Sports fans: we will pay up anyway

Sports fans: we are getting ripped off by a monopoly www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Why do some conspiracy theories change the world - and others vanish into thin air? I thought I was witnessing the birth of one of the former on Election Night 2024 in Milwaukee. But it didn't quite work out like that. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

If you haven't yet dived (dove) in to my and @wendling.bsky.social's pod by, for and about Americans in the UK and would like an entry point, I've started a Clips channel on YouTube for shorter bits, including our origin story: youtu.be/R93tu2KTAJM?...

Tulsi Gabbard came from the other side of the horseshoe. It’s a sad diagnosis for her husband but I’m also sure she wanted out before the invasion of Cuba. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Massie lost to MAGA and guess what … the far-right conspiracy theories about voter fraud have started. Unleash a beast and there’s no telling what it feasts on next www.emerald.tv/p/something-...

I spent 18 months tracking pardoned J6ers and found that many of them are criminals. Nearly 80 have been arrested or convicted since 2021, on charges including rape, assault, vehicular homicide, child abuse. Donald Trump has floated the idea of giving them government handouts. Full story:

At least 78 people pardoned for participating in the US Capitol riot have been arrested for unrelated charges, @wendling.bsky.social reports. That's more than twice as many as has been previously reported. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...

😵💀 "At least 9 of the cases involve child sexual abuse, 3 rape charges & 2 people convicted of murder while driving under influence of alcohol – in addition to at least 19 weapons charges & 9 violent assaults." 🧾 shorturl.at/USqYc 👉Trump now has a $1.7B slush fund for them... ⚖️ shorturl.at/ES8XY

Nearly 80 Capitol rioters have been arrested since 2021 - far more than previously reported. It’s a remarkable level of criminality - but rioters say they’re due money from the Justice Department.

There is a huge spread opening up on prediction markets over the next UK PM. Chances it’s Andy Burnham: 🔴Kalshi: 70% 🔴UK exchanges (Betfair, Smarkets): 46 - 48% There’s a time value of money issue - resolution timing unknown. But I can’t figure out why the gap is so big 🤔

Do prediction markets have the potential to shape reality? They already are. This is the story of Brian Rose, London mayor candidate who bet on himself and at one point was the bookie's 2nd fav - even though he had zero chance of actually winning. thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/prediction...

For Radio 4 I investigated the prediction market craze with producer Mhairi MacKenzie. If you are wondering what kind of dessert a kalshi is, if you need to see a doctor about your polymarket, or why people are betting on war...this is a good place to start www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Russian deaths in Ukraine are now about 6x American deaths in the Vietnam War www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/w...

"The entire information ecosystem is now based on an effectively infinite number of voices competing for your attention. Also, we removed any limitation or restriction on publishing falsehoods." *twelve seconds pass* "Why is the public in the grip of so many lurid-but-false beliefs???"

It requires a constant struggle to not become an outrage junkie, and like other addictions it is not obvious to the addict that they are in it.

The leopards will eat your face too www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I’ve been scathing about Community Notes, but according to this new research…they work. They aren’t fast enough and work less well when it comes to politics and influencers, but at least they have some sway at the margins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great story - even though Vitamin K isn't a vaccine but anti-vaxxers have convinced people not to give it to their babies anyway. www.propublica.org/article/more...

The idea of “The Narrative” - a hidden, anti-people agenda imposed by elites in the media and government - is popular in conspiracy circles. It’s also completely wrong. substack.com/home/post/p-...

“The Narrative” does not exist and the people who say it does are pushing their own narrative, which is a lie. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

THERE WAS NO OPERATION, MY FRIEND DID SOMETHING FUNNY ON HER OWN INITIATIVE AND I TOLD THE STORY AT HER REQUEST THERE WAS NO OPERATION, MY FRIEND DID SOMETHING FUNNY ON HER OWN INITIATIVE AND I TOLD THE STORY AT HER REQUEST THERE WAS NO OPERATION, MY FRIEND DID SOMETHING FUNNY ON HER OWN INITIAT

Obviously the shut down of Spirit Airlines is a false flag psyop designed to distract the sheeple from what’s really going on. Only an unpopular president would let this company fail. Stay vigilant patriots.

It was staged! Or the Democrats did it. Unless Muslims did, or Jews. And don’t forget Satan, he must have been in on this somewhere. Here’s a guide to all of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner conspiracy theories, not confined to one "side" - just look at Bluesky! substack.com/@thedayofrec...

Trump will be loving it - once again he’s king of the attention economy

Catch up on overnight fake news: Here are all of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner conspiracy theories that were brewing while you were asleep: substack.com/home/post/p-...

If Donald Trump wanted to do something popular maybe he should just let Spirit Airlines die www.aol.com/news/trump-d...

Many are missing the importance of the Tucker Carlson “apology”. Until now he and others have steadfastly refrained from directly criticizing Trump. He’s still pushing the “undue influence” (Israel) narrative, but the taboo against going after Trump himself is rapidly eroding.

I can't wait for discovery

FIFA, private finance and sports media are conspiring to jack up the prices of World Cup tickets. www.ft.com/content/234f...

Alleged rapist, ex-BBC presenter and Florida man Russell Brand has declared that he's running for mayor of London in 2028 youtu.be/ISETUBf6aoo?...

That viral poll about vaccine hesitancy is not all it seems. Confidence in vaccines has decreased recently but it’s not as tenuous as the Politico poll made out, because the question was poorly worded. www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/v...

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

Tucker Carlson, leader of the Paranoid Style, leans into Pizzagate. It might not be true BUT something seems up with that strange apparent code (true) AND nobody’s asking questions(false). Oh and “there’s no white person in America who drinks grape soda”. youtube.com/shorts/npBn-...

A picture I took at a grassroots pro-Trump rally in the Detroit suburbs two years ago. Other than the man in the White House, what’s changed?

JD Vance mentioned Pizzagate and conspiracyland is losing its mind x.com/ScottMGreer/...

Good story, bad headline. It’s a shady marketing campaign, not a “psychological operation” www.wired.com/story/geese-...

Private Eye on Scott Mills… and Anna Brees

Anna Brees, formerly @breesanna on X, noted Covid conspiracist and one-time BBC journalist a while ago, reported Scott Mills to the BBC but nobody investigated. She was on to something for once and then suddenly deleted her account. The girl who cried wolf. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Anti-vaxxers are whooping it up over Elon Musk’s promotion of propaganda from “Peter Sweden”. Here’s a tale of MAHA meeting Europe’s far-right on the ultimate radicalization timeline – and I traced it all the way to its original source. thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/far-right-...

I'm making a radio doc about prediction markets. Are you a trader or do you know one? [email protected]

When right-wing fact checkers feel compelled to call out Candace Owens over her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, you know all is not right in the MAGA character universe. www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n000...

Nobody was talking about this now everybody will be talking about this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives are starting to cotton on but still don't entirely get it. The far-right folks aren't "putting the next generation of Republican leadership at risk" - they ARE the next generation. nypost.com/2026/03/31/o...

Generally: liberals are clueless about how to deal with this, conservatives deny there’s a problem, most in authority don’t really understand. Fathers and mothers (but mostly fathers) this is on us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can only ride the tiger for so long.

The MAGA hivemind loves to use conspiracy theories to bash those libs, but conspiracy theories are now eating the movement from the inside

Yet another story in a conservative publication fretting about conspiracy theories. It’s a trend. The authors may have noticed that QAnon believers were among those rioting at the Capitol five years ago. www.thefp.com/p/arthur-bro...

Oh wait I’m sorry! It’s “none of the above” bsky.app/profile/wend...