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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
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Founder & ED @ HealthJustice & Grounded Innovation Lab • Primary care & HIV doc🫀 • Bio @ www.healthjustice.co/our-team/ • @akinfe.bsky.social’s wife 🪷 • 👦🏿 & 🐶’s mama • Lenapehoking • she/her(s)/yeye• #BlackMedSky #MedSky #HIVSky #PublicHealthSky #QueerSky
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Aug 27
🌱In our just-released op-ed for @statnews.com @cre8tivecadence.bsky.social & I share our thoughts on the critical need for community-centered governance in #generativeAI in both health care & public health, moving away from top-down approaches to ones that are from the ground up.

#healthequity
Engage the community in generative AI for public health
Slower uptake of generative AI in public health provides a unique opportunity to embed community accountability before more of these models are fully scaled.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h
Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.
Zohran sits at a long conference table, back to the camera, with more than a dozen journalists, some with cameras, facing him.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h
You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 5h
Thank you!
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 5h
"We don't know the name of the people or the location of the places where Assata [Shakur] hid, but we do know that sustaining the underground network involved faith, risk, audacity, and ingenuity. There is a lesson here about ... shield[ing] others from the onslaught of the state."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
The recent passing of Assata Shakur unleashed more than a sense of loss. It sparked a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for the rest of us.
“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy
Assata Shakur's passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
The recent passing of Assata Shakur unleashed more than a sense of loss. It sparked a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for the rest of us.
“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy
Assata Shakur's passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 6h
The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19h
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. "I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. "I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. "I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d
None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media over the false neutrality of legacy outlets, support Democracy Docket by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 1d
A 91-year-old learns to check health portals; a 7-year-old finally can do homework. They were among rural residents helped by a digital navigator, until President Trump abruptly canceled the Digital Equity Act’s dollars.
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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d
Are you in Ohio? Know someone who is? Step up. Let Senator Jon Husted hear from you!
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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 6d
Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.
Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio
On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Youth want King Mohammed to take lead in tackling corruption after near-nightly protests that have seen three killed.
Youth-led protests in Morocco push for reforms ahead of king’s speech
Youth want King Mohammed to take lead in tackling corruption after near-nightly protests that have seen three killed.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 2d
Welcome to everyone who just connect on BlueSky over the last week!

I’m SAGE GRAY aka Walter Greason, historian, educator, economist, advocate, and mediator.

My content focuses on US and world politics, specifically based on my research about housing, schools, banks, museums, and libraries.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d
Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.
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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 3d
Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) is doubling down on its mission to uplift, inspire, and spotlight the brilliance of Black women in theatre with the launch of two transformative programs one for the next generation of storytellers, and one for emerging playwrights ready to take center stage.
Black Women on Broadway Launches Two Groundbreaking Initiatives Celebrating Black Women’s Voices in Theatre | Black Girl Nerds
Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) is doubling down on its mission to uplift, inspire, and spotlight the brilliance of Black women in theatre
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this week signed an executive order banning ICE agents from using city-owned property, such as parking lots, as staging grounds for the agency’s raids.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2d
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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d
Or is scratch my brain? Either way her voice helps me to regulate my nervous system and for that I am grateful.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d
Ba ba ba, baby steps🎶

Olivia Dean continues to tickle my brain🤣
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d
"The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis is concerned by reports that 22 CDC webpages have been deleted, many of which focus on LGBTQ+ health, HIV and [STI] prevention, and access to care."
HIV, STI Leaders Condemn the Recent Deletion of Critical Public Health Information From CDC Websites
The deleted pages focus on LGBTQ health, HIV and STIs, notes a joint statement from the Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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