Abby Vesoulis
@abbyvesoulis
Currently: National Politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME Magazine. Always: Trying my best. Sometimes: Coming up short. Email me at avesoulis@cir[dot]org Encrypted contact info: Signal: abbyvesoulis.09
Something I didn’t include in the story: Rep. Miller expressed to the judge he was worried about making future court hearings over his CPO because Republicans have a “very small majority.” His lawyer basically told him to shut up.
In this screenshot of texts between Rep. Miller and Senator Bernie Moreno in May, Miller says that the Morenos will have to go through the parenting coordinator to get the bunny back. (5/8).
In this screenshot of an email from August, Emily Moreno's lawyer is seen reaching out to Rep. Miller's attorneys asking them to persuade Miller to give the bunny back. (4/8)
In this screenshot of an email from March 2025, Emily Moreno begged Miller for the blue bunny. (3/?)
In this screenshot from an unknown date, the parenting coordinator of Miller and Moreno seems to say Miller "adamantly refuses" to give the bunny back. (2/8)
The @dailymailus.bsky.social just published a picture of a syringe in embattled Congressman Max Miller's bedroom, "appearing to directly contradict his own recorded denial that he ever had needles by his bed." www.dailymail.com/news/article... Photo credit: The Daily Mail.
Republican Sen. Jon Husted still lists Max Miller’s endorsement on his website as he campaigns for a full Senate term. Husted will face Sherrod Brown in the November general election.
Moreno accused Miller of denying drug tests requested by DCFS. DCFS records are not public records, so I have no further knowledge of whether this is true (though Miller denied it.) However, I have a toxicology report from a 2011 crash showing Miller was on MDMA & Klonopin.
Emily Moreno requested a restraining order, citing an implicitly threatening message Miller sent her father. Here's a screenshot of the text, in which Miller seemed to imply he had some dirt of dirt on Moreno. However, Neither Miller nor Moreno answered my questions about what the text meant.
Rep. Max Miller today: "Just want to be clear: no court, no agency has ever substantiated any allegation of abuse against me. No criminal charge has ever been filed against me." But here's a screenshot of his past criminal offenses.
Emily Moreno's lawyer filed for a restraining order against Miller earlier this week, alleging Miller touched him. But this wasn't the first time Miller allegedly got into it with Moreno's lawyers.
Miller previously denied being intoxicated during a 2011 car crash. A toxicology report I uncovered states he was on Klonopin and MDMA (ecstasy).
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) is a survivor of domestic abuse. Like Emily Moreno, Moore has alleged her abuser held a gun to her head. Moore now calls for “all investigative authorities involved” to ensure Moreno and Miller’s child is safe.
"As someone who once [allegedly] conducted an autopsy on a whale..."
As Feds Flaunt Trump’s Takeover, DC Pushes Back -via Dan Friedman and me. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm going over some of my interview transcripts and apparently "no, yeah" and "yeah, no" are some of my frequently used phrases. 😆 Is this a midwestern or millennial thing? or does everyone do it?
Yeah, people sometimes have mood, stomach, and sleeping issues after going off anti-depressants..... because they stopped taking medications that were helping their depression and anxiety, which can cause mood/stomach/sleeping problems. 🤦♀️
Why does the google knowledge panel for "ICC" go straight to "International Cricket Council" rather than International Criminal Court????? One seems more important than the other.
EEOC staff will be on administrative leave on April 18 (Good Friday) for the explicit purpose of commemorating Good Friday.
It is very scary that we've gotten to a point where the ruling class casts doubt on election results every single time they don't get the outcome they want.
Fiery Furnace, part of a National Park in Utah, is closed indefinitely as a result of the Trump administration’s hiring freezes. It is one of the most surreal and extraordinary hikes I’ve ever done. I hope others can experience its beauty again soon. 😔
Tomorrow was supposed to be the last day of work for government employees who opted into DOGE's "Fork in the Road" deferred resignation offer. Today, some of them received this email saying, NOPE.
This is not what I meant when I said to send me tips and leaks via encrypted Proton Mail 🥴
Almost all remaining USAID employees will go on administrative leave tonight at midnight.
To the folks at CFPB, EEOC, USAID, & other federal agencies: you can reach me for tips/concerns about your workplace via signal here.
Trump's latest executive order goes after antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... RFK Jr. can pry my SSRIs out of my cold, dead hands. Literally. I (and so many others) would be dead—or close to dead—without them.
About an hour later, an all-agency email was sent out reminding EEOC employees that all-department emails must be "reviewed and approved by the sender's office director before it can be distributed by the sender."
An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.