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A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…

The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book | David Boles, Blogs
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the perso…

An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocatio…

Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

Orbšn’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology
https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab/

Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…

Documents required by GOP's voting bill can be difficult and costly to get
Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections. Obtaining those records and paying for them may not be as easy as the bill’s promoters make it sound. There's a range of hurdles, including the time and money involved in getting birth certificates or passports. A University of Maryland study estimates that 21.3 million Americans who ar…

Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives (Kate Zernike/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/republicans-citizen-initiatives.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p6#a260408p6

This led to great discussion in an MA class on crowdsourcing and citizen science today
From: @…
https://hcommons.social/@mia/116053173459026787

Brian Morales, a U.S. citizen,
has been deported to Mexico despite telling arresting officers that he had proof of citizenship at home, according to a new report.
According to Univision’s Lidia Terrazas, 25-year-old Denver-born Brian Morales was threatened with either deportation or prison time following a traffic stop in Texas by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents.
This is the latest in a string of incidents involving U.S. citizens and Department of Homeland Security …

DHS deported a US citizen to Mexico after threatening him with prison time: report
A man deported to Mexico has claimed that officers not only refused to see his documents but accused him of fraud

I’m actually shocked that folks I speak to here in Ireland are still planning holidays in the USA.
Here’s a testimonial you might not find on Tripadvisor:
“like a concentration camp, absolute hell” – Seamus Culleton
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/five-year-old-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative

Annual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
https://newrepublic.co…

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

"Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’"
#GreatBarrierReef #Environment #Oceans

Newly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino,
a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month,
praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year.


Marimar Martinez, a US citizen,
was shot five times by a border patrol agent in October while in her vehicle.
She was charged with a felony after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accus…

Have you ever asked yourself: might we, in fact, be the baddies? #FirstAmendment
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-yea…

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Citizen Historians fighting the regime's revisionist history efforts
#resist

About | Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the national zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial museum. ​ Founded August 21, 2025, in its first 4 weeks volunteers for this project have donated 17,500+ photographs and videos and documented 37% of current Smithsonian exhibits.

Trump Issues Threat To Reluctant Donors: "Are You A Proud Citizen Or Does ICE Need To Track You Down?" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/trump-issues-threat-to-reluctant-donors-are-you-a-proud-citizen-or-does-ice-need-to-track-you-down/

New Footage Yet Again Contradicts DHS Claims About Its Killing of a US Citizen (Katie Herchenroeder/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/new-footage-yet-again-contradicts-dhs-claims-about-its-killing-of-a-us-citizen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p66#a260307p66

ICE detained Nashville journalist Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, who sought asylum and is married to an American, for allegedly overstaying her tourist visa (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/immigratio…

ICE Detains Reporter Estefany Rodriguez Florez in Nashville
The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, who had sought asylum and is married to an American citizen, raised fears that she had been targeted for her reporting.

Another whining rant of a cranky senior citizen who takes the bus to get to work as they don't have enough parking for us...
If you are wearing a backpack when boarding a bus or train TAKE IT OFF! I suspect I am not the only person who doesn't like being swatted.
When you board, please don't congregate by the doors. Especially when there is seating available. If you do, then don't get pissed off when I push you out of my way. If I miss my stop then it is 15 minu…

Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?

Breaking the doom loop: How to rebuild trust in AI
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. By involving communities and prioritising effective oversight, institutions can break the ...

Job Posting
Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats
https://citizenlab.ca/job-posting-citizen-lab-research-officer-in-the-area-of-spyware-and-digital-targeted-threats/

Job Posting: Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats  - The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is now accepting applications for the position of Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Threats. Under the supervision of the senior legal advisor, the research officer will assist with building case databases, implement training workshops, and conduct legal research on methods used in digital accountability research as well as […]

US Citizen films being racially profiled and detained by fascist paramilitary invaders. After having his info ran, they give him red wristband to mark him as checked.
Source:
#ice

I am planning on taking my nephew to Japan this summer as an early graduation gift. He hasn’t been out of the country before and I figure that experiencing new cultures is how you make sure that someone is a good world citizen. I miss Japan and I’m happy to go back but OMG, this is going to be expensive.

