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Child of Ethiopian Refugees | Harar ➡️ Toronto | Psychiatry & Addictions at the University of Toronto | 👇🏾

Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2012
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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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This is the first interview I've seen of Muslims being asked how they feel right now
El-Sayed supporters Aasiya Yaasiin, Mina Abdel-Khalek and Faduma Hassan say Islamophobic rhetoric in TV ads is making them feel less safe at school and in public. “It’s like going back in time. I’m more in danger of a racist event now than five years ago,” Yaasiin says.
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In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.
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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. espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/5031…
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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???
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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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
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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.
Polymarket and its athlete endorsers are under fire for a market on whether any of the seven male defendants accused of raping a Cornell student will get a felony sex crime charge. There was $451K in volume, with traders placing a 28% chance on the market resolving to “yes."

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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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🇸🇴🇮🇱 Somalia to Israel in the UN: "To come to this place and lecture us on humanity, genocide, human rights, independence, and democracy —when we know what you are doing on a daily basis — is just an insult."
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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.
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 has suspended beauty pageants nationwide, replacing them with a science competition involving 84 young women.
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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.
Khaleel Seivwright, a Black carpenter in Toronto, built free insulated mini shelters for homeless people so they could survive freezing winter nights. The small wooden structures are designed to stay warm using just body heat.
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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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