Tootfinder

An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen
in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois,
and left the man dazed and bleeding on the ground as they walked away after realizing their apparent mistake.
Bystander Ryan Garton told the Associated Press that he saw the agents pinning down the man, who is Black,
on the side of the road as he was driving home on Sunday in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago.
He said …

US citizen injured after ICE agents reportedly mistook him for fugitive
Man left bloodied and hurt after immigration enforcement agents tried to arrest him in Evanston, a Chicago suburb

"Because you're an immigrant." A U.S. citizen in was immediately handcuffed by ICE Fascists for simply asking why he needed to show his ID. (Lake Worth, FL, 08/21/26)
A video recorded at a gas station in Lake Worth, Florida, shows an ICE/Border Patrol demanding ID from a U.S. citizen. When the citizen asks why, the agent responds, "Because you're an immigrant." Before even verifying his identity, fascists grab his hands and place him in handcuffs. Bystanders…

“The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”), accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone to “delete the digital contents,” prior to the device being seized.”
Untied indeed.
https://…

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe

Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports. 
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this …

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

On Thursday, with hatred twisting his snarling face,
Trump lunged at a woman reporter.
For a moment, it looked like he was going to physically assault her.
“Not you. Not you,” Trump said.
Then came the lunge and the monstrous face, “Hey, not you!”
The lunging incident grew from a single moment.
It happened when a woman reporter tried to ask Trump a question.
The previous day Trump had promised every American citizen a $5,000 stimulus check after …

A Snapshot of Violence
In a split second, Trump showed us what he’s capable of

New Gist: Ireland’s Biometric Laundromat
Ireland quietly passed a law in July potentially undermining every EU citizen's protections against law enforcement use of biometrics.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-irelands-biometric-laundromat/

The Gist: Ireland's Biometric Laundromat
Ireland quietly passed a law in July potentially undermining every EU citizen's protections against law enforcement use of biometrics. This is the Gist.

#CitizenScience platforms must mitigate against the threat of #GenerativeAI: #birdwatching forums putting research at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe - experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists. (Not aware of similar problems in astronomical citsci yet but the potential surely exists ...)

US citizen injured in Illinois after ICE agents mistook him for fugitive, tried to arrest him (Cybele Mayes-Osterman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-ice-immigration-agents-evanston-police-2e07d80e8d96685489e914880a40e4d5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260923/p161#a260923p161

In Minneapolis, ICE routinely targeted US citizens, didn't give a damn about immigration status when they harassed and detained people, and they told us as much. They bragged about the money they were getting per person brought in, by the head, like cattle.
It was all about race. They knew it, we knew it, they knew we knew it.
Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/federal-agents-mistakenly-target-u-s-citizen-during-operation-outside-chicago-270305861852
via this post: https://libretooth.gr/@dougiec3/117317038654225055

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at South Korea’s ambitious plan to provide free AI services to every citizen, Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model which it claims outperforms US LLMs, and TSMC’s bumper quarter.

Es geht wieder los:
Wie entwickeln sich die Bestände von #Igel und #Maulwurf in Deutschland?
Verlässliche Populationszahlen fehlen bislang. Eine bundesweite Citizen-Science-Aktion sammelt deshalb bis zum 28. September Sichtungen beider Tierarten und von Maulwurfshügeln. Die langfristig an…

Zählaktion: Wer hat Igel und Maulwurf gesehen?
In Deutschland gibt es immer weniger Maulwürfe und Igel.

➡️ Citizen Action Wisconsin
#bookmarks

It’s official, I’m signed up to be an Election Judge come November. I’ve done it before. It’s fun. A huge % of CO voters do it by mail, but there are always voting ctrs open on Nov 2 for anyone wanting to vote in person. There’s always somebody registering and voting for the first time, like a newly sworn in citizen. (We ought to give them a big Texas Roadhouse YEEHAW!, but maybe that’s just me.) It may be too late where you are this time around, but I

Masked ICE Fascist Demands ID from Naturalized Citizen After Ramming Car, Refuses to Identify Himself, and Lies About License Plate Number
Please help identify when and where this happened. I was not able to find it on iceout.org.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1v2nx0a

