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there's not a ton that people in this
country agree on left versus right.
But something that we're seeing more
and more people getting aligned on is fuck
flock cameras.
if you're someone that's,
you know, maybe heard about it,
but you don't know fully
what a flock camera is. Here's the thing.
There's a good chance that your movements
have already been recorded by one
because flock safety is this company
that makes automatic
license plate readers or Alpr is,
which are AI powered
cameras installed by police departments,
cities, businesses,
schools and neighborhoods
all across the country.
capture the make, model,
color, license plate, numbers of the cars
that pass by, and the date, the time,
and the location of detection
and you've got flock saying,
hey, they're made help communities
respond to crime and safety incidents
by helping recover stolen vehicles,
aiding police investigations,
and just so much more.
but then you've got just so many critics
arguing that these are tools of
just a surveillance state
with, for example, the ACLU explaining
if there are flock cameras in your city,
they are tracking, logging
and sharing your movements
without a warrant.
or because you had the situation where
when one flock camera detects a vehicle,
that information stored in flock
system and can be searched
by participating law enforcement
agencies anywhere. right.
Not just by officials in your town
or even your state, but at any
agency with a flock contract allowing this
level of access it will flock,
they're not the only company creating
and deploying this kind of technology.
They are by far the most prominent
and well known.
they capture 20 billion license plate
reads per month across 6000 communities.
you've got the ACLU estimating
that between 80 to 100,000 of these
cameras are installed in both urban
and rural areas throughout the country.
but also, I'll tell you that
by the time that you're just even done
watching this video, there might be 1
or 2 less in this country.
and that's because of the rapid rate
that you're seeing these things
getting vandalized right.
You're seeing things like over
in Avon, Colorado,
you're the police posting about felony
criminal mischief after three cameras,
including a flat camera, were knocked down
and destroyed.
the reason I bring up that one
specifically is because on the post
where they ask the community
for any information
they ended up getting 18,000 comments,
but not from people that were like,
hey, I want
I want to help,
but rather just from so many people
who are expressing their frustration
with FLoC surveillance
and even people actively
supporting the destruction.
and then you seeing things like a guy
in the Minneapolis area, he's gone viral
for posting videos
about how he's climbed up poles
and taken down
dozens of flock cameras in a state.
he's even posted content teaching others
how to do the same.
then in California
he had some thrown paint on him, others
accused of straight up
running them over with their cars.
and it's all over in Florida.
They've also been hit with spray
paint in New York.
They've been shot in half in New Mexico.
A guy was accused
of destroying multiple cameras
and then replacing them with flags.
and there, even after a judge said
that you would issue an arrest warrant,
he told a local news.
You have plans to continue
to take down these flock?
Absolutely. No. Absolutely.
They are clear and present.
Threat to public you should understand
this is just a small sampling
of a nationwide trend, right?
This is happening in tons of states.
not everything is so destructive. Right.
You have some just trying to raise
awareness that these cameras exist at all.
so you've got people like in Florida,
there's a 77 year old man
who camps out in front of these cameras
in a lawn chair while holding up
a big sign to block the lens and protest.
and also to highlight
how widespread vlog tools are,
many have turned to a site
called diff lock. right.
And it has this interactive map tracking
all kinds of automatic license plate
readers.
the site's creator
telling The Wall Street Journal
that overall,
I don't think the government
should know where we are all the time.
we have the CEO flock saying that he does
respect some criticisms of the company.
Here's also what he said about this effort
to just tell people
where these cameras are.
unfortunately, there's
terroristic organizations like De Flock,
whose primary motivation is chaos.
They are closer to Antifa
than they are anything else.
And that, I think, is unfortunate
because we don't want chaos
or I don't want chaos.
I like law and order.
essentially, if you're not on board
using this site, you made the site
that's terrorism, organized terrorism.
and while he has since apologized one
a lot of people don't believe in,
but also too many believe
that this response in general,
it just highlights the problem here.
in some ways,
the backlash against black is working
cities, towns and counties
across the country.
They have been holding these tense town
halls where you have residents objecting
to their taxpayer funds or other public
grants being spent on these cameras.
and sometimes it works around 55
localities.
The end of their contracts
with lock in the past year.
And one of the things is that concerns
about these cameras, they go way beyond
just how free it is that they capture
and store our cars movements.
are you at 404 media doing this report
alleging that they can be used
to track individual people,
not just vehicles, right.
