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This must just be a coincidence. After announcing last year on Instagram that he was moving from Seattle to Miami, billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos stands to avoid paying some $600 million in taxes, according to CNBC.

That’s because last year, Washington state enacted a 7% capital gains tax on sales of stocks or bonds in excess of $250,000. Bezos lived in the state for 30 years and claimed he was moving to Florida to be closer to his parents and his Blue Origin rocket launches. But the timing suggests the tax savings might have had something to do with it, too.

CNBC reports Bezos has sold Amazon stock almost every single year since 1998—but abruptly stopped once the new tax took effect. Now that he’s in Florida, a state with no such tax, he plans to sell off 50 million shares in the next 12 months. At the latest Amazon stock price, that’s a cool $8.7 billion. If that holds, it would amount to $610 million dollars that would have gone to Washington state. That more than covers the cost of his $500 million superyacht.

This is not surprising coming form the man whose company appealed a paltry $7,000 fine after a worker literally died at one of their warehouses last year.

According to Oxfam, billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and retail workers. Critics say it’s why we need a federal tax on billionaires, no loopholes—right now.

The conservative Christian hate group behind the “He Gets Us” Super Bowl ads Sunday night is facing a wave of criticism after spending at least $10 million on the two commercials. Named the night’s most controversial ad by the Washington Post, the short message has been slammed by people on the left (who say this money is better spent, you know, helping poor people) and by people on the right (who say the ad showed a “woke Jesus”).

The ads were a part of an multimillion dollar campaign from the billionaire Green family, of Hobby Lobby fortune, to “reintroduce Jesus' brand” as humanity’s savior. The organization behind the campaign, The Servant Foundation, is doing much more than that: they’re also funding the fight to limit safe abortion healthcare, deny transgender people the right to use a bathroom, and are part of a shadowy network of groups that are working to undermine the separation of church and state.

Maybe the Green family is taking to heart the words of Jesus in Matthew 19:24 and trying to dump all their cash? “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” I’m not sure if spending all your money on spreading hate and limiting healthcare is better than having a lot of money though.

Also: The ratings are in—123.4 million people watched the Super Bowl on CBS Sunday night, making it the most-watched telecast of all time.

Nearly 100 Palestinians were killed last night in southern Gaza city of Rafah, according to CNN, as international alarm mounts over Israel’s planned ground offensive that could level the city. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israeli airstrikes targeted different areas of the city as helicopters fired machine guns into border areas. As of this morning, the planned ground assault has not yet began. It’s unclear when that might happen, there’s currently no plan to evacuate citizens.

Before the genocide began, Rafah had just 200,000 people. That number has ballooned to 1.7 million since Israel began its campaign, urging people to move south to remain safe. Many there have been displaced several times, and have absolutely nowhere else to go.

The moves continue to outrage Arab governments. Jordan’s King Abdullah II reportedly warned Joe Biden that the world “cannot afford” Israel’s planned ground invasion on Rafah, while Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Israel to end the “massacre” and recognize a Palestinian state.

Meanwhile… Early this morning the U.S. Senate passed a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill that includes $14.1 billion in funding for Israel’s genocide. It’s unclear, however, if the bill will pass in the far-right controlled House. And, the U.S. is reportedly brokering a deal between Hamas and Israel to pause fighting for 6 weeks.

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After coming so far and making it so close to becoming one of the very first astronauts, not to mention the first Black man in space, Ed Dwight is finally getting celebrated. Starting today, Disney+ and Hulu are streaming a new National Geographic documentary “The Space Race,” chronicling the stories of Black astronauts — and their first pioneer, Dwight — trying to overcome social injustice and reach for the stars.

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