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Eric Boehm

@ericboehm87.bsky.social
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Journalist at Reason. Fiscal policy, trade policy, stupid government tricks. Would rather be looking at mountains.

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Fetterman saving JD Vance from having to cast the tie-breaking vote is **infuriating**
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Andorks Podcast @andorkspod.com · 19/09/2026
In this house we believe: Justice for Pateesa. That's why @ericboehm87.bsky.social has nominated Malakili, Jabba's beast master, as his GLUP SHITTO OF THE WEEK. We're not saying Luke is wrong for what he did, but that creature was just scared, and Malakili has every right to be sad.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But wait I was told trade wars were "good and easy to win"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Flock "database queries are not searches within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment” and “no suspicion is required before the government searches a traveler's cellphone at the border," federal courts say 🤪😫 reason.com/2026/09/21/n...
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No warrant, no suspicion, no problem: Flock and border cellphone searches excluded from 4th Amendment rules
Cops keep carving out tech exceptions to the Fourth Amendment—and courts are giving them their blessing.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 22/09/2026
Being on a construction site "does not open the floodgates to warrantless government intrusion," a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by a construction worker who has been detained three times by ICE.
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Judge blocks warrantless ICE construction site raids after agents in Alabama arrested a U.S. citizen 3 times
An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen was detained and handcuffed three times despite having a valid REAL ID.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I never thought the leopards would eat MY face, etc etc etc
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“This is fine” dog in house fire meme with “this merits impeachment” in the speech bubble instead.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Spectacular headline 👏👏
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The "police-involved shooting" of war crimes
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Life imitates art at the Minnesota United game today (photo from a friend) How can you not love this?
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Infuriating thread
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
War-a-Lago
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Trump administration before SCOTUS ruled tariffs illegal: "Of course we can do tariff refunds, no biggie, quick and easy, pinkie promise!" The Trump administration after SCOTUS ruled: "Oh geez, oh boy, I don't think we can do that. It's gonna take years!" reason.com/2026/02/25/w...
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Will the Trump administration pay the tariff refunds it promised?
Thousands of companies, including some big names like FedEx and Costco, have already filed lawsuits seeking refunds of tariff bills.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It's crazy how economists said "tariffs won't reduce the trade deficit" and then the White House did tariffs to try to reduce the trade deficit and the trade deficit hit a record high reason.com/2026/02/19/t...
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Trump said tariffs would reduce the trade deficit. Instead, it hit a record high in 2025.
It's a good thing that trade deficits aren't actually a national emergency.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Finally given a chance to influence trade policy, the vast majority of House Republicans decided it was more important to keep President Donald Trump happy. On the cowardice of the House GOP and how it jeopardizes the republic: reason.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The cowardice of the Republican 'tariff skeptics'
Finally given a chance to influence trade policy, the vast majority of House Republicans decided it was more important to keep President Donald Trump happy.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I would prefer for none of my tax dollars to be spent on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's sex plane reason.com/2026/02/13/h...
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How much is Kristi Noem's alleged adultery airplane costing you?
If the DHS secretary is actually having a high-flying affair with Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski, the taxpayers are the ones getting screwed.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We murdered three more people in a boat today
U.S. Southern Command *
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@Southcom
On Feb. 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
USA USA USA
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Homan is a bully with little regard for rights or the rule of law. And the problems with Trump's immigration tactics point back to the White House itself. reason.com/2026/01/27/t...
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Tom Homan isn't the solution
Homan is a bully with little regard for the rule of law. The problems with Trump's immigration tactics point back to the White House itself.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 23/01/2026
Many of those who claimed to be conservative only wanted to conserve white supremacy. Many of those who claimed to support liberty only wanted the liberty to oppress others without government interference. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/23/right-wing-federal-agents-ice-immigrants/
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Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them
Since Ruby Ridge and Waco, some right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I know I'm getting old because I can remember a time when Republicans were *outraged* about federal cops raiding a home to arrest and deport an illegal immigrant
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In Pursuit USA @inpursuitusa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Colleen Shogan joined @ericboehm87.bsky.social from @reason.com to discuss In Pursuit, our national essay project focused on strengthening shared civic memory ahead of the Semiquincentennial. Listen/watch here: reason.com/podcast/2026...
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Can we save American history from partisan politics?
Former U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan discusses the importance of preserving presidential records and the challenge of maintaining public trust in an era of partisan conflict.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Somehow "we're only preparing to attack Minnesota, not Greenland too" isn't reassuring me that the White House has things under control
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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New York Times: "Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said at a news conference that the agent who fired his weapon has been treated at a hospital and released. He can be seen in videos of the shooting walking around the scene after firing his weapon, with no apparent injuries."
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Update from Jesus Jiménez
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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Holy shit
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump is approaching his sixth year as president and still doesn’t know what the Department of Energy does.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Some good news to end the year!
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Absolutely fucking grotesque
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Socialism sucks
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 10/12/2025
Instant all-timer here:
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/12/2025
GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR
 Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Reported by David Goodhue, Miami Herald. "She can be heard screaming as agents attempted to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID
In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So this ends with them making out, right?
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Virginia ABC system finally has a fully satisfied customer
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
How it started / How it's going
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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Life comes at you fast
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