Source: Reuters
“A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform. … The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Donald Trump’s administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.” (04/06/26)
https://archive.is/YHPs5
Source: The Hill
“Niall Stanage gives his notes on President Trump’s controversial Truth Social post from this past weekend.” (04/06/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5814541-rising-april-6-2026/
Source: Reason
by Fiona Harrigan
“Deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high in 2025 and a majority now say the agency’s actions make Americans less safe.” (for publication 05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/04/06/a-deadly-immigration-crackdown/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens) is now opposed to funding defensive shields that could save the lives of innocent civilians — if they are Israelis. Seems like she’s trying to win back the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America that spurned her in 2024 for not hating the Jewish state enough. Or maybe she’s just showing her true colors. Her re-hardened anti-Israel position comes even though she isn’t facing any significant opposition in her re-election campaign, which raises and spends so much money it’s more like a good-sized business than a scrappy Bronx-Queens political operation; she doesn’t need the DSA’s endorsement. But she got her fellow antisemitic socialists mad at her because she abstained from voting to deny funding for Israel’s strictly defensive Iron Dome project, which protects Israelis — Jewish and Arab — from the tens of thousands of missiles that have been lobbed from Iran’s regional terror proxies.” (04/06/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/opinion/aoc-lifts-the-veil-she-wont-help-protect-innocent-civilians-so-long-as-theyre-israelis/
Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]
“US President Donald Trump says a leak to the media about the existence of a second shot-down airman shortly after American troops rescued the first one threatened to upend the entire operation. The rescue of the F-15E pilot on Friday evening was first reported by Israeli media …. ‘We didn’t talk about the first [rescue] for an hour, and then somebody leaked something, which we’ll hopefully find that leaker,’ Trump says during a White House press conference on the weekend rescue mission. … ‘We’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ‘National security. Give it up or go to jail,” he continues.” (04/06/26)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-threatens-to-jail-reporter-over-leaked-rescue-of-pilot-thought-to-have-come-from-israeli-defense-chief/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In 2023, the families of persons who had died because of Boeing’s lies about safety were told that it was too early to challenge the Justice Department’s deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Boeing. Now, in 2026, the same Fifth Circuit says that their challenge is too late. When was the perfect Goldilocks moment?” (04/06/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/06/justice-delayed-forever/
Source: Axios
“Meta is preparing to release the first new AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to eventually offer versions of those models via an open source license, Axios has learned. Meta has been the largest U.S. player to let others modify its frontier models, and there has been growing speculation the company might retreat from that strategy altogether. Before openly releasing versions of the new models, Meta wants to keep some pieces proprietary and to ensure they don’t add new levels of safety risk, according to sources.” (04/06/26)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
Source: The Dispatch
“Has Trump Betrayed His Base?| Interview: Ross Douthat.” (04/06/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/has-trump-betrayed-his-base-interview-ross-douthat/
Source: Foreign Policy
by Bob Davis
“To understand U.S. trade policy, it’s best to think of chaos theory: the search for a pattern behind seemingly haphazard events. Donald Trump is the chaos agent in this case, threatening countries on a whim with sky-high tariffs like the Queen of Hearts thundering, ‘Off with their heads.’ But beyond the seeming disorder, there is more of a Washington consensus on trade policy than is often not commonly recognized — and it dates back to the late Obama years.” (04/06/26)
https://archive.is/GW8Ce
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“Donald Trump and his partner in war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu, are jointly waging a war of murderous aggression against Iran, a nation of 90 million people. They are in the grip of three cascading pathologies. The first is personality: both are malignant narcissists. The second is the arrogance of power: men who possess the power to command nuclear annihilation and feel, in consequence, no restraint. The third, and most dangerous of all, is religious delusion: two men who believe, and are told daily by those around them, that they are messiahs doing God’s work. Each pathology exacerbates the others, so that together they put the world in unprecedented danger.” (04/06/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-trump-psychopaths-war-criminals
