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Warning: Wall of Text. If you hate reading just skim through the bolded/italicized
Ever since I publicized my findings on DKNG, the stock has underperformed & probably has fucked a lot of people here, especially given the overly bullish stance back in June. Unless you took my advice & got into Puts then, congrats, welcome to tendie town. For the ADHD retards, here’s what the next wall of text is going to summarize: I believe at the current price of ~$30, the stock is oversold.
A tech-focused, high-growth Company that has made sports betting easy to understand with an aesthetically pleasing interface similar to how Robinhood has neatly laid out stock market gimmicks so even high-schoolers can make sense of it I believe, is underpriced at these levels.
Let’s get into some details as to why the stock has underperformed:
First off, the news slate revolving sports with the rumored delay/cancellation of the MLB season & the NFL watching from the sidelines is in my view, just a part of why the stock has underperformed. We’ll revisit this later in this post, but I want to focus on the drivers of the stock’s recent underperformance, & why these factors are now in the rearview mirror.
Part I – The Past Has Passed – SPAC-related Equity Dilution
History lesson first: DKNG went public via a SPAC merger, which has exploded in popularity recently. Anyone serious about analyzing stocks going forward needs to do their homework on this, Google is your friend.
A feature of most SPAC merger to public listings that creates a headwind to near-term share prices are embedded equity dilution events, usually in the form of earn-outs (stock bonuses to execs, the SPAC sponsor) & conversion of Warrants.
On 5/24, the earn-outs were triggered, adding 6m shares to the share count.
On 6/26, 16.3m warrants converted to DKNG, netting them ~$188m of cash.
Stepping back a little, in addition to the above, on 6/18 DKNG launched a follow-on equity offering of 16M shares @ $40/Share [1], receiving $621M in proceeds.
The last part is tricky to understand from a dilution perspective. To simplify, historically it’s almost a coin toss whether a Company’s shares outperform on the onset of an equity offering. While issuing shares does dilute the existing shareholder base, it theoretically shouldn’t, if the proceeds from the offering are earmarked for investments/projects that yield outsized returns. This is the reality for the long term, theory for the short-term. For the short-term, the ‘reality’ isn’t that the proceeds will be used for investments/projects that yield outsized returns, it is more about how convincing management is to investors that the investments they intend to pursue with the proceeds will outweigh the dilutive effects of issuing incremental shares. That’s a mouthful, but hopefully you get what I’m trying to convey.
All of this stuff put together – the Company has increased its share count by ~39M, but now has a whopping ~$1.4Bn of cash [2]. More on this in the next section.
Part II – MLB News Should Not Fucking Matter & DKNG Is Positioned As the Leading Online/Mobile Sports Platform
DKNG should not be so tied to MLB news or any of this shit as the ongoing success of the NBA/NHL season + Soccer in Europe has effectively created a blueprint on how to regulate player behavior so that they maintain professionalism amidst the pandemic. I’m going out on a whim here, but I truly think the MLB threatening a cancellation of the season is pure posturing to get these fuckers to behave appropriately. Maybe a ‘bubble’ is what it takes to get these players to focus on their jobs instead of going out & contracting COVID, but I argue that isn’t necessarily required given Soccer in Europe. So there’s already a proven path here without the need for a bubble in Soccer, so MLB/NFL should be fine, and execs need to study how they got it done in Europe. Okay, back to some facts.
Anecdotally, I’ve kept in touch with a handful of sports bookies from California to New York & even internationally about what they’re seeing – all of them say that since the NBA season started on 7/30 & since Soccer (especially the Premier League) resumed in June, along with other leagues like La Liga & Serie A, they’ve seen massive increases in betting.
These numbers are also showing up in the official data [3]:

• Average % increase in sports betting handle from April 2020 to June 2020 (handle is the total $ wagered in sports bets) from the states that reported up to June 2020 (NJ, PA, MS, RI, WV, IA, IN, NH) of +258%!
  
  • Note: NV is left out due to the site I sourced showing a weirdly negative number – so I dug into the official filings & show specifically, Sports Mobile betting growth from June since April has growing by at least +73% [4]

REMEMBER: This is for June only! No NBA, No NHL, No MLB, just Soccer, Golf, NASCAR & UFC.
The data clearly shows that there was a ton of pent-up sports betting demand, which leads one Wall St. analyst to think that betting on the NBA/NHL could ABSORB the MLB’s sports betting handle (handle = total $ size of sports bet) [5]. Remember, the MLB season is still ongoing, with games being played. The entire focus is on the Miami Marlins & St. Louis Cardinals. Fucking retards.
Additionally, I want to remind everyone that DraftKings.com is the #1 Fantasy sports website in the U.S. [6]. Also, since April 2020 site visitations are up +86% [7] & Google Search Trends for “Draft Kings” is up ~3x compared to PRE-COVID levels [8]. What does this mean? They are piquing more people’s curiosity than prior to COVID/ongoing slate of sports.
This is important because remember that ~$1.4Bn chest full of cash I mentioned DKNG had assembled earlier? Well, that money is being put to work & results are already coming in, which is exactly what DKNG intended to do with it.
Part III – Legalization of Sports Betting in the U.S.
I could write a fucking bible on this topic alone, but for now we’ll stick to some basics. Due to COVID, it’s easy to understand that each State’s financial situation is clearly in shit. Because of this, you better believe that these guys are going to start taking a hard look at how they can extract additional tax revenues, & what’s one of the easiest ways to do this? Legalization & taxation of gambling.
The big players: CA, TX, FL & NY. First, CA pushing its legislation out to 2023 was fucked up, but here’s a twist I want to add to this: Anything that has to do with gambling in CA you better believe is lobbied against by not just the Tribal casino owners in CA, but by the deep pockets of Las Vegas money. Similar thing can be said for FL, but let’s take a look at some actions by LV/nationwide gambling companies that are starting to align financial incentives with guys like DKNG.

• MGM / GVC Holdings JV in BetMGM - $450m total invested
• PENN invests $163m into BS Sports
• Caesars has a 20% stake in William Hill plus partnership deals with The Stars Group (TSG) & our winner DKNG for operating its sports books

So it’s safe to say going forward, nationwide legalization of sports betting will reap rewards for everyone involved, & no longer be something LV money is completely focused on safeguarding.
Let’s also not forget that DKNG didn’t become the Company they are today because of their fancy app, but because their management team has a HISTORY of navigating the U.S.’s legal framework to get what they want out of it.

• The Crown Jewel – The Internet Gambling Prohibition & Enforcement Act: I said it in a previous post, but I want to emphasize that them getting Fantasy Sports to be labeled a ‘game of skill’ by FEDERAL Law as opposed to gambling is just something for the history books. Fucking genius shit. When this happened I bet every casino from LV to every Indian Tribe that has one was against it, yet DKNG & other DFS providers won.
• There’s more, but more recently: Getting into IL:
  
  • In IL, there’s an 18-month ‘penalty box’ for Companies that offer DFS to offer sports betting. Our guys at DKNG created a workaround to this situation with their partnership with Casino Queen [9]. DKNG being savvy again.

