This is fucking crazy

[990000@mstdn.social]

This is fucking crazy

Colette Delawalla, PhD (@cdelawalla.bsky.social)

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121619

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

Video → https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121619

#Oppression #Diabetes #ADA #Trump

[markstos@urbanists.social]

@990000 I read the post and couldn’t find the explanation of what law the police were enforcing.

[valent@defcon.social]

@markstos
Fascism. They are enforcing fascism in a fascist state.
@990000

[knutson_brain@sfba.social]

@990000
First Amendment something something…

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@990000 tell me we live in a fascist dictatorship without telling me we live in a facist dictatorship.

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@990000 @goinfawr It’s fascist.

[phil@newsie.social]

@markstos @990000

While I agree it is a dick move by the ADA, this appears to be the modus operandi how it got criminalized:

1. Make attendees sign a "code of conduct" to attend the conference.

2. Conference organizers claim passing out reprints of the editorial somehow violates the code of conduct.

3. Security tries to hustle people out. When they don't leave, security calls local cops for backup.

4. When attendees try to re-enter the conference, they are charged with trespassing.

WTF.

[kramaker@social.vivaldi.net]

@990000 This is what a dying country looks like.

[sortius@beige.party]

@990000 no, no, it's Nazism. Not that anyone in America can recognise that, or even cares to, because, "No Kings", right?

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@990000

That's not a scientific convention.