My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

In tomorrow's World I’ll be writing about slop. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one! But soon everyone will know. Here's my convo with @kevinroose.com, tech columnist, podcast co-host and...robot lover: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

IRS official Holly Paz was in charge of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters. Here's what happened next: nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships

My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨 We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate More info below 👇 www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳

Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:

In which Sarah Palin goes hunting for a defamation case that she can use to shoehorn herself back into the national conversation. MURDER THE TRUTH excerpt in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

My oped today. Trump's tariffs are about wrapping a harmful fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism. Don't fall for it. What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...

‘Surrounded by his students as he sat at the piano, Messiaen would speak as much about “the dances of planets and atoms”, and the poetry of Breton and Éluard, as he did about music.’ Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments

New report from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social today on tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships! equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... (as featured in @politico.com's Morning Tax!) While not the biggest (or most troubling) news of the day, I say this deserves a thread!

They've taken down CDC HIV Awareness Day pages, the HIV Testing page. It appears they've taken down all the HIV pages except for this About HIV page. www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/in...

60 years ago today, John Coltrane released “A Love Supreme” (Impulse!). Spiritualized. Read the Feelies and John Davis (Superdrag, Lees Of Memory) in MAGNET on one of the greatest albums ever made: magnetmagazine.com/2017/03/28/f... magnetmagazine.com/2009/02/03/j...

The tech bros want us to think they are all powerful. But cozying up to Trump reveals their weakness. They are facing massive regulatory fines across the globe and the astronomical costs of the race for AI dominance. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

Ernie Drucker was public health Renaissance man, driven by deep commitment to fairness & justice. I owe him a great deal. My first boss, he introduced me to worker safety and collaborated on HIV/AIDS & prison health in the Bronx. He was a public health giant. His memory is truly a blessing.

Rest in power, Dr. Ernie Drucker. I was fortunate to Ernie as a teacher during my Primary Care/Social Medicine residency at Montefiore/Einstein. Ernie was a leader & pioneer in harm reduction and helped raise the alarm that HIV was not just impacting gay white men. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

My friend & first "boss" Dr. Ernie Drucker just passed on. He was a towering public health figure--harm reduction, HIV/AIDS care, mass incarceration. And he would give you the shirt off his back. #PublicHealth #Einstein kboo.fm/media/125338...

Remembering Ernie Drucker, a beloved former faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore. A distinguished epidemiologist, public health advocate, and scholar whose groundbreaking work in drug policy and human rights made a lasting impact. 🕯️🏥 #InMemoriam thenewpress.com/authors/erne...

Outpouring of love, warmth, affection and admiration for Ernie Drucker from all corners of globe. Many memories of quiet acts of quiet generosity. This was a man who profoundly affected many by his humanity and decency

Ernie Drucker 1940-2025, a giant of drug harm reduction & public health, died a few hours ago in NYC where he was born. RIP Ernie. Warm, generous, fountain of ideas, leaving us when his own country is abandoning decency, humanity, social justice, human rights, evidence, equality, collective

On this edition of Century: Remembering Ernie Drucker kboo.fm/media/125338... #DrugSky #HarmReduction #CommunityRadio #KBOO

The legendary Bobby Bradford has lost house, horns & everything else. Help him get back on his feet here::

Very sad to hear that Steve Lehman, Bobby Bradford, William Roper, Bennie Maupin, & John Clayton have all lost their homes from the wildfires

In the storied history of #ECMRecords there are been countless outstanding releases, but the honor of being the first #ECM release goes to pianist Mal Waldron & his 1969 album Free At Last with Isla Eckinger – bass & Clarence Becton – drums... #JazzMusic #JazzSky #JazzPiano @ecmr-music.bsky.social

When I was 23, the house I lived in burned to the ground. I was asleep, and got out with nothing but my pjs and my roommate’s dog. When you lose your house it is not about the sofa or tv. It’s the concert t-shirt you bought with your best friend, and the last letter your grandfather wrote you.

William Parker was born in the Bronx on this day in 1952. He turns 73 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 6.12.21

This flew under the radar in last week's shutdown fight, but Republicans have basically unwound all of Biden's investment in tax enforcement. The CR clawed back $20 billion from the IRS after GOP in Congress revoked another $20 billion last year. If the IRS hasn't spent the money yet, it's gone.

Tax data has become a valuable commodity for companies seeking to control and influence consumer behavior. But sharing data through tax software platforms makes consumers vulnerable to bad actors who want to steal sensitive tax information. Story in @taxnotes.bsky.social bit.ly/4a6lnIC

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Tax practitioners are anticipating big changes in IRS enforcement priorities when the new administration takes over in January but also foresee an extension of most of the provisions in the 2017 GOP tax law.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate as assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy Ken Kies, a former senior Capitol Hill aide and longtime tax lobbyist, whose client list has included Microsoft, insurers and financial services groups.

New York is facing a once-in-a-generation affordability crisis that has left roughly half of city households struggling to pay for basic necessities. Now, politicians are eager to show how they are trying to help alleviate the crisis.

Astonishing stats: felony assaults in NYC subway system have more than doubled on a per passenger basis compared to pre-Covid:

Coming up: • How to read a nonprofit's tax forms • How to cover a city council meeting • How to read a campaign finance report Do you have an area of expertise? Share it with us! forms.gle/sYDVVQfUK4B4...