Doublejack

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 see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

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voltaire had the kind hookup

i for one welcome our new murder kitty overlords…

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Really is the cops who are defunding our cities. You rarely hear Democratic politicians state the obvious.

I'm not stoked that institutions in the western world seem poised to wait out this inexorable crawl towards ever crueler and more senselessly wicked barbarism

A group of very brave but otherwise unremarkable U.S. citizens stand in their neighborhood, taking video of the armed fascist ICE thugs that a serial child rapist sent to wage war against them to satisfy the delusional fears and hateful bigotries of the white supremacist christian nationalists who love him

Republican fascists will tell you that the people in parkas and bathrobes are domestic terrorists who threaten our way of life and the armed paramilitary thugs who are terrorizing them with kidnapping and gassing and beatings and murder are legal officers who ensure our peace and safety.

New York Could Lose Seats in Congress Because It Won’t Build Housing As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal politics.

NEW: The next US Census likely won’t be good for New York. The state is projected to lose two congressional seats, and with them, two electoral votes for president.

One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.

We cannot afford Billionaires.

Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.

The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.

I’ve had a front row seat.

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(And let me note that immigration law FAVORS such horrific outcomes. Asylum is very hard to win. Immigration “court” isn’t a real court. It’s a kangaroo court where DHS is judge, jury, and executioner. You have no right to counsel. And the law tilts against non-citizens all conceivable ways.)

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…Merrick Garland has entered the chat

Federal judge orders monitor to oversee California’s largest ICE detention center A federal judge ordered the appointment of an external monitor to oversee California’s largest immigration detention facility to ensure detainee’s constitutional rights are being met.

A federal judge ordered the appointment of an external monitor to oversee California’s largest immigration detention facility to ensure detainee’s constitutional rights are being met.

Epstein files: AG Pam Bondi appeared to have Rep. Jayapal's DOJ database search history at hearing Attorney General Pam Bondi at a House Judiciary Committee hearing seemed to have a printout of Rep. Jayapal's search history related to Epstein.

Epstein files: AG Pam Bondi appeared to have Rep. Jayapal's DOJ database search history at hearing

"I believe he was pardoned."
AG Bondi's response to whether or not a Jan 6th rioter who yelled "Kill 'em!" at Capitol Hill police now works for her.

The contempt by this administration for the law and basic human decency is nauseating.

It's kind of insane: the obvious lane open today in US politics is fiery left populism that vows to restrain & discipline the Epstein class ... but our only left party is run by that same class & its quisling pundits! Something is gonna break.

my coping mechanisms require coping algorithms more complex than those used for early flights to the moon

what is with these people and dogs?

tbf so did merrick garland, he was just so meek and cowardly about it at the time we’re only now noticing

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

see you next tuesday

Pam Bondi testifying in front of Congress

CBO makes clear that the GOP megabill achieves cost savings by taking health care away.

Real Medicaid costs are supposed to rise just 5% over the decade despite aging population (as opposed to 61% for Medicare).

The reason it's so low is decline in people receiving Medicaid.

sure, why not

<all together now>

another soup sandwich mf

how do we get the history of FDR and the new deal to go viral?

i stg dems have run so far away from their roots they don’t even know — my god, the blueprint is right there! Mayor Mamdani knows what‘s up!

anyway i’m riled

literally just speak out about shit voters care about! be seen fighting for justice, conspicuously do w/e you can to improve their lives, propose real solutions then *follow through* — quit being ass! voters will notice!

cf. mayor mamdani et al. & whatnot
(i stg these mf’s never hearda 4term fdr)

CENTENE: Expects a 30% net drop in ACA enrollment by the end of the year

ELEVANCE: Expects a 31% net drop

MOLINA: Expects a 66% net drop (caveat: they pulled out of 20% of their markets)

OSCAR: Expects a 20% net drop

UHC: Expects to lose 500K enrollees