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Secret Service Would Take Bullet For Jared 'N' Ivanka, Not Allowed To Take A Sh*t In Their House
Washington Post uncovers the juicy, reeking details.
January 14, 2021 04:42 PM
In a great act of public service journalism on the final Thursday of the Trump administration, the Washington Post brings us the story we didn't know we needed to know about the Secret Service detail assigned to protect Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Namely, the agents tasked with protecting their lives aren't allowed to use any of the approximately 478 toilets in the Kushner-Trump manse in the posh Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC:
Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple's house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump's daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials. After resorting to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the nearby home of former president Barack Obama and the not-so-nearby residence of Vice President Pence, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own.
Eventually, the agency was able to find a terlet to let, in a basement studio in a house right across the street from Caca Casa de Kushner, at the price of $3,000 a month, which is all you need to know the house isn't owned by anyone in the Trump family. The space not occupied by the bathroom also serves as a command post and break room for the Secret Service detail, so that works out pretty well for all, particularly the agents who may need to work some things out themselves. What a relief!
<p>The <em>Post </em>does note that not being allowed to poop in the house isn't all that unusual: </p><blockquote>Arrangements that allow for some distance between Secret Service agents and those they guard are not unusual, particularly when the agency's "means, methods or resources" involve indoor plumbing. The people who qualify for such protection often occupy expensive, sprawling properties where a detail can use a garage, pool house or other outbuilding as a command post, break room and bathroom.</blockquote><p>Problem is, the Kushner maison didn't have anything that would work for the Secret Service detail's particular set of spills. </p><p>And speaking of Secret Service details, the WaPo story positively strains to get out the full truth about the great toilet search. We learn that after neighbors complained about the porta-potty out on the sidewalk in front of <del>Shits</del> Chez Kushner, the agents went over to use the loo at the command post in the Obamas' garage. Everything was just swell at first, but soon the arrangement went right into the shitter when</p><blockquote>a Secret Service supervisor from the Trump/Kushner detail left an unpleasant mess in the Obama bathroom at some point before the fall of 2017, according to a person briefed on the event. </blockquote><p>The supervisor left such a huge, filthy, positively <em>agricultural </em>load that the Kushner team was flushed, not by the Obamas, but by the leaders of the Obamas' security detail. Talk about your internal rivalry! </p><p>Also, if you've never read Vice's saga of the time <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190709045634if_/https://www.vice.com/da/article/gq8zdb/someone-did-a-shit-so-bad-a-british-airways-flight-had-to-turn-around-and-land-475" target="_blank">Someone Did a Shit So Bad On a British Airways Plane That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again</a>, you should probably treat yourself, if that's the word. Did he work for the Secret Service?</p><p>After the Obama Shitsplosion Incident, agents guarding the Kushners were welcome to use a "bathroom in a stand-alone guard station" at the Naval Observatory, where the Pences live, but that doody station is a mile away from the Kushners, so agents pressed for time or urgency "relied on the hospitality of nearby restaurants." </p><p>Well goddamn it, <em>Washington Post, </em>you didn't tell us if that one supervisor got banned from any of those places for another humongous mondo turd. </p><p>Eventually the Secret Service found the basement studio and all has worked out well; the $3,000 a month isn't especially outrageous for the kinds of rentals the agency does for other protectees, either. Joe Biden charged the Secret Service $2,200 for a guest house it used as a command center, and that was in 2011, so adjusted for inflation ($2,500), it's not a bad deal. <em>[Rebecca always thought it was unseemly that Old Handsome Joe charged for the Secret Service to protect him, and the past four years of Trumpist moneymaking off the Secret Service's captive audience has not changed her mind.]</em></p><p>Also, not surprisingly, the White House says this is all a load of doodoo:</p><blockquote>A White House spokesperson denied that Trump and Kushner restricted agents from their 5,000-square-foot home, with its six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, and asserted that it was the Secret Service's decision not to allow the protective detail inside. That account is disputed by a law enforcement official familiar with the situation, who said the agents were kept out at the family's request.</blockquote><p>We may never know. It's just one of those classic "She said, 'Pee shed'" situations. </p><p>In any case, we assume that after Joe Biden is sworn in, the Kushners will be shooting out of DC faster than a little deuce poop after a big dinner at the White House, so the Secret Service can keep on doing its job as needed for new clients. We don't begrudge the cost of a fairly modest basement space for the good of the agents. After all, Secret Service agents are the last people you'd want just going through the motions. </p><p>OPEN THREAD. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/" target="_blank">WaPo </a>/ Terrible photoshop from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-dc-home-2017-1" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. If you can, please donate $5 to $10 a month so we can keep you up to date on all this crap. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Marco Rubio Wants Joe Biden To Send You $2000, And You BETTER NOT NEED ANYTHING ELSE
Yay Marco Rubio! Fuck you Marco Rubio!
