Pi Network gains traction across major exchanges, but Binance listing delay keeps investors questioning its future growth and mainstream adoption potential.
Despite strong community support and 86% Binance poll backing, Pi price remains weak near $0.19, showing consolidation rather than a breakout trend.
Pi community remains divided as some see Binance listing as a catalyst, while others believe long-term value depends on ecosystem growth, not exchanges.
The Pi Network rumour mill never really stops. But this week it is spinning faster than usual, and there is an actual reason for it.
A token called SIREN just blew past a $1.2 billion market cap almost immediately after getting listed on Binance-linked platforms, according to CoinGecko data. That one data point was all it took. Within hours, Pi community accounts were doing what they always do: connecting dots, making comparisons, and asking the same question they have been asking for two years now.
Why is Binance still not listing Pi?
It is a fair question. PiNews360, one of the more followed accounts in the Pi community, put it plainly this week. Pi has tens of millions of users spread across nearly every country on earth. Its ecosystem is growing. Its migration numbers are climbing. At some point, the argument goes, Pi simply becomes too large and too liquid for the world’s biggest crypto exchange to keep looking the other way.
What has changed in recent months is that Pi is no longer sitting on the sidelines of the broader market. It is already trading on OKX, Bitget, MEXC, Gate.io, Bybit and HTX. Most recently, Kraken quietly rolled out PI perpetual futures.
Binance Poll Still Shapes Expectations
The current excitement is rooted in past developments. Nearly a year ago, Pi secured around 86% support in a Binance community poll, signaling strong retail demand for a listing.
Despite this overwhelming backing, Binance has yet to take the next step. The delay continues to keep the community in a wait-and-watch mode, with expectations building over time rather than fading.
Price Struggles Despite Growing Hype
While discussions around listings are heating up, Pi’s price action remains under pressure. The token is currently trading near the $0.19 mark, stabilizing after a period of volatility and a steep decline from its earlier highs close to $3.
With a market cap of around $1.84 billion and a circulating supply of 9.81 billion tokens, Pi has struggled to maintain upward momentum. Daily trading volumes remain modest, and recent price movements suggest consolidation rather than a breakout.
Community Split on Binance’s Importance
The debate within the community remains divided. Some usersbelieve a Binance listing could act as a major catalyst, potentially driving a strong price surge and wider adoption. Others take a different stance, arguing that Pi’s value will come from its internal ecosystem rather than reliance on centralized exchanges.
Ohio man buys lottery ticket for wrong drawing, wins $50,000
Feb. 20 (UPI) — An Ohio man attempting to play Mega Millions accidentally bought a ticket for the wrong lottery drawing — and ended up winning a $50,000 prize.
Kalshi has raised $1 billion in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, valuing the prediction market at $22 billion.
The raise doubles Kalshi’s valuation from its December round, which was led by Paradigm and included Ark Invest, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sequoia.
Rival Polymarket was valued at $9 billion in October 2025 following a $2 billion investment from Intercontinental Exchange.
Prediction market giant Kalshi has raised a $1 billion round and, with it, clinched a $22 billion valuation, a person familiar with the matter told Decrypt. The news was originally reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The deal has roughly doubled Kalshi’s valuation from its last round in December, when investors valued the business at $11 billion. That round was led by Paradigm and included investments from Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, and venture capital giants Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
This new funding round was led by Coatue Management, the source said. Kalshi declined to comment when asked to confirm the news by Decrypt.
Money has been flowing into the industry at a blistering pace. A buzzy Certuity report from last summer estimated that prediction markets could reach $95.5 billion by 2035, with a compound annual growth rate of 46.8%.
Kalshi was founded and launched in June 2021, but the company was stymied by an attempt by the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission to block its election contracts in September 2023.
The prediction markets startup took the matter to court and got a favorable district court ruling in September 2024, but the CFTC appealed, leaving Kalshi waiting to see if the ruling would hold. The regulator voluntarily dismissed its appeal in May 2025, effectively giving Kalshi the green light to offer election contracts.
Since then, its fundraising trajectory has accelerated sharply over the past year. In June 2025, the company raised $185 million at a $2 billion valuation in a Series C round led by Paradigm, with participation from Sequoia, Multicoin, and others—catapulting it to unicorn status.
By October, Kalshi had raised an additional $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, with Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, and others participating, as the company announced plans to expand into more than 140 countries. The jump up to an $11 billion valuation was announced in December, thanks to an additional $1 billion investment.