These guys are at the cutting edge of creating legal frameworks to successfully launch their products & now with more of their ‘competitors’ financially aligned with them, combined with financial deterioration of State budgets, we should see an overweighting of good news vs. bad on the legal front.
Final Part – Share Price Targets
Under-fucking priced at anything below $42.50
Near-term catalysts:
8/14: DKNG files 2Q’20 results, might be shitty, but you can bet that the Earnings Call is going to contain rhetoric on how massive the uptick in sports betting has been since late June/July.
Sometime from now until November: NY releases ‘study’ by Spectrum Gaming on online/mobile sports betting.
8/20 – 9/7: PGA Championship for FedEx Cup Title
9/5 – KY Derby
9/10: NFL KickOff Game
9/17: PGA U.S. Open Start Date
Month of October: NBA/NHL Playoffs
10/1: Estimated launch of online sports betting in TN
11/1: Estimated launch of online sports betting in VA
[1] https://draftkings.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/draftkings-announces-proposed-public-offering-class-common-stock
[2] Wall St. Research – DKNG on 6/29/20
[3] https://www.legalsportsreport.com/sports-betting/revenue/
[4] https://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=16984; Note: Nevada did not break out April/May figures but from the Revenue difference of 3 month ended June 30 of 4,950 vs. month of June of 2,297 for a total difference of 2,653 spread evenly over April/May for a base case April estimate of 1,327.
[5] Wall St. Research - 7/27/20
[6] https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/sports/fantasy-sports/
[7] https://www.similarweb.com/website/draftkings.com/#overview
[8] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=draft%20kings Feb 23-29, 2020 vs. Current Aug 2 – Aug 8, 2020
[9] https://www.legalsportsreport.com/42314/draftkings-illinois-sports-betting-market-access/

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MAIN COURSE

Congress passes stimulus

Last week started out with a Republican-crafted stimulus bill that was twice-blocked by Senate Democrats, who objected to the lax conditions of aid to corporations, too little funding for hospitals, and a $500 billion “slush fund” for big companies to be doled out by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with no oversight.
Conservative-Democrat Joe Manchin (WV) even criticized the GOP bill:

“It fails our first responders, nurses, private physicians and all healthcare professionals. ... It fails our workers. It fails our small businesses… Instead, it is focused on providing billions of dollars to Wall Street and misses the mark on helping the West Virginians that have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.”

Through negotiations, Democrats shifted the bill in a more-worker friendly direction. The version that passed includes the following Democrat-added provisions: expanded unemployment benefits, $100 billion for hospitals, $150 billion for state and local governments, direct payments to Americans without a phase-in (ensuring low-income workers get the full amount), a ban on Trump and his children from receiving aid, and oversight on the “slush fund” (see next section for more info). Senate Democrats also managed to remove a provision that would have excluded nonprofits that receive Medicaid funding from the small-business grants.

• Further reading: After Senate Democrats blocked the Republican-crafted bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the House Democrats in releasing their own version, a best-case scenario of their dream coronavirus stimulus bill. It is interesting to contrast what the Democrats prioritized to what the Republicans focused on: “How the House Democrats' stimulus plan compares to the Senate's”

Echoing sentiments expressed during debate on the previous coronavirus bill (the second, for those keeping track), Republican senators derided the $600 a week increase in unemployment payments as “incentivizing” workers to quit their jobs. Sens. Ben Sasse (Neb.), Rick Scott (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) delayed passage of the bill in order to force a vote on an amendment removing the extra unemployment funding. "This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working," Graham said. Fortunately for American workers, the amendment failed and the improved bill passed the Senate and the House.

• Note: In 2009 only three Republicans helped Obama pass his stimulus bill in his first month in office.

The giveaways in the bill

While Senate Democrats were able to add worker-friendly provisions, the bill still required bipartisan support to pass the chamber and some corporate giveaways remained in the final version.

• NYT: “Senate Republicans inserted an easy-to-overlook provision on page 203 of the 880-page bill that would permit wealthy investors to use losses generated by real estate to minimize their taxes on profits from things like investments in the stock market. The estimated cost of the change over 10 years is $170 billion.”
  
• NYT: “...if a company owns multiple hotels, even if the overall hotel or restaurant chain has more than 500 employees — the limit to qualify for treatment as a small business — it will still be able to take advantage of the small-business benefits offered in the rescue package. ...The provision could benefit the Trump Organization, which operates a relatively small chain, with six hotels in the United States in cities including New York, Washington and Chicago.”
  

Politico:

• “A provision for the FDA to approve ‘innovative’ sunscreens—which would benefit L’Oreal, which has operations in Kentucky—appeared in the bill, which was steered in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.”
  
• “The $25 billion allocated in loans and loan guarantees for the airlines will also benefit eligible businesses "approved to perform inspection, repair, replace, or overhaul services, and ticket agents.” The last two words — ‘ticket agents’ — mean that travel agents who book flights will also be able to apply for a piece of the $25 billion.”
  
• “The credit reporting industry got a win by defeating a total ban on negative credit reports during the crisis. Instead, a watered down version made it into the final bill: Consumers wouldn't get a negative credit report if they have an agreement with a lender to delay payments or make partial payments.”
  

Trump’s signing statement

While signing the latest coronavirus relief bill, the president also issued a signing statement undercutting the congressional oversight provision creating an inspector general to track how the administration distributes the $500 billion “slush fund” money.
The newly-created inspector general is legally required to audit loans and investments made through the fund and report to Congress his/her findings, including any refusal by the executive office to cooperate. In his signing statement, Trump wrote that his understanding of constitutional powers allows him to gag the special IG:

"I do not understand, and my Administration will not treat, this provision as permitting the [inspector general] to issue reports to the Congress without the presidential supervision required" by Article II of the Constitution.

The signing statement further suggests that Trump does not have to comply with a provision requiring that agencies consult with Congress before it spends or reallocates certain funds: "These provisions are impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement with respect to the execution of the laws," the statement reads.
While some have said that Congress fell short in this instance, one Democratic Senate aide told Politico that Congress built in multiple layers of oversight, including “a review of other inspectors general and a congressional review committee charged with overseeing Treasury and the Federal Reserve's efforts to implement the law.”
Legal experts have pointed out that a signing statement is “without legal effect.” But that ignores the fact that oversight is not equal to enforcement. The problem, in my opinion, isn’t that Congress won’t be notified of any abuses of power by Trump. The problem is that congressional Republicans and the judiciary have largely failed to hold him accountable and enforce our laws even after learning of his abuses.

Concerns about the IG

Another potential weakness in the oversight structure is the inspector general position itself. The special inspector general for pandemic recovery, known by the acronym S.I.G.P.R., is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. As we’ve seen from Trump’s previous nominees, particularly judicial, many unqualified individuals have been confirmed. The Democrats will not have the power to stop the president and Mitch McConnell from jamming through a loyalist to fill the SIGPR role.

Former inspector general at the Justice Department Michael Bromwich: “The signing statement threatens to undermine the authority and independence of this new IG. The Senate should extract a commitment from the nominee that Congress will be promptly notified of any Presidential/Administration interference or obstruction.”

You may recall that Trump has already proven that he’s willing to interfere with the legally-mandated work of an inspector general. When the Ukraine whistleblower filed a complaint last year, the IG of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, investigated and determined the complaint to be “urgent” and “credible.” Atkinson wrote a report and gave it to Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire to hand over to Congress. However, the White House and DOJ interfered and instructed Maguire not to transmit the report to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. Chairman Adam Schiff had to subpoena Maguire to turn over the report and testify before his committee.
Further, there are already five IG vacancies in agencies that have a critical role in responding to the pandemic. The Treasury itself has not had a permanent, Senate-confirmed IG for over eight months now, and Trump hasn’t nominated a replacement. The Treasury Dept. has taken a lead role in the coronavirus response, with Secretary Mnuchin handling most of the negotiating with Congress on Trump’s behalf. The fact that the lead agency doesn’t have IG oversight should be troublesome in itself; replicating the situation with a special IG doesn’t seem to be a promising solution.