January 13, 2021 02:47 PM
Joe Biden's actual first day in office is just a week away, bringing with it the chance for him to do a lot of that stuff presidential candidates always say they'll get done after they get back from the inauguration, possibly with some wiggle room for their first full day in office, since there'll also be a good bit of settling in, getting the staff's phones figured out, and virtually attending the Zoom-only inaugural balls.
Among other things, Biden's plans for his first day include rejoining the Paris climate agreement, signing executive orders to roll back Trump's restrictions on asylum, eliminate the ban on travel from mostly-Muslim countries, and restore a bunch of environmental regulations Trump weakened. In addition, Biden wants to issue a national mask mandate for federal buildings and for interstate travel, to be followed by working with state governors to regularize efforts to contain COVID-19. He's also promised to send to Congress bills to roll back the Trump tax cuts and to make DACA a law.
To those plans, Sen Marco Rubio (R-Florida) wants Biden to add one more: Direct Congress to pass a new round of $2000 stimulus payments to Americans, and do that on day one, rather than including new individual payments in a more comprehensive stimulus package at some later date. Good for Marco Rubio! Also, Marco Rubio, go fuck yourself!
<p>As far as it goes, calling for a new round of stimmy checks is a great idea. Let's get that done, for sure. Thing is, Rubio didn't only call on Biden to put forward a bill for larger payments to Americans; he also <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/rubio-urges-biden-to-call-for-2000-stimulus-checks-on-day-1-.html" target="_blank">made clear</a> that he didn't think there's much need to do much of anything beyond that, because you know how crazy Democrats get when it comes to spending money: </p><blockquote>All too often, popular and necessary legislation is used as leverage to secure passage for policies that cannot pass on their own merit. We have already seen it in the midst of the pandemic when additional funding for small businesses was blocked repeatedly for months on end.</blockquote><p>Yup, shame on those Democrats for making Mitch McConnell refuse to even consider any new stimulus bill for months, until he realized the Georgia runoff elections <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/mitch-mcconnell-might-allow-a-stimulus-since-jobs-are-on-the-line-his-job" target="_blank">put his Senate majority at risk</a>. We're fairly sure Rubio didn't have <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/republicans-covid-19-liability-shield-is-so-much-worse-than-you-thought" target="_blank">McConnell's crappy liability shield </a>for irresponsible corporations in mind when he mentioned "policies that cannot pass on their own," even though that probably fits the category far better than crazy ideas Democrats pushed, like helping state and local governments. </p><p>Just to be clear, that paragraph closes by warning Biden he should just settle for a larger stimulus and not get any big ideas about passing more than that: </p><blockquote>Please do not allow direct payments to the American people to get caught up in the normal political games by adding a wish list of far left or other unrelated priorities to this legislation.</blockquote><p>Be sure to quote that back at Rubio in a month when he's insisting there can't be any more stimulus without protections for corporations from the raft of lawsuits that <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/latest-stimulus-f-ck-tussle" target="_blank">never materialized.</a> </p><p>Biden has already said he supports the $2000 individual payments, but also that he will insist on a new, comprehensive stimulus package; a full proposal is expected to be rolled out this week. And it's looking like the Biden transition is now thinking that should be a pretty substantial package, as <em>Mother Jones</em> <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/joe-biden-stimulus-chuck-schumer/" target="_blank">reports.</a> Initially, the transition was proposing a package that would run about $1.3 trillion, but Senate Democrats, particularly soon-to-be Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said this is no time to think small. </p><p>After all, as Biden saw firsthand, the recovery from the Great Recession ended up far slower and shallower because Barack Obama put forward a fairly small stimulus early on, in hopes of winning over deficit hawks, and with the notion that more stimulus could be passed later. Instead, the deficit hawks swooped down and complained that the modest stimulus was too much, no new stimmy was ever passed, and the recovery got better far too slowly — but steadily enough that it kept going for Donald Trump. </p><p>According to one of <em>Mother Jones's</em> sources, Biden is willing to put forward a more aggressive stimulus proposal now that the transition team finally has access to information showing "the full costs to the economy of Trump's bungled response to the virus and his administration's disappointing vaccine rollout."