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jamellebouie.net • 65 days ago

love this for us

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Comments

himself132.bsky.social•64 days ago

The Nazis lost the war because they rejected the 'Jewish science' available to them. And after the war, America benefited from world-class German scientists who chose to emigrate.

Now Trump, the greatest oaf ever to occupy the White House, is causing a diaspora of many of America's best scientists.

russtofferson.bsky.social•64 days ago

Until he stutters at a debate while being old it won’t rise to a 10-alarm fire with a chorus of urgent calls to step aside

checkthatout.bsky.social•64 days ago

He’s already stuttered at a debate while being old though.

russtofferson.bsky.social•64 days ago

Checked the fine print and turns out this standard, or any at all, applies only to presidents who are Democrats.

lisdoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

sonsofliberty.vote•65 days ago

I don't

dankeevy.bsky.social•65 days ago

Very much in the find out era. Blessings!

fiddledeedum.bsky.social•65 days ago

TBF, smart people can be threatening, for some.

raceisracism.bsky.social•65 days ago

TBR, for stupid people.

bcarl314.bsky.social•64 days ago

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

rapbastardz.bsky.social•65 days ago

So much winning.

musicinhead.bsky.social•64 days ago

it the g in maga

anonwitty.bsky.social•64 days ago

Straight out of Handmaid's tale. Seriously wondering at what point should I sell everything I own and leave the country before the borders are locked down and we're all trapped in a dictatorship like people in Russia?

marakjade.bsky.social•64 days ago

Wait how the fuck she in Boston and gets carted to Louisiana What in the blue fuck are these twats playin at this isn't lawful stop letting ICE take people physically stop them these people are like rabid dogs they just attacking everyone!

kstroopwafel.bsky.social•64 days ago

⚪️ At a restaurant in my neighborhood in Washington, DC: “ICE bucket”
[📷: Citizen K]

conventionugly.bsky.social•64 days ago

This sounds like a remake of “Contagion” where Art the Clown is President.

firedupcarol.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's still unbelievable...but unfortunately true 🤬

xinrtj.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not to mention what will happen to her if she is sent back to Putin.

beverlymann19.bsky.social•64 days ago

Frog embryos have a high monetary valuable, I take it.

freedomnow.bsky.social•64 days ago

How can we know they were frog embryos? Maybe they were baby embryos and she was planning to blend them into smoothies to sell to unsuspecting MAGA?

blazesboylan.bsky.social•64 days ago

I doubt it. There are lots of dogs in the world. And they produce embryos.
I suspect these particular embryos were samples of her work in progress. Was she attending a biology conference, perhaps?

beverlymann19.bsky.social•64 days ago

Her boss at Harvard had asked her to bring it back. Not sure whether this particular one, or instead any sample.

But, yeah, lotsa frogs in the world, so I assume it was a study sample.

Lotsa dogs too!

layzieyez.bsky.social•65 days ago

Michigan GOP chair McClain once claimed trump could cure cancer and the libs would find a way to be upset. Tell her your dear leader is literally delaying a cure by unlawfully imprisoning and firing people who are on the frontline of finding the cure. Is she upset? Everyone else not maga is.

freedom2b.bsky.social•65 days ago

Lisa?

layzieyez.bsky.social•65 days ago

That would have put me over the word count, but yeah.

michelle-cat.bsky.social•64 days ago

Our president is an idiot and the Custom and Border Patrol has become his clown show, what happens to this agency in the future when the public says enough is enough.

scott-christy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Infuriating.

dlmiera.bsky.social•64 days ago

The whole trump administration is the true criminal.

dr-kary.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ya gotta wonder of this is someone Putin wants?

bluegenxveteran.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not that we don’t deserve it, but she definitely doesn’t. This is not justice or good policy or fair or righteous. This is criminally deranged behavior from a brown shirt type agency.

otisredfoot.bsky.social•64 days ago

So I'm guessing that there is a Right Leaning Judge in Louisiana that is going to do whatever ICE wants that's why they move her to the bottom of the country?

lizzy.abzerd.com•64 days ago

l'm sure they are working night and day to replace her with AI.

burshu.bsky.social•64 days ago

Oooh!!

Next can we arrest all climatologists?

Please, Daddy, oh please???

sistasue.bsky.social•64 days ago

This piece in The Nation speaks to this.

