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The popular social media site X, run by billionaire Elon Musk, is the victim of a “massive cyberattack” Monday.

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Elon Musk said in a post at 1:25 p.m. Eastern.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …”

Worldwide users of the site formerly known as Twitter, on Monday have been experiencing intermittent outages.

Reports confirmed posts were not loading for users in the United States, United Kingdom, France and India over various time frames.

A report from Newsweek said the hacking group called “Dark Storm Team” reportedly was claiming responsibility for the DD0S attack.

Dark Storm is known, according to the report, “for its sophisticated cyber warfare attacks and successful hacks of high-security systems.”

The report explained, “According to Orange Cyberdefense, the group was formed in 2023 and has a pro-Palestinian focus.”

It recently had promised cyberattacks on various sites involving NATO countries, Israel and nations that support Israel.

Cloudflare said the obvious signs of a DDoS attack, which involves simultaneously directly millions of queries to one website, are “when a website or service suddenly becomes slow or unavailable.”

The Independent described the outage as “major and global.”

The report said, “More than 40,000 users in the U.S. reported having issues at the peak, according to the monitoring website Down Detector. Elon Musk, who bought X in 2022, didn’t mention the outage on his own account. He posted earlier on Monday that X is ‘the top source for news on Earth.’”

In response to the letter from U.S. President Donald Trump to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seeking to put the brakes on that nation’s rapidly expanding nuclear program, Khamenei responded at a gathering held during Ramadan and attended by current and former officials, stating belligerently:

“Some bullying governments insist on negotiations. But their goal is not to resolve issues; rather, it is to impose their demands. For them, negotiations are a means to introduce new expectations. The issue is not just the nuclear program; they continue to put forward new demands that Iran will certainly not accept.”

Khamenei elaborated on these “new demands,” citing his country’s “defensive capabilities” – that is, its missile program – and Iran’s “international capabilities” – meaning its various proxy forces throughout the region. He added:

“They tell us: ‘Do not do this, do not meet that person, do not go to that place, do not produce that item, and do not allow your missile range to exceed a certain limit.’ Negotiations are about these matters.”

Khamenei was never going to accept negotiations

From the outset, it was evident Khamenei would reject any negotiations. His regime has faced persistent resistance from the Iranian people for 45 years. In 1988 alone, 30,000 political prisoners were executed, yet these brutal suppressions failed to quell the opposition. To date, more than 100,000 political dissidents have been killed by this regime.

The Iranian regime has consistently pursued aggressive policies and used terrorism as a tool to mask its internal repression. Whenever it feigned interest in negotiations, it was merely a ploy to buy time – ensuring the survival of both its nuclear program and its regional proxy forces.

Unrelenting executions – a sign of desperation

The Iranian regime has resorted to mass executions to suppress growing public unrest. In 2024 alone, more than 1,000 people were executed, and in the first two months of the new year, over 100 additional executions were recorded. This brutal crackdown underscores both the regime’s deep insecurity and the explosive state of Iranian society.

At the same time, the regime has accelerated its nuclear weapons program, using it as leverage to threaten and blackmail the international community. Meanwhile, the Iranian Resistance has uncovered the regime’s secret nuclear sites and exposed their covert plans.

Looming nuclear threat

The alarming rate of executions clearly signals a society on the verge of uprising.

To further intimidate the world, the regime has escalated its nuclear weapons program. The Iranian Resistance has disclosed classified details about these activities, revealing the extent of the regime’s ambitions.

The so-called “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” the 2015 nuclear agreement with the so-called “P5+1 nations” (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) only enabled the regime to move closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb.

As Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi stated Saturday, addressing the great rally of the Iranian community in Washington, D.C., “The first urgent step to prevent this warmongering and terrorism-exporting regime from acquiring a nuclear bomb is to completely dismantle its nuclear program.”

Failure to do so would pose an immense threat to regional and global stability.

The final and definitive solution

The most effective and least costly solution for both the Iranian people and the international community is an Iranian solution: supporting the country’s organized resistance.

As stated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence: ” …[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends” – that is, of securing the “unalienable rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for all – “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Today, over 150 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have publicly endorsed the Iranian people’s right to overthrow the Supreme Leader’s regime. Now, more than ever, there is a genuine opportunity to establish a free and democratic Iran. These lawmakers also support the Iranian Resistance’s roadmap for change.

Iran’s organized resistance movement, with thousands of active resistance units across the country, has the capacity to lead this transformation. The struggle of these resistance units to overthrow the regime must be supported – just as the French Resistance was backed in its fight against Nazi fascism.

Now, more than ever, a free and democratic Iran is within reach.

