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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is why we can’t have nice things

Steve Brown, 35, vice president of partnerships for the city's minor-league soccer team and owner of a sports memorabilia store, said he pays $3,600 a month for a one-bedroom apartment downtown. That's "way more" than his rent in Atlanta a few years ago, he said.
He's leaning toward Collins but said he hasn't paid much attention to the race.

"How is somebody supposed to survive?" said Jennifer Perry, 29, a convenience-store assistant manager pregnant with her third child, who moved this month to the state capital of Augusta after six years in Portland because she and her fiancé couldn't find an affordable apartment there. "I don't understand why it's the way it is, and why we're worried about everything else."

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pray for me — particularly my ears. At a BTS concert with my niece. I haven’t been to a concert, since Phil Collins

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s a seagull in the pool 🤯

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Having a gelato and watching the sun go down

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

LaNeve, Hegseth toady, making sure the Army isn’t all that it can be

The elimination of a futuristic drone battalion is part of a broader "back-to-basics" approach ordered up by Gen.
Christopher LaNeve, the acting chief of staff of the Army who is closely aligned with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The battalion was a signature initiative of LaNeve's predecessor, Gen. Randy George, whom Hegseth ousted in April.

LaNeve and Driscoll clashed this summer over LaNeve's effort to rewrite the Army's physical-fitness standards, U.S. officials said.
Under LaNeve's direction, the service replaced traditional height-to-weight tables and circumference-based tape tests with a
"waist-to-height ratio" of less than 0.55 as its new body-composition standard.
Driscoll pushed to keep a performance exemption for soldiers who score highly on the Army Fitness Test, arguing that under the new system stocky but strong soldiers would be unfairly punished. But LaNeve dug in his heels, and a performance exemption was excluded, U.S. officials said. Exemptions for pregnant and postpartum soldiers remain in effect, according to Army officials.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excellent read Visualized Musk falling down to earth, like Icarus, with a very loud thud, and a dead $TSLA price.

But, as the Greeks understood, the mortal who acts as if he were a god is bound to fall victim to hubris. Or, to put it in Christian terms,
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." 2

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It is an interesting showcase of the stupidity spectrum of the average American Voter Exhibit A:

Jim Dubela voted for Trump in 2024 in the hope he would address the cost-of-living
crunch and improve the
U.S. economy. The 66-year-old retired airline
captain wanted to see Trump stand in front of a whiteboard on his first day in office and outline his plans for reducing inflation, increasing GDP, trimming the budget deficit and fixing the healthcare system.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The pool is much quieter after 4th of July

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I have visited the smallest Church (in the U.S.)

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When this AI party ends, it’s not going to be pretty

"I'm fearful that we're building unintended leverage that isn't fully understood," said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist for Nationwide's investment management group. "You've got people with a lottery mentality using margin to buy options on levered ETFs. That's three or four layers."
Buyers ranging from hedge funds to teenagers on Robinhood have poured money into leveraged ETFs this year, helping to nearly double the assets in these funds to a record $220 billion between March 30 and June 3, according to FactSet.
The most popular leveraged-fund offerings are tied to indexes of technology and semiconductor stocks, as well as individual companies like Tesla, Nvidia and most recently, SpaceX.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ultra wealthy and centrists want to wage a “war”, but have zero ideas about what to do, given burning a lot of money to keep people poor didn’t work.

One longtime strategist has floated a kind of political-giving organization that functions like the Robin Hood Foundation—the poverty-focused nonprofit whose board is stacked with finance luminaries—and gathers money to support moderate causes and candidates. Others described a desire to fund the otherwise unglamorous work of get-out-the-vote campaigns and candidate development. The name of at least one CEO was raised as a future challenger, as if just mentioning him could will a mayoral campaign into existence.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This incompetent, mad man — a poor excuse for a human being — has the Iranians consulting a psychiatrist for how to negotiate with a narcissistic sociopath.

Still, Iranian diplomats say the president's unusual style has them reading "The Art of the Deal," the 1987 book written by Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz where the future president outlines his negotiating tactics as a real-estate tycoon. The bestseller advises negotiators to use extreme, unpredictable demands to create anxiety and force concessions from rivals.
Iranian negotiators have told mediators that they consulted a team of psychologists to help them understand the president's mindset, some mediators said. Iranian diplomats work with the specialists to try to predict Trump's public response to Iran's proposals, they said.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I go on Reddit every so often to be entertained

Reddit Post:

I invested a lot of money in spacex when it was $213. Now am 19% down. Need advice from an experienced investor. Should I wait dor it to go back to my buy price or should i sell?

