Kyle Cooke

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

This is not true. Polis has not pardoned Tina Peters. He signaled he might grant clemency, but that’s not necessarily the same as a pardon.

Gov. Polis dropping some preemptive justification for his (very likely) intervention re: Tina Peters’ prison sentence:

Seems bad

A screenshot of a large group of people facing a heavily damaged building. A few of them are scaling the rubble. A headline reads: "Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School" Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

Prescience aside, it’s pretty amazing that writing like this, from writers like this, used to be available on a bare bones blog from the worldwide leader.

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll hear from Pete Hegseth on McAfee’s show soon.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Who is the person at Apple who thought "liquid glass" was a good idea. Give me five minutes alone with that person. I just want to talk. The baseball bat I'm carrying is unrelated

Must-win game for the Hokies and they get dog walked at home by a sub-.500 team.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the Mike Young era.

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

"Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."
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Thinking about the time NPR’s CEO apologized to members of Congress for calling Trump racist

How Much Longer Can The Politics Of Grievance Sustain Itself? | Defector I started reading James Baldwin in college, as a politically curious renegade-in-training. What appealed to me was his deeply philosophical outlook on race in America, the beauty of his prose, and how...

"The internet is full of cynicism and nihilism, so it's no surprise that the ideology that best represents the internet would be so devoid of anything affirmative."
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Help us save The Washington Post Hundreds of workers at The Washington Post stand to lose their jobs in layoffs, which could render The Post unrecognizable amid some of the most severe staff cuts the newspaper has ever seen. The Po...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter to save The Washington Post. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

Incredible stuff as always

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

The men who killed Alex Pretti have a combined 20 years of experience at CBP

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“The majority of the dead were women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said.”

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

you can't really prepare for how much they caught the giants owner sending emails that like "yes, i would LOVE it if you did sex trafficking for me! 😀 sounds fun! i am glad we are sex trafficking friends now"

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Thinking about the time the Washington post endorsed Pam Bondi

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She is set to announce plans for newsroom cuts and the hiring of many new commentators.

Tell me how replacing actual reporters with commentators is supposed to "restore trust" or whatever bullshit Weiss has said her job is.
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.

“The agreement called for sharing Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to the filing.”

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Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)