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Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 15. Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flames in scorching heat: temperatures up to 38°C (100F)
https://www.thegu…

Check out today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA was hit by a cyberattack,
--Coupang's founder failed to show at parliamentary hearing,
--Vast majority of parked domains foist scams and malware,
--FTC orders Nomad to pay victims after hackers stole cryptocurrency,
--noyb alleges data exposure by TikTok, Grindr and AppFlyer,
--Hackers exploit critica…

Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA was hit by a cyberattack
Coupang's founder didn't show at parliamentary hearing, Majority of parked domains foist scams and malware, FTC orders Nomad to pay victims after hackers stole cryptocurrency, noyb alleges data exposure by TikTok, Grindr and AppFlyer, Hackers exploit critical flaws in Fortinet products, much more

Full renewal of state and local cyber grants program passes in House https://therecord.media/state-local-cyber-grants-program-house-passage

Spanberger ends relationship between ICE and Virginia State Police (Brad Kutner/WVTF)
https://www.wvtf.org/news/2026-01-17/spanberger-ends-relationship-between-ice-and-virginia-state-police
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p49#a260117p49

Raiders Week 11 snap counts vs Cowboys: 5 observations shows sad state of affairs in Vegas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/18/raiders-week-11-snap-counts-shows-sad-st…

Trump says the US needs a "Federal Standard" governing oversight of AI instead of "a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes", otherwise China will catch up (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Watched 12 Angry Men last night and it had me wondering if it was legal in the USA in 1957 for women to serve on a jury — looks like it was state-by-state starting with Wyoming in 1870 all the way up to Mississippi in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_United_States_jur…

What might it feel like to be a glass squid ...
to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings?
#ArgentinianDeepSeeps
https://bsky.app/profile/schmidtocean.

Schmidt Ocean Institute (@schmidtocean.bsky.social)
Float like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

An Alabama state board votes to keep its contract with PBS for now, rejecting an effort to become the first state to cut ties following federal budget cuts (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-pbs-2149809fa142c792fab0ca6e8730ee80

Alabama Public Television to keep PBS contract
The commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted to continue paying its contract with PBS. The decision came after a public backlash to the idea of dropping PBS. The Alabama Educational Television Commission voted without dissent to continue paying the contract with PBS that runs until July. It also voted to create a committee to explore the future direction of Alabama Public Television. A proposal to take the first step toward severing ties failed when no commissioner seconded the …

Washington state cities turn off license plate reader cameras amid ruling on data access – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/washington-state-cities-turn-off-license-plate-reader-cameras-amid-ruling-on-data-access/

from my link log —
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography.
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/
saved 2026-01-15

Plans for a massive new #Oracle datacentre in the US state of Michigan have been left in limbo after funding talks with its key financial partner broke down.
https://www.comput…

Oracle datacentre plans uncertain after key funding talks collapse
Plans for a massive new Oracle datacentre in the US state of Michigan have been left in limbo after funding talks with its key financial ...

Python Cryptography about the state of OpenSSL...
The weirdest thing is that it appears even the authors of one of the more important libraries using OpenSSL appear to not understand why OpenSSL is doing the things they do.
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/stat…

FEMA to Texas? Disaster agency mulls move to Lone Star State (Thomas Frank/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/fema-to-texas-disaster-agency-mulls-move-to-lone-star-state-politico-00654769
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p142#a251117p142

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

So I've a medical thing that I need to buy once a month on Amazon and they cancelled my subscription delivery for it last time (but not the subscription itself), without telling me.
I tried to just order it for one time delivery, but the delivery date was a month out and they immediately cancelled my order.
My wife told me to use my developer brain—and yes, imagining a bug with some row in a database being in a fugue state, the exactly a month out delivery date being the biggest hint to something going into a default state when a calculation fails.
So I removed the subscription to the item (they make it hard to find where to do this).
Bingo: I can now order immediately for delivery in two days and for working subscrpition delivery.

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/state-european-tech-report-2025/

Zelensky declares state of emergency in Ukraine’s energy sector as crisis worsens: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/zelensky-declares-state-of-emergency.html

LB Styles joins Buckeyes stars declaring for draft https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47613219/sonny-styles-joins-ohio-state-stars-declaring-nfl-draft

I just wrote this.
"In 2013…CBP…knew that their agents would sometimes '…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force.'"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/preme…

Premeditated State Violence Must End
Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

In the ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish-led SDF, Syrian authorities will take over civilian institutions, border crossings and oil and gas fields, effectively ending Kurdish self-rule in Syria.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwk37ewvwo.amp

Syria, SDF agree ceasefire and integration deal - BBC News
President Ahmed al-Sharaa said the deal would allow the Syrian state to reassert control over most areas.

FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-report-on-the-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-landscape/
@…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of Its Hard-state X-Ray Emission: #BlackHole secrets: https://source.washu.edu/2025/11/a-new-angle-of-study-for-unveiling-black-hole-secrets/

PIC12F683 poly/substrate with some residual contacts (some floated away, some sitting at random positions, some still firmly attached) but almost all oxide etched.
Doing the whole die at this state, then will probably do a clean to get all the loose contacts and debris off, another imaging pass.
Then I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to try for a clean substrate image given the poor contrast I'm seeing, vs just calling this the final form. We'll see what happe…

I've seen both bands enough times that it feels like home at their concerts.
I love Bishop Allen and Mates of State.
#music

For real when I first saw the video, I thought it was AI. https://journa.host/@w7voa/115742414446038063

Jerry Jones Continues His Push For Expanded State Revenue https://insidethestar.com/jerry-jones-continues-his-push-for-expanded-state-revenue

California also wants #xAI to abide the law.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/california-ag-sends-musks-xai-a-cease-and-desist-order-…

Linux kernel tooling update message included an unsurprising, but noteworthy lament about the state of #SMTP:
"We're increasingly having to deal with the degradation of the SMTP support by
all commercial companies: [...]"

I would argue that until an ICE agent is arrested that the Federal Gov't has no standing to bring a lawsuit at either the Federal or State level.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/17/trump-sues-calif…

Trump sues California over law that bans masked federal agents
The law prohibits neck gaiters, ski masks and other facial coverings for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, while they conduct official business.

Bondi beach shows IS is taking advantage of a new kind of terrorist
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/the-islamic-state-is-taking-advantage-of-a-new-kind-of-terrorist

Is Anubis still the state of the art in self-host scraper bot defence or are people using other things now?

More pumpkin pancakes today, again with egg bacon tea and coffee. Huckleberry from Washington state on my pancakes. Last night I learned I’ll get to lead a couple of our monthly bike party rides this summer! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/yhXfNZ7YfvFSGUXd8

If you seriously think I, an anti-imperialist anarcho-syndicalist aligned with the values of the IWA-AIT, would ever support NATO, that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of my position.
NATO is a state-funded military alliance that serves capitalist and geopolitical interests, not the liberation of working people. Its actions, including in the Middle East, have strengthened states and elites, deepened repression, and inflicted lasting harm on workers and communities rather than empower…

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Atlanic #Parrots #Animals

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

That's good to hear.
"After a legal fight with the Trump administration, Wisconsin is awarding $14 million in federally-funded grants to build electric vehicle fast-charging stations at 26 businesses across the state."
#Wisconsin #EV #Transportation

I know you'll be shocked to hear that ardent Trump supporter, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R) was the lone Congressman that voted against releasing the Epstein files.
Fun fact: He also supported former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke for State Governor & made racist comments.
☑️ Who is Clay Higgins, the only House member to vote against releasing the Epstein files?

Here's a photo of me that my son took near the very highest point of Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #portrait

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

Yesterday I finished "A First Time for Everything" by Dan Santant. A lovely autobiographical graphic novel about a summer foreign exchange trip between middle and high school with plenty of awkwardness but also some romance.
It perfectly captures the state of an awkward but also self-aware pre-teen/young teenager, and the various international escapades depicted are both hilarious and touching. Also fascinating to read about international travel circa 1989, which in many ways was comparable to stuff I remember from late in the 90s: parents seeing you off at the gate; expected to navigate a foreign city with just a map, etc.
A really fun book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

De schaduwoorlog van Rusland in de EU gaat door met sabotage acties aan Pools spoor richting Oekraine: “We are dealing with the [intelligence] services of a foreign state, and not a gang of scrap metal thieves.” https://www.

“Each conscious perception is the local registration of the entire state of the universe at any given moment.” - Christoph Cox

PSA: If you’re allegedly driving around with:
• no tags
• an altered VIN
• a #Glock switch
• #ecstasy
• #Adderall
•

Charger leads chase from Cordova to North Memphis, trooper says
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A suspect in a Dodge Charger led state troopers on a 150-mph chase from Cordova to North Memphis, authorities say. A trooper said he was...

Georgia Republicans want more people killed with stolen guns.
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/01/14/savannah-senator-says-its-ordinance-reduced-gun-thefts-by-30-perc…

“The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop: Guest Article by Dr. Aina G. Irbe on A Step Backward for Accessibility”
https://www.lflegal.com/2026/01/font-flip-flop/
The guest author worked for the State Department when it replaced Times New Roman in 2023.

