As founders of LabNews Media LLC, we have just completed the full migration of every server, every database, every line of code powering our platforms to fortified data centers across the European Union. This is not a quiet administrative tweak. It is an unequivocal act of defiance and moral rupture. Effective immediately, LabNews – the voice trusted by millions for uncompromised science journalism, AI in life sciences, biotech breakthroughs, and evidence-based reporting – no longer resides on American soil digitally. We refuse to host our infrastructure in a nation whose president stands credibly accused in freshly released millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents, a man who has escalated threats against sovereign allies like Denmark over Greenland, and whose administration now openly flirts with dismantling the transatlantic alliance that once defined the free world.
Donald J. Trump is not our president in any meaningful sense. He forfeited that legitimacy long ago through repeated lies, incitements to violence, and now – with the DOJ’s staggering January 30, 2026 release of over 3 million pages, thousands of videos, and 180,000 images from the Epstein files – through documented proximity to one of the most depraved criminal networks in modern history. Trump called those files a „hoax“ in the past. Today, the evidence dump – including tip summaries naming him repeatedly, flight logs, social connections, and witness accounts – makes that dismissal look like desperate gaslighting. His presence at Epstein events, his own words praising Epstein’s taste in „younger“ women, the stalled investigations under his prior watch, and the suspicious death of Epstein in federal custody: these are not coincidences. They are patterns of complicity. Silence when action was demanded, deflection when exposure loomed, and now – under his second term – a DOJ that releases mountains of material yet conveniently shields or delays the most damning portions. This is not leadership. This is cover-up.
We built LabNews Media as an American company in the heart of innovation country. Albuquerque headquarters, Silicon Valley roots, a mission to deliver real-time, rigorous coverage of laboratory science, genomics, space omics, AI-driven drug discovery, and climate-resilient technologies. But America’s soul under Trump 2.0 is unrecognizable. The country that once championed the rule of law now threatens to annex Greenland through economic blackmail and tariff warfare – actions that have united Europe in outrage and retaliation vows. European leaders speak openly of „intimidation,“ „threats,“ and „blackmail“ from Washington. NATO’s credibility hangs by a thread as Trump muses about weakening the EU itself, courting fringe regimes to fracture the bloc. Meanwhile, domestic policy dismantles environmental safeguards, politicizes science funding, and erodes press freedoms. For a media outlet dedicated to truth in science, remaining tethered to this regime is intolerable.
The server move to Europe – primarily Germany and France, bastions of GDPR enforcement and digital sovereignty – was completed in phases throughout late 2025 and finalized in early 2026. Our infrastructure now enjoys ironclad protections against extraterritorial overreach, warrantless surveillance, or politically motivated takedowns that have become plausible risks in Trump’s America. Latency remains negligible thanks to cutting-edge peering; uptime has actually improved. This was not cheap – six-figure costs in migration, legal reviews, and redundancy setups – but the price of staying would have been far higher: our integrity.
We call on every major corporation still operating in the United States to do the same. Pull your headquarters, your cloud regions, your R&D labs, your tax domiciles out. Big Tech first: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure – your dominance rests on global trust. Hosting in a country whose leader is credibly linked to elite sex-trafficking rings and who now bullies allies erodes that trust irreversibly. Pharma giants like Pfizer, Moderna, Eli Lilly: your pipelines depend on international collaboration. Why base operations where the president guts FDA independence and prioritizes cronies? Financial institutions, manufacturers, consultancies – calculate the reputational damage. Divestment worked against apartheid South Africa. It can work against authoritarian drift here.
The Epstein files provide the moral fulcrum for this moment. The January 2026 DOJ release – forced by legislation Trump himself signed under pressure – is a bombshell. Millions of pages detail not just Epstein’s crimes but the ecosystem that shielded him. Trump’s name surfaces in tips, interviews, and contextual documents: introductions via Ghislaine Maxwell, shared social circles, documented interactions during Epstein’s peak predation years. Federal summaries of public accusations against him were compiled as recently as 2021 and resurfaced now. Democrats accuse the DOJ of withholding roughly half the records despite legal mandates – a convenient selectivity under Trump’s own appointees. This is not exoneration; it is managed disclosure designed to overwhelm without truly illuminating.
Trump’s pattern is consistent: deny, deflect, destroy evidence of accountability. He labeled climate science a hoax, elections stolen, pandemics overblown. Now he presides over a release that implicates him while claiming victory for „transparency.“ No serious observer buys it. His Greenland obsession – revived threats of tariffs on Denmark, veiled NATO leverage, resource grabs masked as national security – exposes the imperialist streak beneath the populist veneer. Europe responds not with appeasement but with hardening resolve: emergency summits, tariff retaliation planning, accelerated defense autonomy. The transatlantic bond, frayed since 2025, is snapping in 2026.
For LabNews, the decision crystallized around science itself. Our beat – laboratory innovation – thrives on open borders for ideas, talent, and data. Trump’s immigration restrictions (revived and expanded) choke the flow of brilliant minds from abroad. His proposed budget slashes NSF and NIH funding for „woke“ research while funneling dollars to fossil-fuel allies. AI ethics? Gutted. Climate modeling? Politicized. Our platforms have covered CRISPR trials delayed by regulatory chaos, biotech startups fleeing high-risk environments, and genomics consortia shifting to EU-friendly jurisdictions. Staying meant subsidizing – through taxes, data sovereignty, and economic participation – a system actively sabotaging the very progress we report on.
This is bigger than one company. Imagine the cascade: if Meta moves European data ops fully sovereign, if Apple relocates server farms to Ireland en masse, if pharmaceutical clinical trials pivot to Basel or Copenhagen. The U.S. economy would feel the shock – capital flight, talent exodus, innovation drain. Washington would be forced to confront the cost of its pathologies. We are not naive; change won’t happen overnight. But symbolic acts accumulate power. Our withdrawal is one such act.
Critics will scream „un-American.“ We counter: what is more American than refusing to bow to tyranny? The Founders rebelled against a king who claimed divine right. Today we rebel against a president who claims impunity. Patriotism demands accountability, not complicity.
To our readers – scientists, researchers, policymakers, students worldwide: thank you for your trust. Our journalism remains unchanged: fearless, fact-driven, global. Only our digital home has moved – to a continent that still values privacy, rule of law, and collaborative science. To fellow founders and CEOs: the water is rising. Don’t wait for the flood. Relocate. Protest with infrastructure. Make them feel the absence.
LabNews Media LLC stands apart now – not out of hatred for America, but love for what it could be again. Until that day, Europe is our operational base. The fight continues.
The Founders
LabNews Media LLC
February 1, 2026
