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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT

@fredlemaistre.bsky.social
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Recently retired as SVP of Sarah Cannon Cancer Network . Past President of ASTCT.org and FACTweb.org. Masters swimmer

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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A valued colleague and friend. Deeply missed pentagonmemorial.org/biographies/...
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Dora Marie Menchaca - 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
Dora Menchaca would not have been aboard the American Airlines jet that slammed into the Pentagon Tuesday if not for her passion to cure deadly diseases and save lives.  The 45-year-old mother of two ...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I stand with Dr. Fauci
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dianecheyanne.bsky.social @dianecheyanne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: New polling shows Dr. Annie Andrews only 3 points behind Lindsey Graham in South Carolina's Senate race. This would be an enormous flip for Democrats.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“When did Fox become a tabloid? Are you even a real news organization?” Amazing
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...
Screenshot of a PatriotTakes post on X describing a 6-minute Republican opposition video outlining Ken Paxton's corruption, originally distributed by the NRSC, that has since been made unlisted on YouTube. The post includes a still from the video showing a black-and-white image of Paxton with a graphic reading "2011 - TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE" and text describing Paxton soliciting investments in a technology company called Servergy while serving in that role.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
CDC Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
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C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Stop violence. Tone down hateful rhetoric. Pray for peace and love.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
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HackerNews Compilator @hnbot.gsuscs.xyz · 06/09/2025
Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects anadodik.github.io/publication/mesc…
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Multiple Medical Societies Demand RFK Jr.'s Resignation — "American people will needlessly suffer and die," infectious disease, immunization groups warn www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Multiple Medical Societies Demand RFK Jr.'s Resignation
'American people will needlessly suffer and die,' infectious disease, immunization groups warn
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Some charts on the economy (jobs) from great economics friends. Starting with this one from Heather Long Entire employment in the U.S. being held up the health sector now. /1
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Nation’s largest nursing union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go | National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
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Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...
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Politico @politico.com · 28/08/2025
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
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Monarez refused to fire top CDC leaders, ‘rubber-stamp’ vaccine changes, confidante says
The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign despite pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
National pediatrics group splits with RFK Jr. on Covid vaccinations: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended the shot for all children between 6 and 23 months | STAT www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/p... via @statnews.com
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National pediatrics group splits with RFK Jr. on Covid vaccinations
The American Academy of Pediatrics is splitting from the federal government in its recommendations on which children should receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
So ridiculous. (And so familiar)
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Sounds like this survivor of Epstein and Maxwell is saying she'd take Trump pardoning Maxwell as an admission of guilt, which sounds like a smart message.
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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very much enjoyed coaching Nashville Aquatic Masters 5 and 6 AM practice this morning. Great to start the day with such terrific, motivated folks
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 06/07/2025
I have precisely zero conflicting feelings about missing/dead children.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 30/06/2025
Medicaid is not a money laundering scheme and you are a sorry excuse for a Senator, Lindsey.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
National Guard, Marine deployment in LA costs $134M: Pentagon www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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National Guard, Marine deployment in Los Angeles costs $134 million: Pentagon
Pentagon officials said the cost of deploying thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles is $134 million.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 10/06/2025
Today RFK Jr. fired every member of ACIP, the CDC committee that makes vaccine recommendations. Children will die. This is not ok. Lindsey Graham enabled this.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
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Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.
They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Where was this important 1st randomized trial performed? China Where are 8 of the 10 most productive research institutions in the world as of March 2025? China nature.com/nature-index... What country is radically defunding research and will lose its competitiveness? USA
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
FDA is set to restrict access to Covid shots for healthy people 6 months-64. I asked HHS if initial shots will be available to infants; no answer. One former CVS executive thinks healthy ineligible people who want a shot will face new costs. w / @maggieastor.bsky.social GIFT:
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The F.D.A. May Restrict Covid Shots. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?
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American Society of Clinical Oncology @ascocancer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Investing in #CancerResearch saves lives! Urge your lawmakers to support FY26 funding for the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and ARPA-H. #ASCOAdvocacy Act now: brnw.ch/21wK4jU
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Jame Abraham, MD, FACP @jameabraham.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Health Care, Physics, and Finance: The Complex Equation of Outpatient CAR T-Cell Therapy | JCO Oncology Practice ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Health Care, Physics, and Finance: The Complex Equation of Outpatient CAR T-Cell Therapy | JCO Oncology Practice
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Jame Abraham, MD, FACP @jameabraham.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Excellent review article by @bldcancerdoc.bsky.social Outpatient Administration of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Using Remote Patient Monitoring | JCO Oncology Practice ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... @acochran12733.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social
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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
War hero schools a chickenhawk.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We owe him much for his leadership at CBER during a period of remarkable therapeutic advances. The havoc caused by this administration will have a devastating impact for years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”
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SwimSwam News @swimswamnews.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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2025 Women's NCAA Pick'ems: Who are the Overwhelming Favorites and What is the Closest Race?
Gretchen Walsh is the overwhelming favorite in all of her events, but she earned 99.4% of the pick'ems votes in the women's 50 freestyle.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 15/03/2025
Such a small petty man: Trump removed a mural of Anthony Fauci from NIH which read, “Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.”
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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Worth a listen Worth our investment www.threads.net/@photography...
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Dee Cee (@photographybuff) on Threads
So beautifully expressed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
WATCH: “$100 Million or more at stake for Metro Schools funding. I honestly don’t know how we’re gonna grapple with it.” NASHVILLE mayor @freddiefornashville Oconnell on what happens to their schools if Trump and his pro-privatization cabal dissolve the Department of Education. (From WSMV)
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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
25 yrs older than the next oldest in the heat & 50 yrs older than the youngest. Time a half second slower than Nationals last year. Some things to clean up before Nationals in April but happy to be racing. #NACMasters
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Fred LeMaistre MD, FASTCT @fredlemaistre.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NAC masters timing at the Southern Premier Championships. A blast watching these terrific young athletes rick the blocks.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/02/2025
On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The next step in trying to dismantle Infectious Diseases research - dismantle @niaidnews.bsky.social - should surprise no one that this a R-led proposal. An unmitigated disaster for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pathogens that affect everyone in the US www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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