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“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox.
‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
www.propublica.org
October 5, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox.
‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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We murdered four more people in a boat today
October 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
We murdered four more people in a boat today
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University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.
October 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
Amnesty: "Israel has established & maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis–a system of apartheid–wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948"
October 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Amnesty: "Israel has established & maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis–a system of apartheid–wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948"
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Life has changed dramatically in the last 30 years.
We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work.
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work.
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
October 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Life has changed dramatically in the last 30 years.
We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work.
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work.
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
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If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
fortune.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Americans are increasingly aware of the surveillance systems used by almost 80 percent of police departments to trace vehicles and drivers without a warrant—and they are pissed.
Welcome to the Flock elections
Candidates across the spectrum are suddenly campaigning against the spread of license plate cameras.
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Americans are increasingly aware of the surveillance systems used by almost 80 percent of police departments to trace vehicles and drivers without a warrant—and they are pissed.
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It's very clear from @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social's book Crossing the Red Line that Biden's enabling of Israel's wars paved the way for everything Trump has done in the region. Biden shielded Israel from the consequences of its aggressive actions and abandoned diplomacy with Iran. He set the table
Now it’s true that Biden did not launch a war on Iran, and anyone cleverly pointing out that Dems & Repubs have had identical Iran policies the past quarter century is deeply wrong. But that’s not “averting” a war! If anything, Biden’s bear-hug of Netanyahu set things up for Trump’s war with Israel
October 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
It's very clear from @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social's book Crossing the Red Line that Biden's enabling of Israel's wars paved the way for everything Trump has done in the region. Biden shielded Israel from the consequences of its aggressive actions and abandoned diplomacy with Iran. He set the table
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Politics is so awesome because once you trick people into thinking you're a good consultant or polling guru or whatever, it becomes impossible for you to do anything but fail up. Sarah Longwell had the wrongest possible take you could have about the 2024 election and somehow it RAISED her stature.
October 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Politics is so awesome because once you trick people into thinking you're a good consultant or polling guru or whatever, it becomes impossible for you to do anything but fail up. Sarah Longwell had the wrongest possible take you could have about the 2024 election and somehow it RAISED her stature.
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DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
www.wired.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Really good piece from @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner on Suncor and the importance of federalism -- and state-court litigation -- to democracy's fight against authoritarianism. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court
Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Really good piece from @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner on Suncor and the importance of federalism -- and state-court litigation -- to democracy's fight against authoritarianism. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
Global fuel subsidies may top $1 trillion this year — amid $100 crude, elevated borrowing costs and strained budgets.
“.. we don’t see a very clear pathway out of the three-pronged crisis,” he said.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“.. we don’t see a very clear pathway out of the three-pronged crisis,” he said.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
silence is complicity
University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.
October 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
silence is complicity
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It's not just Flock. And it's not just license plate readers. Great piece from my colleague @gideonepstein.bsky.social on the many invasive surveillance technologies pushed by private companies and adopted by police—almost entirely absent democratic debate or oversight. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Flock is just one part of the new surveillance state
"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon...
www.wbur.org
October 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
It's not just Flock. And it's not just license plate readers. Great piece from my colleague @gideonepstein.bsky.social on the many invasive surveillance technologies pushed by private companies and adopted by police—almost entirely absent democratic debate or oversight. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
October 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
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NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
www.wired.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
w/ @regret.bsky.social
w/ @regret.bsky.social
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After all, it is the thought that counts.
When it comes to a US president enabling mass slaughter abroad, really it is the private frustration that is most important.
The day that Biden grew so angry at Netanyahu that he nearly cut him off: "He was just completely fed up with everything and I think at that moment he was ready to just say, 'I’m done,'" Brett McGurk recalls as he releases "Brink," his memoir of Gaza war. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
October 2, 2026 at 3:15 AM
After all, it is the thought that counts.
October 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM