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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

April 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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NPR

@npr.org

Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.

NIH partially lifts freeze on funding process for medical research

Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.

www.npr.org

February 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM

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Joe Walsh

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

This Elon/Visa marriage could be some real scary shit. Pay attention.👇

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · Feb 19

So Elon/X is partnering with big corp Visa, huh? This could be some scary shit. What would stop Elon from giving sensitive taxpayer data to Visa & other corp giants? Look what Elon is doing with sensitive gov data. Visa is too big & Elon can’t be trusted. apnews.com/article/elon...

Elon Musk's X partners with Visa on payment service in an effort to become an 'everything app,'

X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform.

apnews.com

February 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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News Eye

@newseye.bsky.social

A human rights crime is unfolding, largely hidden from sight.

Venezuelans are being shackled & flown to Guatanamo.

Trump said ‘Gitmo’ was for the “worst of the worst”. Well, many have no criminal record at all.

One person’s crime was riding a bike on the wrong side of the road.

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Security forces lead a man in grey sweatsuit away from a a military cargo plane that transported deportees from El Paso, Texas, to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Photo credit to Doug Mills for The New York Times

February 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM

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Chad Loder

@chadloder.bsky.social

Trump issued an executive order on Jan 20th, just hours after he took office, allowing his own people to bypass Top Secret security clearance. This makes a lot more sense now. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order:

1. The White House Counsel to provide the White House Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer with a list of personnel that are hereby immediately granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for a period not to exceed six months; and

2. That these individuals shall be immediately granted access to the facilities and technology necessary to perform the duties of the office to which they have been hired; and

3. The White House Counsel, as my designee, may supplement this list as necessary; and

4. The White House Counsel, as my designee, shall have the authority to revoke the interim clearance of any individual as necessary.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

February 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM

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pixels sideways

@pixelssideways.bsky.social

"Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is “dangerously” undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin."
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...