Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at Block — the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. Forty percent of the entire workforce, gone in a memo. And here’s the kicker: the company’s business is doing just fine. Gross profit up 24%...
Category: National News
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided — separately, quietly, and with cold calculation — that whoever controls the next Iranian government controls the next chapter of Middle Eastern history. What happened on February 28, 2026 was simply the moment that calculation went...
Easy Part: What Comes After Khamenei?
Operation Epic Fury They got him. Early Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” a missile found Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his own compound in Tehran — reportedly while he was at his desk, carrying out the duties of a man who believed himself untouchable. Within hours,...
The Club Nobody Asked to Join: How the Epstein Files Are Unmasking the Institutions That Rule the World
Let’s start with a simple question. Have you ever wondered who decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Five people. Five Norwegian citizens, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, are operating without any required expertise in international law, diplomacy, or conflict resolution. No formal credentials. No public accountability. Just five individuals — typically former politicians and...
JEFFREY EPSTEIN EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE
JEFFREY EPSTEIN EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE By Presidential Administration Based on DOJ Epstein Files Release (Jan. 30, 2026) & House Oversight Committee Documents (Nov. 2025) Prepared: February 23, 2026 IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Appearance in the Epstein files does not constitute evidence of wrongdoing. The DOJ itself noted the files include unverified tips, unvetted submissions, and news clippings. No...
Mining at the Margin: Publicly Traded Bitcoin Miners Are in Survival Mode
Let’s talk about something that mainstream financial media has been reluctant to say plainly: right now, with Bitcoin trading at just under $70,000 and the all-in cost to mine a single coin running between $60,000 and $80,000 depending on the operator, most publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies are either scraping by at break-even or quietly...
Rent Freeze. COPA. Property Tax Hike. ADU Traps. Is This a Housing Plan or a Slow-Motion Seizure?
Let’s talk about a quiet but consequential piece of policy making its way through New York City right now — one that could fundamentally reshape who gets to own property in the five boroughs, and why it matters far beyond the Hudson River. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has thrown his weight behind the revival of COPA...
Voter ID Laws: Is It Really About Illegal Immigrants — Or Is Something Else Going On?
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. Every election cycle, the debate over voter ID laws gets loud, gets tribal, and gets exhausting — and both sides walk away more convinced than ever that the other is either naive or malicious. Conservatives say you need an ID to buy beer, board a plane,...
The Shutdown Charade: How Congress Turned Budget Deadlines Into Political Hostage-Taking
Understanding the theater behind government shutdowns—and why they have nothing to do with America actually running out of money We’ve all seen it play out like clockwork: the breathless countdown to a “government shutdown,” politicians pointing fingers across the aisle, essential workers wondering if they’ll get paid, and the American people watching another episode of...
The cryptocurrency designed to escape government oversight has instead enhanced the state’s ability to tax, monitor, and seize digital wealth
In 2008, an anonymous figure using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper describing Bitcoin as “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” that would operate without the need for trusted third parties. The promise was revolutionary: money beyond government control, transactions without intermediaries, financial sovereignty for individuals in a digital age. Fifteen years later, Bitcoin...









