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Jesse Drucker

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Reporter for @nytimes. jesse(dot)drucker(at)nytimes(dot)com. DM for Signal or Whatsapp. Writing a book on the US tax system. www.nytimes.com/by/jesse-drucker

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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Jimmy Cliff, RIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...
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Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session
YouTube video by Perry Henzell
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 19/11/2025
Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long project. www.occrp.org/en/news/amne...
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Amnesty Report Details Abuse Behind Saudi Arabia’s Metro Project
Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long...
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Peter S. Goodman @petersgoodman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Join me next Wednesday 11/19 when I speak at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It won the Baifang Schell Book Prize from the Asia Society and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize. Ticket info: www.eventbrite.com/e/moca-talks...
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Katrin Bennhold @kbennhold.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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...
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A.I. Slop Is Here
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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I.R.S. Official Sues the Agency, Saying It Leaked Private Data to News Sites
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Matt Pierson @matthewcpierson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
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Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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He Helped Big Companies Dodge Taxes. Now He’s Writing the Rules.
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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...
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UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨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...
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Postdoctoral fellow (Illicit Financial Flows) - Eutax
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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.”
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2025
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
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials
Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it thehill.com/homenews/adm...
"Our firm has a longstanding tradition of representing a wide range of clients, including in matters against administrations of both parties," the spokesperson said in a statement. "The Executive Order references Robert Mueller, who retired from our firm in 2021, and had a long, distinguished career in public service, from his time as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam to his leadership of the FBI in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
"We remain committed to providing the expert representation that our clients are entitled to and rely upon," the spokesperson added. "We look forward to pursuing all appropriate remedies to this unlawful order.'
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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. 😳
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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
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At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line (Gift Article)
Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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...
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Sarah Palin Is Eyeing More Than Just Money in Her ‘New York Times’ Defamation Suit
In his new book, ‘Murder the Truth,’ David Enrich chronicles how the former Alaska governor ensnared the paper in a long and winding legal battle that could overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent...
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Opinion | Trump’s Tariff War Is Being Fought to Lower Taxes for the Wealthy
President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more, and cloaking these changes in a veneer of nationalism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
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%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...
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Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry (Gift Article)
The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/02/2025
‘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...
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Adam Shatz · Wash out your ears: Messiaen’s Ecstasies
While few would question Messiaen’s importance in 20th-century music, his religious modernism has always been met with...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments
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David S. Mitchell @dsmitch28.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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!
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Tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships in the United States
The rise of large, complex partnerships in the real estate and finance industries has meant an explosion in tax avoidance strategies.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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About HIV
General overview of HIV, including transmission, prevention, and testing.
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MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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...
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 06/02/2025
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...
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Opinion | The Reason Big Tech Is Cozying Up to Trump (Gift Article)
Big Tech is looking to President Trump for a bailout.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/02/2025
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-...
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance
Today, we’re announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it.  PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...
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David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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.
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Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
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Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy
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KarenB4Good @karenb4good.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Remembering Ernie Drucker
This week on Century of Lies: Remembering Ernie Drucker.
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Rose F. Kennedy Center @ Montefiore Einstein @rfkcenter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
On this edition of Century: Remembering Ernie Drucker kboo.fm/media/125338... #DrugSky #HarmReduction #CommunityRadio #KBOO
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Remembering Ernie Drucker
This week on Century of Lies: Remembering Ernie Drucker.
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The legendary Bobby Bradford has lost house, horns & everything else. Help him get back on his feet here::
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Donate to Help Bobby Bradford Rebuild After Wildfire, organized by Karl Evangelista
Bobby Bradford is one of the most vital and iconic voices in creative musi… Karl Evangelista needs your support for Help Bobby Bradford Rebuild After Wildfire
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Very sad to hear that Steve Lehman, Bobby Bradford, William Roper, Bennie Maupin, & John Clayton have all lost their homes from the wildfires
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@WestSideOFJazz @westsideofthings.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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
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Balladina
YouTube video by Mal Waldron - Topic
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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.
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
William Parker was born in the Bronx on this day in 1952. He turns 73 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 6.12.21
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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.
A bar chart showing funding and funding rescissions for the IRS from the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Lauren Loricchio @laurenloricchio.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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
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Monetization of Tax Data Sparks Concerns About Security | Tax Notes
Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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...
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5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
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Bloomberg Tax @bloombergtax.com · 02/01/2025
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.
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Shifting Tax Law, IRS Priorities Bode Chaos Heading Into 2025
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 t...
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Zach C. Cohen @zachccohen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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.
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Trump Picks Ken Kies For Key Tax Policy Job at Treasury Ahead of Cuts Push
President-elect Donald J. Trump in a Truth Social post announced members of his senior leadership team at the Treasury, who’ll work alongside Scott Bessent, his pick for secretary.
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