My original plan was to delete my Facebook account back in July, timed around Independence Day. I’m nothing if not a sucker for symbolism.

As the 2025 drum corps season kicked into high gear around that time, along with my vacation, I ended up tabling my plan.

Recent events have convinced me that it is time to move forward with my plan and complete my departure from Meta owned and run services.

I am posting this message on September 11. I will shut down my Facebook account in one month, on October 11.

Facebook provides instructions on how to delete your account: facebook.com/help/224562897555…

Cawthorn is reportedly planning a return to politics

Former Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn arrested after failing to turn up to court

^{Graig Graziosi (The Independent)}

She was convicted of selling her husband’s influence for cash, gold bars and a luxury car

Nadine Menendez, ex-senator’s wife, jailed for role in bribery schemes

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Deputy secretary of state says ‘foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors’

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US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death

^{Lucy Campbell (The Guardian)}

Riek Machar has been under house arrest since March, and the latest charges threatens the fragile power-sharing agreement with President Salva Kiir.

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South Sudan’s vice president Machar charged with treason

^{Hauwau Samaila Mohammed (Deutsche Welle)}

Translated and Republished under Open License, V2.0. Originally published in CERT-FR as Threat and Incident Report.

Since 2021, Apple has been sending notification campaigns to individuals targeted by spyware attacks.

These software programs, such as Pegasus, Predator, Graphite or Triangulation, are particularly sophisticated and difficult to detect.

These complex attacks target individuals because of their status or function: journalists, lawyers, activists, politicians, senior officials, members of management committees in strategic sectors, etc.

Receiving a notification means that at least one of the devices linked to the iCloud account has been targeted and is potentially compromised.

The notification results in the receipt of an iMessage and an alert email sent by Apple (from threat-notifications[at]email.apple.com or threat-notifications[at]apple.com). When logging into the iCloud account, an alert is displayed. The time between the compromise attempt and the receipt of the notification is several months, but remains variable.

The notifications sent report highly sophisticated attacks, most of which employ zero-day vulnerabilities or require no user interaction at all.

The following best practices help to better protect the phone against this type of attack:
- Update your devices to the latest version as soon as possible. Apple updates often fix vulnerabilities exploited by spyware;
- Enable automatic updates, including security updates;
- Separate personal and professional uses as much as possible, ideally by using different devices;
- Enable "Isolation Mode" to enhance the security of your Apple devices;
- Restart your device regularly, ideally once a day.

More generally, the following measures contribute to your good IT hygiene:
- Do not click on suspicious links or attachments;
Set up a strong and unique access code;
- Use two-factor authentication whenever possible;
- Avoid installing unknown apps or apps from alternative app stores.

Friends of Al-Aqsa, which submitted the application, said it was filing a claim in the High Court for judicial review to challenge the decision

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UK attorney general rejects arrest warrant for visiting Israeli president

The UK's attorney general, Lord Richard Hermer, and director of public prosecutions (DPP) Stephen Parkinson have rejected an application for an arrest warrant for Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

In Cyprus, sharp-eyed locals posted footage of a convoy carrying half-concealed trucks which appear to Israel air defence system

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Israel air defence equipment spotted rolling into Cyprus

^{Joe Glenton (The Canary)}

The EU assembly voted in favour of a non-binding resolution, agreed by the centrist majority’s groups.

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European Parliament calls for recognition of State of Palestine

^{Vincenzo Genovese (Euronews.com)}

The restrictions also mean that disabled people can’t get a bus for free after 11 pm, because we don’t have social lives or jobs...

Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free

^{Rachel Charlton-Dailey (The Canary)}

Starmer's record as DPP and as Labour leader makes Mandelson-Epstein just the latest in a string of scandals

Starmer Mandelson scandal is no surprise given PM's record

^{Skwawkbox (The Canary)}

Herzog said at Chatham House, UK, that "sometimes people should be ‘removed’ if they won’t make a deal". Where are the Met???

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Campaign wants you to report president Isaac Herzog to Met police

^{Robert Freeman (The Canary)}

Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious key usernames such as ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’

Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study

^{Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)}

The majority of MEPs in the European Parliament voted against describing Israeli actions in Gaza as a genocide.

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Most MEPs vote against describing Gaza as genocide

^{Nikolaj Nielsen (EUobserver)}

While the investigation into the pig heads remains under way, a spate of similar incidents have occurred in France in recent years and Russia is suspected of involvement.

