politics Trump hires new lawyer who says not to hand over tax returns as Democrats demand Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
shutdown From the empty, shutdown IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them Cory Doctorow
politics The Tea Party's baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through "charities" Cory Doctorow
security IRS to America: you were probably already doxed before the Equifaxpocalype, so don't worry about it Cory Doctorow
Business After massive breach Equifax gets $7.25m no-bid IRS contract to "prevent fraud" Cory Doctorow
corruption The IRS deliberately targeted innocents for civil forfeiture program that stole millions from Americans Cory Doctorow
usausausa IRS responds to records request with encrypted CD full of blacked-out documents Cory Doctorow
Happy Mutants IRS finally agrees to do something about its $1.5 trillion nonprofit database Cory Doctorow
youtube Tell the IRS that mountains of DVDs are a stupid way to distribute public records Cory Doctorow
law Public Resource wants to liberate tax records for US nonprofits – converting 100lbs of scanned bitmaps on DVDs into searchable data on $1.5T worth of activity Cory Doctorow
