Dania Palanker

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[Dania Palanker @DaniaPal]

Personal News:
I am on a leave of absence from Georgetown until April 2023.

This is my plan for the next few weeks. Some fiction, some non-fiction that’s still health related (but not health insurance related), and chocolate.

Check out this 🧵to follow my colleagues’ work

[Dania Palanker @DaniaPal]

I remember going to high holiday services at a nearby university while growing up because our synagogue was burned down in an antisemitic act of hate.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Yeah, my mom and dad's interracial marriage was illegal until I was a year old and then--later--they struggled to buy a home in their Long Island community because people didn't want to sell to a Black lady. Good times!

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@lakeyamcgillphd @NAPainSchool Excitement.

Maple syrup is a marvelous thing.

And I only like vodka and tequila.

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@DocZing We also still have the darn issue that there’s only one of us with Canadian citizenship…

But that shouldn’t impact you finding a cure for hypermobility.

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@DocZing We can winter in Costa Rica.

[Natali Segovia @NSegoviaEsq]

As an Indigenous woman and an attorney, I am used to heartbreak. We wake up to fight in the “iron-cold” of the law every day, knowing the scales rarely tip in our favor. But today, in this moment, we celebrate the #SCOTUS decision in Brackeen v. Haaland that upholds #ICWA. 🧵

[Dania Palanker @DaniaPal]

@DocZing He cannot begin the process of applying for Canadian citizenship until he has lived in Canada for a number of years.

And I prefer Toronto.

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@DocZing But they won’t be able to come with us to Canada!

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@DocZing I’m not sure that our husbands would approve of that plan.

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@DocZing I do have dual citizenship.

[Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan]

possibly a weird thing to be happy about, but I just had an amazing, informative doctor's appointment that was totally free (thanks Obama)

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@mirandayaver I may silently judge you every time you tweet about the Yankees

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@AlekaGurel Lost binkies live in the land of lost socks.

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@AlekaGurel All I can say about pacifiers, is if you have trouble weening a child off using pacifiers when the time comes, it can really help if you just happen to lose all the remaining pacifiers that have not yet been lossed.

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@AlekaGurel But what are their feelings on glow in the dark pacifiers?

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@beckawall You want to switch it to only circulate indoor air if you need it on today. If it’s a window unit, it will have a vent that can be closed. It is definitely not filtering it all.

[Dania Palanker @DaniaPal]

@DiShoh @beckawall Only if the a/c is circulating indoor air. It’s important to make sure a window unit has the damper closed, something I never even knew about before I googled this week and that any central units are not set to bring in outdoor air.

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@jrovner As someone isolating in a bedroom without central a/c, I am very happy with the current temperature.