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"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.

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 […]

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

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…

Im Projekt @… werden (auch) in #Wien werden noch interessierte Laien (neuerdings "citizen scientists") gesucht, die im Raum Türkenschanze (1180), Hohe Warte (1190), Lainzer Tiergarten (Nikolai- / St. Ve…

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/

This cranky senior citizen doesn't get mad (too often that is) I use the process. I have been doing this longer than most of them have been alive.
When I send a request to check the status of a server the courtesy of a standard reply is not optional! Where I am we have standard replies depending on the subject that we send back stating that we received their email and are working on it and there will be updates. Sending emails and then it is swallowed by a black hole isn't a…

Citizen DJ / Homepage
https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/

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

Texas alleges ‘habitual non-compliance’ of wastewater rules at Dow Chemical complex – Houston Public Media https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/environment/2026/02/20/543958/texas-dow-chemical-complex-wastewater-…

Texas alleges ‘habitual non-compliance’ of wastewater rules at Dow Chemical complex
But the lawsuit, filed last Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, could shield the petrochemical giant from harsher litigation from a local citizen group.

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…

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

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

Jordan used Cellebrite phone-hacking tools against activists critical of Gaza war, report finds https://therecord.media/jordan-used-cellebrite-against-activists-critical-gaza-war

Evaluation using in-situ observations from national governments and Citizen Scientists suggests nadir #altimeters can accurately measure water level changes regardless of lake area: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2025.2543521 -> Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/how-small-is-too-small-volunteers-help-nasa-test-lake-monitoring-from-space/

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

I was unaware the Kavanaugh Stop was also the Kavanaugh Breaking and Entering.
(The man is a US citizen.)
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mcrqy3wjac2n

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach fast 12 Jahren: „Star Citizen“ bekommt wieder einen VR-Modus

. @… "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.

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

Thinking about all the citizen data that our government is shipping offshore to AU & elsewhere... there're apparently indications that Russian vessels have been hovering around undersea data cables in the north Atlantic... some suspect they've installed charges on all cables supplying data to Europe. In a future conflict, they could use these to continually disrupt European communications & intelligence. Who's to say that the US/China/others? haven't done the same to …

ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys (HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p139#a251218p139

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…

How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations https://www.404media.co/how-ice-and-cbp-use-free-walkie-talkie-app-zello-to-power-their-operations/

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

This picture from https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/116047090400689262
Caution - it's not as simple as this comic says - I think. Here is the upstream source, which I find really hard to understand:

I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:
"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."
Population of Vega? 1,208
Why can't mainland

Vega Municipality - Wikipedia

U.S. citizen shares his experience of being taken into custody while in his underwear during a warrantless raid (St. Paul, MN - 1/18/26)
Source:
#politics

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

ICE Detained a U.S.-Born American Citizen and Won't Release Her: Attorney (Nick Valencia News)
https://www.nickvalencianews.com/p/ice-detained-a-us-born-american-citizen
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p63#a251219p63

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block | MPR News https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/09/federal-agents-arrest-citizen-observer-watching-ice-north-minneapolis

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities last Monday.

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.

Belarus imprisons citizen who fought for Russia in Ukraine, defying Moscow: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/belarus-imprisons-citizen-who-fought.html

The European Left Alliance has just now launched an ECI: A European Citizen's Initiative to demand #JusticeForPalestine. It's similar to a petition, and legally binding if the goal of 1.000.000 signatures is reached. The EU has to act if we share this enough!
We demand a full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which is the cornerstone of EU-Israel …

Nach fast 12 Jahren: „Star Citizen“ bekommt wieder einen VR-Modus
Die Weltraumsimulation „Star Citizen“ hat einen experimentellen VR-Modus erhalten und es sieht so aus, als meint es das Studio ernst mit der VR-Unterstützung.