</p><blockquote>Trump officials initially blocked the Biden team's access to Tiberius, the database the government uses to monitor vaccine distribution, and the team has only just begun using it: "As we learn more and gain visibility, the calculus changes," the transition source says. <em>Politico</em> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/biden-coronavirus-vaccine-goal-problems-457245" target="_blank">reported</a> on Monday that there are rising concerns Biden may not be able to meet his goal of 100 million Americans vaccinated within his first 100 days.</blockquote><p>Surprise! <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/thank-god-at-least-the-vaccine-rollouts-going-smoothly-oh-f-ck" target="_blank">Despite our earlier skepticism, </a>it turns out "Tiberius" really is a thing, and it does not want to play a game of tic-tac-toe.</p><p>As of right now, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is the one Democrat who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/10/manchin-prefers-targeted-stimulus-checks-457065" target="_blank">stands to block</a> the proposal for $2,000 stimulus payments, because he frets it might go to some people who aren't quite desperate enough. That could sink a stand-alone bill, but it's also possible that with the support of Rubio, it could pass (as long as Rubio doesn't turn against his own proposal, as he did with immigration reform years ago). </p><p>But whatever Biden does, he shouldn't make any deals to trade away a larger stimmy in exchange for larger individual checks. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/rubio-urges-biden-to-call-for-2000-stimulus-checks-on-day-1-.html" target="_blank">CNBC</a> / <span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/10/manchin-prefers-targeted-stimulus-checks-457065" target="_blank">Politico </a>/ Photo: <span></span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/25002985963/" target="_blank">Gage Skidmore, </a>Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank">license 2.0</a>]<br></p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. If you can, please stimulate our economy with a $5 to $10 monthly donation, and we'll stimulate your brain with the best political news and snark. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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It's Your GOP Sunday Show Idiot Roundup, Post-Capitol Insurrection Edition!
We watch so you never have to.
January 11, 2021 03:54 PM
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the Capitol.
After the dust settled, blood was spilled, lives ruined and Republicans in Congress continued to try to disenfranchise voters, even after the sedition, we were left with trying to hold Trump and his enablers accountable for a tragedy that was entirely predictable and four years in the making. So, with that in mind, this week's Sunday shows!
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We'll start on CBS's "Face The Nation," where host Margaret Brennan interviewed Missouri GOP senator Roy Blunt. She asked if Trump should resign for his role in inciting the violence and chaos on January 6, but Blunt said nah. Then he said this bafflingly daft thing:</p>
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<strong>BRENNAN</strong>: Are Republican leaders going to hold them accountable in any way for it?
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: Well, I think the country is the-- the right way to hold Presidents accountable. The President should be very careful over the next ten days that his behavior is what you'd expect from the leader of the greatest country in the world. <strong>Now, my personal view is that the President touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again.</strong>
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If that sounds familiar, it's because your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUcWYIHIT44" target="_blank">"Susan Collins Sense"</a> is tingling.</p><p>The idea that Trump learned about anything from his first impeachment other than Republicans' lack of spine would be laughable if he wasn't a dangerous madman. Brennan asked if Trump treason enablers like senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz should be held accountable, and the answer is no, and also that again, Trump should not be removed.</p><blockquote>
<strong>BLUNT</strong>: --I said that wouldn't happen. I'm not-- I wasn't interested then or now in spending a lot of time on things that can't happen--
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<strong>BRENNAN</strong>: So no sanction?
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: --just like the impeachment-- just like the impeachment of the President, to remove him from office clearly is not going to happen between now and the last day he's in office. [...] Is there any likelihood that he could possibly be removed between now and January the 20th? And if there's no additional ensuing event my-- my belief is there is no possibility of that.
