A. Sleemi, MD, MPH
@globalgyno.bsky.social
female pelvic reconstructive surgeon, urogyn, obstetric fistula fighter,humanitarian,fighting to keep vaginas safe worldwide
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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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“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.
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Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
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Today, a 29-day-old baby died at Nasser hospital, southern #Gaza, #Palestine, just two hours after arriving at the MSF- supported paediatric ward in the early hours of the morning. Despite treatment efforts, he could not be saved. According to the MoH, he died from hypothermia.
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, a 29-day-old baby died at Nasser hospital, southern #Gaza, #Palestine, just two hours after arriving at the MSF- supported paediatric ward in the early hours of the morning. Despite treatment efforts, he could not be saved. According to the MoH, he died from hypothermia.
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Academic freedom does not exist at my grad alma mater York University thanks to the Palestine Exception.
Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be.
www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...
Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be.
www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Academic freedom does not exist at my grad alma mater York University thanks to the Palestine Exception.
Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be.
www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...
Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be.
www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...
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Somehow this isn’t considered violence
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 11:49 PM
Somehow this isn’t considered violence
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This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Obviously this is tacky, but the bigger issue is it‘s clear that Trump doesn’t have one person that says no to him about anything. That’s really bad for democracy, national security, and for any hope of economy bouncing back.
WH added text to the pictures hanging on the wall… to sum it up: it is deranged.
December 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Obviously this is tacky, but the bigger issue is it‘s clear that Trump doesn’t have one person that says no to him about anything. That’s really bad for democracy, national security, and for any hope of economy bouncing back.
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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The most adamant about moving on from Epstein are implicated?
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The most adamant about moving on from Epstein are implicated?
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Took 2 years from ADL Greenblatt's leaked "we got a tiktok problem" phone call to that platform getting force sold to hardcore Zionists
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Took 2 years from ADL Greenblatt's leaked "we got a tiktok problem" phone call to that platform getting force sold to hardcore Zionists
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PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza
Remarkable amounts of devastation in W.Jamaica affected by #HurricaneMelissa, flora, fauna, structures & people. 2 months later most areas still without power and water, @imrorg.bsky.social able to see 60+ people/day in clinics run by MOH & local Jamaican relief partner Breaking healthcare barriers
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Remarkable amounts of devastation in W.Jamaica affected by #HurricaneMelissa, flora, fauna, structures & people. 2 months later most areas still without power and water, @imrorg.bsky.social able to see 60+ people/day in clinics run by MOH & local Jamaican relief partner Breaking healthcare barriers
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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All mass shooters since and including Columbine have been captured by video surveillance. Not a single time did one of those cameras jump off the wall to stop the shooter. And they never will. Cameras do not stop violence.
Surveillance boosters and people who sell cameras are shameless in that any tragedy is an argument for more cameras. The actual number is irrelevant, rather it’s seen by them as an opportunity to increase the existing number until every square inch of the earth is blanketed.
Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect | CNN
CNN spoke to several security experts to better understand the growth of Brown’s surveillance system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academ...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All mass shooters since and including Columbine have been captured by video surveillance. Not a single time did one of those cameras jump off the wall to stop the shooter. And they never will. Cameras do not stop violence.
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Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school.
These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
ICE operation near Salisbury school sparks outrage, questions
Witnesses say an apparent ICE raid near a Salisbury elementary school involved smashed car windows and terrified neighbors.
www.baltimoresun.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school.
These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
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When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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Did them worse than Annie Leibovitz does Black women lmfao
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Did them worse than Annie Leibovitz does Black women lmfao
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The same companies that fired all their writers, artists and the creative staff who write and make stories?
The same companies whose managers went 100% into "AI or bust"?
The same companies who have supported the current US administration as it attacks universities and the humanities?
YA DON'T SAY
The same companies whose managers went 100% into "AI or bust"?
The same companies who have supported the current US administration as it attacks universities and the humanities?
YA DON'T SAY
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The same companies that fired all their writers, artists and the creative staff who write and make stories?
The same companies whose managers went 100% into "AI or bust"?
The same companies who have supported the current US administration as it attacks universities and the humanities?
YA DON'T SAY
The same companies whose managers went 100% into "AI or bust"?
The same companies who have supported the current US administration as it attacks universities and the humanities?
YA DON'T SAY
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NEW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
Read more from HRW:
Read more from HRW:
Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Destroying Reconstruction Equipment
The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
www.hrw.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NEW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
Read more from HRW:
Read more from HRW:
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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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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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The best thing about American culture war exporters is their literal inability to find places outside the U.S on a map
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The best thing about American culture war exporters is their literal inability to find places outside the U.S on a map