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From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

"I worry we are condemning countless problem gamblers and the people around them to lives marked by addiction, financial insecurity, and even deaths of despair. In twenty years’ time, I suspect we will wonder how we ever allowed this to happen." www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

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“Children are property of their parents” is a view that southern conservative Christians continue to hold and no joke it is a residuum of the slave power

sometimes you'll learn that, like, Napoleon did legal reforms which are the basis for many countries legal systems today. with slavery you learn that men would rape people and enslave their own children

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

This makes perfect sense -- it's a thematic continuation of the concept

"Public virtue anywhere is a threat to vice everywhere"

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Sign made of plywood propped up in a telephone pole by the street. It has ‘We won’t forget what you did. Abolish ICE.’

Sure. Some people couldn’t vote for a woman and now we have the worst folks imaginable actively deconstructing our country and economy 🤙🏽

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

normie centrists everywhere: my god ICE is monstrous and must be stopped

chuck schumer: maybe *two* body cams

So... what consequences have been have the DOJ people who spread the CSAM faced?

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

This thing can't even count past 20 and they want our entire society to bend the knee to it, huh

ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Happy valentine's day ❤️

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

Serial killer shit

There is a split in the GOP

Some know theyre going to lose elections, and dont care cause they know they'll win again in a few years

Then there are the most authoritarian who want to subvert elections because losing may mean they're pushed out forever

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

The US is deliberately starving millions of people across the world including Cuba. This is a brilliant, enraging piece by Ruaridh Nicoll

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Leading @huffpost.com this morning.

Parents are getting deported without having any idea where their kids are. www.huffpost.com/entry/parent...

“A grave risk of fatalities.”

that’s warning FAA gave to Pentagon about using anti-drone laser near flights

Then Pentagon and CBP used it anyway — without telling FAA.

The new requires coordination with FAA, but a top official decided to…ignore that.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood

the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated