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I asked former IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel for comment. He writes: “I am unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a specific person or business. Whether you are the President or Joe the Plumber, people expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody.”

BLANCHE: "The United States...is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing...examinations or similar or related reviews" against Trump "or related or affiliated individuals," including family members or related companies and trusts.

At his confirmation hearing, Todd Blanche told me that if an ethics lawyer instructed him to recuse himself from cases involving his former client, Donald Trump, he would. A new report shows that's exactly what ethics lawyers advised. I'm launching an inquiry into whether Blanche followed that guidance.

Duffy: Maybe spending time with your children on a road trip is a wonderful experience— Sen. Gillibrand: It is a wonderful thing, but your vacation was paid for by Boeing, Toyota, United Airlines, Enterprise, Shell, Royal Caribbean Group. All organizations and companies you oversee.

Trump was just given a blanket pardon from the IRS for any past, present, or future tax crimes.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

BREAKING: Did Todd Blanche just commit malpractice for failing to file even one motion to defend the American people before agreeing to the creation of 1.77B settlement fund in Trump’s IRS lawsuit. @MeidasTouch

It’s only been half of one game and @MizzouBaseball is already the greatest ABS team of all time. Now 5-5 in ABS challenges. Unreal.

Bookmark this post. Not unlike Nixon's AG John Mitchell, Todd Blanche is going to end up in prison.

This is what you call “evidence.”

We all know at this point, she is a STAR ⭐️ (@abbycarr2025) 🔗 bit.ly/4ugKxgZ #MIZ 🐯🥎 | #OwnIt

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and…

Here's the first successful ABS challenge in the history of college baseball. @MizzouBaseball catcher Mateo Serna with the successful helmet tap.

Why did they fucking create this shit in the 14th amendment if we were gonna be too pussy to actually do it. I feel like every Union soldier has been utterly betrayed.

Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton for US Senate in Texas. Paxton was impeached by his own party for bribery and corruption, said the Uvalde school shooting was God’s plan, and gave a child sex abuser only a 60-day jail sentence.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Congress has been asked to investigate how Elon Musk Knew Trump won 4 hours before the 2024 election was called

Have you been injured? #slushfund

Federal Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Trump to explain how a sitting President can sue a government he runs. Trump panicked and settled the lawsuit for $1.7B before she could rule. Now, Democrats are demanding she step in. The full story: dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-alrea…

Reporter confronts JD Vance: I want to ask you about that $1.8B 'weaponization fund.' Why should taxpayers be paying to settle a $10B lawsuit that was brought by the President of the United States? And should people that attacked the Capitol building and assaulted police officers receive money from this fund?

Survive and advance😤 #MizzouNOW