WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

While researching a story, I found this from a month after Obama took office promising to help homeowners get the same bankruptcy/principal-reduction protections landlords & owners of vacation mansions already get. Turning hope & change into more of the same paved the way for Trump.

Economies of Scale Don't Always Mean Bigger is Better

It’s not precedent to call the Department of Defense the Department of Defense. That is its name until Congress says otherwise. The president and Secretary of Defense are just wasting a whole bunch of money to put up new signs, get new stationery, etc for a made up name of their own.

Palestinians who returned to the Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt described a humiliating process as they were blindfolded, interrogated, and abused by the Israeli military. 1/4

Today’s post is co-authored with organizer Lauren Harper & surgical resident Dr. Anthony Douglas II on remarkable new legislation to combat gun violence. Let us introduce The RIFL Act. Read today’s article and subscribe to Let’s Address This for more human rights content—always paywall free.

Big news from New Jersey: Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, and one of the nation’s leading anti-gerrymandering voices—is running for Congress. Evidence-based democracy is stepping onto the ballot. This is how change happens.

context from @umairfan.bsky.social at @wired.com: "You could smooth over the drawbacks of intermittent power sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide, like wind and solar. You could have easy local backup power in emergencies when transmission lines are damaged." www.wired.com/story/grid-s...

The Damage is Forever Mitigation is the Appearance of Action

Let’s begin with Stephen Ehikian, Musk’s pick to head the GSA, speaking at GSA HQ on March 20th. He has a plan to centralize government data and point AI at it: "As you think about the future of AI, in order to think about using any of these tools at scale, we gotta get our data in one place"

AI repression Technique www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

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Zero mention on the BBC (or billionaire press) of Saturday's 100,000 people march in London against Israeli genocide, in support of Palestine which has to be a top-level censorship decision of the BBC's right wing top managers via Truth Against Hate

Exactly this. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj

Amiee doesn't look Somalian?

OTTAWA – Public Safety Canada says gun owners reported 22,251 firearms to the federal government in the first week of a program to provide compensation for banned guns.

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

We go live to the NRA for their comments on the murder of an American exercising his 2nd Amendment rights:

American flowers ... Amerikan arrogance and self-entitlement that no-one wants .. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

I like Winnipeg Free Press, a good mix of stories

#TrumpCrimes Abuse of Power, Obstruction, Money Laundering, Perjury, Conspiracy, RICO, Espionage, Witness/Evidence Tampering, Bribery/Extortion, Bank/Tax Fraud, Election Fraud, Child Abuse, $$ Theft, COVID Deaths, Sedition, War Crimes #JusticeFailedUS

If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.

@booker.senate.gov TRUTH

"Only 1 theory can match the crime decline in its scope & scale: the massive, post-pandemic investment in local govts deployed during Biden admin [thru American Rescue Plan Act], delivered a huge boost to infrastructure & services of communities—including those that suffered most from violent crime

The Patriot Act needs to be rescinded

Ineffective Oversight

French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.

love to see it

This. AIPAC and ICE Democrats can get wrecked. Y'all may as well wear red hats.

Of course, if Congressional action can work against the White House, it can also work for it.

As ICE killed a record number of people in 2025, a shocking 75 Democrats called for even MORE ICE enforcement in local communities. Is your member on this list? I name names, share a script to use when calling them, and share the names of those ICE killed. www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-your-d...

This could be fun if you'd like more detail for where the money is being spent www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Trump megadonor Paul Singer bought Citgo, the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company, at a rock-bottom price last month. Now, the hedge fund "vulture" is expected to make a killing from Trump's regime change war.

Do people understand the white supremacy behind Epstein Files release delays? If it were prominent Black & brown people abusing white children, would there be such secrecy? Overwhelming evidence & MAGA's still hiding it from the public. The nexus of child abuse & white supremacy cannot be ignored.

This is going to be lots of fun: First Amendment Originalism at the AEI in DC on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo. www.aei.org/events/first... Sign up to listen if you can't be there.

Despite Israel's continuous violations of the U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza, President Trump "is fully supporting whatever Israel wants to do in continuing its genocide, and possibly even following Israel into Syria, Lebanon and Iran," says journalist Rami Khouri.

Symptomatic of a country without hope of a decent future for most young people — they face the choice of being employed as murderers and thugs for corporates or minimum wage jobs soon to be replaced by AI and robots.

The Zionists who run AIPAC traded Judaism for a cult of genocide & ethnic cleansing 👉🏼They are no more Jewish than Christian nationalists are Christian 80% of the Palestinians have more ancient Hebrew (Semite) blood than Israelis do👉🏼So the irony is the Arab hating Zionists are the real Anti-semites 🤔

I don’t think the word “holding” means the same to them as it does to me.

Liz Oyer, former pardon atty, DOJ: "A few weeks ago, FIFA gave Trump a made up consolation peace prize to placate him re not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 4 days later, Trump's DOJ abandoned a major prosecution involving decades of bribery/corruption against FIFA."

@support.bsky.team After I repost, scrolling with arrow keys stops working until I Click another post & return to my feed Vivaldi 7.7.3851.56 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium Version 142.0.7444.220 Official Build Platform / OS Linux - debian 12

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.

Ugh.

yes! i am a bit of a broken record on this but among elite male commentators there is such obvious gender anxiety

GOPux party of Thieves & Grifters