✨🕯️🎄🎁 Happy Holidays & Feliz Física ✨🕯️🎄🎁☃️!!

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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Oh the colors of these clusters of stars...all to grow up and wander off, which I love...but this pale bright orange pink yellow it makes me think of summer time on the east coast and I could eat these dazzling beauties!!

YES - ICE out of Chinatown, bastardi - and to NYC people with ❤️ This guy especially ❤️

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)

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Gordon Baym works on neutron star physics?? And has been since 1969?? Oh where have I been, that's awesome - and look at the trajectory of the citations, so darling: inspirehep.net/literature/2...

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Form a crowd, stay loud, this is how we protect each other 💜 www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

REDACTING DOCUMENTS TAKES TIME SENATOR MURRAY. Good christ I cannot deal with the intentional fake ignorance and lack of critical thinking in the Democratic Congresspeople that I have helped to elect.

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure

And so many support them. Sometimes without knowing explicitly. Yet with the ability to dismiss so so so effing easily. To say "oh the complainers are problematic" because we are not perfect. Are not great physicists (FORSE!!! WE SHALL SEE!!). Yeah, good gods I have so many issues with my field.

I harbor buckets of contempt for Comey, he is revolting. And I agree, I hope he burns as many of the sadistic bootlickers down as he can. He has the connections and money to do it.

Same game over here etc etc etc

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

No translations of the Adventures of Little Onion tonight BUT here is Cipollino himself, from p.11, right about where we are in the text. Gianni Rodari 💜 Illustrated by Manuela Santini 💝 He has a hanky on a stick!!! Just how I feel so often. Also note my nails, kinda e^ i pi =0, to cheer me up 💘

#VeteransDay WWII vet & father Medgar Evers of NAACP was murdered 💔 in 1963 in driveway of his home for his fight for voting rights and his brave investigation of murders of African Americans in Mississippi. Read more ⬇️ #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...

We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are. We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.

Back in the saddle. Donated $50 for food via Propel, which is used by SNAP families, because it will take a while to get the government running. Many good organizations helping with food insecurity in the USA now, Archewell has a great list: archewell.org/news/support...

Ossoff why did I give you money and time!! And Durbin, impossible to find...oh god the cowards and criminals...and Mark Kelly, really? Oh these people, the enemies of physics and poetry and FOOD and kindness and abundance...

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I'm going to start to read a book by Gianni Rodari called Le Avventure Di Cipollino, or the Adventures of the Little Onion. It is for children. I bought it in the book shop the other day, some little darling place in Torino. It is in Italian so I'll have to translate as I go....

And then this! I am in a country led by criminals and criminal-led corporations!! Except there are tons of us who are not, and who are decent critters and we do roll our sleeves up ❤️

It benefits no one. This Supreme Court & federal government filled with transphobes, criminals. The majority of we the people don't feel this way!! Mamdani didn't appease the transphobes, he didn't bring a Cheney on stage! I'm having retroactive fury at the Harris campaign, we didn't do it right!!

Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Van Campen defeated six-term incumbent Mayor Carlo DiMaria, the guy who allowed ICE to kidnap a 13-year-old from his city last month. Elections have consequences.

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NYC mayoral race called for Mamdani as Democrats trounce Republicans in race after race: Virginia House changes from 51-49 to 63-37, favor Dems. VA and NJ governor races flip to Dems Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill. Virginia State Sen. Hashmi first Muslim woman elected to statewide office.

Time to rest, Mamdani for NYC, Virginia and New Jersey blue, it is good hopeful news 🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵

PROUD to help 🛟

This is the town where Northwestern University is. It is overwhelming and the videos are horrifying.

Trawling through SLAC pubs to find 1994 ep elastic scattering, taking ages especially because I thought the paper was from 1974 but *that* was a beautiful trawl - found this wild thing: "STAPP’S QUANTUM DUALISM: the James/Heisenberg Model of Consciousness" www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpub...

It is not a ballroom, it is some kind of bunker.

☠️ PHRENOLOGY when it is convenient (for eugenics)!!! Bastardi. All of them.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Honest to the gods I cannot believe we are discussing a Nazi dude in Maine - just DITCH him & get a non-Nazi for us Dems!! This has got to be a media problem - most of the media is owned by big companies who love to amplify Nazis - the current president & ilk - and crucify a tan suit on a Black man!

One more symptom of the assault on higher ed is that the more prestigious research institution in the dominant producer of science in the world is slashing investments in the people who generate new knowledge.

[Pursued by bear]

[Exit King.]

Yes, Mayor Michelle Wu!! Boston Boston Boston Solidarity 💙 CHAOS IS A LADDER! (meant in the best most darling most collective and non-Littlefinger way)

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49k have blocked the new White House account now. I'm drowning in sorrows and furies because of my government, but these things give me pleasure. Cannot come over here and play the same vicious game with the highest stakes (for *us*).

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have To say Don’t bait them. pay them DUST. Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target . In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

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