Citizen Sleeper (Multi, XPd on PS5) As a rogue digitized consciousness in a body construct, can you find your role on The Eye?
If you're a video game enthusiast of almost any degree, you have probably heard about Citizen Sleeper. I'm here to say it definitely deserves the accolades. Once I started it I was unable to put it down and "completed" the game in 12hrs, seeing multiple (but not ALL) endings.
The writing here is some of the best I've come across sinc…

And another senior citizen rant.
When you post what the update does do NOT use "bug fixes and performance improvements". How about a short update on what you really did like "fixed overflow that may cause a security issue" or "fixed spelling errors".
When I update my code it always has a short description of the change. If there is a RFC to it I include that so you can find the details, the proposed fix, test cases and test results.

#NowPlaying Watch what just might be your copy of #Negativland’s debut album reissue as it’s pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC. https://www.

"We often hear that Europeans don’t have, like Americans, the "success culture."
...
Europeans like success. But they often don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. Instead, they tend to consider success a collective endeavour. Success is when your work is recognized long after you are gone, when it benefits every citizen. Europeans dream big: they hope that their work will benefit humankind as a whole!"

Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

The #Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone, 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/nasa-volunteers-help-zooniverse-reach-1-billion-classifications/ - this milestone is a celebration of everyone who has marked a dip in a light curve, confirmed the presence of a moving object in a short video, or identified species in a camera trap image.

"AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Birs #Technology

Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists

Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/0…

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots
It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they’re not without risk.

there are 4 #ants
🐜🐜🐜🐜
https://www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm

ICE Sprayed a U.S. Citizen in a Public Jail Lobby. County Deputies Would Not Take the Report. (Santa Barbara, CA, 09/15/26)
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1wizp2i
Article

A Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out,
the Polish prime minister said Thursday,
marking the first time in decades that a Western leader has publicly accused Moscow of plotting to kill a U.S. citizen.
Western officials have previously warned that Russia has stepped up a campaign of targeted killings since President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine,
saying they have disrupted several p…

@… I am an EU citizen living in the UK. Would I still be eligible?

➡️ Citizen Action Wisconsin Education Fund
#bookmarks

Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning (Matthew Eadie/Evanston Now)
https://evanstonnow.com/federal-agents-detained-u-s-citizen-sunday-morning/?content_key=10431|QKhrF1LSa8uxJVFA54ESIUkeW6fgmuFe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260921/p1#a260921p1

Black American Citizen Brutalized in Unprovoked Fascist Attack (Evanston, IL)
Date unknown, help identify when this happened if you can.
Video Source
#ice

Wow. Uwe Boll really tells on himself towards the end.
#MehdiHasan

On 'Piers Uncensored,' Mehdi Debates Director of Elon Musk-Backed, Anti-Muslim Movie
Mehdi takes on Uwe Boll, director of the film 'Citizen Vigilante,' that was denied classification in Germany for allegedly inciting violence against migrants - but has the loud backing of Elon Musk.

My ancestors settled in what is now the United States in the early 1600s. I'm a citizen by birthright. So is anyone else born in the United States. I believe that because I'm not a bigoted a******. And, of course, it's crystal clear in the Constitution. We are people, not a race.

The National Trust for Local News is acquiring the Vermont Community Newspaper Group of five weekly newspapers and their websites, retaining the entire staff (NTLN)
https://www.nationaltrustforlocalnews.org/

The National Trust for Local News expands to Vermont with acquisition of five publications
The National Trust for Local News is expanding to a fourth state with the acquisition of the Vermont Community Newspaper Group, a family of award-winning weekly newspapers and digital platforms covering more than a dozen northern Vermont communities.Thanks to a community-first decision by VTCNG’s owners, the National Trust will acquire five weekly newspapers and their websites serving more than a dozen communities in Northern Vermont. The titles are: • The Stowe Reporter • News & Citizen …

Playing the N*zi Card in the Third Reich (English captions burned in).
Don't worry, they are just concerned citizens.
Original: #comedy

真就面向中国人征兵

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116943021466382036
Spanish authorities, operating on a US extradition request,
arrested the 41-year-old Chambers,
a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide, last Friday in Ibiza.
He has…

Im Rahmen des Citizen-Science-Projekts "Beweisstück Unterhose" ließen sie im Jahr 2021 tausend Freiwillige mehr als 2000 Unterhosen und 12.000 Teebeutel an rund tausend Standorten in der ganzen Schweiz vergraben.

