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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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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 6m

"Historian and ethicist Harriet Washington, author of the seminal 2006 book, Medical Apartheid, was among those who pushed back, pointing out that Sims had plenty of critics during his own era, including Quakers, abolitionists, and even fellow doctors."
Sadly, too many gyns still revere Sims

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 50m

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.”

One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13h

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29m

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

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 www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

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

www.kare11.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 27m

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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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 23m

Video: Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91 on X)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 27m

Thousands of Palestinians returned to Gaza City after ceasefire took hold Friday—returning to a wasteland of rubble. Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91) captured the devastation as survivors searched for what was left of their homes - full report (www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...) + video below

Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس via X (@sharifkouddous): "The Israeli military destroyed as much of Gaza City as it could before being forced into a ceasefire agreement which took effect yesterday. Watch the video from the ground (2nd one) by the indefatigable @AbdSabbah91 embedded in this piece: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-palestinians-return-gaza-city-ceasefire-destroyed-wasteland-rubble?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

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.

www.kare11.com

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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 7h

utterly heartbreaking💔

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8h

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 2d

Children in Haiti are facing an unprecedented displacement crisis as violence and collapsing services push them to the brink.

Over 3.3 million children now require humanitarian assistance.

Find out how UNICEF is responding and what’s urgently required in our new report: https://unicef.link/4o9PqF0

Text card that says "The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year."

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 1d

The news of a ceasefire brings a much-needed, long-overdue glimmer of hope for children and families in Gaza.

UNICEF is ready - we have a plan in place, supplies on the move, and a team on the ground providing children with life-saving supplies and services.

Maisara, 13, reacts to the ceasefire news in Gaza: I felt happy the moment I heard
the news about the ceasefire. Finally, I will return to my city in the north, because like all children, we are tired of war. We want to live our childhood again. What makes me even happier is that we will
no longer suffer from hunger.

Rasha, 13, reacts to the ceasefire news in Gaza: I miss my cousins. And we want to go visit them in the cemetery in East Bureij camp. And we want
to go see our families in Gaza. Since the ceasefire was announced, we have all
been happy.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 11h

UNICEF reports that 320,000 children under five in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, and over 56,000 have lost one or both of their parents.

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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 12h

this is beyond outrageous- all medical orgs should be shouting from the rooftops to let Dr Hiss Abu Safiya free- he's been held hostage,
tortured, denied food and medical care-- all for refusing to leave his patients to die when his hospital was raided by israeli forces.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

Continued below ⬇️

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 13h

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

💔💔💔💔

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A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 13h

no! horrible news

A. Sleemi, MD, MPH @globalgyno.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother
and the tears she cried, they were cried for none other
than her little boy lost in our little world that hated
and that dared to drag him down

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20h

"A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20h

Democrats don’t believe protest is patriotic, tho. They believe obedience is patriotic. They beat the shit out of, arrested, deported and blacklisted college students, staff and faculty over Gaza. For a year and a half!

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h

Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

Hunger rising in Haiti, with nearly 6 million at risk by 2026 reut.rs/42A3Rdm

Hunger rising in Haiti, with nearly 6 million at risk by 2026

Haiti's food insecurity is expected to deepen by mid-2026, with around 6 million people projected to face critical hunger levels amid gang violence and economic collapse, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in a report published on Friday.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

It took half a million Palestinian lives and psychotic Nazis posting tiktoks in the dresses they looted from the women they killed for this shift to happen

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d

‘A historic shift’: More polls show what our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll has been showing: a dramatic shift away from sympathy with Israelis to sympathy with Palestinians among all Americans in the past of two years.
youtu.be/00pOhuUGjnY?...

‘A historic shift’: Enten on American support for Palestinians

YouTube video by CNN

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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

it's too bad they couldn't stop genociding when they signed the paper and said they would cuz that peace price had his name all over it- IT WAS IN THE BAG

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case anyone is still holding on out of nostalgia for what it used to be.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.

This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.

apnews.com/article/indo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government official said Thursday.

The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians.

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