fredolives.bsky.social
@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
created October 22, 2024
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Nick Knudsen (@nickknudsenus.bsky.social) reposted
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fight is our fight. Trump’s regime uses deportation as a weapon to punish dissent & terrorize families. If they come for one, they come for all. Stand up, speak out, resist. #FreeKilmar social.demcast.com/s/eDPWMpqU
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.
Plague Poems (@plaguepoems.bsky.social) reposted
For years now I’ve heard people say that we need not worry about this virus because “we have the tools,” but today I saw a headline which read: “Trump and RFK Jr. to ban Covid-19 vaccine ‘within months,’” so I suppose that soon we will find ourselves saying “we had the tools.”
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D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) reposted
📌NOTE TO PRESS: You are allowed to push back, ask follow-up questions, and correct lies for the record when questioning anybody, but mostly when questioning the most notorious liar on the planet. In fact, that's your fucking job.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pirro -- proving once again he is a vote suppressor through and through. When will the legacy media stop falling for Republicans who falsely claim to be enlightened moderates...
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Jennifer ✨Get In Good Trouble (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) reposted
🚨 BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the release of the Epstein files—in a weekend session. They don’t work weekends for your healthcare, but they’ll hustle to bury the names tied to a child sex trafficking ring. What are they so desperate to hide? Release. The. Files.
PortiaMcGonagal (@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social) reposted
So there's an angry white man who murdered hikers in AR. Another who murdered his family in TN. Another who's a suspect in a shooting in MT. 1/ But our government has decided that every non-white immigrant or person is a criminal.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it
Eric Michael Johnson (@ericmjohnson.bsky.social) reposted
Do people not remember the sexist manboys in Home Improvement or Everyone Loves Raymond, Girls Gone Wild during every commercial break after 10pm, or cancelling Ellen because her character came out as gay? Any feminist, queer, or trans representation could only be found at the small indie theater.
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
They know the “truth”; don’t confuse them with the facts.
vantazach (@vantazach.bsky.social) reposted
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3 www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
Un-American? Have they been paying attention to what is going on at Alligator Auschwitz? Or what happened at Guantánamo Bay. Or the lynching of innocent African Americans? Or the genocide of Native Americans? America has always been like this.
Dean Baker (@deanbaker13.bsky.social) reposted
Firing the BLS commissioner is Trump's first clear dementia firing. He blamed her for downward revisions to jobs data after the election, the revisions were made more than two months BEFORE the election www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/b... But Republicans all have to pretend Trump makes sense
PhillipUSA (@phillipusa.bsky.social) reposted
Dear MAGA, What the fuck is wrong with you?
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted
tucson.com/news/local/b...
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BravestBunny BravestBlossom (@bravestbunny.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
What does Trump have on Graham. It's big. Really big. Gotta be! youtu.be/2bkDykGhM8c?...
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Lindsey Graham gets called-out. A glorious moment. More of this, please. "Are you trying to re-write history to distract from the Epstein matter, Senator?"
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Damn da Man!!! 2.0 (@dman416.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's caught red handed. He's in the files. We know it. Period. He's part of this cover up... You reap what you sow. He created this. He weaponized it. He's done it from the birth certificate on down... Too cute by half, and now he's caught."
Denver Riggleman (@denverr.bsky.social) reposted
PSA: I fear these next weeks and months will be the largest dump of disinformation, and violent rhetoric attached to that disinformation, that this country has quite possibly ever seen. They’ve had weeks to plan a cover for Epstein. Get ready. There are no good faith actors in this admin.
Angie Rasmussen (@angierasmussen.bsky.social) reposted
Super reassuring to know that not only are our tax dollars are going toward designing this tasteless pedophile’s PJ interiors www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
So these white supremacists building a whites-only “Return to the Land” town in the Ozarks—what’s their source of income while living in complete isolation from society? Please tell me they’re not collecting welfare benefits. Anyone normalizing Hitler as a product of propaganda isn’t just wrong… 🧵
this is awkword . com (@awkword.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Who’s in the Epstein files (hint: it’s all of them) is less important than the Trump decision to criminalize and disappear anyone who does not have a house or has an addiction or “mental health” disability. In fact, 20 years in, might these files mainly be a sensational distraction?
