Tracey Roberts @taxonomer.bluesky.social
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Tax, Terra, and Taxonomies - Seeing the Forests and the Trees
Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts (Gift Article)
Steven Rattner recaps the year of Trump in charts.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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“The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday.”
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US to Begin Garnishing Wages for Student Debt Collection in 2026
The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday.”
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The Big Grift.
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Trump Is Rerouting Trillions in Capital During His Second Term
In the first year of his second administration, Donald Trump and his advisers have moved with uncommon speed to alter the flow of money in the US.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Big Grift.
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Uber received reports of sexual assault almost every eight minutes between 2017 and 2022…
Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
Video: Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive
Our reporter, Emily Steel, found that in many states, Uber’s guidelines allow people with serious criminal convictions to drive, as long as those convictions are more than seven years old. Some of tho...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Uber received reports of sexual assault almost every eight minutes between 2017 and 2022…
Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
So grateful to David Elkins for reviewing my latest law review article on the use of regulatory taxation in the wake of recent US Supreme Court cases curbing the administrative state.
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SSRN Review & Roundup: Elkins Reviews Roberts’s W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System • TaxProf Blog
This week, David Elkins (Netanya) reviews a new work by Tracey M. Roberts (Samford), W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System, 43 Pace Env’r L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025) Administrative law has ...
taxprofblog.aals.org
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So grateful to David Elkins for reviewing my latest law review article on the use of regulatory taxation in the wake of recent US Supreme Court cases curbing the administrative state.
taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/19/s...
taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/19/s...
Many thanks to David Elkins for his review of my most recent article, W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System!
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taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/19/s...
SSRN Review & Roundup: Elkins Reviews Roberts’s W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System • TaxProf Blog
This week, David Elkins (Netanya) reviews a new work by Tracey M. Roberts (Samford), W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System, 43 Pace Env’r L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025) Administrative law has ...
taxprofblog.aals.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Many thanks to David Elkins for his review of my most recent article, W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System!
taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/19/s...
taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/19/s...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
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December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
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December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Live Updates: U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises, a Warning Sign for Economy www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises, a Warning Sign for Economy
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December 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Live Updates: U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises, a Warning Sign for Economy www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and His Wife Are Found Dead www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and His Wife Are Found Dead
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December 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Live Updates: Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and His Wife Are Found Dead www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Tuvalu, a tiny island country of 11,000 people, represents a test case for how governments will respond as climate change drives displacement econ.st/4946g3m
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December 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Tuvalu, a tiny island country of 11,000 people, represents a test case for how governments will respond as climate change drives displacement econ.st/4946g3m
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. DOJ has now sued 16 states over access to their voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ Sues Colorado and Hawaii in Latest Attempt to Seize Voter Data
Read more here.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. DOJ has now sued 16 states over access to their voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Preview of what’s to come in the US? Isn’t the US deploying the same tech and tactics against immigrants? How long before they are turned against US citizens? apnews.com/article/whis...
A Chinese whistleblower now living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with help from US tech
Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Preview of what’s to come in the US? Isn’t the US deploying the same tech and tactics against immigrants? How long before they are turned against US citizens? apnews.com/article/whis...
While the U.S. Supreme Court has undermined the ability of Congress and the Executive Branch to regulate, there remains one legislative pathway to curb harmful spillover effects. Read more in my latest article, W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System
<span>In a series of cases decided in the last three years, four delivered in 2024 alone, the U.S. Supreme Court has directed a withering gaze toward the federa
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December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
While the U.S. Supreme Court has undermined the ability of Congress and the Executive Branch to regulate, there remains one legislative pathway to curb harmful spillover effects. Read more in my latest article, W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Mothers in New Hampshire who were downstream of sites contaminated with “forever chemicals” experienced triple the rate of infant deaths and had more premature births or babies with low birth weights, a new study shows. https://wapo.st/48s0AQB
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Mothers in New Hampshire who were downstream of sites contaminated with “forever chemicals” experienced triple the rate of infant deaths and had more premature births or babies with low birth weights, a new study shows. https://wapo.st/48s0AQB
More looting … “Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal g...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
More looting … “Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In the coming year, innovation and entrepreneurship will continue to suffer as a consequence of Donald Trump’s funding cuts and immigration restrictions. We explain how in The World Ahead
The Trump administration is undermining American soft power
Donald Trump’s policies on foreign students are harming America’s universities. Innovation and entrepreneurship will also suffer as a consequence
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In the coming year, innovation and entrepreneurship will continue to suffer as a consequence of Donald Trump’s funding cuts and immigration restrictions. We explain how in The World Ahead
“The US Supreme Court signaled it’s poised to give the president control over potentially dozens of traditionally independent federal agencies as the court’s dominant conservative wing cast doubt on a 90-year-old precedent.”
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Supreme Court Signals It Backs Trump’s Firing of Agency Leaders
The US Supreme Court signaled it’s poised to give the president control over potentially dozens of traditionally independent federal agencies as the court’s dominant conservative wing cast doubt on a ...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The US Supreme Court signaled it’s poised to give the president control over potentially dozens of traditionally independent federal agencies as the court’s dominant conservative wing cast doubt on a 90-year-old precedent.”
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"Private-equity might not be causing the housing crisis, but corporate owners could end up making it a lot worse—for everyone," @AnnieLowrey argues:
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Private-equity might not be causing the housing crisis, but corporate owners could end up making it a lot worse—for everyone," @AnnieLowrey argues:
The Court has been moving in this direction for some time, but I cannot help but believe that the earlier courts were right, and that overturning that prior law would undermine the Constitutional checks and balances the founders inscribed.
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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments In Trump’s Bid for Total Control of Government
Read more here.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Court has been moving in this direction for some time, but I cannot help but believe that the earlier courts were right, and that overturning that prior law would undermine the Constitutional checks and balances the founders inscribed.
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Analysis: President Trump’s contention that people from some countries are desirable, while others are not, is nothing new.
Language used by Trump and those around him harks back more than a century to the passage of laws, including the Johnson-Reed Act.
Language used by Trump and those around him harks back more than a century to the passage of laws, including the Johnson-Reed Act.
Analysis | Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s
The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Analysis: President Trump’s contention that people from some countries are desirable, while others are not, is nothing new.
Language used by Trump and those around him harks back more than a century to the passage of laws, including the Johnson-Reed Act.
Language used by Trump and those around him harks back more than a century to the passage of laws, including the Johnson-Reed Act.
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Mutlaq Mutlaq’s family spent nearly a decade searching for him after his arrest in 2015 but found nothing. Finally, a photograph appeared.
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system.
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system.
Syria’s killing machine
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system during his last decade in power.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mutlaq Mutlaq’s family spent nearly a decade searching for him after his arrest in 2015 but found nothing. Finally, a photograph appeared.
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system.
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system.
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Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“
I think we can turn Texas blue—
I think we can turn Texas blue—
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“
I think we can turn Texas blue—
I think we can turn Texas blue—