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Adjunct math prof at Hunter College in NYC. Lefty. Kindness is the only thing that matters.
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TIL you can order uranium online and they'll ship it to you by fedex unitednuclear.com/restricted-t...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Jesus fucking christ I can't believe this shit. FUCK WAR AND FUCK THIS

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

muslims knocking on doors for a mayoral race is the equivalent to sixteen 9/11’s

I think if you are podcasting you should have to do it from inside one of these

If your country’s police starts looking like this you are extraordinarily fucked. The only appropriate response is a civil uprising. #AbolishICE

dap me up father for i have freaked it

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Javier Bardem went so hard on the genocide of Palestinians that the View had to cut to commercial break

George Gountas of Brooklyn is the winner of a Pedro Pascal lookalike contest in New York City:

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

Nations typically throw military parades to demonstrate their organizational prowess and national unity. So…uh… message received.

Per WSJ, U.S. negotiations with Iran were actually a cover to buy time for Israel's attack. Would you ever enter into negotiations with the U.S. knowing this?

starting my new job as king tomorrow. a little nervous obviously but mostly just excited! thinking about hitting the streets to mingle with the hoi polloi, get a feel for what my subjects are up to

look what they took from us

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

I'm starting to think perhaps this Netanyahu guy enjoys war

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I told you we’d be back

Thousands of New Yorkers march in lower Manhattan calling for ICE out of New York. Starting at Foley Square and organized by PSL, the masses have flooded the streets and are moving west. This demo is permitted but even if it wasn’t, it would be far too large for NYPD to contain.

every single time you hear about execs culling employees to replace them with AI, remember that those execs could be replaced even more efficiently by AI and provide far far far greater savings

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

Hell of a photo

the municipal nutrislop company has issued a boil slop advisory

Heavily armed Trump regime forces driven away by community resistance mid ICE raid in Los Angeles, scenes repeating all over the city where people are standing up to them. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Remarkable scenes at Belaya airfield in Irkutsk, Russia. Ukraine has launched a devastating attack on Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers. The base is over 4000 km from Ukraine, but $500 drones are currently wiping out $100 million planes. Russia’s Pearl Harbor.

i just found out the new harry potter series literally cost 4.24 billion dollars to make and i'm not fucking joking. the rot in our civilization is endless and deep

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

new loyalty tests for federal workers www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Eigenvalues for 15 million random 10×10 tridiagonal matrices w/ entries sampled from the discrete set {0, ±1, ±i, ±20, ±20i}. The image shows the density of eigenvalues in the complex plane, with brighter regions indicating higher concentration. #Python #MathArt #SciArt #CreativeCoding #Mathematics

Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.

This is what they took from us

The Eye-Ball Theorem: Two disjoint spheres S1 and S2. Form cone C1 tangent to S1 with apex at the center of S2, and form cone C2 similarly. Then the radii of the circles of cone/sphere intersections (red) are equal. #MathSky #Geometry

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.