America had leading knowledge, expertise in so many different fields.
Now?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-science-health-purge/?custno=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%204.10.2025&utm_content=B&utm_term=daily

exhaustedradical.bsky.social•64 days ago

Anyone remember Reagan's hard stop to stem cell research (Until he might have benefited from it)? We lost so much that would have helped so many

freemark7.bsky.social•64 days ago

People have to seriously start asking themselves if part of Trumps war against pioneering cancer research, Harvard University and this scientist who could change everything have more to do with how much the war against cancer means to Biden. Trump IS just that petty.

mmeadway.bsky.social•64 days ago

No one wants to believe this, but I think you're right. Trump will dismantle the country to get his revenge on people he perceives as enemies.

mattvadnais.bsky.social•64 days ago

And because he’s at the heart of a death cult — there is no post-power Trump because he can’t deal with the reality of his self — it just doesn’t matter what it does. No room that he’s not in right now exists even a little. Unless it’s on TV.

patrickndg.bsky.social•65 days ago

And of course, it’s entirely coincidental that she’s not only a groundbreaking scientist, but also a Russian dissident who’s criticized the war in Ukraine.

jk-eaton.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yet another scientist who will be leaving the USA as soon as possible. The USA loses, other countries gain.

36bird.bsky.social•64 days ago

Inconceivable.
In olden days. Now?
I do not think we know what that word means

jkmoore.bsky.social•64 days ago

We suck!

climbingivy72.bsky.social•64 days ago

😱😭

liviohenrik.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's unreal.

The butterfly effect / unintended consequences of this failed trump government are going to kill us for generations

gerenlockhart.com•64 days ago

They prefer professional wrestling to science and they’re vile and wrong.

jess-55.bsky.social•64 days ago

jfc

louise31.bsky.social•64 days ago

WTF 🤬 full on facism.

the-white-rose.bsky.social•64 days ago

Overton window shattered

silkgirl101.bsky.social•64 days ago

The administration is fighting a ear against America! WAKE UP! We are at war!
Reject fascism!
Revolution is now!
🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙

russdibello.bsky.social•64 days ago

Here's another "heinous" to add to the daily pile:
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/jefferson/westbank-mother-detained-by-ice-family-left-searching-for-answers/289-38db315f-bd83-4e14-a8be-888d9b4e8c39

orchidhouse.bsky.social•64 days ago

When did America become so stupid?

jennybigcat.bsky.social•64 days ago

My father was a scientist and he would be absolutely apoplectic about everything that’s been happening. I miss him dearly, but I also am glad he’s not here to see this.

unknown-smoke.bsky.social•65 days ago

So long as conservatives never need cancer research themselves this gambit will pay off

indanorth.bsky.social•64 days ago

The worst part for her is that there isn’t one qualified person adjudicating this.

mattjlawlor.bsky.social•65 days ago

It’s the part where we’re a willing gulag station for Russia that makes it art.

psalm91.bsky.social•64 days ago

On purpose.

inthebag.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, once again all life is important until it's born.

lisdoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

that's so depressing on top of everything else every day that it takes my breath away - and no in a good way

lisdoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

"not"

mariely.bsky.social•64 days ago

This photo is giving Mona Lisa tho, iconique.

syanore.bsky.social•64 days ago

Glad you have the check not sure you were gonna make it. Laugh out loud. Love you, man.

richjvann.bsky.social•64 days ago

A fantastic burst of creative … destruction. Long live oligarchy and the fascist totalitarian police state!

4letterword4nerd.bsky.social•64 days ago

I want them all back. I don't like exceptionalism arguments trumping over inalienable constitutional rights arguments. I get the why. But I do not like it.

storytimeratlarge.bsky.social•64 days ago

Toppling a regime wasn’t on my bucket list but it is now.

katrinaspeak.bsky.social•64 days ago

Years ago flying home I was asked if I had fruit. Tired, forgetful, I said no. A dog sniffed out the orange I forgot to eat. I went on my merry way. Wild now a wrong answer about what's in your bag can get you locked up for months with no hope of release without an army of lawyers and advocates.

lordgonz.bsky.social•65 days ago

I really was not an “abolish ICE“ guy during the last admin, but I honestly see no alternative now. The entire immigration apparatus needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.

freedom2b.bsky.social•65 days ago

I saw it coming and begged and pleaded to Boden and Sen Peters to shut down DHS and ICE. No dice.

fireflows.bsky.social•65 days ago

People said 'Abolish ICE" during the last administration because this has been happening all along.

