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Non-profit fraud has been at epidemic levels for a couple decades. There's no oversight at all. Even the Form 990 you referenced doesn't even have to be filed for like 18 months after that year so you're always working from obsolete info. There's no political will to fight it either since only meanies go after charities! That plus everyone with money has one of these 'Foundations' set up as a legal way to put the whole entourage on a payroll somewhere (pro athletes, cough cough).
 
Diana Moon Glampers said:
Form 990
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Speaking of Form 990:

Treasury Announces Form 990 Transparency Initiative to Expose Hidden Funding and Strengthen Oversight​

April 23, 2026

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to revise the Form 990 to improve transparency, strengthen tax administration, and provide clearer reporting on certain activities of tax-exempt organizations described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including government contracts, government grants, and fiscal sponsorship arrangements. The changes are intended to detect misconduct and hold wrongdoers accountable.

Government grants and contracts can involve substantial public funds. Clearer reporting in these areas can help the IRS and the public better understand the sources and uses of that funding, support proper revenue classification, and reduce the risk of fraud, abuse, and misuse of taxpayer dollars.

“Public money and tax-exempt status demand public accountability,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “We are ending the days of hiding fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements. When bad actors misuse charitable structures, directors and officers should understand that transparency can lead to scrutiny, accountability, and liability under the law.”

Fiscal sponsorship is an umbrella term for several longstanding and lawful structures through which a tax-exempt organization may support charitable projects and initiatives. Recent congressional oversight has raised concerns that some fiscal sponsorship arrangements may be used to obscure who is operating a project, who controls project funds, and how those funds are being used. Increased reporting can help address those concerns and make it harder for rogue organizations to hide behind opaque arrangements.

Treasury and the IRS expect to publish proposed regulations and provide an opportunity for public comment before any reporting changes are finalized. Treasury and the IRS will consider administrative feasibility, proportionality, and reporting burden as the proposal is developed.

“Tax-exempt status is not immunity from scrutiny,” said Treasury Assistant Secretary and Acting IRS Chief Counsel Ken Kies. “If an organization receives public funds or tax-deductible donations, it should be prepared to show who controls the money and where it goes.”
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No more money laundering by donating to passthrough "charities".
 
Diana Moon Glampers said:
Their "chief people officer" (head of HR) made $255k in salary, for a position that typically would make nowhere near that in the vast majority of the private sector.

This is crazy shit to me because in, e.g., tech companies with similar size operations to these guys, only the top engineers and maybe the VP of sales would make more than a quarter mil. These people are being paid like top-level employees in top-level industries.
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I need to quit my job and move to DC so I can set up my own political grift company, holy shit. I just need to learn where these people hang out, so they can put me on the dole.
 
Pod 042 said:
Are you on some native primitivist sort of shit? Humans have been educating each other since before we had written history. You seem attached to idea that the concept of "education" is defined by the existence of schooling and 'higher' education. And that women only became "educated" once those systems were established and they were given access to them. You're wrong.

I'm not going to waste time on a write-up if you're just going to ignore it. So here's a tid bit to ponder. Men and women, throughout history, have never been uneducated. They have been 'diffrently educated'. Men were raised and tutored by men, they learned what was practical to them and how to provide for themselves and society. Women transversely were raised and educated by women, they learned how to upkeep and run the household, raise children and value the family. The problem isn't that women are more educated now. It's that we're educating both men and women wrong. But by all means, keep talking about shoving women back into the kitchen or whatever instead of addressing the actual problem.
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I think we have a case of Sitch's law («Most arguments are arguments about definitions, you just don't realize it»), the inverse correlation between female education and birthrates is assuming a different definition of education than what you're operating with (obvious when you see researchers using e. g. literacy as a proxy).
I don't think we disagree, so I'm not going to shit up the thread further.
 
Hannibalistique said:
I happened to catch part of Matt Walsh' show on this (mostly on accident), and he seemed to imply that Alex Jones was calling it out way before everyone else (as usual), even with clips of Alex talking about it?
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Yes, and they mocked him for it. Several others found out and tried to warn people, but with the SPLC controlling "leaders" and "influencers" they were shouted down or scandals were manufactured to discredit them.

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Remember, it wasn't just that they were influencing these guys and having them generate false flags like Charlottesville. It was that they were pushing the right outside the overton window, deplatforming people who weren't on the payroll, et cetera. These people were like Ann Coulter, their job wasn't just to be subversive fakes spouting off things to make the right unacceptable to normies, they were there to make the actual right waste their time and energy on fake leadership and fake initiatives so they wouldn't get around to actually getting anything done.

The actual right was sidelined so a cartoon supervillain fake right could be platformed so the left could attack them like one of those rubber clowns you punch and they just stand right back up over and over again.

And this was almost absolutely done with the full knowledge, consent, and assistance of the DNC and Federal Government.

Fun fact: I wager the SPLC's plants were pushing people to attend the Jan 6th Rally. I bet the SPLC's plants helped escalate tensions there until it was a riot. A whole lot of Americans had their civil rights ripped away because a bunch of shifty jews were running gay ops against half the country because the alternative was to admit they were wrong and in fact there were no monsters under the bed after all.
 
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Yes, and they mocked him for it. Several others found out and tried to warn people, but with the SPLC controlling "leaders" and "influencers" they were shouted down or scandals were manufactured to discredit them.

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Remember, it wasn't just that they were influencing these guys and having them generate false flags like Charlottesville. It was that they were pushing the right outside the overton window, deplatforming people who weren't on the payroll, et cetera. These people were like Ann Coulter, their job wasn't just to be subversive fakes spouting off things to make the right unacceptable to normies, they were there to make the actual right waste their time and energy on fake leadership and fake initiatives so they wouldn't get around to actually getting anything done.

The actual right was sidelined so a cartoon supervillain fake right could be platformed so the left could attack them like one of those rubber clowns you punch and they just stand right back up over and over again.

And this was almost absolutely done with the full knowledge, consent, and assistance of the DNC and Federal Government.

Fun fact: I wager the SPLC's plants were pushing people to attend the Jan 6th Rally. I bet the SPLC's plants helped escalate tensions there until it was a riot. A whole lot of Americans had their civil rights ripped away because a bunch of shifty jews were running gay ops against half the country because the alternative was to admit they were wrong and in fact there were no monsters under the bed after all.
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Now do the QAnon bullshit. That was almost certainly co-opted by the same people to discredit the entire Right.
 
SaidNoOneEver said:
Now do the QAnon bullshit. That was almost certainly co-opted by the same people to discredit the entire Right.
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I'll say before MAGA the only legit 'right' movement in ages in the USA was the Tea party stuff and that didn't last very long. Even MAGA though had the J6 feds going on mixed in.
 
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NEW: In just 48 hours, 75 fire hydrants in Detroit have been destroyed after thieves started stealing the metal nozzles and stems.

Local officials are now needing to tell scrapyards not to accept the stolen fire hydrant parts, which are worth about $600 each.

"One hydrant here or there is manageable, but the problem is whoever's doing this is doing multiple hydrants in a row," said Executive Fire Commissioner Chuck Simms. "So when DFD shows up, they're not going to have a hydrant within 600 or 900 feet, which put people's lives at risk."

Officials are asking the community to help find the suspects.
(X) "Fire hydrant thieves"
 
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