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Vafa T

@vafata.medsky.social
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Endocrinologist, New Yorker by choice, atheist, Yankees fan, childless cat lady. Passions: patient care and social justice. There, now you know me.

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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 16/11/2025
Our awesome cat sitter sent this pic of our ginger waking up from his nap to say hi to her 🥹😻
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 15/11/2025
Waymo sucks. Hire drivers and stop the corporate greed.
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 31/05/2025
They want to feel good about themselves and they can’t and shouldn’t.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hey NHL, Can we just stay with the Sports Net feed? MUCH better than TNT/TBS. #HabsCaps
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 26/04/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Iran explosion: Deaths reported in major blast at Shahid Rajee port
Footage shows wounded people lying on the street and others running away from the site
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/04/2025
@jreinermd.bsky.social www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...
Over the last 34 years, the legendary Women’s Health Initiative has studied how women age.  Gutting its funding speaks very loudly about how much or more aptly how little this administration cares about the health of women.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/04/2025
A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.
nytimes.com
Why Did a Charity Tied to Casey DeSantis Suddenly Get a $10 Million Boost?
The Hope Florida Foundation quietly gave the money to two nonprofit political committees that helped Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies defeat a ballot measure.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 22/04/2025
No comment.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 20/04/2025
They took a home run away from Judge and then decided that’s not enough and took a no hitter away from Fried. Ridiculous. @ny-yankees.bsky.social
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 16/04/2025
Side question: what kind of person agrees to be on a firing squad?
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 16/04/2025
Theoretical question: can states stop paying tax to federal government? For example: can New York allow her citizens to keep their federal tax or keep the funds for the state?
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/04/2025
A Chinese woman detained by U.S. border officers for overstaying a visitor visa died by suicide while being held at a border patrol station in Arizona, said Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, who is a ranking member of the House subcommittee overseeing immigration.
nytimes.com
Chinese Woman Detained in Arizona Border Station Dies by Suicide
A woman detained by U.S. border officers for overstaying a visitor visa died by suicide while in custody, according to a Democratic congresswoman.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 02/04/2025
The ONLY reason I check twitter (rip) these days, Dave Wasserman. #Crawford #WI
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 29/03/2025
So my dear husband decided to upgrade the wifi right before @ny-yankees.bsky.social game started. Due to “technical difficulties” I missed one of the most exciting games in Yankees history. We’re gonna need marriage counseling.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2025
Have you: • Filed a complaint with the CFPB in the past year? • Had problems with a company whose case the CFPB dismissed or stopped investigating? • Been in touch with the CFPB regarding investigations or resolutions in the past year? Let us know 👇
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Have You Recently Sought Help From the CFPB? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is walking away from cases that might have helped return money to consumers across the U.S. We want to hear from people who feel left behind.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
All of these Republican congressmen who said in these past posts that they will never vote for another CR will vote for another CR on Tuesday.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 02/03/2025
5 year olds with a keyboard at @whitehouse. 🙄
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 01/03/2025
I know what you’re trying to say, but when you think about it, not surprising at all. Did you think they would welcome a man who’s standing up to their master over the misogynist rapists twins?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 01/03/2025
Very.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 01/03/2025
Very beautifully said 👇🏽
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 26/02/2025
NCAA men’s basketball final four and championship games will be in San Antonio, Texas in April. Hundreds of athlete will gather with families and friends then travel back home and spread out across the country. The time to get your measles vaccine is NOW. #medsky
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
FED. WORKERS: I am collecting data on agency instructions w.r.t the OPM email. I am seeking the following: (1) Your agency and bureau, (2) who sent the instruction, (3) whether you were told to reply, (4) a screenshot of the instruction for verification (anonymize) (if possible). Signal: Nbednar.46.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 16/02/2025
Idiotic from the start. I took my virology course 30 years ago, still remember corona viruses do NOT provide lasting immunity.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 15/02/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/02/2025
"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 13/02/2025
One of the unhealthiest minds leading the health department. America, you need to sit in the back of the class for a while and think deep about how we got here.
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annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
kendrick inspiring me to hate bigger
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 09/02/2025
Here’s a video of a cat snoring peacefully to help you feel better.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...
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ICE Agents in Colorado Go Door to Door Demanding IDs and Asking People to Turn In Their Neighbors
In Colorado, heavily armed ICE agents carried out large-scale immigration raids at apartment complexes across Denver and Aurora on Wednesday. The Denver Post reports masked agents knocked on doors dem...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
nbcnews.com
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 05/02/2025
He basically wants to build a few trump hotels and seaside resorts. Bravo everyone who didn’t vote for Harris because of Gaza, thinking this monster will do better 😒 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
nytimes.com
Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza as He Hosts Netanyahu: Live Updates
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Vafa T @vafata.medsky.social · 29/01/2025
When I think about it, if there is ONE thing that would immediately signal ignorance without any possible redemption, it’s being anti-vax.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Republicans: Affirmative action is bad! DEI is bad! We need a meritocracy! Also Republicans: Welcome to Tucker Carlson’s son, Buckley, the newest member of JD Vance’s staff.
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Tucker Carlson's son Buckley is joining JD Vance's staff
Buckley Carlson, the son of conservative media personality Tucker Carlson, is set to join Vice President JD Vance’s press office, sources tell ABC News.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump just rescinded an Executive Order issued by President Biden to lower prescription drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
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