INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
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The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
It’s nice enough as a human interest curiosity, but now give me the investigative journalism version because I smell something off wafting from behind the facade.
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Maya Kaufman
More evidence of weak or nonexistent leadership skills. Hiding when there’s big trouble in the enterprise is the wrong thing to do. She getting bad advice or she’s ignoring it. Or they are just plotting the demise of the whole thing.
The Welfare Queen of the 2020s is the Daytime TV watcher.
I’m sure Dr. Oz is an expert from all his daytime TV experience. Very translatable to ruining…ooops, running healthcare for millions of people.
True. Would love if someone would say, you know what is actually super obvious if you look at it, Sir, your bromance with Jeffery Epstein and how hard your administration is trying to keep people from seeing the full truth about it.
Whoa
Californians deserve a governor who will fight for our values and bring down costs, not bend the knee to MAGA extremism that will take our state backwards. I look forward to working with my fellow Democratic candidates to elect @xavierbecerra.bsky.social in November. (2/2)
New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook.www.wired.com
Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller cannot have competent Somalis celebrated in public life bc his hate depends on dehumanizing Somalis.
Thus the focus on Omar.
David Gilbert
Which American benefited from this pointless cruelty?
None. No Conservative, no Liberal. But it does degrade us, collectively.
Lois
Brilliant Bari bit by Barry Britt.
emptywheel
Michael Clemens
Sanho Tree
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
