New: If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyzes your texts, pictures, and social connections. Now, CBP says it wants to “expand” and modernize that tech. Link to story in the reply

it’s amazing how republicans main political platform is just wanting to kill people

Dark, dark day. Cowards and sycophants handed Trump a $140B budget for his secret police. Medicare shrunk, public lands opened to be sold off. Concentration camps are already being built. We’re not even six months in.

Bleak, shameful thing done by UC President

Kurt Vonnegut; the country that we love still exists at the public library

“The NY Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”.

In Friday’s Los Angeles Times: My column on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which slaughters federal support for clean energy. Please read, including the parts on what we can all do next: latimes.com/environment/ne…

Yep, the next Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip will be very very thin. Samsung confirmed it with CNET’s Abrar Al-Heeti cnet.com/tech/mobile/fe…

Masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. We collected videos of just over 100 incidents of raids in L.A. W/ Evident, @bellingcatofficial

This was the start of my first 48 hours with the #galaxyzflip7 I accidentally performed my own informal drop test. I pulled the Z Flip 7 out of my pocket, I fumbled it and watched helplessly as it fell to the ground. #galaxyunpacked #samsung cnet.com/tech/mobile/i-…

Excited to vote for and support a Democrat Party that’s jettisoned utterly useless centrists only serving their corporate sponsors 🙂

I haven’t watched or needed White Lotus. I appreciate Severance and its admirable acting but I probably won’t bring it up in a couple years. I’ll be thinking and talking about Andor for decades.

SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Experts following the case say they don't know where these people are 404media.co/flight-manifes…

The same federal facility that detained Japanese Americans in 1942 is now the staging ground for immigration raids across LA. One San Pedro resident documents what he’s seen and why history feels like it’s repeating itself. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/what-i…

After a week with the Galaxy Z Fold 7, I’m most impressed with the cameras and just how normal this phone feels when using the cover display. It feels like Samsung finally nailed the foldable form factor. My in-depth review: cnet.com/tech/mobile/i-… via CNET

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain 🔗 404media.co/googles-ai-is-… 404media.co/googles-ai-is-…

Everyone who has been angered by horrific images from Gaza needs to recognize that they wouldn’t see them, and wouldn’t know about the atrocities their governments bankroll, without journalists risking their lives. That is exactly why Israel is targeting and killing them.

NEW: Israel targeted and killed 5 Al Jazeera (Al Jazeera English) journalists in Gaza. They risked everything to document atrocities so we could know the truth. Killing them is an attack on journalism itself. With NWU (National Writers Union), we demand accountability: newsguild.org/the-newsguild-…

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Israel is killing journalists with impunity, and the U.S. supplies it with the weapons used to murder the truth. apnews.com/article/mideas…