Tyler Holmes

This is one of those stories you commission expecting it to go one way, and then it comes in and it has gone an entirely different, far more right-wing way.

Sports betting protections in Missouri and Kansas get failing grades A new report finds that states with legalized sports betting aren’t doing enough to protect people from gambling trouble.

Kansas and Missouri earned failing grades and ranked among the worst states in the country when it comes to protecting online sports gamblers, according to a new report.

A red progress bar 69% of the way filled in, with the numbers $258,450 of $375,000 above it.

We're almost 70% of the way to our goal, with a little less than a week left! Can you help spread the word?

We have an $80k match, so your gifts will be DOUBLED, and then if you take @russ41.bsky.social up on his generous offer, it can be TRIPLED.

Yes, it might cost a little to get such features. But the societal cost--including to private organizations--is why someone drafted the legislation. Are businesses not harmed by creating an inhuman and post-truth society?

Presenter opens a continuing legal education hour by acknowledging how attorneys are motivated to join opportunities as the annual deadline approaches. So true, so cynical.

The MO Chamber of Commerce comes off as hilariously anti-regulation here. Example: "Hankinson said placing watermarks on AI-generated content would be too difficult for many businesses."

Some contrast in Kansas's Dem primary for gov.

“I continue to think that (the Chiefs’ stadium) will be a positive for Kansas,” Corson said. “But it’s something that I’m going to be very hands-on with as governor. I want to make sure that the Chiefs honor all of their obligations as well.” #ksleg

Kansas must establish sports authority to finalize KCK Chiefs. Bill yet to be seen Some lawmakers are losing patience over the delay of a sports authority bill that must be finalized for the stadium project to move forward.

Two and a half weeks left in session, need to create a sports authority, and there's no bill or even public outline.

“It’s not ready for prime time yet,” House Commerce Cmte Chair Sean Tarwater said yesterday.

I'm sure #ksleg will not rush this through without open hearings! Definitely not!

In her review of Piketty, McCloskey points out that the Latin root of data is "things given," but that the documentation Piketty is working with, primarily tax records, is more accurately a reflection of "things seized." That is, not data, but capta. I want to détourné McCloskey's point to argue that capta is the appropriate title for the currencies of technofeudalism.? It is an economy which is growing increasingly inefficient, coercive, and authoritarian because the economic process it glorifies is not one of mutual consent to market exchange, but of non-consensual seizure of attention, identity, and future potential.

I’ve been trying to use capta consistently, where appropriate, and have been pleased to find, for many, no explanation is needed. It is very intuitive, as disciplinary jargon should be.

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Kansas Senate votes to subvert students' First Amendment right to join public protests • Kansas Reflector Kansas Senate approves budget amendment outlining financial sanctions against public school districts that don't stop student walkouts for protests.

Kansas Senate votes to clamp down on public school protests by requiring students to get parental permission to participate and by imposing penalties on districts, including a fine equal to the superintendent's salary #ksleg #ksed via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/03/03/k...

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Tonight, Melvin cannot even make these. The broadcast said KU was 3/12 on layups in the first half. (8/38 from the field.) Sounds like my stat line.

At this point, *I* kinda want to get ejected from this game.

Currently hoping this team is having an allergic reaction to the state of Arizona and not... *whispers sad thoughts*.

Contrast:

Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees

"I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking

Are Andersons working with government on another path to vast ICE warehouse in KC? Mayor Lucas: 'I never quite thought it was going away.'

"'Any normal person,' Lucas said near the end of our call, 'knows it’s screwed up to try to switch an Amazon distribution center to a...concentration camp.'" #kcmo

Ethiopia Is Sliding Fast Toward Major War You need to be paying attention to Ethiopia right now.

Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea are morphing into one giant interlocking conflict impacting about 200 million people.

www.globaldispatches.org/p/ethiopia-i...

Love the two-sentence civics lesson: "Our Constitution vests the decision to take our nation to war in Congress." www.facebook.com/share/p/1CGk...

Senator, do you remember you're in that Congress?

“It was clear to me that while there are remedies in the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, some of those remedies are not accessible or usable for people without means. They can’t get an attorney to try to challenge their landlord,” he said. #ksleg

This from @cindyforkansas.bsky.social is right (and good politics).

My favorite line: "The average NFL stadium has about as many annual customers as a midsize grocery store, at 100 times the cost." #ksleg

The only shot Kansas can hit today is the Melvin Council tear drop. (4/4 on those, 4/24 on everything else.)

Protections for ICE and Federal Law Enforcement - ACLU of Kansas Rewriting state statutes to treat federal officers as state and local law enforcement, extending Kansas criminal penalties to interactions with federal agents, and arbitrarily broadening tort immunity...

Should this officer be prosecuted? I don't know. But throwing up barriers to excuse conducting a good faith evaluation of the evidence doesn't serve the public.

Unfortunately, the state legislature is working to expand legal barriers at the same time. #ksleg kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

As explained here, "the ability to prosecute federal law enforcement officers who commit state crimes in the course of their duties would turn on whether a reasonable officer in their position would have believed that their actions were necessary to fulfill their duties."

She was injured while filming ICE in Lawrence. Kansas police won’t press charges A bystander was filming ICE vehicles in Lawrence on Tuesday when she says an agent jumped on her with “all his weight.” Local police say they can’t press charges.

Missed this story. Lawrence PD's position appears to be that to enforce state criminal law against federal agents, the agency employer has to determine the conduct unlawful.

While a (never gonna happen) federal determination could help prosecution, LPD's standard doesn't appear to be the law...

If you are an elected Dem and your reaction to this is "Let's downplay DC statehood," let me suggest an alternative:

Do Your Job.

You have 3 years to build support for an institutional reform agenda that clearly must include DC statehood. Stop cowering in fear of a toss-up issue and get to work.

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.

It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

It’s tempting to promote this sort of thing as demonstrating how corrupt this particular Court is, but you have to consume it in context: federal courts have generally jumped through undignified hoops to limit government liability and accountability for generations now.