Rumble, the Republican National Committee's livestreaming partner for tonight's debate, hosts numerous pro-Hitler videos on its site. We found ads for the RNC on those pages. https://mediamatters.org/rumble/gop-debate-streaming-partner-rumble-placed-rnc-ads-numerous-pro-hitler-videos
Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS:
- cleared backlog of 2022 returns
- took 3 million more calls and cut wait times
- recovered $38 million from 175 delinquent millionaires
- working on direct file pilot
#IRS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/17/irs-funding-tax-season-wait-times/
An unidentified source sent Epik, a web services company popular with right-wing extremists, nearly $3 million worth of bitcoin a day after Anonymous announced they gained access to the company's internal records
#HurricaneHilary's rapid intensification over the last 30 hours to a Category 4 storm as it pushes north on a collision course for California 🌀📈
**Fire Risk Recall**
1.56 million dehumidifiers sold between 2011 and 2014 under brand names like Kenmore and GE have been recalled due to fire and burn hazards, according to the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
Judge who authorized the Police raid on #Marion county Record...
once was arrested for her 2nd DUI after going off road with a suspended license and crashing into a school, using the car of another Judge.
case no longer exists in court records, i guess they do that in a small town
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html
Fucken putz.
"Elon Musk’s platform has delayed the amount of time it takes to open links from websites he has beef with."
The Marion Record now reports that its co-owner, 98 year old Joan Meyer, who lived with her son, the paper’s publisher, was upset about the police search and has died. http://marionrecord.com
Mark Joseph Stern
Conservative, originalist law professors Will Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen have a new paper out arguing that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from holding public office and that "the case is not even close." #AssWaffle
Yesterday, the State Medical Board of Ohio suspended Sherri Tenpenny's medical license. https://cleveland.com/open/2023/08/this-doctor-said-vaccines-magnetize-people-ohio-suspended-her-medical-license.html
The volume of political news is overwhelming. Not just domestic news, but international news, and environmental news.
Everything happening in this world is a consequence of decisions made by people in power, regardless of a regions political structure.
I constantly find myself battling: "You don't have the right to look away. If you don't look away, you miss the life happening in front of you."
I wish I were an idiot sometimes. Seems pretty fucking easy.
6 months ago, Donald Trump did a photo op in East Palestine & then demanded Congress pass a rail safety bill.
Then the company that made the toxic chemical in the disaster gave $2 million to Trump's party & his party's lawmakers are now blocking the bill.
https://www.levernews.com/the-corporate-cash-behind-the-train-safety-bills-derailment/
So-called “forever chemicals” have been found in 45% of the nation’s tap water, according to a recent government study, but is your tap water affected?
So when DeSantis ran out of money to pay his campaign staffers, he hired them to fill taxpayer-funded government positions instead.
https://axios.com/2023/08/03/desantis-state-funded-office-hires-ousted-campaign-aides-florida
Looking for reasons to be optimistic. Always seeking to know more history, science. Always striving to live more sustainably. Parent and permaculture enthusiast