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The average sports fan probably has no idea the Senate just passed what would be the biggest, most invasive sports law in American history.
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The Protect College Sports Act passed the Senate. It faces a tougher road in the House—and in the courts.
The bill now faces an uncertain path in the House, as well as potentially numerous lawsuits over its provisions.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 7h
Tennessee can't stop people from telling teens how to get abortions in other states, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reason.com/2026/09/28/y...
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You can ‘recruit’ a minor for an abortion in Tennessee
A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the recruitment provision of Tennessee's "abortion trafficking" law.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 8h
"It is clearly established that an officer cannot pull someone over without reasonable suspicion and thereafter concoct a fabricated traffic violation," the appeals court says.
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The 5th Circuit rejects qualified immunity for cops who searched a driver after a bogus traffic stop
Dashcam footage contradicted the officers' claim that the driver failed to signal before they questioned him about drugs and searched him.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 13h
"We don't know which agency paid to produce and place these ads, But it's difficult to see what legitimate government purpose is served by spending taxpayer dollars on ads whose only apparent purpose is to promote the president and reinforce his political message weeks before an election."
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Trump's new ads look like campaign spots. Taxpayers are paying for them.
With midterm voting underway, the distinction between public service announcements and campaign ads blurs.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 29/09/2026
Law enforcement shot bystander Abigail Trujillo's vehicle dozens of times. Her struggle to get help is part of a larger pattern.
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Police in Texas totaled an innocent woman's car. Why did Houston deny her claim for compensation?
Law enforcement shot bystander Abigail Trujillo's vehicle dozens of times. Her struggle to get help is part of a larger pattern in such cases.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 28/09/2026
Trump has flouted the law, undermined basic principles of justice, and perverted the mission of the U.S. military, erasing the traditional distinction between combatants and civilians.
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How murdering suspected drug dealers became the new normal
A year after launching his explosive antidrug campaign, President Donald Trump routinely rains death on alleged cocaine couriers.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) didn't deny that the agency was using facial recognition to identify sex workers” reason.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Customs and Border Protection doesn't deny using facial recognition to target foreign OnlyFans models
The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 28/09/2026
When cavemen invented preemptive war
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 27/09/2026
George Anibowei, a Texas-based immigration attorney, has been stopped on five separate occasions and had his phone searched at the border by federal agents. buff.ly/QoDzmwZ
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Border agents search phones without warrants. This case asks the Supreme Court if that's constitutional
Federal appeals courts differ on whether the Fourth Amendment protects your cellphone at the border. A Texas lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to settle it.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 26/09/2026
Sens. Raphael Warnock and Katie Britt teamed up to send a letter to the DOJ demanding more information about federal oversight of Flock surveillance. buff.ly/97cnT8A
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As police misuse flock cameras, 2 senators from opposite parties demand more oversight
Sens. Raphael Warnock and Katie Britt would seem to have little in common, but they both feel people should have more protection from bad cops with surveillance tech.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 25/09/2026
"I voted for President Trump, under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States," Renée Good's mother told a Senate committee this week. buff.ly/1kaUnyt
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Renée Good's mom wanted Trump to protect her family. Her daughter was killed by ICE.
Donna Ganger's heartbreaking testimony to a Senate committee offers a vital insight into the vicious politics of authoritarianism.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 25/09/2026
The Department of Homeland Security is running a program that "harasses and coerces American citizens exercising the fundamental right to vote," according to a lawsuit filed last week by several institutions in California.
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Homeland Security agents are harassing American voters of foreign origin: Lawsuit
San Francisco and Santa Clara County are suing to stop DHS agents from questioning Americans about their citizenship and voting history.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 25/09/2026
There is no easy fix to the damage that the trade war has done to American agriculture. Banning diesel exports won't do it. A deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is visiting Washington this week for meetings with Trump, won't do it either.
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The collapse of farm exports is the most underappreciated story in American politics
It was a direct result of President Donald Trump's trade war, as even the Department of Agriculture now admits.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 25/09/2026
"This was never about 'consumer fraud.' Nor was it about winning in court. Trump's lawsuit was about intimidating perceived critics into silence by making them waste time and money on lawyers to defend perfectly legal speech."
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An Iowa judge rejects Trump's unconstitutional attempt to recover damages for 'fake news'
The dismissal of the president's lawsuit against 'The Des Moines Register' is a victory for freedom of the press.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 24/09/2026
Blocking the banishment of three disfavored news outlets, a Trump appointee expresses skepticism of the government's belated "national security" rationale.
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A Trump appointee blocks the president's banishment of disfavored news outlets
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly is skeptical of the belated "national security" rationale for banning CNN, MS NOW, and 'Politico' from the White House.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 24/09/2026
If the best argument you can muster is, "I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to trans your kids," your president, your party, and your movement deserve to lose power by historic proportions.
