Sharl Azar, MD

Thank you, Senator! If TPS is lost, many of my patients will likely die from complications of their disease. “I’m afraid of being deported” has become one of the most common primary medical concerns in my clinic.

Thank you @ruthzee.bsky.social for tirelessly guarding our immigrant community. The deportation orders our patients are receiving are tantamount to death sentences. Never have I seen so many patients identify their primary medical concern as “I’m afraid I’m going to be deported.”

Thank you @lynch.house.gov for fighting for our #SickleCell patients who will be directly impacted by this dumpster fire of a bill. We are so grateful to have you representing us!

We march to compel you to act. We don’t need you marching. We need you acting. Do your job or resign, Senator.

The murder of George Floyd wasn’t a moment. It was a revolution. We’ve fought for five years since his murder and we are prepared to fight for fifty more if we must to assure that history finally stops repeating itself.

Join us this weekend as we work to break down barriers to access and envision a united, well community. Thank you @javawithjimmy.bsky.social for continuing to lead while honoring Dr. Betancourt’s commitment to better health for everyone.

Council Backs Bill to Improve Sickle Cell Care During this week’s meeting, the Council passed a resolution in support of House Bill H.1347, An Act to Improve Sickle Cell Care. This state legislation seeks to improve care for individuals living wit...

Thank you @bostoncitycouncil.bsky.social @boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social for your incredible support of our bill before the state legislature! Your commitment and support to our #SickleCell warriors is critical. Thank you for making Boston a true medical home for SCD

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The best way to combat this is to step aside and let someone more prepared for the fight and less willing to capitulate with this evil administration take your place, Senator.

Your cowardly capitulation is happening in the light of day, Senator. Resist or resign.

It will be THEIR disaster. Why are you continuing to play by rules they no longer recognize? Retire, Senator. You’re out of your depth.

Then do it, Senator. Do it. Don’t tell us you will fight back. Actually fight back. Yell. Scream. Get kicked out of hearings. Make them censure you. Show the world that our representatives of the people will not take this quietly.

YES SIR!!!

To our patients who are losing their Temporary Protected Status as this myopic and cruel administration continues to carry out their daily acts of racism, please reach out to us. We will fight with everything we have to assure your care is not interrupted. #SickleCell #SCDWarriors

Thank you, Adam! We are excited to meet Victoria and host her at our Center!

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

I’m reminded every day now that our work is protest. #SickleCell #SCD #DEI

The challenges our #SickleCell warriors face echo the lived experience of Black and Brown people in this country. This is and always will be #BlackHistoryMonth no matter what the federal government says.

To our #SickleCell warriors, if you are struggling to access your healthcare, SNAP, or social support benefits or if you are being threatened with deportation, please reach out to us. We want to support you in any way we can.

We can’t keep trying to play a friendly game of checkers when the other side is playing chess. There are no rules if both sides don’t acknowledge them.

HELL YES:

Michael Steele delivers a genius game-plan to absolutely DERAIL the GOP.

Democrats need to STOP helping Republicans. “Let them choke on (their majority).”

His words were BLUNT:

“Y'all need to chill on this, all this kumbaya partisan bi-partisan crap.” He added.

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Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.

Our Center stands firmly committed to protecting our patients. No one can threaten their safety and wellbeing. That will never change. #SickleCell

www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i... via @statnews.com

If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

My husband works for a federal department. He was just told that he is no longer able to wear his rainbow lanyard to work and that his year long project on equity must be terminated immediately. I am simultaneously horrified and driven.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Latest News on Executive Orders and D.E.I. Crackdown

As the Robert K. Kraft chair in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion I will continue to empower the meaning behind every word in that title. We ignore history at this moment at our peril. The current administration can’t hide behind their white robes. #SickleCell

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Senator, with all due respect, we can’t keep trying to play by the rules when the other side has set the rule book on fire.

On this day, we attended to the arc of the moral universe. Thank you #MassSickleCell for an extraordinary event honoring the legacy of Dr. King through the stories of our #SickleCell warriors.

Join us on MLK Day (and in protest of the other event happening on that day) to educate the community while celebrating and supporting our #SickleCell warriors on Jan 20 in Brockton.

A new legislative session begins today in Massachusetts and we have so much work to do for our #SickleCell #warriors this year. A new year—a new energy to bring change that’s a century overdue.

Merry Christmas to you too!