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🚨BREAKING : In a new massacre, Israeli drones directly targeted a phone-charging point run by civilian Imad Miqdad moments ago in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, killing him along with other civilians. With no electricity infrastructure left in displacement camps, solar-powered and improvised energy points have become essential for survival, yet they are being deliberately targeted, cutting civilians off from even the most basic means of living.

Intuit spent $4 million in lobbying last year to kill a federal program that would have saved Americans $23 billion in filing fees. That was a record: $3.9 million in 2025, nearly the same in 2023 and 2024, $53.8 million total since 2004. In November 2025, the Trump administration formally shut down IRS Direct File, the program that let Americans file federal returns directly with the government for free. The ROI math is the best trade in corporate America. Intuit's TurboTax generated $4.9 billion in FY2025 Consumer Group revenue. Treasury estimated Direct File would cost $10 per return to run. TurboTax charges around $128 for a "free" filing once the upsells hit, per a simulation by Senator Warren's office. Then the actual mechanics. 70% of American taxpayers are already eligible to file free through the existing Free File program. Only 2-3% ever do. Intuit and H&R Block added noindex tags to their free-filing pages so Google couldn't surface them. They ran "free" ads that upsold at checkout. The FTC made them pay $141 million to settle in 2022. While lobbying that Direct File was "unnecessary, costly, and unauthorized," Intuit collected federal R&D tax credits roughly equal to what the entire Direct File program cost to run. The company you pay $128 to file is using your tax credits to lobby against letting you file for free. In December 2024, Intuit wrote Trump's inaugural committee a $1 million check. Direct File died 11 months later. Most OECD countries pre-fill your tax return. The government tells you what it thinks you owe, you check it, you submit. America is the only major economy where a private company has convinced the government that "collecting the taxes" and "telling you what you owe" are two separate products taxpayers need to buy one of. That's the scam.

After a completely manufactured display of 'remorse' over the desecration of a cross in the southern Lebanese village of Debel, Israeli forces are demolishing parts of the border town, bulldozing solar panels that supply electricity and power its water station.

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Women don't enter trades like men do because the working conditions almost guarantee a lifetime of sexual harassment and sexism, not because they're too weak to learn carpentry.

Israel does not target journalists. On April 22, Hezbollah terrorists violated the ceasefire in Lebanon and endangered IDF soldiers. After countless warnings including in this specific area Hezbollah operated, the IDF acted to neutralize an imminent threat posed to IDF soldiers. The IDF is reviewing reports that journalist Amal Khalil, who was present alongside the terrorists during their operation, was hurt in the strike. Israel targets terrorists and regrets any harm caused to those not involved in terrorist activity.

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How can a couple have 3 children and all of them are autistic? Doctors what causes that?