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This wasn’t a mistake. This was a bad decision, taken by those who think they are smarter than they actually are.

"You always learn from mistakes. It was a big mistake," said Bravo at the Sohn Conference last month, when asked about Medallia. "That was one of our 2021 deals. We were moving really fast during that time... We underwrote really fast growth, and in hindsight we paid too much because that growth didn't materialise."

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Highly recommend the Queen’s collection, if you enjoy History, Art and Fashion in the King’s Gallery

Queen Elizabeth II Her life & Style.

Selfie of Original Poster and friend

Pencil drawing Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation

Queen Elizabeth Wardrobe for India, Nepal and Pakistan state visits

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This the crux for me… I’m seeing 40% productive, innovative potential, and 60% Porn/CSAM/Deep fake scams. Net, don’t think it’s worth it.

It might help if we asked what society actually wants from this transformative technology. What problems could it solve for the benefit of all? Could we employ AI to finally crack the problem of nuclear fusion, to bring abundant clean power in a world being rocked by climate change?
Or to find a cure for Alzheimer's, a source of so much human misery? Yet companies devote more time launching consumer products than talking about such quests.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Reprehensible 🤬 This just confirms my belief that the root of all evil is driven by religion, nationalism, greed, and ignorance

National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released footage of some 400 foreign nationals forced to kneel with their heads
on the ground while being taunted by the far-right politician as "terrorists".
surrounded by masked Israeli policemen with automatic weapons.

The video shows one member of the security personnel twisting a woman's head and forcing her roughly to the ground as Ben-Gvir walks past and laughs.
Italians, Greeks, Turks and Irish were among those detained by Israel's navy as they attempted to break the nearly two-decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip.
In the post on X, the far-right politician wrote "Welcome to Israel - we are the landlords", repeating a right-wing slogan that refers to the Bible as justification for Israeli control of Palestinian lands.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This graph makes it seem like they are attributing AI CapEx & wealth effects toward Trump — as it would have happened with or without him. Trump effect has been net negative, but this graph fails to make it as obvious

Graph showing US GDP estimated change drivers

Positive drivers;
BBB Trump tax bill
AI Wealth Effect
AI CapEx Spending

Negative Drivers:
Tariff Drag
Immigration Drag
Uncertainty Drag

Residual Growth from Biden

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Finished an amazing day of walking and exploring Balloch Castle Park, with afternoon tea!

View of Loch Lomond from Balloch Castle hill

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It’s always 39-40% of voting population that are completely lost to reason.

Breakdown of those who think tariffs hurt economy

Republicans
25% thinks it hurt
26% thinks no difference
49% THINKS IT HELPED

Democrats
84% think it hurt economy
10% no difference
6% it helped

Independents
56% think it hurt economy
25% no difference
19% it helped.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Actually a lot of thought leaders write and keep journals. Writing is typically how people clarify their thoughts. But corporate lawyers hate it. Once had to attend a legal/HR training from my company, on why keeping documentation to a minimum was preferred and to purge every so often.

"He was journal-maxxing his plans," Jason Calacanis said on the "All-In" podcast.
"It's not just journal-maxing," co-host David Sacks added. "It's discovery-maxxing."
"I love the guy, but what the f-is he thinking?" David Friedberg chimed in. "I don't know anyone that has a diary. I've never heard of this."

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Like Trump, this rally lacks substance.

FT chart showing rally since Yesterday ran War supported by extremely low volume , compared to other past rallies, indicating a possible fragile and superficial rally

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Imagine having to wait to get goods you already paid for 🤬 The disasters of Trumps war in Iran just keep piling up

US defence firms are racing to boost production of critical weapons, including Patriot interceptors. Trump last month said companies had agreed to
"quadruple" output of exquisite systems.
But inventories will remain strained as delivery schedules already take several years.
Admiral Samuel Paparo, Indo-Pacific commander, last month said it would take as long as two years for the big defence contractors to increase
production to the scale needed to tackle inventory shortfalls.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Seen on the internet : photo courtesy of @ hobopeeba on IG New Banksy statue in London. It says so much about the current state of the world

Banksy statue popped up in London

Statue of a man in a suit carrying a flag, about to walk off a ledge, but blinded by the fabric of the flag covering his face

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One thing is for sure, Bessent as Treasury Secretary, has cemented his legacy as a jackass. Garbage person

