Dr Manel
@drmanelsilva.bsky.social
Internist, adolescent trained public health physician. #HIV #Addiction 🏳️🌈 medicine. We’re all in a Stage of Change. Twitter refugee. Mama. 🇧🇬🇱🇰who lived in🇨🇦then moved to the🇺🇸with a few years in 🇿🇦
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Dr Manel
@drmanelsilva.bsky.social
· Nov 11
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.
July 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.
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In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
theintercept.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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June 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Sending unidentifiable agents to kidnap our neighbors and ordering Marines into our streets in the name of safe communities is disgusting.
I spent decades as a community organizer in Oakland, I know what community safety looks like. This is not it. ⬇️CONTINUED
I spent decades as a community organizer in Oakland, I know what community safety looks like. This is not it. ⬇️CONTINUED
June 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Sending unidentifiable agents to kidnap our neighbors and ordering Marines into our streets in the name of safe communities is disgusting.
I spent decades as a community organizer in Oakland, I know what community safety looks like. This is not it. ⬇️CONTINUED
I spent decades as a community organizer in Oakland, I know what community safety looks like. This is not it. ⬇️CONTINUED
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“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
www.reuters.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
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May 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
March 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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“I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear.”
Mahmoud Khalil dictates a public statement from a cold Louisiana jail
"...my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear," he declares, calling himself a political prisoner
open.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear.”
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URGENT: The Trump administration is planning in the next 24 hours to completely eliminate the CDC's Division of HIV Prevention.
Please contact your reps and senators at the link below.
Please contact your reps and senators at the link below.
CDC Division of HIV Prevention is under attack! This is an assault on all progress we have made in the field of HIV Prevention. That means more HIV infections, more complications from HIV, and higher healthcare costs. We must act now! #HIVSky #IDSky #SaveHIVFunding
aidsunited.org/action/polic...
aidsunited.org/action/polic...
ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United
CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...
aidsunited.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
URGENT: The Trump administration is planning in the next 24 hours to completely eliminate the CDC's Division of HIV Prevention.
Please contact your reps and senators at the link below.
Please contact your reps and senators at the link below.
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Zelensky didn’t wear a tie and genuflect before Trump sufficiently so let’s get some Ukrainians killed.
March 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Zelensky didn’t wear a tie and genuflect before Trump sufficiently so let’s get some Ukrainians killed.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Vance is completely wrong here. US military sales to Ukraine served as a catalyst to rebuild our production capacity for our own potential military needs. I bet you'll never hear him say the same thing about US missiles fired to defend Israel, though that did deplete short-term stocks.
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Vance is completely wrong here. US military sales to Ukraine served as a catalyst to rebuild our production capacity for our own potential military needs. I bet you'll never hear him say the same thing about US missiles fired to defend Israel, though that did deplete short-term stocks.
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The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
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While Trump and Musk cut our healthcare, social security, and veteran's benefits — We fight. We're hosting our annual response to the president's joint address to Congress.
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
February 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
While Trump and Musk cut our healthcare, social security, and veteran's benefits — We fight. We're hosting our annual response to the president's joint address to Congress.
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
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(Politico) - Progressives are naming California Rep. Lateefah Simon, a rising Democratic star, to deliver their response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress next week, according to a statement provided first to POLITICO.
@politico.com #CA12
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com #CA12
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Progressives tap a rising star to deliver their response to Trump
California Rep. Lateefah Simon is serving in her first term in Congress.
www.politico.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
(Politico) - Progressives are naming California Rep. Lateefah Simon, a rising Democratic star, to deliver their response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress next week, according to a statement provided first to POLITICO.
@politico.com #CA12
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com #CA12
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Withdrawal of funding mid-trial is a serious violation of research ethics and implicates all of us who engage in clinical research. Ethical review boards around the world will have to re-evaluate allowing US-funded projects. The balance between harm-benefit is complexly upended.
"The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away." jesus christ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Withdrawal of funding mid-trial is a serious violation of research ethics and implicates all of us who engage in clinical research. Ethical review boards around the world will have to re-evaluate allowing US-funded projects. The balance between harm-benefit is complexly upended.