The IRS pulled in $3.18 for each dollar spent auditing the top 1%, and $6.29 for the top 0.1%.

There’s one reason and one reason only the GOP wants to defund the IRS: to protect their wealthy mega-donors.

All in all, the GOP’s IRS cuts will cost $40 billion in lost revenue.

More than a week has passed since the Wagner uprising. The Russian regime trying to pretend business-as-usual, but we are far from it.

Despite destroying 7 choppers, a rare SIGINT plane and causing havoc on the ground, not a single Wagner member, not even their leader got detained. A murky deal in the background supposed to make this all go away, but it only shows how weak Putin has become. He has become even so weak that he can't even go after traitors.

Prigozhin smiles, for now.
#Coup

Bird app down. Posting stuff here right now.

Low level Ukrainian Mi-8 operations

An unfurled thread from NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman)
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I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know.

When I am at these scientific meetings, where basically every talk and poster is about precisely how Earth is rapidly breaking down, I just want to scream.

It makes me incredibly angry and frustrated and sad that Biden keeps expanding fossil fuel production and infrastructure, in direct opposition to the clearest science. What are climate scientists supposed to do? We are losing Earth, folks. We must force our leaders to stop.

Always, always keep in mind that to halt this, we must end the fossil fuel industry. Nothing else will substitute for that. Don't let them distract you with carbon offsets, carbon capture, fusion, or recycling.
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Climate scientists are scared and are furious about what's happening. We ALL should be frightened, angry, and demanding action!

As Peter says: "We must end the fossil fuel industry. Nothing else will substitute for that."

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuels #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

"The report found that about 93% of the carbon offsets that Chevron is investing in – mostly forests, plantations or large dams – are worthless, meaning they don’t lead to greenhouse gas reductions, they exaggerate any benefits or they risk actually emitting emissions. 'They just don't stand up,' said Nina Lakhani..."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=emlf&utm_campaign=Email_MB_US&utm_content=variantA