What could possibly go wrong w/a bill giving Trump-installed crackpots "power to investigate and effectively shut down any tax-exempt organization—incl news outlets, universities, and civil society groups—by stripping them of their tax-exempt status based on an unilateral accusation of wrongdoing"
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Emily Tamkin
For @slate.bsky.social, an explainer on HR 9495 and how it could (imo very easily) be used to go after not support for terrorism, but civil society
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and next they'll just apply it broadly to all queer and other minority groups a day later