Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026John Fetterman saving JD Vance from having to cast the tie-breaking vote is **infuriating** 141
Reposted by Eric BoehmAndorks Podcast @andorkspod.com · 19/09/2026In 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. 131
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026But wait I was told trade wars were "good and easy to win" 030
Reposted by Eric BoehmAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mother 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. 70257751836
Reposted by Eric BoehmElizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Flock "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...reason.comNo warrant, no suspicion, no problem: Flock and border cellphone searches excluded from 4th Amendment rulesCops keep carving out tech exceptions to the Fourth Amendment—and courts are giving them their blessing. 23013
Reposted by Eric BoehmReason Magazine @reason.com · 22/09/2026Being 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.reason.comJudge blocks warrantless ICE construction site raids after agents in Alabama arrested a U.S. citizen 3 timesAn Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen was detained and handcuffed three times despite having a valid REAL ID. 53618
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I never thought the leopards would eat MY face, etc etc etc 030
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Life imitates art at the Minnesota United game today (photo from a friend) How can you not love this? 1217
Reposted by Eric BoehmJudd 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 15265992049
Reposted by Eric BoehmCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com 4983687711850
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The 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...reason.comWill 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. 174
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 19/02/2026It'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...reason.comTrump 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. 230
Reposted by Eric BoehmCooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Yesterday 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 599235548221
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Finally 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...reason.comThe 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. 021
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I 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...reason.comHow 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. 38722
Reposted by Eric BoehmMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/02/2026We murdered three more people in a boat today 49967462
Reposted by Eric BoehmJason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me" 12949582072
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Homan 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...reason.comTom Homan isn't the solutionHoman 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. 046
Reposted by Eric BoehmNicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 23/01/2026Many 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/washingtonpost.comConservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud themSince Ruby Ridge and Waco, some right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies. 0177
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I 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 0103
Reposted by Eric BoehmIn Pursuit USA @inpursuitusa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Colleen 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...reason.comCan 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. 131
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Somehow "we're only preparing to attack Minnesota, not Greenland too" isn't reassuring me that the White House has things under control 0269
Reposted by Eric BoehmWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026New 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."nytimes.comUpdate from Jesus Jiménez 76515
Reposted by Eric BoehmLangdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Here'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. 12762603019
Reposted by Eric BoehmJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026If 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. 2875892182
Reposted by Eric BoehmMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Trump is approaching his sixth year as president and still doesn’t know what the Department of Energy does. 3274382
Reposted by Eric BoehmCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026thrilled 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 863502403
Reposted by Eric BoehmCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025CATO 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... 682338977
Reposted by Eric BoehmRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... 291477445
Reposted by Eric BoehmAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/12/2025GOP 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." 56291442704
Reposted by Eric BoehmAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR 10582231
Reposted by Eric BoehmDetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Reported 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...miamiherald.com‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show IDIn 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. 01810
Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Virginia ABC system finally has a fully satisfied customer 050