• The other four coronavirus-related agencies without a permanent IG: Department of Health and Human Services’ IG has been vacant for nine months, Department of Defense’s IG has been vacant for four years, Department of Education’s IG has been vacant for one year, and Office of Personnel Management’s IG has been vacant for four years. Overall, there are twelve IG vacancies in the 37) presidentially-appointed offices.

UPDATE: The nation's inspectors general have appointed Glenn Fine, the Pentagon's acting IG, to lead the committee of IGs overseeing the coronavirus relief effort.

This is one of several oversight mechanisms built into the new law. They include:
A committee of IGs (now led by Fine), a new special IG (to be nominated by Trump), a congressional review panel (to be appointed by House/Senate leaders)

Direct payments

Included in the stimulus bill is a $1200 one-time direct payment for all Americans who made less than $75,000 in 2019 (less than $150,000 if couples filed jointly). More details can be found here. I have read that the Treasury will use 2018 information for those who have not filed yet this year, but I am not 100% sure that’ll happen.
Mnuchin has said that Americans can expect to receive the money within three weeks, but many experts expect that timetable to be pushed into late April. Additionally, that only applies to Americans who included direct deposit information on their 2019 tax returns. Those who did not include their bank’s information will have to be sent a physical check in the mail… which could take anywhere from two to four months.
Other options are being discussed, including partnering the Treasury Dept. with MasterCard and Visa to deliver prepaid debit cards. Venmo and Paypal are reportedly lobbying the government to be considered as a disbursement option.
Future payments?
House Speaker Pelosi is already planning another wave of direct payments to Americans, saying that the $1,200 is not enough to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic: “I don’t think we’ve seen the end of direct payments.” Republicans, meanwhile, are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, using the next couple of weeks to measure the impact of the $2 trillion bill passed last week.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: “What concerns me is when I listen to Nancy Pelosi talk about a fourth package now, it’s because she did not get out of things that she really wanted...I’m not sure you need a fourth package...Let’s let this work ... We have now given the resources to make and solve this problem. We don’t need to be crafting another bill right now.”
For the fourth legislative package, Democrats have said they would like to see increased food stamp benefits; increased coverage for coronavirus testing, visits to the doctor and treatment; more money for state and local governments, including Washington, D.C.; expanded family and medical leave; pension fixes; and stronger workplace protections.

Trump’s signature
Normally, a civil servant signs federal checks, like the direct payments Americans are set to receive. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump has told people that he wants his signature to appear on the stimulus checks.

THE SIDES

War on the poor continues

Amid the coronavirus crisis, Trump has defended his continued support of a Republican-led lawsuit to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which would result in 20 million Americans losing health insurance if successful. The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in the case this fall. Contrasting with his position that the ACA is illegal, Trump is considering reopening enrollment on HealthCare.gov, allowing millions of uninsured individuals to get coverage before potentially incurring charges and fees related to COVID-19.
Joe Biden called on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the charge against the ACA, and President Trump to drop the lawsuit:

“At a time of national emergency, which is laying bare the existing vulnerabilities in our public health infrastructure, it is unconscionable that you are continuing to pursue a lawsuit designed to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the ban on insurers denying coverage or raising premiums due to pre-existing conditions.”

The Trump administration is also pushing forward with its plan to kick 700,000 people off federal food stamp assistance, known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The USDA announced two weeks ago that the department will appeal Judge Beryl Howell’s recent decision that the USDA’s work mandate rule is “arbitrary and capricious."
Additionally: The Social Security Administration has no plans to slow down a rule change set for June that will limit disability benefits, the Department of Health and Human Services still intends to reduce automatic enrollment in health coverage, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will continue the process to enact a rule that would make it harder for renters to sue landlords for racial discrimination.

Lawmakers’ stock transactions

The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are beginning to investigate stock transactions made ahead of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. CNN reports that the inquiry has already reached out to Senator Richard Burr for information. “Under insider trading laws, prosecutors would need to prove the lawmakers traded based on material non-public information they received in violation of a duty to keep it confidential,” a task that won’t be easy.
Sen. Burr is facing another consequence of his trades: Alan Jacobson, a shareholder in Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, sued Burr for allegedly using private information to instruct a mass liquidation of his assets. Among the shares he sold were an up to $150,000 stake in Wyndham, whose stock suffered a market-value cut of more than two-thirds since mid-February.

Environmental rollbacks

Using the pandemic as cover, the Trump administration has begun to more aggressively roll back regulations meant to protect the environment. These are examples of what Naomi Klein dubbed “the shock doctrine”: the phenomenon wherein polluters and their government allies push through unpopular policy changes under the smokescreen of a public emergency.
On Thursday, the EPA announced (non-paywalled) an expansive relaxation of environmental laws and fines, exempting companies from consequences for pollution. Under the new rules, there are basically no rules. Companies are asked to “act responsibly” but are not required to report when their facilities discharge pollution into the air or water. Just five days before abandoning any pollution oversight, the oil industry’s largest trade group implored the administration for assistance, stating that social distancing measures caused a steep drop in demand for gasoline.

• Monday morning update: In an interview with Fox News this morning, Trump said he was going to call Putin after the interview to discuss the Saudi-Russia oil fight. A consequence of this "battle" has been plummeting prices in the U.S. making it difficult for domestic companies (like shale extraction) to turn a profit. It's striking that the day after Dr. Fauci told Americans we can expect 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 (if we keep social distancing measures in place), Trump's first action is to talk to Fox News and his second action is to intervene in an international tiff on behalf of the oil and gas industry.

Gina McCarthy, who led the E.P.A. under the Obama administration, called the rollback “an open license to pollute.” Cynthia Giles, who headed the EPA enforcement division during the Obama administration, said “it is so far beyond any reasonable response I am just stunned.”
The EPA is also moving forward with a widely-opposed rule to limit the types of scientific studies used when crafting new regulations or revising current ones. Hidden behind claims of increased transparency, the rule would require disclosure of all raw data used in scientific studies. This would disqualify many fields of research that rely on personal health information from individuals that must be kept confidential. For example, studies that show air pollution causes premature deaths or a certain pesticide is linked to birth defects would be rejected under the proposed rule change.
Officials and scientists are calling upon the EPA to extend the time for comment on the regulatory changes, arguing that the public is unable to express their opinion while dealing with the pandemic.

“These rollbacks need and deserve the input of our public health community, but right now, they are rightfully focused on responding to the coronavirus,” said Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Other controversial decisions being made:

• A former EPA official who worked on controversial policies returned as Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s chief of staff. Mandy Gunasekara helped write regulations to ease pollution controls for coal-fired power plants and vehicle emissions in her previous role as chief of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. In a recent interview, Gunasekara, who played a role in the decision to exit the Paris Climate Accord, pushed back on the more dire predictions of climate change, saying, “I don't think it is catastrophic.”
  
• NYT: The plastic bag industry, battered by a wave of bans nationwide, is using the coronavirus crisis to try to block laws prohibiting single-use plastic. “We simply don’t want millions of Americans bringing germ-filled reusable bags into retail establishments putting the public and workers at risk,” an industry campaign that goes by the name Bag the Ban warned on Tuesday. (Also see The Guardian)
  
• Kentucky, South Dakota, and West Virginia passed laws putting new criminal penalties on protests against fossil fuel infrastructure in just the past two weeks.
  