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Seems Blunt needs <em>another</em> constitutional crisis to acknowledge reality. He also complained that an impeachment could not be rushed through becasue there is too little time, while forgetting that we all saw them confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in
<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/how-many-people-will-senate-gop-infect-with-covid-19-before-confirming-amy-coney-barrett" target="_blank">10 days of hearings</a>.</p><p>
Meanwhile, over on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures", Maria Bartiromo's usual hive of scum and villainy seemed a bit more subdued after last week's events. </p>
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<p>Ohio GOP congressman Jim Jordan decided was more reserved than usual, whining out calls for <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/cruz-and-hawley-disappointed-biden-is-tearing-the-country-apart-by-calling-them-liars" target="_blank">unity</a>.<br></p><blockquote>
<strong>JORDAN</strong>: I hope the Democrats don't go down this road. We don't know if they re going to. Let's hope that they do not do that. [...] Now the Democrats are gonna try to remove the president from office just seven days before he's set to leave anyways. I do not see how that unifies the country. </blockquote><p>Somewhere in there, Jordan, like a cover band that has to play the hits, snuck in a Peter Strzok reference. He did refer to Joe Biden as president-elect, though.</p><p>Meanwhile, GOP Senator Marco Rubio tried to claim the Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol weren't really conservatives, or something.</p><div id="a186e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e04518abac765f4e5c23800b07998e8d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348303992154161152" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Marco Rubio claims that rioters who were chanting "we want Trump!" and adorned head to toe with MAGA attire are not… https://t.co/nBXB3wmAXE</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1348303992154161152">1610295696.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Finally, Devin Fucking Nunes told Maria Bartiromo about what truly matters, which is how he can't talk to his three million Parler followers no more:<br></p><div id="3d773" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="aefed5077d08b7a24313b757bc38396c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348301766740291584" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Nobody:
Not a single soul:
Trumpers: https://t.co/eEjLqZPX1V</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1348301766740291584">1610295166.0</a></blockquote></div><p>OK.</p><p>Good Sunday shows, Republicans! Can't imagine what next week will be like.</p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like you! If you love Wonkette, FUND WONKETTE.</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Look At These Nice Things In Recent Funding Bills! Just Look At Them!
Happy normal things!
January 05, 2021 02:22 PM
Two big recent spending bills had a couple of neat provisions in them that we wouldn't want to go overlooked. The defense spending bill (NDAA) that Congress passed Friday by overriding Donald Trump's veto includes a significant measure to fight corruption, and the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill that passed just before Christmas (and which Donald Trump eventually signed after being a dick about it) includes a hugely important provision restoring the ability for incarcerated people to get Pell grants while they're still serving their prison terms. Good government just might break out all over at this rate. (Fine, we'll take "might happen more than sporadically.")
<p>First up, the NDAA included a little measure called the "Corporate Transparency Act," which is aimed at making money-laundering and other malfeasance harder by banning anonymous shell companies. As Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/22188223/congress-anti-money-laundering-anonymous-shell-companies-ban-defense-bill" target="_blank">explains</a>, they're commonly used to cover evidence of money laundering and other criminal enterprises. </p><blockquote> If you're a corrupt foreign official or drug trafficker, there's a pretty easy way to protect your illicit cash: create an anonymous shell company.<br><br>You form a shell company — meaning a business that exists only on paper, with no employees, no products it makes or sells, no revenue, nothing except maybe a bank account and some assets — but you do it without disclosing your (the owner's) real name, offering a convenient way to launder your money and evade law enforcement in the United States.</blockquote><p>Shell corporations will remain legal, but now the people creating them will have to provide the name of the owner and other information. At <em>Forbes, </em>Patriotic Millionaires chair Morris Pearl <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/12/26/ndaa-2021-shell-companies-corporate-transparency-act/" target="_blank">points out</a> that, until now, every state has had tougher identity requirements for getting a library card than to create a shell corporation, and that criminal investigations regularly "go cold as soon as they run into one of these shell companies." </p><blockquote>Those using and abusing anonymous shells to cloak themselves in anonymity run the gamut. From tax cheats hiding their finances and bleeding local coffers dry to drug cartels flooding American streets with opiates turning to anonymous shells to launder their profits, a wide range of criminal forces have used anonymous companies to mask their tracks.