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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
I was watching video footage from Germany in the 1940s. This freaky man who looked like a dork was standing in front of a crowd and he kept making the "You have my heart" greeting, over and over. Very strange.
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I was watching video footage from Germany in the 1940s. This freaky man who looked like a dork was standing in front of a crowd and he kept making the "You have my heart" greeting, over and over. Very strange.
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Important work by the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Without question,the heavy & heroic lifting has been done by locals in OK. But it matters to have the U.S. government affirm what really happened. In the coming years more people will understand why establishing the public record is so important.
“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Important work by the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Without question,the heavy & heroic lifting has been done by locals in OK. But it matters to have the U.S. government affirm what really happened. In the coming years more people will understand why establishing the public record is so important.
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Being a “conservative intellectual” must rule so much. There’s this giant mass of babies that are scared of cities, mad at cartoons, and intimidated by women, and your job is to convince them having those feelings makes them brave warriors for western civilization
January 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Being a “conservative intellectual” must rule so much. There’s this giant mass of babies that are scared of cities, mad at cartoons, and intimidated by women, and your job is to convince them having those feelings makes them brave warriors for western civilization
From 2017.
"The bill proposes eliminating—or at last dramatically modifying—the tax deduction for personal losses due to natural disasters, including fire."
fortune.com/2017/12/08/c...
"The bill proposes eliminating—or at last dramatically modifying—the tax deduction for personal losses due to natural disasters, including fire."
fortune.com/2017/12/08/c...
GOP Tax Plan Could Hit Wildfire Victims Especially Hard
Democratic lawmakers in California are blasting one aspect of the reform in particular.
fortune.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
From 2017.
"The bill proposes eliminating—or at last dramatically modifying—the tax deduction for personal losses due to natural disasters, including fire."
fortune.com/2017/12/08/c...
"The bill proposes eliminating—or at last dramatically modifying—the tax deduction for personal losses due to natural disasters, including fire."
fortune.com/2017/12/08/c...
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The goodness and decency of Jimmy Carter stands in such stark contrast to the rot and corruption that's coming to Washington in just 11 days. That makes today even sadder and more poignant.
January 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The goodness and decency of Jimmy Carter stands in such stark contrast to the rot and corruption that's coming to Washington in just 11 days. That makes today even sadder and more poignant.
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This is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Trump/Republicans tax law from 2017 significantly limited the ability to deduct the cost of fire losses to your property.
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Trump/Republicans tax law from 2017 significantly limited the ability to deduct the cost of fire losses to your property.