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DHS Responds to Arrest of U.S. Citizen That Attempted to Run Down CBP Agent (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/29/dhs-responds-arrest-us-citizen-attempted-run-down-cbp-agent
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p36#a250831p36

Spectropolarimetric synthesis of forbidden lines in MHD models of coronal bright points
Ernest Alsina Ballester, Daniel N\'obrega-Siverio, Fernando Moreno-Insertis, Supriya Hebbur Dayananda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23884

Spectropolarimetric synthesis of forbidden lines in MHD models of coronal bright points
The inference of the magnetic field vector from spectropolarimetric observations is crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the solar corona. We investigate which information on the magnetic fields of coronal bright points (CBP) can be gained from the intensity and polarization of the Fe XIII 10747 A, Fe XIV 5303 A, Si X 14301 A, and Si IX 39343 A forbidden lines. We apply the P-CORONA synthesis code to a CBP model in the very low corona, obtained with the Bifrost code, and t…

More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-canada-device-searches-1.7619944?cmp=rss

Surge in U.S. customs searches of electronic devices raises concerns about harsh treatment of Canadians | CBC News
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a sharp rise in electronic device searches at crossings, raising concerns about privacy, discrimination and harsher scrutiny of Canadians. "There's a lot of fear going into the United States," a Toronto-based immigration lawyer says.

"AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration
A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Data used to generate the new stream maps stems from a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), and the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC), including UMBC alumni at CBP and CC.

A gay school superintendent US citizen was detained and traumatized by CBP personnel at Houston airport returning from vacation.
#lgbtq #cbp #ice

Outrage after CBP detains gay VT superintendent for hours
Local officials and national lawmakers are expressing anger over U.S. citizen Wilmer Chavarria’s “deeply disturbing” encounter while returning from vacation with his husband.

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide https://www.404media.co/cbp-had-access-to-more-than-80-000-flock-ai-cameras-nationwide/

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-f…

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

Glassholes 4.0 - who would have thought that this is the usecase for these devices.
https://www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-meta-smart-glasses-to-an-immigration-raid-in-los-angeles/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

There are undoubtedly morally justified uses of facial recognition technology, but improving and refining these technologies directly enables racist policies.
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify…

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

"Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border."
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-wants-new-tech-to-search-for-hidden-data-on-seized-phones/…

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.

Customs and Border Protection
is asking companies to pitch tools
for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-wants-new-tech-to-search-for-hidden-data-on-seiz…

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.

Well-connected person whom I trust was just telling me that he’s personally talked to 4 Canadians who in recent weeks have had US CBP demand to look through their phones and on the basis of phone content been turned back and handed 5-year entry bans. Three of the 4 were at Vancouver airport. These people are not taking their story to media because they don’t want to draw attention to their employers.
#USpol

Turns out some prosecutors CAN'T indict a ham sandwich. #DC
https://reason.com/2025/08/27/looks-like-we-found-a-ham-sandwich-a-grand-jury-wont-indict/…

Jury refuses to indict Sean Dunn for throwing sandwich at federal officer
Federal prosecutors failed to secure a grand jury indictment against the D.C. man who was arrested for hurling a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer.

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/20/video-criminal-illegal-alien-lengthy-rap-sheet-ambushes-and-shoots-cbp-officer-new
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p60#a250721p60

Border Patrol drones have shown up at the LA protests. Should we be worried?
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5349890-cbp-drone-surveillance-los-angeles/

Hey, #DeltaAirlines, #AmericanAirlines, and #UnitedAirlines: selling passenger data to the Feds without requiring a warrant, are you?

CBP and ICE Nazis are so toxic that even news stories where they're a victim continue to maintain their anonymity. https://masto.nyc/@EthanHarp/114887249547720720

Well done Alexandra Petri!
Pretty sure if you wanted human rights, you don't go getting rounded up by ice or dhs or cbp or bureau of prisons who will take away your human rights. /s
Reminds me of the old "they were killed by the drone strike, therefore they were a combatant."

Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security

Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 internal advice ruling that enabled Apple to reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Masimo Sues US Customs Over Apple Restoring Watch’s Oxygen Tool
US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.

Outrage after border agents subject detained gay Vermont superintendent to hours of 'psychological terror' (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p148#a250723p148

CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE https://www.404media.co/cbp-confirms-it-is-flying-predator-drones-above-los-angeles-to-support-ice/

DHS posts explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video about how ICE/CBP is delivering the Lord's justice
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3ltpd2udjhs24

I would definitely advise anyone working to resolve our current predicament not do or say anything which might be viewed as criminal, unless you actually intend to play an active role in a war.
ICE and CBP agents as well as any military or local law enforcers are operating under the color of law based in part on a declaration of emergency by POTUS asserting that we are in a de facto war. They are choosing involvement in a war. Legitimate military targets.

TechNadu (@technadu@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image 🚨 Targeted doxing of ICE officers by Antifa-aligned groups (Portland) 🧩 Summary: • Names, photos, & addresses of ICE agents + families leaked online • DHS: assaults on officers up 700% • FBI offering $50K after gunfire during CA child-rescue ops • Doxed info may be used by gangs (e.g., MS-13, Tren de Aragua) This isn't hacktivism—it’s real-world targeting via online exposure⚠️. 🔗 Full story: https://www.technadu.com/deportation-fuels-doxing-ic…

CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/cbp-confirms-it-is-flying-predator-drones-above-los-angeles-to-support-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p134#a250611p134

ICE and CBP Law Enforcement Dodge Literal Bullets from Rioters While Rescuing at Least 10 Migrant Children During Operations at Two Marijuana Grow Sites in California (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/11/ice-and-cbp-law-enforcement-dodge-literal-bullets-rioters-while-rescuing-least-10
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p109#a250711p109

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/

Taming Wild Branches: Overcoming Hard-to-Predict Branches using the Bullseye Predictor
Emet Behrendt, Shing Wai Pun, Prashant J. Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06773

Taming Wild Branches: Overcoming Hard-to-Predict Branches using the Bullseye Predictor
Branch prediction is key to the performance of out-of-order processors. While the CBP-2016 winner TAGE-SC-L combines geometric-history tables, a statistical corrector, and a loop predictor, over half of its remaining mispredictions stem from a small set of hard-to-predict (H2P) branches. These branches occur under diverse global histories, causing repeated thrashing in TAGE and eviction before usefulness counters can mature. Prior work shows that simply enlarging the tables offers only marginal…

Um, CNN, the whole "secret" part of secret police is that they wear masks and operate outside of the law. There's no "but" there - they are secret police. Warrantless, going outside the purview of their mission by disappearing US citizens, and so on, it's pretty clear what they are. #FuckICE
Imagine being naive enough to write "apparently to protect age…

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
This is not an apt moment to use the word "but." https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration

A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-meta-smart-glasses-to-an-immigration-raid-in-los-angeles/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p122#a250807p122

Off-duty CBP officer shot in face during robbery at NYC park by suspect ID'd as illegal migrant, career criminal - who got freed after every bust (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-in-face-during-nyc-park-robbery-before-striking-back-and-wounding-one-of-his-attackers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p47#a250720p47

Meet the new national police force (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p61#a250709p61

El ICE ya usa una nueva app de reconocimiento facial para identificar personas, revelan correos filtrados https://www.404media.co/el-ice-ya-usa-una-nueva-app-de-reconocimiento-facial-para-identificar-personas-revelan…

US Homeland Security's Escalating Attacks On International Journalists https://thedissenter.org/us-homeland-securitys-escalating-attacks-on-international-journalists/

DHS Announces It Will Forgive Failure to Depart Fines for Illegal Aliens who Self-Deport Through the CBP Home App (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/09/dhs-announces-it-will-forgive-failure-depart-fines-illegal-aliens-who-self-deport
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p58#a250610p58

Podcast: Why Are DHS Agents Wearing Meta Ray-Bans? https://www.404media.co/podcast-why-are-dhs-agents-wearing-meta-ray-bans/