Salon.com | Trump’s big beautiful income tax dodge by Heather Digby Parton

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The column explains how Donald Trump’s tax returns, revealed after a 2018‑2020 IRS contractor leak, showed he paid little or no income tax for years despite reporting millions in revenue, employing aggressive legal avoidance that dwarfed even the wealthiest 0.001 % of filers. After repeatedly refusing to disclose his returns and battling congressional and state demands, Trump sued the IRS in January 2026 for $10 billion over the leak, while also pursuing claims against the Justice Department. The government soon announced a settlement that created a $1.776 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” and, crucially, included language waiving any current or future claims—effectively shielding Trump and his family from IRS audits and other tax-related actions, despite the agency’s belief he owes over $100 million. The piece argues that this deal, framed as protection from “lawfare,” essentially grants Trump unprecedented immunity from tax scrutiny.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2026/05/25/trumps-big-beautiful-income-tax-dodge/

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Colbert Finale: Joe Biden & Hillary Clinton Praise ‘Late Show’ Host’s Decade Long CBS Run; Ex-POTUS Says “America Could Always Count On A Laugh”
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https://deadline.com/2026/05/colbert-finale-joe-biden-hillary-clinton-praise-host-1236918330/

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"With Trump, all roads lead to Putin."
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"Russia, Russia, Russia"
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RE: https://mas.to/@farbel/116592697384710025

I get the point of the caption in the quote, yet I see this differently, because I consider first and foremost what fellow leftists could have done differently, rather than waiting on the fash to change.

I think about all the dogmatically puritanical ideologues on the left who considered each of these two establishment liberal leaders and, rather than thinking "Imagine how much farther we could push public policy leftwards if we organize our civic action campaigns with her positions as our starting point," instead insisted, "Despite all the ways in which she's better than that corrupt, racist, sex-abusing malignant narcissist, and the fact that there is not a single way in which he and she differs where he isn't worse, let's stamp our feet and stand on vainglorious petulance and concede the election to the lost-cause bigots and let them elect their way towards reviving the Confederacy."

By the time of either election, the left already had the numbers to swamp the electoral power of the right. What they lacked was the will to sacrifice their social media clout, accept reality, vote in overwhelming numbers for the candidate who was objectively the better candidate in every way she differed from Donald, then campaign for progress rather than being forced to campaign against regression.

What they lacked was the maturity to unconditionally vote pragmatically in the general election, and to save their idealism for the next primary. What they lacked was the humility to accept that the pragmatic leftists telling them their resentment-based rhetoric and nuance-devoid single-issue binary absolutism would backfire were right: that by failing to vote, unconditionally, for the best candidate whom there was any possibility of electing, despite the flaws of that candidate, they guaranteed that everything they criticized that flawed candidate for would get much worse under the regime of her opponent, who was far more flawed in all the same ways and in many more.

Leftists changing how the Trump base would vote would've taken tens of millions of us training for months to speak and act like Deeyah Khan or Daryl Davis, and then working for years to build relationships and change minds. Leftist ideologues changing how they themselves would vote would've taken nothing but swallowing their petty pride and choosing the battle they could win, then fighting the next battle only after gaining the prerequisite ground.

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PBS NewsHour - The Latest | Read the full transcript of Howard Lutnick's testimony about Jeffrey Epstein by Maria Ramirez Uribe

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The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released the transcript of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s closed‑door deposition about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick, who was once Epstein’s neighbor and exchanged emails with the financier—communications later made public by the Department of Justice—testified on May 6 after criticism that his earlier statements about the ties were contradictory. The committee also released the transcript of its deposition with Ted Waitt, a former boyfriend of Ghislaine Maxwell and co‑founder of Gateway Inc., as part of its broader investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein‑Maxwell cases. Lawmakers have also sought testimony from other high‑profile figures, including former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Bill Gates, who is slated to appear next month.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-transcript-of-howard-lutnicks-testimony-about-jeffrey-epstein

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A Frightening Moment for Hillary Clinton

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