And claiming that police departments
have used these cameras for this purpose
hundreds of times, using searches
like heavyset male with black
and white hat or person on skateboard.
and their article explaining
these are called free form searches
and allow cops to use flock system
as though they would use a search engine
with flocks, AI and image recognition.
Interpreting what footage and which people
are relevant to a police officer search.
and these searches,
they'll go across dozens or even hundreds
of networks of cameras at once,
and they're often vague enough
that they end up pulling images
of unrelated, innocent people.
now for their part, you would flock
publishing a blog post earlier this year
saying that it's not a mass surveillance
tool, insisting that, quote, flock Alpr is
do not and cannot track vehicles,
much less individual people.
they also told 400 or that these free form
searches are not facial recognition
and that their products do not have or use
any facial recognition technology.
we've got people doubting that whether
it be now or what they do in the future,
many also think that they don't need
facial recognition tech to be alarming.
Right.
You have people like a senior policy
analyst
from the ACLU saying much of the world
hasn't quite caught up yet to how much
more powerful a surveillance camera
is today compared to a few years ago.
AI video analytics means that giant
oceans of video data can now be searched
the same way.
Big text files can be,
including for sensitive content
such as T-shirts,
tattoos, and bumper stickers.
Even without face recognition,
that's a significant increase
in surveillance capability. right.
You also had a policy council,
the center for Democracy
and Technology, saying these cameras,
they're like a bait and switch. right.
It's like being told
that you're getting a smoke detector
and then later learning that
it also records all your conversations.
understand
flux cameras are already being abused
by some of the police officers
who use them for personal searches
like stalking, access.
Newsweek alone found examples in 12 states
where officers had been accused
of misusing these cams it's happened
multiple times just here in Georgia,
where some officers have been charged
with violating their oath.
they're not alone.
In Alabama,
some officers have been fired or resigned
for improperly using the cameras.
In Milwaukee, an officer was sentenced
to 12 months probation after using flock
to track his ex-girlfriend
and her new partner.
Apparently searching for her over
120 times.
And the system many also have issues
with a lack of transparency
for what exactly
these cameras could be used for.
Are you the Electronic Frontier Foundation
saying it?
There was this one case in Texas
where deputies said
that they were searching for a woman
as a missing person, when in reality
they were using data on her
as a part of an abortion investigation.
there are then also reports
that Ice are using these cameras
for immigration enforcement.
And in California, police
allegedly illegally
share data from automatic license
plate readers with Ice and Border Patrol.
then you also have just
tons of these situations
where these cameras fuck up
and they misread plates
and they cause confusion
or even lead police
to investigate the wrong person.
you had Business insider reporting.
There was one town in California where
flocks machine learning software misread
license plates in 71% of the alerts
that it sent to officers.
you had an employee that failed
71% of the time, you would fire them.
That's not an employee.
That is a raccoon
that somehow got into the building.
so some of the things you would see
was like in one case,
you would repeatedly confuse
a nine on a plate for an eight,
falsely identifying a man's car is stolen.
you also had CNN reporting on a case
where a car reviewer in Minnesota was test
driving a Range Rover,
when all of a sudden officers
swarmed his car
because it was reported as stolen,
even though it was owned by Land Rover
North America.
but it then got mixed up with a car
in Los Angeles with a similar plate
that have been reported missing.
according to the ACLU, 1 in 10 license
plate scans from flock,
they misread the state.
And under 1% of the car scanned
or connected to any crime or wrongdoing.
and so it ends up
really not being too surprising
that as more people
learn about what's happening here,
there's just kind of this united hatred,
no matter your political party.
you just had the likes.
And if you're Ramon, the the left
wing mayoral candidate in Los Angeles
saying that the city should cut ties
with FLoC, arguing surveillance
without oversight does not create
public safety, saying it
tracks innocent people, enables abuse,
and puts Angelenos in danger.
then all the way on the other
side of the aisle, you had Tucker Carlson
devoting a whole episode of his show
to this.
and, well,
they didn't defend
people who were vandalizing
the cameras, he did say, there are videos,
in other words, of people who don't feel
they have any other recourse whatsoever,
making one last ditch attempt to preserve
the one thing that makes them free
in this or any other country.
Their birthrate, by the way.
And it's called privacy.
They don't have it. They'd like it back.
They think the Constitution guarantees it
to them.
Their lawmakers don't care.
Their leaders don't care.
Their police departments don't care.
They don't think it's to make them safer.
They understand that it's to strip them
of their most basic humanity, which it
so with what seems to be at least
some degree of a united sentiment.