lordgonz.bsky.social•65 days ago

I’d argue it’s both qualitatively and quantitatively different this time around, but willing to admit that even a less intense version should have been unacceptable

fireflows.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's not qualitatively different if you believe everyone deserves human rights as much as a cancer researcher. In that same vein, quantity is irrelevant, however Trump is not deporting as many people as Biden did at this time last year.

lordgonz.bsky.social•64 days ago

Stripping legal status from folks is different than harsh enforcement against folks without legal status. Fine to say they’re both equally bad, but they’re qualitatively different.

lordgonz.bsky.social•65 days ago

I had hoped they could just be muzzled, but now see they need to be destroyed

ajaxatax.bsky.social•65 days ago

It doesn't even need to be rebuilt. It was jingoistic white nationalist grift from its inception post 9/11 and has always operated like an extrajudicial gestapo....ICE just mostly targeted marginalized people, so many were willing to give plausible deniability to their militarized security theatre.

lordgonz.bsky.social•65 days ago

Just need to find some make work jobs for all the aggrieved stormtroopers that would be laid off

gonzonorthwest.bsky.social•64 days ago

There are a lot of vacant field laborer and hotel housekeeping jobs to be filled after their latest purges. No worry about laid off ICE workers.

lordgonz.bsky.social•64 days ago

I worry because idle hands make the devils work and they would be aggrieved facists with access to guns

ajaxatax.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ya.... unfortunately that statement probably applies to half the US population and is a much bigger problem, and likely one that is coming sooner than any potential ICE abolishment or immigration overhaul.

mondogarage.bsky.social•64 days ago

They already are aggrieved fascists with access to guns.

bowreader.bsky.social•64 days ago

They can pick fruit and veggies.

ajaxatax.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sure but not before we find work for all the people who have been fired & laid off & let go. We have lots of public infrastructure projects that need doing WPA style, but ICE bros are not hard workers-look how they're meeting Trump's quotas. They need make do that involves dress up, and domination.

thrivewell.bsky.social•64 days ago

Could it be possible there’s more J6 insurrectionists, right wing extremismits proud boys on the ICE force telling detainees “we aren’t monsters, we are doing what the government tells us”? Seems like the 1k’s pardoned are carrying out a violent agenda and rebuilding would be unlikely

loskidsvenice.bsky.social•64 days ago

Where are the pictures of the Russian mob bosses being detained in New York by the FBI and ICE?

chrisdwolfe.bsky.social•64 days ago

Why would you love this for us? It seems like they wanted to stop the lead researcher from helping people. More dominos that people can't see the real point in.

jospaena.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trump/MAGA HATE all things science.

When deprived of basic education/skills, humans become violent, impressionable, and malleable to the ones “leading” the masses.

Keeping America stupid, sick, and dependent, is the NEW Christian Nationalist way.

tat1111.bsky.social•64 days ago

This ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

The sad thing with magas is they are proud of their ignorance and actually shun the educated.

Their internal dialogue is “if it was good enough for daddy it’s good enough for me” to stay uninformed and illiterate due to not having read a book since fifth grade.

617to416.bsky.social•64 days ago

Come to Canada.

spincreep.bsky.social•64 days ago

Riiiight? We don't need no stinkin' researchers!

Hhhh someone save us from ourselves, please... I hope our regular mail carrier is coming because I have a special kind of headache from all this shit and he needs to deliver it.

debedu.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤢

glgehman.bsky.social•65 days ago

But they might have been TRANS-genic frog embryos...

ricyrick87.bsky.social•65 days ago

Not the eggs I thought they were concerned about. This confuses me.

exhaustedradical.bsky.social•64 days ago

I just posted about this type of thing. This is self-poison. We will never recover from this. 😞

emm7elle.bsky.social•64 days ago

The administration is so desperate for numbers. What a disgrace to this entire country.

a-roman.bsky.social•65 days ago

ICE = Gestapo.

christianl18.bsky.social•64 days ago

The US is such trash now. We welcome all researchers and scientists to our beautiful and free country. Canada baby!

cvilletgr.bsky.social•64 days ago

Important context: DHS was originally John McCain's and Joe "Fucking" Lieberman's idea and I suspect that "homeland" translated, in the minds of its advocates, to "White People." Anything law enforcement about it is bound to reflect these foundations.

