Purple Bianchi
@purplebianchi.bsky.social
Dad, community advocate, cyclist, runner, and environmentalist. Interests include bikes, ttrpgs, politics, security and intelligence, OSINT, law, pseudolaw, courts/crime, and military issues.
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Watching the death of the CDC?
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@mtosterholm.bsky.social: “Today is a defining moment for our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@mtosterholm.bsky.social: “Today is a defining moment for our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Watching the death of the CDC?
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@mtosterholm.bsky.social: “Today is a defining moment for our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@mtosterholm.bsky.social: “Today is a defining moment for our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”
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Dark Age Nation...
Expected. Still infuriating & nonsensical.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
"...overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus."
Expected. Still infuriating & nonsensical.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
"...overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus."
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dark Age Nation...
Expected. Still infuriating & nonsensical.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
"...overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus."
Expected. Still infuriating & nonsensical.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
"...overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus."
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I just got to spend a pile of @toondreessen.bsky.social's money! Toon and others are matching donations right now to the @ottawafoodbank.bsky.social via CBC Radio’s ‘Make the Season Kind’ fundraiser.
Please join us!
www.cbc.ca/kind/ottawa
Please join us!
www.cbc.ca/kind/ottawa
Ottawa - Make the Season Kind - CBC.ca
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just got to spend a pile of @toondreessen.bsky.social's money! Toon and others are matching donations right now to the @ottawafoodbank.bsky.social via CBC Radio’s ‘Make the Season Kind’ fundraiser.
Please join us!
www.cbc.ca/kind/ottawa
Please join us!
www.cbc.ca/kind/ottawa
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BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
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BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
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The Globe and Mail has a very succinct but comprehensive editorial outlining the foolery of Lansdowne 2.0. Well worth the read.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
The City of Ottawa’s Hail Mary plan for redevelopment
The Lansdowne 2.0 plan depends on rosy assumptions, leaving taxpayers potentially on the hook if ambitions fall short
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Globe and Mail has a very succinct but comprehensive editorial outlining the foolery of Lansdowne 2.0. Well worth the read.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
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“The authority disclosed its investigation into Mr. Mraiche this summer when it asked a provincial court to find him in contempt for failing to participate in an interview.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Sam Mraiche was investigated by Elections Alberta over alleged illegal political donations
Regulator says Mraiche was being investigated this year in connection to an alleged straw donor scheme
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“The authority disclosed its investigation into Mr. Mraiche this summer when it asked a provincial court to find him in contempt for failing to participate in an interview.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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RFK Jr is a crazy person. He has an irrational personal hatred for three vaccines in particular: HepB, HPV, and MMR. And maybe polio, as well.
Empowered by his soulless lackies, he is singlehandedly dismantling US (and therefore global) biosecurity.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Empowered by his soulless lackies, he is singlehandedly dismantling US (and therefore global) biosecurity.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
During chaotic meeting, CDC advisers handpicked by RFK Jr. postpone vote on changing hepatitis B vaccine recommendations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
RFK Jr is a crazy person. He has an irrational personal hatred for three vaccines in particular: HepB, HPV, and MMR. And maybe polio, as well.
Empowered by his soulless lackies, he is singlehandedly dismantling US (and therefore global) biosecurity.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Empowered by his soulless lackies, he is singlehandedly dismantling US (and therefore global) biosecurity.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Here we go -a few reminders to those covering this:
- These are killings outside of armed conflict
- There is no self-defense justification for the killings
- That makes them extrajudicial killings under int'l law; murder under domestic law
- No label ("narcoterrorist" or "DTO") changes any of that
- These are killings outside of armed conflict
- There is no self-defense justification for the killings
- That makes them extrajudicial killings under int'l law; murder under domestic law
- No label ("narcoterrorist" or "DTO") changes any of that
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Here we go -a few reminders to those covering this:
- These are killings outside of armed conflict
- There is no self-defense justification for the killings
- That makes them extrajudicial killings under int'l law; murder under domestic law
- No label ("narcoterrorist" or "DTO") changes any of that
- These are killings outside of armed conflict
- There is no self-defense justification for the killings
- That makes them extrajudicial killings under int'l law; murder under domestic law
- No label ("narcoterrorist" or "DTO") changes any of that
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Tonight’s #CriticalRole begins RIGHT NOW!
