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Black Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds

A new report documents systemic discrimination in how the I.R.S. selects taxpayers to be audited, with implications for a debate on the agency’s funding.

GOP is using the #speakerofthehouse debacle to distract from the first anniversary of the #January6th #treasonday debacle. Sad!
And I have Covid…. Bleh
Slave cemetery uncovered in rural NC donated to descendants

The cemetery is believed to contain the remains of people enslaved on North Carolina's Hardscrabble Plantation in the 1800s — and it was nearly lost to history as the landowners considered developing.

WFAE
Anyone doing #newyearsresolution? My perennial favorite is develop a daily #meditation practice. I’m not there yet, but getting closer every year! And also, visit more #museums. I bought a membership to the Mint Museum in #Charlotte that has reciprocal benefits with museums all over the SE. gotta check some of them out! Here is a fabulous collage by Romare Bearden I saw last week at the Mint Uptown.
I am dizzy with schadenfreude 😆 #speakerofthehouse #thevotethatneverends #USpolitics

One fascinating thing about the House Republican's self-immolation is how it is substanceless.

McCarthy's opponents have no specific complaints about McCarthy.

They just don't like him.

And McCarthy has no specific rationale for being Speaker.

He just wants power.

#ELB: “McCarthy Proposes Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Bid for Speaker” https://ift.tt/BvWeIs3
"McCarthy Proposes Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Bid for Speaker" #ELB

Time: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spent the first two days of the new year trying to shore up GOP support for his bid to be Speaker by releasing a series of proposals aimed at winning over hard-right detractors who stand to … Continue reading “McCarthy Proposes Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Bid for Speaker” →

Election Law Blog
And so the Republican majority begins with a Democrat from Brooklyn becoming the first Black man to receive the most votes for U.S. House speaker.