ICE detentions of non-criminal immigrants spike; about 8% have violent convictions, analysis of new data shows (Julia Ingram/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detentions-non-criminal-immigrants-violent-crime-convictions-analysis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p109#a250630p109
Before the zoom meeting:
- definitely not going to volunteer for anything
During the zoom meeting:
- no sorry I don't want to be on the committee
- no sorry I don't have time to organise social meetups
- well yes I suppose I could manage to design the thing you require
After the zoom meeting:
- DAMN IT 🤦‍♀️
#Volunteering
L.A. County leaders to weigh legal action following violent ICE arrests
Citing a recent arrest by immigration agents that bloodied a man in the unincorporated area of Valinda,
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said she wants the county to explore a legal counterattack against what she described as the federal government’s “unconstitutional immigration enforcement practices.”
In a statement Saturday, Solis said that she plans to co-sponsor a motion at Tuesday’s Boar…
Work on parts of Trump’s elections executive order is getting underway - Votebeat
https://www.votebeat.org/2025/06/30/trump-executive-order-elections-voluntary-voting-system-guidelines-barcode-qr-code/
I'll start the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club (CVARC) Field Day posts with some of the infrastructure we set up. These tents are a vital part of it, on load from the EMS services in our county. Two are used for radio ops, while the third is entirely dedicated to Public Information and visitor info. It's amazing to watch them magically take shape.
The City of Thousand Oaks brings their communications trailer for an airing-out also.
Le marchand d’armes, la fille du général et le fou du volant
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/06/28/le-marchand-d-armes-la-fille-du-general-et-le-fou-du-volant_6616224_4500055.html
In Violent Attack, Gunman Brings Issue of C.T.E. to N.F.L.’s Door https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/nyc-shooting-gunman-nfl-cte.html
How fucked up UK society is? The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (which is volunteer run and afaict doesn't receive any form of support, financial or other, from the Royal family beyond the stupid name-prefix), is being bashed for *checks notes* saving lives on sea because the literal Nazis don't appreciate who's being saved:
«RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel»
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dejyg4l37o
By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators
The agency’s tactics have led to a rash of crimes committed by people impersonating federal agents
Witnesses have recorded numerous instances of masked ICE agents conducting raids and violently arresting people.
In New York City, a masked federal agent handcuffed city comptroller and then-Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander
after he linked arms with a man who ICE was attempting to det…