A STAT News article reports that the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) recently received a letter from MAGA thug Edward R. Martin (appointed by chief thug djt). Martin is the interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia. His letter questions alleged editorial bias. NEJM’s editor-in-chief, Eric Rubin, responded by reaffirming the journal’s commitment to evidence-based research, rigorous peer review, and editorial independence, while also invoking First Amendment protections for scientific discourse. The inquiry is part of a broader pattern, as similar letters were sent to at least three medical journals, including CHEST, a pulmonary care publication. The DoJ’s letter demands explanations about how journals handle “misinformation”, “competing viewpoints”, i.e., pseudoscience and crackpottery, and potential influence (presumably woke/DEI influence) from funders like the NIH.
Jeremy Berg, former editor of Science, called them an attempt to pressure editors into accommodating unscientific “alternative perspectives.” The DOJ’s threats her show radical MAGA aggression against peer-reviewed scientific publishing. Martin’s letters frame peer-reviewed journals as “partisan”, which is a blatant lie that misrepresents the role of academic rigor and peer review in validating research.
No, I am not saying that academic rigor and peer review always works. But, it beats the hell out of the alt-perspectives (crackpottery and lies) that MAGA crackpots, liars, grifters and poisoners want to inject into medical and all other science, including climate science.
Q: Why would MAGA want to poison science and public health, e.g., to avoid inconvenient science that contradicts or undermines MAGA’s fake reality, and its idiotic and kleptocratic policies?
(yes, that’s why)
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The Daily Boulder reports that attorney general and MAGA thug Pam Bondi has issued a memo telling ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents they no longer need to get a warrant to look for possibly illegal immigrants. ICE is a federal law enforcement agency in the Department of Homeland Security. Bondi’s March 14 order, uses the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as authority to give law enforcement nationwide the power to bypass basic constitutional protections. So now ICE agents can break into a home if getting a warrant is “impracticable.” They don’t need a judge’s approval. Instead, immigration officers can sign their own administrative warrants. The bar for action is low, requiring a “reasonable belief” that someone might be part of a Venezuelan gang is enough. In this matter, a “reasonable belief” can be reasonable or unreasonable because it is a mostly subjective standard [1], which is significantly lower than traditional Fourth Amendment requirements.
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1791, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. It ensures that no warrants shall be issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and that the place to be searched and the items to be seized are particularly described.
Bondi’s memo was obtained by watchdog group Property of the People from a public records request that the group posted online. The 12-page memo is here. What it shows is a massive expansion of federal power that skips over courts and due process. Bondi has put anyone suspected of gang ties at risk of deportation without a hearing. The DOJ memo is clear that anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”
The dishonorable, corrupt MAGA thug and traitor,
Pam Bondi telling us to STFU and take it like a patriot
or risk deportation to a death camp with no due process
And, in case you missed it, here’s djt putting it all in his own words on his lovely antisocial media site, Lies Antisocial:
Here djt tells us that due process is toast
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country.”“Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten!”“Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing. But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!”
Aw, what lovely sentiments. I do not recall any president making uplifting comments anything like these. /s
Footnote:
1. The normal, old-fashioned “reasonable belief” standard is for targeted people, Venezuelan crime gang members, in this situation: 1) being a Venezuelan national without U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status, 2) at least 14 years of age, 3) having alleged association with the Tren de Aragua gang, and 4) being present at the residence in question.
Bondi's new “reasonable belief” standard applies the old 4-point standard in a fun and easy scoring game to determine gang affiliation where alleged aliens scoring 8 points and higher are “validated” as members of the crime gang. Aliens scoring 5 points or less should not be validated as gang members. It is unclear what happens to 6 and 7 pointers, but they probably get boxed up and mailed off to a death camp somewhere along with the 8 and above pointers. Points are assigned based on various factors including court history, communications with alleged gang members, observations of hand signals (like 🖕?), graffiti usage, clothing choices, tattoos and other symbolic associations. The factors presumably also include whether the ICE agent is in a bad mood, hungry, racist or in caught up in a messy divorce.
See? That’s clear as mud. Relax. You probably won't get boxed up and mailed out. Probably.
He is in charge of your civil liberties,
including taking them away