There do appear to be efforts in Congress
to crack down on these cameras.
and so, for example,
you had Representative Thomas Massie
promising to sponsor a bill
that would withhold federal money
for municipalities and police departments
to deploy flock and other style cameras
to surveil law abiding citizens.
because again, a lot of the outrage here.
Yes, it's around that.
It's happening in the first place,
but also because public funds are grants
and gifts given to
cities are being used to pay for these.
In a lot of cases.
even though the people that
the money is meant to benefit
do not always want these cameras, watching
and echoing that you had Massey
telling the Cincinnati Enquirer,
I do not think the federal government
should be subsidizing the safety of cities
who decided to go beyond the pale
and basically
turn their communities
into a version of 1984.
thing as the Constitution requires,
you have to have probable cause
and reasonable suspicion to spy on people.
You can't just spy on everybody.
and adding that the security provided by
those cameras does not justify
the privacy it strips away, arguing
you can solve every crime
if you put tags in us
and track this everywhere
and made us all wear body cameras,
but at what cost?
but with all that said, I
then gotta turn it to you.
What are your thoughts here?
What's your opinion?
What's your reaction
whether, you know, this is how you're
first learning about these cameras,
if you've been a long time blockade or
even if you land somewhere else.
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Right back into the news.
We've got to talk about this insane
Max Miller situation.
he's a second term
Republican representative
who got big quickly,
mostly because of his close
relationship with Donald
and it was kind of this
foregone conclusion
that he was going to win
his reelection against Democrat candidate
Bryan Poindexter,
because the seat and district.
It's really firmly read.
Then you had this dispute with Miller's
ex-wife,
Emily Moreno, gaining more and more
Because you have Emily accusing
Miller of abusing
both her and their two year
old daughter, specifically saying
that he threw scalding hot water
from a skillet and Emily
held a gun to her head, shoved her up
against the wall, and Emily says
that he even fractured their daughter's
collarbone and bruised her but Miller.
He's publicly denied all this and gone
on the offensive, calling Emily mentally
ill, a liar and a stalker who has put both
him and his daughter in also in court.
He's accused her of making
repeated false reports to Child Protective
Services, medical professionals and law
You have him saying that she has untreated
bipolar disorder
and that she's stalking him
and trying to damage his reputation.
as far as her daughter,
Miller says that her broken
collarbone was actually Emily's
fault, caused by her reckless
so with all that, Miller sued both Emily
and her legal team for defamation.
And you had a campaign spokesperson facts
speak for themselves.
The court has continued to permit him
joint custody of his child.
there were credible evidence
supporting these outrageous accusations,
that simply would not be the case.
Congressman
Miller will continue to vigorously defend
his reputation against false
and reckless allegations
designed to inflame public opinion
rather than reflect reality.
and while all of this
is largely playing out in the court
and the headlines, you have Emily
staying out of the public eye
for the most part.
Her father, Republican Senator
Bernie Moreno, has so over the weekend,
you saw him taking to Twitter to say
that Miller
shouldn't be allowed to serve in the US
House, as he has admitted privately,
Max Miller needs serious psychological
saying he is a danger to my daughter
and I hold my breath every minute
he has custody of my granddaughter.
if there are any basic standards
of character required to hold elected
office, Max Miller fails believe
Max Miller needs to seek professional help
to end the clear pattern of abuse
he has left in his believe
he should not be free
to continue endangering others until he
then as far as the Trump of it.
All right now, it's at least not looking
like Trump is going to swoop in
to save the
no matter how tight
he was with Miller at one point,
with sources telling The New York Times
that Trump's inner circle is pretty pissed
with the way that Miller is handling the
with many viewing
this as a disaster of his own
making and his own mess
to clean up himself.
and then with that,
you're saying that a lot of Republicans
are kind of staying either
lukewarm or just silent on this issue
any of that standing out on its own.
But it's also worth pointing out,
because Republicans
were very loud
in their criticism of Democrats
Eric Swalwell and Graham Plattner
when allegations against them came
So it puts a different sheen on situations
like House speaker Mike Johnson
being asked
why Miller and Cory Mills from Florida,
they're still allowed
in the Republican Conference
after they had domestic abuse allegations
made against right,
especially as you have
where Democrats dump Plattner.
as far as Johnson, he said that the key
word in the situation is allegations.
And he have a process here.
I'm not in the business
of commenting on investigations
as they're in process,
and we'll see how that shakes
and that ends up also being similar to
what Trump himself I going to look at it.
I mean, so far it's accusations.
I'll be looking at
that's as you also have people like
Representative Jim Jordan saying things
like I know Max is a good man.
