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  1. i'm volunteering at a 'punk rock saves lives' event this evening. encouraging folx to join the bone marrow donor registry.

    so, to practice:

    hey! get on the bone marrow donor registry, you cowards!

    punkrocksaveslives.org

    here's a picture of my roller skates to inspire you.

    #bone #marrow #donor #punk #rock #saves #lives #rollerskates

  2. i'm volunteering at a 'punk rock saves lives' event this evening. encouraging folx to join the bone marrow donor registry.

    so, to practice:

    hey! get on the bone marrow donor registry, you cowards!

    punkrocksaveslives.org

    here's a picture of my roller skates to inspire you.

    #bone #marrow #donor #punk #rock #saves #lives #rollerskates

  3. i'm volunteering at a 'punk rock saves lives' event this evening. encouraging folx to join the bone marrow donor registry.

    so, to practice:

    hey! get on the bone marrow donor registry, you cowards!

    punkrocksaveslives.org

    here's a picture of my roller skates to inspire you.

    #bone #marrow #donor #punk #rock #saves #lives #rollerskates

  4. i'm volunteering at a 'punk rock saves lives' event this evening. encouraging folx to join the bone marrow donor registry.

    so, to practice:

    hey! get on the bone marrow donor registry, you cowards!

    punkrocksaveslives.org

    here's a picture of my roller skates to inspire you.

    #bone #marrow #donor #punk #rock #saves #lives #rollerskates

  5. i'm volunteering at a 'punk rock saves lives' event this evening. encouraging folx to join the bone marrow donor registry.

    so, to practice:

    hey! get on the bone marrow donor registry, you cowards!

    punkrocksaveslives.org

    here's a picture of my roller skates to inspire you.

    #bone #marrow #donor #punk #rock #saves #lives #rollerskates

  6. When pressed by a Reuters reporter in the Oval Office on Sept 25 about potential targets of a domestic terrorism probe, #Trump mentioned #GeorgeSoros - a #Democratic donor whose #charitable network supports #CivilRights, #education, #democracy & other causes - & #ReidHoffman, co-founder of the online professional networking platform #LinkedIn & another Democratic #donor.

    #law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propaganda #tyranny #fascism

  7. A #crypto company called #AvaLabs donated $1 million on April 2. The donation earned Ava’s president, #JohnWu, a spot at a #fundraising reception with #Trump 2 days later at Mar-a-Lago…. An invitation billed it as an intimate “candlelight dinner” with “very limited” space.

    Also attending the dinner…was the cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder [#EsteeLauder], a longtime major #political #donor & supporter of #Israel who donated $5 million to #MAGA Inc. in late March.

    #law #corruption #bribery

  8. #Musk lays groundwork for big #donor role in #midterm elections as time with #DOGE *ends*

    As billionaire #ElonMusk scales back work for #Trump, he’s laying the groundwork for a major role as a #Republican political #megadonor in next year’s midterm elections, according to 4 people with direct knowledge of the matter.

    #resist #DarkMoney #TheRealDeepState #USpol
    reuters.com/business/autos-tra

  9. #DonaldTrump #flippant #remarks About the #MedalofHonor #Inspires #Vets to #Anger.

    The former president #denigrated #CongressionalMedalofHonor #recipients in an effort to #butterup a #wealthy #donor. Trump stated the Presidential #MedalofFreedom was “much better” than the military’s top award, because those awarded the latter are, in his words, “ … either in #verybadshape because they’ve been hit so many times by #bullets or they’re #dead.”

    whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/donald-

  10. #DonaldTrump #flippant #remarks About the #MedalofHonor #Inspires #Vets to #Anger.

    The former president #denigrated #CongressionalMedalofHonor #recipients in an effort to #butterup a #wealthy #donor. Trump stated the Presidential #MedalofFreedom was “much better” than the military’s top award, because those awarded the latter are, in his words, “ … either in #verybadshape because they’ve been hit so many times by #bullets or they’re #dead.”

    whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/donald-

  11. IRS is considering changes to rules governing donor-advised funds

    The Internal Revenue Service(IRS) recently held hearings to address the regulation of #donor-#advised #funds (DAFs) amidst growing concern for how the funds are used, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.
    The IRS is proposing changes to how the federal agency interprets the 2006 federal law governing DAFs.
    For example, updated rules might include broadening the definition of a DAF to apply to a wider range of accounts;
    making personal investment advisers, who help manage DAF asset, subject to DAF rules;
    imposing excise taxes on DAF donations that provide significant benefit to the donor; and creating penalties for those who misuse DAFs.

    In recent years, DAF assets have grown collectively to nearly $230 billion held in almost two million accounts. Even as overall charitable giving declined by 2.4 percent in 2022, distributions from DAFs increased by more than 5 percent.

    “There are abuses out there and there’s money going places it probably shouldn’t,” said University of Notre Damelaw professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer.

