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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH

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female pelvic reconstructive surgeon, urogyn, obstetric fistula fighter,humanitarian,fighting to keep vaginas safe worldwide amateur potter🏺 no one is free until we're all free #medsky she/her

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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi👋🏾I’m a urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon, specialty is #vaginalsurgery (the original minimally invasive surgery)#obstetricfistula repair & public health- co-founded a nonprofit (IMR) that works in resource-denied parts of the world, teaching local healthcare workers

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

New York confirms first locally acquired Chikungunya case in US since 2019 reut.rs/3J5WvHY

New York confirms first locally acquired Chikungunya case in US since 2019

The New York State Department of Health has confirmed a locally acquired case of Chikungunya on Long Island, the first such case of the mosquito-borne infection reported in the United States since 2019.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

How fascism messages
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 5h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Whereas Harris told MSNBC that she believes whether or not Israel has committed genocide is a fair and honest question to ask, Cory Booker explicitly said to the "I've Had it" podcast that he thinks addressing the question of whether Netanyahu has committed crimes would undermine resolving conflict.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no place in American higher education for death threats against professors,” Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors and a Rutgers faculty member, said in a statement.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 14h

incredible use of the passive exonerative tense

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 17h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 19h

Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h

The Supreme Court rejected a request from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was seeking an appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment against him, ending the last avenue available to him to avoid having to pay the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook Defamation Challenges

In his legal filings, Jones vastly downplayed his blatant lies regarding the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Dr. Blackstock, our US and intl med organizations have been utterly silent in the face of the systematic dismantling of Gaza's healthcare system and the executions, kidnappings and torture of our Palestinian HCW colleagues.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 1d

Act now and call on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and all other arbitrarily detained Palestinian health workers.

Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

www.amnesty.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs.

Decolonize your language.

Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 1d

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 1d

William Eggleston, Untitled (Laundry Line), 1970s. Chromogenic print.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

“We have seen pigeons fall from the sky, shot down by drones. My nephews & nieces cried over them as if they had lost loved ones.” In Gaza, survival means union—even across species. We're bombed together, starved together, displaced together. We do not abandon each other, says Hend Salama Abo Helow.

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity

Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, and terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

"In the images of the area, even the sunlight looks different and otherworldly. I couldn’t figure out why, until I realised it was because there were no structures to filter it. No shade, no shadows. A home returned to is just a plot on which to pitch another tent and wait for aid."