Katie Vloet

“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”

Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act Contact Congress today!

THIS: Tell your Members of Congress to vote YES on releasing the Epstein files next week:

Trump Administration Lifts Some Food Tariffs in Effort to Ease Prices That Were Definitely Not Higher Because It Imposed Some Food Tariffs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of recruiting & trafficking minors for Epstein

She got 20 years

Now after a secret DOJ interview, Trump's DOJ moves her to a "country club" prison

The dean of watchdogs, Fred Wertheimer from @democracy21.bsky.social details this travesty below 👇

“A Shoddy Mess”: Climate Scientists Torch Trump’s New Report A group of leading researchers said it was biased and full of errors.

A group of 85 climate experts has compiled more than 400-pages reviewing the Trump administration’s latest climate report.

They found the DOE’s report had been authored by five fringe experts who cherry-picked cases and misrepresented evidence to support their flimsy findings. trib.al/eFcoDg0

It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all.

Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

Like, maybe the answer to "why did Musk do that weird thing" is that he is a weird guy, usually high, who spends way too much time online with some of the world's biggest conspiracy theorists.

It’s been around since 1983.

Ketamine.
Ecstasy.
Mushrooms.

“.. Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

Judge Says Musk Must Face Lawsuit Over His Role In DOGE Read more here.

NEW: A federal judge greenlit lawsuits challenging Elon Musk’s position in the federal government and DOGE as unconstitutional, stating that the faux-agency’s efforts to slash the government likely violate the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social‬

Looks like Trump sold a pardon for a million bucks.

His corrupt pardons have mostly been ignored by the legacy media. The 3rd chapter of #RoughBeast covers this extensively & should make anyone with even a scintilla of belief in the rule of law nauseous.

Time was, this was a bipartisan belief:

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education I don't care about the "why" -- I care about the "what."

I wish this was hyperbole but the facts speak for themselves. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

I’m thinking InfoWars.

Trump’s Attacks Have Helped Heal a Deeply Divided Harvard

"Jacob M. Miller, who in 2023 served as the student president of Harvard’s Hillel chapter...said Harvard’s Jewish community rejects the Trump administration’s narrative...'We will not allow the administration to wield our identities as a pretextual prop.'”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut, via @statnews.com

How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure? Reflecting on the escalating hostility to America values, principles and decency in a 24-hour period

From the ambush of South Africa’s president, to his ugly assault on a WH reporter, to a kowtowing GOP making the rich richer and the poor poorer and sicker, to the escalating war against Harvard & higher ed: We must not be numbed by the flood of outrages.

www.americaamerica.news/p/how-much-m...

The House GOP took a chainsaw to American working class families last night in order to make the rich richer & to add almost FOUR TRILLION to the debt.

🚨CALL THE CAPITOL NOW: (202) 224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote "NO" on Trump's Big Brutal Bullshit Bill.🚨

Full court press, people. Call them. Repeatedly.

Ed Martin Was Too Extreme for GOP Senators. Now He’s Targeting Trump’s Enemies at the DOJ Read more here.

NEW: Ed Martin’s nomination for D.C. U.S. attorney was too extreme for GOP senators, but he will now hold multiple roles at the DOJ that enable him to target Trump's political enemies, spread disinformation and undermine future elections.

From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social‬

That means some of the most vulnerable Americans – families, the elderly, folks with disabilities – won’t be able to get the lifesaving treatment, medication, or care they need. These are people you know. Reach out to your senators now to let them know how much this will impact you.

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care.

They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

The bar is so low for the president that doing the bare minimum has the media praising him

“.. ‘We need to do some rewriting” and more analytic work “so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,’ Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3 ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole. A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm…

From Aug. 1 to Dec. 13, 2024, an algorithm canceled at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings, deeming them ineligible.

One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”

“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”

With @veritenews.org ‬

🚨 Lindsey v. Whitmer Read more.

NEW: In a win for voters, SCOTUS rejects a case from GOP Michigan lawmakers who used the radical independent state legislature theory to challenge two voter-approved pro-voting amendments to the Michigan Constitution.

The amendments will remain in effect.

Texas Targets Latino Officials in Voting Crackdown, Setting up a Climate of Intimidation Read more here.

NEW: Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against alleged voter fraud has led to the criminal prosecution of six Democratic officials, all Latino, in Frio County, Texas. Civil rights groups say the charges are politically motivated and aim to suppress Latino civic participation.