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Trump spent almost an entire year of Yosemite National Park budget to party at the Super Bowl. Our tax dollars.

Just had lunch with a friend, who was reading this when I arrived and highly recommends:

The Republican House has already reduced staffing at Social Security to a 50 year low, now co-Presidents Musk and Trump want to cut customer service in half. I ran the agency so count on this truth — these cuts will inflict a lot of pain on seniors and people with disabilities.

A federal judge has granted expedited discovery in a case alleging privacy violations related to DOGE access to Labor Department records. Discovery includes interrogatories concerning the chain of command and sworn testimony of a DOGE staffer: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Probationary employees across NOAA and the National Weather Service are being terminated today, including those in mission-essential roles. My own wife is among them, essential to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's 24/7 critical mission of seismic monitoring and tsunami prediction to protect the

Going into the severe weather and hurricane season, this cannot be good. The Commerce Department has laid off hundreds of NOAA employees, many with specialized skills who work at one of the world's top climate science and weather forecasting agencies. Why it matters: The

TaxProf Blog: NY Times Op-Ed By 7 IRS Commissioners: Firing 6,700 IRS Workers In The Middle Of Tax Season Is A Huge Mistake taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…

Nonprofits/tax exempt orgs scholar Ellen Aprill expertly applies the relevant law and assesses current threats to TE orgs. TaxProf Blog: Aprill: Revoking Tax-Exemption For Pursuit Of DEI taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services, by @donmoyn open.substack.com/pub/donmoyniha…

The GOP plan to cut the EITC via administrative burdens open.substack.com/pub/donmoyniha…

The GOP says it protects Medicaid, but cuts enrollment by creating excessive enrollment burdens for ELIGIBLE persons to show “work.” Read this NYT piece Medicaid cuts , by @donmoyn open.substack.com/pub/donmoyniha…

Election Law expert Rick Hasen: My Statement: Thoughts on the Despicable Assassination (and Attempted Assassination) of Minnesota Legislators, the Rise in Political Violence in the United States, and the Threats to Free and Fair Elections electionlawblog.org/?p=150386

TaxProf Blog: Guttentag: The New Law And Inequality Scholarship taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…

Good illustration of how much the Texas grid has changed in just 6 years. yellow = solar; purple = batteries; dark green = wind; blue = gas; brown = coal; light green = nuke via Grid Status

1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph E. Stiglitz that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.

The thermostatic backlash to the ICE rampages has already begun.

Congrats to Tax Profs Tom Brennan and Bridget Crawford on their election to the American College of Tax Counsel! TaxProf Blog: Tom Brennan (Harvard) & Bridget Crawford (Pace) Elected Fellows Of American College of Tax Counsel taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…

Many millions of low income households with children will lose health insurance through a combination of federal legislation—OBBBA—federal budget maneuvers, and executive branch regulatory overreach, as discussed in this post: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

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