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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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 2h

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 · 14h

Are you in Ohio? Know someone who is? Step up. Let Senator Jon Husted hear from you!

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 8h

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 · 17h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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

Or is scratch my brain? Either way her voice helps me to regulate my nervous system and for that I am grateful.

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

Ba ba ba, baby steps🎶

Olivia Dean continues to tickle my brain🤣

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

"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 · 2d

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 6d

"[M]embers of the CGT's Madrid Metal Workers' Union are following the example and call of the Genoa dockworkers."

"[A]s of October 5, all workers in the metal sector in Madrid are entitled to support the aforementioned strike."
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Madrid Metalworkers Join Italian Dock Workers, Call Indefinite Strike for Palestine - Left Voice

The union that represents metal workers in Madrid has called an indefinite strike in support of Palestine and in solidarity with dockworkers in Genoa. The strike is expected to begin on October 6.

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Ginger Billie @gingerbillie.bsky.social · 5d

When I tell people the most truly self serving thing you can do is want a just and equitable society.

Audre Lorde said it best, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

For this and everything.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 5d

A recent study shows that the presence of high levels of structural inequity in a society causes changes to children's brains, both children from families w/ lower incomes as well as those from wealthy families.

Take home: structural inequity harms everyone (with the most vulnerable most impacted).

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 5d

And on treatment of Afro-Germans in more recent history, May Ayim (RIP) said in documentary that street harassment actually increased after German reunification.

She said that even though she was born in Germany and spoke perfect German, she always felt she and similar others would be outsiders.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 6d

“In some cases, we’re seeing fees that we don’t think should be charged at all, like pest control fees,” says Kuehnhoff. “Landlords have a duty to provide a pest-free environment already, so they shouldn’t be adding that to the rent.”

These Tenants Are Going on Strike Against ‘Rent Debt’

A new kind of tenants union is ramping up the pressure on corporate landlords.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 5d

The footage of Robert Brooks’ killing shocked the public. We identified 46 allegations that corrections officers assaulted prisoners in medical wings of New York prisons since 2010; Brooks and two other prisoners died, while many others were left with severe injuries.

Away From Cameras, These Prison Infirmaries Become ‘Torture Chambers’

After guards beat Robert Brooks to death in December, The Marshall Project found dozens more allegations of abuse in medical rooms lacking cameras.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 5d

"[G]uards abuse people in the infirmary because it's tucked away and has areas with no cameras. Beatings in the infirmary of one New York prison were so common, prisoners called the medical wing 'the torture chambers.' At another ... the infirmary was called 'the slaughterhouse.'"

The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 5d

Away From Cameras, These Prison Infirmaries Become ‘Torture Chambers’

After guards beat Robert Brooks to death in December, The Marshall Project found dozens more allegations of abuse in medical rooms lacking cameras.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 6d

"[T]here were zip ties and blood stains ... next to baby shoes."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 7d

"ICE really just a gang."

"They woke up residents to handcuff them with zip ties and led them into unmarked vans."

"They left people's doors open, firearms, money, whatever, right there in the open."
#Illinois #USA #Venezuela #Housing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

I want to once again encourage everyone who can to take advantage of opportunities to gather with others in person. It's more important than ever. It was wonderful to be with folks today at Communiversity. We'll be back at it next Saturday. Join in if interested.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

2 additional slots just opened up. Come walk with us tomorrow. The day is supposed to be beautiful weather wise.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Two people let me know that they can no longer join our walking tour this Sunday. If you are in NYC and would like to come along, feel free to email me at [email protected] - www.eventbrite.com/e/1629102462... - they are generously offering their slots.

Black Abolitionists in NYC: A Walking Tour

Join Mariame Kaba on a walking tour about Black Abolitionists in New York City

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