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Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change
Friday's spring equinox may seem like a quaint notion to those already enduring furnace-like 90-110°F summer heat.

Chances are, you’ve seen Richard Tsong-Taatarii’s photo.
Taken Wednesday in Minneapolis,
it shows an unidentifiable protester face down on the ground;
two Border Patrol agents are on top of him,
holding him there,
while a third unloads pepper spray into his face from just inches away.
The photo ran on the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune on Friday
and already feels like a defining image of the long ICE incursion in Minneapolis
—a powerf…

Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.

A lot has happened in the infosec world since Friday morning, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Russian-speaking hacker used multiple genAI services to breach 600 FortiGate firewalls,
--Spanish cops bust four Anonymous members for 2025 DDoS attacks,
--Wynn Resorts is the latest casino victim of ShinyHunters,
--PayPal business loan app was breached,
--The UAE claims it thwarted multiple cybera…

Russian-speaking hacker used multiple genAI services to breach 600+ FortiGate firewalls
Spanish cops bust four Anonymous members for 2025 DDoS attacks, Wynn Resorts is the latest casino victim of ShinyHunters, PayPal business loan app was breached, UAE claims it thwarted multiple cyberattacks, Italian cops spotted cyberattacks on Chinese groups, much more

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now a part of the design team at Apple, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap

Apple Acquisition Talks, Fraud Accusations: Behind One App Startup’s Nasty Split
Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store. The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s ...

The FBI
-- at the direction of Director Kash Patel
-- has fired at least a half-dozen agents tied to the 2022 search of Donald Trump's home in Florida,
six people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Three of the sources said at least 10 employees overall were dismissed,
-- from support personnel to agents and supervisors.

Kash Patel fires at least 6 FBI agents tied to Mar-a-Lago search
The dismissals come as the FBI director said his phone records were obtained by authorities during the Biden administration in connection with Trump probes.

You strangle us for forty years and then criticize us for the way we breathe.
A quote often attributed to Fidel Castro regarding the state of Cuba, yet there being no official record of him ever saying it. One way or the other, it's a perfect summary of both Cuba's situation under imperialist oppression, as well as the 'egoism' workers develop in a capitalist state. We are products of our environment, shape the environment, shape the people and the countries th…

U.S. Senator and YDS alum Chris Coons '92 M.A.R., '92 J.D. on American Conversations with Heather Cox Richardson! Watch the video here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/26854423997479001/

The House passed this year’s final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers,
still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown,
worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.
The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in spending
and now move to the Senate,
with final passage needed next week before a Jan. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support.

House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding
The House has passed this year's final batch of spending bills. Lawmakers still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government. Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support. They funded Defense and various other departments, including Education and Health and Human Services. A fourth bill funding the Department of Homeland Security was hotly disputed as Democrats voiced concerns it failed to restrain Presi…

As the temperatures soared to 105 degrees on Saturday in Phoenix, Ariz., the third-straight day the weather has topped the 100-degree mark,
more than 400 people attending an airshow in nearby Glendale were treated for heat-related illnesses, authorities said.
At least 25 people attending the Luke Days Airshow at Luke Air Force Base were overcome by the sweltering weather and had to be hospitalized for various heat-related illnesses

400 people treated for heat-related illness at Arizona airshow as record temperatures bake the West
Phoenix is expected to top 100 degrees on Sunday for the fourth straight day.

Over and over, DHS goons descend on areas where immigrants congregate,
grab every non-white person they encounter,
and drag them away with little regard for their citizenship status.
Then they send out indignant liars like DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to spew nonsense about how this is all perfectly legal.
“Our officials use reasonable suspicion,” McLaughlin claimed on Fox News,
explaining the standard federal law enforcement officers use to detain…

Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment
Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh.