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“… The EDPA investigation dovetails with the Eastern District of New York’s inquiry centering on the gambling ring that was involved with former NBA player Jontay Porter, sources say. The EDNY office also is investigating unusual gambling activity on current NBA player Malik Beasley’s performances during the 2023–24 season, according to the player’s attorney, Steve Haney. “An investigation is not a charge,” Haney told SIin June. “He has not been charged.”

SI reported in February that authorities are looking into links between the ring that has been charged in the Porter case and wagering on at least nine college games across the last two seasons. Gambling monitoring services flagged unusual wagers on games involving at least five college teams—and investigators have been prepared for that number to increase. The NCAA also is performing its own investigations of a number of programs, with infractions cases or eligibility inquiries involving players at New Orleans, Eastern Michigan, Mississippi Valley State and Temple. …”
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It's so sad that, when we opened up sports betting in America, we didn't heed the lessons from sports betting elsewhere.

One of the most heavily betted leagues in European football was the Finnish second division. There was a reason for that
 


Pretty strong words for an article promoted by Bill Kristol

“… Burrowing into the crime data and laboring to refute conservative anecdata passively concedes that, at some point, it is legitimate for the president to occupy an American city to respond to an emergency that so very plainly isn’t happening, that begins and ends in his declaration of it.

The best reaction to comical conservative anecdata about American cities descending into a Hobbesian war of all against all is far simpler: “What a total wuss.”

Essentially every member of and mouthpiece for the Republican Party has made a point of declaring that they are more frightened of New York City than a million kids who walk and take public transit to school there every day.

That’s pathetic — and funny. It’s hysterical that a party of manly men scream to the entire world that they are the hard men who can rescue a humiliated republic and are also scared to death to ride a subway that six-figures worth of grandparents use per day. Those same hard men claiming that transgender teachers, inclusive and responsible historiography, and basic empathy will end masculinity will also tell you that their gun ownership makes them society’s protector, while also proclaiming themselves utterly terrified of stories they’ve told themselves about what happens if you ever leave your house or your car.

The root hypocrisy of fascism is that it brings to power supermen who are supposedly capable of meeting any threat, but whose unceasing message is that they are threatened by anything and everything.

You can’t break all the laws without making up existential threats, and so America is on the verge of total collapse (while criticizing it verges on treason). Liberals complain about not liking fish pictures in dating profiles, but real men solve real problems and read the Western canon, while also pissing and moaning about Hollywood casting decisions. The avatar of heroic hetero masculinity worries that liking his wife too much might make him gay.

… The media, by and large, treats this kind of rough manly pants-pissing with helicopter-parenting levels of concern. The possibility that conservatives’ fears and claims might be baseless takes a backseat to the first-order op-ed page problem of their existence in the first place.

Their essential realness as Americans confers their “fear” with the status of a valid other side by default. Whichever number makes crime appear worse — the raw, the per capita or the percentage-increase — will be used, while crime reductions get cameo treatment.

Despite standing a generation removed from the last traces of “Death Wish” New York, their vision of the city is a million victims and one vigilante surrounded by 10 million animals. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is part Rodney King riots, part “Boyz n the Hood” and part “Predator 2.”

… No one should continue to play along with this, because what’s happening in D.C. and L.A. lives at the end of this train of thought. The same people who ridicule women’s expressions of trauma are not entitled to be soothed every time they claim to suffer PTSD in response to their own daydreams and email forwards that cite the Fabulist Cuck newswire. Those claiming to save an America under attack do not get to void the nation’s promises to people they dislike because they have overactive imaginations. And a dainty-fingered Broadway-obsessed draft dodger who likened the clap to combat doesn’t get to become a warrior because his appointed drunk at the Department of Defense says he is. …”
 
nycfan said:


Pretty strong words for an article promoted by Bill Kristol

“… Burrowing into the crime data and laboring to refute conservative anecdata passively concedes that, at some point, it is legitimate for the president to occupy an American city to respond to an emergency that so very plainly isn’t happening, that begins and ends in his declaration of it.

The best reaction to comical conservative anecdata about American cities descending into a Hobbesian war of all against all is far simpler: “What a total wuss.”

Essentially every member of and mouthpiece for the Republican Party has made a point of declaring that they are more frightened of New York City than a million kids who walk and take public transit to school there every day.

That’s pathetic — and funny. It’s hysterical that a party of manly men scream to the entire world that they are the hard men who can rescue a humiliated republic and are also scared to death to ride a subway that six-figures worth of grandparents use per day. Those same hard men claiming that transgender teachers, inclusive and responsible historiography, and basic empathy will end masculinity will also tell you that their gun ownership makes them society’s protector, while also proclaiming themselves utterly terrified of stories they’ve told themselves about what happens if you ever leave your house or your car.

The root hypocrisy of fascism is that it brings to power supermen who are supposedly capable of meeting any threat, but whose unceasing message is that they are threatened by anything and everything.

