Podcasting is a listen-only medium for me; I listen to about two hours of podcasts daily, mostly while walking the dog, and also while doing chores and driving. I can't imagine watching all that. On the other hand, I'm fine watching YouTube videos that are mainly people talking.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/style/podcast-video-audience.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250721&instance_id=158904&nl=today%27s-headlines®i_id=272709956&segment_id=202283&user_id=9a755ab1ee91bd082d9db9e0cf9ed8e2
ICE arrests of noncriminals have skyrocketed in San Diego. The U.S. government is cutting cancer research and emergency response to fund concentration camps to hold entrepreneurs and farmworkers. https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2025/07/18/ice-arrests-noncriminals-san-diego-2025
"Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public."
I laughed at the video and memes, but it was a private matter, and none of these people deserved the global, public humiliation they received.
This is part of fascism. You can get a break from the law if you have a powerful ally. https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2025/07/21/republicans-calling-for-deportations-are-quietly-advocating-for-some-immigrants-in-their-districts/
Videophone by Ericsson, 1971.
https://www.tumblr.com/humanoidhistory/788901639098646528/videophone-by-ericsson-1971?source=share
“You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!” - Reese’s - 1982
https://www.tumblr.com/retropopcult/788807027741851648/gifsofthe80s-you-got-your-peanut-butter-in-my
Trump’s big beautiful police state is here: The unprecedented expansion of the immigration enforcement budget will pave the way for more policing and repression in the US. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/20/trumps-big-beautiful-police-state-is-here?traffic_source=rss
"An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.
"According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, longtime Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and wife booked an appointment to get it replaced.
"When he arrived at the office on 20 June, however, he was handcuffed by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, who led him away from his wife without explanation, she said. She herself was kept in the building for 10 hours until relatives picked her up."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/ice-secretly-deported-grandfather
" … if you think electric bikes are the biggest threat on our roads, just wait until you hear about the slightly more common, slightly more deadly vehicle we’ve been quietly tolerating for the last hundred years.
"They’re called cars. And unlike e-bikes, they actually kill people. A lot of people. Over 40,000 people die in car crashes in the US every year. Thousands more are permanently injured. Entire neighborhoods are carved up by high-speed traffic. Kids can’t walk to school safely. But don’t worry – someone saw a teenager run a stop sign on an e-bike, so the real crisis must be those darn batteries on two wheels."