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Heidi Altman, Ph.D.
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🔵Linguistic and applied Anthro, Ph.D. Happily married to my favorite husband, mom to 2 good people, dog person. Maternal health advocate. 🔵

🚫evil (un)elected fascists 🚫 bullshit

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3887-4996 .. more

Public Health 25%
Medicine 16%

We had a small crew this year. I only made 2, but here is a pic of one!

In the course of two days I have had two young men, one I don’t know at all and one I know well, ask to speak to me after class. Both are struggling with significant mental health crises and had no one else to talk to. We need to do better by this generation of young people. 💔💔💔

I just got that one! Planning to do it o er Christmas. :) beautiful!
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I learned today that my former graduate student, who makes about $1000 a month as a GA in a doctoral program and has had a health insurance policy through the ACA, will see her premiums go from $16/mo to >$600/mo at the start of the year. How are people supposed to live?

The millions of dollars worth of nutrition supplements (protein paste from peanuts) that USAID destroyed rather than distribute may have really come in handy here in the next few months. Also, without SNAP the whole grocery industry is in danger of collapse. Also #Epsteinfiles

He’s my former gov and now chancellor of our university system. 😬

Up to Men at Arms in my Discworld read through. Everyone knows Vimes “Boots” theory, but he had a lot to say about kings too.
#discworld #menatarms #terrypratchett

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Uniter
@aoc.bsky.social: “They are weaker than they look…. They rely on that perception of inevitability and power.”

…Is Min Ldr Schumer taking notes?
#TrumpsShutdown #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ResistanceUnited via @allinwithchris.bsky.social @msnbc.com www.instagram.com/reel/DPP-wd6...

I was fortunate to get to spend a few days on Sapelo Island this week for work. The cultural and natural resources there are like nowhere else. I am extremely grateful to do what I do and for the respite of this trip during these days. Here are some pictures of the beach, butterflies and birds.

Thank you. ❤️ we’re ok, but some of our family members are not. It will be ok.

Agreed

My family has had a rough year, and I am finding it hard to concentrate on my own work. So, I decided to re-read the discworld books in order to give myself some respite. It has been probably 15 years since I read them, but jeez are they timely now. It’s almost too much. #discworld #terrypratchett

Watching the US Open Final award ceremony I was sure the 🍊💩 would jump over Ivan Lendl and snatch the Tiffany’s trophy and platter…

My senator.

Well, of course you use salt against ice. Perfect.
Chicago Mayor Deploys Salt Trucks as Mobile Barricades to Block ICE Operations

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Chicago Mayor Deploys Salt Trucks as Mobile Barricades to Block ICE Operations
This part.

I wonder if the fact that the Bryan County Hyundai plant is producing all their EVs for North America and outcompeting
T*$£@ has anything to do with the raid…

And a news story about the Hyundai plant raid.

This happened down the road from my house. Word is they also detained Hyundai executives, South Korean nationals. Georgia has spent years building relationships with Hyundai to build this EV plant (for all of N America) and this one escapade has put everything in jeopardy.

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Forbes @forbes.com · Sep 5
U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.
South Korea Raises Concern After Hundreds Are Detained In Immigration Raid At Hyundai Battery Plant In Georgia
U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.
www.forbes.com

Yesterday I went down a little musical rabbit hole and listened to a bunch of political punk rock music from my youth. The lyrics are even more relevant today. As bad as we thought Reagan and Thatcher were, we need that kind of energy now among young people. Introduce a Gen Z-er to punk rock today!
Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

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Dead Kennedys recording Nazi Punks Fuck Off in 1981.
NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com

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Ha! The internet remembers everything. 🤣🤣

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DEMS' SUPPORTING REPUBLICAN BUDGET BILL WILL NOT GAIN MAGA VOTES
BUT WILL DEFINITELY LOSE DEMOCRAT VOTERS
For the democrats saying “we can’t let the govt shut down” you’ve already lost. It’s not on you.

Republicans control everything, didn’t come to you for anything except your vote. Where else can you force changes? You can’t… you’re a willing participant in Republican majority

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The entire conversation around government funding is Washington at its worst. I cannot in good conscience vote for a bill that increases costs for Georgians, defunds care for servicemembers, and slashes investments in education and health care.

I am voting NO on the partisan funding bill.