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Apr 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said she gets triggered when she hears about federal charity transparency laws.

She also said charity transparency laws are "deeply unsafe."

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Cullors: "It is such a trip now to hear the term '[IRS Form] 990.' I'm, like, ugh. It's, like, triggering."
Cullors: "This doesn't seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure. This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with."
Cullors also said she's been approached by countless activists who are worried that they too will soon field requests from reporters demanding copies of their 990 financial disclosures, which charities are required by law to disclose to the public upon request.

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Apr 8
.@HuffPost columnist: "the Black Lives Matter organization was not the sacred cow everyone believed it to be"

Conservative media has been reporting on BLM's financial improprieties for two years now. "Sacred cow" only to those with their eyes wide shut

huffpost.com/entry/black-li…
@HuffPost Reporters in mainstream/left media should be ashamed of themselves for willingly ignoring this story for two years.

It was THEIR readers whose donated money was being used by BLM to buy ritzy mansions and divvy out lucrative contracts to people closely linked to its leaders.
@HuffPost They refused to look after the best interests of their own readers because the national BLM org was a "sacred cow"

I can stand on my high horse here because I have a history of accurately reporting on conservative "sacred cows."
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Apr 4
BLM has requested I not publicly identify their company (3726 Laurel Canyon LLC) that owns their swanky $6 million mansion in Los Angeles because of “security concerns.”
This, of course, is beyond absurd.

BLM is a charity. It purchased this property with public, tax deductible dollars. And it claims nobody lives at the address. And it has had since Oct 2020 to change the LLC’s name.
This is yet another instance of BLM casting legitimate reporting on its nightmare finances as implicit death threats or some such nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
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Apr 4
NEW: In Oct. 2020, 2 weeks after BLM received $66.5 million from its fiscal sponsor, the charity purchased a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles in cash through a middleman, who then transferred the deed to 3726 Laurel Canyon LLC.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/blm-purch…
The LLC is apparently named after the mansion's address in Studio City, California.
BLM used the middleman, Dyane Pascall, and the LLC as middlemen for the property purchase to 'avoid exposing BLM's assets to any litigation or liability," BLM board member Shalomyah Bowers said in a statement.

Pascall is closely tied to Patrisse Cullors's personal businesses.
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Mar 18
The CDC's COVID Data Tracker is a total mess.

COVID deaths reported in the tracker of children aged 0 - 17 plummeted nearly 24% on Wednesday after the CDC fixed a "coding logic error."

washingtonexaminer.com/news/reported-…
The fix caused all-time pediatric deaths reported in the CDC's COVID Data Tracker to drop from 1,755 to 1,339.

But even the fixed # is significantly higher than the CDC's provisional COVID death data -- based on death certificates -- which currently reports 921 pediatric deaths.
Even after the fix, the CDC COVID Data Tracker reports WAY MORE pediatric deaths than the CDC's provisional dataset while simultaneously reporting WAY FEWER overall deaths than the provisional dataset.

That makes no sense.

Left is COVID Data Tracker, Right is provisional data.
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Mar 2
NEW: The national Black Lives Matter group's cash hoard may be significantly larger than previously disclosed, ActBlue records submitted to the IRS suggest.

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washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-cash…
BLM Global Network Foundation, through its fiscal sponsor Tides Foundation, paid a cumulative $3,111,919 in ActBlue fees in 2020.

As ActBlue charges a flat 3.95% processing fee, this suggests BLM raised $78.8 million in small-dollar donations in 2020.
BLM paid another $517,847 in ActBlue service fees in 2021, implying it raised an additional $13.1 million in small-dollar donations through ActBlue in 2021.

These figures likely DO NOT include the flood of corporate donations that poured into BLM's coffers during Summer 2020.
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Feb 16
NEW: Amazon, which committed MILLIONS to Black Lives Matter and other groups in 2020, booted BLM off AmazonSmile earlier this week as the charity faces legal threats from multiple states over its failure to report what it did with its financial windfall.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/amazon-bo…
Left is the before, screenshot was taken on February 7

Right is the after, screenshot was taken just moments ago.
Amazon's move comes less than a week after BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors said BLM's unaccounted millions from 2020 came from "white corporation guilt."

washingtonexaminer.com/news/amazon-bo…
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