Pressure Systems edition
Terror Designations, AI Bank Access, and Polymarket Hunts
May 15, 2026
What this edition shows
The Trump administration is domesticating counterterrorism doctrine to criminalize political opposition and expand executive violence, while immigration enforcement mechanisms continue to flag citizens through automated bureaucratic errors. Parallel to this state consolidation, AI systems are penetrating critical financial infrastructure, with OpenAI seeking direct bank account access and the CFTC deploying algorithmic surveillance to police prediction markets like Polymarket. This dual expansion of state coercion and corporate AI governance creates a polycrisis of authority where political dissent, economic activity, and truth claims are increasingly subject to opaque, automated enforcement.
Reporting and analysis behind this edition 9 sources
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How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home. The post How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk appeared first on The Intercept.
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“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”
The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state. The post “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You” appeared first on The Intercept.
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
The post Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times? appeared first on ProPublica.
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The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket
CFTC chairman Michael Selig sat down with WIRED to discuss how the agency scours Polymarket and other prediction markets for illegal activity.
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What Makes Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy So Alarming
Most worrisome are the terrorist threats missing from the document.
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You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows
You can make AI chatbots spout information that's not true. Nicoletaionescu/iStock via Getty Images When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements with facts, the AI may still uphold the reply as true. That’s what my research g…
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How the far right got its name
The far right has gone from fringe to mainstream - but political scientists say the term is often misused.
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Erroneous AI
Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.
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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
ChatGPT will even know how much credit card debt you have. | Image: OpenAI Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to "securely connect" ChatGPT with Pl…