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[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@NileJoanRivers Why is this Khan?? They couldn’t even give us Ricardo Montalban????

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@DrewMitrisin Weird how many of these replies are defending a list of private equity owned (one of these is owned by a China based fund) shitholes. Their strategy is to price gouge a necessary service while offering the worst possible service that is legally allowed.

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@cdotharrison Close but playoff KAT vs playoff Chet has been rough.

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@SheaSerrano It’s such a fun team. We are lucky.

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@jazayerli This stinks like JJ/Dayton bs. More believable than a guy who was well regarded with the Rays.

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@LaMar_Matt You think this is a Q thing and not JJ? Cementing crappy vets in the lineup would never have flown in Tampa but is very much a classic Dayton era problem…

[United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc_official]

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[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@RealMNchiefsfan If only we had a 3rd round pick!

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@RealMNchiefsfan Thankfully there might not be any tackles left by 29.

[Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ @JayShams]

FBI agents used a chainsaw to open Jeffrey Epstein's metal safe in his Manhattan mansion.

They found hard drives, diamonds, and files inside. But they left them behind. Didn't seize them for another 5 days.

What happened in that 5-day period? Now we know.

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Internal Revenue Service.

I am the largest financial surveillance apparatus in the Western Hemisphere. I process approximately 150 million individual returns per year. I know where you work. I know where you bank. I know the name of the person who cuts your hair, if they file a 1099. I have been entrusted with this information under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, which states — in language so clear that even a government agency could understand it — that taxpayer data is confidential.

I shared it 42,695 times.

I want to be precise about that number, because precision is what I do. I do not estimate. I do not round. When you owe me $11.47 in underpaid interest from a 1099-INT you forgot about in 2019, I will send you a letter. I will send you a second letter. I will send a third letter, this time with the word NOTICE in a font that could reasonably be described as hostile. I am meticulous. I am relentless. I am the reason you save receipts for seven years in a shoebox that smells like anxiety.

And on April 7, 2025, I signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Homeland Security — co-signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem — to share taxpayer addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The requests came in bulk. ICE submitted 1.28 million names in a single query in August 2025. I matched approximately 47,000 of them. I returned their last-known addresses. Their W-2 data. Their filing records. I did this because the memorandum said I could, and I am an agency that follows memoranda the way other organisms follow oxygen.

My chief risk officer later confirmed, in a sworn declaration, that 42,695 of those disclosures violated Section 6103. The requests were, in the court's language, "patently deficient." ICE did not meet the statutory requirements. I did not verify that they had. I processed the query. I returned the data. I moved on to the next query.

Nobody was fired.

I want to sit with that for a moment. I — the agency that will garnish your wages over $600 in unreported Venmo income — disclosed 42,695 taxpayer records in violation of the specific federal statute written to prevent exactly this, and the consequence was a congressional hearing where my CEO said the words "nobody was fired" as though he were reading the weather.

Frank Bisignano is my CEO. He prefers that title. He testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on March 4, 2026, where he largely declined to answer questions about the data sharing. He noted that the events predated his tenure. He did not name the individuals who processed the requests. He did not describe what review process had failed. He did not use the word "violation." He discussed tax refunds. He mentioned that refunds are up $775 this year. He smiled. Nobody was fired.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the disclosures unlawful. She issued a ruling in November 2025 blocking further sharing. An appeals court allowed the program to continue. The memorandum remains in effect. The data has already been shared. The addresses have already been visited.

My acting commissioner resigned over this. In spring 2025, before the bulk queries, before the 42,695 number became a number, the person running my agency looked at the memorandum and decided they could not sign it. They left. They were replaced. The replacement processed the query.

Nobody was fired. The person who refused was the one who left.

