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And predictably the reaction from most of the right is a.) banning all medical transitioning of people regardless of age(even that was looked on as extreme just a day prior. b.) Banning trans people from owning firearms.

And a few liberals still scoffing at the idea the Republican Party is acting genocidal to trans people.

 

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Barely politics related, but I found this fascinating. I guess the connection is, "hey, with sufficient funding it looks like the IRS really is able to do its job again"

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There is an exciting mystery afoot in U.S. tax data, where the Treasury issues a daily report of financial transactions and on February 28, 2023, the feds reported a deposit of $7 billion. The money was filed under the category “estate and gift taxes” and is completely an outlier, the highest collection of that tax since 2005. This is weird, because it would seem to imply that one of the richest people in the world died, passed on an estate that necessitated $7 billion in estate taxes, and we never heard about it. This would imply an estate worth $17.5 billion at the absolute minimum, but more likely ballpark $35 billion, one of the richest people in the world, which means that either Forbes missed one, the feds got some extra after enforcement, or we have a dead billionaire mystery afoot. 

https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-march-28-2023-crocs

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Josh Hawley called ‘fraud and coward’ over response to Nashville shooting
Far-right Missouri senator accused of selectively invoking hate crime laws after characterizing shooting as attack on Christians

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/josh-hawley-nashville-shooting-hate-crime

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A Democratic opponent of Josh Hawley labelled the Republican “a fraud and a coward” after the far-right Missouri senator demanded the killing of three nine-year-old children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, be investigated as a federal hate crime.

Less than two years ago, Hawley was the only senator to vote against a bill to crack down on hate crimes against Asian Americans during the Covid pandemic.

That bill, he said, would “turn the federal government into the speech police [and] give government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it”.

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Week said:

Christians, arm yourselves to hit all targets including churches.

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Because the event is scheduled for April 1, I wanted to make sure this was not an April Fool's joke. And it isn't. This is a real church, and part of the United Church of Christ denomination, which next to the eastern Quakers is the Protestant denomination with the longest history of pro-LGBTQ stances.  

https://www.clevescene.com/news/reverend-of-chesterland-church-says-drag-event-will-go-on-as-planned-after-building-was-vandalized-last-weekend-41674686

https://www.chesterlanducc.org/

 

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7 minutes ago, Ormond said:

Because the event is scheduled for April 1, I wanted to make sure this was not an April Fool's joke. And it isn't. This is a real church, and part of the United Church of Christ denomination, which next to the eastern Quakers is the Protestant denomination with the longest history of pro-LGBTQ stances.  

https://www.clevescene.com/news/reverend-of-chesterland-church-says-drag-event-will-go-on-as-planned-after-building-was-vandalized-last-weekend-41674686

https://www.chesterlanducc.org/

 

Of course, I grew up in/adjacent to a congregational church. It's not for me (organized religion) but I'm grateful for the progressive values that the church and congregation espouse. Right-wingers reduce both (all?) sides to monoliths to support a worldview that does not actually exist.

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Not quite sure what to make of this. It seems *almost* like there is a GOP faction that *might* be willing to cut some sort of legitimate deal on immigration, but that seems...absurd.

 

'It’s dead': Texas GOP Rep. insists he'll do 'everything' to block 'unchristian' immigration bill (msn.com)

 

The legislation, proposed by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) in January, would "give the secretary of Homeland Security the ability to shut down border crossings and detain asylum-seekers while their cases are processed in court."

During a recent interview with CBS, Gonzles said, "That bill in particular, it's dead. There's no way it's going to get on the floor. I'm gonna do everything in my power to prevent that because in my district, people are dying. And we need real solutions, not political rhetoric."

 

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18 hours ago, ThinkerX said:

Not quite sure what to make of this. It seems *almost* like there is a GOP faction that *might* be willing to cut some sort of legitimate deal on immigration, but that seems...absurd.

Not so absurd when you remember as little as 15 years ago immigration didn't break down on partisan lines. One Bernie Sanders went on Lou Dobbs to talk about immigration driving wages down and Bush wanted immigration reform. That said... I remain unconvinced that any Republican congress member will be willing to stand up to the right wing mob. Whatever their personal opinions. 

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NY Times reports it too!

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Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump in New York: Live Updates

Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.

 

Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump in New York: Live Updates - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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1 minute ago, LongRider said:

Yeah baby!

 

And here all the People Who Know Everything have told us the last two days there wasn't a chance of anything like this happening 

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166890507/manhattan-jury-investigating-trump-break-april

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/politics/trump-grand-jury-april-break/index.html

Etc. Etc. Etc.

because the office is taking a break until late in April! Yet again the frackin' media stars confidently proclaim what is not the case.

Partner just foned to discuss dinner; asked, "Is there anything going on I should know about?"  I said, "Nope."  Partner said, "Good."  Then I clicked here and see this!

 

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On 3/23/2023 at 9:34 AM, Maithanet said:

Not at the moment, but at this point I'd give it a better than 50% chance of an indictment coming down in the next few weeks.  Whether they can get a conviction...that's a lot more up in the air. 

Perhaps this prediction wasn't so laughable after all, eh @Mindwalker@Secretary of Eumenes?

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7 minutes ago, Zorral said:

And here all the People Who Know Everything have told us the last two days there wasn't a chance of anything like this happening 

No, they said that it won't end up mattering.

 

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2 minutes ago, ljkeane said:

So what’s actually illegal about him paying someone off to cover up an affair? I’m pretty confident that Trump’s done lots of illegal stuff but that seems like a fairly standard rich people way of dealing with an embarrassing situation.

What's illegal is reporting it as not paying that person off on an official financial document, and then using campaign funding to do so. 

The actual paying off someone is totally legal. But you can't lie about it on official disclosure forms, and you can't use campaign funds to do so.

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4 minutes ago, ljkeane said:

So what’s actually illegal about him paying someone off to cover up an affair? I’m pretty confident that Trump’s done lots of illegal stuff but that seems like a fairly standard rich people way of dealing with an embarrassing situation.

WE don't know the actual charges yet, but from what we've gathered it is for illegal campaign spending.  Cohen paid her off a week or two before the election, and then was reimbursed by the Trump campaign, but they did not report that correctly.

EDIT:  However, there is likely more than this because from what I understand of NY state law, that would only be a misdemeanor.  However, it becomes a felony when accompanied with some other crime.  There are several theories on what crime that is, most likely it is something financial. 

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3 minutes ago, ljkeane said:

So what’s actually illegal about him paying someone off to cover up an affair? I’m pretty confident that Trump’s done lots of illegal stuff but that seems like a fairly standard rich people way of dealing with an embarrassing situation.

'Subverting the democratic process'

When and why matter.

 

 

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I'm all for Trump getting charged for all the crimes he's committed. But I feel like this is pretty weak sauce and hope that the Georgia and potentially federal indictments come soon.

This is pretty much the exact thing John Edwards was charged with, and he was found not guilty on one count and had a hung jury on the other charges (and the case wasn't re-tried). If Trump is found not guilty of something that'll have enormous blowback I fear.

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