• The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday that it will extend the amount of time that winter gasoline can be sold this year as producers have been facing lower demand due to the coronavirus. It will allow companies to sell the winter-grade gasoline through May 20, whereas companies would have previously been required to stop selling it by May 1 to protect air quality. “In responding to an international health crisis, the last thing the EPA should do is take steps that will worsen air quality and undermine the public’s health,” biofuels expert David DeGennaro said.
  
• NYT: At the Interior Department, employees at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been under strict orders to complete the rule eliminating some protections for migratory birds within 30 days, according to two people with direct knowledge of the orders. The 45-day comment period on that rule ended on March 19.
  
• WaPo: The Interior Department has received over 230 nominations for oil and gas leases covering more than 150,000 acres across southern Utah, a push that would bring drilling as close as a half-mile from some of the nation’s most famous protected sites, including Arches and Canyonlands National Parks… if all the fossil fuels buried in those sites was extracted and burned, it would translate into between 1 billion and 5.95 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide being released into the air. That upward measure is equal to half the annual carbon output of China
  

Court updates

Press freedom case
Southern District of New York District Judge Lorna Schofield ruled that a literary advocacy group’s lawsuit against Trump for allegedly violating the First Amendment can move forward. The group, PEN America, is pursuing claims that Trump “has used government power to retaliate against media coverage and reporters he dislikes.”
Schofield determined that PEN’s allegation that Trump made threats to chill free speech was valid, providing as an example the White House’s revocation of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press press corps credentials:

”The threats are lent credence by the fact that Defendant has acted on them before, by revoking Mr. Acosta’s credentials and barring reporters from particular press conferences. The Press Secretary indeed e-mailed the entire press corps to inform them of new rules of conduct and to warn of further consequences, citing the incident involving Mr. Acosta… These facts plausibly allege that a motivation for defendant’s actions is controlling and punishing speech he dislikes.”

Twitter case
The president suffered another First Amendment defeat last week when the full 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals declined to review a previous ruling that prevents Trump from blocking users on the Twitter account he uses to communicate with the public. Judge Barrington D. Parker, a Nixon-appointee, wrote: “Excluding people from an otherwise public forum such as this by blocking those who express views critical of a public official is, we concluded, unconstitutional.”
Trump-appointees Michael Parker and Richard Sullivan authored a dissent, arguing the free speech “does not include a right to post on other people’s personal social media accounts, even if those other people happen to be public officials.” Park warned that the ruling will allow the social media pages of public officials to be “overrun with harassment, trolling, and hate speech, which officials will be powerless to filter.”
Florida’s felon voting
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ripped into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration for failing to come up with a process to determine which felons are genuinely unable to pay court-ordered fees and fines, which are otherwise required to be paid before having their voting rights restored.
“If the state is not going to fix it, I will,” Hinkle warned. He had given the state five months to come up with an administrative process for felons to prove they’re unable to pay financial obligations, but Florida officials did not do so. The case is set to be heard on April 28 (notwithstanding any coronavirus-related delays).

ICE, Jails, and COVID-19

ICE
One of the most overlooked populations with an increased risk of death from coronavirus are those in detention facilities, which keep people in close quarters with little sanitation or protective measures (including for staff).
Last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ordered the federal government to “make continuous efforts” to release migrant children from detention centers across the country. Numerous advocacy groups asked for the release after reports that four children being held in New York had tested positive for the virus:

“The threat of irreparable injury to their health and safety is palpable,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers said in their petition… both of the agencies operating migrant children detention facilities must by April 6 provide an accounting of their efforts to release those in custody… “Her order will undoubtedly speed up releases,” said Peter Schey, co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the court case.

On Tuesday, 13 immigrants held at ICE facilities in California filed a lawsuit demanding to be released because their health conditions make them particularly vulnerable to dying if infected by the coronavirus. An ACLU statement says the detainees are “confined in crowded and unsanitary conditions where social distancing is not possible.” The 13 individuals are all over the age of 50 and/or suffering from serious underlying medical issues like high blood pressure.

“From all the evidence we have seen, ICE is failing to fulfill its constitutional obligation to protect the health and safety of individuals in its custody. ICE should exercise its existing discretion to release people with serious medical conditions from detention for humanitarian reasons,” said William Freeman, senior counsel at the ACLU of Northern California.

Meanwhile, ICE is under fire for continuing to shuttle detainees across the country, with one even being forced to take nine different flights bouncing from Louisiana to Texas to New Jersey less than two weeks ago. That man is Dr. Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor from Iran, who was acquitted last year on federal charges of stealing trade secrets. The government lost its case against him, yet ICE has had him in indefinite detention since November.

Asgari, 59, told the Guardian that his Ice holding facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, had no basic cleaning practices in place and continued to bring in new detainees from across the country with no strategy to minimize the threat of Covid-19...Detainees have no hand sanitizer, and the facility is not regularly cleaning bathrooms or sleeping areas…Detainees lack access to masks… Detainees struggle to stay clean, and the facility has an awful stench.

Jails
State jails are making a better effort to release detained individuals, as both New York and New Jersey ordered a thousand people in each state be let out of jail. The order applied only to low-level offenders sentenced to less than a year in jail and those held on technical probation violations. In Los Angeles County, officials released over 1,700 people from its jails.
A judge in Alabama took similar steps last week, ordering roughly 500 people jailed for minor offenses to be released to lessen crowding in facilities. Unlike in New York and New Jersey, however, local officials reacted in an uproar, led in part by the state executive committee for the Alabama Republican Party and Assistant District Attorney C.J. Robinson. Using angry Facebook messages as the barometer of the community’s feelings, Robinson worked “frantically” to block inmates from being released.

• Reuters: As of Saturday, at least 132 inmates and 104 staff at jails across New York City had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus… Since March 22, jails have reported 226 inmates and 131 staff with confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to a Reuters survey of cities and counties that run America’s 20 largest jails. The numbers are almost certainly an undercount given the fast spread of the virus.

Tribe opposed by Trump loses land

On Wednesday, The Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs announced the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s reservation would be "disestablished" and its land trust status removed. Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell called the move "cruel" and "unnecessary,” particularly coming in the midst of a pandemic crisis. Rep. Bill Keating (D-Mass.), who last year introduced legislation to protect the tribe's reservation as trust land in Massachusetts, said the order “is one of the most cruel and nonsensical acts I have seen since coming to Congress.”
The administration’s decision is especially suspicious as just last year Trump attacked the tribe’s plan to build a casino on its land, tweeting that allowing the construction would be “unfair” and treat Native Americans unequally. As a former casino owner, Trump has spent decades attacking Native American casinos as unfair competition. At a 1993 congressional hearing Trump said that tribal owners “don’t look like Indians to me” and claimed: “I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations” to gambling.
More than his past history, however, Trump has current interests at play in the Mashpee Wampanoag’s planned casino: it would have competed for business with nearby Rhode Island casinos owned by Twin River Worldwide Holdings, whose president, George Papanier, was a finance executive at the Trump Plaza casino hotel in Atlantic City.

In the Mashpee case, Twin River, the operator of the two Rhode Island casinos, has hired Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a vocal Trump supporter, to lobby for it on the land issue. Schlapp’s wife, Mercedes, is director of strategic communications at the White House.