Its competitor, Polymarket, saw its own valuation reach $9 billion in October 2025 as Intercontinental Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, completed a $2 billion investment. The news came alongside Polymarket CEO Shane Coplan being dubbed the youngest “self-made billionaire” according to a Bloomberg report at the time.
Decrypt reporter André Beganski contributed to this report.
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Sturgill Simpson was not about to go gently down the stream with his latest album. “Mutiny After Midnight,” attributed to Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, has only been released in physical formats — i.e. vinyl, compact discs and cassettes — but that did not stop it from enjoying a big bow on the Billboard 200. When the chart’s new top 10 was unveiled on Sunday, “Mutiny After Midnight” came in at No. 3, with 59,000 units, all of them in pure old-school sales.
However much withholding an album from streaming might seem counterintuitive in 2026, that actually served to draw attention to the project. That could be a factor in why this is actually the best debut week Simpson/Blue Skies has ever had, under any name and with any combination of formats.
The only albums to come in ahead of “Mutiny After Midnight” were Harry Styles‘ “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” which held onto the No. 1 spot for a second week with 99,000, and Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem,” up one position to No. 2 with 74,000.
Billboard reported that the Johnny Blue Skies album was the first physical-release-only to make the top 10 in almost three years. The previous one to do it was a Record Store Day limited-edition vinyl exclusive from Taylor Swift, “Folklore,” which basically blew through its entire pressing of 75,000 copies in its first day of release. But if you were to leave out RSD LP exclusives, the last physical-only release to reach the top 10 was in 2017, when Garth Brooks put out an archival five-CD boxed set. (Billboard did not say when the last time was that it happened with an LP of actual brand-new material;. Now, that would require some serious memory-stretching.)
Billboard notes that the Simpson/Blue Skies project was available in several variants, including a standard black vinyl LP and CD that were widely available across retail, plus an indie-exclusive red vinyl variant, and five other vinyl editions and a cassette that were exclusive to the artist’s webstore. Although these offered plenty of alternatives for fans, the editions were not significantly different from one another to have probably resulted in the multi-copy collecting common to pop superstars’ fan bases nowadays.
The artist did what in retrospect looks to have been a superb job of self-marketing the album as something distinctly different in his catalog, not just with the formats offered (or not offered), but with the promise that “Mutiny After Midnight” would be “a dance record… centered firmly on groove… each song was written in the moment, on-the-spot.” The promise was also made that the songs would speak to, and/or distract from, the anxious state of the world. If anyone figured any of this would dissuade the part of Simpson’s fan base that came to know him as an alternative country artist first, and not someone who does topical disco, that dissuasion did not materialize.
It also didn’t hurt, apparently, that despite his reluctance to put the album on streaming, Simpson/Blue Eyes did “leak” the album briefly on YouTube weeks before its release. The sales results show that fans must’ve liked what they (temporarily) heard, with word of mouth as strong as reviews ultimately were.
Blue Skies, for his part, has indicated that the “Mutiny After Midnight” album will be released to streaming apps at some point, after he’s proven that people want it even (or especially) in a slightly less easy to obtain or play format.
Styles’ place at the top of the Billboard 200 was still secure for a second week, even though the 99,000 units represented a tumble of 77%. Breaking down the results for “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” the biggest decline was in pure album sales, which were down by 92%, with most of his fan base having secured their vinyl copies in week one. Streaming was down less substantially, by 47%, to a second-week tally of 75 million on-demand official streams for Styles.
Coming in at No. 4 was P1Harmony’s “Unique,” just behind Johnny Blue Skies with 58,000 equivalent album units. Album sales accounted for 56,0000 of those units, with Billboard noting there were 24 CD variants and five vinyl variants for sale. Streaming, meanwhile, was relatively negligible, with only 2.22 million on-demand streams reported for the album.
The remainder of the top 10 consisted of Bad Bunny’s “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” at No. 5 (with 57,000 units), Don Toliver’s “Octane” at No. 6, Olivia Dean’s “The Art of Loving” at No. 7, Bruno Mars’ “The Romantic” at No. 8, Tate McRae’s “So Close to What” at No. 9 (an 11-point jump, due to a deluxe edition being released) and “KPop Demon Hunters” (enjoying a modest 9% surge after the Oscars).
Styles’ stay at No. 1 wil likely be a short one, as Friday’s comeback album from BTS is sure to lead the charge next week. Based partly on a spectacular opening day on Spotify, the K-pop group’s first new album since 2020 is widely projected to rack up the year’s best opening figures to date.
