{"id":17098,"date":"2026-05-01T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/u-s-senators-are-now-banned-from-prediction-markets-trading-on-platforms-like-kalshi-and-polymarket\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:56:14","slug":"u-s-senators-are-now-banned-from-prediction-markets-trading-on-platforms-like-kalshi-and-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/u-s-senators-are-now-banned-from-prediction-markets-trading-on-platforms-like-kalshi-and-polymarket\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senators are now banned from prediction markets trading on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/IGP7aNmR4X7PHI5z3Kqj4AqQRZDNm8CQX8kLLZfCupM.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=46b4662b5ebebab0bdd24758ebc1cacf314ac905\" alt=\"U.S. Senators are now banned from prediction markets trading on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket after the body unanimously passed a rule Thursday barring their participation in said markets\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; does this deserve the viral status?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t081ur\/us_senators_are_now_banned_from_prediction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content. What do you think &#8211; does this deserve the viral status?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t081ur\/us_senators_are_now_banned_from_prediction\/","_sweary_views":3170,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}