"The reports [contain] account numbers, social security numbers, identifiers... It is an enormous identity-theft risk." "unauthorized disclosure ... can compromise the national security of the United States" And a small-town MAGA assistant police chief can get this info about anyone he wants?!
"It's awfully strange that, when we started trying to follow the money through FinCen, my agency was immediately cut off,” Taylor agreed during the Las Vegas gathering[.] Uh, no. That's called people realizing YOU'RE ROOTING AROUND IN FINCEN, WHICH IS A FEDERAL CRIME
This. Very much this. FinCEN is extremely protective of its data. And yes, law enforcement does use it to pursue money laundering cases. And no, it absolutely should not be in the hands of a wingnut election denier doing the usual "We're going to insinuate we found something important!"
And yes, I know I went ahead and responded anyways...Brandi is so right!
It's cool you saved me the moral dilemma of responding...whew!
I was in the room when James Cappleman said that affordable housing could be done cheaper if the union requirements and women and minority owned business (WMOB) requirements didn't exist. Never occurs to them to cut the layer of fat going to the political class through markups (developers).
Also, drivers will never allow a true self-driving vehicle because it will drive them insane to drive every trip while following all the rules of the road.
Next visit with city traffic engineers be sure to tell them the only value to bike sharrows painted on roads is it helps drivers to properly line up the bikes they intend to hit.
In this Pennsylvania diner, patrons are talking about whether the mill is hiring, how the high school football team is doing, and if immigrants have inferior alleles. Barb thinks it's high time we test immigrants' cephalic index, and ol' Hank believes work will set you free.
"The U.S. military is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world ... Militarism and war are key drivers of the climate crisis."
US military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the climate.