Exhaustion rather than recovery is a great way to characterize the current state of the cryptocurrency market. The back-and-forth that we are witnessing nowadays is draining liquidity, pushing retails away and making institutional investors choose more stable assets. Unfortunately, the market could not find a footing that would allow it to recover in a proper fashion.
Shiba Inu’s momentum cannot be maintained
With $SHIB continuously failing to reach higher highs or maintain any significant bullish momentum, recent price action clearly demonstrates the continuation of the larger downtrend. In theory, it is hard to overlook the situation.
$SHIB is still well below important moving averages, such as the 50 EMA, which is still serving as dynamic resistance. It is clear that sellers are still in charge, because every attempt to regain this level has been turned down. Descending triangles and weak consolidation phases, which usually resolve to the downside when they appear within a bearish trend, are what define the structure itself.
Volumes are unhealthy
Additionally unhelpful is volume behavior. Although there have been sporadic increases during brief recoveries, overall participation seems erratic and lacks the expansion usually necessary for a trend reversal. Rather than being true accumulation phases, rallies resemble relief bounces.
From a wider angle, the case for a fresh push higher is considerably undermined by $SHIB’s incapacity to overcome even fundamental resistance levels. Short-term moving averages are typically swiftly recovered by assets that are still in a strong uptrend following corrections. Conversely, $SHIB is spending long stretches of time below them, which is indicative of ongoing selling pressure and weak demand.
This makes it plausible that, at least for the current cycle, the price top has already been reached. It implies that, unless there is a significant change in market conditions or a spike in demand, upside potential may remain constrained, even though it does not necessarily imply a total collapse.
Investors ought to think about the bigger picture as well. Sentiment and liquidity cycles have a significant impact on meme assets like $SHIB. The price usually follows when both start to decline. As of right now, neither participation metrics nor technical structure point to a significant reversal forming.
Will Bitcoin recover?
Concerns about Bitcoin’s current market structure persist as recent price movement indicates that the current downward trend may not be over.
The asset is still under constant selling pressure after losing important support levels and failing to sustain upward momentum. Technical indicators point to ongoing weakness rather than a confirmed recovery.
From a structural perspective, Bitcoin is steadily trading below significant moving averages, such as the 50 and 200-day levels, which are currently sloping lower. A strong bearish regime, in which rallies are sold into rather than prolonged, is usually reflected in this alignment. Short-lived attempts at recovery in recent times have created lower highs and strengthened the overall downward trend.
Persistent market pressure is also actively driving the asset down. Selling volume has accompanied every bounce, indicating that market players are taking advantage of strength to sell rather than build. This behavior is in line with distribution phases, in which the bid side’s liquidity progressively disappears.
This view is further supported by volume dynamics. Although there have been spikes during abrupt changes, overall participation does not demonstrate the kind of consistent inflows required to buck the trend. Rather than being driven by organic demand, the market seems reactive, driven more by short-term positioning and liquidations.
Nevertheless, there is some balance in the situation. Zones that previously served as support for Bitcoin are getting closer, which may draw opportunistic buyers hoping for a comeback. Furthermore, people’s mood is growing more cautious, which has historically led to short-term relief rallies.
Any possible recovery is still contingent, though. Bitcoin would need to recover important resistance levels and hold above them with significant volume confirmation in order for a significant reversal to occur. In the absence of that, the current structure favors prolonged consolidation, or at most, further declines.
$XRP‘s price drop is not simple
Although $XRP’s current market structure allows for more declines, a more nuanced perspective is needed to determine whether it can actually fall below the $1 level.
Although a decline toward $1 is not yet the worst-case scenario, it is undoubtedly possible given the overall bearish trend. Technically speaking, $XRP is still in a prolonged downward trend, with price action continuously forming lower highs and faltering below important moving averages. The 50 EMA still serves as dynamic resistance, thwarting attempts to move higher and bolstering bearish control.
More significantly, $XRP has been using an upward trendline as short-term support. This stage is crucial. The structure changes from a weak consolidation to a continuation of the downtrend if that trendline breaks decisively. Lower support zones would be the next logical targets in that case, and psychologically significant levels like $1 begin to take center stage.