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France says foreign nationals placed pig heads outside Paris mosques to incite national unrest

^{Estelle Nilsson-Julien (Euronews.com)}

Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content.

Infidels Motorcycle Club are a racist biker gang made up of ex-US military turned private contractors, now working at deadly GHF aid sites

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Bigoted biker gang run security at GHF aid sites in Palestine

^{Maryam Jameela (The Canary)}

Bloc turns to the US to secure energy supply, but critics worry the EU is shifting dependencies and diverting from the bloc’s climate goals.

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EU to speed up phase out of Russian energy amid US pressure 

^{Marta Pacheco (Euronews.com)}

The US House has taken a small step toward reining in the president's war powers, voting to repeal the Authorization for the Use of Military Force that presidents have used for over two decades to wage war in the Middle East without oversight.

After 'Years of Neglected Oversight,' House Votes to Repeal Authorization Used by Presidents to Wage 'Forever Wars'

One foreign policy expert said these congressional authorizations "have become like holy writ, documents frozen in time yet endlessly reinterpreted to justify new military action."

^{stephen-prager (Common Dreams)}

It had only been 72 hours since their last major rally, but thousands of Chicagoans marched in protest against Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement “blitz” on Tuesday afternoon.

Check out these wonderful photos and video.

"We are going to keep fighting against the escalated ICE raids and attacks against our communities,” Rania Salem, an organizer with the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, told ABC7 News. “Trump says that it's going to be war in Chicago, but I believe in the people's power and the resistance here is strong.”

The new enforcement push, which the Department of Homeland Security has designated “Operation Midway Blitz,” is actually off to a slow start as of this writing. Perhaps ICE has been scared away because of the resistance that Chicagoans, have already shown. Or perhaps the blitz is just “gathering steam,” as Gov. JB Pritzker warned on Tuesday.

Federal agents, with camera crews from Fox News and ABC News riding along, made a handful of apprehensions of people with criminal records on Tuesday – validating Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s description of the blitz as a “sick reality show.”

(Both networks – inexcusably, to my mind -- agreed to blur the faces of federal agents.)

But so far there have been no Los-Angeles-style raids of Home Depot parking lots or construction sites or other indiscriminate mass abductions based on racial profiling.

Chicago is fighting back

'The resistance here is strong'

^{Dan Froomkin (Heads Up News)}

People have pointed out inconsistencies between Trump's latest address and the things he's said and done in the past

Trump uses Charlie Kirk death to 'launch a war against the left'

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

Following the violation of Polish airspace by 19 Russian drones, Poland and Ukraine are stepping up military cooperation.

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Polish military to take part in a drone combat training in Ukraine after airspace violations

^{Katarzyna-Maria Skiba (Euronews.com)}

I didn’t like Charlie Kirk. His morals and principles, as expressed through his rhetoric and actions, disgusted me. I’ve no reason to mourn his death—and no plans to celebrate it.

The Murder Of Charlie Kirk Didn’t Help Anyone

I didn’t like Charlie Kirk. His morals and principles, as expressed through his rhetoric and actions, disgusted me. I’ve no reason to mourn his death—and no plans to celebrate it. Kirk was killed i…

^Techdirt

Wind and solar power generated more than a third of Brazil’s electricity in August. This marks the first time these renewable sources have crossed that threshold, according to government data analyzed by energy think tank Ember.

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Charlie Kirk has never received a warm welcome in the pages of this magazine. It doesn’t matter now. The assassination of Kirk is a tragedy. Morally, it is unjustifiable. Politically, it is cause for serious alarm. A larger spiral into political violence would be a catastrophe for the Left.

As of the time of this writing, no one knows the shooter’s ideology or motivations. But some key points are clear enough.

No one should be killed as punishment for political expression, no matter how objectionable. In addition to our basic abhorrence of violence, we are also proponents of democracy, which depends on free speech and open inquiry. Without them, collective self-governance is impossible and tyranny becomes inevitable. Imposing silence on political opponents by brute force, whether in the form of state crackdowns on dissent or lone-wolf assassinations of leaders, undermines a principle that democratic socialists have always held dear.

also we suck shit

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-has-never-been-closer-to-agreeing-on-the-scanning-of-your-private-chats-but-how-did-we-get-here

At least one of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week was living and working legally in the US, according to an internal federal government document obtained by the Guardian.

Officials then “mandated” that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa.

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa

Exclusive: critics accuse Ice of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

^{José Olivares (The Guardian)}

The findings showed when political pressure is applied, the AI agents became fragmented and dissent more common, according to the paper by Sophia Kazinnik and Tara Sinclair.

