⚡️💬 WATCH - "It shuts down the same day that Facebook is launched." Whitney Webb examines the striking overlap between Facebook and DARPA's abandoned LifeLog project, which sought to create a detailed surveillance record of a person’s entire life, including geolocation, personal relationships and photographs.

⚡️🔥🇪🇸 WATCH - Massive forest fire in the Madrid Region, Spain.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦 NEW - Trump:

⚡️📱 NEW - Buzz by @jack is now on iOS and Android. Links in comment

⚡️🔥🇫🇷🇪🇸 NEW - Wildfires force more than 200,000 in total to flee in France and Spain, authorities say

⚡️⚠️🤖 NEW - ChatGPT is currently experiencing a global outage, based on the reports so far, the outage has been ongoing for around 5–6 hours. The disruption is affecting ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and Codex, with users around the world reporting problems logging in, OpenAI has acknowledged the outage and says it’s actively investigating the issue.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk says all code comprising the X system will be open source by August.

⚡️💻👅 TECH - A touchpad… controlled with your tongue. In the United States, the startup Augmental has launched the MouthPad, a touchpad that attaches to the roof of the mouth and allows users to control a computer, program, or play video games using only tongue movements. This technology is primarily intended for people with disabilities. Each MouthPad is custom-made from a mold of the user’s jaw, which explains its price of about $1,400. This innovation could offer greater independence to many people.

⚡️🇪🇸 NEW - Insane footage coming out of the wildfires near Madrid, Spain, right now. Firefighters are saying this thing has been nearly impossible to control. About 25,000 people have already had to evacuate, and another 20,000 are stuck indoors under stay-at-home orders while it keeps spreading. It's burned through thousands of hectares, taken out dozens of homes, and is looking like one of the worst fires the Madrid area has ever seen.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "I am pleased to announce my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States. I will be doing that…I won three times, now I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it…I won three times. Did very well the second time, by the way. Rigged election."

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Reporter: You are talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges in Iran. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? Trump: I won't respond to that question. Who are you with? Reporter: The New York Times. Trump: I figured so. The failing New York Times.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump to the media: "When I'm gone, you're all gonna be broke, your business model is gonna be finished—no it's true! When I'm not around you're gonna be broke, there's not gonna be anybody to report on."

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - This might be the best video you'll watch on the Internet today.

⚡️⚖️ ALERT - Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, was officially removed from office on Friday, July 24, 2026. 👉 82 out of 125 states voted in favor of his removal (13 against, 15 abstentions). This is the first time in the history of the ICC that a prosecutor has been removed from office by the Assembly of States Parties.

⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱 ALERT - Hordes of foreign Jewish settlers invade Palestinian lands and properties in the West Bank !

⚡️🚨 NEW - U.S. Selective Service System plans a computer simulation to test how it would carry out a national mobilization of American manpower, months before the government begins automatically registering men aged 18 to 26 for the draft in December — Military Times

⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸 NEW - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announces that his government will build massive drone factories inside the United States as part of a new deal with the Pentagon. Laura Loomer: "Will this be free of charge?" Zelensky: "I don't know if this is free of charge."