$XRP might tumble even lower
Theoretically, there is a way for $XRP to lose $1. Round numbers are not respected by markets as hard floors unless there is a high level of demand. $XRP may test much lower levels if selling pressure continues, liquidity declines and overall market sentiment deteriorates. This is more likely if the market as a whole, and Bitcoin, continue to decline.
But context counts. Buyers are likely to intervene forcefully before the price reaches the $1 level, because it is not only psychologically significant but also historically significant for $XRP. Furthermore, despite recent volatility, on-chain activity and network usage still offer a baseline level of demand that may mitigate or slow downward movements.
$XRP is not currently in a free fall. It is in a delicate, strained structure that could collapse in either direction based on the state of the market as a whole. The likelihood of a move toward $1 would rise with a prolonged breakdown below current support levels, but this would probably require a combination of technical failure and external market weakness.
To put it briefly, losing $1 is not inevitable, but it is also not out of the question. The likelihood is largely dependent on $XRP’s ability to maintain its current support structure.
COZ has distributed 936 $NEO across four ecosystem projects in its Proof of Working 2.2 report, published on March 17. The round marks the largest single distribution in the relaunched series, up from 440 $NEO in round 2.0 and 446 $NEO in round 2.1. The weekly program rewards independent contributors for publicly delivered work in the Neo ecosystem. COZ staff members are not eligible for awards.
Four primary projects emerged as beneficiaries of the third round of the Proof of Working program.
Funded projects
HushNetwork (aboimpinto), a returning recipient from round 2.1, is building a decentralized social network focused on privacy and data ownership. According to the report, the project stabilized its alpha chat messaging flow, advanced posting functionality, and completed end-to-end workflow and UI polishing for its NEP-17 token forge tool (a feature aimed at enabling one-click token creation for communities and crowdfunding).
Neo Analytics (ethArek) is a public dashboard that translates Neo N3 on-chain activity into a daily-updated view using transparent, deterministic classification rules. This round’s work included the addition of dark mode, migration from raw RPC calls to the Dora SDK, USD swap backfill, and oracle transaction detection.
Typescript NeoFS SDK (Merl / AxLabs) implemented gRPC-js support and developed a protoc generator plugin in the core package. NeoFS is Neo’s distributed, decentralized object storage network, and the SDK provides TypeScript tooling for developers working with the service.
Neo N3 AI Assistant (Fireche) is an AI-powered tool designed to enable secure wallet management and smart operations through natural language conversation.
On-chain verification
COZ published a transaction hash for the distribution, verifiable on the Dora mainnet explorer. The report does not break down how the 936 $NEO total was allocated among the four recipients.
The full report can be found at the link below: https://coz.io/blog/proof-of-working-2-2/
Carrie Anne Fleming, an actress best known for her recurring roles in iZombie and Supernatural, has died. She was 51.
Jim Beaver, who played her husband on Supernatural, announced the news in a Facebook post, saying she died Feb. 26 of cancer. He relayed how they first “met cute” on the set of Supernatural and bonded over having daughters with the exact same names (and slightly different spellings), among other things.
“She was a powerhouse of vitality and goodwill and amazingly good nature, with a rapturous laugh and an utterly adorable personality that didn’t seem to have an off switch,” he wrote.
Fleming’s rep Simona Crone at Integral Artists confirmed the news.
Born on Aug. 16, 1974, in Nova Scotia, Canada, Fleming had a passion for the arts early in her career, deciding to study drama at the Kaleidoscope Theatre and dance at Kidco theatre dance group.
After graduating and working as a model for some time, she landed her first onscreen role in the 1994 TV movie Viper. A few years later, she got an uncredited appearance in the 1996 beloved comedy, Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler.
As for Fleming’s most notable roles, she played Candy in iZombie from 2015-19. The series, starring Rose McIver, centered on a medical resident who finds that being a zombie has its perks, which she uses to assist the police. As for Supernatural, she appeared in three episodes as Karen Singer.
Her other TV credits included Supergirl, UnREAL, Continuum, Alice, Knights of Bloodsteel, The 4400, The L Word, Smallville, The Dead Zone, Stargate SG-1 and Secret Agent Man.
On the film side, Fleming appeared in 14 Hours, Edison, Good Luck Chuck, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness, Married Life, The Christmas Consultant, That Burning Feeling, Like Sunday, Like Rain, Along Came a Nanny, Rememory and Heart of Clay.