A Wisconsin school district agreed to pay out $20,000 to a teacher who was terminated for refusing to use preferred names and pronouns for transgender students.

Jordan Cernek, an English teacher, sued the Argyle School District in July 2024 after his contract was not renewed, alleging the district violated his right to free exercise of his religion and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Mr. Cernek has a sincerely held religious belief that God makes no mistakes when it comes to sex and gender and that calling a transgender student by a name or pronouns at odds with their biological sex would cause Mr. Cernek to affirm that God made a mistake in creating a transgender person as a male or a female,” the lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty stated. “In Mr. Cernek’s religious view, affirming a transgender person’s identity through the use of preferred names and pronouns would be speaking a falsehood and violate his religious beliefs.”

While the district initially offered Cernek a religious accommodation exempting from the requirement to use students’ preferred name and pronouns, administrators later required him to adhere to the name policy, according to court records.

Cernek voiced his objections during a meeting in August 2022 when the school district announced its policy. Two transgender-identifying students in Cernek’s classes requested that staff refer to them using preferred names at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, per court records.

The case was dismissed in February after parties reached the settlement, according to court records.

Several teachers fired for declining to adhere to transgender name policies have secured similar settlements in the past months.

In September, a Virginia school board settled a lawsuit brought by a high school teacher fired for declining to refer to one of his students using prefered pronouns for $575,000. An Ohio school district reached a $450,000 settlement with a middle school teacher fired for the same reason in December after a federal court found the pronoun requirement equated to “compelled speech.”

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The Supreme Court has agreed to review Colorado’s censorship of a licensed counselor.

In dispute is the leftist state’s demand that only its messaging can be given to patients.

Colorado, which after years of swinging back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, suddenly some years ago took an abrupt left turn and has been an extremist ever since. And it has lost in multiple recent attempts to control residents’ speech.

It tried to force a baker, at Masterpiece Cakeshop, to express a pro-LGBT message that violated his religious faith and ended up being scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for its “hostility” to Christianity.

It tried the same scheme against a web designer, at 303 Creative, and took a major loss, again, from the Supreme Court.

The latest campaign by the state, under the leadership of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, was to censor the information counselors are allowed to provide clients in private consultations, if the topic is sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to the ADF, which has been handling the case involving counselor Kaley Chiles, Colorado’s censorship “violates licensed counselor Kaley Chiles’ freedom of speech and infringes on her free exercise of religion and that of her clients by censoring and prohibiting certain private client-counselor conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that the government disfavors while allowing – even encouraging – conversations the government favors.”

“The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should a counselor be used as a tool to impose the government’s biased views on her clients,” explained ADF spokeswoman Kristen Waggoner.

“There is a growing consensus around the world that adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria need love and an opportunity to talk through their struggles and feelings. Colorado’s law prohibits what’s best for these children and sends a clear message: the only option for children struggling with these issues is to give them dangerous and experimental drugs and surgery that will make them lifelong patients. We are eager to defend Kaley’s First Amendment rights and ensure that government officials may not impose their ideology on private conversations between counselors and clients.”

The high court confirmed Monday in will hear Chiles v. Salazar, where Chiles wants to help clients with various issues, including gender identity.

The ADF explained, “Many of Chiles’s clients come to her because they share her Christian worldview and faith-based values. These clients believe their lives will be more fulfilling if they are aligned with the teachings of their faith. Yet Colorado law censors Chiles from speaking words her clients want to hear because the government does not like the view she expresses.”

It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an often overturned panel, that affirmed the Colorado scheme to censor Christian perspectives.

The ADF explained, Colorado’s law violates Chiles’s freedom of speech by prohibiting licensed counselors from having any conversation with clients under age 18 that ‘attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.’”

The law, however, only prohibits the Christian perspective. It allows counselors to promote the LGBT ideologies.

Punishment for violating the censorship agenda can include suspension or revocation of a license.

Democrats warn that the Department of Government Efficiency may threaten seniors’ benefits, but members of the conservative alternative to AARP express great confidence in DOGE and its cost-cutting measures.

The Association of Mature American Citizens polled its members on the program, and the response was deafening.

A whopping 76% of AMAC members said DOGE should expand its efforts, while another 18% said they support DOGE but believe the agency should move carefully. Less than 1% of them said DOGE is “too aggressive.”

“They absolutely trust DOGE,” AMAC CEO Rebecca Weber told “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

She noted that AMAC members selected President Donald Trump as “man of the year,” but Elon Musk, who started the DOGE effort with Trump, came in second.

