Afi, MD
@afimd.bsky.social
Advocate, physician, educator, mother.
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure. n.pr/3L95mJU
North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe receives full federal recognition after 137-year effort
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure. n.pr/3L95mJU
This is horrifying.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is horrifying.
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Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
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Robert Kennedy Jr. must be impeached and removed along with the likes of Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Høeg.
It’s life or death.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It’s life or death.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Robert Kennedy Jr. must be impeached and removed along with the likes of Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Høeg.
It’s life or death.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It’s life or death.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
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By way of comparison, a total of 26 people died in ICE detention during the four years of the Biden administration.
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
By way of comparison, a total of 26 people died in ICE detention during the four years of the Biden administration.
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Ending a $5 million research study when it is 70% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million.
When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources.
🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources.
🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Ending a $5 million research study when it is 70% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million.
When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources.
🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources.
🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenager who in 1951 led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school, replaced one of Robert E Lee in the U.S. Capitol.
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenager who in 1951 led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school, replaced one of Robert E Lee in the U.S. Capitol.
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
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Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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This is both disgusting and expected.
The Scumbag-in-Chief
The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is both disgusting and expected.
The Scumbag-in-Chief
The Scumbag-in-Chief
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In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
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Weird to go to bed reading about the Brown shooting. Waking up to news about the Bondi Beach shooting and to be heading to bed reading that Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death.
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Weird to go to bed reading about the Brown shooting. Waking up to news about the Bondi Beach shooting and to be heading to bed reading that Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death.
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC