Zach Stevenson
Postdoc, Shendure lab University of Washington/HHMI. Synthetic circuit development.
Ph.D, Phillips Lab University of Oregon. Genetic engineering and experimental evolution.
Zachstevenson.com
- Reposted by Zach StevensonMassive group of students at city hall calling for ICE out of Seattle
- Reposted by Zach StevensonOne local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonSo apparently there are alternatives to zoom - one Norwegian and one French. Guess what I will be researching today? I think the only US loose end in our business now is Notion - we have done really well xx
- Reposted by Zach StevensonElizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonJesus Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Raymundo Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. Records show both men are from South Texas.
- Reposted by Zach Stevensonhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonBREAKING... and Thank God... 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonNow for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.
- BREAKING... and Thank God... 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonToday I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enforcement activity. #thisisyourcity
- Reposted by Zach StevensonThe police chief in a small Minnesota city intervened to prevent ICE agents from arresting a local woman who had been observing and recording them from her car, when they took her into custody. It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in an ICE action.
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonMore than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonNEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonFrom just north of me: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... They left a toddler in the car alone for 40 minutes.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonNEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonReminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonMinnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
- Reposted by Zach Stevenson"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonHappy to share that our review on mammalian genome writing with Jack Atwater, Ran Brosh, Jef Boeke, @jshendure.bsky.social and Matt Maurano is now out in @cellpress.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonReporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonICE is too busy harassing children to pick up the criminals our sheriffs are asking them to take. www.fox9.com/news/mn-sher...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
- Reposted by Zach StevensonThis video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
- Reposted by Zach Stevenson1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonMamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
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- As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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- Reposted by Zach Stevensonthis is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
- Reposted by Zach StevensonNew: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonA Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonA few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
- Reposted by Zach StevensonA video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
- Reposted by Zach Stevensonat some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
- Reposted by Zach StevensonMinneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Zach StevensonPeople are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonThe full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
- Reposted by Zach StevensoniCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonNow seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
- Reposted by Zach StevensonSince his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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- Reposted by Zach StevensonDemocratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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