Jennifer Rittenhouse West, PhD
@rittenhousewest.bsky.social
Theoretical particle physicist running around this world. She/her. Anti-fascist. Will you be pulling up?
Me: https://rittenhousewest.github.io
Also me: https://sites.google.com/view/rittenhousewest
Me: https://rittenhousewest.github.io
Also me: https://sites.google.com/view/rittenhousewest
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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.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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!!
Ok everyone let's get in formation 💃
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae captures several dazzling open star clusters. 🌌💫 These clusters are young, loosely bound families of stars that will eventually drift apart over millions of years. 🔭🧪
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae captures several dazzling open star clusters. 🌌💫 These clusters are young, loosely bound families of stars that will eventually drift apart over millions of years. 🔭🧪
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December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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 ❤️
ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.
Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
YES - ICE out of Chinatown, bastardi - and to NYC people with ❤️ This guy especially ❤️
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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
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
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the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)
Reading now 🎂
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reading now 🎂
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...
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Form a crowd, stay loud, this is how we protect each other 💜
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November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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.
Congress sent a clear message to the White House: Release the Epstein Files.
It should have never taken this long. Why did Trump fight this for months?
It should have never taken this long. Why did Trump fight this for months?
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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.
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In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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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
- 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
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
- 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.
Academia has a problem in elevating terrible people into positions of power. "Sure, this person is a narcissist and sociopath, but they get things done! That's a bargain I'm willing to make."
It is indeed hard to get things done in academia, so I understand the temptation. But it often ends badly.
It is indeed hard to get things done in academia, so I understand the temptation. But it often ends badly.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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.
I harbor plenty of disdain for James Comey, but I still hope Halligan gets disbarred over this
Judge scolds Justice Department for ‘profound investigative missteps’ in Comey case
Those problems include “fundamental misstatements of the law.”
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Same game over here etc etc etc
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A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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 💘
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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 💘
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#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...
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...
June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers Murdered in Mississippi
Medgar Evers, WWII veteran and civil rights activist, was murdered by a white supremacist in Jackson, Mississippi.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#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...
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...
Reposted by Jennifer Rittenhouse West, PhD
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.
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.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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.
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...
Supporting Families Facing Food Insecurity | The Archewell Foundation
In a moment when families across the United States are struggling to put food on the table, Prince Harry and Meghan, have been supporting local communities affected by the growing hunger crisis and as...
archewell.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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...
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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...
Fatto 🥂
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Fatto 🥂
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....
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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 ❤️
BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just approved a pay package for Elon Musk that’s worth up to $1 trillion.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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 ❤️