</blockquote><p> The new law should eliminate one of the most common tools used by corrupt actors, both domestically and internationally; Pearl calls the new law "the biggest anti-corruption step the U.S. has taken in decades." Good! Now, if you want to try to get away with underhanded financial schemes, you'll have to get yourself elected president. (There's a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-this-the-real-reason-why-trumps-freaking-out-about-the-defense-bill" target="_blank">persuasive theory</a> that the shell company amendment was the real reason Trump came up with all kinds of crazy reasons to veto the NDAA. We for one are persuaded!) </p><p>Our other Nice Thing, the "Restoring Education and Learning (REAL) Act," was <a href="https://www.schatz.senate.gov/press-releases/schatz-legislation-to-restore-educational-opportunities-for-those-incarcerated-and-improve-public-safety-set-to-become-law" target="_blank">included in the omnibus spending bill </a>that passed December 21 along with the coronavirus stimmy bill. Written by Sen Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and all bipartisanly cosponsored by Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), the law restores the ability of incarcerated people to qualify for Pell grants to help pay for higher education. </p><p>This is a big freaking deal, and it eliminates one of the more awful provisions of the 1994 crime bill. From today's perspective, it's hard to believe Democrats were so desperate then to appear "tough on crime" that they were willing to eliminate one of the proven means of actually preventing recidivism. Oh, but people in prison were <em>bad</em>, so no college aid for them, and we sure taught them a lesson by making it far harder for them to get jobs after serving their time, now didn't we? </p><p>As Schatz <a href="https://www.schatz.senate.gov/press-releases/schatz-legislation-to-restore-educational-opportunities-for-those-incarcerated-and-improve-public-safety-set-to-become-law" target="_blank">points out,</a> the elimination of Pell grants for incarcerated people didn't just hurt prisoners; the loss of that funding stream also led to "a significant drop in the number of education programs in prisons." Schatz also calls attention to a<a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR266.html" target="_blank"> RAND Corporation study</a> which found that</p><blockquote><span></span>Inmates who participate in correctional education programs had a 43 percent lower odds of recidivating than those who did not. This translates to a reduction in the risk of recidivating of 13 percentage points.</blockquote><p>The study also found that once out of prison, the participants in educational programs had a 13 percent better chance of finding employment. </p><p>The full repeal of that part of the crime bill follows a 2016 Obama administration pilot <a href="https://twitter.com/chiraagbains/status/1346138582134751234" target="_blank">program </a>called "Second Chance Pell" that allowed some 17,000 people to enroll in college classes. Heck, that was one of the few Obama programs that Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-prisons-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-health-eb69014f6cc85f8384c180a441d94463" target="_blank">actually kept</a>. Trump's Education Department expanded it, and outgoing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called on Congress to make the program permanent. </p><p>We're guessing, and you can hardly blame us, that she thought some of the grants would make their way to for-profit colleges. </p><p>Other parts<a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-prisons-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-health-eb69014f6cc85f8384c180a441d94463" target="_blank"> of the educational reform included in the measure will simplify the process of applying for federal student aid, cutting t</a>he number of questions on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (the dreaded FAFSA) from 108 to 36, and simplifying the verification process by allowing the Ed Department to get some financial information directly from the IRS instead of making families provide it. </p><p>The maximum amount of Pell grants was also increased by $150, to a bit under $6,500 per student. Joe Biden campaigned on doubling the size of Pell grants, as well as making them more widely available. </p><p>So, hey, Georgia, if you guys could flip control of the Senate today, that would make all this easier! </p><p> [<a href="https://www.vox.com/22188223/congress-anti-money-laundering-anonymous-shell-companies-ban-defense-bill" target="_blank">Vox </a>/ <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/12/26/ndaa-2021-shell-companies-corporate-transparency-act/" target="_blank">Forbes </a>/ <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-prisons-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-health-eb69014f6cc85f8384c180a441d94463" target="_blank">AP </a>/ <a href="https://www.schatz.senate.gov/press-releases/schatz-legislation-to-restore-educational-opportunities-for-those-incarcerated-and-improve-public-safety-set-to-become-law" target="_blank">Sen. 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