Conor McGregor descripting Ireland's issues at the White House Press Room.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned. Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance. Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114180054723679623
Illinois School Staff Watched To Ensure Girls Changed In Front Of Trans-Identifying Boy, Mom Says
The mother of a girl attending an Illinois middle school said that after her daughter refused to change her clothes in front of a biological boy who identified as a transgender girl, school officials stepped in and forced her to do so.
Nicole Georgas told the story of what she said happened to her 13-year-old daughter and other girls at Shepard Middle School while speaking at a Deerfield School District 109 School Board meeting on Thursday, National Review reported. Deerfield is a suburb of Chicago. Georgas said her daughter came home upset on February 5, saying a boy was using the girl’s bathroom.
According to Georgas, the girl was then told by school administrators that the boy was allowed to use the girl’s locker room and bathroom because he identified as a girl, and the school’s “inclusive” bathroom policy allowed him to use whichever locker room he wanted. Georgas said she spoke to school administrators and told them they were violating President Donald Trump’s executive order that prohibited males from using female locker rooms and participating in girls’ sports. The school stood its ground, citing the district’s legal counsel.
After this exchange, Georgas said Thursday, “the situation went from bad to worse.”
“A few days later, the male student was present in the girl’s locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice not to change into their PE clothes with the biological male student present,” Georgas said.
The mother said that school administrators then supervised the girls’ locker room to make sure that the girls changed their clothes in front of the transgender-identifying boy without protest. She identified the district’s assistant superintendent for student services, the school’s assistant principal, and the director for student services as the administrators who forced the girls to change in front of the boy, according to the Lake County Gazette.
“The girls just want their privacy and they want their locker room back,” she said. “There are gender neutral options. This is my daughter’s story, and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at the difficult age to do something they know and most adults know is wrong.”
Georgas’ story received boos from transgender activists in attendance at the school board meeting, including one transgender-identifying person who also happens to have a child identifying as transgender.
“The discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of those facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity,” said the activist, who serves as the director of operations for Trans Up Front, an activist organization. “Instead, any student, teacher or other individuals seeking more privacy should be accommodated by providing that individual with a more private option.”
Georgas said she filed a civil rights complaint with the Justice Department.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-school-staff-watched-to-ensure-girls-changed-in-front-of-trans-identifying-boy-mom-says
Your Made in China USB cable may be spying on you
Industrial CT scanner manufacturer Lumafield imaged an O.MG pen testing USB-C cable, revealing sophisticated electronic components secreted within the connector. Lumafield product lead Jon Bruner shared on X (formerly Twitter) a CT scan that revealed the interior of the O.MG cable, showing advanced electronics and an antenna — a much more complicated design versus the Amazon Basic USB-C cable that Lumafield scanned for comparison. Security researcher Mike Grover created this pen testing (penetration testing) cable for fellow security researchers and hobbyists, red teamers, and for awareness training, especially for highly vulnerable or targeted individuals.
Aside from the microcontroller and antenna, Lumafield’s in-depth 3D CT scan revealed a second set of wires connecting a secondary die hidden under the primary microcontroller. This detail is difficult to spot in the scan, requiring some visualization parameter adjustments and a keen eye. When the cable was passed through an ordinary 2D X-ray, this secondary die was practically invisible, allowing it to easily pass cursory inspection. That means devices like this could conceivably pass through standard detection mechanisms.
The O.MG Elite USB-C cable has several features that could allow anyone controlling it to take over any device plugged into it. Some of its features include keystroke injection, mouse injection, geo-fencing, keylogging, and more.
Lumafield said that it did this scan after it published the internal view of Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro Cable, which revealed a lot of sophisticated electronics inside. Many wondered that if the tech giant could put such a lot of active components inside, maybe someone could put malicious hardware in something as mundane as a USB-C cable. So, Lumafield decided to scan the O.MG cable to see how it hides its active electronics in such a tiny package.
The company's scan shows how a supply chain attack can go undetected. With electronics that look as simple as a charging cable getting more and more complicated every year, anyone, from run-of-the-mill hackers to state-sponsored attackers, could get into the manufacturing process of a device and insert systems that will compromise the final product, or worse.