On February 10th, CBS Sports and William Hill announced a strategic partnership that will make the U.K. based bookmaker the “Official Sports Book and Wagering Data Provider across all CBS Sports platforms.” William Hill will also gain the exclusive rights to market sports betting products on CBS Sports’ digital channels in the deal. Initial integrations will be in place in time for next month’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The ‘full’ roll-out is expected to be completed by the start of 2020 NFL season.
Howie Long-Short: William Hill has been looking to grow their brand in the U.S. for some time (co. currently has a significant presence in NJ and NV and retail books in MS, WV and IN), so aligning with CBS Sports - whose digital channels draw over 80 million unique visitors/mo. (2nd amongst U.S. sports properties behind only ESPN) - seemingly meets that objective. CBS also controls valuable live rights (see: March Madness, NFL) and as respected sports gambling consultant Sara Slane explained “exposure and integration on a broadcast channel - or channels in the case of March Madness - that everyone is consuming, is highly appealing.”
From the CBS Sports perspective, there’s seemingly little downside in the deal. The company is guaranteed to take in some new revenue (for access to their audience and the sponsorship of digital assets) and William Hill has a large enough footprint - remember, the bookmaker has a market access agreement in place with Eldorado Resorts (which has since acquired Caesars) - that they could realistically realize the upside built into the partnership.
Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the New York Times reported the incentive laden agreement “is aimed at getting CBS Sports users to download the William Hill betting app and put money into their betting accounts.” Slane says the wording within the story indicates there is limited financial outlay on William Hill’s part. “Operators are being very thoughtful about how they’re investing money [with so few states having gone live with sports betting]; particularly, as it relates to media and digital. An affiliate deal for deposits would be a smart approach for a [gaming entity] who wants to see a direct ROI on their investment.”
Sports betting operators see the current ‘land-grab’ environment and are aligning with media companies (see: MGM/Yahoo, TSG/FOX Sports, Barstool Sports/Penn National) in an attempt to cultivate new users. But it’s fair to ask - as Alun Bowden (Eilers & Krejcik Gaming) did - “why is [every gaming company] so keen to copy an expensive unproven model in a market where the price of failure is enormous and the potential for differentiation is massive?” It’s certainly hard to argue that the strategy, which varies across each of the partnerships referenced, works. DraftKings and FanDuel continue to dominate the U.S. market (i.e. not casino sportsbook operators + media companies) and Slane said that “while there were a couple of runs [made by gaming companies] at media partnerships in the U.K., Sky Betting & Gaming is the only one that has really been a success.”
If there’s a case to be made that the CBS Sports-William Hill deal will buck the trend, it should be made on the back of CBS Sports' robust database of fantasy sports players. As we’ve seen with DraftKings and FanDuel - who have both successfully converted DFS players to sports bettors - “there’s a huge overlap between fantasy gaming and sports betting.” Sports Handle EIC Brett Smiley estimated that “60% of those who participate in season-long fantasy and +/- 80% of those who play DFS have also placed a wager.”
Fan Marino: NBC and Sinclair are the last of the major U.S. sports media rights holders without a gaming partner. It’s reasonable to believe that both will ink agreements sooner than later if only because there are no shortage of operators looking to grow their market share and cash in on the perceived sports betting gold rush (in fact, Slane believes a second wave is coming) and to pass on a gaming partnership would be leaving money on the table. While it could be argued that in a market where bettors are not used to line-shopping (think: people are used to betting with a bookie or a single off-shore book here in the U.S.) there is a strong first mover advantage, Smiley believes it’s “a long game and that over time people will become exposed to more apps and more options” (i.e. potential new entrants to the market haven’t missed the boat). As we’ve previously noted, in the U.K. the average sports bettor has accounts with four different books.
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December Community Day Across the Northeast Looking for a local meet-up for the January 2020 Community Day? Check out the Silph League Map ((https://thesilphroad.com/map#5/41.43/-69.69)) , and join a local server. Here are your local staff that will be distributing the limited time Silph Traveler Badges at each event. Be sure to set up your Traveler Card ( https://thesilphroad.com/travelers-cards) before attending your local meet-up.
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Server Name	Town	State	Location	Discord Staff
CT Raids	Colchester	CT	Downtown Colchester	skilty226#3252
CT Raids	Danbury	CT	Danbury Mall	CarKrash#6977, Vincent Drake#3952
CT Raids	Ellington	CT	Arbor Park	@Spark_07#1269
CT Raids	Fairfield	CT	Fairfield Town Hall	Bluecat313YT#4272
CT Raids	Fairfield	CT	Fairfield Pequot Library	tamrissa#2003
CT Raids	Groton	CT	Wilcox Park, Westerly, RI	Firedwarftj #6324, Kickinbeatz #2182, TristaAM(40) #8031, SummerOtaku#694, Firedwarftj #6324
CT Raids	Guilford	CT	Guilford Green	Shahailion#2405
CT Raids	Hartford	CT	Bushnell Park	NO STAFF
CT Raids	Ledyard	CT	Foxwoods Resort and Casino	Mary Rose Julian 💙 40 🔩🚂#0714
Pokemon Go Middletown	Middletown	CT	"Plaque of Honor" 300 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT	dDope#1860, LAURAM00N#128
CT Raids	New Britain	CT	Central Connect State University	taytayswifty#1029
CT Raids	New Britain	CT	Walnut Hill Park	SinisterReaper#0831, MysticRubyChef#2709
CT Raids	Newtown	CT	Newtown Skate Park	Isochrona#2749
CT Raids	North Haven	CT	North Haven Green	precisely3#2278
CT Raids	Norwalk	CT	Maritime Center	CorgiFluff#6710, nyudiana#7416
CT Raids	Old Wethersfield	CT	Main St. / Broad St.	IcyPinkLemonade#9069
CT Raids	Simsbury	CT	Rotary Park	eggs06#7718, PokeDVM#6351
Stamford Raid Family	Stamford	CT	Mill River Park	Jcoona#3371, Jackrack#3720, raiderkat#3373
CT Raids	Storrs	CT	Student Union	Linz#9154, pop2-0#8427, VI#2482
Enfield-Suffield Trainers League	Suffield	CT	Suffield Center	LGTTurbo07#0716, jayarr#9832, MSundin40#1793
CT Raids	Vernon/Rockville	CT	Downtown Rockville	nikict154#7763, Erin_07#1269
CT Raids	West Hartford	CT	Westfarms Mall	ALAN#1455, Donmy#1053, GMuggle#5877, Je6105#5190
Pogo Delmarva	Dover	DE	Dover	DougieSD#8604, WMWA#9562
Pogo Delmarva	Milford	DE	Milford	BigBlack1969#2541, Fleshknight#8870, Gunarkfc#8038, jp02845#7105, Kato Ryozo#7248, killerduck1967#3256
Pogo Delmarva	New Castle	DE	Battery Park	Xenoflame#1194
Pogo Delmarva	Seaford	DE	Seaford	deadlyviper457#1849, JenniferT181#2270, Sirleviscott#1929, HollyNIN#9786, bricklife240#4438
Pogo Delmarva	Wilmington	DE	Brandwine Park	DrachenFire#9691
Team Instinct Boston, Valor of Boston, Boston Mystics and MARaids	Boston	MA	Boston Public Garden/Commons	cizzlee#9256, chickydoll80#0561, Dragonz Rage#7838, ElectroBlade#2469, GL#7719, manupr☃g⚡#3978, Drew#7383, Giveittome95#3330, mxawng#8480 , Orez#3131, Pokebobbita#6698, Ralphnadersmom#9984, rehny21#0807, RevenantOmega#8006, Shinigo425#6298Shinigo425#6298, VanityDestroyer#4629
Pokemon GO Raids Middlesex	Burlington	MA	Burlington Common	GyradosRage#6904
Watertown EX Raids & Team Instinct Boston	Waltham	MA	Waltham Common	Bubbawashere#6128
