Kim Perales
Enabling tax evasion is expensive. Since banks continue to do it, the fines should be higher:
A major Swiss bank admits it conspired with US taxpayers & others to hide >$5.6B from the IRS.
Banque Pictet has agreed to pay about $122.9M in restitution & penalties.
If the bank complies with the terms of its deal, the DOJ will defer prosecution for three years and then dismiss a charge of criminal conspiracy to defraud the IRS.
Kim Perales
Good news out of Texas:
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Texas' appeal in the border buoy lawsuit for the buoys in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. The COA affirms the lower courts ruling.
"This means that unless Texas successfully gets the Supreme Court to step in, Gov Abbott will have to take the buoy barrier out of the Rio Grande."
-A Reichlin-Meinick
Kim Perales
@scotclose It's of great concern, but it's the only outlet I could find this morning. Here's another article. I also just posted an article on immune dysfunction from Covid. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/mysterious-white-lung-syndrome-spreads-globally-cases-reported-worldwide-4624209
Kim Perales
Closing loopholes, a fairer tax code... Senator Wyden has a sound bill to make billionaires pay their fair share:
Wyden Leads Democratic Colleagues in Introducing Billionaires Income Tax
Legislation cosponsored by 15 Democratic Senators would close loopholes in the tax code that let billionaires avoid paying their fair share.
Kim Perales
Disproportionate media coverage:
New Study: Broadcast, cable, & print outlets have given Donald Trump calling his enemies "vermin" a tiny fraction of the coverage they gave Hillary Clinton's 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters "deplorables"-.
Huge disparities mark coverage in national broadcast, cable, & print outlets.
Kim Perales
Inflation is down & #Bidenonmics is successful so Republicans lie, fearmonger, & spread #NaziLike disinformation re IMGs.
FAIR’s numbers have been repeatedly debunked. One thing they do—which you can see them do in this graphic—is count all the future costs of educating US citizen children born in the US… but then refuse to consider the taxes & benefits those kids produce after they turn 18.
-A Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Dir of American IMG CNCL
AZ Rep Crane's post:
Kim Perales
Americans need to understand the peril Republicans pose if they win in 2024. They'll destroy the USG, but before they do:
“The beliefs of Mike Johnson & his fellow extremist Christians are so idiotic that the natural reaction for many non-religious people is to point & laugh -not realizing that evil is usually also ridiculous. The southern flavor of its sermonizing & its explicit anti-intellectualism make Confederate Christianity distasteful."
https://www.editorialboard.com/evil-is-ridiculous-its-still-evil/
Kim Perales
Pres Biden must make a decision:
In letter from >400 US officials -criticize Biden's IL policy & demand an immediate #ceasefire.
“We call on Pres Biden to urgently demand a ceasefire."
They warn of the risk of the US getting dragged into the war.
"Furthermore, Americans don't want the US MIL to be drawn into another costly & senseless war in the ME.”
Signatories are pol appointees of various faiths who work throughout govt, & from: NSC, FBI, DOJ...
Kim Perales
The PM of Israel is warmongering & he's calling for genocide. He's not using any restraint:
Today: Netanyahu: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
What with Pres Biden do? Netanyahu is a crazed, bellicose fascist.
Kim Perales
Good news:
Scholastic has sent a letter apologizing, reversing the program, and redoubling efforts to combat book banning legislation. Thank you to all who signed and shared the statement which helped instigate forward momentum for Scholastic's decision.
Kim Perales
There’s more disinfo. on SM in the last 24 hours than facts, esp. re Israel from R MOC/enablers & #TFG’s treason/espionage from MSM. This one is egregious, he shared US Intel. secrets, verbally *equivalent: Sources tell CBS News there’s no indication former Pres Trump shared sensitive records with an Australian billionaire + no charges have been filed by the Special Counsel thru their alleged discussion about US Nuclear subs was investigated. -C Herridge, Snr Investig. Corr. nat. sec. & intel.
Kim Perales
Will #MSM change? The press is being chastised, so some may change how they report, but their RW overlords decide: It’s an important call to action. But so far, the American press is failing to meet its responsibility to adequately emphasize the stakes of the coming election. News orgs. have turned Biden’s age into the equivalent of a scandal -they emphasize not his administration’s accomplishments, but the fact that he’s 80. Amanpour: be truthful, not neutral. #Democracy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage
Kim Perales
Good, #Musk is one of America's greatest national security threats:
The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend the private Starlink satellite network to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.
Chairman Jack Reed said in a statement Thursday the reports on the use of Starlink exposed “serious national-security liability issues & the committee is engaged on this issue.”
Kim Perales
Some good news for the🌎: August forest clearing in Brazil’s Amazon down 66% compared to the same month last year, with #deforestation decreasing for 5 consecutive months. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/deforestation-in-the-amazon-rainforest-continues-to-plunge/
Kim Perales
California just passed a law that forces the🔫IDU to pay to fund gun violence intervention & prevention programs: Gabrielle Giffords, applauded the California Senate for passing AB 28, landmark legislation -the gun IDU must now pay its fair share via an 11% excise tax on firearms corps. *will generate $160M annually to fund gun violence intervention & prevention programs, mirroring a fed tax on the gun IDU that's used to fund wildlife conservation efforts. #GunReform https://giffords.org/press-release/2023/09/california-senate-passes-landmark-fund-for-gun-violence-prevention-programs/
Kim Perales
Jack=Elon: Twitter (X): accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping KSA commit grave HR abuses against its users, incl. by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than for: US/UK/CA. Lawsuit: brought agst X, by Areej al-Sadhan -sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared & later sentenced to 20 yrs in jail. New allegations: Twitter, under Dorsey, ignored or had knowledge of the #Saudi govt’s campaign-: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/twitter-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses
Kim Perales
They downplay #Covid, no mention of😷...: We have the tools. If you’re vaxxed +access to Paxlovid, why worry? Jha: some ppl may be more vulnerable +played his biggest hit: Don’t worry, be happy. Jh, Doron & their ilk can speak so soothingly bc -part of the class insulated from the worst effects of Covid -can afford expensive tests & new boosters. Covid might lead to at least 45K deaths b/w Sept & Apr🚨 —& that’s the best-case scenario. Welcome to the “You Do You” Pandemic. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-surge-response-ignored/
Kim Perales
Mourning Jacksonville needed a leader, they got #DeathSantis, a white elitist & supremacist: He pressured the Leg. last year to pass a congressional map *for the 1st time in decades, wiped out a Jacksonville dist. that allowed Black voters to elect the candidate of their choice🚨. It was those constituents he faced on Sun, coupled with their pain & outrage over the shooting. New Town +most of the city's maj. Black neighborhoods are now rep. by an R in Nassau Co. #GOPRacism https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2023/08/28/nate-monroe-jacksonville-needed-a-leader-instead-it-got-ron-desantis/70700170007/
Kim Perales
I usually don't share posts from X, but this thread is exceptional. Musk's megalomania, mid-life crisis, disdain for regulations, desire to retaliate & profiteer... are behind his X brand. #MuskLies: To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.&, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist. -John Bull
Here's how that happened: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1683808576328937472.html
Kim Perales
Republicans will try to block it because it takes funds away from their donors & actually helps tens of millions of Americans by saving them money by not using TurboTax & the like: IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/
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