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lawyersgunsmoneyblog_feedThe head of CBS News now and the head of CNN imminently, everyone:
It’s depressing to see the Greatest Hits of W. era warmongering getting recycled on social media at all, but it’s much worse coming from one of the most influential people in American media.
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TL;DR: Live stream the Brit Awards 2026 for free on ITVX. Access this live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
Some of the biggest names in music are performing at the Brit Awards this weekend. Sure, there are a lot of awards to be presented, but that's not really what the Brits is about. It's about incredible performances, risqué jokes from the host, and celebrities behaving very badly. It's always a messy night (in the best kind of way).
If you want to watch the Brit Awards 2026 for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. It's the highest profile music awards ceremony in the UK, with performances from some of the industry's biggest stars. In 2026, Jack Whitehall will host the ceremony for the sixth time. The likes of Olivia Dean, Mark Ronson, Harry Styles, and Rosalía are lined up to perform.
The Brit Awards have featured some of the most notable events in British popular culture, including the final public appearance of Freddie Mercury, the high-profile feud between Oasis and Blur, the Union Jack dress worn by Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls, and so many more iconic moments.
The Brit Awards 2026 takes place on Feb. 28 at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester. The awards and performances will begin at 8:15 p.m. GMT.
The Brit Awards 2026 is available to live stream for free on ITVX.
ITVX is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These handy tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can unblock ITVX to live stream the Brit Awards 2026 from anywhere in the world.
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SAVE $723: As of Feb. 28, Amazon has the 39-inch LG Ultragear curved gaming monitor on sale for $876, which is 45% its list price of 1,599.
If you’ve been dreaming of putting together a gaming setup with a curved monitor or wishing to upgrade your current equipment, this weekend might be the time to do it. Amazon has the LG Ultragear 39-inch curved gaming monitor on sale for almost half off. This model is perfect for those who want a single-screen OLED monitor with a wicked-fast frame rate and an 800R curve for true immersion. The monitor has a thick, sturdy, white base for folks who don’t mind the look of noticeable hardware.
Unlike other monitors meant only for running whatever you plug into them, this model has webOS 24 with access to your favorite streaming services built in. This means you could take a break from work or gaming and binge your favorite shows.
The screen is also expertly designed to reduce glare and reflections. This means you aren’t automatically required to find an extremely low-light location for your gaming monitor (although that can sometimes be a vibe). The sale price of this monitor makes this particular model size one of the lowest-priced OLED monitors you can buy on Amazon right now.
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Legendary musician Buddy Guy brought the blues to NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, with a guest appearance from Sinners actor Miles Caton.
The pair co-star in Ryan Coogler's Academy Award-nominated smash hit. Caton plays gifted blues singer Sammie "Preacher Boy" Moore, whose music is so brilliant it transcends time (and lures a crew of vampires right to him). Guy plays Sammie 60 years on, when he's deep into a successful blues career.
Guy kicks off his Tiny Desk Concert with his 1991 track "Damn Right, I've Got the Blues" before shifting to his cover of Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man."
After these classic blues songs, Guy invites Caton to join him for two songs from the Sinners soundtrack. First up is "Travelin,'" which Sammie sings while driving around with Stack (Michael B. Jordan). Then, Guy and Caton launch into "I Lied to You," the song that brings the house down in Smoke (also Jordan) and Stack's juke joint. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song, "I Lied to You" was written by Raphael Saadiq and Sinners composter Ludwig Göransson.
Don't expect Guy and Caton to perform these songs exactly as they appear in Sinners, though. Their renditions here are full of blues improvisation and playful banter, with Guy adding his own spin throughout and inviting Caton to join in. For a great trip through the history of blues, this mini concert is a must watch.
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SAVE $819: As of February 28, Amazon has this Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 curved gaming monitor on sale for $1,480, which is 36% off its list price of $2,299.
If you’ve ever been tapping away at your laptop with a million tabs open, wishing you could drag them all out in the air and see everything at once, Amazon has a sale this weekend that you might be interested in. The 57” Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 curved gaming monitor is on sale right now. Although it can’t offer the futuristic (Apple Vision Pro-esque) feature of spreading all your windows out into thin air, it offers an amazing surface area for multitasking or gaming.
The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 essentially gives you the workspace of two high-quality monitors set side by side. Instead of an awkward gap in the center, you get 57 inches of uninterrupted 4K resolution with a 240 Hz refresh rate.
Samsung's proprietary Quantum Matrix Technology with quantum mini-LEDs offers enhanced brightness and color contrast on this massive screen. This, paired with the aforementioned refresh rate, allows your media to be viewed in rich, crisp detail. Satisfied review writers praise the curvature of the screen’s ability to make you feel totally immersed in whatever you end up doing.
