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✅ “Prediction casinos”

“It is absolutely insane that this is legal. We already know how insider betting warps sports. Insider betting warping politics—and military actions—is orders of magnitude worse.” • https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/insider-betting-on-polymarket.html

“…The catalog against Trump hides Congress. It hides the congressional majority that confirms his appointments, funds his administration, launders his violence, blesses his agencies…It hides the congressional minority that performs alarm while refusing to use every procedural weapon available to stop any event. It hides the federal judges across both parties who spent decades building a palace of executive authority and now acts shocked that someone moved into it. • https://youtu.be/pl0B5TipkSo

“…The gambit of turning a foreign war into a domestic dictatorship is complicated and difficult. Its success depends on us. If the possibility of such a coup is not anticipated and the variants of the gambit are not called out as they emerge, he can succeed. He has attempted a coup (or, technically, a self-coup) once, in January 2021 -- there is no reason to think that he will not try to do so again…History does not repeat, but it does instruct.[…]” • https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt

🔘 XTC - Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down • https://youtu.be/fP4UrkXKMdk

🇺🇦 “…ending the war without a clear victory could trigger anger among hardline nationalist groups inside Russia, particularly pro-war military bloggers…To manage that reaction, the presidential administration allegedly plans…an “emotional repositioning” campaign for loyal pro-war bloggers while marginalizing more radical voices by removing them from public discourse and potentially targeting them with laws against “discrediting” the Russian army.“ • https://www.kyivpost.com/post/75697

“…it won't be open if we can't get it together any better than we could the first time around. You have to do things that help the web, and thus help your competitors. If you don't, if we don't, there will just be another Twitter, owning the users, and they'll probably sell out to a billionaire a lot sooner than Twitter did. At some point we'll realize if we want something new we have to work with each other. Otherwise you get Elon II, III etc.“ • http://scripting.com/2026/05/07.html#a132833

🇺🇸 V-E Day
🇺🇦 Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 – 1945