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IRS Suspiciously Visits Journalist Matt Taibbi Same Day He Testified Before Congress

Fox News: The IRS was silent about how often it dispatches agents to people’s homes Tuesday on the heels of journalist Matt Taibbi saying he received an unannounced visit from Uncle Sam at his New Jersey residence. Taibbi, a Substack journalist who played a key role in Twitter owner Elon Musk’s efforts to reveal the social media juggernaut’s once-secret communications, was visited by an IRS agent on March 9. That was the same day he testified before the newly Republican-created Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter (Fox News). Wall Street Journal: Typically when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced. The curious timing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC demand that Twitter turn over names of journalists, raises questions about potential intimidation. The fear of many Americans is that, flush with its new $80 billion in funding from Congress, the IRS will unleash its fearsome power against political opponents (Wall Street Journal).

University Professor Suspended for Calling on People to Kill Conservative Speakers

Daily Mail: Wayne State University has suspended an English professor and referred him to police for saying Stanford students who abused a conservative judge should have killed him instead of just heckling. The professor is believed to be Steven Shaviro, a self-styled philosopher and teacher of English at the university, who wrote that Stanford students would be justified in killing the conservative judge whose appearance on campus was recently protested. University president Roy Wilson announced the suspension Monday morning, which is when he said the school became aware of the post (Daily Mail). Outkick: There’s simply no excuse to ever call for violence against a group of people. It can’t be tolerated, and absolutely shouldn’t be. College campuses used to be a place where debate wasn’t just encouraged. It was a core pillar of the college life. Now, it seems like screaming and poor behavior is the new standard when confronted with views you don’t like (Outkick).

Senator Ted Cruz to DHS Secretary Mayorkas: “If you had any integrity you would resign!”

Julio Rosas: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not hold back in his criticisms against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for the disaster the U.S.-Mexico border has become under his leadership. Things became heated as Cruz asked Mayorkas if White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was lying when she had stated people are not walking across the border. Mayorkas refused to answer the question. During the questioning, Mayorkas revealed he was unaware of what the bracelets looked like that human smugglers put on people to keep track of who has paid and who is set to be taken illegally into the country (Townhall). Steve Guest: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas admits he doesn’t know how many migrants have died under Biden. Sen. Ted Cruz: “Of course you don’t! I know how many died, 853! … You go back to 1998, you see it’s consistently between 300 to 400… Suddenly 2021. What happens? You get in office” (Twitter). CSPAN: SenTedCruz to SecMayorkas: “If you had integrity you would resign” (Twitter).

Suspect Arrested in Firebombing of Abortion Center in 2022

National Review: In Boston on Tuesday the FBI arrested a suspect in the firebombing of a Madison, Wisc. pro-life pregnancy center, putting the justice process in motion nearly one year after the Mother’s Day attack. Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, of Madison, was charged with one count of attempting to cause damage by means of fire or an explosive, the Department of Justice announced. The complaint alleges that Roychowdhury used an incendiary device on May 8, 2022 to terrorize and intimidate Wisconsin Family Action, which offers maternity care, ultrasounds, and other alternatives to abortion (National Review). Life News: Wisconsin Family Action, a pro-life organization, is located in Madison. On May 8, its office was heavily damaged by fire, and the threat “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” and other graffiti was spray-painted on several exterior walls. The attack was one of many that targeted pro-life organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court leak (Life News).

Biden Cabinet Member Acknowledges the Green Agenda Makes Us Reliant on China

Free Beacon: President Joe Biden’s interior secretary acknowledged that a transition to electric vehicles increases America’s reliance on China, an admission that comes as the administration kills domestic mines that would produce the materials required to make those vehicles. Pennsylvania Republican congressman Guy Reschenthaler grilled Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on China’s dominance of the green energy supply chain. The communist nation, Reschenthaler noted, controls the majority of the world’s “rare earth elements,” which are needed to produce electric vehicle batteries and other crucial components. “By deductive reasoning, that would mean that electric vehicles and renewables deepen our reliance on China, correct?” the Republican asked. “Yes, OK,” Haaland responded (Free Beacon). Fox News: Green energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries, solar panels and wind turbines require a massive expansion of cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, graphite, zinc and other mineral production. According to an analysis from the International Energy Agency, an electric vehicle requires 500% more mineral resources than a traditional gas-powered car while a single onshore wind turbine plant requires 800% more minerals than a typical fossil fuel plant (Fox News).

