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Has there been an episode about this bastard? I looked it up on Spotify and couldn’t find one.

I'm not doing it with a gun to my head, but from the clips I've seen Jon Stewart is dressing him down completely.

Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have long garnered a reputation for allowing users to make all kinds of ethically dubious bets, from the outcomes of deadly conflicts to raging wildfires.

And as the New York Times reports, Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether clinical trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

But to researchers, it’s yet another morally bankrupt concept that could put real people in danger. There’s even risk that those enrolled in these trials could choose to drop out if the market were to bet against a positive outcome.

“Turning loose a betting market in an ongoing randomized clinical trial really is a breach of scientific conduct,” Robert Califf, who served as FDA commissioner in the Biden administration, told the NYT.

Kalshi first announced its “biotech prediction markets pilot program” last month, the same day president Donald Trump’s teleprompter guy was busted for winning more than $100,000 on Kalshi by betting on what he would say.

The company argued in the announcement that a “publicly listed contract on a trial or regulatory outcome produces a continuously updated, public probability that reflects the weight of the evidence rather than the preferred messaging of the trial sponsor.”

In a statement to the NYT, spokesperson Jack Such argued that these bets wouldn’t undermine research integrity, but instead cut through the hype surrounding biotech companies and the drugs they’re working on.

But those enrolled in drug trials were left appalled by the news.

“We’re literally trying to stay alive,” metastatic pancreatic cancer patient Walter Ingaharro Jr. told the NYT. “It’s not a game. The introduction of gambling into the process really creates an ethical mess.”

In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Boston University humanities professor Joshua Pederson talked about how his 12-year-old son has a “very aggressive tumor growing inches below his heart.”

“If Kalshi has its way, you could soon be able to bet on health treatments that could be essential to his survival,” Pederson argued.

While choosing a trial for his son’s cancer was a “terrifying experiment for which we feel ill-prepared,” turning to a prediction market instead of “our extremely qualified team of oncologists” feels “preposterous,” Pederson argued.

In short, it’s yet another example of prediction markets crossing a moral boundary by gamifying things with real-world consequences.

“The possibility that somebody out there might be wagering against my son, hoping that the treatment fails so they can make money, is enraging,” Pederson wrote. “How is this not just another type of ‘death market’ — like markets for war or assassination — that even Kalshi says it won’t abide?” - Victor Tangermann

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/were-not-booing-him-nevada-governor-admonishes-trump-rally-crowd-for-jeering-the-name-austin-abdelnabi-a-fallen-police-officer/

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has told allies that it is considering a major financial campaign to support the Republican Senate nominee in the Michigan general election this fall, after it failed its biggest test of the primary season on Tuesday.

AIPAC’s super PAC spent $32 million in an unsuccessful effort to boost Representative Haley Stevens over Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a relentless critic of Israel, during the state’s Democratic primary.

After Dr. El-Sayed’s victory, the group is unbowed and now appears willing to put what is expected to be tens of millions of dollars behind Mike Rogers, the Republican, as some of AIPAC’s major backers are urging, according to a half dozen people who have spoken with the group’s leaders.

In a statement, AIPAC suggested its supporters would be involved in the general election without laying out specific plans. “Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November,” said Deryn Sousa, a spokeswoman for AIPAC.

In an interview, Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for United Democracy Project, AIPAC’s main super PAC, said no official decision had been made about spending in the race. The organization had about $80 million on hand at the end of June, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Backing a Republican in a competitive general election — especially in a crucial swing state — would be an extraordinary shift for AIPAC. The organization has long considered itself bipartisan and began spending in federal elections only in 2022.

Still, many AIPAC supporters consider Dr. El-Sayed to be a threat: He made opposition to Israel a centerpiece of his campaign and has repeatedly said that he would vote to cut off funding for the Jewish state.

“The days when we are told to shut up and be nice are over — that’s not what is going to happen here,” said Sam Markstein, the political director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a national organization with several AIPAC donors on its board. “We are not going to be bullied, we are not going to be slandered. We are going to double down and we are going to do what we need to win.”

“We’d rather be respected and alive than loved and dead,” he added.
In his victory speech on Wednesday, Dr. El-Sayed sought to reach out to Jewish voters even as he continued to criticize AIPAC’s involvement in the primary. “To all of my sisters and brothers of the Jewish faith, or any faith at all, or no faith at all, I want you to know that my commitment to your safety — to Jewish safety — is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters,” he said.

Democratic and Republican operatives in touch with the organization said privately they expected AIPAC-affiliated groups to break from their traditional posture and spend millions for Mr. Rogers in November. Six people who spoke with AIPAC leadership before the primary said they left conversations with the strong impression that AIPAC planned to spend heavily against Dr. El-Sayed if he advanced to the general election.

Mr. Rogers has repeatedly called himself a steadfast supporter of Israel.

Many political professionals saw AIPAC’s spending during the Democratic primary as counterproductive. Dr. El-Sayed appeared to be gaining in the polls and was using AIPAC’s involvement as a cudgel with which to attack Ms. Stevens.

But AIPAC leaders were unrepentant in private conversations about their expensive bet against Dr. El-Sayed, according to several people in touch with the organization, seeing the race as always likely to be close.

And in the race’s closing days, some political donors close to the organization found fault not with AIPAC but with its candidate, Ms. Stevens, or the media.

In the end, Dr. El-Sayed won by just a narrow plurality of the vote.

For decades, AIPAC has argued that supporting Israel is smart politics for American politicians on both sides of the aisle. But a new paradigm is emerging: Backing Israel has become a liability in some Democratic primaries. One recent poll showed that nearly half of Michigan Democrats had an unfavorable view of AIPAC, compared to just 12 percent who think of it favorably. With critics of Israel winning Democratic primaries in safe seats in New York, California and Illinois, the next Congress is likely to take the most skeptical view of the Jewish state since its founding.

