If NYC is the financial center of planet earth and the hub of global capitalism, defined by the lions of industry, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation, then truly the “Pride Lands” have fallen. The hyenas are in charge.
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Prasad and the now-ousted Tidmarsh are aligned in their disinterest in a robust, accelerated approval pipeline for new treatments. Tidmarsh was hired by the FDA the same month it revamped its denial process under the guise of “radical transparency.”
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This scandal is less about gambling and more about human nature — about greed, self-destruction, and the moral rot that wealth alone can’t fix. The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize small wagers didn’t make multimillionaires betray their sport for a few illegal dollars. They did that on their own.
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Claims that legalization leads to runaway debt or bankruptcy spikes are not borne out by the data, which show minimal changes in financial health indicators like credit scores and loan delinquency.
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“The deadline for Trump to follow the law passed 135 days ago. It is shocking that a bipartisan-backed law, signed by the former president and upheld by the Supreme Court, is being treated like a mere suggestion by the White House,” said Stephen Kent of Consumer Choice Center
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Enforcing “Made in America” standards is necessary to protect consumers, according to Stephen Kent, media director of free market advocacy group Consumer Choice Center
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This move, unthinkable for a Republican administration two decades ago, assumes that America can have the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical sector and also ask “Big Pharma” to forgo the billions in profits they reinvest back into research and development. It’s a fantasy.
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In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf famously confronts his old friend and mentor, Saruman the White, who now is in service of the Dark Lord Sauron. Something that didn’t make it into the beloved Peter Jackson film adaptations is that Saruman the White gives up the white cloth, symbolizing purity and truth, and adopts a shimmering robe of many colors.
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Social media regulation isn’t something that shouldn’t happen, but it should be done in ways that preserve both the experience of these apps and minimize the data collection needed to perform age verification. Virginia might be headed in the right direction.
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This should be Trump’s message. His Democratic rival and likely challenger to Vice President J.D. Vance in 2028 has helped to decimate America’s entertainment capital, and even liberal Hollywood actors know it.
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The brand problem for Disney, however, looms large in the background of this miniature Star Wars controversy. Most families expect Disney+, like the Disney Channel of old, to be a place where they can blindly trust the content to be PG. It is an unwelcome surprise for an unwitting parent to have to explain they/them pronouns or sexual assault after turning on a show with Disney’s name attached to it. And yet, both of these things have occurred in Star Wars projects.
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Stephen Kent told Fox News, “Disney may have finally gotten tired of losing. This is a remarkable course adjustment and evidence of how politics can reshape culture overnight. CEO Bob Iger has always been far more shrewd and practical than Disney's critics acknowledge.”
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Consider USA Today, which reported on “concerns that the food dye is linked to cancer and behavioral problems in children.” Only later in the report does the reader learn that cancers only appeared in rats who were given abnormally high doses of the additive as part of FDA-required testing.
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The alternative is prohibition and turning a blind eye to what your people are doing in the absence of a regulated market. An effective regulatory regime accounts for the kind of consumer behavior lawmakers can reasonably anticipate and then keeps those people as safe as possible without removing adults’ right to make adult choices.
Like in Iowa and Tennessee, HB 1302 bars the use of credit cards in online bets, and requires age verification for players, a policy piloted by Pennsylvania and Michigan. The bill allows for up to two online betting services to partner with a local casino in order to operate. The $6 million protection fund exists to serve the smaller Mississippi casinos that might not acquire online betting partners.
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A homeowner with a backyard pool they’d like to share by the hour with locals might be surprised by the language of Statute 130A-281, which reads, “No public swimming pool may be opened for use unless the owner or operator has obtained an operation permit.”
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Consider the political culture of TikTok, the elephant in the room for this conversation. Are Democrats and Republicans ready to have a candid conversation about which mental health trends, specifically, they find so worrisome on these social media platforms?
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The Consumer Choice Center’s media director put it this way: “Imagine the classroom slacker making the case to the teacher that the straight-A student in the front of the class is being anti-competitive by not sharing their lecture notes with them.”
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Americans increasingly don’t know where to look for solutions to their problems.
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