What happens when a sports-betting company can identify its most vulnerable customers, conservatives start fighting over government checks, and a president decides certain news organizations have had enough access?

On today’s Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ opens with reporting about DraftKings and a machine-learning model designed to predict which gamblers were likely to lose the most, followed by hundreds of millions of dollars in promotional bets aimed at high-value customers. TJ argues that the real problem isn’t simply gambling. It’s a business model built around finding the people most likely to keep losing.

Then the show turns to a White House child-care proposal championed by J.D. Vance that could provide federal subsidies to married stay-at-home parents. The idea has triggered criticism from conservatives themselves, giving TJ an ...