Last July, Wilmer Chavarria, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Vermont,
was returning from Nicaragua, where he had visited his mother and other relatives,
when he was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
for no apparent reason.
👉Chavarria was held for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer.
T…

CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Irie Souljah:
🎵 World Citizen
#IrieSouljah
https://ineffablerecords.bandcamp.com/track/bout-ya
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oPhFBSR74Rt3LmpyGfIx3

"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/

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

Another #Brexit bonus. British-born dual citizen cannot enter the UK on their non-UK passport. Unlike foreigners they cannot travel to Britain on a visa or an ETA, but they must have a UK passport. Yet lapsed UK passports may not be renewed in case of name change, particularly for women (e.g. married vs. maiden name). It's a fine mess.

New UK border rules for dual nationals are discriminatory against women, campaigners say
British women in Spain and Greece face ‘huge problems’ entering UK because of differing surname rules

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

#RoteListe: Für #Raubfliegen-Arten feucht-kühler Lebensräume wird es schwerer
Fast die Hälfte aller Raubfliegenarten Deutschlands, nämlich 40 von 83 in Deutschland etablierten Arten, sind bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das zeigt die neue Rote Liste der Raubfliegen, die das Bundesamt …

Rote Liste: Für Raubfliegen-Arten feucht-kühler Lebensräume wird es schwerer - Rote-Liste-Zentrum Rote-Liste-Zentrum
Fast die Hälfte aller Raubfliegenarten Deutschlands, nämlich 40 von 83 in Deutschland etablierten Arten, sind bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das zeigt die neue Rote Liste der Raubfliegen, die das Bundesamt für Naturschutz und das Rote-Liste-Zentrum jetzt veröffentlicht haben. Citizen Science hat zu einer umfangreicheren Datengrundlage beigetragen.

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.

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech https://www.404media.co/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/

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

an american is an american is an american sad face another reminder of where we are today in 2025
https://mastodon.social/@nedhamson1/115781979892214926

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/2

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

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

A 55-year-old American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in north Minneapolis.
#resist

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

Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!

Army veteran sues federal government after ICE detains him for three days | California | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/army-veteran-detained-sues-federal-government

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…

#Trump is desperate to take America to #war. He thinks he can make up a war with #Venezuela. Why?
▫️The racist thinks he can deport any Latino, citizen or not, via the Alien Enemies Act while at war<…

@… I eh… emailed the Danish embassy in the US that same question last week, haven’t gotten an answer, will probably call Monday.
Like what exactly should *I* do as a dual citizen? Scary question.

ICE arrest two employees, who are U.S. citizens, inside the entrance to a Target store in Richfield, #Minnesota
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-n…

ChongLy Scott Thao, Hmong Immigrant and U.S. Citizen, Arrested by ICE (Maia Coleman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/chongly-scott-thao-ice-arrest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p129#a260120p129

Masses of toxic litter pours from Rhine into North Sea each year, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/masses-of-toxic-litter-pours-from-rhine-into-north-sea-each-year-research-finds

"Call for citizen scientists to monitor threatened turtle species on NSW beaches"
#Australia #NewSouthWales #Animals

DHS official shocks with startling 'admission' after US citizen arrested in underwear - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-admission/

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.

US senator calls veterans affairs' data collection of non-citizen workers 'thinly veiled effort to instill fear' (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/adam-schiff-veterans-affairs-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p53#a260121p53

Am I watching TACO? No, I am doing something much more important. Relearning French. It is slow and frustrating, but some is coming back and I am learning new words. Scrolling through the TV guide and I was surprised that I could read some of the information that was in French. No where near speaking it, but can understand part of the simplest stuff.
This is one senior citizen that can still learn (even if it is slowly).

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

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.

Citizen Lab: Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite to break into phone of dissident https://therecord.media/spyware-kenya-cellebrite-activist

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

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

It’s weird that my way of coping with state-sponsored murder of its own citizen is to file PRs on developer sites stuck hosting explainers for shitty specs.

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…

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.

