@dryostradamus @michael_hoerger Then there were more positive treatment trials w/meds that actually improved cognition/behavior or treatments that were actually disease modifying. We arent there yet in this field.
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A Better Health, MD, MPH
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A Better Health, MD, MPH
@BHealtha
Pan-Africanist, Physician, Public Health Epidemiologist & Public Health Practice Expert, Chronic Illness Patient, World Citizen.
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@dryostradamus @michael_hoerger We dont need belittling language by referencing "middle school science". This same issue happens in other fields like Alzheimers. When the field had better biomarkers & ability to hone in on a homogenous population w/ Alzheimers dementia & not a vascular or Parkinsons dementia
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Which is why we rigorously excluded MECFS, vector borne, post vax from our Long COVID trial.
Not just subjectively but also using biomarkers.
Enroll the wrong cohort of patients, fail your trial. Concepts we learned in middle school science.
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Todd Davenport@sunsopeningband
Nothing has degraded the quality of Long Covid research more than ignoring the existence of ME in study design.
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dont know how to take care of it & dont want to learn how to maintain it & dont want to spend any time maintaining it. There is no need to be dishonest about how long it takes to maintain 4c hair. 2/2
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Im tired of "4C hair is a full time job" discourse. When I was a kid mothers washed our loose hair on Saturday & braided it on Sunday & that style lasted 1-2 weeks. A few hours on the weekend is not full time & neither is afro or loc maintenance. Just say you hate your hair & 1/2
Muhanuuzi@dorah_muhanuuzi
A lot of the natural hair discourse is not our reality. It’s imported. For many African women, braids and weaves are not about some internalized shame. They’re about time and practicality. Our hair can be a full time job.
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Zohran's wife was 15 and a racist, homophobic loser.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old and shot dead for playing with a toy gun in a park.
Non-black kids get to have a "racist phase" and infantalized as grown adults while literal black children get killed for being kids.
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I bet this article is 100% CIA lies. The CIA is leaking lies about talking to Ghalibaf & other Iranian officials to sow distrust & make certain Iranians mistrusted in their own country so they run to the US. This is colonizer divide & conquer 💩 politico.com/news/2026/03/2…
Nate Bear@NateB_Panic
From Politico. The US says its plan is to keep assassinating Iranian leaders until a Delcy Rodriguez-style figure emerges who will do what they want. Article says the main thing is a future leader gives the US first dibs on oil rights
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At the end of the day, to really be a natural hair girlie is to be okay with imperfection. Your shit is gonna be short or frizzy or shrunk up or not slick more days than not. Wear it anyway
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A Better Health, MD, MPH retweetet
These are the pants of the child, #Jawad Abu Nasser — a small piece of fabric that stands as powerful evidence of the crime.
They bear traces of his blood, reflecting the abuse he endured. A visible hole can also be seen, indicating the insertion of a sharp object, resembling a metal rod, into his foot, with a clear exit point through both the foot and the fabric.
The evidence does not end there; there are also marks that appear to be burns, likely caused by cigarettes being extinguished on them.
The pants of a child not yet a year and a half old… yet they tell a story that cannot be justified.
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It's called "Atrocity Propaganda" and it is used by colonisers in every conflict they provoke to portray themselves as victims and justify their subsequent aggression.
Same thing was done in 1991 when the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US was coached to testify before US Congress that Saddam's guards took babies out of incubators and killed them with bayonets. Then the whole story was later retracted quietly.
Same thing was done in 2011 when western media began reporting that Gadaffi was a rapist who kidnapped young girls off the street and their parents never saw them again, and that he distributed Viagra to his armies of black mercenaries from Sub Saharan Africa so they could rape Libyans as punishment for rising against him.
Same thing was done a few weeks ago when western media uniformly began reporting that "Iran killed 30,000 protesters". That too is being quietly retracted.
Whoever repeats these lies is not doing so out of ignorance, because this has happened so many times.
simon maginn@simonmaginn
The defence editor at @TheEconomist admits the 'beheaded babies' story he promoted, and which was widely used to justify Israel's atrocities against Palestine, was fraudulent. Are our journalist class just credulous little babies, or do they lie to order for Israel? #ItWasAScam
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Gender based colonial standards where long hair on women is a requirement to meet criteria for womanhood/femininity. Akin to BM’s short cuts. The styles are cultural but the reason they’re worn is still to perform gender &avoid dealing w the natural hair.
Woque@jenny_gxo
How do braids conform to European beauty standards tho? They are Afrocentric styles that we have kept for generations and generations and along with locs, they are discriminated too…
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@boohoo77746 @celltowerr You gotta train them to like it a bit messy too or to not say the dreaded words "you need a retwist". But it takes years to get there where they realize no matter how negative they get about your hair you wont change your behavior.
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@BHealtha @celltowerr They only like neat (retwisted ) locs and don’t forget they have to be long! That’s when the compliments roll in but God forbid you meet them when your hair is grown out with no retwist, they’ll start being negative again! Weird.
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@chlosih All of Europe is a Black haircare wasteland especially for natural hair. The African diaspora needs to come to the peace table & stage an intervention for the Afro-Europeans. I think Paris & London are equally abysmal.
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Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour.
MAKE ME PAY.
James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24
James🔻@GoodVibePolitik
If anyone wants to help I spent a few hours talking to medical students in Havana today who work at a hospital who said they need N95s or equivalents desperately. I’ve already worked with someone to secure 5,000 masks but 40,000 supplies their entire hospital staff for a year.
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Re: ICE mobilized to US airports
I’ve been discussing (since 2021) how the US will eventually close borders “from the inside” and restrict people from leaving this country. Allowing ICE to patrol borders (international airports are borders) is a step towards that goal. 1/5
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@boohoo77746 @celltowerr Ooh the aunties & uncles had lots to say (I would be jobless/would look homeless) when I started locs eons ago. Now they are the biggest cheerleaders saying "Look thats all her own natural hair. All hers! Its locs". The attitudes are changing slowly.
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@celltowerr Don’t know if you’re specifically speaking about the us but as a black person from Europe the amount of people who were vehemently against me getting trad locs because sister locs are more “presentable”….
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@jj4ADA @celltowerr Im not understanding what you just said.
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@BHealtha @celltowerr No...this is a response to perceived maintenance and upkeep. People place a high value on looks that appear "maintained". By definition, such a look requires maintenance. That feature is counter the narrative associated with freeform locks--or even their name.
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@Rhen0311 @celltowerr Yes people have locs using their own hair but if they are still texturist then there is still work to do. Our hair is beautiful the way it grows & we shouldnt have to lay babyhairs, comb out ends, constantly retwist locs to achieve proximity to a white supremacism based standard.
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@moneyBgreen @celltowerr Yes! I have empathy as I decolonized my mind too. I retwisted every month cause of "professionalism" & being senior leadership. I asked myself what was unprofessional about my fuzzy natural hair & I stopped twisting as often. My fuzzy roots make folks real uncomfortable though.
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@BHealtha @celltowerr Man! When the new growth come in and they’re obsessed with brushing it up and gellin it down so it looks “neat”. Aye man….
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@SassyE @queenie4rmnola Thanks for sharing. Your hair looks thick, healthy & beautiful. We def need more 4C love & affirmation. For more inspo you should check out Mayowa's World Youtube Channel & Redditors on r/naturalhair especially ones like u/Alice_Fell
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