The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (Joe Warminsky/The Record)
https://therecord.media/teen-suspect-in-scattered-spider-hacks-extradited-to…

Teen suspect in Scattered Spider hacks is extradited to US
A complaint unsealed this week accuses a 19-year-old of participating in incidents including a breach of a "luxury-jewelry retailer" in 2025.

A NASA research mission to study the Earth's magnetic tail - a #HamSCI 2026 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SlVnbRKSKg (CINEMA is a NASA mission of 9 spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit, recently approved - https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-two-heliophysics-missions-for-continued-development/ - to move into development, to study the Earth's magnetic tail by detecting particles that are accelerated to the poles. MOVIE is its conjugate Citizen Science initiative, part of which includes building out ground instruments to compliment the main mission, expected to include All-Sky Cameras, Magnetometers, and various Radio Receivers to probe the coinciding ionospheric conditions). Also a talk about the SoFIE CubeSat Mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imB7_NXQeHQ

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

Indigenous Woman and US Citizen On Her Way To A Chemotherapy Appointment Abducted By Fascists In Chaparral, NM
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uxn9wf
Her daughter confirmed she was on her way to chemotherapy appointment and is a citizen. The truck had been following her and she …

As long as we allow huge amounts of money to be used for U.S. political campaigns then the ordinary citizen will continue to be locked out of the political process. This is the reason that the U.S. government continues to make decisions that don't align with the ordinary citizens.

US citizen deported to Mexico allowed home after nearly 5 months
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/06/us-citizen-deported-to-mexico-allowed-home-after-nearly-5-months/91569893007/

Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/opinion/heritage-amercan-citizen-vance.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260921/p2#a260921p2

In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million,
including 17 ambassadors
and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
Look no further than Trump’s Cabinet.
Eight of its 23 members fit the category,
notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.

57 Trump appointees are worth at least $100M each, report shows
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents. That's according to a report from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. The Republican president is himself a billionaire and has described his inclination toward appointing the ultrawealthy as deference to financial success. In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 amb…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Citizen Cope:
🎵 Bullet and a Target
#CitizenCope
https://maeckes.bandcamp.com/track/wieso-bullet-in-a-target-feat-citizen-cope
https://open.spotify.com/track/3r7gP3kGBkldTrOO6ebMGy

ICE agents were filmed assaulting, handcuffing, and kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Passaic, New Jersey…
while refusing to even look at the ID he repeatedly begged them to check.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1…

https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-border-patrol-lawsuit-doctor-denied-entry-cbp/73258962

RE: #citizenscience

"Bees and Biodiversity at Arcadia Ecohome Microforest"
#Bees #Biodiversity
https://h…

Bees and Biodiversity at Arcadia Ecohome Microforest | Happy Eco News
CIEDM celebrated four overlapping awareness campaigns at Arcadia Ecohome Microforest through urban beekeeping maintenance, Pineapple Guava planting funded by Upper Water's voucher program, and citizen science contributions to iNaturalist, SciStarter, and Project Noah.

Body camera video shows an Oklahoma City officer stepping in after ICE detained a U.S. citizen [without cause for legally observing] on Interstate 44 (07/09/26)
Source:
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-city-officer-helps-us-citizen-detai…

South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/south-koreas-ai-for…

Earlier this year, Todd Blanche agreed to a settlement that resulted in tax audit immunity for President Trump and his family
as well as a potential $1.8 billion payout fund controlled by his administration.
It was an inside deal:
Trump the citizen was on one side of the negotiation, while the Internal Revenue Service, which he oversees, was on the other.
Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida said in her ruling on Monday that she was
“extr…

Opinion | We’re About to Find Out Whether Republican Senators Can Still Say No
Republicans should have the decency, patriotism and self-respect to vote against Mr. Blanche.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers falsely told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/215393/ice-attacks-us-citizen-minors-enlist-marines
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p120#a260914p120

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
David Sylvian - Ryuichi Sakamoto:
🎵 World Citizen
#NowPlaying #DavidSylvianRyuichiSakamoto

Fascist Paramilitary Smash the Windows of a US Citizen's Car to Abduct the Passengers on Their Way to Work (Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, GA, 7/16/26)
Source:
https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/130800
This occurred on Roswell Road, exit 25 of I-285 east, around 9:45 a.m. According to …

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said.
The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
Noncitize…

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bernard Herrmann, Joel McNeely & Royal Scottish National Orchestra:
🎵 Citizen Kane: "Theme And Variations"
#BernardHerrmann #JoelMcNeely #RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/117113337377961863
Good lord.
Can’t wait to see how the press manages to pin this one on immigrants, just like they did with Feeding Our Future (whose ringleader was also a US citizen white woman).

Attorneys for James “Fergie” Chambers,
the US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide
who is currently imprisoned in Madrid and sought in extradition, have submitted a brief ahead of a decisive government meeting on the case.
Meanwhile, Chambers’ partner, the actor and activist Stella Schnabel,
met last week with multiple members of the Spanish parliament to assert his innocence.
The legal team’s arguments include that the US go…

Pressure builds in Spain to deny US extradition request for leftwing donor
Key government meeting this month will consider US bid to try James ‘Fergie’ Chambers over alleged support for Hamas

U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone's Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7FA.xXGp.YprutzwuBHdZ&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260821/p41#a260821p41

Previously withheld evidence regarding the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti is now in the hands of Minnesota prosecutors,
helping the state gain clarity on the deaths that occurred earlier this year during protests against a federal immigration crackdown.
“Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti,
and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis,” the Hennepin…

Prosecutors get long-withheld evidence on fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti
Good, an unarmed US citizen and mother, was killed by immigration officer and Pretti was shot by CBP officials

Fascist Paramilitary were conducting “targeted enforcement" after pulling over a U.S. citizen, and demanding he prove he was a citizen, in Seattle, Washington.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1ump3yd

As thousands of people from all over the United States came to the Laguna Madre area this past weekend to watch SpaceX’s latest launch in South Texas,
many who live in the nearest towns
—Laguna Vista, Port Isabel, Laguna Heights, and South Padre Island
—stayed indoors.  
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had been arresting several people in the area over the last few weeks,
likely as part of a new federal directive from earlier this month to increa…

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley
Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and briefly handcuffing a U.S. citizen.

Missouri’s initiative petition process has long served as one of the ways people can shape public policy when statewide voters and the Missouri state legislature reach different conclusions.
It is part of the constitutional balance that ensures governing authority ultimately remains accountable to the people.
Amendment 4 would not eliminate that constitutional authority, but it would make exercising it nearly impossible.
Missouri is one of 26 states that uses a citizen-in…

Missouri Ballot Measure Attempts to Undermine Voters’ Influence Over Policy
If passed, Amendment 4 could make it substantially more difficult for citizen-led constitutional amendments to succeed.

Poland Says Russian Plot to Kill Ukrainian-US Citizen Thwarted (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/poland-says-russian-plot-to-kill-ukrainian-us-citizen-thwarted
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p57#a260813p57

I knew about NextDoor but the Citizen app just confirmed that America doesn't even need Flock or Axon with how streamlined you guys have made narcing, how is this shit real

Fascist paramilitary with gun drawn, almost shoots citizen, makes false accusations, then leaves after noticing dash cams (Falls Church, VA, 08/10/26)
Video Source
https://www.instagram.com/p/Db4DI-VDwCG/?igsh=MTBjMGtpZnllemtraA==

#FamilyDrama
My MIL passed away a few months ago. Her husband/wife's stepdad is here visiting for the first time since. They mostly have a good relationship.
His retirement years have been focused on becoming a citizen expert in a particular medical field. Seems to have cultivated a decent reputation - he's frequently name dropping getting published in this or that journal. We don't see him that often but it's mentioned basically every time we do.
He's just self-published his Memoir, b/c why who knows. Clearly keen to have it well received.
HE WENT ON TO HER COMPUTER/ FACEBOOK AND REPLIED TO HIS POST 'AS HER' SAYING WHAT A GREAT READ IT WAS.
Like W.T.F? Caught he claimed he didn't think he'd actually sent the post, just typed it. As if that somehow makes it better?
No fucking words.

