Pastor Joel Osteen pays himself an annual salary of $54,000,000 from his church profits. He had a custom garage built with 20 car stalls for each of his custom vehicles. His favorite is a Ferrari 458 Italia that cost $270,000. He lives in a 70,000 sq ft mansion.
In the New Testament, four different times Jesus tells his followers to always pay their taxes. Why is it in the United States that churches don’t have to pay taxes?

The IRS figures if all churches paid their fair share of 15% taxes that it would total over $2 trillion a year.
More than enough to solve the homelessness in this country, since it looks like these Pastors would rather spend your donations on New Cars instead of feeding the hungry.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 21 February 2023

Find out more about Defence Intelligence: http://ow.ly/3yym50MXBST

There’s being an ally and then there’s acting like a goddamn savior.

You wanna help fight back against injustice? Do it in a way that doesn’t make you look like an ass.

It's weird seeing a president act like a president and not a fucking man child.

A train carrying coal has derailed in Nebraska. A dozen cars are off the track, and a hazmat team has been sent to the site. The train is run by Union Pacific, and this is reportedly the third derailment at this exact spot in the last six months.

And a friendly reminder that these companies have cut thousands of jobs while raking in billions, and lobbying for deregulation. There's no conspiracy, other than deadly corporate greed.

https://perfectunion.us/norfolk-southern-boosted-shareholder-payouts-4500-slashed-workforce-33-prior-to-ohio-disaster/

Our Headway team talked to 30 people about their experiences with homelessness. Dean Pronge, a veteran, said he ended up at the same creek where he saw homeless encampments as a kid.

Read Dean's story: https://nyti.ms/3IGN12K

No shit moment for today.

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Thread: Marian Croak is behind the tech that enables us to talk on FaceTime, Zoom, and other apps that connect friends, family and others around the globe.

Marian Croak from the Great Class of 1977 holds the patent for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which helps us make calls over the internet instead of a phone line.
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Erin Brockovich

When will they learn?
From PG&E in Hinkley to Norfolk Southern in #EastPalenstine the cleanup always costs so much more than doing the job right.

Today’s Brockovich Report is a plea to CEO’s to learn this life and money saving lesson. #derailment

https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/some-free-advice-to-ceos

I'm in the wrong business.

Mrs. Betty Bowers

Joel Osteen made $54,000,000 in cash last year.

The SEC just charged the Mormon Church and its investment management company for failing to disclose $32 BILLION in assets hidden in shell corps.

Churches have become hugely profitable corporations. And should be taxed accordingly

“Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile [Sarmat] that appears to have failed while President Joe Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, according to two US officials familiar with the matter.”

https://cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/russia-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-test/index.html

How to flirt with a ballerina

In a first, a South Korean court says same-sex partners
should get government benefits

“Wrong and honestly evil”: Even Republicans are trashing
MTG’s “treasonous” call for secession
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Do space aliens have fingernails?

In the past, companies have used severance packages to stop fired workers from criticizing them, and forced workers to keep the deal a secret.

Now, in a victory for labor, the NLRB has ruled that companies can't do anything that violates worker rights as part of an exit deal.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules