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The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
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Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

You'd think it would be easy to Not Do A Fascism, but state Dems keep falling over themselves to help Project 2025 along.
The latest example is from MA: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/202

Massachusetts House advances unconstitutional social media ban bill that will harm LGBTQ youth and human rights
The Massachusetts House has advanced H. 5349, a draconian and laughably unconstitutional bill that would ban minors from social media, force social media platforms to enable parental surveillance of teenagers’ online activity, and subject everyone to privacy-invading online ID checks in order to access information or speak out online. Dozens of civil liberties, racial justice, […]

Free-agent QB Russell Wilson weighing contract offer from Jets, opportunity as TV analyst https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-qb-russell-wilson-weighing-contract-offer-from-jets-opportunity-as-tv-analyst

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/patlytics-raises-40-millio…

A startup building the Harvey for patent law has raised $40 million
Patlytics raised the new funding after securing more than 40% of the AmLaw 100 firms and growing revenue about 10x in a single year.

Orange cat vs stink bug

A federal judge has DENIED Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s motion for a new trial or an acquittal
following her conviction late last year for obstructing an ICE arrest in her courthouse
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-hannah-dugan-verdict

Judge Dugan convicted of felony, cleared on misdemeanor
The jury deliberated for roughly six hours before reaching their verdict.

#Seattle folks, I'm trying to convince a comrade to work on a project. Would you be interested in a podcast that does deep dives on the shady side of the Seattle Police Department?
This could be things like deep investigations into closed OPA cases (especially officer involved shootings), the consent decree, lawsuits against the department, the history of the Seattle CHOP and infiltration, reports of harassment of activists, etc, all following roughly the "True Crime" formula and using public records as the source material.
Edit: please boost to improve the sample size.
#CopWatch #SPD #ACAB
Yes
No

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/p…

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine
unless European countries joined a U.S. military effor to open the Strait of Hormuz,
the Financial Times (FT) reported on April 1,
citing people familiar with the discussions.
The report comes a month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran,
which has escalated across the Middle East.
Following the attacks, Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which roughly one-fifth o…

Trump threatened Europe over Strait of Hormuz, with weapons for Ukraine as bargaining chip, FT reports
Outraged at European countries' refusal to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump threatened to halt the PURL program selling U.S. weapons to NATO for use in Ukraine, officials told the Financial Times.

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/accenture-roll-out-…