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ChemE PhD interested in polymer architecture, mechanochemistry, and vitrimers Postdoc in the Chitnis lab Latino, he/him/él Website: https://adrianlorenzana.ca ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇳
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A friend told me he's thinking of going to the CONCACAF Gold Cup match between Mexico and Honduras at Levis Stadium, but might not because it will be crawling with ICE. He's a native born citizen too, but immigration enforcement is going to make all our lives worse before this is over.

carney can you not pls

Hate this

Seeing a little mayan boy holding up a piece of paper with the USAID logo :(

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

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yesss histogram-as-legend in the wild!

One of our most serious constitutional historians plausibly argues "the phrase constitutional crisis no longer describes our situation. The Constitution has failed, and we no longer know which institution will rescue it." Read this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

Militarized police and regular troops deployed at home, all to flank a vast immigration force that is constantly roaming the streets looking for people - anyone they decide might not belong in their “real America” - to detain, deport, disappear. That’s the vision. This would get them a lot closer.

quick look inside my brain

I'm nowhere near this doomer but the frustrating thing is that America *has* the best demographic profile of any high income country *because of immigration* and we're throwing that away. The median age in America is lower than in China now!

globalize the empanada and make the world delicious

✨ Wipr 2 will be 40% off* tomorrow**! ✨ It's a special day for me, so I feel like celebrating! 💜 * Or more, depending on currency! ** Jun 30th! Whatever that means in your timezone!

👇🎯 We simply can’t do the Ford thing again, for the umpteenth time in a row (Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture/Abu Ghraib, Jan 6, etc.). There will need to be an actual reckoning this time, with serious legal consequences & major institutional reforms.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Looking for something to do at lunchtime in Detroit to observe Canada Day? Come join us for a “flash solidarity serenade” to show your support for a sovereign Canada, strong and free! See tinyurl.com/Detroit0701 for details. (Meet NLT noon at Riverside Garden Rooms.)

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Bout time for a tax strike

the year 4 "can't wait to be a PI" to the year 5 "hopefully I can at least keep my current job for another year or two" senior postdoctoral fellow in 2025 pipeline

#AcademicChatter

Anyone have examples of lab/academic websites they love?

Expert historian of the Constitution: “Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system….we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.” Fr @jrakove.bsky.social

stewart copeland’s videos alone could heal this broken nation

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

I don't think the Supreme Court should get a summer vacation. Let them work a full year with two weeks vacation like the rest of the country.

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

Disaster.

Leah Gorzen and Gabby Mack are recipients of the Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarship. Not pictured are recipients, John Haddad and Mustafa Alithawi. Congratulations to all! #wsuchemistry #HonorsConvo2025 #chemistryindetroit #chemistryundergrads #ChemSky

Honor and the Rule of Law shall be restored to the Eagle Throne, with the blessing of the South Side Papacy.

The United States is a nation beyond the rule of law. People are being kidnapped on the streets by men in masks. They are being disappeared and deported to foreign concentration camps. A Canadian died in their hands. We must demand full access and independent investigation of his mistreatment.

Apple (Boulder, CO) looking for a MS/PhD polymer chemist: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #chemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

#facultychemjobs 🧪⚗️#chemjobs

Hero shit

gotta up my game for that #phd I guess

The Canadian government and all Canadians should be outraged.

JFC.

literally what do you mean my manuscript file is oddly formatted and hard to read

80-90% of polled voters say Direct File is a good thing. It is quite literally one of the most popular government programs in America. If Democrats cared more about winning than making their donors happy, they could win 8-10 House seats next year just with ads showing off this tweet.

The resources being marshaled right now at the highest levels of the trump admin not just for this propaganda blitz to make Trump feel good but also the ongoing leak hunt and intel and info crackdown are… significant

If anything, it is understated in our public consciousness how “North Korean” we have gotten in such a short period of time, even compared to Trump’s first term. We are only a few short months in and already upwards of a BILLION has been spent on making this one guy feel good about himself:

Textile fragment from Peru, circa 900-1430AD. © The Trustees of the British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

The Republican Party today is adamantly opposed to all forms of education, all forms of thought. I am not exaggerating. From K-12 through university, they only want evidence of *training*. Actual education is the enemy.