Sherry Orloff

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.

Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):

"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

It was always about personal profit

Inside Trump and RFK Jr.'s Health Agency 'Bloodbath' Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are uncertain.

“Shitshow is an understatement for what just happened at the CDC,” a former CDC staffer tells Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone spoke with several current and former staffers about the layoffs and the impact they will have on Americans for years to come.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

All you need to know about Twitter

I like this idea

Russia agrees to stop targeting energy infrastructure then immediately bombs energy infrastructure.

Trump is putins bitch

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

This breaking news, if confirmed, means Governor Hochul must act quickly and decisivy because Eric Adams has lost support from his own senior team. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Running the government ≠ running a business. I spent 32 years working in government. There are improvements that need to be made but not in a way that is detrimental to the health and welfare of the American people. There are too many people who have no expertise but who think they know everything.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

Chris Murphy: "Why did he come out so quickly to attack women and Black people for ruining the FAA? He did that bc he is very vulnerable. He has some big questions to answer bc the FAA has been in chaos since he took over. Elon Musk, his co-president, forced out the FAA administrator ... "

If you want Bluesky to have a lot of energy (and have more news folks) you have to start following a lot of them, so that you can create a lot of discussions and cross-pollination, so to speak. Threads hates engagement, and X has drowned it in trolls.

nothing to see here

perfectly normal

everything going according to plan

Sadly, Brian’s reporting is correct. Over the past week I heard from two entirely separate very reliable sources, with some vivid detail, that they are absolutely terrified of Trump.

While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year.
Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.

It is going to take real depths of expertise to address specific initiatives--like the potential court martial of military leaders for their role in the Afghan withdrawal or the proposed round up of millions of undocumented immigrants or gutting specific agencies or targeting opposition leaders.

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech.

I’d like to report a murder

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.

Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candi...

You don't have to do this if you think your nominees can pass a background clearance. You only do it if you know they can't. www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

BREAKING: Attorney for teenager at the center of Matt Gaetz sex trafficking allegations says "She was a high school student and there were witnesses." Calls upon Ethics Committee to release it's report which Miami Herald/McClatchy sources say is "highly damaging."