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THE LEDGER · ENTRIES 005–007 · AUG 26 – SEP 10
Your tax return is not private. It is, apparently, a directory for ICE.
The D.C. Circuit ruled Sept 8 that the IRS broke Section 6103, the taxpayer privacy law Congress tightened after Watergate, when it processed an ICE request covering roughly 1.3 million people and handed back more than 47,000 home addresses. The procedure "indisputably contravenes the requirements," the court held. The plaintiffs included the Center for Taxpayer Rights and the Communications Workers of America. → FedScoop
The Supreme Court gave the Postal Service a green light — then the red light came back.
After the justices lifted Judge Indira Talwani's earlier order, the Postal Service finalized the rule: states must hand over a list of every voter who requested a mail ballot, names and addresses included, and redesign their ballot envelopes. On Sept 4 Talwani blocked the final version, finding that implementing it "less than seventy days before the November 2026 election threatens disenfranchisement of millions." Justice is appealing to the First Circuit. → NBC News
The retaliation case now turns on a discrimination case.
The FCC asked Judge Loren AliKhan on Sept. 4 to throw out Disney and ABC's First Amendment suit, arguing it would "hobble the agency's efforts to investigate and resolve serious allegations that Disney has engaged in unlawful discrimination." The eight stations put under early license review were not otherwise due for renewal until October 2028. Hearing Oct 6. → NBC News
THE WORK · No. 1 · Task Force Butler
Task Force Butler published a 309-page dossier on NSC-131. Massachusetts sued the group seven months later.
Task Force Butler trains veterans in open-source research, then publishes the files. April 2023: 309 pages on NSC-131. December 2023: Massachusetts sued the group for civil rights violations. Named for the Marine general who was offered a coup in 1934 and reported it instead.
THE SHIRT · Veto the Cheeto
Not everybody gets a federal bench or a 309-page dossier. Some of us get a t-shirt.
It rhymes. That's the whole strategy.
Some messages need a briefing. This one needs three words and a little nerve. It turns a familiar nickname into a pocket-sized refusal: easy to read, hard to mistake, and impossible to confuse with another bland piece of campaign merchandise. Put it on when you want your clothes to do the talking before you do.
The shirt never names anybody, and that's the useful part. Name a snack food the right shade of orange and everyone knows exactly who you mean, including the people pretending they don't. It's deniable. You can wear it to Thanksgiving. If somebody asks, say it's about corn snacks and watch them decide whether to push it.
One fact and then we're done. Veto is Latin for "I forbid." Not "I disagree." Not "I have some concerns at this time." I forbid. First person, one person talking.
Which is a funny thing to put on a shirt, because you don't have a veto. You weren't elected to anything. Nobody is reading your objection into the record.
What you have is a chest, three words, and every room you walk into today.
Close enough.
Hit reply. I read them.
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— ViV