One glaring example is the recent news of exploding pagers in Lebanon, where someone was able to insert powerful explosives into the devices used by Hezbollah leaders for communication. The pagers changed hands several times — from Taiwan to Hungary — and no one could explain how they were compromised.
The good news is that these cables are expensive, with prices starting at $119.99 for the most basic version. So, you don’t have to be worried about someone spreading this malicious hardware to provide widespread chaos among the public at large. Nevertheless, it’s still better to be safe than sorry, so Bruner recommends that you purchase reputable charging cables sold by trusted stores and avoid public USB ports to charge your devices. If you really need power on-the-go, stick with the best USB-C laptop chargers to avoid getting your devices compromised.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/o-mg-usb-c-cable-ct-scan-reveals-sinister-active-electronics-contains-a-hidden-antenna-and-another-die-embedded-in-the-microcontroller
Milei’s Struggles with Crypto Scandal Intensify
Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who was riding high earlier this year after having defeated hyperinflation in 2024, faces an increasingly tough political landscape after blundering into a major cryptocurrency scandal in February.
The self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist president has a long association with the world of cryptocurrency, which is popular among the libertarians who are his strongest supporters in the country. Crypto is also more common in Argentina than in many other countries because it can serve as a convenient way to escape the nation’s ubiquitous inflation, which rapidly devalues the domestic peso. These associations came back to haunt him, however, when he made a post promoting a “memecoin”—a cryptocurrency with no substantive uses except for speculation—called $LIBRA:
Libertarian Argentina grows!!! This private project will be dedicated to the growth of the Argentine economy, funding small businesses and Argentine entrepreneurship. The world wants to invest in Argentina…
$LIBRA
With the support of the popular Argentine president, investors began to pour money into $LIBRA, with the price skyrocketing immediately after the post was made. Unluckily for investors, however, the president’s post was entirely false: $LIBRA would never be used for promoting Argentine businesses, nor was there any mechanism for it to do so. Instead, the creators of the currency, who held massive proportions of the coin, sold off everything 45 minutes after the president’s post, pocketing $100 million dollars and crashing the coin’s value. Anyone who didn’t sell off early lost nearly everything.
Within a few hours, the president realized he had put himself in a bad spot and deleted the tweet, but it was much too late. Recriminations were already beginning to fly, and the incident has cast a shadow over his presidency, which had been generally successful until now. In interviews with crypto media figures in the United States, one of the coin’s creators revealed that he’d had contact with Milei for years and had paid the president to make a video promoting his online cryptocurrency academy, and suggested that he had paid the president’s sister Karina Milei—who serves as the general secretary of the Argentine executive branch—for access to the president.
Milei’s own defense made things little better for him. While he had promoted the cryptocurrency by claiming that it would serve as a vehicle for funding Argentine small business, he argued afterwards that losses from investors were not his fault because buying crypto is just a form of gambling.
“The reality is if you go to the casino and lose money, I mean, what is the claim if you knew that it had those characteristics?” he said in an interview in February.
The defense certainly was not convincing to his critics, and even to some of his own supporters (a portion of which lost money because of the scandal). The Peronist opposition quickly seized on it as a point of political attack, and is now seeking to leverage the scandal to hurt the political prospects of the president’s party La Libertad Avanza (LLA) in the upcoming legislative elections this year. On Thursday, the opposition scraped together a quorum in the Chamber of Deputies to vote to empower the Political Judgement Committee to investigate the scandal with the help of a disgruntled section of LLA itself. That political catastrophe was barely averted by the president of the chamber, and resulted in a sharp conflict between LLA legislators, where Rocío Bonacci threw a cup of water at fellow libertarian deputy Lilia Lemoine.
Apart from the risks of an inquiry in the legislature, the scandal also consumes vital attention and political capital from the president, who is used to being on the offensive. Now, he is being forced to contend with allegations and accusations of corruption himself, with serious consequences on the table. Argentine law penalizes politicians who use their posts to enrich friends and family members with up to six years in prison and disqualification from future political office. Were he to end up convicted of such, it would not only end his political career, but serve as a major blow to his whole legacy.
