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Dennis Donovan

(30,945 posts) Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:11 PM Mar 22

Josh Marshall: The IRS EO will be weaponized. [View all]

David Kaye
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the EO's language should frighten not only every american but every member of congress, every judge. opening the door to mass repression.

‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

March 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM

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Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
17m
2/ Taken together it's intended to create big data sets about targeted citizens for various kinds of harassment, intimidation, prosecutorial abuse etc. Very standard big brother stuff. Much of it is against current law. But more generally, when you pay taxes you give the govt info for ...

‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
17m
3/ for the specific purpose of collecting taxes, not to use for other reasons. This isn't some vague concept. It's the law. Similarly, when you indirectly give medical information, it's for the purposes of either anonymized public health data or for reimbursement through Medicare/Medicaid, etc.

‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
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4/ The point is the information is provided for specific lawful reasons and "silo'd" inside the government precisely because it's provided only for that reason. The aim of this new EO is to create thick packets of data on targeted individuals, for a different kind of federal govt that aims ....

‪Josh Marshall‬
‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
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5/ to punish or go to war with people who don't do as the incumbent president says or refuse to support the president. It goes back to the foundations of the civil compact itself. We choose elected officials to serve the public and do so impartially. The Trump model is you get executive ...

Josh Marshall
‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
6/ power and use it to go to war with the people who don't support you.
March 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM

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Josh Marshall: The IRS EO will be weaponized. [View all] Dennis Donovan Mar 22 OP

Trump is saying this about waste, fraud, and abuse: Safe as Milk Mar 22 #1

All the warnings from all the astute political analysts, bloggers, pundits, and content experts are needed... hlthe2b Mar 22 #2

Agreed and well said, especially about the need for what we can and should be doing. There is a c-rational Mar 22 #8

Agreed. We need all the expert analysis we can get, and we need to share it. yellow dahlia Mar 23 #9

"Unstoppable" Kid Berwyn Mar 22 #3

Maybe the could disclose the Malignant Mango's tax returns not a texan Mar 22 #4

Of all the blatantly illegal EOs issued since he got to play king again, this might just be the worst. It needs to be Karasu Mar 22 #5

And yet Trump won't let us see HIS tax returns. SunSeeker Mar 22 #6

I thought I saw the EO referred to the states turning over UI records to the federal government Wiz Imp Mar 22 #7

Thanks for sharing. Josh Marshall has been so valuable, of late. yellow dahlia Mar 23 #10