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Transcript: Angry Trump Privately Realizing Obama Outdid Him on Iran

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 5 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here_._

Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.

After the House voted this week to end Donald Trump’s war in Iran, Trump exploded in fury at the four Republicans who sided with…

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Insider Betting on Polymarket

Insider trading is rife on Polymarket:

Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—­defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—­on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and defense actions.

That compares with a win rate of 25 percent across all…

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Hacking Polymarket

Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination), one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have threatened a journalist because his story was being used to verify an event. And now, gamblers are…

Things Going Great At Ellison’s Paramount As President Gets Mired In Accusations Of Press Manipulation And Leaking Company Info

The President of Larry Ellison’s “new and improved” Paramount, Jeff Shell, has been conspicuously absent from recent events heralding the company’s problematic acquisition of Warner Brothers. The reason? Shell is being accused by a “whistleblower” and former partner of leaking company info, including early word of the company’s $7.7 billion August 2025 deal to obtain […]

Dalton Risner’s wife ‘feeling like Adam Schefter’ after breaking Bengals re-signing news

The life of the NFL insider can often sound brutal, but so far it hasn’t crushed Whitney Riser’s spirit. The wife of Bengals offensive lineman Dalton Risner beat Adam Schefter, Ian Rapoport, Mike Garafolo, and the rest of the industry’s top NFL insiders to the punch, announcing Monday that the 30-year-old guard was re-signing with Read more...

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