NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America

@okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry

on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

jim sanborn has a secret, or, the nuance of iqlusion: on.ft.com/417RPqQ

why can't i stop cleaning fake dirt off fake objects? www.ft.com/content/0500...

mind, boggling: www.ft.com/content/0ab6...

notes from underground www.ft.com/content/c4b3...

absolutely incredible work by my colleagues, on the "shadow war" in the baltics: ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

"i'll call you when the war is over" www.ft.com/content/b7ec...

thanks graham!

atoms, vacuums, lasers, and subcommittees — the technology and politics behind redefinining the second: www.ft.com/content/625d...

I spent most of 2024 traveling around the U.S. and Central America hanging out with gamblers, bookies, politicians, even CEOs and casino bosses, trying to learn about sports betting from every perspective. I wrote 10,000 words about it for Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

NEW: How a small group of connected bettors has been driving up Trump's odds in betting markets with massive limit orders

on.ft.com/3YsgXaI

w/ @okr.bsky.social

Worked w/ @okr.bsky.social, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @peter.andringa.me on our US election game, to help explain some of the decision making process of presidential candidates trying to win the electoral college

You can check it out/compete against other readers here [FREE]: ig.ft.com/us-election-...

graphics by the brilliant ian bott and cleve jones (who built an entire spacecraft) and @samlearner.bsky.social (who modeled an entire solar system). photography by the incomparable ryan young.

the spacecraft voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from our planet, started speaking gibberish. this is the story of its archival rescue, and the last days of a lonely, interstellar machine: www.ft.com/content/0f2d...

cartography by the brilliant @samlearner.bsky.social and steve bernard:

www.ft.com/content/63b1...

zero dimensions, one ladder, four hunters, more lawyers, and millions of wild acres — the story of a geometric battle in the american west: www.ft.com/content/63b1...

john aristotle phillips, his truth machine, and the shadow campaigns fighting over political prediction markets

this is the global fentanyl supply chain, as revealed by indictments, data, and FT reporting in china, mexico, and the US: ig.ft.com/fentanyl-cri...

it’s the (sound of the) end of the world as we know it