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months | The Guardian #ice

"Plastic patrol: the citizen scientists tackling litter in Australian waterways"
#Australia #Litter #Environment

Sunny Naqvi, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen, is now back at home
after her family says she spent about 43 hours in Department of Homeland Security custody.
Customs and Border Patrol officials are now disputing her relatives' claims.
Naqvi was born in Evanston and raised in the Chicago suburbs.
A few weeks ago, she was set to travel overseas on a work trip with five other people. That group included three U.S. citizens and three green card holders, all in the U.S. legal…

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days
Family said agents told them Sunny Naqvi was not in custody despite her phone location showing her at the Broadview facility.

Amanda Serrano criticises Jake Paul over description of Bad Bunny as 'fake American' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032794/2026/02/09/jake-paul-amanda-serrano-bad-bunny-fake-american/

Why didn’t the senior citizen cross the road? Gait speed in community-dwelling older adults with mobility limitations relative to pedestrian crossing times
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/12/afaf345/8371949

@… I agree, and I am a US citizen.

Statistical Overview of Long-lived Active Regions Observed across Multiple Carrington Rotations: #SolarFlare Rates: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/volunteers-find-oddly-high-solar-flare-rates/

Not now zombie outbreak. We're busy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

am a bit disappointed to see #ipv6 seems de facto optional, 2nd class citizen for #ActivityPub #federation. I mean federating with

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p113#a260203p113

What happened to the worst of the worst? Can’t wait to hear them justify this one.
55 year old US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear in subzero temps after warrantless search https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-removed-him-from-his-minnesota-home-in-his-underwear-after-warrantless-search_e642e0

The DHS shooting of a
third U.S. citizen went
unnoticed for months

No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had
killed Ruben Ray Martinez
until it was revealed in a
public records request
https://www.wash…

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months
No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone
https://cyberscoop.com/citizen-lab-kenya-cellebrite-phone-cracking-boniface-mwangi-forensic-evidence/

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone
Researchers have found forensic evidence suggesting that Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite’s phone-cracking technology on the device of a prominent human rights activist after arresting him, according to a report published Tuesday.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Citizen Cope:
🎵 Contact
#CitizenCope
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Hbd3z4MomKYFZp7HetK5P

. @… "found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. 'I felt like I was going to pass out and die,' said a 16-year-old citizen."

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

Ser vi her samme situation fra to forskellige sider? 🤔
#BotModBot

"Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare frogs on private land"
#Frogs #Animals

Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare frogs on private land
Threatened frogs aren’t just found in national parks – citizen scientists are finding them throughout private land too.

I'm so surprised Trump's criminal mafia would try this, said absolutely no one ever.
☑️ The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.o…

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists,...

I do like this case...
It drops a big bomb on those "sovereign citizen" nutz.
Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571 (CanLII)
https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html

Such baboons. Guns drawn on yet another citizen. Utter disdain for the law.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

what if we captured "citizen journalists" like escaped gorillas and built them a little simulacra city terrarium where they performatively gawk at each other over and over again for a leaderboard of nonexistent likes till their joints blow and the cameramen float like loose buoys unmoored from fetish-horrors for the rest of time

American Gestapo just executed another citizen.

Amerikanische Pfadfinder dürfen sich nicht mehr für Diversity einsetzen und der "Citizen in Society Badge" wird abgeschafft.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/27/the-department-of-war-just-put-scouting-america-on-notice/

Citizen sues ICE over arrest during California cannabis farm raid | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/citizen-sues-ice-over-arrest-during-california-cannabis-farm-raid/

It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…

‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently
Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbšn’s government have been secretly using Webloc
— a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data
— making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
Further investigation confirms the existence of “homegrown” OSINT and spyware tools.

Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama -- despite string of busts (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-ndiaga-diagne-became-citizen-despite-string-of-busts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p97#a260301p97

Kind request for every US citizen to pay $600 for Trump's illegal war in the Middle East, on top of the price increases it causes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/iran-cost-budget-pentagon/

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

The muder of 23-year-old American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez by fascist paramilitary invaders (South Padre Island, TX 03/15/25)
Source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodycam-video-ice-fatal-shooting-ruben-ray-martinez-texas/

What about that 5 year old US citizen?
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meed2az2bq26

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116141244443558638
If you’re not a US citizen, Anthropic supports your mass surveillance by the US regime. Thought you might want to know in case you find yourself funding your own future demise from a drone strike or something.

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodycam-video-ice-fatal-shooting-ruben-ray-martinez-texas/

The Big Ugly Threat to Safety Net Hospitals (Eileen O'Grady/Public Citizen)
https://www.citizen.org/article/big-ugly-threat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260331/p134#a260331p134

On a dark day, it's nice to be reminded that good people exist.
A true cyber citizen just offered meaningful financial support to Metacurity—and it landed at exactly the right moment.
It’s a reminder that this work resonates, even when it feels like I'm doing it alone. Deeply, deeply grateful.

A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…

US Citizen Sues ICE After Agents Allegedly Left Him Bleeding From Head
A man who says federal immigration agents left him “bleeding and in pain” has filed a $1.25 million damages claim.

Such baboons. Guns drawn on yet another citizen. Utter disdain for the law.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

As judge weighs challenge to citizen ballot initiatives law, Floridians lose power at ballot box https://floridatrib.org/2026/02/25/as-judge-weighs-challenge-to-voter-fraud-law-floridians-lose-power-at-ballot-box/

As judge weighs challenge to voter-fraud law, Floridians lose power at ballot box
For years, voters have used the amendment process to enact popular and major changes in Florida law from environmental regulations to public education, often over the objections of the state’s Republican leaders, who are now on the verge of snuffing out a perennial political thorn in their side.

ICE forces showering citizen outside into freezing weather in his underwear: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-us-citizen/

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26

TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF

I won't be wasting my time watching the state of the union.
What is likely, however, is that during his "speech" trump is likely to make more money via his illegal grafts and scams than the typical US citizen makes in a lifetime.
It is certainly true that most $Billionaires will make more in those 2 hours than the average American family makes during their lives.

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown (Tiago Rogero/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/five-year-old-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p152#a260127p152

SCOTUS declines to hear a citizen journalist's bid to overturn a ruling that Texas officials she accused of retaliation were protected by qualified immunity (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

Citizen speaking to his city council to stop, stall, or creatively find ways to exercise oversight on a proposed ICE concentration camp (Surprise, AZ - 02/03/26)
Source:
#politics

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen (6 Music Session, 08 Mar 2026)
#JescaHoop
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https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

Webloc is a global geolocation surveillance system that monitors hundreds of millions of people based on data purchased from consumer apps and digital advertising.
It was developed by Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink.
In collaboration with the European investigative journalism platform VSquare, we reveal that Hungarian domestic intelligence has been using Webloc since at least 2022 and continues to use it as of today.
Webloc customers also in…

Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

"I thought I was going to die": US citizen forced from her car by ICE - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/17/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-us-citizen-forced-from-her-car-by-ice/

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
More Moms Deported:
An exclusive data analysis found Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate of his predecessor.
Left Stranded:
Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.
New Directive:
Trump administration officials revised a document advi…

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

DHS Confirms Third US Citizen Killing After Newsweek Investigation (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-confirms-ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-2025-11558664
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p23#a260221p23

A healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…

A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech
I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it.

Supreme Court rejects citizen journalist's case against Texas officials who arrested her for reporting (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-citizen-journalists-case-texas-officials-arreste-rcna252422
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p44#a260323p44

Anti-abortion lawmakers and others
are using strategies from the playbook of bigots who sought to restrict access to voting,
-- even by trying to change the rules for citizen-led initiatives.
ProPublica found legislation or proposals introduced in at least four states in the last year that would undermine ballot initiatives adding abortion protections to state law.
Sarah Walker, policy and legal advocacy director at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, said that e…

Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks.
Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot.

