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Opinion | The Taxpayer’s Kitty Will Subsidize Yours
Lawmakers in Albany mull a tax credit for New York state pets.
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Opinion | Why Does OpenAI Pretend to Be a Nonprofit?
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Granting nonprofit status to an essentially commercial entity is a mistake.
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Opinion | China Cooks the Carbon Emissions Books
Beijing redefines a key metric to make itself look greener.
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Opinion | A Republican Time for Choosing
Will we remain the party of conservative principles or embrace progressivism in the guise of populism?
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Mamdani’s nonprofit takeover of New York housing
New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, promises to spend $22 billion over the next five years building 200,000 new “affordable” homes and “preserving” another 200,000. Time will tell if he meets that goal even as he sets higher minimum wages for construction workers. But an even larger transfer of wealth is embedded in the mayor’s […]
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Opinion | Kathy Hochul’s Get-Past-November Budget
After the election, expect taxes to rise to pay for Albany’s spending boom and a pension payoff to unions.
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Axios
DOJ probe targets Reid Hoffman nonprofit tied to E. Jean Carroll case
The Department of Justice is investigating the nonprofit of billionaire Reid Hoffman, which made contributions that were partially used for E. Jean Carroll's legal expenses during her civil lawsuit against President Trump, a source familiar tells Axios.Why it matters: The investigation raises concerns about a pattern of retaliation against Trump critics while testing the independence of DOJ officials. Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder, has donated millions to Democratic causes and the party over the years and is a longtime Trump critic. The president previously alleged Hoffman is a funder of "radical left" groups that promote political violence.What they're saying: "The investigation is more focused on Reid Hoffman's nonprofit," American Future Republic, than Carroll herself, a source familiar with the DOJ's operations tells Axios."It's related to E. Jean Carroll and her deposition, but she is not the subject of the investigation." "The investigation is ongoing... but as of right now, it would be inaccurate to say that she is being investigated."The White House referred Axios to the DOJ for comment. The DOJ and Carroll's legal team declined to comment. Hoffman did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.Flashback: Carroll accused Trump of sexual assault at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, filing a civil suit against him. Trump was initially found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and fined $5 million.Trump has appealed the case to the Supreme Court, but the court has not decided if it will hear the case. Context: Carroll was previously questioned about a 2022 deposition in which she said she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, but her attorneys later said that Hoffman's nonprofit covered some of her legal expenses.Dmitri Mehlhorn, then a philanthropic adviser for Hoffman, said in a 2017 statement that the nonprofit made a donation to the Kaplan Hecker & Fink law firm for a different public interest lawsuit. But when the firm took up Carroll's case in 2020, her lawyer asked if the grant money could be used for the suit against Trump. "We had no prior knowledge at the time of the original grant that our funding would go to support her case in particular," Mehlhorn said, according to the New York Times.Yes, but: Trump argued in court that Carroll had committed perjury. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his position. The court found that "there was no evidence to suggest that Ms. Carroll was personally involved in securing the funding, interacted with the funder," or had knowledge of where the money came from prior to being deposed in October 2022. Go deeper: Red-meat retribution: Trump escalates campaign against MAGA foes
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Embattled nonprofit demands case against them be axed after Trump's recent court loss
The Southern Poverty Law Center has moved for a dismissal of all charges against them by the Trump administration, citing the president's recent comments as proof of vindictive prosecution and the precedent of another recent Trump case that just got thrown out.The Trump administration argued in their Alabama-based indictment that the longtime hate group watchdog was actually funding hate groups by using paid informants and committing fraud by omitting their use of such informants from their donors, allegations the SPLC has called ridiculous.In the filing, flagged on X by Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News, the SPLC quotes Trump's recent proclamation that "The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD," as proof of a "top-down, retributive campaign in which he directed his Justice Department to go after those individuals and groups he deemed his political enemies."Furthermore, the SPLC cited the recent vindictive prosecution dismissal of criminal gang charges against Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has dragged on for over a year after the administration mistakenly deported him to a foreign torture facility in violation of court orders.The SPLC has long been a target of wrath by Republicans, partly due to its designation of certain organizations close to the GOP, like the anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council, as hate groups or extremist groups.
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Opinion | The Ken Paxton Republicans
Trial lawyers and Democrats are the big winners in the GOP Texas Senate primary.
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