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What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border

Can immigration deny you entry if you refuse to hand over your phone? What can officials look at or download, and how can you protect your devices?

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

This sounds like you're visiting Russia or North Korea

The Guardian · What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the borderBy Josh Taylor
#News#Travel#US
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The surge of ai and its ignorance of taste, making things better by adding more, and so on, is correlating with the average lack of consideration for #creation, #art and #artists and global #antiintellectualism ; highlighting global reluctance to partake into any activity requiring to think by oneself. #literacy #criticalthinking #CriticalLiteracy #literacyMatters #ai #artificialintelligence #medialiteracy #populism #facism

Redditor explains how #republicans are criminalizing and demonizing #transgender people - with receipts. This post lays it out with links to back it up. This is just the tip of the iceberg, part of the process to attack #trans and #LGBTQIA communities. It you’re not horrified after reading this post, you are not paying attention. #gender #GenderFluid #LGBTQ #facism #RepublicansOwnThis #bigotry #discrimination

reddit.com/r/WelcomeToGilead/s

#JonathanCook | The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom

"This should come as no surprise, because the main repository for the West’s fascist ideas since the Second World War has been hiding in plain sight: Israel."

"When the West was reluctantly forced into decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, Israel was given licence and endless support to grow a violent ethno-nationalist project on another people’s homeland.

Jewish supremacism was respectable, even as white supremacism fell out of favour. "

jonathancook.substack.com/p/th

Jonathan Cook · The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedomBy Jonathan Cook

Even the Guardian is providing (deeply flawed, I am assuming either the word count or the ‘writers' attention span was exceeded) advice on travelling to the US.

My advice (non technical, that is beyond 500 words if you have to know), is DON’T VISIT THE US. It might be painful - instead gang up with the family to help friends and family visit you. It makes sense.

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US borderBy Johana Bhuiyan
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is the rule of the most aggressive circles of monopoly capital, which, in a sense, commissions a fascist clique to save capitalism for them in a crisis situation. And this crisis situation occurred in the world economic crisis, and the rule of National Socialism was, from this perspective, a rule of capital. [...]"

[Let me know if you'd like to have a translation of said quote.]

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