Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law. Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
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They are coming for resisters. Only a matter of time.
jul 17, 2025, 10:22 am • 1 0 • view
📎 4/10/25 'It's criminal': IRS officials quit over sharing taxpayer info ...' Nina Olson, executive director of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, talks with Rachel Maddow about the illegality of sharing taxpayer data and why IRS officials had such a strong reaction... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cz...
jul 17, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 3 • view
2/11/25 #NinaOlson at a Ways and Means Hearing. 'on DOGE Access to Private Taxpayer Data' youtu.be/ADND7uq54yA?...
jul 17, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 1 • view
Gangbangers and crime lords are well known as responsible tax payers.
jul 17, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
Extraordinary courage is called for in these times to stop the march to fascism.
jul 19, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 4:54 am • 0 0 • view
So. Now they are going after taxpayers.
jul 17, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember if the IRS turned over Trump's tax returns, that he said we were going to get, and that the American people deserved to see, well that is an unforgivable crime. Using IRS records to populate your gulag though, that's just fine.
jul 17, 2025, 3:27 am • 4 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
So, ICE needs tax records in order to go after these "lazy" immigrants who "don't contribute"?
jul 17, 2025, 11:59 am • 1 0 • view
@citizensforethics.org
jul 17, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
But we don’t want it shared with ICE. Has it occurred to them that we pay their salaries.
jul 17, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
EVERYTHING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DOES IS UNLAWFUL.
jul 19, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely disgusting… I have never been so ashamed of my country.
jul 17, 2025, 3:22 am • 6 0 • view
fuck that
jul 17, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
Epstein will never die. Trump has resurrected Hitler. Which one will ultimately destroy MAGA?
jul 20, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck...we don't even READ the laws, now you expect us to COMPLY with them?!?!?!?
jul 17, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
Time to aggressively push against the platform.
jul 17, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
Shocking these fascists would do such a thing... #FuckICE Also, have y'all heard the many times with many people Trump has spoken about young teenage girls in a disturbing & sexual manner while he knows he's being recorded? Imagine him off camera/mic...Trump's on the list! #GoodTrouble Time!
jul 17, 2025, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
Are they going to make his replacement swear NOT to defend the constitution?
jul 17, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
It’s amazing to me, in story after story, how much security, privacy, and smart public services we have had. Until now. Now, the smarter it is, the more under assault it is. Government works when it is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. Billionaires aren’t of, by, or for us.
jul 17, 2025, 3:50 am • 2 2 • view
That's cool. I needed another reason to not leave a paper trail and now they've given it to me. Can't turn over records if the records don't exist in the first place, I reckon.
jul 17, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
7 million addresses! I wonder what their filter criteria was? Resident alien ✅ Non-resident alient ✅ Uses ITIN number ✅ Suspected of living in blue state ✅
jul 17, 2025, 3:30 am • 3 0 • view
🤬 how about race & religion 🤬
jul 17, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
IRS intentionally doesn’t have that information, likely for this reason. But the Trump admin and DOGE are working to change that in compiling a central data file for everyone living in America to use as a targeting tool.
jul 17, 2025, 3:42 am • 3 0 • view
I don’t think anyone voted for this
jul 17, 2025, 7:09 am • 2 0 • view
This is not normal. This is illegal and they've even said wanting data to go after people who may have donated to act blue etc. A not very funny joke by Mike Johnson.
jul 17, 2025, 3:25 am • 1 0 • view
Now that's a bad development.
jul 17, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
“In his email, De Mello said ICE’s request for millions of records did not meet those requirements, which include having a written assurance that each taxpayer whose address is being sought was under active criminal investigation.” ICE balks at this requirement “under active criminal investigation.”
jul 17, 2025, 3:31 am • 1 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Every ICE agent is on the Epstein list. #ProveMeWrong
jul 17, 2025, 8:05 am • 1 0 • view
The heart of the matter is DNS. This was created by Bush, 90 senate-perps, and 295 congress-perps. Some are around today, some are bluemaga= liberal heros. None are named Sanders.
jul 17, 2025, 3:54 am • 2 0 • view
I think we are all compromised. I tell everybody leave the US. It's 1939 Germany. There's no coming back from this.
jul 17, 2025, 3:24 am • 8 1 • view
People can’t afford to leave. So many are solidly stuck
jul 17, 2025, 4:10 am • 2 0 • view
People can’t afford to cross into the US but they do anyway. Desperate people find a way.
jul 17, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
This is such a betrayal of people doing honest work
jul 17, 2025, 3:22 am • 4 0 • view
Clear pattern. Tell these lawless Trump appointees they can't do something, and they just fire you.
jul 17, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
“Gestapo-State”! 🤬🖕🤯
jul 17, 2025, 3:31 am • 4 1 • view
This is patently illegal & unconstitutional If you want access to your own records, or if someone else requests them, there must be a signed & notarized authorization by the individual I didn’t authorize shit
jul 17, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 1 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
So many things, but I'll speak on the thing I understand best here - spreadsheets. This is a horrible idea if they really have it set up this way. Importing data without a custom identifier to associate it with, using names, pulling addresses that are least 3 months old by then? 🫣
jul 17, 2025, 7:07 am • 0 0 • view