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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180
—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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180
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Somehow I had missed this NYT story on the same horrific case, ten days ago. In some ways it's even worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html
https://archive.is/WEywk
Democrats need to write Nuremberg II
The master has never been wrong.
The #Nazi in question, Sebastian #Gorka was not even born in this country.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention
Patients spoke of relatives in sciences/academia who fled to America in the 30’s & lived-as well as those who did not or could not flee: and perished.
And spoke of two magic words that saved lives: “Exit Visa”.
I think of that often, now.
If Trumpists & Network State tech oligarchs (hi self-hating Thiel: we see you projecting yr loathing) start wanting exit visas, that’s my sign to go.
MAY 1ST
SPREAD THE WORD
https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/
And until America admits that the poison runs that deeply it won’t be able to fix itself.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.7502527
The brutal ignorance of these white supremacist POS!
There are people who will find them useful.
Doubly heartbroken given that those who escape will be future University of Toronto faculty, if they can get out safe with their families.
You know what they'll call American emigrés in 60 years?
Survivors.
I lost both my parents to cancer at very young age.
(Please repost)
Now.
cause he doesn’t understand science
Back to the Dark ages
not the Golden ages 🙄
Hang in there, my fellow survivors, who are clinging to the hope that breakthrough options and clinical trials used to bring.
To the researcher: don’t stop your work. They can’t hold you forever.
Is this worth talking about or should we just stay focused on the price of eggs?
This stuff happened before, but we didn't know because our country acts like crossing an imaginary border is a crime, a federal crime.
They allowed nazis to flee here and gave them jobs, but innocent refugees trying to hide? Federal crime.
It wouldn’t have happened a few months ago because Democrats were in charge.
And that's only the ones we hear & skeet about
I was a SPED major and never liked nor used the word 'stupid'. It has always had ugly connotations to me.
In the past three months, I find I have rarely commented on a post re: our current admin, without using the word 'STUPID' at least once!
They're trying to kill us all!
"What is this?"
KIDNAPPING!
That's not fair... I know some good ones.
But still.
I hate ICE.
Says Professor Brainworm
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-analysis-trump-black-sites.html
A DHS spokesperson stated, “A subsequent K9 inspection uncovered undeclared petri dishes, containers of unknown substances, and loose vials of embryonic frog cells, all without proper permits.
Why ICE her to Louisiana?
That could have been the next covid? or something worse?
That would have been a Customs issue.
They do not care about anything besides THEIR SEPARATE AGENDA
We have taxation without representation AND outright corruption they WANT US TO SEE, for some reason we can't make sense of until see in HINDSIGHT, which is TOO LATE