I was up campaigning for him.
I hope he wins reelection.
He's done
a good job as a member of Congress,
and we should all pray for his family.
These are difficult times
that they're going through.
We understand that
these kind of situations always are.
what you've seen there
is that even within the Republican Party,
some people kind of pissed at the response
from prominent of course,
a very big thing that we've seen over
the especially these last ten years is
who is publicly associating their name
with some sort of critique
and who says it anonymously so.
With that in mind,
you had one anonymous GOP
operative telling Politico What happens
when Democrats run ad after ad
targeting GOP voters about Miller abusing
the daughter of a pro-Trump MAGA senator?
does that do to GOP turnout?
How does that affect our candidates
at the top of the ticket
who are already in tough
it ends up being a valid concern here,
because right now, Miller is reportedly
still polling, but only just
one percentage point ahead of Poindexter.
right. This is a district
that Trump won by double digits in 2024.
so that's led to a lot of optimism
from Democrats
about actually being able
to flip this seat
but things could still change because
Miller still has until August 5th to drop
though I will say it doesn't look like
that is the situation
you're going to because you had Miller
going live on Twitter yesterday
to deny everything, redirecting it.
Emily, as well as saying that he plans on
keeping on with his reelection campaign.
every single one of these allegations
were already investigated.
And I cooperated fully every single time
because I had nothing to hide
and I have nothing to hide.
Now this election is just more
about winning a seat in November
for the Republican Party.
This election, to me, is about my family
and about our daughter,
and keeping our values here
and holding the media
and other individuals accountable
who have been incredibly reckless.
I'm not getting out of this race
and I'm winning in November,
and I'll be back in the 120th.
then with all this as far as Poindexter
stake on all
he said if all the allegations against
Congressman Miller proved to be true,
Max Miller should be in jail,
not worried about retaining a seat in
that was also echoed
by the Democratic Women's
Caucus, who called for an investigation
by the House
Ethics Committee and said
that Congress cannot sweep this under the
but for now, we're going to have to wait
to see if that's true
and how this whole situation plays
but then also while you've got news
like Miller fighting to stay in the public
eye despite the backlash against him, you
then have other news, like Ariana Grande
actually taking a step back from public
life. Right.
That's reignited
this debate, connected to,
of course, people, you know,
they've been commenting on Ariana Grande,
his body for years now. right.
Well, she was promoting the wicked movies
when her tour started earlier this year.
And just yesterday,
you and her team giving a statement
to people magazine saying
Ariana will be taking a step back
from visibility
after she completes the Eternal Sunshine
tour.
looks forward to finishing the tour
and ending it on a high note.
Both healthily and happily,
and then taking a much deserved break
from public facing work and appearances,
which has led to endless ongoing
public scrutiny. store
has been a beautiful experience for her.
She loves her fans and has loved
every minute of this tour so much.
and then with that,
she's also pulling out of a West End
revival of Sunday in the Park
with George,
which was a highly anticipated production
that many thought would further
her theater career.
and where team
they didn't go into specifics or,
you know, talk about
with the public scrutiny impacting her is
everyone has kind of collectively
filled in the blank.
and so that is kind of what
a big chunk of the conversation
has been about her online,
which is also kind of wild
because her new album, petal
actually just came out on Friday.
The music video for the title track
also came out to.
And with that
you would some expressing genuine concern
and other harsh criticism
over awaiting it.
with, for example, BuzzFeed
putting out a piece
claiming the shots in the video appear
deliberately composed to draw attention to
and emphasize her thinness
in a way that can be reasonably viewed
as glamorizing it.
it wasn't a lot of people
reading into the premise of the video.
It shows Ariana in an old Hollywood
casting call, continuously
changing or image as a panel of men
in suits reject or over and over.
right.
In some scenes they cite her appearance
and she needs work done
or need to lose a few pounds.
And at one point they tell her
they miss the old version of her and ask
if she has a personality disorder.
it then ends with her
attacking these men with a chainsaw,
which kind of fits
with other themes in the album,
exploring anger with the press, the media,
and maybe even her fans.
and dealing with that.
You had comments on the video
popping up saying things like, it's
not about wanting the old Ariana back,
it's about wanting her to be healthy,
and saying I genuinely wish her well,
and as praying her
close friends
and family are being there for her.