Nashville Shooter Targeted School Because It Was Not as Secure as Another Location

Townhall: Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters on Monday the shooter who attacked a private Christian elementary school, killing three young children and three adults, did not attack a different location because there was too much security (Townhall). Rob O’Donnell: Nashville Shooter did a threat assessment of another school but decided against an attack due to too much security. Now read that again (Twitter)! Daily Mail: A schoolgirl who was shot and killed while trying to pull the fire alarm to stop a transgender shooter from opening fire on her classmates has been pictured for the first time. Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, was one of the victims shot by Audrey Hale, 28, after she opened fire at the private Christian school on Monday. Her family has described her as a ‘shining light’ and said that they are ‘completely broken’ by her death. They added that she had been desperately trying to pull the fire alarm to get help when the shooting unfolded on Monday (Daily Mail). Mike Gallagher: One of the murder victims was a pastor’s little daughter, Pastor Scruggs, his nine-year-old angel. Sometimes words fail me. I get angry, I get sad. I’m heartsick. I am frustrated at the left’s instinctive response. But of course, they get frustrated with us. They get mad at us. They mock prayer (Daybreak Daily).

Migrants Waiting in Mexico to Come to the US Set Fire to Mattresses, Killing 40

Associated Press: Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people, the president said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup. Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants (Associated Press). USA Today: Mexico’s migrant facilities have seen protests from time to time as the American government has pressured the country to ramp up efforts to reduce the number of migrants coming to United States. Frustrations reached a fever pitch this month when hundreds of migrants, most of them Venezuelan, heard false rumors that the U.S. would allow them to enter and tried to cross an international bridge to El Paso (USA Today).

US House Votes Unanimously to Remove China as a Developing Country

Vote was a unanimous 415-0. Fox News: The House passed a bill Monday to revoke the People’s Republic of China’s “developing country” status in international organizations that give it access to preferential loans and other economic benefits. Introduced by Reps. Young Kim (R-Calif.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the PRC Is Not a Developing Country Act would make it U.S. government policy to oppose the labeling or treatment of the PRC as a developing country under the terms of any treaty or other international agreement to which the U.S. is a party, such as the World Trade Organization (Fox News). Daily Wire: The moves to end developing nation status for China occur amid increasingly strained relations between the United States and the communist country. American lawmakers are seeking to ban the social media platform TikTok, which is owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, across the United States over national security and data privacy concerns (Daily Wire).

Prosecutors Allege Sam Bankman-Fried Bribed a Chinese Official $40 Million to Unfreeze His Accounts

New York Post: Embattled crypto guru Sam Bankman-Fried paid a $40 million bribe to at least one Chinese government official to get access to accounts that had been frozen by Beijing, federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Details of the 2021 bribe were included in a new indictment against Bankman-Fried, 31, filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The feds allege the accused fraudster sought to unlock $1 billion in cryptocurrency in accounts that had been seized by the authoritarian state (New York Post). Wall Street Journal: Mr. Bankman-Fried directed Alameda employees to pay the bribe after months of failed attempts to regain control of the accounts, prosecutors said. The accounts were unfrozen at the time a first illicit payment was made, the indictment alleges. Mr. Bankman-Fried then authorized an additional payment of tens of millions of dollars to complete the bribe, the indictment alleges. At the direction of Mr. Bankman-Fried, Alameda used the unfrozen crypto to fund additional trades (Wall Street Journal).

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Belgian Government Looks to Allow People to Change Their Gender with a Simple Document

National Review: We live in an irrational age. Germany allows people to change their gender once a year by simply filing an official form. And now, Belgium is about to allow people to change gender — apparently, whenever they want. The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form. A society based primarily on feelings over thought will be, by definition, profoundly unstable. Our emotions are ephemeral. If I “feel” I am male today, and female tomorrow, and neither the next day — and the law and culture must accommodate my current emotional state — rationality as the basis of society will shatter (National Review).

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