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California plaintiff in lawsuit challenging immigration raids arrested by ICE
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/california-plaintiff-in-lawsuit-challenging-immigration-raids-arrested-by-ice

California plaintiff in lawsuit challenging immigration raids arrested by ICE
ICE on Thursday arrested a plaintiff involved in a class action lawsuit challenging Los Angeles immigration raids, prompting concerns from lawyers of retaliation and calls for his release.

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Three people sentenced to jail for bear-suit insurance scam in California
State investigated claims of bear attacks on cars, unconvincingly backed up by video of person in bear suit

(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.

WR Flowers: Harbaugh's practices led to injuries https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48512386/harbaugh-practices-why-ravens-had-lot-injuries

Comics platform GlobalComix raised $13M, following a $6.5M raise in 2023, and acquires digital manga platform INKR, adding 200K volumes of Asian comics (Rob Salkowitz/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/

GlobalComix Closes $13M Round, Acquires INKR And Names Henrik Rydberg New CEO
The digital platform gets an infusion of cash, technology and new leadership to compete in the multibillion dollar digital comics market.

Trump's immigration crackdown takes a toll on mental health. One clinic tracks it : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5779576/immigration-ice-cbp-mental-health-children

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p31#a260417p31

Five days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot activist Renee Good,
tensions were running high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed. 
As federal immigration agents surrounded and questioned a man whose car they had stopped,
people emerged from their homes onto the snow-lined sidewalks and street.
They shouted obscenities, told the agents to leave and filmed what was happening on their phones.
A crew from FRONTLINE an…

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.
A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

Serial Immigration Fraudster Working as a Minnesota Corrections Officer Arrested (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02/18/serial-immigration-fraudster-working-minnesota-corrections-officer-arrested
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p128#a260218p128

Researchers have developed a compact camera that captures ultraviolet, near-infrared and visible images using a single chip.
Inspired by the multiwavelength vision capability of the mantis shrimp, the camera could help surgeons identify lymph nodes connected to a tumor and assess whether cancer has spread to them, making cancer surgery safer and less invasive.

New imager separates UV and infrared light to find cancerous nodes
Researchers have developed a compact camera that captures ultraviolet, near-infrared and visible images using a single chip. Inspired by the multiwavelength vision capability of the mantis shrimp, the camera could help surgeons identify lymph nodes connected to a tumor and assess whether cancer has spread to them, making cancer surgery safer and less invasive.