You can’t break all the laws without making up existential threats, and so America is on the verge of total collapse (while criticizing it verges on treason). Liberals complain about not liking fish pictures in dating profiles, but real men solve real problems and read the Western canon, while also pissing and moaning about Hollywood casting decisions. The avatar of heroic hetero masculinity worries that liking his wife too much might make him gay.

… The media, by and large, treats this kind of rough manly pants-pissing with helicopter-parenting levels of concern. The possibility that conservatives’ fears and claims might be baseless takes a backseat to the first-order op-ed page problem of their existence in the first place.

Their essential realness as Americans confers their “fear” with the status of a valid other side by default. Whichever number makes crime appear worse — the raw, the per capita or the percentage-increase — will be used, while crime reductions get cameo treatment.

Despite standing a generation removed from the last traces of “Death Wish” New York, their vision of the city is a million victims and one vigilante surrounded by 10 million animals. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is part Rodney King riots, part “Boyz n the Hood” and part “Predator 2.”

… No one should continue to play along with this, because what’s happening in D.C. and L.A. lives at the end of this train of thought. The same people who ridicule women’s expressions of trauma are not entitled to be soothed every time they claim to suffer PTSD in response to their own daydreams and email forwards that cite the Fabulist Cuck newswire. Those claiming to save an America under attack do not get to void the nation’s promises to people they dislike because they have overactive imaginations. And a dainty-fingered Broadway-obsessed draft dodger who likened the clap to combat doesn’t get to become a warrior because his appointed drunk at the Department of Defense says he is. …”
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I would argue these fascist manly men claim to be afraid for their families, Western Values and their Way of Life — I’m not scared for ME, I’m scared for the defenseless women and young children and for the future when I’m not here to protect it.
 
nycfan said:
I would argue these fascist manly men claim to be afraid for their families, Western Values and their Way of Life — I’m not scared for ME, I’m scared for the defenseless women and young children and for the future when I’m not here to protect it.
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It’s both, but they don’t recognize their own cowardice.
 
nycfan said:
I would argue these fascist manly men claim to be afraid for their families, Western Values and their Way of Life — I’m not scared for ME, I’m scared for the defenseless women and young children and for the future when I’m not here to protect it.
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Sure they would, and it doesn’t change the pertinence of the point. That’s why the article includes commentary on kids walking the streets of NYC and grandparents riding the subway.

I’m in 1-1 conversations with these men every week. They often communicate concern, one might say fear, about being in a hospital on the far edge of a small metro - and not even one of those horrifying liberal hellscape metros like SF or Chicago or Seattle. These folks won’t even allow a nurse to wheel them outside for a minutes worth of non institutional air, but they’ll beg their family to drive in from Thehillshaveyes, to salve their anxiety.

Mind you, this hospital system just saved their life. Maybe they rode their dirt bike into a tree, while hopped up on meth and fent (only seen this about a dozen times). Maybe the white nationalist preacher, with swastikas covering the entirety of his kneecaps, just got a marrow transplant for his myeloid leukemia. On and on and on. ETA: forget to mention, this is one of those hospitals that has to have a disproportionately high % of doctors from outside the US, because Ricky and Stephanie’s brood just don’t cut the mustard.

Most fascists are fascists because they’re scared of different, scared of the “other”, and that manifests as attempts to dominate. I don’t think they deserve the benefit of the doubt, rationally nor sympathetically.
 
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donbosco said:
You don't see the word historiography in a lot of editorials outside of the American Historical Review.
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It’s a big part of the IB history curriculum, so I suspect that anyone who completes the program in high school, and continues on into the field of journalism, pushes it in their writing.
 

Dallas ended downtown homelessness. Trump wants to change the rules.​

The new push from the Trump administration focuses on emergency shelters over permanent housing and would limit how long people could receive aid.

🎁 —> https://wapo.st/414asfq

“After years of homeless encampments spreading across downtown, officials here tried something new: They enforced a local law against sleeping on the streets. And instead of shuffling people to other neighborhoods, they offered wraparound social services — and a permanent place to live.

The approach worked. Even as homelessness nationwide surged to record levels, Dallas has emerged as a national model. The city declared an end to downtown homelessness in May after more than 270 people moved off the streets.

But in Washington, as President Donald Trump decries homelessness and pledges to clear out “slums” in big cities, the administration is looking to end the program that fueled Dallas’s success as part of a broader overhaul of federal homelessness funding.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner has blasted the program, known as Continuum of Care, as “a tool by the left to push a woke agenda at the expense of people in need.”

… the White House budget proposes ending Continuum of Care in fiscal 2026 by consolidating it with another initiative, the Emergency Solutions Grants Program. That program prioritizes shelters and transitional housing, street outreach, and services like substance abuse treatment and mental health services.

… Housing economists and advocates say the proposed changes will make it harder to address chronic homelessness. They note that places like San Bernardino, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland, also have made strides under Continuum of Care, which funded more than 1,000 recipients in 2024. Estimates from the National Alliance to End Homelessness predict that Trump’s budget proposal would end funding for more than 166,000 permanent supportive housing units and increase homelessness by 36 percent.…”
 
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