Project Salt Box: How citizen sleuths are monitoring ICE in Maryland - The Baltimore Banner
https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/project-salt-box-ice-immigration-maryland-HRY5VMGNBBG3PBGI43TM7IZWJY/

"Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth"
#SouthAfrica #Animals #Insects #Moth

Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth
A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth, Drepanogynis insciata, whose body and wing margins look as though they’ve been stained with red wine, was thought to be extinct. The species hadn’t been recorded […]

As Donald Trump ramped up his threats against the people he is supposed to be working for,
his administration’s extreme immigration enforcement led Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to admit that anyone
— U.S. citizen or otherwise
— should be prepared to have to prove their citizenship to DHS agents.
Asked Thursday about U.S. citizens being asked to provide proof of citizenship in Minnesota
and whether that is “targeted enforcement,”
Noem said the f…

Noem says that virtually anyone could face a Kavanaugh stop
Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.

CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices (Jacob Sullum/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/12/11/cbp-agents-held-this-u-s-citizen-for-hours-until-he-agreed-to-let-them-search-his-electronic-devices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p119#a251212p119

DHS Thugs Busted Lying About Attack On US Citizen - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/dhs-thugs-busted-lying-about-attack-on-us-citizen/

Poland detains Russian citizen suspected of hacking local firms https://therecord.media/poland-detains-russian-citizen-accused-of-hacks

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/feds-forcibly-yank-woman-in-medical-scrubs-from-car-as-she-screams-she-s-a-us-citizen/

Murder is not a crime of violence as a matter of federal law, a Brooklyn judge has ruled
— as he dismissed two charges in a possible death penalty case against a terrorism suspect.
Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian Cogan made the head-scratcher of a pre-trial rulingFeb. 6 in an international terrorism case
where the suspect is accused of planning a brutal November 2015 assault rifle and grenade attack on a hotel in Mali that killed 20 people, including a U.S. citizen.

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?"

New Orleans leaders blast immigration crackdown, pointing to video of agents chasing US citizen (Jack Brook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-border-patrol-citizen-chased-20cbe0f35e7780a332fccd5b87420948
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p140#a251205p140

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/

"I am a Hispanic American and a United States citizen by birth who believes deeply in the foundational tenets of this nation.
But for the first time in my 42 years, I live in fear.
Fear that I’ll be stopped because I look the way I look
or because I was overheard speaking Spanish to my wife or son — both American citizens."

Opinion | American Citizens Are Living in Fear
Readers share their anxieties over the aggressive tactics of ICE agents. Also: Undermining the Fed’s stability; one reader’s Trump quiz.

Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Proposal for Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence (flgov.com)
https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-citizen-bill-rights-artificial
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p81#a251205p81

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

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota
are pulling many #nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their #citizenship,
according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigrat…

‘Where were you born?’ ICE conducting show-me-your-papers stops in Minnesota neighborhoods
“I was scared. I was devastated,” said a Somali-American citizen who was accosted by ICE as part of what the agent called a “citizen check.” No such thing exists in American law.

'An obligation to challenge the indictment': Lindsey Halligan is now a 'private citizen' — here's what that could mean for the dozens of other cases with her name on them
https://lawandcrime.com/uncategorized/an-obligation-to-challenge-the-indictment-lindsey-halligan-is-now-a-private-citizen-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-dozens-of-other-cases-with-her-name-on-them/

Afghan Citizen Federally Charged For Posting Threats to Build Bomb and Kill Americans (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/afghan-citizen-federally-charged-posting-threats-build-bomb-and-kill-americans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p87#a251202p87

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.

A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigrationand Customs Enforcement (ICE),
whose attorneys say is an American citizen
but the government insists is Mexican.
Agents arrested #Dulce #Consuelo #Diaz

ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.

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.

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

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

People born here do not have immigration documents.
If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3m7uszhghs22j

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

ICE Detains Woman Whose Lawyer Insists Is US Citizen. DHS Says She Isn't (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-maryland-woman-us-citizen-claims-dhs-denies-11257159
http://www.memeorandum.com/251223/p117#a251223p117

George Clooney Punches Back After Trump Attacks Him: "We Have to Make America Great Again. We'll Start in November" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/george-clooney-pushes-back-trump-attacks-french-citizen-1236462527/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p23#a260102p23

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.

Homeland Security Secretary
#Kristi #Noem had a baffling excuse Wednesday for a
⚠️federal agent shooting a U.S. citizen ⚠️
protesting an ICE operation in #Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaking from Brownsville, Texas…