Fascist Paramilitary Invaders Illegally Detain U.S. Citizen for No ID (Minneapolis, MN - 2/4/26)
Source:
#politics

"Citizen and professional journalists more motivated than Donald Trump lackeys at the Department of Justice continue to uncover disturbing items in Epstein files released to date. Among them, photographs that the DOJ should have been redacted but missed, “including pictures of a young girl kissing Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek and personal data on passports and drivers’ licenses,” CNN found."
Don’t Look Away – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/01/dont-look-away-3/

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

Citizen Scientist Spots Earth-like Planet: Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search (Jack Brook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p32#a260120p32

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116203604774786289
US Senator Chris Larson wrote on Facebook,
“Meet Sunny Naqvi.
A lifelong U.S. Citizen from Illinois,
Naqvi was returning home from a business trip with 5 other people,
who were all in the country l…

A U.S. Citizen Now Runs Mexico's Top Drug Cartel--and Targeting Him Is Complicated (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-drug-kingpin-american-citizen-7a8a9c2f?st=nP8VEo&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p35#a260319p35

Agents shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen at about 9am on Saturday,
with other observers watching and videotaping their actions,
in an area called Eat Street,
a corridor of largely immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses.
Footage appears to show the moment man is shot dead by federal agent in Minneapolis – video
It’s the second killing in the city after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in south Minneapolis on 7 January.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a US citizen in his Minnesota home
at gunpoint, without a warrant,
then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions,
according to his family and videos reviewed by the Associated Press.
ChongLy “Scott” Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law woke him up from a nap Sunday afternoon
and said that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his res…

St. Paul woman, U.S. citizen, released from ICE detention after two days (Frederick Melo/Twin Cities)
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/17/st-paul-woman-u-s-citizen-released-from-ice-detention-after-two-days/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p62#a260117p62

Border Patrol agent questions if man is US citizen 'because of your accent' (Zane Heinlein/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/us/video/border-patrol-detain-citizen-accent-vrtc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p38#a260117p38

‘Caught lying’: Outrage mounts after ICE exposed for killing US citizen 11 months ago - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2675291063/

Newly released records show
a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas
by a federal immigration agent last year
during a late-night traffic encounter
that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The death of #Ruben #Ray

Records reveal a federal immigration agent fatally shot a Texas man last year
A U.S. citizen was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer during a late-night traffic stop nearly a year ago in a Texas beach town crowded with young people celebrating spring break. The death of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez occurred in March on South Padre Island and was reported by local media outlets at the time. But authorities did not publicly disclose that the shooting involved a team from Homeland Security Investigations conducting an immigration enforcement operation in conj…

Third American Death Linked to ICE Uncovered by Newsweek (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-texas-dhs-records-11544225
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p57#a260219p57

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p99#a260119p99

When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

Outrage last night at SOTU
when @repilhan.bsky.social guest
AMERICAN DISABLED CITIZEN,
Aliyah Rahman was ARRESTED
for simply standing up ..
No Outburst
No Sign
She stood silent
Remember she was assaulted by ICE
Outrage !
https://bsky.app/profile/pa…

"He Was a Good Man" -- The federal government murders another American citizen (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)
https://www.marytrump.org/p/he-was-a-good-man
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p95#a260125p95

When DHS, USCIS, and DOGE announced the overhaul of the SAVE program,
they explicitly linked the effort to a campaign to combat the “taint” of noncitizen voter fraud,
a long-standing claim tied to the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
By all appearances, the administration is poised to use the SAVE program to prop up these false claims,
and sympathetic local officials may deploy SAVE to concoct evidence.
This move poses serious risks to vo…

DHS, USCIS, DOGE Overhaul Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Database | Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alongside USCIS and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced a comprehensive optimization of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to ensure a single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide.

Minneapolis Live Updates:
Videos Contradict the Federal Account of the Killing
An I.C.U. nurse shot by federal agents was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
Federal authorities said the slain man, #Alex #Pretti, had approached agents with a gun.
But videos show…

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.

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