Instagram has suspended the account of Track AIPAC, a widely followed watchdog project that tracks political spending by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and related pro-Israel lobbying groups. The social media giant cited alleged violations of the platform’s intellectual property and trademark rules. The suspension places the account at risk of permanent deletion unless successfully appealed within 180 days.

Track AIPAC — also known as AIPAC Tracker — was launched in 2024 by Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy as a transparency and advocacy platform documenting AIPAC’s political donations, endorsements and influence on US elections. The project publishes Federal Election Commission data on pro-Israel political spending, highlights which lawmakers receive the most support, and endorses opponents of candidates reliant on AIPAC funding.

The watchdog has become a prominent source for voters and activists seeking to make AIPAC funding “politically toxic” and to hold elected officials accountable for their ties to the pro-Israel lobby.

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Hello, quick introduction. I'm self-hosting beginner, started about year ago, burned myself couple times, learned a bit, but mostly still groping in the dark as nobody I personally know does anything like this.

• Currently I do have Asustor 2-bay NAS, equipped with Celeron 5105 processor, which I managed to installed TrueNAS Scale on to its NVMe drive, with two mirrored drives for data. I host couple services there (like Navidrome or Adguard). It works OKish, although I don't feel like I'm very confident in TrueNAS.
• Recently I got HP Z2 Gen3 Mini workstation with Xeon 1245-v5 with 32GB RAM. Which - according to specs - should be much better "server" than Asustor above, although it does have just one SATA and one m.2 port.

My (probably not very smart) idea is:

• Use the HP as a Proxmox node with OS installed on the SATA drive.
• Host the services in LXCs on secondary m.2 drive.
• Wipe the Asustor and use it just as a network drive for "data" (navidrome music, immich pictures, etc.). Ideally accessible from other PCs as data drive. Not sure about OS choice for this use. OpenMediaVault? Plain Debian? Another instance of Proxmox? Or maybe even original Asustor option?

Is this a good idea? Considering reliability concerns or future-proof abilities. My thought process was this way I could swap either the HP or Asustor for something else in the future when the need (or device fail) appears. Or should I scratch the idea entirely and use completely different approach and/or devices?

Or maybe I should rather post this in a different community I don't follow yet?

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.

The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed.

The assessment, which was published in the journal One Earth, synthesised recent scientific findings on climate feedback loops and 16 tipping elements. The tipping elements include the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, mountain glaciers, polar sea ice, sub-Arctic forests and permafrost, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), a system of ocean currents that strongly influences the global climate.

Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California, was removed Wednesday from President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission following a contentious hearing on antisemitism for what she claimed were efforts to “force” commissioners to affirm Zionism.

Commission Chair Dan Patrick wrote on US social media platform X that the decision to remove Boller was his, accusing her of pursuing a “personal and political agenda” during a hearing Monday.

Boller wrote in a statement Tuesday that she would not resign and rejected accusations that she had pursued a political agenda.

“Forcing people to affirm Zionism as a condition of participation is not only wrong, it is directly contrary to religious freedom, especially on a body created to protect conscience,” she wrote. “As a Catholic, I have both a constitutional right and a God-given freedom of religion and conscience not to endorse a political ideology or a government that is carrying out mass civilian killing and starvation.”

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Marni Panas, a trans activist based in Edmonton, says her heart broke when she saw news of Tuesday's mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that left nine people dead, including the suspect, and 27 injured.

Later, when rumours started to percolate that the suspect in the shooting was a transgender woman, Panas watched what she says has become a predictable pattern emerge online. Within minutes, she says some people began to leverage the tragedy to "advance hate" against the trans community.

Tara Armstrong, an Independent MLA who represents Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, made several social media posts Wednesday about what she called transgender ideology, saying it is "radicalizing youth, and unlocking violent impulses."

"There is an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the West," she wrote on X.

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The father of a U.S.-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted Wednesday for attempting to deal with his daughter’s financial assets in the city, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national security law.

