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Jesse Drucker
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Reporter for @nytimes. jesse(dot)drucker(at)nytimes(dot)com. DM for Signal or Whatsapp. Writing a book on the US tax system. https://www.nytimes.com/by/jesse-drucker
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Feb 8
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Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.
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Katrin Bennhold @kbennhold.bsky.social · 16h
In tomorrow's World I’ll be writing about slop. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one! But soon everyone will know. Here's my convo with @kevinroose.com, tech columnist, podcast co-host and...robot lover: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
A.I. Slop Is Here
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · 20d
IRS official Holly Paz was in charge of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters. Here's what happened next: nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
I.R.S. Official Sues the Agency, Saying It Leaked Private Data to News Sites
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Matt Pierson @matthewcpierson.bsky.social · Sep 9
Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Sep 9
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Sep 9
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Jul 14
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
He Helped Big Companies Dodge Taxes. Now He’s Writing the Rules.
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · Jul 12
New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · Mar 14
🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨

We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September

The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate

More info below 👇

www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral fellow (Illicit Financial Flows) - Eutax
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 29
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 30
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · Mar 29
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials
Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Mar 28
👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it
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"Our firm has a longstanding tradition of representing a wide range of clients, including in matters against administrations of both parties," the spokesperson said in a statement. "The Executive Order references Robert Mueller, who retired from our firm in 2021, and had a long, distinguished career in public service, from his time as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam to his leadership of the FBI in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. "We remain committed to providing the expert representation that our clients are entitled to and rely upon," the spokesperson added. "We look forward to pursuing all appropriate remedies to this unlawful order.'
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Mar 26
Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social · Mar 26
Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line (Gift Article)
Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Mar 11
Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · Mar 11
MURDER THE TRUTH is finally out in the world!

The book reveals how a group of conservative lawyers, activists, judges and politicians have waged a years-long and increasingly successful campaign against press freedoms and the First Amendment.

A brief thread. www.harpercollins.com/products/mur...
Murder the Truth
"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and viole...
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · Mar 10
In which Sarah Palin goes hunting for a defamation case that she can use to shoehorn herself back into the national conversation. MURDER THE TRUTH excerpt in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
Sarah Palin Is Eyeing More Than Just Money in Her ‘New York Times’ Defamation Suit
In his new book, ‘Murder the Truth,’ David Enrich chronicles how the former Alaska governor ensnared the paper in a long and winding legal battle that could overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent...
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · Feb 21
My oped today. Trump's tariffs are about wrapping a harmful fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism. Don't fall for it.

What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Tariff War Is Being Fought to Lower Taxes for the Wealthy
President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more, and cloaking these changes in a veneer of nationalism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · Feb 20
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social · Feb 15
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
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Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry (Gift Article)
The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Feb 14
‘Surrounded by his students as he sat at the piano, Messiaen would speak as much about “the dances of planets and atoms”, and the poetry of Breton and Éluard, as he did about music.’

Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
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Adam Shatz · Wash out your ears: Messiaen’s Ecstasies
While few would question Messiaen’s importance in 20th-century music, his religious modernism has always been met with...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 14
Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments
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David S. Mitchell @dsmitch28.bsky.social · Feb 12
New report from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social today on tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships! equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... (as featured in @politico.com's Morning Tax!)

While not the biggest (or most troubling) news of the day, I say this deserves a thread!
Tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships in the United States
The rise of large, complex partnerships in the real estate and finance industries has meant an explosion in tax avoidance strategies.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jan 31
They've taken down CDC HIV Awareness Day pages, the HIV Testing page. It appears they've taken down all the HIV pages except for this About HIV page. www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/in...
About HIV
General overview of HIV, including transmission, prevention, and testing.
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MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 8
60 years ago today, John Coltrane released “A Love Supreme” (Impulse!). Spiritualized. Read the Feelies and John Davis (Superdrag, Lees Of Memory) in MAGNET on one of the greatest albums ever made:

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · Feb 6
The tech bros want us to think they are all powerful. But cozying up to Trump reveals their weakness.

They are facing massive regulatory fines across the globe and the astronomical costs of the race for AI dominance. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
Opinion | The Reason Big Tech Is Cozying Up to Trump (Gift Article)
Big Tech is looking to President Trump for a bailout.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Feb 8
If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more.
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance
Today, we’re announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it.  PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...
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