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Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH

@larazjmd.bsky.social

Physician, Community organizer, Social medicine practitioner. Parent. Lebanese-Palestinian @harvardmed. Opinions my own. Still 😷 #NotATarget #NoOneIsIllegal

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Anyone else running out of words/heart to ask your friends/family if they are ok?
What is ok, yanni?
#SurvivorGuilt #StoptheGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #StopthePedophileWarmongers

05.03.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThat the regime which denied them that future for forty-seven years was genuinely monstrous does not make the intervention that destroyed it genuinely liberating. Both things are true.”

02.03.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farce, Again? Some preliminary thoughts on the US-Israeli strikes on Iran

Appreciated this thoughtful analysis… β€œThe Iranian people deserve a future equal to their courage, constructed through their own political agency rather than delivered from outside by powers whose interest in Iranian freedom has been…instrumental & self-serving.” open.substack.com/pub/hedgeofs...

02.03.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nauseating and important to read to remind what it looks like when doctors compromise our professional ethics

01.03.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neocon strategy:
βœ…Consolidate control of the world’s oil,
βœ…Decimate remains of international law
βœ…Lock in fascist control domestically, before resistance to your hellscape becomes too powerful to ignore, and hope you prevail before the next Nuremberg trials

Democratic leadership strategy: πŸ¦—πŸ¦—πŸ¦—

28.02.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, β€œNo One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

19.02.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 17762    πŸ” 6753    πŸ’¬ 514    πŸ“Œ 530
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Today in Watertown Square, our community showed what it means to Resist With Love ❀️ I was proud to join neighbors, organizers, and the incredible voices of B-Vocal as we stood peacefully against !CE.... TikTok video by Jonathan Paz for Congress

Today in Watertown Square, our community showed what it means to Resist With Love ❀️

www.tiktok.com/@pazforthepe...

14.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My love language is #MeltICE #FreePalestine #HappyValentinesDay

15.02.2026 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch out that might come alive and eat you at night.

15.02.2026 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.

14.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11336    πŸ” 4353    πŸ’¬ 316    πŸ“Œ 186

One reason I keep saying that Trump's departure won't end our fascism problem is that every Republican presidential aspirant (even those who 10 years ago were "normal") are talking like twitter nazis now

15.02.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2293    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 5
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Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

11.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 15012    πŸ” 5177    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 218

When your poll numbers are so bad you coerce pollsters to stop polling. bsky.app/profile/phil...

11.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 901    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5
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Medical Ethics 101: #DoNoHarm means don’t discharge a baby back to a concentration camp. #MedTwitter #SuperBowl #theonlythingmorepowerfulthanhateislove

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

09.02.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well said, Bad Bunny. Well said.

08.02.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1061    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 14

Bad Bunny for President!!

09.02.2026 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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bad bunny 500 electoral votes

09.02.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 777    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 11
What do you say to those who claim you’re not American?

I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.

What do you say to those who claim you’re not American? I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

08.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7885    πŸ” 1337    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 49
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Bad Bunny β€œtogether we are America”

09.02.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11087    πŸ” 2217    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 158

Elmo
@elmo
Β·
1h
That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❀️🎢🐰
Based Yankee
@thebasedyankee
You and Bad Bunny should be deported

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❀️🎢🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

09.02.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 42747    πŸ” 7471    πŸ’¬ 992    πŸ“Œ 549

This is so true… midday big marches with tame demands are supposed to be safe. Exactly what threat did a crowd holding signs pose? How’s that β€œright to assemble”?

01.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids.

If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone.

Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power

01.02.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 932    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march

01.02.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1834    πŸ” 527    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 10
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

01.02.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2702    πŸ” 1012    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 78

And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.

01.02.2026 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1231    πŸ” 410    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 19
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The cruelty is big business

30.01.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 938    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 22
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Obamacare enrollment drops after enhanced premium subsidies expire | CNN Politics More than a million fewer people have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2026, according to federal data released Wednesday. The drop comes after the expiration of the enhanced federal premium subsidies caused monthly payments to skyrocket f...

More than a million fewer people have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2026, according to federal data released Wednesday. The drop comes after the expiration of the enhanced federal premium subsidies caused monthly payments to skyrocket for many enrollees. https://cnn.it/3LQUwst

29.01.2026 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5

After repeatedly inciting violence against Rep Omar, they now try to wash their hands of someone following through on their recommendations… classic

28.01.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ninety percent of CDC's vaccine related surveillance databases stopped updating.

πŸ§ͺWhy do we need regularly updated databases? So experts can track infections.

The public gets access to graphs like this & can see show vaccines have positively impacted our lives & improved our quality of life.

28.01.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
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The oligarchs funding the police state invested earlyβ€”over $4 MILLION to elect Trump and GOP allies.

Now they’re cashing in: $170 BILLION approved for DHS & ICE.

For GEO Group, CoreCivic & CSI Aviation, deportation is big business.

#DefundOligarchy

27.01.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10