Worcester POGo	Worcester	MA	Worcester Common	ProfessorTurquoise#2259, SPLlCING#1685, Transwrap9
Baltimore PoGo Raid Radio	Baltimore	MD	Patterson Park	Tsauced#5492, BrawlingBouse#8915
SWBMORECOPOGO	Catonsville	MD	UMBC	Mbvanek#1883
Howard County PoGo	Columbia	MD	Ellicott City - Lot D	WynautWobb - HoCo#6969 , Jemel2#5787, JVBnumber8#0376
MoCo Pokémon Go	Gaithersburg	MD	RIO Lakefront	LittleWorrier, Dragonmyst777
Hub City PoGo	Hagerstown	MD	Hagerstown City Park	tsegnartseht, brendankcarter, Sober
PG County PoGo	Prince George's County	MD	Old Greenbelt	Rubekin#6724, silentSilence6#9918, maianaise#9997
MoCo Pokémon Go	Rockville	MD	Rockville Town Center (RTC)	PhoenixCrystal7 Roadlesstaken/Alex
PoGO MD Eastern Shore	Salisbury	MD	Salisbury University	Shunned, ShadowBrady, NiceSpice
The Flip Side	Savage	MD	Savage Mill	FlipsAndGrips#4530
The Collective	Westminster, Sykesville, Eldersburg	MD	Northeast	Pdy969 Beryllium, Asrrin, Almondmoose
Augusta, ME POGO	Augusta	ME	Augusta Center	@robertowtvl \ Lvl 40#5256, COL3M1NOR
Pokemon Go 207	Bath	ME	Waterfront	Waterfront
biddeford/Saco pokemon go	Biddeford	ME	Biddeford Town Center	chenzillah, eternalwyrm, WyomingBound, ylnosnac
Pokemon Go 207	Brunswick	ME	Bowdoin College	mskeezix, GolBatman69
Pokemon Go 207	Farmington	ME	Farmington USM Campus	austoner420, CaptianMystinct, Zionaesthetic
Pokemon Go L/A	Lewiston/Auburn	ME	Bates College	bosoxguy7, rockyrd5, StinkaStina, TheDee2530
Pokemon Go 207	Norway	ME	Norway Town Center	ariesboy97, jekim1990, MDCCLXXV, payneareo, tangimr
Pokemon Go 207	Portland	ME	Monument Square	CPASteve, OGStatus23, winfin17, RevisionTwelve, Rebel7284, OGstatus23, LumpusRex, traumsturm
Pokemon Go 207	Portland	ME	Post Office Park	CPASteve, OGStatus23, winfin17, RevisionTwelve, Rebel7284, OGstatus23, LumpusRex, traumsturm, lilyofspurwink (Nancy)
Pokemon Go 207	Topsham	ME	GameStop	GGKayPiccolo
Pokemon Go 207Waterville	Waterville	ME	Colby College Campus	KristinHolly, Chrispychris27 #4810
Pokemon Go NH and Southern Nashua Pokemon Go	Hudson	NH	Benson's Farm	TAnҜmⱥsterzero#8915, CharizardsRage(NH)#1728,Blazezing#0128, ElectroBlade#2469, frexxy#1030, acobuns, hoxau
Raiders of the Lost Hamps	Littleton	NH	Main Street	Nettle#2222
East Brunswick Pokemon Raid Club Collective	East Brunswick	NJ	Great Oak Park	Tiki#7073, Topbaconboyz#8887
Budd Lake Bot	Hackettstown	NJ	First Presbyterian Church 298 Main St, Hackettstown, NJ 07840	oneofuspooped#8335
North Wilmington/ Claymont Raids	Jackson	NJ	Six Flags Great Adventure	DrachenFire#9691
Rutgers Pokemon Club	New Brunswick/Piscataway	NJ	Johnson Park/Busch Campus	nickorama23#5141
Pokemon Go Cape May/Wildwood Raids	North Wildwood	NJ	200A John F Kennedy Beach Dr, North Wildwood, NJ 08260	Gingerbeard609#2046
League of Legendary Raiders	Passaic	NJ	Third Ward Park. Passaic Ave & Van Houten Ave, Passaic, NJ 07055	aipnai#2634
Bergen County PoGo	Saddle Brook	NJ	Saddle River County Park	Jeykid#5761, xeyroc13#9843
Secaucus NJ PokemonGo	Secaucus	NJ	Albert P. Buchmuller Park	domini212#3387
Somerset County Pokemon Go	Somerville	NJ	Somerset County Court House Green	Rebelpilot#2093
	Raritan	NJ	Downtown Raritan - 53 W Somerset. Raritan, NJ 08869	Rebelpilot#2093
	Hillsborough	NJ	Motgomery Veterans Park and Arboretum - Harlingen Rd, Belle Mead, NJ 08502	Rebelpilot#2093
	Somerset	NJ	Somerset/Franklin Municipal Building - 475 Demott Ln, Somerset, NJ 08873	Rebelpilot#2093
	Bound Brook	NJ	Billian Legion Park - 548 E Main St. Bound Brook, NJ 08805	Rebelpilot#2093
UticaAreaGo!	New Hartford	NY	Sherill Brook Park	crayfish#3378
607 Pokemon Go (Horsehead/Elmira)	Elmira	NY	Eldridge Park	ArmoredCookie (Ian M), ShinNinth (Jeff B) ㉝, ThePoptarticus1 (Jason K), KayNay1 , thatkidkozak(brentkozak)
Pokemon Raiders - Harlem	New York	NY	Central Park South aka Grand Army Plaza area - 59th and 5th	HeirofSlytherin#9747, Sm0keyKat#6704
Memelord and Gamers Hangout	New York	NY	Fort Tryon Park	Artist_Johnny26#6332
Pokemon Go NYC Community	New York	NY	5th Ave E 60 St, New York, NY, United States 10019	jcai63#9405, GMoneyJie#5160, Saoirse#7138
Pokemon Go New York	New York	NY	Bryant Park	BELUUU#6948, Sean3116#4601, RAINBOW GHASTLY#3675, Eevee Reborn#7436
Ithaca Pokemon Masters	Ithaca	NY	Ithaca Commons	dragoplateau#5430, PyrogenaseBarry#1041
Ken - Ton/CoT Pokemon Go	Buffalo	NY	University of Buffalo North Campus at the Putnam Loop	LadyLightning98#0202, Sugimori#3868, FinalAzure#8461
Co-Op City PoGo Raiders	Bronx	NY	Rombouts Ave & Co-Op City Blvd	labrava03#5018
NYC Instinct Squad [PoGO]	Brooklyn	NY	Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza	FireTheGoddess#2756,Kandy#1779, Leo#5498, Entaprize#4017, SweeezyCheeese#1927
PokemonHuntersUnited	Albany	NY	NY Empire State Plaza	efindl#9611
Syracuse PoGo	Syracuse	NY	Onondaga Lake Park	withasparkle#7756, SirenDT#8892
	Oneonta	NY	Neahwa Park	zzmmrmn#8929
LivCoPoGo	Livonia	NY	Vitale Park at Conesus Lake	Copyklown Greater
Binghamton Area Pokemon Go	Binghamton	NY	Recreation Park	OneSweetShannon#8072, JackHannah#4630
Pokemon Go Upstate NY	Saratoga Springs	NY	Congress Park	NinjaRage83#1898
Valley Pokemon Go	Sayre	PA	Elmer Park	Archer290#9112, dadalex16 (PA)#1339, MagicSword89#1376, Rayna (RaynaMikaelson)#1997, T-Brock09#7124, VoltageGP#2021
MontCo/ChesCo Regional PoGo!	Audubon, Chesterbrook, Collegeville, Limerick, Oaks, Phoenixville, Royersford, Sayre, Trappe	PA	Water Works Park	OrionNCody(Thau)#9023, scubafanatic(Maureen)[40/38]#1023
Valley Forge / N. Chester County Pokemon Go	Chesterbrook	PA	Wilson Farm Park	KayTV#8423, Eolian#0673, BluebellDad (Evan,40)#6653, MegaSPAM#6928
Pokemon Go Tioga Town	Wellsboro State	PA	Wellsboro Park (The Green)	VoltageGP#2021 WolvezRoze#2070
Pokemon Go Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA	Market Square	AJ_02#8826,Airalyn#8634,kasra#5035,melgood711#8588,ShiggihS#4724, StormFreak#4670
Pokemon Go Pittsburgh	Moon	PA	Moon Park	AllyTheKiller#8599, Exo#8840
Team: Firestorm PGH	Monroeville	PA	Monroeville Park	u/DelanaKatrella#6912, RhinoCity#6591
Pokemon Go Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA	South Park Fitness Trail	NOVAxDRAGON#4793
State College Pokemon Go	State College	PA	Penn State University - Berkey Creamery	Daisy#1432,Ocelot#3963,Audrey#6875, Madots115 -Dani-#2476, FearMeIAmLag#9953, izzygoat#9870, Guide TechiesGoBoom#9480
PokemonGoPhilly	Philadelphia	PA	Washington Square & Independence Park (6th and Walnut Streets, 19106)	ickyitis#8156, WangZorro#0079
Pokemon Go Berks, PA	Redding	PA	Reading Public Museum	humpstyles#5581, Professor Wynn#1176, Gonzumel#9429
Pokémon Go - Altoona, PA	Altoona	PA	Penn State Altoona campus	NHoover629#7531, chrissxe#9133, Gammacrushh#4242, RileyLynx#1166, Rob (Pokemonfan108)#5918
Pokémon Go - Altoona, PA	Altoona	PA	Downtown Altoona near Silver Chief gym	courtmundson#1603, slong5255#1967, BonnieWaltz623#9747, kamikazirunner#9449, Len (pseudogenius - 40)#8292
TSR RI	Burriville	RI	Burriville town square Gazebo	Debbie K.#4466
TSR Rhode Island	East Greenwich	RI	Academy Field	paradoxmuse
TSR Rhode Island	Newport	RI	Queen Anne Square	Baldguy, Liz Lemon#7082
TSR Rhode Island	Pawtucket	RI	Slater Park	V1073nc3#2641, cuttywow, GoRaichel, BHAZ401, GoldenSimurgh, Draist, NSmalley
TSR Rhode Island	Providence	RI	Roger Williams Park	MarcBerm
TSR RI	Riverside	RI	783 Bullocks Point Ave	Mrspinkfl0yd#5926
Rhode Island Pokemon Go	Westerly	RI	Wilcox Park	SummerOtaku#6945
Pokemon Go VT	Burlington	VT	Battery Park	Aayrl#1888, Avocet#1761,CJ#0142,Reznora#5639, Bastinado#2233, donlaub#7504, Mindzeye82#2254, PkmnArchivist#2000
Pokemon Go VT	Montpelier	VT	State Capital Building Green	XplosiveR#0191
Pokemon Go VT	Rutland	VT	Rutland Free Library	Clammy#1983, Crabby#9915, Lobster_Classic#5058, Fritzeee#4358
PoGO D.U.A.L.S.		Washington D.C.	Smithsonian's National Zoo / Mall	SarcasmSaves7#3840, Cass#5368, Chaz (asteadydecline) #8384