David Bier (@davidjbier.bsky.social) reposted
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted
Understand the indignity of air dropping food on Gaza. The March air drop killed 5 Palestinians. Air drops force Palestinians to scavenge for food like animals. This could all be avoided if Israel ended its barbaric blockade, or if world leaders had the courage to break it. Instead, more genocide
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
"Not even a month ago, the idea of Trump supporters openly embracing a convicted child sex trafficker would have been unimaginable." Well, Trump sure grows some folks' imaginations.
Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted
THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it. 🧪🧵⬇️
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emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
Theo Von gets a lesson in the problem with destroying USAID. Ah well. He should have thought of that before he helped Trump get elected.
Dante The K9 (@dantethek9.bsky.social) reposted
Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
After Trump’s reality-free spectacle in Scotland: “Wow. I’m not going to say any more words until my executive producer puts on the banner next to me, ‘that was bat poop crazy.’” — @velshi.com Then he calmly fact-checks the lies.
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
What Israel has done in Gaza has and will always be a genocide. This stands on the shoulders of all nations that did not intervene (and the individuals that stood in the way, gaslighting) or who kept supplying the Israeli state with mass casualty ammunition and weapons without any oversight. #3E
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Bolts (@boltsmag.org) reposted
Officially speaking, nobody remains in solitary confinement in Massachusetts prisons. But as of mid-February 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction isolated roughly the same number of people as had been in restrictive housing in January 2020. boltsmag.org/massach...
NPR (@npr.org) reposted
ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be banned.
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MAGAts.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Hillary notices how radical @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s policies are Trust us, @HillaryClinton — this one is the tip of the iceberg
Jewish Dems (@jewishdems.bsky.social) reposted
The situation in Gaza is unacceptable and antithetical to our Jewish values, and it’s incumbent on the Israeli government, the United States, and all parties to ensure that Gazans have access to food. Our full statement:
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job? Lina Khan explains how excessive corporate power makes us less free.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
An influencer leading the "Free Ghislaine" movement says people "intimately connected to the White House" reached out to her for advice prior to interviewing Maxwell
Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted
Worse than that. Read this EO carefully, it says anyone they see as essentially out of their mind OR homeless. It’s repeated under every point they make. This here allows to take anyone they see as a “threat” and put into an institution.
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
you will be able to tell a lot about media publications by which choose to cover bove's confirmation as a scandal - until trump it would've been the biggest scandal in the history of the DOJ - and which choose to cover it as "another big win for trump"
Jeff Jackson (@jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social) reposted
Breaking: The Department of Education has reversed course and is releasing all frozen funds – $6.8b nationally, $165m for North Carolina – after we filed suit last week. This ends weeks of uncertainty. Our schools can now plan and hire for a strong year ahead.
Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) reposted
The existence of this video in which a fake AI George Floyd is shown living a happy life because he "took Comply" is sufficient reason for me to destroy all AI.
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
Many Republicans seem immune to cognitive dissonance and are able to believe multiple conflicting ideas while ignoring any contradictions.
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
Sometimes it's helpful to step back and restate the obvious. Trump/JD Vance spin on Epstein falls apart because they're saying two things at once: 1) What's in the Epstein files will exonerate Trump and show it all to be a Dem/media hoax 2) No we won't release the Epstein files
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Sexual predator Donald Trump pardoning his fellow sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell would be what is known as a "professional courtesy."
The Contrarian (@contrariannews.org) reposted
Trump is escalating his racist attacks on Obama, pushing lies, deepfakes, and birther-era hate. Obama, as always, stays calm. @carronjphillips.bsky.social asks—should he?
The Contrarian (@contrariannews.org) reposted
What will it take to hold the powerful accountable? @ejeancarroll.bsky.social gives us her take on the Trump-Epstein scandal and the reaction of Trump's MAGA base
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like Musk and Zuckerberg.
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
You seem to have difficulty distinguishing between murder and justifiable homicide. They aren’t the same and you do a disservice to our legal system by pretending that they are. And pretending that the “white collar” mass murder of people by denying medical care is somehow more moral is absurd.
