Child of Ethiopian Refugees | Harar ➡️ Toronto | Psychiatry & Addictions at the University of Toronto | 👇🏾
Toronto, Ontario
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Yesterday I officially graduated from @uoftmedicine and I would like to formally thank all of my family & friends that got me to this point in my life which I never truly thought I would see.
I am truly fortunate that I will be starting my Psychiatry residency in my home city!! – at Toronto, Ontario
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An estimated 75% of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the neurodegenerative brain disease tied to high-impact sports such as football, according to a new study.
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Ontario’s hallway health care numbers have hit unprecedented highs:
On an average day in Jan 2025, Ontario hospitals treated 2,088 patients in hallways, break rooms and other spaces never meant for care.
It was the most since Ontario Health began tracking the number in 2017 and 52 per cent more than January 2018, the winter before Doug Ford won a majority government promising to end hallway health care.
Story by @AidanChamandy thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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The misery in those hallways - the despair, the suffering, the blatant disregard for the sanctity of the person - I cannot forgive. He has promised us not once but four times that he was laser focused on solving the problem and he has achieved nothing. Disgraceful
NEW: We obtained internal government data showing Ontario’s hallway health care numbers hit unprecedented highs in the last two years, with over 2,000 patients treated in hallways on an average day last winter 🧵 thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.
The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
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they just.........said it out loud???
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Sasha Baron Cohen falsely portrayed Palestinian Christian peace activist Ayman Abu Aita as a terrorist aligned with Bin Laden in his painfully unfunny film Bruno
Baron Cohen was forced to settle a $112 million defamation suit for the smear
This is the Zionist minstrel show actor the ADL chief censor says “has spent years confronting hate”
My friend @SachaBaronCohen has spent years confronting hate and disinformation, and @ADL is proud of all the work we've done together. In a world where lies spread faster than facts, that work matters more than ever.
No artist should be pressured, blacklisted or silenced over their Jewish identity. And Jewish artists shouldn’t be subjected to ideological litmus tests.
Thank you, Sacha, for continuing to speak out against hate while making us laugh along the way.
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Bruno (2009) labeled Ayman Abu Aita as Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade 'terrorist group leader.' The Palestinian Christian activist denied it, claimed he was misled into the interview, and sued Cohen for ~$110M defamation; settled confidentially in 2012.
nypost.com/2012/07/19/fal…
theguardian.com/world/2009/dec…
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If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
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Polymarket is taking bets on whether the seven Cornell students accused of raping a student will receive a felony sex crime charge.
Among the athletes endorsing Polymarket:
LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman.
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Lula: "Mas eu queria terminar fazendo um desafio ao Flávio. Muito se falou de corrupção, eu vou fazer uma proposta para você: eu desafio você e eu, amanhã, abrirmos a nossa conta bancária, abrirmos o nosso sigilo telefônico para que o povo brasileiro saiba quem é ladrão nesse país. Abrir o sigilo telefônico, a sua conta bancária, eu abro da minha família inteira e você abre da sua família, e vamos pedir para a Justiça."
🎥: @BandJornalismo
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People have no idea how big a deal these seemingly small changes are. Ibrahim Traoré is not just some soldier in a beret. He is a deep philosophical thinker, and he is decolonizing their mindset and mentality.
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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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Every winter I think about Khaleel and what he was trying to do to help unhoused and vulnerable citizens. Instead of hiring him as a consultant and contractor, the city wasted taxpayers' money suing him for violating ByLaws, and of course paid a white man to copy Khaleel's idea.
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"We understood the trick early."
One of the biggest national flexes a country can have.
Most of us in the Global South didn't unfortunately, which is why many of us don't even understand that Iran is literally taking bullets for us right now as you're reading this.
The West didn't end colonialism. They rebranded it as development.
The formula never changed: debt and dependency for the obedient, sanctions and coups for the defiant.
We understood the trick early, never bowed, paid the price and humiliated the Great Satan.
One more blunder by the US and its myth is over.
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Meta employees admitted the US corporation censored the Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp accounts of Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva in the lead-up to this month's election.
Meta also promoted the accounts of far-right pro-US candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
Meta claimed this was supposedly because of "technical issues".
But what this really shows is how real democracy is impossible when US Big Tech corporations are used to manipulate elections around the world, to put in power right-wing US puppets who will sell out their country to US corporations and the US government (see: the recent US electoral interference in Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, etc.)
The CIA previously focused on organizing military coups to overthrow independent left-wing leaders and install right-wing pro-imperialist ones. Now it's much easier: Silicon Valley helps the US empire carry out soft coups by manipulating public opinion and interfering in elections.
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Here is the gravesite of my paternal grandparents. Their parents, my great grandparents, were enslaved. The slave master was Lodowick Meriweather Hill. He named his “slaves” LM -they could only have initials, not names- which is the birth name of my grandfather and father. Now what?
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An on-duty Montreal cop pissed on a homeless person, in case your ACAB wasn't strong enough. of course, they protected his identity!
lapresse.ca/actualites/grand…
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14 Registered Nurses laid off from one Ontario ICU.
Ontario is already facing significant nursing workforce pressures, yet RN cuts continue. At the same time, nurses are caring for 7–8 acute patients and hallway nursing is becoming normalized. This should concern all of us, not just nurses. Patients deserve safe care. Nurses deserve safe working conditions. We need to stop normalizing this and start taking action.
#Onpoli
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US criminalization of severe mental illness breaks my heart & boggles my mind.
Graph shows magnitude of problem, but nothing can convey the suffering.
Our patients are sicker than rest of world because we make their lives so miserable.
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
