This week's net.wars, "Catoptromancy", goes to the workshop day of We Robot 2025: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/04/04/catoptromancy/ #NetWars #robots #law #werobot
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AMERICAN PANOPTICON
The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel
If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxc3WqSyzCi3gasJ-au_BC9g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Three #US #citizens, ages 2, 4 & 7, swiftly #deported from Louisiana
The cases have *renewed* concerns that the #Trump admin’s expedited #deportations are violating the rights of both citizens & noncitizens.
3 US citizen #children from 2 different families were deported w/their mothers by #ICE during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-yr-old w/Stage 4 #cancer who was deported w/o medication or the ability to contact their doctors….
#law #immigration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/26/us-citizen-children-deported-ice/
New Details on #Trump Sprint to Gut #Consumer Bureau Staff
Emails & testimonials from workers at the #CFPB document the admin’s efforts to lay off 90% of the employees.
2 wks ago, a 3-judge panel from the federal appeals court in DC lifted a freeze on firing employees at the CFPB, w/conditions. The judges…said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined…that they were not needed to carry out the bureau’s legally required responsibilities.
#law #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/cfpb-layoffs-trump-musk-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=12219B24-FE10-4CF9-B8C9-DA7678659E96
Judge blocks #Trump order to end #funding for #NPR & #PBS
A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump admin from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National #PublicRadio & the #PublicBroadcasting Service.
#law #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694
Police responding to reports of an active shooter at #Islamic Center of #SanDiego.
At least 1 dead.
#shooting #Islamophobia #HateCrime #terrorism #GunControl #GunViolence #GunLaws #criminal #law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/us/islamic-center-san-diego-active-shooter-reported?cid=ios_app
Connecticut’s attorney general has sent a letter warning Avelo Airlines that it has jeopardized tax breaks and other local support by agreeing to conduct deportation flights for ICE.
https://www.propublica.org/article/avelo-airlines-ice-air-connecticut?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Connecticut #Aviation #Flights #ICE #Deportation #Immigration
#TakeItDown Act has passed the #House 409-2 giving #Trump & the #FTC power to #censor the #internet.
The bill seems good at first glance. It requires online platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery aka“revenge porn.”
However, it will also enable the FTC to demand #content be removed from websites.
🚨In fact, Trump said he will use the bill ON HIS OWN BEHALF, presumably to remove criticism of him from the web.
#law #tech #regulations #FreeSpeech #Constitution
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congress-moving-forward-on-unconstitutional-take-it-down-act/
New #Trump #ExecutiveOrder:
“Protecting American Communities From *Criminal Aliens*”
🙄🤬🖕
§1 Federal #supremacy with respect to #immigration, #NationalSecurity, & #ForeignPolicy is axiomatic…[so much for #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment]
§2 Designation of “Sanctuary” Jurisdictions [#SanctuaryCities must obey see §1]
§3 Consequences for Sanctuary Jurisdiction Status
#law #immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #Federalism #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/
It still seems hard to believe, but in the last #Congress, the #House #Republican majority formally launched an #impeachment inquiry against Joe #Biden. The endeavor never made any sense, but the underlying allegation was that the Democratic president was somehow the beneficiary of a weird #bribery scheme.
#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Trump #crypto #grift
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-controversial-meme-coin-contest-proves-predictably-profitable-p-rcna203293
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
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👏👏 #ICE Agent Charged in #Shooting of a #Venezuelan #Immigrant in #Minnesota
The agent is the second federal officer to face #felony charges in Minnesota stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/ice-agent-charges-venezuelan-immigrant.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Internal #ICE records reveal the widespread #UseOfForce in “#detention” centers [#ConcentrationCamps].
Reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents & physical tactics on detainees, including on people demanding adequate water, food & medical care.
#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #HumanitarianLaw #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #ExcessiveForce #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/4tdgBRA
Chancellor Friedrich #Merz said Tuesday that he shares many of the aims of the #US - #Israel campaign against #Iran, but “more questions arise with every day of war.”
“Above all we’re concerned that there is apparently no joint plan for how this #war can be brought quickly to a convincing end,” Merz said.
He stressed that “#Germany & #Europe have no interest in an endless war” or in Iran’s territorial integrity disintegrating.
#ForeverWars #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump--03-10-2026#0000019c-d7ec-dd61-adfd-d7fc2e7e0000
Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
#law #immigration #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2E999096-F869-486C-80A2-740E7C065EBC
I have further expanded the https://www.maga-collaborators.net website.
It now tracks #colleges and #universities in addition to #law firms and other #corporations that are #collaborating, #capitulating, or #resisting the #Trump #regime.
Please share this link to help spread the word! I'll be adding to and upgrading this website regularly moving forward.
And please send tips to help fill in the gaps in the data to the email address listed on the website.
#Olympic #boxing champ #ImaneKhelif must undergo genetic #sex screening to fight for new governing body
#WorldBoxing announced mandatory sex testing for all #athletes Friday. The governing body specifically mentioned Khelif when announcing the policy, saying the Algerian gold medal winner must be screened before she will be approved to fight at any upcoming events, including the Eindhoven Box Cup next month in the Netherlands.
#hate #bigotry #transphobia #LGBTQ #law
https://apnews.com/article/imane-khelif-boxing-sex-screening-88f16b5e421fb59e9411a440e279ae3f
Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations https://lobste.rs/s/cjwt5c #law
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/
#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/
Thank you
#House #Democrats announce bill to block construction of Trump’s monstrous #arch
The #legislation would explicitly bar new construction on the small island on the edge of Washington where #Trump seeks to put the arch.
#law #UrbanPlanning #architecture #land #PublicLands
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/27/democrats-bill-would-block-trump-planned-250-foot-triumphal-arch/
No evidence linking #Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, #State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared days before #RumeysaOzturk was detained by #ICE agents, raises doubts about the #Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
#TrumpLies #immigration #law #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/13/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-trump/
#ICE & the #SecretService conducted a large-scale operation in an upscale Irvine, CA neighborhood Wed to apprehend an individual accused of distributing fliers containing the personal info of Homeland Security Investigations (#HSI) agents.
The operation, described…as a “military-style brigade,” involved a cavalcade of armored vehicles, w/ICE providing #FoxNews drone footage of the procession through Pasadena to serve a criminal search warrant.
#immigration #law #Trump
https://migrantinsider.com/p/ice-deploys-armored-convoy-to-arrest
This has to be a #DOGE Easter Egg.
#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential #immigrant tax data to #DHS
The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.
#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/immigrants-irs-dhs-tax-data/
Exclusive: Up to 150 #US troops wounded in #Iran #war, two sources tell Reuters
As many as 150 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The figure has not been previously reported & is far higher than the #Trump admin’s publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded US forces.
#SuckersAndLosers #ForeverWars #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-trump-tehran-trade-threats-over-oil-blockade-2026-03-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#Trump is going after the people who expose #DomesticTerrorism operations.
The Southern Poverty Law Center [#SPLC] says it’s the subject of a #criminal investigation by the “Justice” Dept & faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate #extremist groups.
#law #DOJ #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be