before Congress could even try to get any actual accountability.

Turns out the FBI has blown nearly a million dollars

running something called the “Special Redaction Project”

which is honestly the most accidentally transparent name they could’ve chosen.

Thousands of overtime hours.

Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

All for what was supposedly the “Epstein Transparency Project,”

which is hilarious considering transparency was the one thing not happening.

They combed through everything

surveillance footage,

search warrant photos,

2019 jail-death investigations,

logs, drives, CDs,

literal blueprints,

and yes, even a “document with names”

that sure sounds like the thing everyone’s been asking about for years.

And the wildest part?

Agents were reportedly told to flag every mention of Donald Trump.

Every. Single. One.

So when people ask why parts of the files still aren’t public, the answer is

Because an army of federal employees spent months pre-scrubbing them.

Because the people with power got a head start.

Because the government was ready to redact first and answer questions never.

This wasn’t victim protection.

This was narrative protection.

Let’s talk about the genius master plan currently unfolding in statehouses across the country: the noble endeavour of dismantling more than a century of public health progress because, apparently, science is so last season. Cue the confetti.

Remember how societies used to actually care about measles, polio, clean drinking water, and vaccines? How quaint. According to a recent piece from Associated Press, hundreds of anti-science bills are now barreling through state legislatures—aimed at neutering protections that generations of public health experts painstakingly built. AP News

And in the starring role of this disillusioning drama we find Robert F. Kennedy Jr., swirling in the mire like he’s auditioning for “Anti-Science Pioneer of the Year.” Because nothing says “responsible public health discourse” like cheerleading legislation that treats evidence like an optional garnish.

Here’s the vibe:

“Let’s reverse the basic notion that disease prevention is a public good and instead reimagine governance as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure where rules are optional.” That seems to be the new motto.

Fluoride? Who needs it. Clean drinking water? Pshaw. Vaccines? Pfft. There’s a push to chip away at all of this.

Want to require schools to teach accurate science? Not if the legislature has its way.

Want your local health authority to operate with recognized expertise instead of “hunches and suspicion”? Well too bad.

And Kennedy Jr., bless him, keeps reminding us that he’s the hero of this story—when in truth he looks more like the guy who wandered into the science lab and unplugged all the computers because he’s “questioning the narrative.”

Let’s break this down sarcastically because evidently we need the blunt force of irony here:

Building public health protections = boring. Think of all the time and energy people used to spend researching pathogens, creating immunizations, regulating contaminants. Yawn.

Tearing them down = fun! Why worry about measles outbreaks or water-borne diseases when you can have legislative debates about “freedom to reject safety”?

Kennedy Jr as hero? Sure. Because when a person with a complicated history of opposing mainstream science steps into the spotlight of anti-regulatory applause, what could go wrong?

Future generations? They’ll figure it out. Maybe a pollinator-borne pathogen will show up in 2032 and everyone will go, “Huh. Maybe we should have listened to the epidemiologists.”

Look: This isn’t about stifling critique or questioning authority. That’s part of science. It’s about removing the scaffolding that lets societies handle illness, protect children, ensure safe water, and rely on facts instead of fear. When legislation starts to treat expertise as optional and public health as preference, we’re flirting with recklessness.

So yes, let’s applaud the boldness of scrapping safeguards built over decades. Let’s give Kennedy Jr and the bill-sponsors a standing ovation. And then quietly remind ourselves this isn’t whimsical theater—it’s policy with consequences.

Everything here was meant to be erased. But the wall won’t forget, and the metal keeps dreaming in rust. Even silence gets tagged eventually.

(Photo: d.)

He rage-posted through an entire mood swing on Truth Social

Like someone took his phone away and he wrestled it back mid-tantrum.

160+ posts!

Honestly, the meltdown told me more about the state of this administration

than any press conference they’ve held in months.

I’m still trying to decide if I should be

concerned

exhausted

or just deeply uncomfortable

like we haven’t spend years speed-running a constitutional demolition derby.

We’ve got illegal troop deployments,

politicians talking like supervillains,

judges being ignored,

and a public drowning in violent rhetoric.

At this point the system isn’t failing.

The system is doing what it has been trained to do.

Honestly the only surprising part is that anyone’s still calling this “order.”

Because “law” has definitely left the chat.