Agreed. I was just wrong too. Upsetting on all levels. If he withdraws by 07/13 apparently we can find another candidate. Come through Maine, come through 🛟

Hm. Utterly plausible. If Till Sawala's work is correct ("I show that the apparent anomaly disappears when the correct comoving distance scale is used") then the Standard Model of Cosmology holds steady. Not quite as fiercely as the Standard Model of Particle Physics but very hard to crack. Love it.

Oh, so you don’t approve of FDR? You don’t approve of going after the trusts and obscenely wealthy? You don’t approve of Social Security, and building a nation that works? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING YOURSELVES DEMOCRATS YOU TWATWAFFLES

Excellence. Happy to learn about Juneteenth ⚖️

Love it, so true ✨ and the truth is hopeful & inspiring ✨

Belfast stepping up just like Minnesota. The battle against fascism and xenophobia is worldwide.

One of the many reasons so many of us fight for justice in the US. In honor of Medgar Evers. #tdih 1963 WWII vet Medgar Evers was murdered by white supremacist in driveway outside his home in Jackson.

Second generation periodic table of the elements 💘 Only charm-strange quarks. Some day, people are going to do this!! Then third gen!!

All of this LHCb work is brilliant, love it. Naming patterns, do not love. They obscure identities! Eg, the ssc baryon called Omega^0_c. This is a 2nd generation neutron! Gens are (u d), (c s), (t b). 3rd gen neutron is tbb. Lots of cross-gen hybrids. But many baryons are fancy protons and neutrons!

"There’s the famous saying that when you’re a carpenter, every problem looks like a nail. I guess when a rising politician centers her brand on her time as a Navy helicopter pilot, every crisis starts to look like Iraq."

Truth to Power. Grazie mille to the witnesses outside of Delaney Hall 💜.

The points Chanda makes. Crystal vision. "Because these guys don’t have tattoos: they have missiles and fighter jets and a target population that they’ve been murdering. On balance I think that’s probably worse, but hey I’m just a Black Jew who’s thought about it!"

I love this ⚡ Every label conjures up so much!

Still studying, Prof. Stokes' opinion is useful...also, understanding the lay of the land (not who to vote for, but what has been changing with the candidates and the people's choices) via the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies is helpful: escholarship.org/uc/item/5s88...

In order to take a few deep breaths, here is a little beautiful Torinese garden on the way to the physics department....the tiny bright blue of the painted metal chairs is so pretty 💙

Yes. 💔

Excellent. I'm up on Maine, on Texas, but ignorant on California which is where I actually vote!! Disgraceful, but I have 5 days to study the governor candidates - my superficial glance from a month ago was..um....beyond negative, across the board. But let's see what I've missed.

The necessity of paying Black women writers and artists, always but especially now: substack.com/@shaystewart...

A brilliant and deep essay on Platner in Maine from "Shay’s Cogitations:A Detour From Black Girl in Maine." Changed my mind on Platner's candidacy, and what a superficial analysis I had done before, especially with the Fetterman comparison. We can pay for SHAY STEWART-BOULEY's writing, & I did.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

I mean..."they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it." Breaking my heart.

🥂 Exactly

Oh my goodness I love it!! I was laughing like what is that lumpy monstrosity?? 💝 The Perseverance rover took this from Mars in 2022, & Phobos the darling lumpy moon is only 11.5 km across - so tiny - but it really really close to Mars, that is why it is enormous as it passes in front of the sun!!

I will always be inspired and infuriated by this. Sempre, sempre, sempre. The way a creature is treated is not an indicator of their worth. Punto. Finito la musica.

Just in case anyone is interested in the cross-disciplinary region of hadron physics and cosmic ray physics, we have a little paper for you. An investigation of antiproton and antineutron production in space, specifically at the International Space Station: inspirehep.net/literature/3...

Love love love love love love love (and it looks like we have tiny fire-fleas!! oh I love this, well done to Andy Saunders and Aretemis!!)

Sorry but I pleased myself with this pop sci description of conformal field theories ❤️‍🔥

Things that make me happy: a music shop a block from the physics dept, I went in today exhausted, looked at some music books ("teach yourself to play Nino Rota's film scores!" just the darlingest things), was idly looking for 2 tambourines to bring to a physics conference in Sardinia, entered a

The two big themes emerging among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism—just announced—are the awfulness of Trump (and other authoritarians) and the awfulness of certain things happening in tech. www.pulitzer.org/news/2026-pu...

Absolutely love this, brilliant 💘 and brilliant books!!

Last night at the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act Callais-Rapid Response meeting, Selma Foot Solider Phil Hunter, ESQ. spoke with us. He was 17 years old on Bloody Sunday. Daryl Jones also spoke with us, and many others - Inspiring, heart breaking, makes you roll your sleeves up.

John Lewis knew in 2005 who John Roberts was and what would happen if he got a seat on the court. Thanks to @takebackthect.bsky.social for the reminder. takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

What to do about the demolition of the Voting Rights Act - let's figure it out: I'm attending No Kings's event, “Callais Decision Update Rapid Response Call” - sign up now to join me!" www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

SI SI SI, ciao Marisa!!! Happy Liberation Day 💝 (Yankee go home, ah ah ah 💘 kills me, totally understood)

Walking to the market for freshies on LIBERATION DAY in darling darling darling Italia...I love this holiday in honor of the liberation of the country from fascists. May we have our own smaller, different, but equally profound & joyous day in the US 💘 As the partigiane would have wished, I imagine 💘

Exactly this!!! "we need leaders who put criminals and traitors in prison. there is no unity without accountability." We do not want this weaksauce mealymouth softshoe discourse!! It is dishonest and shows either supreme cowardice or a con (eg person beholden to corporate donors, lobbyists)

Yes!!! FUND BASIC RESEARCH. Curiosity driven research. The fact that an electric current creates a magnetic field, documented as discovered in 1820 (maybe earlier too), this was curiosity. And then all the connections between charges and magnets and then Maxwell's equations and then the tests of

Torino Torino...the darling wild & tended Parco Colletta, trees for days, such a beautiful place to walk & think ✨ Trying to figure out a physics problem, a small problem...I somehow feel like something this hard for me should be a bit BIGGER! But maybe Nature has a surprise for me...

ESA! Eeeeesah! Respect and big ❤️

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

Keep calling, keep protesting, keep organizing. Trump threatened to kill an entire civilization w/ nuclear weapons just last week. We can't sit around and ignore this for 2 weeks. It's our duty to stop him. Get loud. 5calls.org/issue/stop-ira

Respect, Freedom 💜

From Artemis I, & the pleasure I got when I was watching, thinking "what are those funny flowers...oh how pretty...OH!!" and then laughing 🩷🤍🩷🤍🩷🤍🩷🤍🩷🤍🩷🤍

So happy 🧡🧡🧡🧡

Watching!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.