Trump’s promise of a $5,000 “Trump dividend” for every US citizen
if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November’s midterm elections has sparked
incredulity and accusations of bribery.
It comes amid extreme concern over the US national debt, which exceeded $40tn for the first time in August.
Speaking to Politico, Chip Roy, the Republican US representative from Texas, sounded skeptical.
“Well – I would like to know how they would plan to pay for … b…

Trump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’
Critics react to bid for Republican votes with incredulity and point to potential $1.2tn cost atop existing national debt

An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was left bruised and handcuffed in Norfolk, Virginia, after fascists abducted her while she tried to retrieve her husband’s vehicle.
Video Source
#ice

RIP to #DollyParton, who by all accounts was an absolute model celebrity and citizen.

Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
“If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” Trump told a roaring crowd, during a nearly two-hour long speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he also urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot”.
But Vance, speaking af…

US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate

you know by now, Dolly Parton cast a very wide net, seamless across genres and social class, and there is a reason: she aims to infect you.
Like Louis Armstrong and Sun Ra: they seek to lure you into a better kind of world by being a citizen of that better world today. 😊 #alterdestiny
So be careful. Dolly Parton is a gateway drug 😅

State Dept. Declares U.S. Citizen in China Wrongfully Detained (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/politics/scholar-china-wrongfully-detained.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p47#a260820p47

South Africa Bullied by a protector
When Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, South Africans were surprised to find themselves in his line of fire.
The false claim that white South African farmers are being murdered for their land has long been a staple conspiracy theory of the white far-right
(white farmers have been killed, but not at a higher rate than the thousands of other victims of South Africa’s high violent crime rate).
With Trump back i…

For allies and adversaries alike, America at 250 is a solid global citizen gone rogue
America has long stood for freedom and prosperity, but under Trump insults, threats and unpredictability have become the new norm

After email deemed a threat, New York resident sues ICE
An upstate New York resident sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s onetime head.
David Streever, who is a U.S. citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June
and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a t…

Fascist paramilitary use "targeted enforcement" to harass US Citizen because of how he looks. (South Western Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, 7/7/26, 11:30 AM)
Video Source
https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/128528
"Targeted enforcement" is code for racial profiling.
…

Admiral dodges questions about attacking Canada but would follow orders | Ottawa Citizen
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/u-s-admiral-dodges-questions-about-attacking-canada-but-acknowledges-he-would-follow-trumps-orders

Fascist little bitch, racially profiles and harasses a US citizen (West Texas)
Video Source:
#ice

Romania Detains Russian Citizen Over Alleged Sabotage Operation (Irina Vilcu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/romania-detains-russian-citizen-over-alleged-sabotage-operation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260908/p51#a260908p51

An upstate New York resident sued US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.
David Streever, who is a US citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June
and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said.
Streever sent the em…

New York man sues ICE for sending officers to his house after he emailed agency head
David Streever had emailed acting ICE director after an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

Structure and Dynamics of the Inner #Corona Measured from the DEB Initiative 2024 #Eclipse Image Sequence: #CitizenScience and Solar Structure: https://aasnova.org/2026/08/03/featured-image-citizen-science-and-solar-structure/

Fascist paramilitary thug threatens to arrest US citizen for exercising his 1st amendment rights
Video Source:
#ice

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Fascist paramilitary thugs point gun directly at minor, a U.S. citizen filming from 20 feet. (Immokalee, FL, 08/04/26)
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#ice

MAGA Considers Banning Pregnant Foreigners
—or Just Sterilizing Them
Trump’s supporters are on to a chilling backup plan after the Supreme Court saved birthright citizenship
The MAGA-verse has begun to attack pregnant women
in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5–4 ruling to uphold the birthright citizenship clause of the Constitution,
which holds that nearly anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen,
regardless of where their parents are from.
The…

MAGA Considers Banning Pregnant Foreigners—or Just Sterilizing Them
Trump’s supporters are on to a chilling backup plan after the Supreme Court saved birthright citizenship.