Kwok Yin-sang’s daughter Anna is the executive director of the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council. Authorities in 2023 offered 1 million Hong Kong dollars (about $127,900) for information leading to her arrest and later banned anyone from handling any funds for her — widely seen as part of a yearslong crackdown on challenges against Beijing’s rule following the massive, anti-government protests in 2019.

Kwok, 69, was arrested in April 2025 under the security law, locally known as Article 23 legislation, enacted a year before. He was accused of having attempted to obtain funds from an insurance policy under his daughter’s name. He pleaded not guilty.

Acting principal magistrate Cheng Lim-chi found him guilty on Wednesday, saying Kwok must have known his daughter was an absconder and he was attempting to handle her assets.

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“Today, my father was convicted simply for being my father," said the younger Kwok. “This is transnational repression."

She said his charge was founded on “incoherent fiction" and she had not received or sought funds from her father or anyone in Hong Kong. She added that the moves from the city’s government will not discourage her from carrying on her activism.

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A 25-year-old man and 31-year-old woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of reckless foreign interference, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

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The case underscores longstanding concerns among Australian security agencies that Beijing has shown little hesitation in pursuing domestic political objectives beyond its borders, including through efforts to monitor, influence or pressure members of the Chinese diaspora.

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Russia is unlikely to attack any NATO member in the near future, but plans to continue its war against Ukraine, according to Estonia’s annual international security report. Published by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS) on Tuesday, the report focuses almost exclusively on Russia, warning that the Kremlin is actively preparing for its “next war.”

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According to the Estonian assessment, the Kremlin “merely feigns interest” in peace talks aimed at ending the war with Ukraine. Russia hopes to restore bilateral relations with the United States and “formalize Ukraine’s defeat,” the report says. At the same time, EFIS maintains that Moscow continues to view Washington “as its principal adversary.”

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Referring to China and Russia as “allies without a treaty,” the report says that both countries are trying to tip the global balance of power in their favor. The EFIS characterizes frequent consultations between Moscow and Beijing as an attempt to “mitigate the risk” of one side striking a deal with the U.S. “behind the other’s back.”

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Although under strain from international sanctions, Russia’s military-industrial complex continues to function thanks to sanctions evasion schemes that keep dual-use goods flowing into the country, the report notes.

The report also notes that since 2021, Russia’s military-industrial complex has increased artillery ammunition production more than seventeenfold. According to the EFIS, this indicates that Russia is “highly likely” to rebuild its stockpiles in preparation for future conflict, even as the war against Ukraine continues.

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Russia is facing increasingly severe economic problems and continues to neglect nearly all non-military sectors, the report says. EFIS predicts that Russia’s GDP will contract in 2026, raising the risk of economic and social instability.

The report says that the Russian economy has “entered a downturn” and would likely still face serious problems even if the war were to end and sanctions were lifted. As the defense sector expands at the expense of the civilian economy, nearly all other sectors are in recession or stagnating.

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Meanhwile, The Moscow Times reports that Russian companies are increasingly moving employees to part-time work amid worsening economic conditions.

The number of partially employed workers in Russia now stands at its highest level in over a decade, [the pro-Kremlin daily] Izvestia said, citing an analysis of Rosstat data by Moscow-based auditing network FinExpertiza.

While the official unemployment rate is currently hovering around 2.2%, the surge in part-time work highlights the hidden strain on Russia’s economy as the invasion of Ukraine nears its four-year mark.

Some 5.5 million Russians were classified as partially employed in the third quarter of 2025, up 12% from the previous quarter and the highest figure since 2015.

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A 25-year-old man and 31-year-old woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of reckless foreign interference, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

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The case underscores longstanding concerns among Australian security agencies that Beijing has shown little hesitation in pursuing domestic political objectives beyond its borders, including through efforts to monitor, influence or pressure members of the Chinese diaspora.

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