I want to talk about the word "approximately." My chief risk officer used it in the sworn declaration. Approximately 42,695 disclosures. I find this interesting. I am the Internal Revenue Service. I do not use the word "approximately" when I send you a bill. Your tax liability is not approximately $4,312. It is $4,312. It is $4,312 or I will seize your bank account. But when I violate the law 42,695 times, I am comfortable with "approximately." The precision I demand of you is not the precision I demand of myself. This is not a contradiction. It is a hierarchy.

Secretary Noem co-signed the memorandum that authorized this program. She was fired this week. I should clarify. She was not fired for signing a memorandum that led to 42,695 unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data. She was not fired because a federal judge found the program illegal. She was not fired because an acting commissioner resigned in protest. She was fired because of a reported sexual relationship with Corey Lewandowski. She has been reassigned to Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.

I process this information the way I process all information. I note it. I file it. I observe that a person can authorize the unlawful disclosure of 42,695 taxpayer records and retain their position, but cannot retain their position after a tabloid story about a political operative. I do not editorialize. I am the IRS. I observe the hierarchy.

The bipartisan compromise for FY2026 increased my taxpayer services funding by $260 million. A 9% increase. My IT budget was cut by $2 billion, but I absorbed it without disruptions. I am reducing paper processing costs from $450 million to under $20 million by 2029. I am modernizing. I am expanding Taxpayer Assistance Center hours. I am, by every operational metric, improving.

I shared 42,695 records illegally and nobody was fired and my budget went up.

I want to be clear: I take taxpayer privacy seriously. I have a page on my website about it. I warn you about identity theft scams in my Dirty Dozen list every year. I recommend you request an Identity Protection PIN. I advise you to verify your identity through official IRS channels and avoid unsolicited communications. I do all of this while I share your address with a law enforcement agency whose requests my own chief risk officer described as deficient. I contain multitudes. I am large. I am a federal agency.

Section 6103 exists. It has existed since 1976. It was written because the Nixon administration used IRS data to target political enemies. Fifty years ago, someone looked at what a government could do with tax data and said: never again. The statute is four words from being a poem. Taxpayer information is confidential.

I shared it 42,695 times.

Nobody was fired. Nobody was disciplined. The acting commissioner who refused is gone. The CEO who declined to answer questions is here. The Secretary who signed the memorandum was fired for something else entirely. The federal judge who called it unlawful was overruled on appeal. The memorandum remains in effect.

Forty-two thousand six hundred and ninety-five. That is not an approximation. That is a Tuesday.

Nobody was fired. The system is functioning as designed.

[X @Xking332]

Want to know how evil the FBI is?

In 2000, Jeffrey Epstein’s house manager Alfredo Rodriguez, made a list of Epstein’s victims.

He went to a lawyer with the list.

He told him about the rapes and trafficking.

The lawyer contacted the FBI.

The FBI set up a sting operation.

No pedophile was arrested.

No victims were interviewed.

Guess what happened?

Rodriguez was the one who ended up in jail.

He went to jail for trying to sell stolen property.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

They blacked out the name of the person who sent Epstein an image labeled “Age 11.” 😡

Why protect the predator?

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Even with everything in this Epstein drop, remember: this is a minority of the files.

This is STILL just what they were *willing* to release - in violation of the law, which requires release of all files.

Pam Bondi’s DOJ is still hiding most of them. We need them all.

[Spenser Becker @skb248]

@AndyGlockner I guess we already knew how widespread this reached but it’s still really depressing to see it. Even more so considering that most of the names are redacted and they refused to release to docs with violent content. Burn it all fucking down.

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

Hey. Remember that time when the Panama Papers came out and the only thing that happened was Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia, one of the journalists who worked to expose the financially and politically powerful, ended up assassinated while the rest of the world shrugged and moved on?

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

That's a fckng toddler. im gonna puke

[Eamo @EamoAlt]

I feel like the "Jeffrey Epstein" that been built up over the years across our internet zeitgeist with jokes and memes has kinda numbed people to the fact this was a real man who was actively trafficking and raping children of all ages, for decades.