#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential#immigrant tax data to #DHS
The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.
They only give for tax deductions. I'd rather corporate charity is focused on #tax burdens rather than personal political campaigns, lobbies and dark money donations.
You do business in the US? Fuck your charity for tax deductions. Pay a hefty tax or be auctioned for parts.
Billionaires think they are fooling the #IRS.
There is no investigations into their crimes yet. #NoKings !
"There are approximately thirty types of organizations that qualify for federal tax-exempt status under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.). Whether a § 501(c) organization may engage in political activity, such as lobbying or campaign activity, depends on the provision of § 501(c) under which it receives tax exemption." #501c3 #tax #Irs #TurningpointUSA #NewsRewind https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL33377
Trump is hallucinating when he says he will eliminate #tax soon.
You have to eliminate #Congress first.
The power to lay and collect taxes is primarily authorized in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. #constitution, which is then further defined and limited by other clauses and amendments. #law #NoKings !
Someone has to be held accountable for planting false bullets as evidence at 3 US murders this year.
"The mood is miserable’: Inside #KashPatel 's chaotic #FBI.
From loyalty tests to rumours of Trump replacing the bureau director, line agents feel ‘a target on their backs’ " https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/11/30/kash-patel-fbi-chaos-usa/
It's probably time we consolidated the #CIA and #FBI into the building and maintenance department of the #IRS because we are not getting any value from investigations.
NEW: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
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A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.
Old men will watch children play until the kids get hurt and in a healthy #Democracy, one must have faith in process. #Biden, with his years of experience in government, allowed the #tax trap to close on the entire Republican party.
The laws in the United States WILL be their fate. #NoKings !
Taken one step further, the investigation units inside the IRS are intentionally left "disabled" for many years now. Structurally, by not allowing the simple technology in those departments to "talk" to the other departments within the #IRS.
I believe this condition coined the phrase:
"The left hand doesn't always talk to the right." #NoKings !
"In this world, nothing is said to be certain but death and taxes."
Franklin's letter was a commentary on the recently established U.S. #Constitution, suggesting that its endurance, while promising, could not be guaranteed. #CharlieKirk #501c3 #NoKings !
A #501c3 organization can use religious principles in its work and can engage in limited lobbying and advocacy on issues, but it cannot participate in political campaigns for or against candidates or political parties. #IRS #Charliekirk
"A month later, the day after Kirk graduated from high school, they launched #TurningPointUSA a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization."
They came after me once. I paid my taxes by check.
Wrote my SSN on it even.
The check was cashed from my bank. All documented but oddly in the bank transaction side because the IRS had converted the check I wrote to a "digital transaction". Without my permission.
After laughing to myself for about 9 months, I called the bank and claimed "fraudulent transaction'.
One could obviously argue that #charliekirk was killed because the #IRS is not enforcing #tax law if #TurningPointUSA is an illegal "non-for profit'".
Let's have this debate in honor of Charlie. #NoKings !
The #IRS recently said that #churches could endorse #political candidates from the pulpit, a break from a longstanding interpretation of American #nonprofit law.
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
While I'm certain Amanda Marcotte and I have different ideas about how to actually fight fascism, I agree strongly with her argument that Marco Rubio's cable asking State Department employees to use a snitch line to report each other for "anti-Christian bias" is both an indicator of the regime's theocratic intentions and an ominous portent of the next moral panic the Trumpenreich will use to purge its enemies and continue installing a fascist dictatorship.
Marco Rubio's hunt for "anti-Christian bias" is creeping theocracy
"Unsurprisingly, a deeper read of the cable shows that "anti-Christian bias" is the cover story propped up to justify Rubio's actual assault on freedom of religion at State. He's giving Christian nationalists at the agency a tool to harass and even purge people who don't share their far-right beliefs. The definitions of "anti-Christian bias" throughout add up to outrage that conservative Christians are expected to treat people who believe differently with fairness and decency.
For instance, the memo asks for reports of "mistreatment for opposing displays of flags, banners or other paraphernalia," specifically during Joe Biden's administration. It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this. Rubio is seeking stories where conservative Christians were told to mind their own business after objecting to a colleague putting up a Pride flag, a Black Lives Matter sign or perhaps a religious knickknack from a non-Christian faith. This might be more comprehensible if, say, any Christians had being told they couldn't wear a cross or have a picture of Jesus on their desk. Instead, what Rubio is suggesting is that Christians have a prevent other people from having the freedom to express views and positions they dislike — and that it amounts to "bias" if they can't control what others do or say.
Also defined as "anti-Christian bias" is alleged mistreatment for "opposing official media content due to religious objections." Under Biden, the State Department flew the Pride flag, validated the passports of trans people, allowed LGBTQ employees to be out at the office, and expected employees to use the correct name and pronouns for trans colleagues. Under this new policy, if State employees objected to these policies, they are now free to punish those who asked them to show professional courtesy to co-workers. This is not an anti-discrimination policy, but a pro-discrimination policy."
Throughout the rest of the piece, Marcotte does a solid job of debunking the idea that anti-Christian bias is a significant problem in an increasingly Christian Nationalist/fundamentalist America, and pointing out that what Rubio is doing is enabling Christian Nationalists working at State to harass and potentially purge anyone opposed to their odious ideology; including other Christians who do not conform to the very narrow definition of believer the Christian Nationalist worldview allows for.
