Trio of Texas Churches Donated to Political Candidate Despite Clear IRS Prohibition
The law prohibits churches from endorsing political candidates, but in a City Council race already beset by claims of church electioneering, one candidate in #Abilene said three #churches made an honest mistake by donating to his campaign and that he is returning the money.
Our goal is change how people form groups (assemblies) and make change by pooling resources (money etc) into these assemblies to make meaningful progress to a better future.
We're working toward our see round and the MVP is in the works.
There is something very powerful about a perspective that views all living things as members of our family.
Perhaps our awareness of our own flaws makes it acceptable to us to ignore the suffering of other humans, but it is not so easy to ignore the suffering of other creatures.
They did nothing to deserve what we are doing to them and their habitats.
Making the future of humanity not just about humans, but about the rest of our family, may well be the key to achieving some real long-term progress.
Homeless people are people. Just give them homes. It's been proven to save public money. Just give them homes. It's been proven to reduce drug dependency and mental crises. Just give them homes. It literally ends homelessness. Just give them homes. NOT KILL THEM.
Donald Trump took a break while golfing in Ireland on Thursday to complain to reporters that he, a “famous rich and political person that’s leading the polls by 40 points,” has to deal with a rape trial. #Trump#MAGA#news#Politics#USA#GOP
Yes, Tories, what you need to do after the absolute drubbing you have just taken is dump Sunak and bring back the second-most disastrous politician in modern history. I'm sure Boris Johnson will turn your political fortunes around completely. Probably by 360 degrees!
Republicans at the state and national level are pushing through laws to roll back child protections in the workplace!
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday said she will sign a bill to roll back labor protections for children, allowing them to work longer hours and take jobs that had been prohibited. #News#GOP#Politics#USA
I am wondering if moving to infosec.exchange may be called for.
I'm switching from a civil service #cybersecurity#policy position to an #ISO function implementing #NIS2 and related directives at a critical infrastructure company in a couple months. Got some new skills to learn, but would still get wound up about #Politics, #disability and #GLBT rights.
When I first signed up in November, I had multiple groups I would love to have joined. I enjoy #genealogy, #politics, #news, #writing and #publishing, #ComicBooks and #superheroes, and so on. I eventually threw my hands up and just went to mstdn.party, but with no more insight than by throwing darts at a dart board. I've since migrated here to the Universeodon instance.
At the time, signing up did make it sound like you needed to choose only one aspect of your personality. It was a big stumbling block to me, and kept me from signing up for a few days of deciding what to do.
It's easy for the initiated to forget how confusing and off-putting the idea of #federated#SocialMedia can be to the uninitiated.
It's nice that the U.S. State Department recognizes the rehabilitation of #Holocaust perpetrators by East European states is bad. But can they start actively opposing #HolocaustObfuscation? Like condemning the reburial of Juozas Brazaitis, the failure to the Lithuanian government to properly censure Valdas Rakutis in 2021, or the appointment of Arunas Bubnys as director of the GRRCL? https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-on-the-dialogue-on-holocaust-issues/
Raw Story:
Conservative activist arranged for Clarence Thomas' wife to get secret payouts: report
Ginni Thomas received the funds from conservative activist Leonard Leo—who has also helped former President Donald Trump select judicial nominees—according to the Washington Post's investigation. The news comes at a time when Clarence Thomas himself is under fire for reportedly receiving undisclosed gifts.
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Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Education Project and a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”
" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
A text message by Tucker Carlson newly revealed by The New York Times seems to say that white men fight honorably and not as a mob. The text was sent on January 7, 2021, a day after a mob of mostly white men Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol and the police defending it.
Please tell me again why so called religious leaders believed Trump to be moral and just.
During his October deposition as part of the rape and defamation trial brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll, former President Donald Trump told prosecution lawyers that “stars” like him had, “unfortunately or fortunately,” historically been permitted to carry out unwanted sexual assault. #Trump#MAGA#news#Politics#USA#GOP