Massive IRS data dump will cause ICE to swoop on wrong addresses: insiders

Excerpt: Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump’s election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former Justice Department lawyers and reviewed by Reuters. …

“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?” …

“Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Me again: Keep an eye and ear out for this guy Harrison Fields. Seems like a real go-getter, who’s going to go far in the New America.

Opposing genocide is now antisemitism, at least at Columbia — the Fox News of higher education.

Excerpt: “Without federal funding, many local public radio and television stations will be forced to shut down. Parents will have fewer high quality learning resources available for their children,” CPB CEO Patricia Harrison said. “Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives.

Me again: Well, that’s the point, ain’t it? Almost as much as health care and voting rights, knowledge and education are things the Republicans don’t want people to have.

Excerpt: An asylum seeker from Guatemala, Lopez lived with his uncle for the past year in Spokane. He learned English while attending Ferris and working part time at a local restaurant.

Me again: Oh, thank god this violent thug has been dragged away.

The kidnappers still took the man, black-holed him and there’s no knowing where he’s headed next — realistically, there’s no stopping the secret police in action. But some good guys stood up, hollered, did what they could, and that matters.

The headline seems to be soft-pedaling the facts from the article.

Excerpt: In 2021, the Biden administration awarded Kerr County $10.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue a warning system.

At an April 2022 meeting, one citizen called the White House a “criminal treasonous communist government,” urging the county to reject the money altogether. Others echoed that sentiment, saying they didn’t want the federal government’s help.

“We don’t want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” a resident said. “We’d like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.

Excerpt: The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.

I’m more and more convinced that Trump & the Republicans want riots in the street.

Excerpt: “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” [Attorney General Pam] Bondi wrote. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”…

A federal grand jury on Jan. 11, 2023, returned an indictment against Moore, his Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah Inc., others associated with the clinic and a neighbor of Moore’s. The indictment alleged more than $28,000 of government-provided COVID-19 vaccine doses were destroyed.

They were also accused of providing fraudulently completed vaccination record cards for over 1,900 doses of the vaccine in exchange for either a cash or a donation to a specified charitable organization.

The government also alleged some children were given saline shots, at their parents’ request, so the minors believed they were getting the vaccine.