Robert Maguire

What are the billionaires sacrificing?

Caught in a Web of DAF Transfers Donors get a tax deduction for donor-advised fund contributions, but billions of payouts each year are simply recycled to other DAF providers

The newest trend in the "charitable" giving world is rich people giving billions of dollars to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) that just churn money around for tax breaks, but never actually make it into working charities

The main 4 super PACs focused on the battle for control of Congress raised $71 million from their affiliated dark money groups in 2025.

75% of this #darkmoney aided GOP-aligned groups, new @issueonereform.bsky.social analysis shows

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It's also not until March 14

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And don't let the fine print in that disclaimer fool you. The money from the tickets is clearly going to Nunn's political operation secure.winred.com/team-nunn/to...

Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war

So much wrong here:
1. There was some new hiring, so this number is off by about 100K
2. Unlike most businesses, personnel spending is a tiny fraction (5-6%) of federal outlays
3. Spending has actually increased
4. Many have noticed worse services!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

What's more: Biden gave this very town, Social Circle, an EV factory! A jobs bonanza! A cornucopia of blue-collar career opportunities!

But at least Trump gave it what voters really wanted instead: a warehouse for humans w/ no infrastructure to support it.

The Supreme Court:

Literally running out of water because you've allowed yourself to be convinced that the country is being overrun by violent immigrants is almost poetic. I don't mean this to be snide. It just is.

A town's warehouse will become an ICE detention center. The town says it wasn't asked The conservative town of Social Circle, Georgia, is upset about a warehouse that is set to become an immigrant detention center. The federal government didn't ask city officials if they wanted it.

Hard to not see echoes of the book Dying of Whiteness in this story about a Georgia town that might now literally run out of water because they voted overwhelmingly for Trump, and now his administration is building an ICE facility in their backyard that will triple the population.

What lefty wrote that, you ask?

Judge Terry Doughty, one of the most far-right Trump appointees in Louisiana.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

crying😂😂

Liam Conejo Ramos, the five year old ICE detained last week in Minnesota, is being held in Texas in a center owned by CoreCivic, a private prison company that donated heavily to Trump’s campaign. Liam is now reportedly sick because of conditions in the facility. 🧵

Trump made up to $160 million from foreign countries as president - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Trump and his company pledged to pause foreign business. They did not.

The leaked returns showed, among other things, that a sitting president made up to $160 million from foreign sources.

Trump Sues IRS, Treasury for $10 Billion for Tax-Return Leak (2) President Donald Trump sued the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service for at least $10 billion over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office, poten...

Every president and major party nominee over the last half-century has voluntarily released their tax returns, except for the most singularly corrupt president in US history, who not only used taxpayer resources to fight their release, but now he wants us to give him billions bc they were leaked

lmao

Do we still not know who killed Pretti???

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I'm old enough to remember that this is how Tea Party protesters showed up to rallies

FBI Director Kash Patel Suggests It’s Illegal to Bring Guns to Protests Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel suggested that it was illegal for Alex Pretti to bring a gun to immigration-related protests in Minneapolis. “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, wi...

[screams in Rittenhouse]

I'm so sorry. I'm from South Carolina, so, sadly, I am familiar with this kind of thing. Was able to hang on to some friendships for a really long time, but I've also had to accept that some of them are unsalvageable.

Good!

But there are millions of other Christians around the country who are swayable.

And they're not covering their faces

The families this administration is tormenting, tearing apart, and killing are, largely, Christian. It's astounding that no one is making that point. That's not to say it's less bad when they persecute non-Christians, but it certainly heightens the contradiction when they do.

Local Churches See Steep Decline in Attendance Amid ICE Raids Up and Down the Coast YouTube video by News Channel 3-12

There have been numerous reports around the country like this one over the past year. What we are seeing is Christians too scared for their lives and livelihoods, scared to worship in the way our Constitution is supposed to protect, and no one seems to be framing it that way at all.

Somehow the people who are doing this get to claim the mantle of guardians of the faith, but they are the ones persecuting Christians in a way we have never seen in the history of this country.

One Part of the Body Report

A report put out by the National Association of Evangelicals last March found that 1 in every 12 Christians in the US is "either directly vulnerable to deportation or live with a family member at risk of being deported."

I don't mean this in the sense that you often see online that Jesus was a migrant whose family fled persecution, which is true, of course. I mean that the vast majority of the families they are tormenting right now are devout, practicing Christians.