indsay has said she was at fault). Hirsch then wrote:  And this is where I feel like we're losing the plot a little bit. Three babies were killed. They had their entire lives ahead of them. Yes, their mother was very sick. That is devastating. But it wasn't their fault. They were strangled to death methodically and left to die in the basement. 



Hirsch appeared to be arguing that the public should keep Lindsay Clancy's children central to the narrative. She wrote that she didn't know what should happen to Lindsay Clancy,  But the fan base, the GoFundMe, the way people are rallying behind her almost like she's a celebrity genuinely scares me a little bit about where we are as a society. I just don't want our compassion to somehow turn into excusing or minimizing what happened to her children. 



Hirsch soon had to turn the comments off on the post, though they remain on throughout the rest of her account - and are now littered with criticism of her for the Polymarket partnership.

The new world of betting prediction markets - led by Polymarket at Kalshi - have proven to be the unregulated Wild West. In the spring, Variety reported on how both companies spoiled who won  Survivor  in its 50th season, prompting the show's host and showrunner Jeff Probst to slam the companies.  They have figured out a way to capitalize on [the show],  he told Variety.  It doesn't sit well with me as a human. I get it - they built a great business. They don't care. 

Given that the Clancy trial was declared a mistrial because there was one holdout juror who appeared not to agree that she was not guilty by reason of insanity, new conspiracy theories have sprung up about whether that juror was also placing bets in prediction markets.