Hi. I'm a reporter for The New York Times, covering all things money. I'm a little late to the party here. https://www.nytimes.com/by/tara-siegel-bernard https://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3mcwsdal7mk2lNot surprising that DOGE shared sensitive data through a nonsecure 3rd party server. New wrinkle: A political group asked DOGE at SSA for analysis of state voter rolls to find evidence of voter fraud, with a goal of overturning elections @esullivannyt.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/doge-employees-social-security-data.html21 Jan 2026 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwsdal7mk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3m6kmqeaalk23"HOW DO YOU ERADICATE hunger, STDs, illiteracy, poverty? It’s actually quite simple. You stop measuring them." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one-weird-trick-for-eliminating-bad-news-delete-it-data-bls-bea26 Nov 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kmqeaalk23https://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3m34a3xa65c2h"Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss..." From @propublica.org https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-deafblind-students-funding-reversal13 Oct 2025 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m34a3xa65c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3m347yvd6bs2hThe policy constrains how journalists can report on the U.S. military, funded by nearly $1T in taxpayer dollars annually, said the NYT’s Washington bureau chief, Richard Stevenson. “The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/13/prominent-media-reject-new-pentagon-rules-before-signing-deadline/13 Oct 2025 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m347yvd6bs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lw3o4tfklk25"Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data," Crisp says. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened11 Aug 2025 01:41 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw3o4tfklk25https://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lvedmid2hk2w"...Mr. Trump said he planned to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He implied on social media that she had manipulated the monthly jobs figures for political reasons, without offering supporting evidence." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/31/business/tariffs-trump-trade01 Aug 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvedmid2hk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3luhzmoqiac2cMeta arrived...and then their water pressure slowed to a trickle. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html21 Jul 2025 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3luhzmoqiac2chttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lqcsb7qwyc2l"Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/22/ai-reading-writing-graduation-books/?_pml=129 May 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqcsb7qwyc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lpsitjqsok2m“We’re being used like pawns in some game we have no control over,” Mr. Williamson said. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/shock-at-harvard-after-government-says-international-students-must-go.html23 May 2025 01:41 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpsitjqsok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lpib7tlvrk2oThe Comey news had me search for Chumley's, the old speakeasy that has (sadly) closed. I was pretty sure the term 86-ed originated there. This piece confirms it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-rich-literary-history-of-chumleys18 May 2025 23:58 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpib7tlvrk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lpia2wb6bk2oGrading with A.I. crosses a line today...how long until that line is erased entirely? It seems we're already okay with loading that capability into NYC public schools' curriculums. . . https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html18 May 2025 23:38 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpia2wb6bk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lpi6ti5c622o"..the episode made her painfully aware of the hazards of being a student — even an honest one — in an academic landscape distorted by A.I. cheating." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html18 May 2025 23:16 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpi6ti5c622ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lpi6kb5vmk2o"Diplomats said the events were an alarming departure from standard practice — because of both the tactics used and the person who would benefit most from them." https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-starlink-state-department-gambia-africa-pressure18 May 2025 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpi6kb5vmk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lolwgzspgs2d"For those who think that professors are the enemy, I invite you to spend some time in our classrooms. You might discover that we are, in the end, all on the same side." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.NBp-.pEbHq34ooPg2&smid=url-share07 May 2025 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lolwgzspgs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lnxgw74l2c2hWith collections turned back on, the federal student loan machinery is back to its pre-pandemic state, sort of. It's a complicated picture: There are fewer income-driven repayment plans and loan forgiveness looks shakier. I broke it all down here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/student-loans-collections.html29 Apr 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxgw74l2c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lnlxvyk34k2lAn expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/musk-cuts.html25 Apr 2025 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnlxvyk34k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3ln4bzuyfds27“If the I.R.S. becomes politicized, and people feel like only one party is playing by the rules, then I would expect noncompliance would go up," said Michael Graetz, a tax scholar at Columbia Law School. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html18 Apr 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4bzuyfds27https://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmuvb2bawc2dSome good news for victims of sophisticated online scams: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/business/scam-tax-deduction-irs.html15 Apr 2025 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuvb2bawc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmqfzsktzc2f“People feel nervous about lending us money,” said Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. “They are saying, ‘We’ve lost our faith in America and the American economy.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/trump-risk-us-bonds.html14 Apr 2025 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmqfzsktzc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmijxvlt2k2vTheir “financial lives,” Leland Dudek, the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff members, would be “terminated.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html10 Apr 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmijxvlt2k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmdrzgegqs2zhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/social-security-trump.html09 Apr 2025 01:00 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdrzgegqs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmdrk34drs2zThe Social Security Administration is in a state of tumult --here's a look at what's happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/social-security-changes-trump-doge.html09 Apr 2025 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdrk34drs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social/post/3lmdqws52ms2z"Audrey Casillas, who helps low-income residents of the Los Angeles area file their taxes, said fewer people were coming in to file their taxes this year because they don’t want to be deported." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/us/trump-news-tariffs#irs-ice-tax-data-deal09 Apr 2025 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:y3zrfbbjxdlevv4yldvod3eo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdqws52ms2z