The entire debacle has been a rare and egregious misstep from the president, who had until recently demonstrated impeccable political instincts, claiming a stunning upset victory in the presidential election, averting the economic catastrophe of hyperinflation, massively reshaping the structure of Argentine government, tying up major political alliances with competing political parties, and wrangling major legislation through the legislature. While there is no evidence to suggest that the president profited personally from the scandal, it demonstrates a distinct lack of foresight, the product perhaps of the long association between the libertarian political environment and cryptocurrency boosters, many of whom promote unscrupulous projects, like $LIBRA.
So far, however, the scandal seems to be relatively contained. While it may make it more difficult for Milei to campaign effectively and achieve his political objectives, for now, at least, the damage is not likely to end his effectiveness as president.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mileis-struggles-with-crypto-scandal-intensify/
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the “Houthis” will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played “the innocent victim” of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control. They’re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, “Intelligence.” Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!
DONALD J. TRUMP,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114178483249053992
Freed Israeli hostage speaks for the first time about his 505 days of surviving Hamas hell
EXCLUSIVE: After surviving nearly a year and a half deep underground, with barely enough air to breathe and no light, and sharing an 18-square-foot space with three other men, recently released hostage Tal Shoham shared with Fox News Digital his harrowing story of captivity at the hands of Hamas.
Shoham was forcibly taken from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023. His wife and children, ages four and eight, were also kidnapped that day, but he didn’t know that when he was thrown into the trunk of a car and driven into Gaza by Hamas terrorists. He didn’t even know whether his family was alive; hoping to save them, he surrendered to the terrorists just before they set fire to the house where his family was hiding.
He would spend the eight-and-a-half months in an underground tunnel and another five months captive in five different houses deep inside Gaza, where his captors kept him shackled, starved him and deprived him of basic human comforts.
But he gave himself a mission: He was determined not to lose his humanity. Even in moments when he feared that he was facing death, he tried to stay focused. "I am not a victim. Even if this ends, I will end it with my head high, looking death in the eyes. They won’t break me, and I will not surrender to self-pity. We are stronger than the other side," he said.
It has been three weeks since he came home, and he is ready to speak. Kibbutz Be’eri is just nine kilometers — about five-and-a-half miles — from Gaza, but that short distance is practically an ocean between what he describes as two worlds. "Half-an-hour’s drive, two separate worlds," he said. "The first — unbelievably surreal, cruel beyond reason. And just 30 minutes away [on this side of the border], a world of sanity, logic, dignity and compassion."
He remembers every detail of his 505 days in captivity. Tal wants to tell his story for the sake of the two fellow captives who remain behind, starving, abused and at constant risk of death. "Just as someone emerges from a womb alive, I emerged from the tunnel I was held in and was born again," he says. But the men he calls his "brothers," Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, are still held underground. "I can’t sleep at night knowing they are still there," he says.
Tal and his wife and children had come from the north of Israel to Kibbutz Be’eri to spend the Simchat Torah holiday with his wife’s parents and were in the home when the terror attack began. He said everyone entered the safe room, and as the sounds of gunfire drew closer, they tried to barricade themselves inside. But the terrorists pried open the window, and Tal feared they might toss in a grenade if the family did not surrender. On the same street, the terrorists set fire to every other home, burning the people inside alive.
"I went out and raised my hands," he said. "A man with murder in his eyes led me onto the road and to a vehicle. I saw about 40 heavily armed terrorists. Some of them were filming me on their phones. I was in shock — there was an entire battalion of Hamas terrorists inside our kibbutz, bodies of people I knew who were murdered on the ground, and they are laughing, unafraid."
The terrorists threw him into the trunk of a car and drove him across the border, into Gaza. There, a crowd gathered. "Teenagers with sticks ran toward me, trying to beat me from all sides," he says. Taking him from the car, his captors pointed a rifle at him, ready, he believed, to execute him, and tried to force him to kneel. "I said, ‘I can’t control whether you kill me or not,’ and I raised my hands — but I refused to kneel. ‘If you want to kill me, kill me, but you will not execute me like ISIS.’"
