rules ordained by their god? Right–wing historians who say Revolution was led by pious monarchists who wanted to create a Christian polity.

The divine right of wingnuts
Harvard’s Eric Nelson stokes a loopy monarchist movement in America.
On March 25 the conservative Heritage Foundation will host a “virtual event” titled “The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left’s Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy and Undermine a Cornerstone of Western Democracy Will Fail.” Announcement of the event left a lot of people wondering how and when the American right became partisans for the British monarchy. “Quite a plot twist here,” marveled Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. Writing in the liberal Mother Jones, James West scratched his head at the right “tearing up the Declaration of Independence to own the libs.”

QAnon conspiracies are just the latest iteration of a long tradition of right-wing extremism, rooted in white supremacy and anti-Semitism.
“I wanted to get inside [the Capitol] so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it. … I just felt like the spirit of God wanted me to go in the Senate room.” That Black would storm the Capitol in the belief that he was carrying out God’s will should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the troubling relationship between white evangelical Christians and conspiracy theories over the past four years.

The FoxNews-isation of Australia on full display at Murdoch’s SkyNews. We all know Christian Porter was the biggest story yesterday, but there wasn’t a single video on Sky’s YouTube or Facebook. Just more right wing grievance and LNP propaganda. #MurdochRoyalCommission
A right–wing Christian ministry with a massive following has been using Facebook to promote dangerous misinformation about COVID-19 and about the vaccines that could end the pandemic Media Matters
Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner declares that civil war is inevitable and says that Christians should not waste time praying to prevent it and should instead focus on acquiring weapons in preparation for it.<

Ontario’s Deputy Minister of Education Sam Oosterhoff. He’s 23, extremely Christian, right-wing, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-sex-ed and was homeschooled and never went to college.

Right-wing pastor Shane Vaughn says conservative Christians must press states to tighten their voting laws in order to “prepare the way” for Trump’s return, just as John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus Christ.

“he had a bad day”
“we dont know it was racially motivated”
“he was an incel not a racist”
“these were crimes of opportunity”
“he was a good christian boy”
Just say it A white christian targeted Asian people due to right wing stochastic terrorism