Tarek Anous
@tarwreck.bsky.social
Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (he/him)
Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)
Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)
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Tarek Anous
@tarwreck.bsky.social
· Dec 4
75 new Future Leaders Fellows and upcoming rounds announced
75 of the most promising research leaders will benefit from £101 million to tackle major global issues and to commercialise their innovations in the UK.
www.ukri.org
Very happy to announce that I've been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Very excited for what's to come and keep an eye out for postdoc openings at QMUL! www.ukri.org/news/75-new-...
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“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.”
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.”
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?
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Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.
WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.
NEW: We asked Bolts readers to send us questions about mid-decade redistricting.
We got many — and we answer a bunch today.
How are the new maps changing the midterms?
Would proportional representation help?
Why are courts not doing more?
And more!
Read on:
We got many — and we answer a bunch today.
How are the new maps changing the midterms?
Would proportional representation help?
Why are courts not doing more?
And more!
Read on:
The Escalating Race to Redistrict: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
How are the new maps changing the midterms? Why are courts not doing more? Would proportional representation help? We’ve got answers about mid-decade redistricting.
boltsmag.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
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People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors?
Sure, ok 👍👍
Sure, ok 👍👍
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors?
Sure, ok 👍👍
Sure, ok 👍👍
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It's wrong to accuse Pete Hegseth of murder: those two Venezuelans had pre-existing health conditions.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's wrong to accuse Pete Hegseth of murder: those two Venezuelans had pre-existing health conditions.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
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2Casa2Blanca
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
2Casa2Blanca
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Trump pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas (an repeated progressive target in Dem primaries, he narrowly survived multiple times) from bribery and conspiracy charges.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Trump pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas (an repeated progressive target in Dem primaries, he narrowly survived multiple times) from bribery and conspiracy charges.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
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A reminder that in both 2020 & 2022, when he was facing a tough primary from Jessica Cisneros, Democratic leadership propped up this corrupt clown’s campaign. He won by a few points in 2020 and by just a few hundred votes in 2022.
More own goal, clown behavior from Dem Congressional leadership.
More own goal, clown behavior from Dem Congressional leadership.
Trump said he is offering a "full and unconditional PARDON" to a Democratic Rep. and his wife who were indicted for bribery and money laundering
Trump Says He's Pardoning Henry Cuellar
www.huffpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A reminder that in both 2020 & 2022, when he was facing a tough primary from Jessica Cisneros, Democratic leadership propped up this corrupt clown’s campaign. He won by a few points in 2020 and by just a few hundred votes in 2022.
More own goal, clown behavior from Dem Congressional leadership.
More own goal, clown behavior from Dem Congressional leadership.
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Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
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Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
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I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites
The Gallatin City-County Health Department has confirmed a second case of measles in Gallatin County, with the latest case identified on Dec. 1, 2025.This foll
nbcmontana.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
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Nobody in the room did shit when he said this, but all of them would have locked arms around her if she asked super flattering questions to Trump and then it turned out she was fucking him.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nobody in the room did shit when he said this, but all of them would have locked arms around her if she asked super flattering questions to Trump and then it turned out she was fucking him.
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Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity