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26% of all active sportsbook users say they have lost so much money in a single bet that it meant they would have trouble meeting their financial obligations.
Full crosstabs: www.sbu.edu/docs/default...
Poll about sports betting finds that for men ages 18-49:
• 52% have an online sportsbook account
• 35% of users have accounts with 3+ sportsbooks
• 68% of users bet at least once a week
• 36% of users have bet $500+ in one day
• 64% of users have bet against favorite team
Here is a great preview of the book from the folks at @denshoproject.bsky.social
densho.org/catalyst/saf...
Highly recommend this new Evelyn Iritani book about the civilian exchanges that occurred during WW2. It’s a little-known part of the war that has greatly interested me for years, and she does an outstanding job detailing how it happened.
46 minutes after attacking Pope Leo, the president has posted an AI image of himself healing someone in the style of Jesus Christ.
(The heavens, meanwhile, feature a war plane, bald eagles and a somewhat demonic-looking figure)
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The great @johncarreyrou.bsky.social has been on the trail of "Satoshi Nakamoto," the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
After compiling a wealth of evidence pointing to one man, he flew to El Salvador to confront him.
No paywall link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
There is some MAGA opposition to Trump's "whole civilization will die" plans:
• Alex Jones: "🚨🚨WAR CRIME ALERT!!🚨🚨"
• Marjorie Taylor Greene: "This is evil and madness"
• Joe Kent: "reckless rage and destruction"
• Candace Owens: "The 25th amendment needs to be invoked."
Breaking News: President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz.
The Waffle House employees say they have seen it all. Except this.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
“We are moving toward a system where transparency is just optional"
The 10 largest donations to the midterms total $300 million. But who actually provided the money is shrouded in secrecy.
by @teddyschleifer.bsky.social and @datab.ae
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
did the governor outsource production to Florida?
Yikes
For more than a century, U.S. currency has featured the signature of the U.S. treasurer. It will soon feature the signature of Donald Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
Hegseth reads prayer at the Pentagon:
• "Pour out your wrath"
• "Let every round find its mark"
• Asks for "overwhelming violence"
• "Let justice be executed swiftly and without remorse — that evil may be driven back and wicked souls delivered to the eternal damnation"
2025 season: 1.97 ERA
2026 season: 67.50 ERA
Headlines less than a week apart
It’s insulting to see that this cruise with The Atlantic will spend most of the journey not in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
Today in the $1.8 trillion private-credit market:
• So many investors are withdrawing from Apollo and Ares funds that the companies are now blocking full returns.
• Moody’s downgrades a KKR/Future Standard fund to junk.
• European Central Bank to scrutinize bank exposure.
California average approaching $6
Gas prices are approaching $4 per gallon (via GasBuddy national average)
Jack Hughes says its "bullshit" that the puck from his gold-winning goal is now at the Hockey Hall of Fame. "I’m trying to get it."
Sidney Crosby, whose winning puck for Canada in 2010 is also at the Hall of Fame: "I didn't even think about it that way."
www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...
Hours after the release of NYT report:
San Francisco is moving to change the name of Cesar Chavez Street. Arizona is canceling state observances of Cesar Chavez Day. The United Farm Workers of America, which Chavez co-founded, called off its Chavez birthday celebration.
“I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here,” Dolores Huerta says in a new statement today.
She said the abuse resulted in two children, who she arranged to be raised by other families.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
NYT investigation:
Two women say that famed labor leader Cesar Chavez sexually abused them when they were girls. Dolores Huerta, one of his most prominent allies, says she was also raped by Chavez. They are all coming forward for the first time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
Incredible irony that these two things would happen in the same week.
the Dow chart is wild because you can pinpoint exactly when Bondi testified about the Epstein files
A recruiting pitch for Wall Street bankers to join the Pentagon:
• "access to fund-raising channels that include royal families and foreign sovereign contacts"
• "unmatched access to top-level government officials"
• "whatever you need, you can get"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
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