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Katherine Long
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The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn
NEW: We set out to learn who was making money on prediction markets.
We found a small group of sharks feeding on a massive school of fish, including:
> a lifetime problem gambler
> a 31 y.o. in Indiana who lost $5,000 betting on sports
> a Detroit man who now lives in a homeless shelter
The view of Tehran’s skyline overnight on Sunday was apocalyptic: Billowing smoke and towering oil fires turned the horizon orange as Israeli strikes ignited fuel depots outside the Iranian capital. By morning, dark, oily smoke hung over the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.
At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together
"For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me
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The New York Times
CHOAM VP of Community Impact
Katherine Long
The New York Times
A fraternity that counts Jeff Bezos' stepson as a member under investigation for insider trading. Parties with Polymarket-branded beer pong sets. $20,000 in funding to open a prediction market club.
Here's how prediction markets are gaining ground on college campuses. www.wsj.com/business/med...
A fraternity that counts Jeff Bezos' stepson as a member under investigation for insider trading. Parties with Polymarket-branded beer pong sets. $20,000 in funding to open a prediction market club.
Here's how prediction markets are gaining ground on college campuses. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Isn’t the right to protest what makes America great? an American in the back of a government vehicle asked the agent who had just arrested her.
No, the agent responded.
Inside the Department of Homeland Security’s war on American dissent.
www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
NEW from @neilmhta.bsky.social: How sports leagues, tourism bureaus and other charities have transformed themselves through gambling.
For more than 3,000 nonprofits nationwide, gambling constitutes more than half of their funding.
www.wsj.com/business/hos...
This piece is great but also insane.
Polymarket has offered to pay fraternities, in exchange for signing up users, money that can be spent on throwing “epic parties”—one frat raised $30,510 over a two-week period.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
The 20-something billionaires who run Kalshi and Polymarket are battling it out to be the top prediction market company. Observers and former insiders say the feud is just heating up.
Kalshi and Polymarket pour money into deals with social-media influencers and students, who try to parlay rumors into cash.
www.wsj.com
Philip Stafford
"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."
Matt Pearce
Matt Novak
A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings.
