Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market.
Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets.
Always follow the money.
👏👏 good reporting here! May Kevin Guthrie rot in hell.
If you’re new to this here is more backstory from an emergency management perspective: open.substack.com/pub/disaster...
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE KAGAN would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE JACKSON joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari. This case asks whether federal law prohibits the poorest prisoners from splitting the $350 fee required to file a federal lawsuit when it allows everyone else to do so. The answer statutorily appears to be no. Because the decision below held otherwise and deepened a split among the Courts of Appeals, the Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.
Petitioners Topaz Johnson and Ian Henderson were incarcerated at High Desert State Prison in California when they filed this lawsuit in federal court. According to their complaint, corrections officers forced them and a third prisoner to stand in filthy cages that reeked of urine and measured 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet. They alleged that the officers forced them to stand in those cages for nearly nine hours with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
02.03.2026 14:35 — 👍 1509 🔁 625 💬 38 📌 51
Fungus-farming ants have evolved a remarkable solution to the danger of excess carbon dioxide inside their nests – which could inspire ways for humans to capture CO2
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Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Betting on war is so fucking evil
02.03.2026 01:15 — 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
This is the company that Substack chose to partnership with.
02.03.2026 01:01 — 👍 1488 🔁 530 💬 92 📌 40Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had
02.03.2026 01:04 — 👍 2401 🔁 874 💬 57 📌 26So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
01.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 4049 🔁 1106 💬 65 📌 26Nope.
01.03.2026 22:52 — 👍 244 🔁 26 💬 35 📌 1Mandi Jung, a MN teacher, needs to be heard far and wide. Her message about the treatment of the immigrants living in MN is so powerful. Take a moment to listen to her. We need to bring this energy everywhere.
01.03.2026 18:57 — 👍 271 🔁 206 💬 11 📌 10
These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.
01.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 10796 🔁 3531 💬 251 📌 104This shit is so unbelievably deranged. One can only hope that we, as a species, somehow and despite our worst efforts make it to a point sometime in the future when our descendants can look back at us and be aghast at how aggressively stupid we were to let this all happen.
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The SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. bit.ly/4rA2p4R
01.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 50 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 0
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
01.03.2026 15:06 — 👍 19265 🔁 6028 💬 1660 📌 471
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?
Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
28.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 3179 🔁 1003 💬 85 📌 37Just to be blunt: the administration's belligerence abroad and at home are not distractions, they are things they loudly promised in the 2024 campaign and close to the heart of many of the key figures involved, including Trump himself. They live for this shit, and see it as Good Content
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1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.
The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
27.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 3016 🔁 1646 💬 260 📌 190
Massachusetts is bleeding dry its Atlantic horseshoe crab population, or at least that’s what local conservation organization fears. ecori.org/there-will-b...
27.02.2026 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...
These leviathans are traveling greater distances to find food, habitat, and mates. Humans are stressing them to the brink of extinction. ecori.org/all-the-righ...
27.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern?:
The SAVE Act is a truly extreme voter suppression bill, but in ways that might surprise you. White Christian Nationalism is driving the bill more than a cynical focus on maximizing GOP vote share. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
Why the Trump-Backed Save America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide | Buried in the bill is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump admin, warns @jennycohn.bsky.social.
26.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 113 🔁 61 💬 2 📌 3
“As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its “SAVE” voter purge system.”
@jennycohn.bsky.social
In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot.
To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.
New Congressional Dem report shows that the GOP's Big Ugly Bill is going to benefit Big Oil to the tune of *$3.5 billion a year*.
Kinda makes those campaign contributions look like pocket change, no?
I did, and I passed. All challengers welcome.
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