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With boom in prediction markets, some lawmakers worry about how to police themselves House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades.

House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades. n.pr/4cNI7kc

14.03.2026 10:48 👍 144 🔁 49 💬 15 📌 4

This is a truly excellent piece on why low birth rates are simply not a problem, and why pronatalism is clearly being promoted for political, not scientific and not practical, reasons

14.03.2026 10:57 👍 100 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0

The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota

14.03.2026 10:00 👍 1496 🔁 217 💬 16 📌 5

"half the people with half the resouces will work twice as hard", surely this galaxy-brain strategy cannot fail

14.03.2026 12:01 👍 130 🔁 28 💬 9 📌 2

Looks we’re in the beginnings of yet another Red Scare, and this Texas jury just handed the government the keys to prosecute us

Plan accordingly, and don’t let this deter you from doing good antifascist work. Solidarity with the Prairieland defendants

13.03.2026 22:00 👍 241 🔁 96 💬 4 📌 2
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The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

14.03.2026 12:14 👍 495 🔁 324 💬 67 📌 34
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“There is no superior race.”

“There is no chosen people of God.”

“It is neither the United States nor Israel.”

“The chosen people of God is all of humanity.”

President of Colombia - Gustavo Petro

14.03.2026 00:00 👍 555 🔁 151 💬 17 📌 7
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The Submarine of Czechia: Or, The Life of a Spy at Mar-a-Lago A version of this short story was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. This is most definitely a work of...

so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place

and then i wrote a short story

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

10.03.2026 16:31 👍 536 🔁 111 💬 18 📌 16

Just leaving this here (again)

14.03.2026 12:26 👍 309 🔁 132 💬 6 📌 1
The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express newspaper published a front page article by Paula Murray on 8 March 2009, "Anniversary Shame of Dunblane Survivors",[1] which was critical of survivors of the Dunblane massacre, by then aged 18 and 19, for posting "shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the Internet". The "shocking" content, read from the survivors' social networking pages, with Bebo being mentioned in the article, included colloquial language and some swearing, mentions of sex and alcohol and joking references to a confrontation (interpreted by the tabloid as a "boast" about "getting in fights") and to being a "Scottish terrorist" in London. The article received a great deal of negative attention given the tenuous grounds for making the attacks. Survivors and members of the public complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission.[2][3][4]

The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express newspaper published a front page article by Paula Murray on 8 March 2009, "Anniversary Shame of Dunblane Survivors",[1] which was critical of survivors of the Dunblane massacre, by then aged 18 and 19, for posting "shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the Internet". The "shocking" content, read from the survivors' social networking pages, with Bebo being mentioned in the article, included colloquial language and some swearing, mentions of sex and alcohol and joking references to a confrontation (interpreted by the tabloid as a "boast" about "getting in fights") and to being a "Scottish terrorist" in London. The article received a great deal of negative attention given the tenuous grounds for making the attacks. Survivors and members of the public complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission.[2][3][4]

Today was the 30th anniversary of Scotland’s first and only school shooting, which is also a day to remember how a right-wing tabloid cyberstalked the survivors waiting for them to turn 18, in order to run a front page smear attack on them for…having grown up to be normal teenagers on the internet.

13.03.2026 19:24 👍 142 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 5

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them.

A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

14.03.2026 03:57 👍 3925 🔁 853 💬 60 📌 32
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Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

14.03.2026 12:46 👍 8443 🔁 3970 💬 622 📌 286

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

14.03.2026 12:59 👍 1137 🔁 343 💬 16 📌 3

yesssssss

14.03.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004 Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

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Democrats have voted four times to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down. On Friday, over 100,000 airport security workers missed a full paycheck as a result, and travelers are facing up to four-hour security lines. Critically, DHS protects Americans from terror attacks, cyber threats and assassinations – all tactics used by Iran. Democrats are risking Americans’ safety with their partisan shutdown. I’m pushing to fund DHS and put an end to this reckless, nonsensical partisanship.

Democrats have voted four times to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down. On Friday, over 100,000 airport security workers missed a full paycheck as a result, and travelers are facing up to four-hour security lines. Critically, DHS protects Americans from terror attacks, cyber threats and assassinations – all tactics used by Iran. Democrats are risking Americans’ safety with their partisan shutdown. I’m pushing to fund DHS and put an end to this reckless, nonsensical partisanship.

Got this email from Senator Grassley this morning.

DHS has killed more Americans this year than Iran has.

14.03.2026 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

people.com/new-dime-coi...

13.03.2026 23:31 👍 1870 🔁 749 💬 153 📌 166
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 👍 25445 🔁 6915 💬 224 📌 429

Fundraising off of dead service members is literally ghoulish.

14.03.2026 04:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’ | CNN Politics A political fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch.

Trump tells donors they’ll receive his national security briefings in return for money: www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

13.03.2026 23:41 👍 780 🔁 484 💬 154 📌 86

How do you say "lol, welp" in Afrikaans ?

13.03.2026 20:31 👍 649 🔁 132 💬 23 📌 3
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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

"while the bill doesn't seem to require the most egregious forms of age verification (face scans or similar), it does require OS providers to collect age verification of some form at the account/user creation stage"

that's hilariously bad. newsom keeps racking up wins.

01.03.2026 00:27 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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GitHub - upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings Contribute to upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings development by creating an account on GitHub.

the linux nerds are at it again.

github.com/upper-up/met...

they claim to have traced where all the money for these age verification bills is coming from - and the answer is mostly meta.

old.reddit.com/r/linux/comm...

13.03.2026 23:49 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

13.03.2026 22:22 👍 2223 🔁 862 💬 54 📌 34
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For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.

Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

13.03.2026 17:14 👍 3390 🔁 962 💬 143 📌 147
Footballtweets on Twitter: 🇳🇬🗣️ Victor Osimhen: “I pray for everyone, I really do. Except the landlords.” 🙏

Footballtweets on Twitter: 🇳🇬🗣️ Victor Osimhen: “I pray for everyone, I really do. Except the landlords.” 🙏

14.03.2026 00:30 👍 400 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 0
A ladder placed safely on the ground. Five black cats sit upon the ladder like they're in some kind of children's story about black cats. The text reads: Friday the 13th when you always land on your feet. If you are not a cat: Place your ladder on a firm, flat surface. Always have a spotter.

A ladder placed safely on the ground. Five black cats sit upon the ladder like they're in some kind of children's story about black cats. The text reads: Friday the 13th when you always land on your feet. If you are not a cat: Place your ladder on a firm, flat surface. Always have a spotter.

Five black cats upon a ladder sat,
something something always have a spotter.

13.03.2026 19:12 👍 649 🔁 127 💬 9 📌 4
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O Translated from Hebrew Show original &
Justice has been done.
I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them.
This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled.
The role of the ID's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas.
I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.
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9:49 AM • Mar 12, 2026 • 226K Views

@Israel_katz O Translated from Hebrew Show original & Justice has been done. I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them. This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled. The role of the ID's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas. I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path. Rate this translation: B Q 9:49 AM • Mar 12, 2026 • 226K Views

And read what Israel’s defense minister says the purpose of the legal system is. (Hint: not to prosecute crimes).

12.03.2026 16:37 👍 120 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 3

oh?????? Could it?????????????

14.03.2026 00:43 👍 553 🔁 83 💬 15 📌 1

oh to have a smidgen of the kind of protection that stupid and legitimately evil white boys get

14.03.2026 01:00 👍 382 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 0