"This simulation shows that the Federal Reserve is only partially insulated from politics," and that "outside scrutiny can shape internal decision-making, even in an institution guided by formal rules," they said in the paper.

The simulation replicates the July 2025 FOMC meeting.
While few central banks may be ready to have AI agents set monetary policy, a growing number of them are using the technology to streamline operations.

The Fed conducted research using generative AI models to analyse minutes of the FOMC meetings. The European Central Bank uses machine learning models to forecast euro-area inflation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ai-simulated-fed-meeting-political-pressure-polarises-board-2025-09-11/

“If they try to jam something down our throats without any compromise — without any bipartisan, real, bipartisan discussion — they ain’t going to get the votes, plain and simple,” Schumer said.

Neal argued that Congress can’t wait much longer to avert the expiration of enhanced tax subsidies that help about 20 million of Americans afford health care plans offered on exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. People who receive that assistance are already being notified that the tax subsidies will end later this year, he said, with open enrollment for health insurance beginning in November.

“So you can have this huge spike in health care costs coupled with the subtraction of health care for millions of Americans,” Neal said, referring to Medicaid cuts in the GOP domestic policy bill passed in July. “And we have broad agreement that the health of the American people should be paramount in this debate.”

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/11/congress/democrats-heath-care-shutdown-demand-00557516

::: spoiler Dive Deeper
Source: Commission of inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors.

Recommended reads in french:
- TikTok Commission of Inquiry: Report recommends banning social media for under-15s;
- TikTok Commission of Inquiry: "We saw an ocean of harmful content," says rapporteur Laure Miller.
:::

Imposing the ban and a 10 pm to 8 am curfew for 15- to 18-year-olds would "send a signal both to children and parents" that social media "is not harmless" for the young, Laure Miller, the MP who compiled a parliamentary inquiry's report, told AFP.

With more than 1.5 billion users worldwide, TikTok -- owned by China-based ByteDance -- has been especially under fire from Western governments in Europe and the US in recent years.

Concerns raised over the platform have included content encouraging suicide, self harm or an unhealthy body image as well as its potential use for foreign political interference.

French President Emmanuel Macron has already backed a social media ban for children and young adolescents, following in the footsteps of Australia which started drafting its own landmark ban for under-16s last year.

Meanwhile TikTok is in legal limbo in America, as President Donald Trump has permitted the platform to continue operating there despite a law requiring its sale.

The service was also singled out as a vector for Russian influence when Romania's presidential election was controversially annulled last year by the country's supreme court.

Launched in March, the French parliamentary committee set out to examine TikTok and its psychological effects on minors after a 2024 lawsuit against the platform by seven families accusing it of exposing their children to content pushing them towards suicide.

Members put forward Thursday's recommendations -- welcomed by Laure Boutron-Marmion, a lawyer representing the families -- after months of testimony from families, social media executives and influencers.

Commission d'enquête TikTok : "On a vu un océan de contenus néfastes", témoigne la rapporteure, Laure Miller

Laure Miller (Ensemble pour la République) et Arthur Delaporte (Socialistes) ont présenté les conclusions de la commission d'enquête sur TikTok, lors d'une conférence de presse à l'Assemblée nationale, ce jeudi 11 septembre.

^{Raphaël Marchal (LCP - Assemblée nationale)}

After federal law enforcement officials said they conducted a raid at a Georgia battery plant that they called the "largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations," over 300 South Korean migrants have been released from U.S. custody.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, the migrants will board a plane and fly back to South Korea on Thursday, nearly a week after being detained. The operation took place at a Hyundai plant in Bryan County, Georgia. Officials said that 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — were apprehended. Some of those present had entered the U.S. illegally, overstayed their visas, or did not have proper work permits.

Over 300 South Korean migrants released after being detained at Ga. Hyundai plant

More than 300 South Korean migrants were released after a record Homeland Security raid at a Georgia Hyundai plant. Most will return home nearly a week after being detained.

^{Justin Boggs (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

Florida on Tuesday started bringing immigrant detainees to the second migrant detention center the state has established this summer.

About 115 people are being held at the north Florida facility now, according to a Fox News clip shared by a spokesperson for the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

The spokesperson did not answer whether there have been any deportation flights out of the nearby Lake City airport.

The Fox News clip shows rows of bunk beds with twin-sized green mattresses in one room.

The north Florida detention center can hold about 1,300 people, according to the governor’s office.