Salomé Viljoen
@salome.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
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Salomé Viljoen
@salome.bsky.social
· Mar 31
The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️
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Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
incredible resource here, please share!!
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Constitutional crisis doesn’t do enough to convey how absurd our current situation is.
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
February 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Constitutional crisis doesn’t do enough to convey how absurd our current situation is.
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A federal judge is weighing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as coercion to achieve policy goals. trib.al/tcKLaft
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
A federal judge is weighing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as coercion to achieve policy goals. trib.al/tcKLaft
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new CBS contributor Peter Attia
Here is Peter Attia MD emailing Epstein’s assistant claiming he goes into “JE withdrawal” when he doesn’t see him.
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 AM
new CBS contributor Peter Attia
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The DOJ just took down pages with detailed descriptions of Trump engaged in child rape and other pedophilia. We don't know if they have been corroborated, but we already know this DOJ will deny everything on behalf of their client.
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The DOJ just took down pages with detailed descriptions of Trump engaged in child rape and other pedophilia. We don't know if they have been corroborated, but we already know this DOJ will deny everything on behalf of their client.
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Speculation that the FBI special agent in charge in Atlanta was fired when he raised questions about the planned raid on the Fulton County elections center are confirmed.
January 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Speculation that the FBI special agent in charge in Atlanta was fired when he raised questions about the planned raid on the Fulton County elections center are confirmed.
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BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.
But we saved it. 👇
But we saved it. 👇
DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.
The Trump Department of Justice has done it again.
www.meidasplus.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.
But we saved it. 👇
But we saved it. 👇
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me
January 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me
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Jonathan Karl: This stuff is truly crazy ... claims that Italian spy satellites ... the CIA ... the FBI ... China all conspired tried to steal the 2020 election. Oh, and Obama tried to overthrow the government he led in 2016. In the hours after FBI agents seized 2020 election ballots
Trump posts discredited conspiracy theories following seizure of 2020 ballots in Georgia
In the hours after FBI agents in Georgia seized 2020 election ballots, President Trump posted a series of thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories about the election.
abcnews.go.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Jonathan Karl: This stuff is truly crazy ... claims that Italian spy satellites ... the CIA ... the FBI ... China all conspired tried to steal the 2020 election. Oh, and Obama tried to overthrow the government he led in 2016. In the hours after FBI agents seized 2020 election ballots
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If you put the words "LOCAL FOOL" in place of Elon Musk, the headlines make more sense. People who cover him should try it to see if it helps clear up their reporting.
Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars
Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer
Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars
Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you put the words "LOCAL FOOL" in place of Elon Musk, the headlines make more sense. People who cover him should try it to see if it helps clear up their reporting.
Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars
Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer
Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars
Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer
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i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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“The reality is that ICE could not engage in their operations without technologies supplied to them through contracts with Palantir, Amazon, and Microsoft.” @veenadubal.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
Growing Wave of Silicon Valley Workers Condemns ICE as C-Suites Split Over Fear of Trump | KQED
Many more progressive rank-and-file tech workers stopped speaking out after the 2024 election as executives cozied up to Trump. For some, the recent killings in Minneapolis by federal agents mark a tu...
www.kqed.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM
“The reality is that ICE could not engage in their operations without technologies supplied to them through contracts with Palantir, Amazon, and Microsoft.” @veenadubal.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
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My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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NEW: The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...
www.propublica.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM
NEW: The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
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Trump may bring in new voting rules ahead of the midterms based on a report into fraud at the 2020 election currently being prepared by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the WSJ reports.
Gabbard is looking into voting machines, swing state data and claims of foreign interference.
Gabbard is looking into voting machines, swing state data and claims of foreign interference.
January 29, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Trump may bring in new voting rules ahead of the midterms based on a report into fraud at the 2020 election currently being prepared by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the WSJ reports.
Gabbard is looking into voting machines, swing state data and claims of foreign interference.
Gabbard is looking into voting machines, swing state data and claims of foreign interference.
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Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.
January 29, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.
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What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
honestly, we gotta get him to keep talking like this
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
honestly, we gotta get him to keep talking like this
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A whole new category of front groups.
This is what you need when you are lying about the climate impacts of your product and lying about demand for your product.
This is what you need when you are lying about the climate impacts of your product and lying about demand for your product.
“[U.S. LNG producers have] spent so much money in developing their LNG infrastructure,” said Brulle, adding that a “whole new category” of front groups have been created to sell the product overseas. “This is kind of an existential crisis for them.”
LNG creates an existential crisis for humanity.
LNG creates an existential crisis for humanity.
Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
www.desmog.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A whole new category of front groups.
This is what you need when you are lying about the climate impacts of your product and lying about demand for your product.
This is what you need when you are lying about the climate impacts of your product and lying about demand for your product.
tough legal argument for team "build all the data centers"
BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics”
Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
The Trump Administration Is Now Delaying Renewable Projects It Thinks Are Ugly
The Army Corps of Engineers is out to protect “the beauty of the Nation’s natural landscape.”
heatmap.news
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
tough legal argument for team "build all the data centers"
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Trump’s efforts to interfere in midterms becoming clearer & more dangerous every day:
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous
The seizure of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia follows the DOJ’s demands for voter data in Minnesota.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Trump’s efforts to interfere in midterms becoming clearer & more dangerous every day:
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The risk to North American auto manufacturing is North America's auto manufacturers not keeping up with what global consumers want.
You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.
You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.
Exclusive: A recent deal by Canada to allow tens of thousands of inexpensive Chinese EVs into the country is a risk to North American auto manufacturing, GM’s CEO says.
Canada’s Move to Import Cheap Chinese EVs is ‘Slippery Slope,’ GM CEO Says
Thousands of electric vehicles from Chinese automakers can enter Canada this year at new low tariff rate
on.wsj.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The risk to North American auto manufacturing is North America's auto manufacturers not keeping up with what global consumers want.
You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.
You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.
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Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...