ilana
@illllz.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based photographer / podcast producer / law student
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Fascist states and politics are corrupt and transactional but at their core they are about violence - mass politics built around permission to engage in cruelty. They are inherently unstable, driving toward what Robert Paxton described as a "final paroxysm of self-destruction."
April 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Fascist states and politics are corrupt and transactional but at their core they are about violence - mass politics built around permission to engage in cruelty. They are inherently unstable, driving toward what Robert Paxton described as a "final paroxysm of self-destruction."
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There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.
The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
April 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.
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FIVE ALARM FIRE
JUST IN:
A Milwaukee judge has been arrested this morning allegedly because she “tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week.”
There’s not a lot of info on this yet so stay tuned for more as it is released.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
A Milwaukee judge has been arrested this morning allegedly because she “tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week.”
There’s not a lot of info on this yet so stay tuned for more as it is released.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by federal authorities at Courthouse
Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.
www.jsonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
FIVE ALARM FIRE
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Serving unimaginable levels of cunt
April 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Serving unimaginable levels of cunt
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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
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What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
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ah, yes, the ole “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process
April 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
ah, yes, the ole “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process
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Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.
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In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.
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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
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roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!
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Whew!
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
April 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Whew!
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Seems like it would be useful to know a little bit more about the president's financial holdings, how much money he has, and where he has it as he makes decisions that are tanking the global economy. Are these decisions enriching him? Who knows! Maybe we should?
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Seems like it would be useful to know a little bit more about the president's financial holdings, how much money he has, and where he has it as he makes decisions that are tanking the global economy. Are these decisions enriching him? Who knows! Maybe we should?
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he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
April 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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You guys, they're not stupid
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
April 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
You guys, they're not stupid
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
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US revokes all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African nation’s gov't of not accepting the repatriation of its nationals and “taking advantage of the US”.
US revokes all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders
The decision comes as political tensions mount in South Sudan, causing fears of a renewed civil war.
aje.io
April 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
US revokes all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African nation’s gov't of not accepting the repatriation of its nationals and “taking advantage of the US”.
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They think your health is a game folks. It's all a game to them.
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC's lead poisoning program will be reinstated.
www.cbsnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
They think your health is a game folks. It's all a game to them.
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...