mauvemelinda.bsky.social•64 days ago

I'm curious if the DOGE leaked/hacked info to Russia will reveal locations of dissidents/spies in the US that Putin has tried to seek in the past. Will trump administration protect them or deport them?

splitatoms119.bsky.social•64 days ago

Doge is kgb. Whistleblower said they were creating back door channels in all the departments that Russians can access.

seanmorrisuofan.bsky.social•64 days ago

How dumb can these people be? Let her go...morons.

trueblueschool5.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is targeting Harvard for their resistance. Bullying over a pending lawsuit against the Trump Administration, she is collateral damage. Sending her to his buddy Putin's country. We know they have a deal.

trueblueschool5.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well, that is crazy. Frog embryos a crime, but dying immigrant children is acceptable. This will be ear marking the invitro implant as a precedent. We are talking about tadpole rights here in a country where human rights are ignored.

trueblueschool5.bsky.social•64 days ago

We already know they have fight or flight prefrontal cortex issues. Arrested development due to denial of science or the dismissal of information gained over the last 45 years. IQ, fictional below 80.

jeffleyser.com•64 days ago

JFC she’s been in ICE detention for TWO MONTHS. What a nightmare.

erikam123.bsky.social•64 days ago

Let’s die poor and stupid- the new gop slogan

yakimaabogado.bsky.social•65 days ago

When MAGA and MAHA converge

rnmcd.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's okay, though, because MAGA supporters don't get cancer. Oh, wait...

larkgreenery.bsky.social•64 days ago

These motherfuckers are insane.

presidentbizness.bsky.social•64 days ago

what if it wasn’t random? what if her skills were needed?

potch-hctop47.bsky.social•64 days ago

Totally believable arrogant demented stupidity!! Another reason to get in their faces people! COME ON!

beeg1.bsky.social•65 days ago

our lives & our democracy dying from stunningly stupid policies executed with pure evil intent. we’ll just be another footnote in the history of smart decent people thinking they had it all worked out.

redstateliberal.bsky.social•65 days ago

Where are her Senators?

stephrstephr.bsky.social•64 days ago

@warren.senate.gov please help free her, even if you need to fundraise. A few scientists are using a fundme account!! The penalty for what she did is $500! Not a month in horrid lock up and deportation!! Plus, they had tried to do this import legally twice, so it’s legal. #PleaseSTOPICE!!

jancurry.bsky.social•64 days ago

She is not white, I guess. Immigrant? Maybe she is the devil.

emtpche.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ah yes let's go back to blood letting to cure diseases

dashwallkick.bsky.social•64 days ago

It is extremely cool that fascists are running the government and are trying to make America as a body of knowledge and research just totally commit suicide. Just A+ stuff, really.

edeasthell.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ahh...life under a fascist dictatorship.

cachrisca.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤢

adenichol.bsky.social•65 days ago

Nothing seems to matter anymore, nothing is important, as long as the ideologues in the MAGA cult get to arrest people, imprison or deport them, and victimise anyone who doesn’t follow their twisted ideology. The baby is being well and truly thrown out with the bathwater. Dangerous times for all.

debraresistance.bsky.social•64 days ago

so much winning.

hank-ering.bsky.social•63 days ago

Melania Trump gets in on 'Einstein' visa.

When an actual Einstein genius shows up on the doorstep, she gets blocked.

Maybe the scientist needed to present herself at Customs in a skimpy bikini?

worried80.bsky.social•65 days ago

Let us not forget these people. Wish I had a list of all detainees/disappeared!

chllsp.bsky.social•65 days ago

Going into the thousands. This is really really bad. With every arrest fewer people will come to visit or come home after a simple vacation.

thosrhodes.bsky.social•64 days ago

Right? We are on the stupidest timeline. JFC!

apeacelover.bsky.social•64 days ago

Where America is today is so far beyond heartbreaking and terrifying that there is no word defining this summary in any dictionary!

radiospanishspeak.bsky.social•64 days ago

I advocate that all ICE admins and staff be deported to CECOT.

swillymountain56.bsky.social•64 days ago

Make America Healthy Again

noonewins.bsky.social•64 days ago

Have they sent her to El Salvador?

lidibee.bsky.social•64 days ago

Have they released her yet? 🙏

rj1975.bsky.social•64 days ago

ICE, the new gestapo. Black uniforms coming soon.

ayflorstap.bsky.social•64 days ago

No coincidence that the scientist is from Harvard.