Powell's rejection of the shadow chair idea is fitting given that it was an idea floated specifically to undermine him. Treasury.
Scott Bessent proposed the plan for a shadow Fed chair in October 2024 when
he was still a private citizen. Now-President Donald Trump was fed up with Powell before he'd even won election that
year, so Bessent proposed designating a replacement far in advance. "Based on the concept of forward guidance, no one is really going to care what Jerome Powell has to say anymore, " Bessent said.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

While I like the concept of e-bikes, it’s struggled to work well, even in a country as bike dense as China — let alone a country like the U.S., where having an infrastructure to support bike riding is a fight. I don’t understand this gambit, but good luck to Rivian

$From what we've seen so far, much of the differentiation appears to lean heavily on software, integration, and user experience. ALSO has developed real, impressive innovation that rockets e-bike technology years into the future. From ride-by-wire, where the pedals aren't mechanically connected to the rear wheel, to swappable subframes and more, there are impressive engineering leaps throughout the bike. Those are important factors, no doubt. But when you strip an e-bike down to its fundamentals - motor power, battery capacity, range, and overall performance - those are still the metrics almost all e-bike buyers use to make decisions. And when ALSO's $4,500 high-tech e-bike travels the same distance at the same speed as a $1,000 e-bike, it becomes a hard sell to anyone who isn't 100% sold on owning the most innovative bike on the block. If a high-tech bike ends up offering similar core performance to models that cost a fraction of the price, it raises a fair question: what exactly is the customer paying for?$

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

As much as China has opened up and grown, the reality is still a severely authoritarian regime. Don’t let the facade fool you.

Last month, Chinese officials called the two co-founders of Manus—Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao —in to discuss the deal in Beijing. The
executives, who currently work for Meta, were later told not to leave the country during the investigation, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Many of Manus's top executives are Chinese nationals.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So many simmering tensions coming out from Trump & Netanyahu’s actions. This has potential in conflict widening. It’s not 100% about the money, but the line about Saudi Arabia not being able to afford to bail out Pakistan was funny.

After the US and Iran agreed a ceasefire, Pakistan this month positioned fighter and support aircraft in Saudi Arabia as part of their agreement, Riyadh said. But the existence of the pact had failed to deter Iranian missile and drone attacks
against the Gulf kingdom.
"The Saudis never had any illusions about Pakistani help and were simply hoping Iran would think twice before attacking them. This proved wrong," said Bernard Haykel, professor of near eastern studies at Princeton University, who is writing a book about the Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman.
"Saudi cannot afford to bail
out Pakistan," said Haykel.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Let’s be clear, it’s overwhelmingly manufactured by conservatives both Distrust and Violent rhetoric Yet society will not be honest about this. If you don’t face truth in root cause, there’s no solution

He blames a "toxic information environment" full of "conflict
entrepreneurs getting rich by making us angry at one another".
'. That is made
worse by a "loss of trust in democratic institutions that makes it easier to see
illegal violence as a solution".

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It’s been a wonderful time of rest and recovery. Will definitely be back to the Retreat Hotel at the Blue Lagoon. Leaving tomorrow to go back to DC 🥺

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I do not understand people who buy or take on loans of this magnitude, when they didn’t have to, and can’t afford to. Though I get emotion and wants can override common sense.

A prospective buyer recently sought to trade in a Ford F-150 Lightning for a Mercedes GLE
Coupe, but that potential customer owed about $87,000 on the pickup truck. Horner estimates the Ford pickup truck was worth about $47,000—leaving the buyer well underwater.
"This is a battle that we're fighting every day," Horner said in an interview.
More Americans turning in their cars to buy new ones are encountering a difficult reality:
Their vehicles aren't worth what they owe.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Seen while walking through town in Reykjavík, the funniest want ad, at a Photography studio.

Want Ad at Photography Studio

REALLY BAD
PHOTOGRAPHER
WANTED
Paid assignment. In Iceland. Approximately 10-day trip. Accommodation and travel expenses in-cluded. Required that the applicant have no photography skills.
Preferably bad at framing,
not
familiar with composition, white balance,
color theory, or im-
age-making in general. Assignment dates are in June. Specific dates negotiable.
Apply at:
reallybadphotographer.com.
This is a serious ad.
Only serious candidates, please.

Park in Reykjavík, with a flower arch on bench with city name.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

9:15 PM and it’s still light outside, here in Iceland

Blue Lagoon, Iceland, thermal spa.

