Leo C. Stein
Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him
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- Remembered a stupid physics meme I made years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_ap... 🧪⚛️🧮
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinI am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinFull on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinLet's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinA white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinWe know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
- This is who runs this account
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinPopping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights. Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
- This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: - modern art history - real analysis (when I realized I was a physicist and not a mathematician) - digital signal processing - intro chem lab at friggin 7ish in the morning - general relativity (what I work on now!)
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinMinnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinThere are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinVideo shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinImagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinBREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.
- Can Greg Bovino be charged with accessory to murder?
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
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- Reposted by Leo C. SteinThis is extrajudicial murder. It’s a paramilitary execution of an unarmed civilian in cold blood. Horrifying.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinBy who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
- Meanwhile, in things that don't really matter... my #emacs patches were finally accepted (first proposed in October): cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.g...
- Abolish ICE is the only sane approach. Not just abolish — everyone who worked for ICE needs to be put on trial. Jailed for their wrongdoing. Shunned from every sector of life.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinIn October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- There is no way to "reform" this. ICE must be abolished, and every single person who worked for them must be prosecuted.
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinThis guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
- Reposted by Leo C. SteinThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Leo C. Stein“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”