Pianist + Herpetologist Podcast Episode · Cross Pollinated · March 24 · 53m

Absolutely loving this new podcast that brings scientists and artists together. Super cool concept. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Hell yeah, brother!! 🔥

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IS THE CHAMPAGNE THAT’S BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING IN MY FRIDGE WITH KHAMENEI’S NAME ON IT GETTING POPPED TODAY?

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Citizens are in the driver's seat now imho. It's cool if some politicians are quicker on the uptake than others but they are following us now, I'm not waiting for them anymore

Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

They really can't do it. They really can not simply say "Abolish ICE." They always have to add a qualifier. Abolish the untrained ICE. Abolish our opponents ICE. They're too scared to look anti cop to take a popular position held by their voters as their voters are murdered in the streets.

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This is the thing I keep coming back to. Illegal immigration isn’t a violent crime. They’re killing people in the streets to crack down on a “crime” that hurts no one. It’s pure fascism.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side

Not sure our brains were made to process extrajudicial executions in the streets in real time

You can’t threaten ICE agents with Nuremberg Trials because they weren’t paying attention in school and don’t know what that is.

And for some reason many Iranian-Americans are republican don’t believe the IRGC but believe ICE. They don’t see the parallels. Idk.

As an Iranian-American, witnessing the IRGC in Iran say they’re only shooting violent protesters at the same time ICE in the US says they’re only shooting violent protesters is breaking me.

It feels like we’ve lost the entire world to fascism.

I’ve been lurking on Iranian twitter and a lot of the diaspora acts like this is an exciting game that we’re watching unfold. As if these aren’t people’s kids going out there to risk their lives. I want it to end but I also don’t want it to be in vain.

My heart breaks for Iranian protesters. They’re going into the streets every night to support each other, and because they feel they have nothing left to lose, and they understand they might get killed or tortured as a result.

Nearly 50 years of this regime. Most of them never knew a free Iran.

whole lot of ICE pricks just saw that they can murder someone and not only not be arrested, but the president will call them a hero who saved the day. they even have a blueprint for how to shoot people they want to. extremely bad precedent

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him

Anyone know if there’s a gofundme for the wife of the woman murdered?

I have had enough. I was more than content to say impeachment was pointless because he will never be convicted by the Senate, and to just focus on impeachment of his lackeys.

But you know what? Impeach him anyway. Create an extensive written record of his high crimes and misdemeanors.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

We Lived Happily During the War BY ILYA KAMINSKY And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war

this poem is in my head every moment of every day now

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