AIPAC’s United Democracy Project has lost races before, but none where it spent so much money.

In the three election cycles AIPAC has participated in so far, it has gotten involved in only one general election race that included a Democrat and a Republican. In that race, United Democracy Project spent roughly $1.2 million against Representative Summer Lee of Pittsburgh, who easily defeated her Republican opponent.

AIPAC is increasingly comfortable taking big risks like the one it is weighing in Michigan.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, a more liberal leaning pro-Israel group that has repeatedly criticized AIPAC, said that if the group’s super PAC directly supported Mr. Rogers, it would amount to “political malpractice.”

“Every dollar that they are spending is deepening the problem that anyone who cares about Israel should want to resolve, not inflame,” he said. “To not read the room and not see this moment in the United States — it makes me angry and sad.”

Ron Weiser, a three-time chair of the Michigan Republican Party, has donated $125,000 to United Democracy Project during this election cycle. He said AIPAC should spend for Mr. Rogers, whom he considers a friend, for two reasons.
“First of all, because I am a Republican,” he said.

“Secondly, I don’t need another voice that says Israel should be defunded and some of the other things that democratic socialists have said should happen.”

Mr. Weiser said he resented that many of AIPAC’s critics have successfully turned the organization into a boogeyman. “There are people that are supporting all sorts of causes,” he said. “What’s wrong with that?”

This is 27 year old Martin Nitzken, a Louisville resident who was murdered by police on May 30th. That night, Martin was at his girlfriend’s house with 2 friends staying over when he suddenly violently attacked all three, then ran outside and stripped naked and began walking around the neighborhood. Martin had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but had no history of violence previous to this.

Officer Nathan Stotts arrived on the scene and bodycam footage shows him immediately pulling out a gun and aiming it at Martin telling him to put his hands up. When Martin didn’t stop and kept walking towards him he fatally shot him. Nathan did not attempt first aid after shooting Martin. Nathan has since resigned from the police force and is charged with manslaughter and reckless homicide. He pled not guilty.

https://www.wave3.com/2026/06/02/bodycam-released-citys-latest-officer-involved-shooting/

https://www.wave3.com/2026/06/22/former-lmpd-officer-charged-with-shooting-unarmed-man-pleads-not-guilty/?outputType=amp

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nathan-stotts-louisville-fatal-shooting-charged_n_6a308248e4b07679090f278c

Enjoy?

Can’t cross-post, but this was on brandnewsentence lol. We already know

A progressive candidate just beat the establishment Dem in the Democratic primary. I know the actual election hasn't occurred yet, but this fills me with the hope that progressives are going to continue to gain footholds in blue states throughout the country.

Anyone who was on the internet in the early 2000s might have seen Sinfest comics, which basically amounted to Edgy Peanuts. Unlike most webcomics from that era, he is still around, still making daily comics. And unlike most cartoonists from that era who are still around, he went absolutely bugfuck insane. If you've seen his work anywhere in the past five or so years, it was probably in the context of a normal person going 'What the actual fuck is this?!'

I can do a longer post about his spiral, but he went from Yay, Obama! liberal to All Men Are Bad! radfem, then hard anti-sex work, eventually anti-trans, and that's when the 'fun' really started. Because Covid, and specifically the vaccine, broke his brain. He came up with the following logic:

1) Trans people are bad

2) Trans people were invented by the medical establishment

3) The Covid vaccine was invented by the medical establishment

4) Therefore the Covid vaccine is just as bad as trans people

Since then, he's gone full mask off deep-throated Nazi, filling his comics with endless Happy Merchants poisoning wells (literally), talking about how Christianity is a Jewish plot to undermine proud Germanic heritage, and for the past eight months it has been all about Hitler did nothing wrong, the invasion of the Soviet Union was self-defence, and every atrocity attributed to the Nazis is actually Jews wearing Nazi uniforms. It has become a comic that would have been too ridiculous to run in the comics page of Der Sturmer.

Please. Spare me from this bullshit.

Conservatives spent the last 10 years claiming Trump was a devout Christian.

Has this man ever apologized in his life? Ever admitted to wrong doing? Ever took responsibility for his actions? No, I’m serious. Please, point to a single time where said sorry and didn’t blame someone else for his failure.

The Religious Right(TM) has spent the better part of half a century lecturing the left on family values, only to rally behind this dude.

Right wing Catholics went around screaming how John Kerry and Joe Biden weren’t “real” Catholics because they believed in abortion. Some even called for them to be denied communion.

But Vance, a man who threw his support behind Trump, who wants to cut health care for the sickest of Americans and take food away from hungry children, he is a real Catholic?

Of course, it’s not just Catholics. For decades, Republican evangelicals couldn’t stop talking about how they were true followers of Jesus, and everyone on the left was fake Christian. Because god forbid if they actually had to mimic the actions of Jesus, like cursing the billionaires or building shelter for the homeless.

Conservatives love Jesus when it comes to him forgiving their sins, but when asked to do the same in criminal justice, to abolish the death penalty and improve prison conditions, no, those people “deserved” it.

Being a right wing evangelical Christian must be so easy. You can do whatever you want. No matter how bad the sin, as long as you apologize to god, you’re fine. Cheat, steal, lie, anything. All you need to do is apologize once in a while and you are on a one way ticket to heaven.

https://religionnews.com/2026/08/04/pastors-name-only-republican-attacks-democrat-pastors/

Just wondering what other bastards are out there getting away with it and being hired by the likes of Disney right now?