"What's ironic here is that, because of American demographics, most of the people who risk being targeted by these authoritarian policies are either Christian or grew up Christian. But a large part of the MAGA project is redefining "Christian" only to mean people who share a white nationalist, anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQ worldview — and want to use force to bring everyone else in line."
In other words, it's just another project to install fascist ideology as the only acceptable way to think and act inside the Trumpenreich-controlled US government. Where I think Marcotte's analysis shines however, and what I hope readers take away from this story, is the author's direct connection of this nascent argument for another fascist purge, with its prior two arguments for doing so as we watch them evolve into their horrifying final forms in real time; specifically the regime's fake wars against "antisemitism" and "gang activity."
Like most fascist movements, what some call "Trumpism" is actually a giant quilted patchwork of reactionaries, supremacists, and eliminationists who are ideologically aligned under the big picture fascist umbrella, but have (at times) wildly different priorities and concerns on the micro level, inside each individual clique. One of the core constituencies in the fascist Trump alliance are Christian Nationalists and the evangelical right; whose loyalty to the regime was rewarded with an anti-trans pogrom and assaults on public education (among other things) the moment Trump was inaugurated. Now, slightly staggered as their two prior fake moral panics become exposed as just bog standard fascism, what better way to right the nazi ship of state than to drum up a third moral panic about anti-Christian bias? This would rally the Christian right around Trump's banner, while the regime continues its project to purge "enemies" and install a fascist dictatorship, in what it hopes will become a white ethno-state.
Like most observers of the second Trump presidency, I've found myself at a disadvantage in the face of the regime's open strategy to dominate the news cycle with a never-ending torrent of lies, propaganda, and horrifying nazi policy announcements that leave little time for any analyst to work out what the Trumpenreich might be planning to do next; a strategy noted slimeball fascist propagandist Steve Bannon once described as "flooding the zone with shit." Despite this however, over the past few months I've noticed an increasing focus in the regime's propaganda on religion, Christian nationalist ideology, and obliterating the traditional US separation between church and state, under the guise of protecting the "religious liberty" of cracker fundie fascists who worship at the altar of Trump. As I've stressed before, analysis isn't actually prophecy, but to my mind it sure does look like the Trumpenreich is gearing up for a war to install Christian Nationalism as a quasi-state religion, while using the fig leaf of "religious liberty" to further entrench and enforce policies that are ultimately designed to create a fascist dictatorship under the Swine Emperor.
At this stage of our investigation, we're more or less collecting breadcrumbs; the kind of stories that don't directly prove the Trumpenreich is about to start a Christian nationalist crusade to target "enemies within" and create a fascist dictatorship, but still point to a regime looking to align church and state to increase its own power to do fascist bullshit. Take for example the IRS's recent announcement that engaging in political activity or campaigning, will no longer threaten the tax-exempt status of churches and pastors - including of course, powerful nazi fundamentalist megapastors in increasingly-gerrymandered "red" states like Texas.
The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.
"For more than 70 years, churches and other religious institutions in the United States were told to steer clear of “any political activity” or risk losing their tax-exempt status. That federal measure, the Johnson Amendment, was added into IRS tax law in 1954 and named after its author, Lyndon B. Johnson, then a Texas congressman.
In August 2024, during the last months of the Biden administration, an association of religious broadcasters and two East Texas churches sued the IRS, arguing that the Johnson Amendment infringed upon their freedom of speech and religion.
Nearly a year later, the IRS, now under Trump, and the plaintiffs filed a proposed joint settlement outlining in the agreement that when a house of worship speaks to its congregation about “electoral politics viewed through the lens of religious faith,” it neither participates nor intervenes in a political campaign and so doesn’t violate the amendment. The court must now consider their proposal."
While I often applaud Pro Publica's commitment to fairness in its analysis, this article is an absolute tire fire of bothsides-ism and false equivalency; all of which I'm just going to ignore because ain't nobody got time for that fascist-enabling, "enlightened centrist" nonsense anymore. The reality is that in an American oligarchy barely clinging to even the appearance of democracy, there is no practical equivalency between Black churches telling marginalized people to vote against the modern US nazi party, and millionaire right wing fundamentalist megapastors working with a fascist president, and a theocratic Supreme Court, to install a dictatorship - full fucking stop.
While we're on the subject of bullshit, I think we can also dispense with fundie fascist arguments that the government was "silencing" pastors and suppressing free speech rights by linking their tax-exemptions to staying out of electoral politics. There is after all a reason why political action committees are tightly regulated by the government and dipshit nazi pastors are not; what Trump's IRS is making a matter of facts on the ground here is the creation of an entire new lobbying and electioneering engine that is not only wholly unregulated, but likely to be protected in doing so under the guise of religious liberty by a US Supreme Court with between 5 and 6 sitting fundie fascists on it. These folks, including Christian Zionist evangelical nazis like John Haggee, who claims to represent over 11 million members of CUFI, have a lot of money and a lot of influence to throw around in American politics and the IRS just gave them the green light to do so.
Finally as the article indicates, we don't really have the theorize that this is what the (again, fascist) religious right is going to do because due to lax IRS enforcement of the Johnson Amendment, Trump-loyal fascist megapastors are already building that political apparatus.