LAST UPDATED Sep 13th, 2018 [Added some new 24/7 streams]
There is a TON of full adult swim shows that are readily available to steam on their website or elsewhere, and it can be crazy trying to find it all. I've attempted to compile a comprehensive guide for every adult swim original that can or cannot be streamed.
EDIT: So this was featured on adult swims front page, which was cool... until Turner came in and took down most of the youtube videos that weren't on adult swim's channel. It sucks because it was mostly the pilots that you can't find virtually anywhere. I've marked through any video thats been taken down.

Entire Series Free on Website and App

12 oz. Mouse
Apollo Gauntlet
Assy McGee
Ballmastrz: 9009
Black Dynamite
Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule
Decker
Delocated
Fat Guy Stuck In Internet
FLCL
Home Movies
Hot Streets
Joe Pera Talks With You (includes the infomercial and special)
King Star King
Loiter Squad
Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
Metalocalypse (includes the rock opera)
Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace (Ep 6 Uncensored Extended)
Minoriteam
Mongo Wrestling Alliance
Mostly 4 Millennials
Off The Air
Perfect Hair Forever
Samurai Jack (includes the original CN seasons!)
Sand Whale and Me
Saul of the Mole Men
Space Dandy
Space Ghost Coast To Coast
Squidbillies
Stroker and Hoop
Superjail!
Tender Touches
The Brak Show (War Next Door is just a 10 second clip, and since I know you're reading this adult swim please fix this)
The Drinky Crow Show
The Heart, She Holler
The Jellies
The Restless Bell
The Rising Son
Titan Maximum
Tom Goes To The Mayor
Xavier: Renegade Angel
You're Whole

Entire Series Free on Other Sites

Soul Quest Overdrive (Pilot, 1, 2, 3, 4)

Almost Entire Series

These shows have nearly every episode on the site but are missing a few. I'll provide links to the missing episodes if available.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Full seasons 1-9, partial seasons 10 and 11 which are available on Hulu
Dream Corp LLC - Missing "You Down with OCD?" but this changes from time to time. There's usually at least 5 episodes. Available on Hulu.
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole - Missing "Mother To Be-sa", an unaired banned episode. (Download)

Infomercials

All infomercials (specials that premiered at 4am) are on the website, but they're split up. Some are listed as infomercials, some as specials. Sorted them all here in chronological order. Youtube links included if available.
Icelandic UltraBlue (Youtube)
Aziz Ansari's Dangerously Delicious (thanks metaldanirl)
Swords, Knives, Very Sharp Objects and Cutlery (Youtube)
For-Profit Online University (Youtube)
Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick (Youtube)
Broomshakala (Youtube)
Fartcopter (Youtube)
The Salad Mixxxer (Youtube)
Alpha Chow (Youtube)
Goth Fitness (Youtube)
Too Many Cooks (Youtube)
The Newbridge Tourism Board Presents: "We're Newbridge, We're Comin' To Get Ya!" (Youtube)
In Search Of Miracle Man (Youtube)
Smart Pipe (Youtube)
Book of Christ (Youtube)
Frank Pierre Presents: Pierre Resort Casino (Youtube)
Unedited Footage of a Bear (Youtube)
This House Has People In It (Youtube)
Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep (Youtube)
Big Grams: "Born to Shine" / "Run For Your Life"
M.O.P.Z. (Youtube / Slowed Down Version)
Giles Vanderhoot (Youtube)
Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth (Youtube)
NewsHits (Youtube)
Mulchtown (Youtube)
Check It Out! With Scott Clam
The Suplex Duplex Complex
Wet Shapes
Innovation Makers: The Coyote Suit
A Message From The Future
Cool Dad - Official Trailer
Dayworld
Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough (Youtube)
Food: The Source of Life