Of course, we only know what we see,
but it is sad nonetheless.
and then of course,
there are also comments
that are less sympathetic, ones
that are more making this
a spectacle and scandal out of it.
which is then
where you have a lot of this story
getting complicated for people
because there is a very, very, I will say,
fine line between concern and compassion
versus cruelty and condemnation.
do you have some writing things like,
the truth is,
we don't know what's going on with Ariana.
That's her personal business.
But we can and need to comment on this
as it relates to the image of a pop star
that young girls are going to see
and try to emulate.
but then also you're seeing things
like one clinical psychologist
writing a piece for the conversation,
explaining
many people will defend comments
about a celebrity's appearance
by saying they're simply expressing
concern.
you then have them arguing concern
doesn't require thousands of strangers
discussing someone's body online saying
public speculation
can become deeply personal, intrusive
and impossible to escape.
arguing research shows
stigma surrounding eating disorders
remains a major barrier to seeking help.
Many people delay treatment
because of shame, fear of judgment
and misconceptions
about what an eating disorder looks like.
So public conversations
that repeatedly evaluate people's bodies
may inadvertently reinforce
exactly the problems we hope to prevent.
then interestingly,
you add another psychiatrist
telling you as a today
that when it comes
to these kinds of discussions
where the person at the center
is just so visible
that the best thing to do
is to not talk about them directly,
but talk about the issue at large.
instead of asking
whether a specific person looks too
thin, we can talk about the broader
patterns.
We're seeing, the rapid rise
in the visibility of medications
like GLP ones, and the messages they send
when used outside
of current clinical guidelines.
saying
when the focus is on individual bodies,
even with good intentions,
it can quickly become toxic and harmful.
But again, it ends up being tricky
for a lot of people
because in publishing these pieces,
the people behind them are still, in fact,
in some way talking about Ariana Grande.
and then it's also worth
noting that while many articles
exploring how they should be discussed
naturally bring up eating disorders,
there is no public knowledge about what
Ariana is or is not suffering from.
And I'm not bringing that up
to suggest that she is.
But it has become a part of this
very sensitive conversation.
But ultimately, that's where we are.
And, you know, I do end up having to pass
question off to you of what?
What are your thoughts on this?
I feel like this topic comes up
at least once or twice a year.
right, whether it be with Ariana Grande
specifically or kind of whoever
one of the stars is at the time.
Repeat them from that
for your final block.
As I like to try to do on this show,
we've got more news.
You need to know that I'm going
to try and cram in before
you First up you've got Trump so-called
anti weaponization fund now dead and gone.
At least for now though that's also not
even the end of the Todd Blanch announcing
this formal order yesterday
just in time for his confirmation
tomorrow, the fund is not operative.
No funds were transferred.
No process for receiving
claims was established.
No claims were this order establishes
beyond any doubt that there is no
Because while Blanch said back in June
that they were letting it go
after all the backlash
they got from people on both sides of
the would send it.
Republicans John Cornyn and Tom Tillis
saying, hey, we want that in writing.
And so they put his confirmation on
hold last
that might have been a smart play
because Trump,
he was apparently still holding on. Hope
to keep even this week.
You had him claiming that
if Cornyn and Tillis kept
blocking Blanche's confirmation, he'd
just keep him on as acting AG
and keep pushing to get the fund
saying it will immediately be back on the
table and I will get it but then to that.
Utilizing President Trump clearly intends
to resurrect the payout pot for punks,
which I guess is his word for January 6th
rioters
saying it's unfortunate that Todd Blanco,
I consider qualified for
the job will not be confirmed
because of this reversal.
Hopefully we can resolve this by
and so it looks like yesterday's order
cleared things up there.
You also had Cornyn and Tillis
having concerns about Trump's tax immunity
with the IRS.
they wanted to make sure that it wasn't
some get out of jail
free card that he could use
for any tax investigations in the
and so Blanche through in a blurb
in the order to clear that up as
but that is just for the future, right?
This keeps up the part of the deal that's
saving Trump something like $600 million.
which apparently that part
all well and good with Cornyn and Tillis,
who made a joint statement
this morning
saying that their concerns had been
And so it looks like confirmations
But that said another news.
It might not be all good news for Trump's
record.
You now have a firing at Jeanine Pirro,
of all people, for saying what we've all
been the issue with the reflecting pool
isn't random vandals with box
just a botched renovation
you have her office dropping the charges
against former Olympian David Hurn, who
they said damage the pool earlier this
and actually now you have them saying that
the damage is because contractors rush
to get the job done in time for the 250
celebration events
that were going on in D.C.
last with Pirro saying,
given all this newly discovered
information, it is difficult to attribute
the widespread damage
to the reflecting pool to
you even had her turning it
on the Interior Department
saying they gave less than fulsome
information about the case from the adding
if they were forthcoming
with the information
clearly in their possession,
the government would not have sought
a grand jury
this is just such an interesting
turn of events coming from someone
who said that she had tremendous evidence
when she announced the case in the first
but then as far as Trump,
he crashed out on truth
saying I disagree
with 100% with Jeanine Pirro.
