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…The #daycare raid marked a heightened turn in #Trump's aggressive #immigration crackdown in #Chicago, which began in September with the stated purpose of pursuing dangerous criminals without the legal right to reside in the #US. It has resulted in more than 3,000 arrests, according to the #DHS, including US #citizens & people with no criminal record.

#law #PoliceBrutality #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #CivilRights #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

Last week, federal #immigration agents targeted #Evanston, #Illinois, a northern #Chicago suburb that is home to #Northwestern, in a sweep that included a raid of a #retirement community. On Oct 31, 3 US #citizens who were watching a woman's violent arrest were shoved into an agent's car & driven around for hours before they were released at an FBI field office without charges, acc/to a court filing in a federal case brought by journalists & protesters against agents' #UseOfForce.

#law

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 7 months ago

Update. "Trump’s #DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical #Journals for Supposedly Being ‘Partisan’ "
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-doj-sends-intimidating-letters-to-medical-journals-for-supposedly-being-partisan-2000591550

"The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to medical journals for supposedly being “partisan,” heavily suggesting that they’re spreading misinformation and are influenced by “funders” rather than medical science. Gizmodo has confirmed that the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed publication on pulmonary care published by the American College of Chest Physicians, received a letter this week. And MedPage Today reports that at least two other journals have received similar intimidating letters."

PS: The letter to Harvard shows that the Trump admin wants to control what universities teach. These letters show that it also wants to control what scholarly journals publish.

#AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 7 months ago

Update. " #NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them
( #paywalled)

"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [ #Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services ( #HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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