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Foreign phones, blocking news and offensive ideas + this day in history w/National Security Act of 1947 and our song of the day by Blood Orange on your Morning Monarchy for July 26, 2016.

Notes/Links:

Elizabeth Warren’s big DNC speech last night was a vision of government unbounded by cost or consequences.
https://twitter.com/reason/status/757953632549515264

Journalist @AbbyMartin just arrested & abused while following the exact orders of police at #DNCinPHL
https://twitter.com/MikePrysner/status/757710535727144960

@SenSanders: “We produced…the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757777992131031040

Surprise visit from Senator Bernie Sanders at the FL delegation breakfast
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757954162889928704

Facebook admits blocking WikiLeaks’ DNC email links, but won’t say why
https://twitter.com/rayvahey/status/757763593462882304

FCC Puts U.S. Cell Phone Routing System in Hands of European Firm despite Security Warnings
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757934475216957440

Edward Snowden’s New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Their Owners
https://twitter.com/Qainiratha/status/756125972232044548

@Verizon said to be ready to announce $4.8 billion @Yahoo takeover
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757385232811110402

Drug Dealer’s Lawyers Want To Know How Yahoo Is Recovering Communications It Previously Said Were Unrecoverable
https://twitter.com/AphixJS/status/757648186353782784

11 Police Robots Patrolling Around the World
https://twitter.com/MediocreMark/status/757791981518979072

Google Hit With Record Number Of Requests For User Data In Second Half Of 2015
https://twitter.com/Qainiratha/status/757621543363080193

Court Orders News Site Blocked Following Article Piracy
https://twitter.com/rayvahey/status/757923800289685505

A glimpse into all our online futures? China Bans Web News Reporting as Media Crackdown Widens
https://twitter.com/brocwest/status/757553734759043072

Chinese Scientists Plan First Human Test With Gene Editing Tool
https://twitter.com/erikmoshe/status/757604302596763649

Chinese Scientists Will Be First To Use CRISPR Gene Editing On Humans (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94B459Bjzuc

#NASA releases 56 patents to public domain, creates searchable portal 4 spinoffs
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/756885003670355969

#KickassTorrents Community Resurrects, Without Torrents
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757639274896379904

KickAss Torrents Owner Arrested (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99G3kfr89E

Illinois Puts Restrictions on Use of Cell Phone Trackers
https://twitter.com/Qainiratha/status/757621718638821376

Secret Cell Phone Trackers Used in IL (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNuT7veRmpo

McDonald’s ‘Make Burger History’ site hijacked with offensive burger ideas
https://twitter.com/rayvahey/status/756288347526488064

#GoodNewsNextWeek: There Was Never Marijuana In The Colorado Water + Stopping Sonar & Vindicating Farmers
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757748000567463941

#ThisDayInHistory: #July26 w/National Security Act of 1947, Suez Canal nationalized, Morris Worm, Shambo slaughtered + George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley, Stanley Kubrick, Mick Jagger birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757994288193994752

#PumpUpThaVolume: Blood Orange – “Best to You” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/757810760550486018