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A powerful letter from Mahmoud Khalil writing from ICE detention in Louisiana.

“I believe in the innate equality of all human beings. I believe in human dignity. I believe in the right of my people to look at the blue sky and not fear an impending missile,” he says.

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The likely result? Critical research will relocate to "China, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models." This policy will surrender America's competitive edge and benefit our economic, intellectual, and military competitors. Like China.

@anantagd

Targeting that new institute would have made a lot of (perverted) sense.
However, this was a scientific paper by an associate professor.

How is it, that you know more, if I may ask?
@andrewdessler

@andrewdessler

#USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(9/9)

#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

#EmigrateNow!

... your way to the border or the airport:

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0

//

@andrewdessler

... #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(8/n)

#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

#EmigrateNow!

... More than 250 #Jewish professors and employees were fired from the University of #Berlin in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. 👉In May, some 20,000 books written by “degenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the #Babelplatz ... 👈"

Read on... On...

@andrewdessler

... #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(7/n)

#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

... 1933 with the #Nazi party’s seizure of control in #Germany and their passing of the #Berufsbeamtengesetz (“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”), certain groups of public employees were dimissed from #German universities. That is, 👉civil servants who did not fit the #Nazi racial or societal ideal had to leave their jobs in...

@andrewdessler

... #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(5/n)

#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

... mathematics was rivaled, if at all, only by Britain (Medawar & Pyke, 2000). Of the 100 #Nobel Prizes awarded between the years of 1901 and 1932 (the year before #Hitler came to power), 33 had been awarded to #Germans and/or scientists working in #Germany...

... Then, starting in..

@andrewdessler

#USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(4/n)

#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

“If the dismissal of #Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — #AdolfHitler

See the future US in the mirror?

"Prior to the 1930s, 👉#Germany had dominated the natural sciences for more than one hundred and fifty years.👈 Its reputation for excellence in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine...

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0

@andrewdessler

#USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(3/n)

#EmigrateNow!

... detained and likely deported. On 19 May 1943, 👉only about 20,000 Jews remained... "👈 1)

1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

@andrewdessler

#USpol #AlignmentOfScience
(2/n)

#EmigrateNow!

Even for people not being Jews, the history if the German Jews should be a blood-red warning sign:

" of the 522,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933, approximately 304,000 emigrated during the first six years of Nazi rule and about 214,000 were left on the eve of #world War II. Of these, 160,000–180,000 were killed as a part of the #Holocaust...

...inspection checkpoints, leading to 65 percent of all submerged #Jews...

@andrewdessler

#AlignmentOfScience 1933/2025
#RememberTiananmenSquare
#USpol

"Critical research will relocate to "👉#China👈, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models."

"... China..."?!?

👇
As the Soanish philosopher and Autor George #Santayana said:

«Los que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo."

(👉Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.👈)

Also: #RemberTheManhattanProject! --Would #Xi have been as scrupulous if POTUS?!?

I know discussions of university overhead sound boring but, hang with me, they're important. I wrote something about why, if you care about science in America, you should care about overhead.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/make-china-great-again-how-trumps-attacks-on-universities-will-backfire/

The gov't is slashing university research overhead rates, claiming it saves money. Overhead funds essential infrastructure that enables research: HVAC, IT support, lab construction, and admin - not waste. Cutting this means that univ. will be unable to afford to conduct research.

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Griffin (his caps):

Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS #TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM FAST-TRACKING DEPORTATIONS TO COUNTRIES MIGRANTS DID NOT ORIGINATE FROM

One of my favorite science stories, is when scientists inserted jellyfish DNA in feline eggs, creating glow in the dark cats.

This just sounds like the most made up thing possible, but it's actually part of research to cure feline AIDS.

@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth

(5/5)

...what and how people are expressing themselves and not be offended right away if they say things in a way that might offend us, if it came from someone from our culture.

(This does not apply to users deliberately insulting others, of course.)

So, live and let live, instead of #IanFleming's "Live and let die".

Or, as Jeremy E. Sherman, phrases it: "Be intolerant of intolerance!"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201501/be-intolerant-intolerance

These are my two cents.

@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth

(4/5)
...
This clearly shows, that finding the lowest common denominator would virtually eliminate the freedom of expression.

The "politically correct" movement that led to making it next to impossible to voice some thoughts cannot be applied on a global level. Fortunately, because this can only lead to an #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime.

Like the travelers of old, we need to be more tolerant of...

@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth

(3/5)

"...fled myself from the #BorgSite after #QLoon's takeover, I did see myself as a #TwitterRefugee of sorts. And, even with hindsight, it was. #Twitter and connecting with my big network there, though not my home, had become a big part of my life.

In a global #townsquare, it is impossible to not alienate someone verbally or photographically portraying people (e.g. girls/women not wearing a headscarf with users from many #Muslim countries)...

@radicalresilience @david @darren

(1/5)

Whereas having to flee your home due to war, climate catastrophes, insurrections, fires, and other causes in RL can never compare to having to leave your (often treasured) #DigitalHome, I think that @Bluedepth was correct in describing the emigration from Mastodon.lol.
Here is a first-hand report on what happened with that instance:

"Rage Quitting
Mastodon.lol’s administrator recently announced that he...