It was a pure case of vandalism.
All caps.
may have been some contractor difficulty,
but the major damage
was caused by vandals with me
even posing a video of people at the pool
saying look for yourselves.
The material is being cut with a knife
or a box cutter for all to see.
you've had most people saying,
we really can't see what's going on
it doesn't really seem
that that helped his point at
but then with all that, you've got people
turning to the contractors
and government officials involved
saying they deserve to be investigated
for lying
to a federal grand jury
about all this and others
even saying that everyone involved
should go to
and so now you also have people wondering
if this could be the end of the road
for Right.
Because you've seen
what happens when Trump's minions let him
but for now, it looks like that is yet
to be determined.
and personally, all I got to say is,
wow, this is definitely
the first case of Trump
working with contractors
that did not end well.
Then in other news, you're currently
watching one of the worst crypto disasters
in recent memory unfold in real time,
and it is targeting
the one group of people
who actually did everything
because hackers have managed
to breach cold card and drain almost $100
million from over 1200
Bitcoin addresses in about 41 minutes.
this is a just massive deal
because Cold card was supposed to be
the gold standard offline hard wallet.
And so now you have people wanting Right.
Because a hack of this magnitude,
it raises a lot of questions.
I mean, this is an offline meaning it is
not connected to the internet at all.
And therefore
it's supposed to be extremely
how did the hackers manage
to get the keys from these wallets
and well a security advisory
from block reveal
that there was a massive coding mistake
in certain
cold card firmware
so this made it so that the wallets
generated recovery
phrases were predictable.
And so the attackers didn't need
physical access to your device
that literally mapped out the keys
and emptied the vaults remotely.
the real salt in the wound for people who
use coin kites, updating your firmware,
or moving the bitcoin to another wallet
will not save your funds.
If your seed phrase
was created on affected
weakness stays attached to that recovery
or you can think of it like a password.
Updating your computer
won't matter if hackers still know your
you've got users
being urged to make a brand new recovery
phrase after updating or risk all your
while you had coin CEO Rodolfo Novak
issuing a public apology,
saying he's devastated
and taking full accountability.
It is not as full as a lot of users
would because in his statement,
you had him saying that the company
would release a full technical report
over how this happened and help users
to pursue police reports, insurance claims
or their own investigations.
but getting your money back
from the people you trusted.
Apparently that's a bridge too
then also notably, they blamed AI,
claiming the AI assisted code
review can find bugs and code
that would take humans forever to figure
they're not alone.
This has been a growing trend,
and it's raised a lot of red flags
about security and essentially every coded
so you've got the sphere out there
that this could be the new normal
for a while.
then last up in the news today,
New York just found a $36 billion lawsuit
against Kelsey because New York
AG Letitia James said that they're running
an illegal gambling operation.
in that 36 billion,
that's how much you have are claiming
that they've made from sports
gambling times three, a $100,000 fine
for each time they offered it
without a license, plus restitution
for people who've place bets on the
the now you have couches speaking out,
saying it's sad to see this type
of political theater
from the leadership in our own
saying states can't just shut down
a federally licensed exchange.
We love New York.
We love New Yorkers, and New Yorkers
love our
But truthfully, what you're saying is
that New York is just the latest
in all of their legal battles across the
because you got this tug of war
going on with
in the middle, where states are saying
that the federal government
is stepping on their rights
with prediction market
and it does appear ironic because,
as reports have noted,
that the federal government
originally wanted to prevent states
from offering sports betting,
which the Supreme Court
said was overreaching.
and now they could be overreaching
by allowing
you've got people from federal agencies
like the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission
rather than seek reasoned answers
from the courts, Letitia James in New York
seek to force an unprecedented sudden
shutdown of prediction markets nationwide.
CFTC has already sued to stop this and
will continue to defend its jurisdiction.
but then you also have a ton of people
rooting for states like New York
saying this lawsuit is important
and necessary action
to uphold the rule of law,
protect consumers,
and defend the nearly 70,000 New York jobs
supported by the legal gaming
and so what you should expect
is that this is probably all going to land
with the Supreme Court sooner or
and well.
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