The US State Department's Font Flip-Flop
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administratio

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
New Model Army:
🎵 51st State
#NowPlaying #NewModelArmy
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hiUBcY7ZvytQfWOOfV1pA

En kommentar til den seneste udvikling i vores forhold til USA. Artiklen er i Ÿvrigt flere år gammel, men jeg tænker stadig aktuel. #USPol https://worldmhc.org/

Putting the Current State of the Raiders into Perspective https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-putting-current-state-into-perspective

For some reason I've been banned (without ever interacting or having been in the room)
```
conduwuit_core::matrix::state_res::event_auth:sender cannot join as they are banned from the room
```
#matrix

According to Chile’s CONAF forestry agency, firefighters were battling 24 active fires across the country as of Sunday morning,
with the largest being in the regions of Ñuble and Bío Bío,
where the government declared the emergency.
The regions are about 500 km south of the capital, Santiago.
“In light of the serious ongoing wildfires, I have decided to declare a state of catastrophe in the regions of Ñuble and Bio Bío. All resources are available,” Boric said on a p…

Chile fires kill at least 18 as firefighters battle extreme heat, winds
Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced a state of catastrophe in two regions in the south of the country early on Sunday as raging wildfires forced at least 20,000 people to evacuate and left at least 16 18 people dead.

Why in the hell is the state of Texas so hellbent on killing Robert Roberson?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2025/11/11/state-pushes-back-on-evidentiary-hearing-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/<…

Robert Roberson update: State fights evidentiary hearing call
Robert Roberson’s legal team has long sought to present a deluge of evidence compiled since his 2003 capital murder trial that they say will prove his...

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
[@… on Bluesky]

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

from my link log —
The state of Rust cryptography in 2026.
https://kerkour.com/rust-cryptography-ecosystem-2026
saved 2026-01-16 https://<…

The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026
37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A.

Venezuela state oil company blames cyberattack on US after tanker seizure https://therecord.media/venezuela-state-oil-company-blames-cyberattack-on-us

State of the Steelers: What organization's past tells us about Mike Tomlin's future https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47306098/state-pittsburgh-steelers-mike-tomlin-coach-present-future

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.

Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/18/gemini-3-launch/

Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more
Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...

Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions,
--UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak,
--NHS investigates Clop's attack claims,
--ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws,
--DoorDash reveals October security incident,
--US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption …

Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions
UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak, NHS investigates Clop's attack claims, ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws, DoorDash reveals October security incident, US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption capabilities, Kraken is testing how fast it can encrypt, much more

Was listening to NIN's Year Zero album last night and it feels like Trent released it 20 years too early.
Also, KMFDM's WWIII was 23 years too early. So much stuff out of the GWB administration era was crystal clear at the time, but Obama/Biden convinced centrists & the media that everything was fixed and we didn't need to actually worry about accountability and then helped to expand the police state. 8 years of "don't worry about it", then the shock of T…

“You can’t sell us $200 ‘Rebel’ jackets at Galaxy’s Edge and then delete the words that define what being a Rebel actually means."
Testify.
✅ The Mouse Recants: Why #Disney Deleted a Viral Thread of Anti-Fascist Movie Quotes

The Mouse Recants: Why Disney Deleted a Viral Thread of Anti-Fascist Movie Quotes
Disney asked the internet how it was doing and ended up not liking what people had to say about the state of the country.

Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…

🤑 $54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/28/brian-kelly-payout-lsu-college-football-coaches

$54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
Brian Kelly’s departure from LSU is just the latest in a series of big money firings. It’s also a jarring state of affairs for many struggling fans

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. Privacy and AI Landscape in 2026
https://fpf.org/blog/five-big-questions-and-zero-predictions-for-the-u-s-privacy-and-ai-landscape-in-2026/

What state would be crazy (and stupid, because this is unconstitutional) enough to do something like this?
Tip line urges public to snitch on transgender people using bathrooms - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/tip-line-urges-public-to-snitch-on-transgender-people-using-bathrooms/

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump's new Medicaid work requirements (Geoff Mulvihill/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-work-requirements-oz-nebraska-d5a9162ede90c95e06bd45d6b7e16f8a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p130#a251217p130

WHCA reporters raise concerns about Saudi's Al Arabiya being the sole foreign outlet at Trump's MBS meeting and no mention of Khashoggi in background info (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1990876313960300793

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Some internal tension on the White House Correspondents Association email listserv today. Some journalists are complaining that background info circulated to the group by a reporter working for Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya did not mention the murder of Jamal Khashoggi...

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.

