NEW Elon Musk’s DOGE is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, sparking alarm within the tax agency. - ThreadSky

mcgaheyk.bsky.social•5 days ago

What are the odds that he wants this info to train his AI with?

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mushele.bsky.social•5 days ago

No! Fuck that! Shut it down!

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realitybites66.bsky.social•5 days ago

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nccassandra.bsky.social•5 days ago

MSM camp out at all entrances, stick cameras & mics in doge faces? What expertise they have about agencies they review? How much & how are they paid & the cost to taxpayers to date? What's their methodology to determine firings? Where are doge's written reports of findings? Should be public info.

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nccassandra.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's like the Nazis going in town after town, destroying and occupying. I feel so helpless.

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realitybites66.bsky.social•5 days ago

Your not. Find a Rally Tomorrow! E Pluribus Unum! Out of Many...ONE! These bases of our Constitution!

You're not alone! We The People! 😘

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ingemarknows.bsky.social•5 days ago

And Airbnb billionaire wants in on the destruction: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/airbnb-joe-gebbia-musk-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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beachydreams.bsky.social•5 days ago

🚨WTF DO HE AND PUTIN HAVE ON TRUMP⁉️⁉️⁉️

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dcgmom.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think this is over and they now have actual to all of your financial information. What could possibly go wrong?

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saschavykos.bsky.social•5 days ago

There is no legitimate reason for him to see this.

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mwhitney.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm sure that Harry Bols will handle our personal data with the utmost care.

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dobeyearlobe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Who would be held liable here for wrongful disclosure by DOGE of personal data? DOGE or the IRS?

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vivelux.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why is this so EASY?!!!

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realitybites66.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because of 50 years of American Exceptionalism.... in our own minds, socialized into us but was never true. We are so full of ourselves like the youngest child. We are not old enough to have seen Cleansing, Extermination, or a Totalitarian takeover of our government like older brother and sisters.

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vivelux.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes! And it infuriates me!

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nettier.bsky.social•5 days ago

How is looking at taxpayer data helping with IRS employee cut backs?

This wanting of info is definitely nefarious.

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nettier.bsky.social•5 days ago

Where do I sign up for the class action lawsuit?

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maryamobgyn.bsky.social•5 days ago

When do we get to the “I refuse to fork over my hard earned taxes to this psychotic fascism startup” part ?

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brianmullin.bsky.social•5 days ago

Incoming: a gutted IRS that is directed to only audit and harass blue state citizens.

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sianofthedead.bsky.social•5 days ago

And any businesses who crossed musk or trump.

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midnightreggie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why aren't people in the DC area & the Democrats in the House & Senate organizing sit ins to physically block DOGE from entering the buildings?

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garbunkus.bsky.social•5 days ago

They need to lock the doors and if needed start throwing hands.

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fansen.bsky.social•5 days ago

If your checks are auto deposited to you, he is seeking your bank information too.

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masfranca.bsky.social•5 days ago

What for?!?

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depechemodeold.bsky.social•5 days ago

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Idk maybe file a lawsuit to stop this?

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andrales.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/andrales.bsky.social/post/3lidunzfujk2s

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kmziegler.bsky.social•5 days ago

And what is being done about it?

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supfellas.bsky.social•5 days ago

They already got in. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-affiliated-employee-accessed-irs-system-sensitive-taxpayer-inform-rcna192423

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blurosie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why do they need this

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nccassandra.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can the Dems or the press ask that to the Barbie head press secretary or to Musk or his assistant, Donald Trump? They are succeeding in terrorizing us. No one seems to have authority to stop this. Even if they are overthrown in the long run, they now have too much data.

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chrisvdkieboom.bsky.social•5 days ago

Steal sensitive financial information from Tesla’s competition

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blurosie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wow

He is a pirate

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naeemsiddiqi.bsky.social•5 days ago

These people used to complain about unelected bureaucrats. And now unelected minions of Musk are running amok

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melissawj.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is sounding a lot like the plot of Live Free or Die Hard from 2007.

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choppersms.bsky.social•5 days ago

No fucking way! @DNC this needs to be stopped! @davidhogg.bsky.social

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davewhiteley.bsky.social•5 days ago

Imagine if Harris had made this request. The howls of outrage from the Republicans and their privacy laws could be heard from mars.

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joyl3.bsky.social•5 days ago

I read DOGE got in to IRS today. Would be nice if it wasn’t true

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realitybites66.bsky.social•5 days ago

They announced firing thousands of IRS workers earlier today. Democracy is circling the toilet. Once they have completed decapotating beurocracy it will vanish. You can't sew a head back on or retrieve a turd flushed down the toilet. Simply as that.

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sleeplessanna.bsky.social•5 days ago

Orange will grant it

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paulyeh.bsky.social•5 days ago

He wants to insert x payment system with visa into the payment systems so he can grift fees off of every single American taxpayer forever.

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ollie-henry.bsky.social•5 days ago

Access to highly sensitive commercial data on all including competitors? 🤔

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adamegross.bsky.social•5 days ago

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lifesafeast.bsky.social•5 days ago

US Judge sided with Musk and DOGE declined to block DOGE from accessing information at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Departments of Labor & Health and Human Services, as labor unions had asked for, even as he acknowledged his “serious concerns” about DOGE’s access to the data.”

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lifesafeast.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/16/here-are-all-the-major-lawsuits-against-trump-and-musk-trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-let-it-fire-ethics-official/

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zphi93.bsky.social•5 days ago

They had to know this was coming.

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drnancysp.bsky.social•5 days ago

STOP THIS ABUSE!!

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myoclonicjerk.bsky.social•5 days ago

God, I hope picking a fight with the IRS will be DOGE's downfall.

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avapereira8.bsky.social•5 days ago

What’s his motivation?

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mxdmssg.bsky.social•5 days ago

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sianofthedead.bsky.social•5 days ago

Are all those CEOs and small business owners going to rise up now?

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janetfan4life.bsky.social•5 days ago

He is trying to break the American 🇺🇸 people! #StrongerTogether - Hillary Clinton. "Never, never, never give up" -Churchill. “When we fight. We Win!” Former -Vice President Kamala Devi Harris…

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deronta.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is just so ridiculous. When will it end.

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akla69.bsky.social•5 days ago

It is up to each of us to spread the word. Get your peeps involved!

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katzst.bsky.social•5 days ago

FFS, why can't this asswipe go to the treasury building, and just take the fuken money?!?

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leslieehrlich.bsky.social•5 days ago

There are both civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized access or disclosure of tax return info. Starting at $1K per taxpayer

See this: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4761.pdf

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elizarock.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s authorized by the president. Good luck.

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prime157.bsky.social•5 days ago

#FascistFriday (weekend).

I was wondering when news would break this weekend.

Here it is.

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mdclifford.bsky.social•5 days ago

Guards: Do your jobs! You’re not armed for nothing. Give a command and follow through. If I tried to barge into NSA, I’d be shot. Period.

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bdoggle.bsky.social•5 days ago

Seeking access? Does he need to swipe a badge he stole from a guard in the lobby?

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murdochargh.bsky.social•5 days ago

They have access

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emmarose40150.bsky.social•5 days ago

So they can go after democrats by exposing them...the purge phase

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cskittles.bsky.social•5 days ago

If they give him access not one of us should pay a cent of owed tax. Enough!!!!!

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sillysarge.bsky.social•5 days ago

Keep it heavily guarded. They wouldn’t let you or I in, why let the Muskrat and company in?

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writergirl1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Our elected officials need to hold press conferences so the news will report this. Reporters can’t do it in a vacuum. They’re paid to represent us and the country. Where are they?

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