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SAVE $500: As of Feb. 28, Amazon has the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone camera on sale for 30% off at $1,099, down from its list price of $1,599.
If you’ve been wanting to upgrade your aerial photography setup, this weekend might be a great chance to do so. Amazon has DJI’s Mini 5 Pro on sale for almost a third off its list price, which is a pretty good deal. The Mini 5 Pro is an excellent sidekick for outdoor adventurers, aerial photography hobbyists, and professionals who want a compact, portable device.
The drone is palm-sized when folded and fits easily into a pocket. This model comes replete with 42GB of internal storage, so you can film your adventure or venture entirely uninterrupted. Its portability and compactness do not compromise its ability to capture high-quality video, either. As previously mentioned, the drone records 4k footage with a 60fps (frames per second) frame rate. DJI claims this drone will render your content in crisp, clear, highly defined detail.
The drone also comes with the DJI RC 2 (the remote control) that has a large screen in the center to see what you’re filming in real time.
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— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) February 28, 2026
Israeli ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter told U.S. officials that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in the Israeli strike on his compound, a source with knowledge said
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would likely be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources briefed on the intelligence said.
JD Vance in 2023: There are many reasons I changed my mind on Donald Trump, but Iraq is perhaps the most important. Not that he was an early critic of the war, but that the people in the conservative movement who hated him most were the most wrong, and the most proud, about foreign policy in 2003
Pete Hegseth: “The War Department will not be distracted by democracy-building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change…and feckless nation-building.”
Trump has apparently said Operation Epic Fury — we are ruled by 12 year old boys — could last weeks, though I can’t find the exact quote. Also it’s a small thing in itself, I guess, but this murderous imbecile was wearing a USA baseball cap in the video announcing this epically furious venture. What are the odds that Trump is even aware of the difference between Shia and Sunni Muslims? (Hopefully Jared has read up on that a bit).
I got a grim laugh out of this current CNN headline:
Are Trump’s strikes against Iran legal? Experts are skeptical
. . . Axios caught Trump between rounds of golf:
President Trump told Axios on Saturday that he has several “off ramps” from Operation Epic Fury, the extraordinary U.S. military campaign against Iran that he launched early Saturday morning.
What they’re saying: “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs],” Trump said in a five-minute phone interview from Mar-a-Lago.
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Welcome to The Logoff: The US is at war with Iran.
Hi readers, by now I’m sure you’ve seen the news: Early on Saturday morning, the Trump administration, after weeks-long naval buildup in the Middle East, launched a major attack on Iran.
As always with conflict reporting, there’s much we still don’t know about what has happened, much less what will come next. Trying to follow it all in real time can feel like drinking from a firehose, and this is likely to be a story of weeks and months, not days or hours.
With that in mind, here’s what you need to know right now:
What happened? The first wave of attacks by the US and Israel, which began around 1 am Eastern time on Saturday morning, targeted multiple Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran. Hundreds are reportedly dead and many more injured.
Iran has responded by striking at targets throughout the region, including Israel and a number of countries in the Persian Gulf that are home to US bases: Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
So far, there have been no US casualties reported. There are also reports that Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil passes as it makes its way into the global market.
Why is the Trump administration doing this? As my colleague Zack Beauchamp reported this morning, Trump’s justifications for war have been bewilderingly incoherent.
For much of the week, it has seemed like the possibility of war turned on the outcome of US-Iran negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program (and its ballistic missile arsenal and support for proxy forces like Hezbollah).
On Saturday, though, Trump cast the conflict in grander terms: “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,” he said in a video posted to social media. “We’re not gonna put up with it any longer.”
Trump is also promising regime change in Iran, on the heels of his threat earlier this year to intervene on behalf of anti-regime protesters; “the hour of your freedom is at hand,” he said on Saturday.
What’s the big picture? Saturday’s strikes are Trump’s second norms-shattering use of military force abroad in just the first two months of 2026. But unlike Venezuela, this looks to be a full-scale war, not a brief operation already over by the time many Americans are tuning in.
Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Gulf states on Saturday also raise the possibility that this could further escalate into a broader regional conflict.
Trump on Saturday described the US campaign as a “massive and ongoing operation,” and with one aircraft carrier group already in the region and another on the way, the US appears to be positioned for a potential multi-week conflict.
What that will look like as it plays out, not even Trump may know: As Reuters reported Saturday, briefers told the president ahead of the attack that it would be a high-risk, high-reward operation.
We love to give you a link to click here, but that can be hard to do on days like today. So instead, I’ll just encourage you to log off in whatever way you prefer, whether that’s going for a walk, watching a movie, or something else.
As always, thanks for reading. We’ll be back on Monday with more.
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