On Jan. 18, 2026, Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe for the Nuble and Biobio regions
as wildfires killed at least 16 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate.
A severe summer heat wave and prolonged drought since December created conditions highly favorable to wildfire ignition,
with dry foehn-type winds and 38 C daytime temperatures.
Fire agencies said nearly 4,000 firefighters are battling about 24 active wildfires as blazes have …

Wildfires in Chile Kill at Least 16 People, Force More than 50,000 to Evacuate
At least 16 people are confirmed dead and 20,000 are evacuated as fires rage in two southern regions.

Islamic State group and other extremists are turning to AI | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-ba201d23b91dbab95f6a8e7ad8b778d5

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilizes state National Guard amid ongoing protests (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/17/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-protests-renee-good-hnk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p42#a260117p42

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access…

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

Amazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure | Amazon Web Services
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined. This tactical adaptation enables the same […]

🧩 The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem
#rust

Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
https://…

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

New Jersey mayor told cops to keep Black people out of his town, according to lawsuit from the state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-jersey-mayor-discrimination-lawsuit-b2902451.html

Colorado's wolves in the political crosshairs as Trump targets the state (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/17/wolves-colorado-polis-trump-political-retaliation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY4NjI2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwMDA4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njg2MjYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQ3YmMwNGYyLThjYzAtNDJjNC04YTg0LTZkZmI4ZWQyYjAwMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNi8wMS8xNy93b2x2ZXMtY29sb3JhZG8tcG9saXMtdHJ1bXAtcG9saXRpY2FsLXJldGFsaWF0aW9uLyJ9.ya1xIGGdv74-wJ3Gc3jeThENqaGQV7NxPxCI3hj06wk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p69#a260117p69

Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants.
Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II
to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves.
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize presence in the United to justify removal.

Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland | Penn State University
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/skin-cancer-cluster-found-15-pennsylvania-counties-or-near-farmland

Trump announces 'Patriot Games,' with 2 high school athletes from each state (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5655553-trump-patriot-games-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p2#a251219p2

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

You want to stay up to date with trustworthy news coming out of Minnesota.
Below,⬇️ I’ve compiled outlets and individuals documenting and contextualizing the federal government’s assault on The North Star State
with links to their websites and social media presences.
Follow them and get to spreading the information Americans need to see.
I’m including some social media accounts because eyewitness footage is important to the public interest at a time when we know the …

The LOCAL Minnesota ICE Coverage You Need Right Now
On-the-ground reporting from established newsrooms and independent upstarts providing eyewitness footage and local context.

Omar tells protesters throwing projectiles at police: 'Do not let your anger get the best of you'
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693505-ilhan-omar-urges-peaceful-protests/

Harris addresses MLK event in Chicago (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693163-mlk-day-chicago-kamala-harris/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p101#a260116p101

Trump's personal lawyer
#Robert #Garson told the Telegraph newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about💥 offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK -- citing rising antisemitism.
Garson, 49, said he felt the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.
He adde…

Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor #Abigail #Spanberger signed
10 executive orders in her first official act at the Virginia State Capitol.
Three of the orders target
✅reducing cost-of-living expenses for Virginia families,
✅bringing down healthcare costs
✅and making it easier to build more…

Money, Education, Immigration: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed 10 executive orders
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day, targeting cost of living, healthcare, housing and education issues.

Inside Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p33#a251215p33

In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/trump-orders-c

Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws
On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence in the US...

Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke (Ketrin Jochecovš/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/iceland-us-ambassador-billy-long-donald-trump-52nd-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p55#a260115p55

It’s definitely a long shot.
But Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer, minister and dues-paying member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
is making her move, throwing her hat into the ring for mayor of Los Angeles.
The virtually unknown candidate is the deputy director of Housing Now California,
a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the state and local levels.
Huang, who announced a campaign launch on Sunday, i…

She's challenging Bass from the left. Could she become L.A.'s Mamdani?
Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, is waging a long-shot campaign for L.A. mayor, focusing on free buses, public housing and police abuse.

DOJ sues Minnesota over affirmative action, a day after state's suit over ICE
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5689330-dojsues-minnesota-affirmative-action/

Omar tells protesters throwing projectiles at police: 'Do not let your anger get the best of you' (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693505-ilhan-omar-urges-peaceful-protests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p134#a260116p134

China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-approves…

Pregnant mom dies as red state docs fear abortion — and leave heart crisis untreated - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pregnant-mom-dies-as-abortion-fears-force-red-state-docs-not-to-treat-heart-crisis/

Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes. 
https://www.

Trump pardons jailed ex-Colorado election official Tina Peters, but she was charged in state court
President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”