He was then paraded through the streets in what he described as a "victory march." "They were shouting, ‘Soldier! Pig! Zionist!’ A mob gathered around, boys with wooden clubs trying to hit me. But I just waved and smiled. I didn’t show fear. ‘You’ve captured me, but you won’t see terror in my eyes.’"
He was first taken to the home of a family, where he was held, alone and always shackled, for 34 days. Though he was allowed to periodically shower, the captivity was otherwise severe.
His food was strictly rationed. "For the first three days, I had pita bread. Then, they stopped giving me that," he says. "Food supplies dwindled. Some days, I would receive three spoons of avocado and three dates, or half an orange from a tree in the yard."
But the worst torment was not knowing whether his family was alive. "I am 40 years old. Never in my life have I experienced suffering like this. The isolation, being alone with relentless thoughts —that was worse than even extreme hunger."
To endure, he made a heartbreaking decision. "I had to accept that my family was dead," Tal says. "I sat on the floor and imagined myself at their funeral. I stood in front of a grave — one large for my wife, and two small for my children — and I eulogized each of them. I thanked them for the time we had. I told them to move on. I sobbed but didn’t let my captors see me cry. That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done — burying my family in my mind."
On the 34th day of his captivity, Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal were brought to the home. The Hamas terrorists tortured them daily, hitting them, denying them food while eating in front of them. The hostages were allowed only about 300 calories a day — Shoham's weight dropped from 174 pounds to 110 pounds when he was released — and speaking was forbidden. "We couldn’t move from our beds or talk. We whispered everything," he said.
Then came some glimmer of hope. On the 50th day of his captivity, Tal received proof of life from his wife — a letter telling him she and the children had been held hostage but were being released. "I read it, my hands shaking," he said. "The most important thing had happened — my family was safe. I didn’t need to be a father and husband protecting them anymore. Now, I could focus on my war, the one I knew how to fight, the one for survival."
By June 2024, Tal, Guy and Evyatar were moved by an ambulance that Hamas used for discreetly transporting hostages, to an underground tunnel, where there already was another captive, Omer Wenkert. There were four mattresses on the floor and a hole in the ground for a toilet. The space was illuminated by a single, dim lightbulb. "It took me weeks to stop feeling like the walls were closing in, to adapt to the oxygen deprivation," Tal says.
They were given just 300 milliliters of water a day — a little more than 10 ounces. They could use it to either drink or wash their hands. Rice was all they had to eat. Months passed. They were beaten, monitored by cameras, randomly deprived of food and sleep. The guards were Hamas tunnel diggers — digging every day, even as war raged above. "Hamas never stopped digging tunnels," Tal Says. "Not for a single day."
The conditions were so bad that both he and Evyatar developed severe infections. But it would be months before a doctor would come to see them. "My leg turned blue, yellow, and purple with internal bleeding," He recalls. "They gave us all blood thinners, fearing we might develop clots from prolonged immobility. Eventually, they realized the issue was malnutrition and provided us with vitamin supplements for seven days. It tasted like dog food, but it dramatically improved our condition."
But the abuse continued. A new guard arrived, even more violent than the previous ones. "He made some of us kneel like dogs and beat us," he says. "He would come in screaming that we were filthy Jews, hit us, and then 10 minutes later, he would smile and bring food."
Then, what seemed like a miracle. Tal and Omer were named as part of the hostage-release deal in February. When he was led outside after many months underground, still blindfolded, he felt moisture on his face. "Is it rain?" he asked. "No," his captors responded, "’It is dew.’ And I realized, my name, Tal, is ‘dew’ in Hebrew. I felt the morning dew on my skin."
There were humiliations to come before he was handed over to the Red Cross and returned to Israel: a procession on a stage in the heart of Rafah where he was forced to repeat Hamas propaganda. But he said he didn’t care — he was going home. When he arrived in Israel, he was taken to the Re’im base, where his wife, Adi, and their two children, Nave and Yahel, were waiting for him. "It was a dream come true, yet it still felt like a dream," Tal says. "It took a few days to fully grasp that it was real. It was hard to take in. The emotions flooded me, like I was floating above everything."
