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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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tredre3 ◴[29 Mar 25 19:32 UTC] No.43517965[source]▶
The title is trying to imply that people are being targeted for being physicists or other "benign" scientific work, but that is not the case; Their expressed political opinions are why they're targeted. It's still wrong, it's still bad, but there's no need to mislead people.
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1. atoav ◴[29 Mar 25 19:38 UTC] No.43518013[source]▶
Scientists are people who for a living often need to cross international borders. The current administration has shown no respect for the Rule of Law and the borders are the place where you will be affected in the worst way if someone gets provoked by something. Lawful or not, you may not be on US soil yet when it happens.