IRS ‘Raid’ Angers GOP America


Agents came to writer’s home on day he testified to Congress.


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leading republican congressman wants to know why the IRS made an unannounced visit to the


home of Matt Taibbi (pictured right) on March 9 — the day the journalist was to testify before the House Sub- committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a let-


ter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding answers about the timing and circumstances surrounding the raid on Taibbi’s home.


Taibbi notified the congressman


that the IRS told him his 2018 and 2021 tax filings were requested because of “concerns over identity theft.” As The Wall Street Journal notes,


Taibbi shared his “electronically accepted” 2018 tax submission with the panel and that no problem with it had been reported for “more than four-and-a-half years.” Taibbi, a self-described Democrat,


played a key role in Twitter owner Elon Musk’s efforts to reveal the social media juggernaut’s once-secret com- munications. The IRS did not immediately


respond to whether Taibbi’s role in what are called the “Twitter Files” had anything to do with his visit, Fox News reported.


Agatha Christie Gets Rewrite


ovels by agatha christie have become the most recent works of literature to be updated to remove


racist references and language seen as offensive to modern- day readers, according to the New York Post. HarperCollins has edited, and in some cases scrapped


entire passages, from Christie’s detective novel series fea- turing Detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. New editions drop references to ethnicity, such as describing a character as Black, Jewish, or “Oriental.” A female character’s torso that was once described


as being made “of black marble” and a judge’s “Indian temper” were also cut, as were references to gypsies and “natives.” The N-word has also been completely removed from the


revised editions in both Christie’s prose and in the dialogue spoken by her characters, the Post reported. The changes come after several classic works of lit-


erature, including children’s books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, have recently been cleansed by “sensitivity readers.” HarperCollins also enlisted the help of sensitivity read-


ers to produce new editions of the entire Miss Marple series and select Poirot novels, which were written between 1920 and 1976, the year of Christie’s death.


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The Twitter Files have provided revelations about how and why Twit- ter banned former President Don- ald Trump, the censorship of opin- ions deemed misinformation about COVID-19, the behind-the-scenes decisions to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, and more. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial


board criticized the IRS and noted it normally sends a letter or schedules a meeting at the agent’s office rather than make unannounced visits to tax- payers’ homes.


The new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Carib- bean Mystery excludes old descriptions of a West Indian hotel worker who smiled with “such lovely white teeth.” Similar references to “beautiful teeth” were also scrapped. In the same novel, an entire passage where a character


cannot see a Black woman in some bushes at night has been removed as well. References in Christie’s 1920 debut novel The Mysteri- ous Affair at Styles to a character who is “a Jew, of course,” have been removed completely. In the new editions, Poirot makes no such comment.


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