And there was tragic news to absorb. Eleven members of Tal’s family were kidnapped or murdered on October 7. Adi’s father, Avshalom Haran, and two uncles, Lilach and Evyatar Kipnis, were killed. His mother-in-law, Shoshan Haran, was taken, along with two other relatives — Sharon Avigdori and her daughter, Noam Avigdori — who were later released in the first hostage deal. Two other relatives who had come from the United States to celebrate a birthday, 59-year-old Judith Raanan, and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, were also kidnapped from Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
And there was joy. During his captivity, four new babies were born into the family. "Among us, the Jewish hostages, there was purity," he said. "There was dignity. The terrorists brought in whatever horrors they wanted, inflicted whatever cruelty and pain they could, imposed their inhumanity on us. But within our space, we preserved our inner cleanliness, our humanity between one another. And that was crucial to making it out unbroken."
https://www.foxnews.com/world/freed-israeli-hostage-speaks-first-time-about-his-505-days-surviving-hamas-hell
Ninth Circuit Knocks Down Hawaii’s Gun Control Law
A panel of three judges from the United States Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court decision that knocked down two provisions of Hawaii’s firearms laws. The case is currently known as Yukutake v. Lopez.
The first provision the plaintiffs challenged was a narrow time window a gun buyer had after receiving a permit to acquire a firearm to purchase that gun. The original statute gave a gun buyer ten days to obtain their firearm. Hawaii would amend its law to change the 10-day time frame to acquire a gun to 30 days. This change was an effort to moot the case, but the ploy failed, and the case continued.
The Ninth Circuit upheld the district’s court decision. It ruled that the short time period the State gave violated the plaintiff’s Second Amendment rights. The first step in determining if a gun law is constitutional is to see if the plain text of the Second Amendment protects the conduct. The Courts have long held that the right to acquire arms is part of the right to bear arms. Once that is determined, the onus falls on the State to prove that a law is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation. That feat is done through historical analogues.
The decision reads: “The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment that the short timeframe for completing the purchase of a firearm after obtaining a permit was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The purchase and acquisition of firearms is conduct protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. Because § 134-2(e) regulates conduct covered by the Second Amendment’s plain text, the Second Amendment presumptively protects that conduct. The burden therefore fell on the State to justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation.”
The second provision knocked down is the requirement for a gun buyer to bring their newly purchased firearms to the police station for an in-person inspection. The panel ruled that this requirement is overly burdensome for gun owners. The inspections only take place during certain times, meaning that gun owners might have to take off work to have their firearms inspected. The court believes the real point of the provision is to burden the gun owner.
The order reads: “Hawaii’s broad in-person inspection requirement could not be justified as merely a proper ancillary logistical measure in support of such a system. The government failed to point to evidence supporting its conclusion that the addition of a broadly applicable and burdensome physical inspection requirement will materially advance the objectives of the registration system. As with plaintiffs’ challenge to § 134-2(e), the panel remanded to the district court to revise its permanent injunction, as appropriate, in light of the recent amendment to § 134-3 and to conform to the panel’s ruling.”
The attorney for the plaintiff, Stephen Stamboulieh, highlights that this is a panel’s decision, and the State could ask for an en banc hearing. The Ninth Circuit is notoriously anti-gun, and it could reverse the panel’s decision.
“I’m pleased that the 9th circuit panel ruled in favor of the 2A, but given previous wins Alan and I have received in the 9th, including Young and Teter, it’s hard to get too excited knowing that an en banc rehearing is no doubt likely to happen,” Stamboulieh said.
The State has yet to ask for an en banc hearing, but it is expected to ask for one. The Ninth Circuit is expected to grant the en banc.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/ninth-circuit-knocks-down-hawaiis-gun-control-law/
Kash Patel drops new FBI recruitment video
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1901634713233641760
Data Republican conducts AI analysis of Maga Swatting victims
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1901466684398895135.html