possumappreciator.bsky.social•65 days ago

Logistics of immigration enforcement matter here. White House is screaming at ICE to up its numbers. What is ICE going to do: 1) use numerous agents to locate and arrest a possibly armed gang member in the community or 2) this fish in a barrel stuff for students, etc. at airports, check ins?

weishampel.bsky.social•65 days ago

Resign?

possumappreciator.bsky.social•65 days ago

Oh I’m not sympathizing with ICE here. Just pointing out one reason they might be doing this horrible shit

chllsp.bsky.social•65 days ago

Strange when there are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of violent criminals, gangs, murderers and rapist roaming the US, and MILLIONS come every day. Why can't ICE get some of those?

lisdoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

ha ha - poring over the border in droves, eating animals😂🤣👍

sachie2018.bsky.social•64 days ago

Millions of violent criminals, gangs, murderers and rapists? Do you actually believe that? You are part of problem. You believed everything Trump and Foxnews told you.

chllsp.bsky.social•64 days ago

I think you need a strong adjustment to your sarcasms detector

sachie2018.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fair.

ashbow.bsky.social•65 days ago

“She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.” How much taxpayer 💰 is Louisiana jail getting from the fuhrer?

kellymccray.bsky.social•64 days ago

What is about Louisiana? Why do they fly people there?

gehaines.bsky.social•64 days ago

It’s in the 5th circuit court of appeals’ jurisdiction

katefromnyc.bsky.social•64 days ago

That is why Trump is sending people there. But Louisiana has multiple detention centers because it is a very poor, conservative (MAGA)) rural state. State and local govts think prisons and detention centers bring jobs; fed govt like to put detention centers where people won’t notice them.

jeannejensch.bsky.social•64 days ago

And in real danger if deported, as she has spoken out against Russia's war in Ukraine.

scatmanvigoda.bsky.social•64 days ago

At least we're #1 in human rights violations.

rouhiroo.bsky.social•64 days ago

BUT THE FROG BABIES. SAVE THE FROG BABIES. #AsLongAsTheyreNotGay

2kitties.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤬

anewhope10.bsky.social•64 days ago

Grrrrrrrrrrr 🤬

sachie2018.bsky.social•64 days ago

She was stopped because she criticized Putin and not the frog embryos.

judmarc.com•64 days ago

The crime, of course, is criticizing Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

whynotbehere.bsky.social•64 days ago

The article makes me think of scientists like Einstein who fled persecution in Germany. Who then helped Germanys enemies build the atomic bomb.

bamamom.bsky.social•64 days ago

It’s like uneducated fools are running our country..:oh wait I forgot what timeline we were in now…Dr Strange—SOS SOS

herdarkmaterials.bsky.social•65 days ago

In 2009, Nancy Reagan praised Obama for reversing the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research after Alzheimers killed Ronnie. This administration is too stupid for even that.

jamson4.bsky.social•64 days ago

Republicans are fucked in the head.

gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social•64 days ago

The Republican support for cancer and stealing money from children with cancer has come as a surprise…

elizmadsen.bsky.social•64 days ago

Let's protect the scientists and abolish ICE.

undeadben.bsky.social•65 days ago

*starts the chant*

we deserve it
👏👏 👏👏👏
we deserve it
👏👏 👏👏👏
we deserve it
👏👏 👏👏👏

rinative.bsky.social•64 days ago

If the regime was worth a damn it would put a halt to this BS but it’s what they want.

texyjay.bsky.social•64 days ago

OMFG😫🙏🏻

acuratorseye.bsky.social•64 days ago

This would be laughable if it weren't so serious. My God! This Administration is Evil Incarnate.

chemotaxis.bsky.social•65 days ago

bowreader.bsky.social•64 days ago

typerbooks.bsky.social•65 days ago

This was at the airport in Moscow?

raceisracism.bsky.social•65 days ago

Read the text! ;)

typerbooks.bsky.social•65 days ago

I should have put a smiley face or a wink so people know I was being sarcastic

raceisracism.bsky.social•65 days ago

Or SOMETHING, because these days... 🥲

twifferthegnu.bsky.social•64 days ago

/s for sarcasm

typerbooks.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ah, thank you

hunterwilder00.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is before Midterms. If Republicans carry those, the living will envy the dead.

rozyoung.bsky.social•65 days ago

Kafka

darrensilk3.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is the reason why the UK has issued a travel warning against anyone going to the US. Effectively - warning, you might be abducted by the US govt. because it feels like it.

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