@fredolives.bsky.social
Ex-Republican, ex-evangelical, disabled Navy veteran, med school dropout, former electrical engineer, currently driving Lyft.
Crypto, porn, and MAGAts are instant blocks.
#FuckTrumpAndEveryoneWhoVotedForHim
Crypto, porn, and MAGAts are instant blocks.
#FuckTrumpAndEveryoneWhoVotedForHim
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I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting on December 4th and 5th.
I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine.
TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.
I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine.
TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting on December 4th and 5th.
I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine.
TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.
I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine.
TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.
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"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
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OPINION: In the service of President Donald Trump, Lindsey Halligan, Trump's second interim appointment as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, may lose her license to practice law.
This Trump lackey was set up to fail — but her own incompetence helped
In the service of President Donald Trump, Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s second interim appointment as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, may lose her license to practice law.Who is Halligan?Competence is a key requirement for obtaining and retaining a law license. But nothing in Halliga...
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
OPINION: In the service of President Donald Trump, Lindsey Halligan, Trump's second interim appointment as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, may lose her license to practice law.
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Two Black Men Deliver a Powerful Message to White America—MAGA and Otherwise
Pedro Silva and Egberto Willies share raw stories exposing how elites use race to divide white and Black America—and why MAGA anger is misdirected. A must-hear message of unity and truth.
Pedro Silva and Egberto Willies share raw stories exposing how elites use race to divide white and Black America—and why MAGA anger is misdirected. A must-hear message of unity and truth.
Two Black Men Deliver a Powerful Message to White America—MAGA and Otherwise
Pedro Silva and Egberto Willies share raw stories exposing how elites use race to divide white and Black America—and why MAGA anger is misdirected. A must-hear message of unity and truth.
politicsdoneright.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Two Black Men Deliver a Powerful Message to White America—MAGA and Otherwise
Pedro Silva and Egberto Willies share raw stories exposing how elites use race to divide white and Black America—and why MAGA anger is misdirected. A must-hear message of unity and truth.
Pedro Silva and Egberto Willies share raw stories exposing how elites use race to divide white and Black America—and why MAGA anger is misdirected. A must-hear message of unity and truth.
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"..halted all asylum decisions until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.”
"..halting visas for Afghans, including those who had helped the (U.S.) during the war in their country."
They will use this as an excuse for all non-white countries.
#Pinks
"..halting visas for Afghans, including those who had helped the (U.S.) during the war in their country."
They will use this as an excuse for all non-white countries.
#Pinks
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"..halted all asylum decisions until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.”
"..halting visas for Afghans, including those who had helped the (U.S.) during the war in their country."
They will use this as an excuse for all non-white countries.
#Pinks
"..halting visas for Afghans, including those who had helped the (U.S.) during the war in their country."
They will use this as an excuse for all non-white countries.
#Pinks
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I wrote about Rodney in September when he was placed in solitary confinement.
He’s been denied his new prosthetics.
Given a wheelchair he’s unable to use.
His crime? A burglary when he was a teenager for which he received a full pardon.
It’s eugenics:
He’s been denied his new prosthetics.
Given a wheelchair he’s unable to use.
His crime? A burglary when he was a teenager for which he received a full pardon.
It’s eugenics:
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I wrote about Rodney in September when he was placed in solitary confinement.
He’s been denied his new prosthetics.
Given a wheelchair he’s unable to use.
His crime? A burglary when he was a teenager for which he received a full pardon.
It’s eugenics:
He’s been denied his new prosthetics.
Given a wheelchair he’s unable to use.
His crime? A burglary when he was a teenager for which he received a full pardon.
It’s eugenics:
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Rodney Taylor is a disabled double amputee who came to the US when he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s been in a camp ever since, and his health has deteriorated considerably.
The Governor of Georgia is fighting for his release:
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s been in a camp ever since, and his health has deteriorated considerably.
The Governor of Georgia is fighting for his release:
Health of double amputee detained in Georgia ICE jail worsens
Rodney Taylor says detention ‘draining on my body’ as Democratic senator Raphael Warnock lends support to case
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Rodney Taylor is a disabled double amputee who came to the US when he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s been in a camp ever since, and his health has deteriorated considerably.
