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[Dvnny @dvnnynomics]

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[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT

[Zachary 🏙️ @ZachIsHere]

I have a report from downtown.

Dutch baddies have made way for Colombian baddies and lemme tell you it's a whole other category of baddie.

[Zara Rahim @ZaraRahim]

i am at taylor swifts wedding and it’s a cash bar

[watergun @tersseer]

when the 10/10 wants me to chase her but i’ve lost passion for the game and only do pens and tap ins in saudi league.

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Alexander the Great, 332 BC:

[𝕂𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕟 @kusssman]

no man born of a woman has Ozil’s vision.

[Jess @_GamerBabeJess]

buy the knock off soccer jerseys. who gives a fuck.

are you supporting Adidas or are you supporting Mexico???

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

Wait come back we just wanna talk.

[SPANE 🇪🇸 @SperrysandNikes]

Always say yes to a quick 30 minute beer with your friends because that hour and a half could be the best 6 hours of your life

[ابن أوتشيها 🇸🇴🇩🇯🏴‍☠️ @SomaliSasuke]

Brain so fried I thought mbappe was walking in front of them

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Anyway, good luck following this speech, Donald Trump.

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

So... A bribe.

[Jah Diko 🇨🇲 @Jahdiko]

@saccardiop Because niggas in Paris

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.

The company is Kalshi.

They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.

Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.

This month, they did $220 BILLION.

The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.

Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.

Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.

Mansour said no.

Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.

Zuckerberg's response:

He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.

Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.

And here's where the plan gets ruthless...

Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.

Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.

Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.

The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.

This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.

The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.

Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.

Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.

Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.

Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.

The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.

What do you think?

[choppa 🛝 @choppaslide]

Baby look like charles barkley

[Wade @WadeSAFC]

Djed Spence has been screamed at every single game by Tuchel, bro you picked him, he was this shit all season

[Make L.A. Great Again 🇺🇸 @lalovestrump]

Found a cheap apartment for rent in Santa Monica

But you need to have AIDS…

[Rico 🔪 @RicosRevengev]

Just cut off a student driver. welcome to the real world nigga

[22 U.S.C. § 2304 @RefrmDemocracy]

Cuomo would be on his ninth trip to Israel by now.

[Money @MasterChefMoney]

If I see someone in Paul George Celtics jersey you’re getting physically assaulted & possibly robbed

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Dan Goldman lost his race, so now he's on CNN inventing slurs and tropes I never uttered. I challenged you before, @danielsgoldman. Quote one thing I actually said. You won't, because you can't.

And I'm not surprised by @jaketapper laundering baseless accusations against me. He's auditioning for the Ellisons to join his mate Bari Weiss. I can understand.