A. Sleemi, MD, MPH
@globalgyno.bsky.social
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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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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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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
“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
www.nytimes.com
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dceiver.bsky.social
incredible use of the passive exonerative tense
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
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.
usa.streetsblog.org
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leahmillis.bsky.social
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.
50501movement.bsky.social
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.com
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.org
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.
buff.ly
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"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
globalgyno.bsky.social
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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oniblackstock.bsky.social
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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lexialex.bsky.social
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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sifill.bsky.social
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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juliaraifman.bsky.social
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.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
William Eggleston, Untitled (Laundry Line), 1970s. Chromogenic print.
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prismreports.org
“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
prismreports.org
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premthakker.bsky.social
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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catsofyore.bsky.social
“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.blacksky.app
"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."
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
globalgyno.bsky.social
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ryangrim.bsky.social
Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, renowned pediatrician snatched from Kamal Adwan Hospital, added to detainee exchange list
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ryangrim.bsky.social
Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, renowned pediatrician snatched from Kamal Adwan Hospital, added to detainee exchange list
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
globalgyno.bsky.social
watching live 🇵🇸🤲🏾🇵🇸https://www.youtube.com/live/gCNeDWCI0vo?si=fpKsfndMzviWy4l2
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globalgyno.bsky.social
Yes.
"Like many other U.S. doctors & nurses who have spent time in Gaza, Piracha is racked with survivor’s guilt, unable to forget the patients he couldn’t help, the mass graves he saw filled with bodies, the hunger in the eyes of the local colleagues he left behind"
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
'It’s hard to see so many kids die.' How volunteering in Gaza transformed American doctors and nurses
American doctors and nurses volunteering in the Gaza Strip have helped the world understand the humanitarian crisis unfolding there. But bearing witness comes at a steep personal cost.
www.latimes.com
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lexialex.bsky.social
Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.
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jamellebouie.net
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Pentti Sammallahti, Hanko, Finland, 2014