The rain falls on the just and the wicked alike, and Sloak has plenty of both. Hounded to the gates of his crumbling castle, our heroes now have Casimir Gavendale in their sights. Join us!
twitch.tv/criticalrole
The rain falls on the just and the wicked alike, and Sloak has plenty of both. Hounded to the gates of his crumbling castle, our heroes now have Casimir Gavendale in their sights. Join us!
twitch.tv/criticalrole
CriticalRole - Twitch
Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 8 (12/4 at 7pm PT)
twitch.tv
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Tonight’s #CriticalRole begins RIGHT NOW!
The rain falls on the just and the wicked alike, and Sloak has plenty of both. Hounded to the gates of his crumbling castle, our heroes now have Casimir Gavendale in their sights. Join us!
twitch.tv/criticalrole
The rain falls on the just and the wicked alike, and Sloak has plenty of both. Hounded to the gates of his crumbling castle, our heroes now have Casimir Gavendale in their sights. Join us!
twitch.tv/criticalrole
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A dozen former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals wapo.st/4pkD2Dk
"These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest."
"They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA..."
"These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest."
"They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA..."
A dozen former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals
In the New England Journal of Medicine, the former leaders wrote they were “deeply concerned” at how the top vaccine regulator is raising the bar for approvals.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A dozen former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals wapo.st/4pkD2Dk
"These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest."
"They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA..."
"These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest."
"They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA..."
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This would be a great time for these Dems to run ads/videos playing the newly rediscovered (by CNN) clip of Hegseth saying members of the military can't follow illegal orders.
2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN
Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This would be a great time for these Dems to run ads/videos playing the newly rediscovered (by CNN) clip of Hegseth saying members of the military can't follow illegal orders.
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Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Tim Hortons wants more TFWs. Many people cannot find work which pays a living wage. Solution: hire Canadians, pay them well, raise prices or take less profit.
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Tim Hortons wants more TFWs. Many people cannot find work which pays a living wage. Solution: hire Canadians, pay them well, raise prices or take less profit.
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NEW: President Trump has asserted executive privilege as he attempts to thwart a long-running lawsuit against him for his role in stoking the violence on Jan. 6.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit
The White House said records sought in Capitol riot litigation are “clearly constitutionally protected.”
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
NEW: President Trump has asserted executive privilege as he attempts to thwart a long-running lawsuit against him for his role in stoking the violence on Jan. 6.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Like Germany, the US may never recover from this ... "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine. A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Like Germany, the US may never recover from this ... "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine. A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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“Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that he did not want Somali immigrants in the country, saying they are too reliant on the U.S. social safety net and add little to the nation.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that he did not want Somali immigrants in the country, saying they are too reliant on the U.S. social safety net and add little to the nation.”
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Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
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US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing in 22 states a provision of the Republican's signature tax and domestic policy bill that would deprive Pl...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
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The Prime Minister attended the first day of the Assembly of First Nation’s special chiefs assembly today.
However, the discussions on the floor about the memorandum of understanding pipeline signing in Alberta last week did not going over well.
However, the discussions on the floor about the memorandum of understanding pipeline signing in Alberta last week did not going over well.
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends day one of AFN’s special chiefs assembly | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Prime Minister attended the first day of the Assembly of First Nation’s special chiefs assembly today.
However, the discussions on the floor about the memorandum of understanding pipeline signing in Alberta last week did not going over well.
However, the discussions on the floor about the memorandum of understanding pipeline signing in Alberta last week did not going over well.
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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One must imagine Ulysses S. Grant dreaming of his ballroom
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
One must imagine Ulysses S. Grant dreaming of his ballroom
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‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.