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Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) reposted
NEW: In 2023, Trump told supporters, "I am your retribution," vowing to use a second term for vengeance if re-elected. Six months into his second term, he's weaponizing the federal government against political opponents, threatening fair elections and democracy. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Truthout (@truthout.org) reposted
Israel’s “precisely designed mass starvation” campaign in Gaza has caused at least 83 children to die of hunger, health officials say, with many deaths occurring just in the last week. Experts say this number is likely a vast undercount.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social) reposted
There is no quiet part and never was. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
ffswtf.bsky.social (@ffswtf.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Did you see the story about how DoorDash overcharged San Francisco bakery La Patisserie over $100,000 over 8 years, said they would refund the money for years, then only refunded them after the news got involved. How many other businesses have no idea??? abc7news.com/post/doordas...
OG_McDuck (@ogmcduck.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I've had many rideshare passengers tell me they think drivers receive 100% of the price the pay for the ride. Truly we live in the dumbest of all possible timelines. (btw, only 10% of riders tip; that's been consistent across 5000 rides over 4 years)
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@kendrawrites.com) reposted
Remember that peanut factory that was making a peanut paste product that got shut down during the USAID cuts and then got reopened after some of those cuts were deemed illegal? The product it made was specifically designed to feed starving kids who can no longer tolerate food basically
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
They also laugh about having to shoot some immigrants eventually, and the $30,000 bonus money they get for being ICE agents making it ok to smell people’s urine when they piss their pants after being tased. Trump and Stephen Miller’s America. 🇺🇸
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
TEXAS: congressional candidate @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social is still in jail on sham charges after speaking over his time at a public meeting against their shameless gerrymandering (at Abbott & Trump’s behest)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
I think @keithedwards.bsky.social nails it here, with the next step being Republicans like MTG and Burchett rallying around Trump for "exposing the Democrats."
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
Brosephina Wiresina (@joparkerbear.bsky.social) reposted
I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) reposted
The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. My Faith Votes was founded in 2015 to mobilize millions of conservative Christians to vote in elections.
Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted
HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Daily Kos (@dailykos.com) reposted
Republicans: “Obama’s a traitor!” Also Republicans: blocks Epstein files, cheers presidential immunity, books golf trip to Scotland. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Protect Democracy (@protectdemocracy.org) reposted
Trump is openly musing about building a mass detention system under his direct and sole authority — and the rapid expansion of ICE is the start. Ansley Skipper analyzes the risks of prolonged detention and the creation of a parallel carceral system altogether. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/ice-may-be...
David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) reposted
Absolutely horrific. Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
Or Pedogate.
True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 (@spbmckenna.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
🚨 From 1994-2004, Ghislaine Maxwell assisted, facilitated & participated in Epstein’s ABUSE of MINOR GIRLS by helping him to RECRUIT, GROOM & ABUSE VICTIMS The victims were as young as 14 yrs old when they were groomed & abused by MAXWELL & Epstein 📍 share.google/hAUMs4lgl9qJ...
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Hillary Monahan (@hillarymonahan.bsky.social) reposted
Right-wing folks are so ride or die for their candidates regardless of that candidate's morality or presence of a heart or pulse, the left saying SHITCAN CLINTON prolly is confusing as hell, tbh. But also umm. Fuck Bill Clinton.
Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted
It’s still not too late to start wearing a mask again. The political climate is making it increasingly hard to survive as a disabled person. A well fitted mask like an N95 can help keep you and your community healthy. It’s also a great way to show solidarity with vulnerable people.
Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted
Instead of normalizing masking, everyone stopped. Leftists included. Disability advocates. Organizations that claimed to be for disability rights refused to make their events accessible. We pushed kids back into unsafe schools. We balked at clean air. We let the virus win.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I understand. Funny thing. I don't hate to think about Clinton...or anyone else who might have committed crimes in the Epstein world. The moment a kid is the victim, all that Republican/Democrat shit goes out the window for me.
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True Republicans Understand My Pedophilia
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Burchett dismisses Trump being friends with Epstein: "It's just like me. I know a lot of dirtbags myself." 😳
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
TEXAS: “History will not remember you kindly! You should all be ashamed!” Congressional candidate @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social TACKLED to the ground as he extends his comments ripping a redistricting power grab by Republicans at Abbott/Trump’s orders, shamelessly using a tragic flood as cover.
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fredolives.bsky.social (@fredolives.bsky.social) reply parent
So is every single person who voted for him.