#trump last week announced a "blockade" of all #oil tankers under “sanctions” entering & leaving #venezuela.

Trump's pressure campaign on Venezuela's #maduro has included a ramped-up #military presence in the region & more than 2 dozen military strikes on vessels in the #pacific Ocean & […]

The missing files, which were available Friday & no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, & 1 showing a series of photographs along a credenza & in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of #trump, alongside […]

“The rest,” he wrote in an email interview…, “followed on schedule.”

It’s not uncommon for people to speculatively buy website domains that could be valuable one day, often in an attempt to turn a profit.…

Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains; he’s got websites for about 50 of them […]

All year, Morton followed news of #trump’s takeover of the institution — how he purged many of its existing board members, replaced them with loyalists, then announced plans to personally host the #kennedycenter Honors — & in August he snapped up the rights to both trumpkennedycenter.org & […]

“As soon as #trump began gutting the #kennedycenter board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with “South Park” & “Mad TV” credits who buys political domains & turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism […]

By Friday morning a wholesale rebranding effort was underway, aided by construction workers on aerial lifts, adding #trump’s name to the building’s exterior.
The organization’s leaders might have wanted a new website to replace kennedy-center.org, too. But if they’d hoped for […]

Online, the unexplained missing files fueled speculation about what was taken down & why the public was not notified, compounding long-standing intrigue about #epstein & the powerful figures who
surrounded him. #democrats on the #house #oversight Cmte pointed to the missing image featuring a […]

The missing files, which were available Friday & no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, & 1 showing a series of photographs along a credenza & in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of #trump, alongside […]

#pambondi promptly vowed to take “all available legal action, including an immediate appeal.” But the #doj took weeks to do so, seeking first to bring charges again against James & Comey, only to be stymied by federal grand juries & judges.

Prosecutors twice failed to convince two separate […]

Late last month, a federal judge, Cameron McGowan Currie, dismissed both cases on the grounds that the #usattorney handpicked by #trump to seek charges, #lindseyhalligan, had been unlawfully appointed. Halligan used that job to immediately obtain indictments against 2 of Trump’s longtime foes […]

The move *could* provide the #doj with a path to revive charges against Comey & James after the courts threw up a number of roadblocks to the admin’s bid to bring new indictments against them. It came weeks after AG Pam Bondi pledged to do so.

Any appeal would be handled by the Fourth Circuit […]

They said the release of thousands of pages of photographs & heavily redacted documents did little to shed new light on the investigations & the scope of Epstein’s #crimes or #conspirators.

“They are proving everything we have been saying about #corruption & #delayedjustice,” said Jess Michaels […]

Federal “health” ofcls are weighing vaccine guidance that would encourage parents to talk to a doctor to make decisions for most shots…. This approach would mark a fundamental shift in the #healthcare system that generally relies on federal #health agencies to guide how #patients are protected […]

The #Trump admin plans to shift the federal govt away from directly recommending most #vaccines for #children & suggest they receive fewer shots to more closely align with Denmark’s #immunization model…. but they’re totes cool with dictating what <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trans" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#women & [#trans folk can do medically] […]

The DOJ’s website also contains a search function, though it’s not working. A query for “Epstein” returned no results.

On first review, many of the files appear heavily readcted. The #law mandating the release of the files, the #epsteinfiles Transparency Act, required the #doj to redact info […]