@oioffe

Doctor, breast and Gyn pathologist, mother, professor, cat lady. Opinions my own, retweets are not endorsements

Maryland, USA
Joined September 2009
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
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He's our dear friend! No conflict of interest here!
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
Bettina Trump, Don Jr.'s wife, defends having a Putin ally finance part of their wedding trip, saying he was simply "our dear friend." Such a dear friend that brother Eric's rep told @propublica that “Eric has absolutely no clue who this person is, nor has never heard his name.”
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
An unelected American 🇺🇸 with no diplomatic experience is telling me to surrender my home, and telling Ukraine 🇺🇦 to surrender even more land, to an imperialist, fascist dictator committing acts of terrorism every day. I never thought I’d see the day, but here we are, Jared Kushner, negotiating away somebody else’s country.
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
"Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family." propublica.org/article/donal…
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
🇷🇺 This clip is long, but you won’t regret spending 5 minutes watching it. It’s hard to believe that it actually aired on a popular YouTube channel with nearly 900,000 subscribers. This incredible discussion between popular blogger Pavel Ivanov and former deputy Aleksandr Krasnov could almost be characterized as Vatnik thinking vs. “Good Russian” thinking. However, there’s a major “but” that prevents it from being characterized that way. Ivanov: “How do we ensure our security?” Krasnov: “As practice has shown, the first thing you need to do to ensure your security is not to attack your neighbors.”
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin’s top foreign policy official, says Putin told Trump the US could secure an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine – if it ended all support for Kyiv. The Russian approach to peace talks seems to be pressuring the US to let Russia win.
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
Kyiv, the center of Europe, 21st century Little schoolchildren spend 3 hours in a shelter because a psychopath-neighbor wants us dead And the world just watches, counts its money, keeps missiles in storage that could save hundreds of lives Trump talks about some hatred between Zelensky and putin as the reason the war continues How disgusting it is to live on this planet
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
Delcy Rodriguez does not represent the Venezuelan people. She is a dictator. She worked for Maduro! She was his Vice President. She understands that placating Trump is her only path for survival. Trump is cutting a deal with a communist dictatorship. Time tor free and fair elections in Venezuela.
DELCY: “TENGO FE EN EL FUTURO DE VENEZUELA” Durante el acto en Miraflores, Delcy Rodríguez calificó de “ganar-ganar” el acuerdo energético con EEUU y agradeció a la administración Trump. “Lo que estamos haciendo hoy representa el futuro y la esperanza del pueblo de Venezuela”.
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In Odesa, emergency services continue working at the site of a drone strike on an apartment building. Damage to apartments from the 10th through the 17th floors left 17 people injured, including three children. Efforts are also ongoing to deal with the aftermath of the strikes in Obukhiv and Boryspil districts. The necessary number of State Emergency Service rescuers are fighting fire at a pharmaceutical company’s warehouse. There were also strikes on Nikopol, Kherson, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Khmelnytskyi. Overall, 13 regions sustained damage last night alone. In many cities and communities, air raid alerts practically do not stop because of the threat of Russian jet-powered drone attacks. The enemy has not gone on vacation – the Russians have found a new way to escalate, and they have no intention of slowing down. We need a stronger response, more countermeasures, and faster defense production with Europe – above all, air defense against missiles and drones. Europe can be self-sufficient and strong – much has already been done toward this in recent years – and only by being this way can it protect itself and its way of life. Every day, we work with our partners on new defense packages. Thank you to everyone working for our common defense. Thank you to everyone helping Ukraine.
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
BREAKING: Canadian PM Mark Carney just made it clear that Canada isn't backing down from Donald Trump's tariff tantrums. ​Trump thought a few tariffs would force Canada to fold, and he's finding out the hard way that you can't bully your neighbors. ​Spine > showmanship.
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
Diseases that used to kill or disable millions of children every single year, before vaccines: — Polio — Diphtheria — Whooping cough — Rubella You’ve probably never seen a single case of any of them. That’s not an accident. That’s vaccines working!
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
I qualified as a doctor in 1985. I never saw a patient with these diseases in my entire professional career thanks to vaccines. My great uncle qualified as a doctor in 1925. He saw children die of these diseases before vaccines. Get vaccinated.
Diseases that used to kill or disable millions of children every single year, before vaccines: — Polio — Diphtheria — Whooping cough — Rubella You’ve probably never seen a single case of any of them. That’s not an accident. That’s vaccines working!
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
We know. Your rape victims told us.
TRUMP: “I don’t take no for an answer.”
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
70% of russia’s gas stations ran out or gas or diesel last month. context for russian escalation in kyiv…and against nato.
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Пошла волна возмущения тем, что Зеленский заявил о небезопасности российского воздушного пространства. Вот, например, Собчак негодует. А можно посмотреть на негодование этих людей по поводу небезопасности уже пятый год украинского воздушного пространства?
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
I cannot say definitively that Pete Hegseth is acting under Vladimir Putin’s orders. But if Vladimir Putin were giving orders, I’m not sure the behavior would be much different.
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
@MikeJohnson Are you going to wait until Russia successfully teaches Iran how to hit DC with a hypersonic missile before you pass the fucking sanctions and fund Ukraine so they defeat our sworn enemy in Moscow? Are you people blind?
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
The secret ramjet programme “shows Russia is trying to broaden the Ukraine war and draw the US into different theatres”, said @NicoleGrajewski. “Russia doesn’t care as much about the red lines in the region.” ft.com/content/6cf367bc-95b0…
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Olga Ioffe 🇺🇦 retweeted
“This is the transfer of a highly strategically sensitive military technology from Russia that the Iranians have wanted to acquire for decades,” said @fab_hinz. “A programme like this would require political clearance from the very top in Russia.” ft.com/content/6cf367bc-95b0…
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