Mo Brings Plenty, an enrolled member of the Lakota Nations, was frustrated with the cultural misappropriation that he saw onscreen until Yellowstone came along. Thanks to a collaboration with prolific hit-maker Taylor Sheridan, not only did Plenty land a role in the mega-hit series as the right-hand man to Broken Rock Tribe chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), he was also hired behind the scenes as the show’s American Indian Affairs coordinator. And it’s a role he’s now continuing on the CBS Yellowstone spinoff Marshals, which follows Kayce Dutton (played by Luke Grimes).
Marshals has become a huge success for the network, repeating as the top series — network or streaming — two weeks in a row. Below, when chatting about Sunday’s fourth episode of the hit season (it’s already been renewed for season two), Plenty speaks with The Hollywood Reporter about both his onscreen role — as Mo (also the name of his character) — and the authentic input he gave behind the scenes in season one.
He also opens up, for the first time in an interview, about the untimely death of his nephew, Cole Brings Plenty, a star in the Yellowstone-verse who was found dead between seasons one and two of the prequel series 1923. “For his murder to go uninvestigated, and for it to be written off as ‘no foul play,’ because they didn’t want to invest anything into it? It’s heartbreaking,” he says. “We’re not letting it go.”
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When were you first approached about being a part of Marshals?
I received a call from my team, and I said, “Absolutely. If Luke [Grimes] and Gil [Birmingham] are involved, I’m in.” It was an easy yes to carry on these characters. These are such iconic characters and I so desired to carry them on. I was kind of sad when we were finishing up Yellowstone. Those were some amazing guys. And then all of a sudden, here we are. We’re back. It was just great news to me. I was doing cartwheels in my mind and a happy dance that I would not want the world to see (laughs).
We spoke to star Luke Grimes and your showrunner Spencer Hudnut about how they had to find the right way to reopen Kayce Dutton’s story since Yellowstone gave him such a beautiful ending, especially involving your character with the Duttons giving the land back to the Broken Rock Reservation. Did you have any hesitations about revisiting that ending?
I didn’t have any reservations, especially knowing that Luke was going to be involved, and Gil. Obviously, Luke isn’t going to just sign up for something that wasn’t going to be good for those characters, and Spencer too. Getting the opportunity to work with him, I can’t say enough good things about him. It’s like I never left. It’s like being back home. I’m just so thankful for this opportunity to carry him on.
Mo Brings Plenty (left) with Gil Birmingham and Luke Grimes in Marshals.
Boy. At first, I was like, “Why?!” Because that was our connection to the Duttons. There’s always been a connection between the Dutton family and Broken Rock, but Monica was more of a connection. So to lose that, at first, my reaction was like, “No.” But we gotta tell a story. And the blessing of that occurring is that Kayce has to fill that void now. So that connection is still there. Not just for the fact that Rainwater adopted and took him in as a brother, but I think the warriors that Mo and Kayce are, that brotherhood has always been there, but it’s become even stronger.
They could have continued this story without Broken Rock. How happy are you that they went this way?
I’m ecstatic. I’m so extremely grateful that they didn’t leave Broken Rock out of it, and that they didn’t leave Indian Country out of it. They could do whatever they want. But if you want layers and diversity, what better way than to incorporate the original inhabitants?
Spencer said that Kelsey Asbille wasn’t available for Marshals, so he wasn’t involved in the conversations about her not being a part of the show. Have you spoken to her at all?
You know, no. I haven’t spoken to her. I thought about reaching out to her at the very beginning. But that was before I found out [the plot]. I just left it alone. I mind my business and do my job to the best of my abilities.
Spencer said Monica’s death, obviously, serves two purposes. It’s the hook for the show, but it also shines a light on something real happening on reservations. Did you have any input in this storyline, or did they come to you with this idea? [Note: Monica died after battling cancer due to toxic levels in the water on the reservation.]
This was already there. And I’m glad we’re going to be able to bring this to light, not just with the reservation, but water is life for everyone. And when I say “everyone,” I’m talking from the vegetation all the way to the human race. I’m thankful that we’re bringing this to light.
I’m sure you were thrilled that Mo would be a character on the show. When they said, “We also want you behind the scenes to help us keep telling res stories,” how did that conversation go? Was their goal to continue what Taylor Sheridan had started with Yellowstone in that respect?
