Francine Lipman
@narfnampil.bsky.social
Tax law prof working at the intersection of tax, poverty, immigration & other human rights issues. Chair of Editorial Board for the Human Rights magazine of the Civil Rights & Social Justice Section of the American Bar Association. All views are my own.
Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Proud that Elias Law Group is helping the Democratic Party fight for voting rights and free and fair elections. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Marc Elias Firm Rebounds as Key DNC Litigator for Midterms
Marc Elias and his firm have reemerged as a top legal adviser for the Democratic National Committee after the party organization cut back work with the prominent elections attorney during the 2024 cam...
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Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
While centrists continue to think Dems need to moderate on abortion, Kansas overwhelmingly rejected a collateral attack on the right to choose via an amendment (which would have switched to elected justices) after overwhelmingly rejecting an amendment to directly ban the right to choose in 2022.
TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · yesterdayIt's official. Kansas Republicans have lost their State Supreme Court referendum attempt, and it won't even be close. Fantastic news.
So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
Thank goodness we have the White House fraud taskforce to ignore stuff like this
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterdayExclusive: A Post investigation found that for-profit trade schools defrauded the U.S. government of over $300 million through the GI Bill, exploiting veterans with overpriced, short courses due to lax oversight and loopholes.
On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
Rachel is spending a good amount of time with Talarico. I'm glad we're getting to hear so much from him. #maddow
Homer Simpson: I'm Listening
ALT: Homer Simpson: I'm Listening
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Ahhhh.... a great episode of #Maddow, with a tasty little dessert! More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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When I see men of quality like James Talarico, I can't believe someone would choose Ken Paxton over him. #maddow
Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
As a former middle school teacher/librarian, I can say Talarico is equipped to handle Congress. #maddow
I hope your day starts this serenely: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
Some members of the military wear hijabs. Some wear dastars. Some wear kippahs. All are within regulation. As long as they’re meeting the standard of excellence and not being a shitbag letting down their battle buddies, I don’t care what they wear on their head. Nor should you.
This is absolutely insane disinformation. It could not be more inaccurate. And yet, it also reflects the wider disinformation about this initiative. Let's walk through it: First, an ID isn't involved at any part of the process of buying groceries at these stores. At all.
Did Todd Blanche pull the wool over the eyes of Tillis and Cornyn? Or did they put on a dog and pony show of acting like they were fighting for some “concessions”?
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d agoIs Todd Blanche’s nomination back on track after he allegedly “rescinded” the $1.8 billion slush fund & limited the tax immunity provision in the “settlement agreement” in Trump’s collusion w/the IRS & Treasury Dept.? There's no enforceability to what Blanche has done: youtu.be/Em09xu3UGxQ?...
Try to provide financial ease and hope to people, and THIS happens! ;)
Mrs. Beaverhausen@ghostmom.bsky.social · 2d ago
Today we filed a brief on behalf of the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Leader Schumer, and Leader Jeffries in the Supreme Court. We are supporting the stay entered by the lower court against Trump's second anti-voting Executive Order. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
Capital One disclosed in a court filing that it shut down hundreds of Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns. President Trump has maintained that his businesses were "debanked" for political reasons, and the Trump Organization sued Capital One last year. https://cnn.it/4xiOF0T
This is a great set of proposals for congressional reform: wethedoers.org/how-to-fix-c...
How to Fix Congress
In our last post, we described the two primary drivers of Congressional dysfunction: over-centralization of decision-making, and lack of capacity. Party leaders have monopolized the procedural tools ...
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Todd Blanche’s nomination to formally lead the Department of Justice appears to be back on track after two Republican holdouts signed off on a deal giving President Donald Trump and his family immunity from Internal Revenue Service audits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP senators sign off on corrupt immunity deal from IRS audits for Trump and sons
Todd Blanche appears to be on track to lead the DOJ after Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) agreed to the plan.
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How to run a country into the ground.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
This may be the single most corrupt action in the history of the United States and should result in immediate impeachment. It’s potentially worth billions in stolen taxes and fraudulent deductions if he or his family structured their returns expecting this tax pardon. He made $2b on crypto in 2025.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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