The Governor of Georgia is fighting for his release:
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s been in a camp ever since, and his health has deteriorated considerably.
The Governor of Georgia is fighting for his release:
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A pardon for a convicted drug trafficker,
firey death in tiny boats for men accused without evidence of drug trafficking.
This was never about protecting the American people.
It was always about power and influence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
firey death in tiny boats for men accused without evidence of drug trafficking.
This was never about protecting the American people.
It was always about power and influence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A pardon for a convicted drug trafficker,
firey death in tiny boats for men accused without evidence of drug trafficking.
This was never about protecting the American people.
It was always about power and influence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
firey death in tiny boats for men accused without evidence of drug trafficking.
This was never about protecting the American people.
It was always about power and influence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
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If only accountability moved as fast as the harm did. But accountability WILL come‼️
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
If only accountability moved as fast as the harm did. But accountability WILL come‼️
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My comments with @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com more antivaccine MAHA pseudoscience headed our way www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
My comments with @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com more antivaccine MAHA pseudoscience headed our way www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Good news
Better to be late than ended
People who pay for their own heat
With income below the poverty line are usually eligible for payment annually from the government to their heating company.
Some people with similar income get $ to utilities
Check your state/county website for more.
Better to be late than ended
People who pay for their own heat
With income below the poverty line are usually eligible for payment annually from the government to their heating company.
Some people with similar income get $ to utilities
Check your state/county website for more.
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Good news
Better to be late than ended
People who pay for their own heat
With income below the poverty line are usually eligible for payment annually from the government to their heating company.
Some people with similar income get $ to utilities
Check your state/county website for more.
Better to be late than ended
People who pay for their own heat
With income below the poverty line are usually eligible for payment annually from the government to their heating company.
Some people with similar income get $ to utilities
Check your state/county website for more.
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
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I know someone who seems very sick but refuses to go to the hospital until her Medi-Cal approval comes thru. She cannot afford insurance. I told her they cannot turn her away, but she's too frightened of the bill if she's admitted, which she most certainly would be. Our country is so fucked up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I know someone who seems very sick but refuses to go to the hospital until her Medi-Cal approval comes thru. She cannot afford insurance. I told her they cannot turn her away, but she's too frightened of the bill if she's admitted, which she most certainly would be. Our country is so fucked up.
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We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
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College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
apnews.com/article/babs...
apnews.com/article/babs...
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
apnews.com/article/babs...
apnews.com/article/babs...
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US Marine Staff Sergeant’s wife was grabbed by ICE at her green card interview
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
US Marine Staff Sergeant’s wife was grabbed by ICE at her green card interview
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
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They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine but for all of Europe!
RIP - Mariia Dykhtiar, Dmytro Dereka (36), Volodymyr Matskiv (55), Venezuelan fighter Diego Alejandro Gonçalves
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
RIP - Mariia Dykhtiar, Dmytro Dereka (36), Volodymyr Matskiv (55), Venezuelan fighter Diego Alejandro Gonçalves
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine but for all of Europe!
RIP - Mariia Dykhtiar, Dmytro Dereka (36), Volodymyr Matskiv (55), Venezuelan fighter Diego Alejandro Gonçalves
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
RIP - Mariia Dykhtiar, Dmytro Dereka (36), Volodymyr Matskiv (55), Venezuelan fighter Diego Alejandro Gonçalves
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
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And we wonder why Democratic veterans felt the need to remind soldiers they didn’t have to follow unlawful orders?
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
And we wonder why Democratic veterans felt the need to remind soldiers they didn’t have to follow unlawful orders?
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The Republican party's discovery of their morality will be perfectly synchronized with the downfall of Trump. And because Democrats don't have the spine to do what is required to fix our broken country, the vast majority of these traitors will escape consequences.
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Republican party's discovery of their morality will be perfectly synchronized with the downfall of Trump. And because Democrats don't have the spine to do what is required to fix our broken country, the vast majority of these traitors will escape consequences.
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More cracks in the dam
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
More cracks in the dam