I’m so filled with gratitude for the opportunity, not just to carry on the role of Mo, but to be able to continue on in the American Indian Affairs coordinator role, and have input in storylines. There was a time when our ceremonies were never hidden. It wasn’t until they were banned that they went into hiding. And then in 1976, when President Jimmy Carter signed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, it gave us the ability to practice our ceremonial ways again. It’s been trying over the years to allow that part to exist in everyday life. Now we’re bringing different elements to the forefront and showing the world that we, as American Indian people, still have our traditional ways. We still have our way of prayer. We still have different things we can do to help us through grieving and through different aspects that continue to inspire.
Brecken Merrill as Tate Dutton, honoring his mother, Monica Dutton (Kelsey Asbille), on Marshals.
Spencer said the mine story will continue throughout the season, and that there will be other episodes, including when children go missing from reservations. What were some storylines you contributed to or authentic changes you made?
I contributed to a particular moment in the grieving process for [Monica] for Kayce and [son] Tate. I contributed, along with my younger brother, in providing a moment. It hasn’t aired yet, so I don’t want to describe it yet. It’s a beautiful moment. So to be able to contribute in that way — even in songs. My brother composes a lot of the songs that we utilize not just in Yellowstone, but also on Marshals, that fit a particular scene that we’re going. To be able to carry that on is so important. I’m thankful to Spencer, who’s open and understanding. It’s like working with Taylor again. Spencer and I are kicking around ideas that I don’t even want to reveal yet. But there are going to be some beautiful things coming up.
This week’s episode introduces a possible romantic interest for Kayce. Spencer hinted about exploring new relationships with Kayce as the season moves on. How will the show, even as it goes on to season two, continue to honor what Monica and Kayce had as such a core Yellowstone couple?
What Kayce and Monica had, that relationship, is going to be carried on. That relationship existed so strongly. It wasn’t just about a husband and wife. It was also a relationship between the Duttons and Broken Rock. I feel that Rianwater and Mo are going to be able to carry on that relationship and build upon what they have established. Monica was a strong warrior. She made great sacrifices to protect people. Even jumping back to Yellowstone with the individual who was the rapist, Monica set that up. She was the bait, so to speak, and was able to help seize that individual. The spirit of her is always going to remain.
Yellowstone skeletons haunt Kayce. The sins of his family have been a big part of these first episodes. Spencer said Yellowstone will continue to be a part of this show. How would you say the Dutton name continues to loom over Kayce, or will he be able to get out from the shadow?
I think Kayce is such an amazing individual that the Dutton family will end up existing within his shadow. I believe he will crawl out from underneath the shadow of his family, and he will cast his own shadow. He’s a strong individual, a great warrior. Bottom line. But he thinks differently. He has a different mind. And so I believe he’s going to be able to cast his own place so that will no longer be in the Dutton family shadow.
How big a role will Mo have as the season goes on? Anything you can tease?
People are going to get to see a little bit more of who my character is. Just about who he is to the people, to Broken Rock. We filmed the first season. I have no idea [beyond season one]. It’s entirely up to the writers. I would like to hope that the character will grow some more. I respect every decision that is made, and I respect the story. It’s about the audience. It’s not about my character.
Cole Brings Plenty as Pete Plenty Clouds in season one of 1923.
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I was so sorry to hear about your nephew, Cole Brings Plenty [who died in 2024 at age 27], and I want to share my condolences with you and your family. He had such a beautiful role in 1923. Is there anything you’d want to say to pay tribute to him?
Absolutely. He was our future. He knew our ceremonies. I was teaching him more and more, so was my brother, his father. He was my nephew, but he was like a son to me. And for his murder to go uninvestigated, and for it to be written off as “no foul play,” because they didn’t want to invest anything into it? It’s heartbreaking. Because we’re taxpaying people as well. So for them to not work for us, no different than how they work for anyone else is, is pretty sad.
I hope that we continue on to talk about that in our storylines — that there are a lot of families such as mine that are going through this right now, and we still have a lot of unanswered questions. Because I saw his body, I saw the evidence that is there that someone caught him. So for them to say that there was nothing, I can’t believe that. I still can’t.
I didn’t know that. There hasn’t been much released about that.
The departments didn’t put much effort into it. In fact, they weren’t even really looking for him. They were hunting him. They weren’t searching for him. They were hunting him until the day when a good friend of mine and I rented a helicopter and told the Lawrence Police Department [in Kansas] that we were going to go and search from the air, and that day, they were out in full force.
Is there anything you’re still doing to bring him some justice?