“What we’re really witnessing now from Democrats and many in the establishment media is an intentional effort to cause chaos and confusion — this is what they do — about what DOGE and the Trump administration are doing,” Weber said. “We know that DOGE and the Trump admin are going after fraud and abuse. That’s what they’re doing. They’re going after fraud and abuse in the Social Security system. And that’s it.”

“So, while Democrats are going to claim that this is threatening seniors’ benefits, that’s simply not the case,” she argued. “It’s the entire opposite.”

Weber also noted the Democrats’ fears that DOGE staff will access confidential information as they seek to identify waste and abuse.

“AMAC members said, ‘I trust Elon Musk and Donald Trump over some faceless bureaucrat who currently has my information. At least I know that they’re looking to stop improper payments and to protect benefits that so many American seniors have worked decades to earn,’” she said.

AMAC Polls

AMAC started as a conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons, better known as AARP. While AMAC aims to represent American seniors and has special benefits for the elderly, American adults of any age can join.

AMAC polled its members on DOGE.

“The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently exposed [the U.S. Agency for International Development’s] wasteful spending, leading to discussions about the future of the agency. Which option below best reflects your view on DOGE’s work?” the organization asked.

The vast majority (33,839 or 76% of respondents) selected, “They’re off to a great start and should expand their efforts to other government departments.”

Another 18% (7,997) selected, “I support DOGE’s mission but believe they should proceed carefully to avoid unintended consequences.”

A smaller minority (1,756 votes or 4%) said, “more transparency is needed to ensure their findings aren’t politically motivated.”

Less than 1% (243 votes) selected, “Government waste should be addressed, but USAID plays a critical role in global aid and shouldn’t be dismantled.” Another small minority (313 votes and less than 1%) said, “DOGE’s approach is too aggressive—reducing waste is important, but not at the cost of America’s humanitarian commitments.”

These polls represent only AMAC members, not all seniors, and were conducted online. Nonetheless, they demonstrate strong support for DOGE.

The DOGE Dividend

AMAC also polled its members about the “DOGE dividend,” the idea that Americans might receive back some of the money DOGE saves in the federal budget.

“President Trump is reportedly considering returning a portion of the savings generated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to American taxpayers as a refund check. Which of the following options best matches your thoughts on this idea?” the organization asked members.

About half of respondents (19,051 votes or 48%) agreed with the statement, “With America nearly $37 trillion in debt, we’re broke as a nation. I would like to see every penny saved by DOGE go to reducing our national debt.”

Another 21% (8,459 votes) selected, “I would forego a refund check so critical programs like Social Security and Medicare can be made solvent with the savings identified by DOGE.”

About a third of respondents either said they would “gladly accept a refund check as a repayment for all the government waste, fraud, and abuse” (5,142 votes or 13%) or that they would support “receiving a one-time $5,000 refund plus an equivalent tax reduction for every taxpayer in perpetuity” (6,909 votes or 17%).

“This is so urgently important because we know that the Social Security trust fund is going to go insolvent, eventually, unless things change,” Weber said. “Looking at the fraud and the abuse is an important place to start.”

She noted that AMAC members “understand the original intent of the Social Security program, and that was an anti-poverty program to keep seniors out of poverty.”

These polls do not represent all seniors, but they do reveal that many conservative seniors stand with DOGE and trust that rooting out waste and abuse will help, rather than harm, the benefits so many elderly Americans rely upon.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

A leftist university’s apparent campaign to suppress speech with which it disagrees has gotten it sued.

Student Zoe Johnson, a leader for Young Americans for Freedom, of the University of Colorado at Boulder has filed an action, through the Gessler Blue and Dhillon law firms, seeking a judgment that declares the institution’s “Anti-discrimination policy” violates the First and 14th Amendments, a permanent injunction against it, monetary damages and lawyers’ fees.

The fight is over Johnson’s expression of her beliefs, and the school’s “reporting” system for such comments that, the lawsuit charges, “chills expression.”

“Because the university defines ‘experiences of bias’ to encompass behavior, speech, or expression that ‘has a negative impact,’ virtually any joke or off-putting remark could result in the speaker being forced to navigate the university’s investigative process or ‘an educational resolution process,’” Ross Marchand of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said, according to a report at the College Fix.

“While cutting jokes and demeaning comments can be hurtful, the Supreme Court has repeatedly and clearly held that meaningful freedom of speech must protect expression others find offensive or even hateful.”

He explained the “complicated, bureaucratic processes explicitly intended to ‘stop the behavior’ flies in the face of the First Amendment by chilling protected speech.”

“UC Boulder needs to make clear that, in order to be reportable, offenses need to violate the law or university policy,” Marchand said.

The school’s “equity and compliance” bureaucracy now is called the “Office of Collaboration,” and it enforces the so-called “nondiscrimination” rules.