Daylight even at 9 pm with a half moon

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Have more children they said… www.forbes.com/sites/jamieh...

It also mentions data centers as a growing source of air quality concern for communities across the country.
The report highlights the rapidly increasing number of data centers powered by fossil fuels, which can contribute significantly to local air pollution burdens.
The Association's director for nationwide clean air advocacy, Diana Van Vleet said cleaning up dangerous air pollution is a critical step in reducing children's risk of chronic diseases, in an interview.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The choice awaiting Kevin Warsh

Man sweating at making decision which button to push

Man represents Kevin Warsh
Left Button = Raise Rates
Right Burton = Obey Trump

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Shin Hyun-song has major challenges to tackle 😣

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Has he looked in the mirror? 🙄

He was no gentler on the culture. Warsh said he preferred "messier meetings" where
"people don't show up with rehearsed scripts," a critique aimed squarely at how the Federal Open Market Committee now operates. He complained that "too many Fed officials past and present opine in advance about where they think interest rates should be,
" a shot at the forward-guidance practice that has defined Fed communication for more
than a decade.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Concept of Justice being turned into a joke by Trump’s lackey

In his first weeks in that role, Blanche has said publicly that Trump has a right and a duty to influence the Justice Department's probes of the people who investigated him for years, and that Americans should be happy with Trump's involvement in the affairs of the agency, which historically sought to keep its distance from the White House on criminal investigations.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is so grim and speaks to the level of malevolence with Corporations focused on its own survival, with no morals. I’m hard pressed to say justice is “equal”, as I’m simultaneously reading “The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption”, about Blankenship/Massey Energy case

Dressel said he hasn't been able to work in the past two years. Medical procedures, including a left-leg amputation and tumor removal from his skull, have cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars—a sum
surpassing what the potential settlement might yield. He now spends most days hooked up to an IV machine at his small apartment outside of Orlando, Fla.
David Selby II, an attorney who represents Dressel and other Roundup cancer plaintiffs, said he is working to get him a trial as soon as possible.
Dressel said he isn't looking to get hundreds of millions of dollars, but enough to stay alive.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Seen while driving through town… I’m normally against defacing public spaces, but they’re not wrong

Utility box with spray paint tagging “Trump is a pedo”

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yes…I see now how excess water consumption, energy, and introduction of destructive climate change contributors is worth this

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This has been my fear, and the markets desperate push to believe things are going to be normal again, strengthened my belief this ceasefire was “too easy”.

Either outcome is possible - but my money is on escalation. If that is right, then the Middle East and the world
economy have not yet seen the worst of this crisis.
Escalation is likely because both the US and Iran seem to feel that they can force the other side to crack first. US vice-
president JD Vance returned home from failed talks with the Iranians in Pakistan on April 12 in an upbeat mood - telling confidants that the US blockade would
probably force the Iranians to fold within a few days.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bold claim to say in future that the Fed is essentially obsolete, because of AI 🤨

"It's almost like Al is your monetary policy, and it's going to be more effective than anything the Fed or really any central bank around the world can do," said Hunstad, who took over the asset management division at Northern Trust, a 136-year-old financial services group based in Chicago, in 2025.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well done to Trump & Netanyahu 👏👏👏 Mission accomplished! 🫡

"The war changed the regime-and not in a good way," said Danny Citrinowicz, who formerly headed the Iran desk for Israeli military intelligence. "We created a reality that is worse than what Iranians were facing before the war."
Iran's hard-liners—anti-Western ideologues with no tolerance for domestic dissent-have always had a place in the country's overlapping and competing circles of power, their influence rising under the patronage of the elder Khamenei. But they now dominate Iran's political and military leadership, energized by a war that many of them believe presages the return of a Shiite Muslim messiah.

A congressional bill introduced in November called the Habib Circle "one of the regime's highest
informal security-intelligence networks, which has committed human rights violations and is involved in terrorist activities."
The new leadership has proved resilient and adaptable, emerging from the first five weeks of the war with its command and control intact. Their
hard-line approach is evident in their appointments. They include Iran's new national security chief, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a former Revolutionary Guard commander with a violent background.

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HeaSun Choung @4sight-nc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Skeptical that they will actually pursue the intended targets, but instead go after immigrants and lower income filers that made a mistake

Senate Democrats said Wednesday that they're introducing a bill that would give the
IRS $83 billion, mostly for enforcement. They are urging the IRS to prioritize audits of' high-income people and corporations.

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