    “The warehousing of wealth that people have gotten deductions today for and actually aren’t helping people for who knows how long into the future…is a really big issue

    The Chronicle noted that the IRS proposals do not address the changes outlined in the Accelerating Charitable Efforts Act (ACE Act), which would create baseline asset distributions and require the reporting of donor names. First proposed in 2021, the ACE Act and similar calls for reform are championed by DAF critics such the group Donor Revolt for Charity Reform, as well as philanthropist John Arnold.

    philanthropynewsdigest.org/new

  12. Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor

    A Super Pac affiliated with #Robert F #Kennedy #Jr, the anti-vaccine #conspiracy #theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican #mega-#donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday.

    The group, American Values 2024, reported receiving $5m from #Timothy #Mellon, a wealthy businessman from Wyoming, according to NBC News and Politico. It registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in April, days before Kennedy officially launched his campaign, according to FEC records.

    Mellon, 81, is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, a former US treasury secretary who made his fortune in banking. The Texas Tribune reported that Mellon, a top donor to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, supported controversial immigration laws and was 🔸responsible for 98% of the contributions to the Texas governor Greg Abbott’s fund to build a border wall🔸.

    Mellon, who twice gave $10m to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super Pac in 2020, also used 🔹racist stereotypes 🔹to describe Black people in an autobiography he self-published in 2015.
    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

  13. Genetic Findings of Potential Donor Origin following #Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Recommendations on #Donor Disclosure and Genetic Testing from the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA)

    #wmda #htc #hematopoietic #marrow #bethematch #genetictesting #ethics
    #stemcelltransplant #stemcell #CellularTherapy
    astctjournal.org/article/S2666

  14. While attending the #donor events would likely #violate the lower courts’ prohibition on #fundraising, experts said, #SCOTUS has a narrow internal definition of a fundraiser: an event that raises more money than it costs or where attendees are explicitly asked for money while the event’s happening.

    On the Thurs before the Jan 2018 summit in Palm Springs, #Thomas flew there on a chartered #PrivateJet….

  15. Representative Andrew #Murr, who led the House cmte that investigated Ken #Paxton, said the #prosecution will prove “in chilling details” that a long list of wrongdoing that the #AttorneyGeneral is accused of was tied to a friend & former #donor, #NatePaul.

  16. Representative Andrew #Murr, who led the House cmte that investigated Ken #Paxton, said the #prosecution will prove “in chilling details” that a long list of wrongdoing that the #AttorneyGeneral is accused of was tied to a friend & former #donor, #NatePaul.

  17. Representative Andrew #Murr, who led the House cmte that investigated Ken #Paxton, said the #prosecution will prove “in chilling details” that a long list of wrongdoing that the #AttorneyGeneral is accused of was tied to a friend & former #donor, #NatePaul.

  18. Representative Andrew #Murr, who led the House cmte that investigated Ken #Paxton, said the #prosecution will prove “in chilling details” that a long list of wrongdoing that the #AttorneyGeneral is accused of was tied to a friend & former #donor, #NatePaul.

  19. Representative Andrew #Murr, who led the House cmte that investigated Ken #Paxton, said the #prosecution will prove “in chilling details” that a long list of wrongdoing that the #AttorneyGeneral is accused of was tied to a friend & former #donor, #NatePaul.

  20. How Does Leonard Leo Hide All His Right-Wing Dark Money? Here's One Way

    Newly released tax filings by #Schwab #Charitable—one of the nation's largest sponsors of what are called #donor-#advised #funds—offers another major piece of information on how this "#dark #money" moves.

    Conservative legal activist #Leonard #Leo has gotten a lot of attention for his work to reshape the U.S. judicial system.

    Ever since the summer, when he landed the biggest political advocacy donation in U.S. history, Leo has featured in story after story on the ways in which secretive funding from ultra-wealthy donors has shaped the courts and public policy. ­

    With newly released tax filings from Schwab Charitable — one of the nation’s largest sponsors of what are called #donor-#advised #funds — we have another major piece of information on how this “#dark #money” moves.

    During its most recently reported fiscal year (July 2021 to June 2022), Schwab made an enormous grant of $141.5 million to the #85 #Fund, a key part of Leo’s burgeoning empire, formerly known as the #Judicial #Education #Project. The 85 Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity.

    Unlike private foundations, donor-advised funds (#DAFs) are not independent organizations that need to report their activities to the IRS and make those reports available to the public.

    Instead, they’re accounts set up under a “sponsor” — in this case Schwab Charitable — a public charity that can house hundreds or even thousands of funds.

    And while those sponsors need to file annual reports with the IRS, they do not have to report which of those DAFs make which grants.

    That makes them ideal vehicles to #conceal who the actual #donors are behind sources of funding: if a private foundation made a similar grant it would show up on that foundation’s IRS filings attributed to the foundation, whose directors, officers, and finances are far more transparent.

    inequality.org/great-divide/da

    (see ProPublica’s “How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts”)