Jay Nichols

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchai...

Reminder that Donald Trump, Jr. invested heavily in #Polymarket - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Emergence of Epstein island photo leads to new calls for Lutnick to testify Members of Congress are raising questions after a photograph they say shows Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alongside Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s private island was briefly removed from the Justice Department’s website.

Emergence of Epstein island photo leads to new calls for Lutnick to testify

https://fascinating.news/r/6ZEXnSJw

DOJ violating the law to hide evidence of Trump raping children

Opinion | Crypto Is Pointless. Not Even the White House Can Fix That.

#Crypto = Crime - Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...

Anthropic acquires AI startup Vercept to enhance Claude's computer use features - SiliconANGLE Anthropic acquires AI startup Vercept to enhance Claude's computer use features - SiliconANGLE

Anthropic acquires AI startup Vercept to enhance Claude’s computer use features siliconangle.com/2026/02/25/a...

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Why the Supreme Court’s Tariff Decision May Be Short-Lived Within hours of losing the case, President Trump declared a new global tariff under a different statute.

"We do not believe that the majority’s decision will temper Trump’s impulsive governing," write @GeorgetownLaw professors @michelebgoodwin and @gregorycshaffer, "nor mitigate the consequences of his unlawful executive orders or the illegal conduct of his administration."
https://bit.ly/4s8X0Ss

People don't want data centers polluting their cities.

They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home.

They want their basic needs met.

600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur A Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI to compromise the FortiGate firewalls, targeting credentials and backups for possible follow-on ransomware attacks.

600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur

More Than Half a Million Customers Have Lost Power on East Coast The outages were mostly caused by problems with local power lines, and coastal Massachusetts was particularly hard hit.

Widespread outages across several states on the East Coast left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity as power lines and poles succumbed to wind, snow and falling trees and branches. nyti.ms/4b4Hz86

Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

#Crypto = Crime - Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

Justice for sale in the Trump era - Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Worried about first amendment rights? Want to make a difference?
Support a newsroom.

Here’s a few I pay to support:

@404media.co
@wired.com
@washingtonpost.com
@calmatters.org
@npr.org

And I pay for my paper delivery of the @nytimes.com because I still love the smell of a newspaper.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a ...

Exclusive: The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries reut.rs/4kErI3k

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

It's really like Satan is in charge ... Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Besieged As the last digit on the calendar rolled over from five to six, it took less than a month to realize the coming year was going to be different than the year that preceded it. Arguably the stage was se...

Very interesting take on the #sustainability of #opensource from industry analyst firm @redmonk.com redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.

Now we learned that they were in business together.

He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.

He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child.

Ugly - apnews.com/article/jeff...

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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

This is a fascinating take on the finance industry - www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Reminder that the Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers, more than most outlets will ever have, after its decision not to publish an endorsement in the last election. www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n...

That kind of cowardice, not AI or whatever, is what's "drastically reshaping" readers' expectations.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Epstein files reveal paedophile financier’s desperate attempts to court Putin Epstein files reveal paedophile financier’s desperate attempts to court Putin

Epstein files reveal paedophile financier’s desperate attempts to court Putin

Elon Musk Emailed With Jeffrey Epstein to Plan Island Visits in 2012 and 2014 Epstein wrote an email to Musk in 2013 discussing a visit with four "assistants," newly released DOJ documents show.

Elon Musk Emailed With Jeffrey Epstein to Plan Island Visits in 2012 and 2014 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-emailed-with-jeffrey-epstein-to-plan-island-visits-in-2012-and-2014-2000716075

cover of The Economist this week