Mark Elliott
Now @EconMobility. Before: NYC OMB, P/PV and @fordfoundation. #LFC #Eagles #Mets Sax beginner. Personal account.
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How Trump Maneuvered His Way Out of Trouble in Chicago
When his skyscraper proved a disappointment, Donald Trump defaulted on his loans, sued his bank, got much of the debt forgiven — and largely avoided paying taxes on it.
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NEW: The president’s federal income tax records show that, since 2010, his lenders have forgiven about $287 million in debt that he failed to repay. This would have generated a big tax bill for any of us--but not for @realDonaldTrump.
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Covid-19 Live Updates: Harrowing New Surge Rages Across America’s Heartland
The U.S. set a single-day record of 82,154 new cases on Friday, less than two weeks before Election Day. Two vaccine trials resumed after pausing for safety concerns.
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Pence aides test positive, but he won’t quarantine. Meadows tried to keep outbreak a secret.
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Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis police precinct, shouted 'Justice for Floyd'
Feds say Ivan Harrison Hunter helped burn and loot the Third Precinct building as part of a coordinated attack from the far-right group trying to ignite an American civil war.
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🚨🔥🚨Feds say Boogaloo Bois member Ivan Harrison Hunter helped burn and loot the Third Precinct building as part of a coordinated attack from the far-right group trying to ignite an American civil war.
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Mark Meadows' FEC filings raise questions of unlawful spending, campaign coordination
The White House chief of staff quit Congress in March — but his campaign kept on racking up dubious expenses
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Uh-oh @MarkMeadows, spending campaign funds on personal expenses, like expensive dinners and Trump's DC hotel are no-nos, since you're not running for anything. This is what Duncan Hunter is going to prison for.
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Lawyers: We can't find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump admin
About two-thirds of the 1,000 plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered they be found.
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Holy Freaking Hell.
Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children. c @RodRosenstein
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Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of “unconscionable cruelty” in teen rape case
Barrett decided to overturn a $6.7M jury award to a teen allegedly raped in a jail run by ex-Sheriff David Clarke
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Mark Elliott
My god. After a 19-year old pregnant prison inmate was repeatedly raped by a prison guard, Amy Coney Barrett ruled that the county responsible for the prison could not be held liable because the sexual assaults fell outside of the guard's official duties.
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Conservative think tank: Biden proposals would cut taxes for most in 2021
The tax proposals of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would raise $2.8 trillion over 10 years and reduce taxes for most households in the near-term, according to an
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"The tax proposals of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would raise $2.8 trillion over 10 years and reduce taxes for most households in the near-term, according to an analysis by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI)."
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Vote Early In-Person | NCSBE
Find all the details you need to know about voting early during the “one-stop early voting” period.
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PLEASE share: From October 15-31, North Carolinians NOT registered can register and vote at any voting site in their county.
In 2016, 100,368 eligible persons registered and voted in one stop, many of them younger first-time voters!!! #ncpol ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-ea… pic.twitter.com/3XGmh25QFy
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Donald Neely sues city of Galveston, police department for $1 million
A Galveston man whose arrest by two mounted police officers attracted national attention is suing the city and its police department for $1 million. In a lawsuit filed in Galveston County court, Donald Neely, 44, is claiming emotional distress,...
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Galveston man, Donald Neely, who was clipped to a rope line by mounted police and led through town, is suing the city for $1 million. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… pic.twitter.com/CFU1VjllgN
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Trump Does Fear the Coronavirus
One fact breaks through the misinformation: When the virus came for the president, he treated it seriously. So should you.
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According to researchers at Cornell, Trump has been the single largest driver of misinformation about the COVID pandemic.
But when the virus came for the president, he treated it seriously. So should you. | @fmanjoo
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White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines
The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.
Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years, Documents Show
Confidential documents reviewed by The Times indicate that Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, probably paid little or no income tax from 2009 to 2016.
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Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million.
And yet, Mr. Kushner appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes.
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Exclusive: As States Prepared Mail-in Ballots, Postal Service Failed to Update at Least 1.8 Million Addresses
As states prepared to send out tens of millions of ballots, USPS inexplicably stopped fully updating its change-of-address database.
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God dammit. For three weeks in August, @USPS stopped fully updating a national change of address system that most states use to keep their voter rolls current.
"at least 1.8 million new changes of address had not been registered in the database."
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18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records
Times reporters have obtained decades of tax information the president has hidden from public view. Here are some of the key findings.
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Trump "appears to be responsible for loans totaling $421 million, most of which is coming due within four years.
Should he win re-election, his lenders could be placed in the unprecedented position of weighing whether to foreclose on a sitting president."
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'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book
President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly,...
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NEW: President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly.
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The ACLU of Georgia Releases the Palast Investigative Fund Report
The State Likely Removed Nearly 200,000 Citizens from the Voter Rolls Who Never Moved
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"The results of our investigation are breathtaking and heartbreaking: 198,000 Georgia citizens wrongly purged from voter rolls—using a system which tends to target younger voters and voters of color." acluga.org/en/press-relea… | @ACLUofGA
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The Georgia ACLU Just Published Its Shocking Seven-Year Study of State Republicans' Unconstitutional Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme
The state of Georgia has been quietly and illegally purging hundreds of thousands of valid
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Holy shit @BrianKempGA stole the damn election.
Of the more than 300,000 names that were purged from the rolls, the study discovered that 198,351 Georgia voters were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error rate.
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Researchers identify 72 men believed to be buried at Sugar Land 95 site
William Nash, a cook from Georgia, was only 16 when he died working at a notorious convict work camp in Sugar Land. Nash had been convicted in 1892 of property theft and sentenced to four years in prison. He died from brain congestion, which...
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History you didn't learn in school: Right after slavery ended, Texas replaced it with convict leasing, which allowed the state to generate revenue and made plantation owners wealthy.
Only now are they trying to identify the dead. | @brookelewisa
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Sheriff apologizes for comments | Local News | kenoshanews.com
Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth issued a public apology Monday amid backlash for his comments during a news conference late last week.
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Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth in 2018: “I think at some point society has to get so fed up that they are no longer willing to tolerate people who are not an asset to society.”
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Senate made criminal referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, and Kushner
The committee detailed its concerns in a letter to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., in June 2019, an official said.
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The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019.
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