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HuffPost – Militia Leader Gets 53 Years In Minnesota Mosque Bombing<\/a> ProPublica – THE SECRET IRS FILES<\/a> The Hill – How lawmakers aided the Afghan evacuation<\/a> Food for Thought – Yesterday was another quiet day – and also cooler, which was nice. I pulled together what I’ll be wearing Sunday Cartoon – Short Takes – HuffPost – Militia Leader Gets 53 Years In Minnesota Mosque Bombing Quote – Hari made a brief statement before she was sentenced, saying, \u201cFor how blessed my first 47 years […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4165,3913,4583,4115,4299,3803],"class_list":["post-45184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-covid-19","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-justice","tag-taxation","tag-terrorism","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Hari made a brief statement before she was sentenced, saying, \u201cFor how blessed my first 47 years of life were, I can\u2019t complain about what the last three have looked like … considering my blessed and fortunate and happy life, I can\u2019t ask the judge for anything further.\u201d She also said the victims who testified during Monday\u2019s hearing have been through a \u201ctraumatic ordeal\u201d and she wished them \u201cGod\u2019s richest blessings in Christ Jesus.\u201d Frank said he was prepared to recommend Hari, who is transgender, go to a women\u2019s prison, but said the Bureau of Prisons would decide.
\nClick through for story.<\/a> Long in coming … but it looks like justice. 47 + 53 = 100, which is a healthy expectancy even for someone who is not trans.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Taken together, [the collection of documents] demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can \u2014 perfectly legally \u2014 pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.
\nClick through for lots more<\/a>. The link I’ve provided takes you to the cover page with a list of – and links to – all the articles that are related. The quote is from the lead story.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The Hill spoke to nearly 20 lawmakers and staffers in both parties about what their offices went through over the fraught two weeks between when Kabul first fell, on Aug. 15, and the last U.S. military flight, just before midnight Aug. 30. The mission was personal for many of them: Some are veterans, or relatives of veterans, of the 20-year war, and some had even worked with local interpreters whom they considered key to their survival.
\nClick through for more.<\/a> Traditionally, a part of every Congressperson’s job is to step in like an ombudsman for oppressed constituents. This is what that can look like. And, yes, it can be heart-wrenching. But it could also have been so much worse.<\/p>\n
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