Adam Koenig

Owner, @KoenigPPPC. Exec. Dir. KY Quarter Horse Racing Assoc. Former State Rep. KY Sports Betting Godfather also penny breakage, direct shipment of alcohol.

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

@jesswelman @PokerCincinnati Thursday I’m in the BB. UTG limps, as does 6 others. I see AJ suited. Raise 6 BB. UTG shoves, 4X my raise. Assuming he has a medium pair I call. Villain has AK. I did not improve.

If I played AK like that I would lose every time.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

How about choosing someone who actually knows anything about intelligence, world affairs, etc. rather than going after the bureaucracy.

Can’t we find an expert in the area that could do it?

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Bill is a great guy who recognizes that the bureaucracy of the intel community must respond to the elected leadership (rather than the other way around). He'll do great!

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

@FanDuel_Racing @BreedersCup @TurfwayPark watching and wagering. I had Blame.

[KyHBPA @KyHBPA]

Once again, we need to thank our lucky 🌟🌟for foresight & wisdom of KY General Assembly to protect HHR in 2021. Otherwise, we'd be telling a very different story: Only 2 tracks in KY, small purses, KY still producing top individuals but many mares foaling out of state because of little incentive to race in KY. @damon_thayer @RepOsborne @repkoenig @KYAlGentry

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

No regulation is a political theory that can be implemented. But sadly it’s not about that with this administration.
This is failed governance and usurping the constitutional rights of states.

[Gambling is Not Investing @EndBackdoorBets]

ICYMI: Key takeaways from the @nytimes investigation: "How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency."

💡The NYT found that the CFTC has been captured by the industry it is supposed to regulate. “In the past 16 months of the Trump administration, the commission has shrunk its workforce, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement, and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn, The Times found.”

💡Top officials who have departed the agency in recent months have landed jobs within the industries the CFTC regulates, creating the kind of revolving door between industry and regulator that Pres. Trump once vowed to stop.

💡CFTC officials and career staff who have raised questions about enforcement have been placed on leave, barred from the office, and put under internal investigation. None of them was told what they had done wrong.

Current and former agency staffers said the CFTC's workforce took away a clear message after the suspensions: "Don't cause trouble for those industries."

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

A Kazakh mining company partly owned by the Trump family has a $900 million taxpayer-backed line of credit from the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. companies’ overseas dealings.

[Mimi Rocah @Mimirocah1]

Facts: the 1/6 mob caused 5 people to die, 140 LE officers to suffer severe injuries like cracked ribs, brain injuries, smashed spinal disks & more. And many more minor injuries and trauma. With 1000s of hours of video including from the rioters themselves it was the most recorded crime in US history (we prosecutors rarely have this much direct evidence). Approx 260 trials & only 2 people were acquitted (that’s a phenomenal record). Many defendants pleaded guilty (because they were). Not one defendant won a motion for selective or malicious prosecution or disclosure violations. Some of the judges overseeing cases were Trump appointed. Defendants had every legal process and rights and these were some of the most carefully scrutinized cases by DOJ ever. The highest sentences were the most serious offenders and/or people with extensive criminal histories. (Some judges questioned why the govt wasn’t seeking higher sentences actually). ⚖️

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

God bless @SenMcConnell

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

McConnell bringing the heat after Blanche meeting with Senate GOP today

“So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick"

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

An underrated issue that I don’t believe has been mentioned regarding the KY elections.
This is the first election we have had in 18 months. Things aren’t going well. This was the voters first opportunity to take it out on someone. And they did.

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

@_AustinHorn Sad but true.

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

Honored to share my thoughts on the KY Senate race.

[POLITICO @politico]

How Andy Barr out-maneuvered Kentucky’s warring factions to win Trump’s endorsement — and probably a Senate seat https://t.co/0eAl8PQgan

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

Trump’s endorsement of Paxton should put to rest the fantasy Trump cares about the GOP as a whole. What he cares more about is building a party that’s loyal to him, not building or sustaining a party that can win. There’s a HUGE difference which is why he regularly endorses the more flawed candidate as they’ll always be more loyal.

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

Further evidence.

Glad they did that, but still….

[Gambling is Not Investing @EndBackdoorBets]

So it's a gambling platform.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

worth remembering the 2014-2015 ebola outbreak in west africa. the united states was fully engaged, deploying nearly 3,000 service members to help with logistics and health care, and had the Intelligence community studying and mapping out road, air, and water transport routes to limit the potential spread.  

important example of effective us leadership and international engagement.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

13.1% of credit card balances in the US are now 90+ days delinquent, the highest since 2011.

10.3% of student loan balances are now 90+ days delinquent, the highest since 2020.

5.6% of auto loan balances are now 90+ days delinquent, the highest level on record.

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

Thank you @kyoag Russell Coleman for standing up for Kentucky, states rights and the Constitution on these bad actors known as predictions markets. The law is clear as day. Kentuckians are better off for these efforts. @EndBackdoorBets

[Attorney General Russell Coleman @kyoag]

There’s not a dollar’s worth of difference between prediction markets’ sports contracts & sports betting. Along w/nearly every other AG in the country, we’re asking the federal government to recognize that states are able to protect our people.

More: https://t.co/ocfZ8DIfMj

[Adam Koenig @repkoenig]

I don’t think they managed to stop it.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) speak to the press about skyrocketing gas prices across the United States.

They have brought with them a graphic that shows theoretical gas prices above $2 with the caption “coming to a gas pump near you!”, and they warn the press that gas might actually hit $2/gallon if something radical is not done.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I guess they couldn’t actually make it a calf. Still…

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.