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”

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 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.

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.

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:

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.

"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, via @statnews.com

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.

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...

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 ‬

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.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about the real litmus test of the 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign. campaign-trails.ghost.io/cloud-yells-...

Terminating #TPS for Venezuelans will send families to a country the U.S. tells its own citizens to avoid due to a “high risk of wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure”

Because priorities.

Today is unfortunately a good reminder of just how depraved many Trump supporters are. It should be the easiest thing in the world to just wish someone well in light of a devastating health diagnosis. That they can't even meet that very low bar says a lot about their character.

"The office no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster after... cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, the initiative led by Elon Musk..." Americans are dying because of this incompetence! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

All of this is shocking, but @h-lev.bsky.social finding out that a group of nurses basically predicted a death like Sungida's WEEKS prior is blowing my mind. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

2017 Trump: “Qatar has been funding terrorism at a very high level.” 2025 Trump: *takes a $400 Million flying palace from them* Looks like they got the memo. 🤷🏼‍♂️ #SwampForceOne ✈️

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

NYT has more sources contradicting the FAA's claim than Newark International has air traffic controllers this evening. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

help us, e. coli, you’re our only hope

RFK is committing #PublicHealthMalpractice.

So let me get this straight 49 white South Africans are offered refugee status by Trump & suddenly the GOP is silent on “America First” & resource strain? White refugees use the same resources that Brown & Black refugees do. This isn’t immigration policy it’s white grievance theater.

“Joe Biden did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken.” He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system. Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.

NEW: The largest holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have secured spots at a private crypto dinner with the US president himself. It costs at least $2 million for a VIP seat. WIRED tracked how they did it. 🔽

Trump welcomes 49 white Afrikaners today as “refugees” from South Africa… The racism is a feature, not a bug.

RFK Jr. celebrated on Sunday by taking shirtless selfies and swimming in an E. coli-ridden, sewage-infested creek where swimming, notably, has been banned by the National Park Service, thanks to the whole...poop water issue.

With a foreign government apparently set to gift a U.S. President a ~luxury plane~ it's maybe time to look back at how SCOTUS has been all in on the MAGA (Make America a Grift Again) project 🧵 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...