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TODAY: 100 orgs sent a letter to the 42 House Democrats that voted in support of Republican Leadership and the Trump Administration's warrantless surveillance agenda on April 29th. theintercept.com/2026/06/11/…
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Trump tasked Jay Clayton with investigating Democrats’ ties to Epstein. Now he’s nominating Clayton to be the nation’s top spy and @MarkWarner and @jahimes are practically gushing over him. No one should celebrate the fact that Trump just named his Epstein hatchet man to ODNI.
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1) Yesterday, @CFTC proposed to create a pathway for prediction markets to essentially offer sports betting nationwide. This proposal gives platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket a green light to bypass state gambling regimes, undermining consumer protections and state tax bases.
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4) The proposal completely misses the mark by accepting the industry’s claim that prediction markets are derivatives, rather than mass-market gambling products that raise consumer-protection, democracy, & state-sovereignty problems the CFTC is not equipped or authorized to solve.
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5) A coalition of civil society groups have already called for the CFTC to respect state and tribal authority over gambling. This proposal moves in the opposite direction. Read about it here: demandprogress.org/wp-conten…

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