In what must be understood as a tightening of the digital panopticon the fascist Trump regime is deploying to target migrants, the administration has negotiated an agreement between ICE and the IRS to share tax data with the American Gestapo for the purpose of facilitating mass deportations, without the consent of the IRS's acting commissioner - who has since resigned in protest:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data
IRS agrees to share tax information of undocumented immigrants with Ice
"A memorandum of understanding between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the IRS was filed late on Monday in a case brought by immigrants’ rights groups Centro de Trabajadores Unidos and Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, represented by Public Citizen and other lawyers. The memo says Ice can request information from the IRS for its investigations into undocumented immigrants who have not left the country after receiving a final order of removal from a judge. It is signed by the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday evening that the acting IRS commissioner, Melanie Krause, is planning to resign, in part over being bypassed in the decision.
The lawsuit over the plans to share IRS information, filed in March, says Internal Revenue Code makes clear that tax records for all taxpayers must be confidential, disclosed only in ways authorized by statute.
“Taxpayer privacy is a cornerstone of the US tax system,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen. “This movement by the IRS is an unprecedented breach of taxpayer privacy laws – confidentiality which has been respected by both political parties for decades.”
Although every expansion of the regime's ability to hunt down and target migrants is an important stepping stone to a white nationalist dictatorship, this policy is particularly cruel and nonsensical. For starters, it deprives the US government of tax revenue because an overwhelming number of undocumented people do in fact pay their taxes. More importantly however, the US government and the IRS have been encouraging migrants to do so for decades, under the promise that this information won't be used to target and deport them. In one single agreement signed by two members of the Trumpenreich, the US government has simultaneously harmed the American people, and forced more migrants further underground, to break our collective promise to folks who otherwise would have stayed below the radar:
"The Trump administration has been working to get the IRS and Ice to agree on some information sharing for weeks, a way to use tax filings to aid in his mass deportations. The Washington Post reported on a draft of the agreement in March, citing current and former IRS workers who said the move would be an unprecedented change in access to tax records and upend immigrants’ willingness to file taxes.
“It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one former IRS official told the Washington Post."
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The nickname "Baghdad Bob" was bestowed upon al-Sahhaf as early as April 2003, after foreign news media stationed in Iraq began watching his exaggerated but enthusiastic news briefs.[19] The nickname was a nod to two others given to similar propagandists in other wars: Hanoi Hannah[20], given to radio personality Trịnh Thị Ngọ during the Vietnam War, and Seoul City Sue[21], given to Methodist missional Anna Wallis Suh during the Korean War. While "Baghdad Bob" was used mostly by American news media, al-Sahhaf was given the nickname "Comical Ali" in the UK as a play on the nickname of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraq's Interior Minister during the Persian Gulf War, "Chemical Ali."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/315/156/322/420/974/original/5828771188276ee5.jpg "\"LET TEHRE BE NO CONFUSION
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Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali are two nicknames that were given to former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf[4] due to his colorful manner of speech and demeanor in his daily briefings during the Second Gulf War. The briefings were marked with propaganda or misinformation in order to boost the morale of Iraqi troops, which drew the attention of international media.
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The nickname \"Baghdad Bob\" was bestowed upon al-Sahhaf as early as April 2003, after foreign news media stationed in Iraq began watching his exaggerated but enthusiastic news briefs.[19] The nickname was a nod to two others given to similar propagandists in other wars: Hanoi Hannah[20], given to radio personality Trịnh Thị Ngọ during the Vietnam War, and Seoul City Sue[21], given to Methodist missional Anna Wallis Suh during the Korean War. While \"Baghdad Bob\" was used mostly by American news media, al-Sahhaf was given the nickname \"Comical Ali\" in the UK as a play on the nickname of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraq's Interior Minister during the Persian Gulf War, \"Chemical Ali.\"")
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Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali are two nicknames that were given to former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf[4] due to his colorful manner of speech and demeanor in his daily briefings during the Second Gulf War. The briefings were marked with propaganda or misinformation in order to boost the morale of Iraqi troops, which drew the attention of international media.")
and freaking everyone on fintwit the fuck out (interest rates, which go up in response to selling pressure, don't usually move this fast, especially at this time of day).