“The report said she has been “investigated” because of her criticism of identity politics, and a question about a piece of clothing.

She was not formally punished under the bureaucracy, but now “lives in constant fear that anything she says could be considered ‘unwelcome conduct,” the report said.

The legal action cites the school’s decision to threaten her with investigation for her comments about protected classes.

She said, according to the report, “Why do we need two months of this? Didn’t we do this back in June?” regarding a choir class about LGBT ideologies.

She also allegedly offended students by asking what a “do-rag” was, seeing one on a male student’s head, the report said.

When confronted by a choir director, she explained, “I truly never meant to hurt anyone but I believe that students should have the emotional maturity to resolve any issues they have with me on their own.”

The choir director had become part of the attack earlier by criticizing her comment about white privilege. She explained, “I don’t care about your identity, I care more about what you have to say as a person, more than how you look.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that 83% of the programs under USAID officially are being canceled because they didn’t help America interests, or they actually harmed the nation.

Social media immediately pointed out the “staggering” amount of fraud, and asked, “Where’s the handcuffs?”

After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.

The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.

In…

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 10, 2025

Rubio announced, “After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.”

A report in the Washington Examiner said the U.S. Agency for International Development was one of the first targets of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Administration officials earlier said USAID was being shut down entirely and any worthwhile programs, and the employees for them, were being moved to the State Department.

USAID came in for harsh criticism for its wildly inappropriate expenditures of American tax money, including the fact that when it sent $1.3 billion to the Congo, officials there used $488,000 for dozens of rooms at the five-star Hotel Quellenhof to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos.

That worked out to more than $81,000 a night.

Other tax funds were spent on DEI theatrical productions and LGBT comic books.

Rubio’s announcement confirmed 5,200 contracts are being canceled because “the programs did not serve U.S. interests,” and the move would save “tens of billions of dollars.’”

About 1,000 programs area being kept, and they now will be under the State Department.

March 7, 2025: 11:00 p.m.:

March 7, 2025: Deep State Highlights

• Goldwater Institute uncovers mandatory DEI courses in Texas universities: An investigation by the Goldwater Institute revealed that five Texas universities require students to take courses centered on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) concepts. The findings have sparked debates about academic freedom and ideological indoctrination in higher education.

• Pending government shutdown looms: As the March 14 deadline approaches, the United States faces a potential government shutdown unless Congress enacts new spending legislation. Federal agencies have been operating under a series of Continuing Resolutions, which temporarily extend prior-year funding levels, imposing constraints on operations.

PALM BEACH, Florida – U.S. fighter jets were again forced to scramble near President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home over the weekend as two violations by civilian pilots took place in what has become a disturbing pattern.

The first occurred at about 8:50 a.m. Saturday as a general aviation aircraft violated the TFR zone, or temporary flight restriction.

F-16 fighter jets intercepted the plane to escort it out of the area.

“NORAD and the FAA work closely together to keep the skies over America safe, with close attention paid to areas with Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR),” said Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, NORAD and U.S. Northern Command.

“Adherence to TFR procedures is essential to ensure flight safety, national security, and the security of the President. The procedures are not optional, and the excessive number of recent TFR violations indicates many civil aviators are not reading Notice to Airmen, or NOTAMs, before each flight as required by the FAA, and has resulted in multiple responses by NORAD fighter aircraft to guide offending aircraft out of the TFR. Should the pilot of an aircraft happen to find itself intercepted by one of fighters or helicopters, they should immediately come up on frequency 121.5 or 243.0 and turn around to reverse course until receiving additional instructions on one of those frequencies.”

Twice in the past 48 hours, F-16 fighter jets from the Continental U.S. NORAD region responded to a general aviation aircraft over Palm Beach, FL, violating the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR). Pilots, please check NOTAMs! #WeHaveTheWatch https://t.co/kwx4MvT7x6

— North American Aerospace Defense Command (@NORADCommand) March 9, 2025

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Then on Sunday afternoon at approximately 1:15 p.m., another civilian plane entered the restricted zone, and NORAD F-16s were again dispatched, having to deploy flares to get the pilot’s attention before escorting him out.

Last weekend, as WorldNetDaily reported, at least three similar incidents took place in a short period of time, as military jets were forced to intercept and escort aircraft away from the area.

In February, another three violations of airspace took place while President Trump was staying at the so-called “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago.

The Palm Beach Post reported: “A spokesperson for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, confirmed Wednesday that there were three airspace violations of the imposed presidential protected space during Trump’s six-day visit to Mar-a-Lago, his mansion in Palm Beach. Two occurred on Feb. 15 and one on Presidents Day, Feb. 17.”

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