Specials

Adult Swim Golf Classic (Extended) - Adam Scott and Jon Daly play as golfers who share their names
Anime Talk Show / Adult Swim Brain Trust - In 2004, Perfect Hair Forever aired its pilot instead of the announced Squidbillies pilot (Here are the bumps "explaining" it: 1, 2, 3). This special hosted by Space Ghost interviewing Meatwad, Sharko, and Early followed it.
Art Prison - A pilot just turned into a one-off special
Bagboy - Check It Out! spin-off
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America - Includes all three specials
Bushworld Adventures - 2018's second April Fools' prank. It's Australian Rick and Morty!
Cool 3D World "Spurt" - Was once removed from Youtube but now it's back
Earth Ghost - Part of 2011's April Fools' prank, aired after The Room.
First Annual Stupid Morning Bullshit Invitational On The Green - A golf match between Mike Lazzo & Andrew Choe
FLCL: Alternative (Subbed) - Episode 1, part of 2018's first April Fools' prank.
Freaknik: The Musical - Hour-long special starring T-Pain that spawned from That Crook'd 'Sipp
The Greatest Event In Television History - Includes all four specials. Created by Adam and Naomi Scott
Mother, May I Dance with Mary Jane's Fist?: A Lifetone Original Movie - Based on a play of the same name by Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Artemis Pebdani of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame
Mr. Neighbor's House - Includes both specials. Parody of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Ranger Smith - Boo Boo Runs Wild - Two shorts created by John K. that aired on Cartoon Network before
Scavengers - Toonami special
Soft Focus with Jena Friedman - I don't have much of a description for this, but it's good.
The Xtacles (1,2) - Frisky Dingo spin-off
Toonami Countdown - Supercut of Toonami's 2017 immersion event
Young Person's Guide to History - Includes both parts

Pilots

These aren't all of them, just the ones that are relatively easily available. Turner keeps taking down the Youtube links, i'll update when I can.
Bad Guys
Captain Sturdy: The Originals
Captain Sturdy: Back In Action
Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge
Chuck Deuce
Coffin Dodgers
Duckworth
Finkel Files
Filthy Sexy Teen$
Gigglefudge U.S.A.
Hindenburg Explodes!
Korgoth of Barbaria
Let's Do This!
Let's Fish (Youtube / Vimeo)
Lewis Lectures
Lowe Country (pt. 2)
Neon Knome
Penguins Behind Bars (Youtube)
Saddle Rash (Youtube)
Snake n' Bacon
Southies
Spacecataz
Stiff
That Crook'd 'Sipp (Backup)
The Best of Totally 4 Teens (Youtube)
The Groovenians
The Mark Lembeck Technique
The New Big Ball With Neil Hamburger
The Pound Hole
The Shivering Truth
Tigtone and the Pilot
Trap Universe
Tropical Cop Tales
Übermansion
Welcome to Eltingville (Vimeo)
Yappy Broads

Online Series

I'm only going to list the full series (Thanks bnjrivera for some of these)
Adult Swim Celebrity Poker Tournament Royale
Carl's Stone Cold Lock of the Century of the Week
Daytime Fighting League (Season 1 on Youtube)
Electronic Game Information
On Cinema
Ricking Morty
The Cry of Mann: A Trool Day Holiday Spectacular In Eight Parts
The Tim Heidecker Trial
Yoga Bro

24/7 Commercial Free Marathons

Dream Corp LLC
Off The Air
Rick and Morty
Robot Chicken
Superjail!
The Eric Andre Show
The Venture Bros.
Williams Stream (Variety of random originals) - The format seems to be 1-2 episodes per show, and the selected episodes usually stay for weeks
App Only:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Black Jesus
Metalocalypse
Mr. Pickles
Squidbillies

The Rest Are Not Complete And/Or Free

Full series with Hulu subscription (Free partial series on adultswim.com):
Black Jesus (as)
Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio (as)
China, IL (as)
Dream Corp LLC (as)
Eagleheart (as)
Frisky Dingo (as)
Harvey Bridman: Attorney At Law (as)
Hot Package (as)
Moral Orel (as)
Neon Joe: Werewolf Hunter (as)
NTSF:SD:SUV:: (as) - Complete Season 3 on internet archive
Rick and Morty (as)
Sealab 2021 (as)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (as) - 10 Year Anniversary Special only on [as]
Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories (as)
The Boondocks - No free episodes on [as], first and second seasons on internet archive
The Eric Andre Show (as) - Eric Andre Does Paris only on [as]
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell (as)
Partial with Hulu:
Aqua TV Show Show / Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever - rest on [as] (see above)
Mr. Pickles (as)- Missing season 3
Robot Chicken (as) - Missing season 9
The Venture Bros. (as) - Season 7 will come and go on [as]
Partial on Website and other sites:
Mike Tyson Mysteries - Few episodes of season 3 on website
Newsreaders - Complete season 1 on internet archive
Childrens Hospital - Seasons 1, 2, and 3 complete on internet archive
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Not on Website, Lost Media, and Others:
Jack and Triumph Show - rights issue with NBC, no free streaming links atm, on itunes though
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Bonus Archived Blocks / Non-Originals / Misc.:

I will be adding more to this list as I come across them
April Fools' Prank 2010 - Cut of all the bumps in between The Room with Space Ghost interviewing Tommy Wiseau
April Fool's Prank 2011 - The Room full block with Earth Ghost
April Fools' Prank 2012 - The Return of Toonami full block (Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki, Outlaw Star, The Big O, Yu Yu Hakusho, Blue Submarine No. 6, Trigun, Astro Boy, and Gigantor)
April Fools' Prank 2018 - Subbed Toonami (FLCL Alternative, Mind Game (full movie), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Hunter x Hunter, Naruto: Shippuden, Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig, and Scavengers)
Daylights Savings 2017 - Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters aired in the extra hour for DST. Includes commercials and bonus episodes of King of the Hill, Rick and Morty, and Ben 10
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Banned Boston Episode - Unaired episode about their Boston bomb scare. Uncensored and unfinished!
Clerks: The Animated Series - aired Friday nights on adult swim in 2008
High School USA! - Fox series made by Dino Stamatopoulos (Moral Orel, Frankenhole). I'm not sure if this aired on adult swim or not.
Mission Hill - Classic old syndicated show. Individual episode playlist on internet archive or Youtube.
The PJ's - Old Fox series by Eddie Murphy.
Wonder Showzen - NOT an adult swim show but for anyone who is a fan of PFFR (Xavier, The Heart She Holler), this is an essential watch. Besides, adult swim wanted this show anyway.
If you notice any broken or missing links, please let me know! Likewise, if you have any material that could go here, leave a suggestion (I've personally been specifically searching for full blocks of their 16th Anniversary weeks). Happy Streaming!