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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001% — We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations. — Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based …
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Rich Americans Like Bezos, Musk, Buffett Avoided Income Tax
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Joe Manchin is opposing big parts of Biden's agenda as the Koch network pressures him — The Koch network has been pressuring Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to oppose key parts of the Democratic agenda, including filibuster reform and voting rights legislation. — That lobbying effort appears to be paying off.
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Democrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors — The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On the one hand, one can read in the mainstream press that “more than 100 scholars of democracy have signed …
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Manchin Says Voting Rights Are “Fundamental” as He Torpedoes the Plan to Protect Them — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — “The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy …
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Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow
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Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America
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Stacey Abrams-led group launches campaign to mobilize young voters of color around voting rights bill
Stacey Abrams-led group launches campaign to mobilize young voters of color around voting rights bill
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Alan Ryland / POLITICUSUSA:
Pelosi Dismisses Manchin's Objections, Urges Senate to Act to Defend Election Integrity
Pelosi Dismisses Manchin's Objections, Urges Senate to Act to Defend Election Integrity
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
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Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds — The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her. — During the presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the Democratic candidate …
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U.S. defending presidency, not trying to ‘save Trump,’ in recent legal moves — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's Justice Department aimed to shield the presidency, not Donald Trump, with its latest action in a defamation case brought by a woman who accuses the former president of raping her, legal experts said.
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Global sting: Secure FBI-run messaging network tricks crooks — THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday, as they unveiled …
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Sidney Powell Just ‘Eviscerated’ Her Own Legal Defense, Experts Say — “That seems like an extremely damaging admission from Ms. Powell,” a top lawyer says. — Sidney Powell lost the plot. — To protect herself from a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, the Trumpist lawyer was supposed …
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How America Fractured Into Four Parts — Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness.
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U.S. report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab - WSJ — A report on the origins of COVID-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis of a virus leak from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation …
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Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
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Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson — Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
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Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed — When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden.
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Record-High 70% in U.S. Support Same-Sex Marriage — WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. support for legal same-sex marriage continues to trend upward, now at 70% — a new high in Gallup's trend since 1996. This latest figure marks an increase of 10 percentage points since 2015 …
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Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin:
Sen. Johnson and Colleagues Request Answers from DOJ on Unequal Application of Justice to Protestors — WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), sent a letter on Monday …
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James Murdoch spent $100 million to help fund political causes during 2020 election cycle — James Murdoch, the son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, quietly invested $100 million into his nonprofit foundation, which then used a chunk of the money to fund political groups during the 2020 election cycle.
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Why Cruise Ship Vaccination Requirements Are Different from Those of Other Institutions — A huge part of life is drawing distinctions. — This requires observation, foresight for likely consequences, and judgment — and even then, you can still get it wrong. This is hard.
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Rebekah Jones' Twitter account suspended, citing ‘platform manipulation,’ ‘spam’ — Rebekah Jones, who formerly maintained Florida's COVID-19 dashboard but was fired last year as she raised concerns about transparency, was suspended Monday from Twitter for “platform manipulation and spam.”
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Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates — Even those who aren't woke seem damaged by the experience, and they're deprived of role models. — I'm not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America's elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I relished the opportunity …
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Democrats control the language of politics and culture — but for how long? — Elections are won by creating a contrast between you and your opponent. Republicans are not doing a very good job at creating that contrast right now; they seem to acquiesce when Democrats define the issues.
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Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Two weeks before the GOP had its first chance to pick up a seat in Congress since Joe Biden became president, the Republican Party of New Mexico hosted a three-day event dubbed “Operation Freedom.”
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Abbe Lowell Is the Go-To Lawyer for Embattled Politicians. Now He Faces a Controversy of His Own. — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — Abbe Lowell, one of Washington's top attorneys …
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Fresh Off Twitter Ban, Naomi Wolf To Headline Anti-Vax “Juneteenth” Event — Organizers told me they found that date appropriate because the ending of slavery and resistance to vaccines are both about “liberation” — Three groups opposed to Covid restrictions, masks …
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Democrats are giving up on their greatest achievement since the 1960s — The pandemic boost to unemployment benefits has helped millions of Americans — The $600 boost to unemployment benefits passed in the CARES Act last year was the best policy passed in this country since the 1960s.
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Are We Destined for a Trump Coup in 2024? — Some alarm is understandable. The progressive sense of certain doom is not. — GUEST ESSAY — Your Next Car and Clothes Dryer Could Help Save Our Planet — To slow global warming, we need to electrify vast parts of our economy and power it with clean energy.
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Millions of J&J Covid-19 Vaccines Are at Risk of Expiring in June — States, hospitals try to reroute such vaccines, while efforts to export them face hurdles — Hospitals, state health departments and the federal government are racing to decide how to use up millions …
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Florida's Ron DeSantis Wants to Cancel Education About Systemic Racism — An authoritarian governor—and 2024 GOP presidential prospect—seeks to bar teaching on how slavery, segregation, and white supremacy have shaped policy. — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2024.
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