Arthur Corbin

Former U.S. Marine. Bankruptcy Attorney. Chapter 7. Chapter 13. Chapter 11.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Full story here, along with a scorecard of how the candidates boosted by these PACs are doing (not so hot; right around 50% success rate)
https://t.co/AbvB8Hk4p8

[Clash Report @clashreport]

A WSJ investigation found Polymarket secretly paid creators (via a firm called Virality) to flood TikTok/Instagram/YouTube with staged "winning bet" videos pushing US users toward its offshore platform.

Creators used fake mirror sites to simulate wins that never happened on real accounts.

Of 1,105 videos analyzed from 10 endorsed creators, ~70% showed fake bets (~$1.9M depicted), while real linked accounts actually lost about $166K.

Streamer Adin Ross had a multi-million dollar deal to promote the platform.

Campaigns generated ~140M views and targeted audiences 60%+ US-based, with creators often told not to disclose they were paid.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Mona Khalil in South Lebanon.

On June 6, they dropped a bomb on her home in Mansouri — flattening it.

Mona, an environmental activist, dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles along Lebanon’s coast.

She died of her injuries today.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations.

Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have donated to reelect Susan Collins.

THIS is what the U.S. Senate campaign in Maine is all about.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Some exchanges are giving SpaceX shares special expedited treatment to burrow onto indexes that millions of index fund holders will then robotically purchase to induce demand. It's an innovative version of a pump-and-dump scheme.
https://t.co/oMxNjUHPVl

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Yes, today we’re far from being there.

But it was the same with commercial software vs open source decades ago

I am starting to really, really dislike how Anthropic specifically treats even paying customers, almost as if it was doing us a favor for even allowing paying for their model

[Yanzhong Huang @YanzhongHuang]

By 2040, China is expected to account for 35% of new drugs approved by the U.S. FDA. However, senior Chinese pharmaceutical expert Song Ruilin warns that China’s current successes in innovative drug out-licensing stem mainly from faster clinical trials, rapid patient enrollment, and lower labor costs—not yet from any exclusive proprietary R&D technology advantages. https://t.co/KG2A2nuxcf

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Voters at the state level are voting to end factory-farming practices that amount to mass animal torture.

But Republicans in Congress are doing their utmost to protect businesses' right to torture animals.

https://t.co/NzkOPNalQ3

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

warning: Apple is going to work intensely hard to keep evidence sealed in United States v Apple. Don't let the much slower pace of New Jersey v rocket docket fade interest in this critically important lawsuit. https://t.co/gf9shIGcUo

[Bryan L. Sells @SellsBryan]

And so now the Alabama primary will come down to an emergency shadow-docket decision briefed and decided in a matter of days.

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

JUST IN: Southern Poverty Law Center moves to dismiss criminal case as vindictive prosecution, leads off brief with social media post & quotes from Trump. Doc: https://t.co/6iuo0qko7m Earlier: https://t.co/6K8Ttkw2as #SPLC

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

I didn’t hear a single Sunday morning show question about the NYT and 60 Minutes reports. Mostly Iran and the $1.8B fund. Effective media hacking attention hacking by administration. Intentional?

[Emily Birnbaum @birnbaum_e]

NEW: I looked into the unprecedented sums of money flooding state-level elections from corporate-backed super PACs.

Meta, Andreessen Horowitz and the top sports gambling companies are spending tens of millions to install friends in statehouses. Most voters have no idea.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

Outrageous assault on public health by the Trump regime

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

#HoldTheLine #DefendPressFreedom

[4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴‍☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47 @4nt1p4tt3rn]

Understand thee are only two ways they can prevent you from using a VPN:

* Egress and/or ingress port blocking (which is typically unsuccessful, as there are always ways around it)

* Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) at the border of every in/egress point in the state.

Both require, essentially, establishing a Great Firewall around the physical network connectivity of the state -- every copper line, every fiberoptic line, every cell tower, every microwave downlink.

This can be achieved either by inserting additional physical equipment, or by obtaining the cooperation of every ISP and telco doing business in the state.

DPI requires inspecting the contents of every single packet transiting the network, identifying the protocols in use, and blocking the traffic based on the contents of the traffic.

Either way, it is absolutely not something you want, and sets an extremely bad precedent.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Agree. This is a blatant violation of first amendment rights and an attempt to chill a free and plural press consistent with other actions by administration. That it involves the FBI should be even more concerning. 1/2

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.