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Currently: Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Payments Crisis of 2025 www.crisesnotes.com https://www.instagram.com/crisesnotes https://www.youtube.com/@crisesnotes President: @nathantankus.bsky.social
I have a bunch of writing to put out this month, but I thought it would be good to put out this transcript of an Odd Lots interview with former BLS Commissioner Bill Beach in light of the firing of his successor by Trump on Friday.
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Thanks to @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social for giving me permission to clean up a transcript they didn't have time to and thanks to my @crisesnotes.bsky.social intern Rabia Raziq for cleaning up the transcript.
04.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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As Republicans push a reconciliation bill that includes significant cuts to IRS funding don’t miss what’s already underway: DOGE has laid off staff, rushed tech upgrades, and is pursuing access to + control of sensitive taxpayer data. More from me + @iraregmi.bsky.social in @crisesnotes.bsky.social
02.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: Today @asteephen.bsky.social & @iraregmi.bsky.social provide a 2nd installment in their series on DOGE at the IRS. Today's piece is on the so-called "modernization" of the IRS's legacy IT systems & the manifold dangers posed
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I am very happy to say @asteephen.bsky.social is leading a series on the IRS for Notes on the Crises. Here is their first installment, with the next one on IRS's COBOL systems
12.06.2025 16:44 — 👍 119 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 3this is why @nathantankus.bsky.social and a lot of other people rightly freaked out about trump/doge plugging into the federal payments system.
it means they can just go in and change the numbers
Her physical proximity actually autodeleted my spam texts
18.06.2025 01:47 — 👍 51 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0When people on the left talk about "building power" they're often talking about knocking doors or attending steering committee meetings
When I think about "building power" I imagine people doing exactly what Nathan has been doing with Notes on the Crises
Many have done much less with much, more
Selfie with Nathan Tankus and Lina Khan
Four students around a conference table with Lina Khan on the other end. There is a bookshelf behind the students.
Was a real pleasure and honor to have @linamkhan.bsky.social by the @crisesnotes.bsky.social office today and getting some students a very privileged opportunity to talk to her in a small setting (in advance, by happenstance to a reading group about the 1970s precursor to index funds debates today)
17.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 328 🔁 17 💬 8 📌 3“In countries like Hungary and Rwanda, governments have turned tax authorities into instruments of repression—not by banning civil society outright, but by burying it in audits, compliance demands, and legal ambiguity. Bureaucratic coercion becomes a substitute for overt censorship.”
16.06.2025 01:01 — 👍 50 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0"This is why debates over tax policy are never just about money, and why more people should be paying attention. They are about visibility, legitimacy, and power—about who the government chooses to see, to trust, and ultimately, to protect or to punish."
16.06.2025 01:23 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If you're following the GOP tax bill disaster, my latest in @crisesnotes.bsky.social traces how this effort builds on a longstanding campaign to weaken the IRS and consolidate fiscal power in the hands of the wealthy. This is the first in a series on DOGE, taxes, and the future of public governance.
12.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 145 🔁 78 💬 1 📌 11"This is not about eliminating bureaucracy, fraud, waste, or abuse. It’s about repurposing it to serve a new model of power and breaking the chain of democratic accountability between Congress, the law, and the public."
Important, scary stuff.
DOGE is trying to capture and rewire the IRS into a vehicle for executive dominance, privatized tax enforcement, and algorithmic control over public infrastructure.
www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-s...
Summing up MAGA, DOGE, GOP, and Project 2025 in a single sentence.
“It’s about repurposing it to serve a new model of power and breaking the chain of democratic accountability between Congress, the law, and the public.”
This is not about eliminating bureaucracy, fraud, waste, or abuse.
It’s about repurposing it to serve a new model of power and breaking the chain of democratic accountability between Congress, the law, and the public.
www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-s... #DOGE #IRS
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market www.crisesnotes.com/the-one-big-...
13.06.2025 07:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Delighted to read @asteephen.bsky.social in @crisesnotes.bsky.social and unsurprisingly, completely in agreement. Read the whole thing!
12.06.2025 20:41 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"DOGE isn’t simply trying to dismantle the agency. It is trying to capture and rewire the IRS into a vehicle for executive dominance, privatized tax enforcement, and algorithmic control over public infrastructure."
A must-read from @asteephen.bsky.social
www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-s...
“This is not about eliminating bureaucracy, fraud, waste, or abuse. It’s about repurposing it to serve a new model of power and breaking the chain of democratic accountability between Congress, the law, and the public. “
www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-s...
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
www.crisesnotes.com/the-one-big-...
Very important read.
12.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0And folks, read why the Senate GOP’s actions are dangerous in the article below.
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Follow @asteephen.bsky.social who just wrote this fantastic article:
"We don’t need to defend what the IRS has been. We need to fight for what it could be: a mechanism of equity, not control by the elite. And accountability, not surveillance"
www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-s...
This is a solid article. The IRS is supremely important to good government.
12.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Excellent write up, again from Notes on the crises
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