Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

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Two years later, I still enjoy baseball but I don’t care about it anymore. Not like I did. I grew up hearing sob stories from Brooklyn Dodgers fans and wondered why it seemed to hurt them so much. I get it now.

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Of all the jerseys hanging in Sutter Health Park… this one is surely the most unexpected, particularly since it’s from the end-of-suspension minor league assignment that represented the last time Manny Ramirez played affiliated baseball. He requested and was granted his release after 10 games w/Sac.

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/considering JD Vance's bottomless and amoral ambition, fetish for sucking up to rich weirdos he thinks might benefit him, career-defining aptitude for burying and lying about everyone in his life, and transparent lack of a mortal soul "I wonder if this guy's political program would benefit me?"

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You can make lives worse, so long as yours gets better. They call it "the golden rule"

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