US citizen detained by ICE at Atlanta Airport as he boarded flight (Ashlyn Webb/WSB-TV)
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-atlanta-airport-he-boarded-plane/S67XCCONANCJDIGQPXYUCMBW5E/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p80#a260811p80

In the Summer of 2022, Greek politician Stelios Kouloglou was investigating how intrusive spyware had been used to hack business leaders, law enforcement officials, and politicians.
As part of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee,
set up to investigate the use of the notorious Pegasus spyware and other variants,
Kouloglou travelled to interview spyware victims and probe high-profile cases.
That fall, according to a new forensic analysis,
💥Kouloglou’s iPhone …

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

Masked fascist paramilitary thugs try to break into the home of a U.S. Citizen without a warrant. Know your rights.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1vfnbdq
Here is a script:
* "Do you have a judicial warrant signed by an Art 3 judge?" If yes, they'll just go i…

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin
asked the Justice Department this week to probe the reliability of a widely used digital voting system,
as well as whether election nonprofits had improperly obtained private voter data.
Mullin’s concerns center around a multistate voter data collective
— called the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC
— which is designed to prevent the sharing of any records “indicating an individual is a non-citizen,”…

Mullin Requests a DOJ Probe Into Voting Systems
The Homeland Security secretary called into question the country’s ballot-marking devices as well as nonprofits’ access to private voter data.

"Dr. Chen’s lawyers said that Ms. Herridge’s “claimed right to protect her source(s) glosses over exactly what she is shielding from Chen, the courts, and the public: the identity of federal official(s) who broke the law, abused their access to sensitive records to harm a private citizen and laundered that corrupt, unlawful conduct through a reporter to escape detection.”
Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/supreme-court-herridge-first-amendment.html

Welcome to the Police Accountability Report livestream,
the great American Copwatcher debate edition.
Tonight, we are going to be exploring the controversy surrounding a popular Copwatcher, "Long Island audit",
specifically his encounter with Suffolk County Police Union officials that was the subject of our last episode.
Now, a confrontation that started with Sean showing up at union headquarters to ask questions
and then escalated when union offici…

Are copwatchers journalists? Provocateurs? Or something else?
Is copwatching a form of citizen journalism, or is it just provocation masquerading as accountability? We debate and discuss your questions with (in)famous copwatcher Long Island Audit.

Fascists paramilitary invaders abduct mother holding U.S. citizen daughter, don't allow her to call the father to come get the child, and force a decision (Houston, TX • 07/02/2026)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1umlgvm

DOJ threatens criminal charges for state election officials over noncitizen voting (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/doj-warns-criminal-charges-state-election-officials-non-citizen-voting-rcna353433
http://www.memeorandum.com/260708/p53#a260708p53

Fascist driving a blue car with no license plate, is seen pulling up to a U.S. citizen near the ICE facility, yelling, “get out of here, bitch,” pepper spraying them, and speeding away. (Portland, OR)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uj0hj4

'Thin Air,' Real Money: Donald Trump's Crypto Products Have Left Investors at Least $4.7 Billion Underwater (Zach Everson/Public Citizen)
https://www.citizen.org/article/donald-trump-crypto-investors-4-7-billion-underwater/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p26#a260827p26

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Missouri Voters Reject Measure to Limit Their Ballot Box Powers (Kate Zernike/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/elections/missouri-citizen-led-constitutional-amendments.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260804/p139#a260804p139

American Citizen who Worked as an Agent for the PRC Sentenced to Two Years in Prison (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/american-citizen-who-worked-agent-prc-sentenced-two-years-prison
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p4#a260902p4