Just spread the message. We’ve been in talks with several different people. We’re not letting it go. It was a hard loss for us because this was an individual who was speaking our language, singing our songs and carrying on our traditions. He was the future for us. We want more and more of our young people to be inspired to pick up who we are from a cultural perspective.
You have a large audience on Marshals. I’m sure you saw the ratings and the early renewal. Will you feed some of this into the storylines?
I hope so. We’ve kind of already touched on it, and if it weren’t for Kayce being with the U.S. Marshals, it just goes to show the importance of working together. And how vital that is and how meaningful, and how helpful that would be to the families.
Taylor Sheridan has created a large platform for these stories to be told. Since you’ve been in this role since Yellowstone started, do you feel like you’ve seen more or less of others doing similarly?
I think Taylor was a catalyst to more people having the courage to tell those stories. And so I’m thankful for that.
Shutdown standoff forces US President Trump’s hand as airport queues spiral and security staff go unpaid.
Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026
Immigration enforcement agents will be deployed across major United States airports from Monday, President Donald Trump has announced, in an extraordinary move to ease a security crisis triggered by a prolonged political standoff in Washington.
Trump confirmed the plan in a social media post on Sunday, with his senior border official Tom Homan named to lead the effort.
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This came after weeks of mounting chaos at airport security checkpoints and a day after Trump threatened the move unless Democrats backed down on a funding battle.
The crisis stems from Congress’s failure to renew funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the federal agency that oversees airport security.
Since February 14, tens of thousands of workers, including Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners responsible for passenger checks, have continued working without receiving paycheques.
More than 366 have since resigned, according to DHS, and unscheduled absences have more than doubled, leaving major airports struggling to cope.
“This loss significantly decreases TSA’s ability to meet passenger demand and leaves critical gaps in staffing, as each new recruit requires 4-6 MONTHS of training,” it said last week in a post on X.
Queues at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson and New York’s JFK airports stretched for hours at the weekend, with New Orleans advising passengers to arrive at least three hours before departure.
Union officials say some officers have taken on second jobs, while several airports have begun collecting food and gift cards for staff who can no longer make ends meet.
Homan said agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), trained in law enforcement and immigration, not airport security, would take on supporting roles, such as monitoring exit lanes and checking identification, freeing TSA officers to focus on screening lines.
“I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine,” he acknowledged on Sunday, adding that a detailed plan for which airports and how many agents would be finalised by the end of the day.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned the situation was “going to get much worse” before it improves.
Democrats have refused to pass a full DHS funding bill unless the administration agrees to reforms of ICE. Their demands hardened after federal agents fatally shot two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, during immigration raids in Minneapolis in January.
Democrat Senator Dick Durbin said his party had attempted nine times to pass emergency funding for DHS entities including the TSA, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Coast Guard. Republicans have blocked each attempt, insisting on a single comprehensive funding package for the entire department.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries warned bluntly that deploying “untrained ICE agents” at airports risked repeating the conduct that had already cost lives.
In an unusual intervention, billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said he would “offer to pay” the salaries of TSA workers.
Sam Kieth, the comic book creator of “The Maxx” and co-creator of “Sandman,” died March 15. He was 63.
Kieth’s lifelong friend and collaborator Scott Dunbier confirmed that the artist died of Lewy Body Dementia to Bleeding Cool.
Born on January 11, 1963, Kieth began his career in comics at the age of 17, publishing his first work with Comico. He worked on numerous projects, including “Wolverine” in Marvel Comics Presents and “The Hulk.” In 1993, he created a series exploring themes of identity and reality for Image Comics titled “The Maxx,” which was later adapted into an animated series for MTV’s “Liquid Television” and became globally recognized. Kieth’s work on the series also led to a line of action figures produced by Todd McFarlane.
In collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Kieth co-created “Sandman” and illustrated the first five issues for DC Comics. His work also appeared in the comics “Zero Girl” and “Four Women” for Wildstorm, and “Ojo” and “My Inner Bimbo” for Oni Press. Kieth also helped create “No Smoking,” a pilot for “Cow and Chicken,” and directed the film “Take It to the Limit” for Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons.
Kieth’s later works included “Batman: Secrets,” “Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious,” and “Lobo: Highway to Hell.” He also created the Batman/Maxx crossover, “Arkham Dreams,” for DC Comics. He also made contributions to “Judge Dredd” for 2000AD and “30 Days of Night” for IDW.
Kieth retired from mainstream comics after the publication of “Arkham Dreams” due to health issues.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Kathy Kieth.
