Congressmember Salud Carbajal showed up to see firsthand the ICE raid on the Carpinteria Glass House cannabis greenhouse owned by Santa Barbara county grower Graham Farrar. In an interview afterward, Carbajal said there were 45 to 50 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security agents dressed up in military-style scrubs and armed with military-style rifles and weapons. He saw no members of the National Guard, though it was a chaotic scene. A former Marine himself, Carbajal scoffed, “They looked like they were having fun dressing up like they were in the military. I’m guessing less than half of them had ever served.” “I wanted to find out what was going on,” Carbajal explained to the Independent. When he told them he was a member of Congress, “no one was interested,” he said. Then he sought to break through the perimeter established by the ICE agents to “find someone who was in charge,” but was pushed back. He recounted how he sought to break through more than once but was repeatedly pushed back. “No one told me anything,” he said, and “nobody wanted to talk to me.” He asked multiple times to speak to whoever was in charge, but no one answered him. Instead, one man from ICE, Luis Alani, did hand him a business card with the phone number of a “public information strategist” he could call. Calls placed by the Independent to the number Carbajal was given have not been returned. “It was overkill and disproportionate,” Carbajal emphasized repeatedly during this interview. “They’re militarizing our streets. They’re inciting fear, chaos, and trauma.” When asked how the show of force affected him personally, Carbajal replied, “It’s outrageous. It angers me. It disappoints me as an American. And they’re violating the rights of U.S. citizens. If you’re brown, you’re going to have your civil rights violated.”

“It’s the fattest marmot I’ve ever seen.”

The TSA and DHS are officially ending the requirement to remove your shoes during airport security after more than 20 years of War on Terror rule.

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase,” said climatologist Ben See in a post on social media.

Police were called in after a threatening message was sent to a child by the ex-gardener chosen by the president to lead a key homeland security post, The Daily Beast has learned.

The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in April the Trump administration was considering equity investments in critical mineral producers to compete with China.

Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.

Georgia is notifying 478,000 people their inactive voter registrations could soon be canceled. It will be one of the largest mass removals in U.S. history.

A New Yorker cover by Chris Ware has a lot to say about a lot of things.

An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars,days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar.

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

Clair Noto has been a footnote in the history of Marvel Comics. Superciliously deigned as a co-writer (which she denies), lazily written off (if written about at all) by supposed fans and historians, Noto exists in a rare field between rumor and mystique.

In June, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the wetlands of the Big Cypress Nature Reserve, west of Miami and just north of the Everglades. The swamp location wasn’t incidental to the 5,000-bed facility, but a plus. "It presents an efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don't need to invest that much in the perimeter," he crowed. "If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons." It is, as with so much in the second Trump administration, an act of performative cruelty and malice and money-grubbing dressed up—not especially convincingly—as expediency. But like so much marsh gas, the lurid fantasies which drive these people are continually bubbling up to the surface. American fascism writ large yearns for ethnic cleansing and the concentration camp; in the south, American white supremacy yearns for the Alligator.

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

California government agencies are going all-in on generative artificial intelligence tools after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023 executive order to improve government efficiency with AI. One deployment recently touted by the governor is a chatbot from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the primary agency tasked with coordinating the state’s wildfire response. The chatbot, which Cal Fire says is independent of Newsom’s order, is meant to give Californians better access to “critical fire prevention resources and near-real-time emergency information,” according to a May release from Newsom’s office. But CalMatters found that it fails to accurately describe the containment of a given wildfire, doesn’t reliably provide information such as a list for evacuation supplies and can’t tell users about evacuation orders. Newsom has announced AI applications for traffic, housing and customer service to be implemented in the coming months and years. But Cal Fire’s chatbot issues raise questions about whether agencies are following best practices. “Evaluation is not an afterthought,” said Daniel Ho, law professor at Stanford University whose research focuses on government use of AI. “It should be part of the standard expectation when we pilot and roll out a system like this.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, led by President Trump’s administration, has dropped a case against Navy Federal Credit Union.

Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.

Rule would have kept businesses from forcing customers through lengthy chats or other barriers to cancellation

A rare penguin-shaped pot reveals the Nazca's interest in depicting the wildlife around them.