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'Bro we need your vote': Matt Gaetz and a desperate GOP wrestle with Trump's unpopularity
As the reality of a blowout in the midterms comes into focus, the GOP is wrestling with what Trump has wrought.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 24/09/2026
The president hopes that post-hoc rationalization will override due process and freedom of the press.
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After banishing journalists for writing 'purposely negative' stories, Trump invokes 'national security'
Trump initially blamed 'purposely negative' coverage, but his lawyers now cite national security to justify restricting the outlets' access.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 23/09/2026
Politicians from both political parties have scrambled to introduce legislation curbing or eliminating automated license plate readers altogether, at the same time that police associations hold secret briefings in Washington attempting to stem the anti-surveillance tide.
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Homeland Security is monitoring activists building anti-flock tech
SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Latest: Last month I reported on extreme overcrowding at an ICE field office in Miramar, Florida. Now an ICE whistleblower has provided House Oversight Democrats with photos of detainees being held in the facility's sally port reason.com/2026/09/22/w...
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Whistleblower photos show ICE detainees in Miramar, Florida, amid extreme overcrowding, overflowing toilets
The facility has a capacity of 56 but reportedly held as many as 342 detainees, with some sleeping on garage floors and using overflowing toilets.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 23/09/2026
It would actually make a bad situation worse in the long run.
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No, banning diesel exports won't lower gas prices
Despite how it might seem, a ban on diesel exports would likely worsen an already bad situation by driving diesel prices higher.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 23/09/2026
Gun owners should be paying attention to how police use gunfire microphones in conjunction with license plate cameras.
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Flock’s gunfire alerts raise a new Fourth Amendment question
Gun owners should be paying attention to how police use gunfire microphones in conjunction with license plate cameras.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 22/09/2026
"Broadcasters' decisions about what stories to tell, what their editorial positions will be, and who they should hire to convey those messages are all protected by the First Amendment. This proceeding is a shameful chapter in the history of the FCC."
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Free speech groups say the FCC's Disney/ABC investigation 'reeks of political pretext'
FIRE, Cato, and other groups say the FCC's investigation improperly targets protected editorial decisions and threatens press freedom.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 22/09/2026
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.
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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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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 · 21/09/2026
Like a throwback to the 18th century, the president mistakes accumulating the means of exchange for building actual prosperity, as if we'd all be better off with overstuffed wallets than with the things our funds can purchase.
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President Trump stubbornly clings to archaic mercantilist economics
He who dies with the most hoarded cash does not, in fact, win.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if everything we think we know about teens, tech, and mental health is wrong? You can't read Peter Gray's new book, Restoring Childhood, without getting that impression ... reason.com/2026/09/15/r...
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'Restoring Childhood' says it’s not smartphones making teens miserable. It’s school.
Computers, video games, and the internet actually helped "restore childhood" in the 1990s, suggests psychologist Peter Gray in a new book.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 21/09/2026
Flock is promoting a study showing a reduction in vehicle thefts where its cameras are in use. However, a new analysis casts doubt on those findings. buff.ly/dindD48
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The shaky evidence that Flock cameras reduce crime rates
Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 20/09/2026
Are border cops using facial recognition to track OnlyFans models? buff.ly/WhZzt1G
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Customs and Border Protection doesn't deny using facial recognition to target foreign OnlyFans models
The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 19/09/2026
Travelers entering the U.S. through New York, Vermont, or Connecticut should be aware: The government can search your cellphone even if it doesn't suspect you of criminal activity. buff.ly/S8KEqD5
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Court upholds suspicionless cellphone searches at the border
A federal appeals court says it's legal for federal agents to scroll through your phone and take pictures of its contents without a warrant or suspicion of criminal activity.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 18/09/2026
An Afghan woman whose fiancé had worked with the U.S. filed a court motion to prevent her deportation. The same day, ICE flew her to an African country with no papers and no prospects.
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‘They kept us like animals’: Afghan woman deported to Africa by Trump speaks out
Farzana’s fiancé was a U.S. partner in Afghanistan. She was loaded on a plane full of men and sent to another country with no papers or job prospects.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Latest: Video show Memphis Safe Task Force officers arresting a videographer who was already the lead plaintiff of an ACLU lawsuit alleging 1st Amendment retaliation reason.com/2026/09/17/m...
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Memphis task force caught on video arresting activist already suing it for First Amendment retaliation
The ACLU says Hunter Demster's arrest shows a continuing campaign of intimidation and retaliation by the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration has reached record-breaking levels of immigration arrests amid accusations of medical neglect, including among pregnant women.
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ICE’s missing miscarriage data leave questions about pregnancy care in detention
The Trump administration is at record-breaking levels of immigration arrests amid accusations of medical neglect, including among pregnant women.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 18/09/2026
Newly released videos show a police task force in Memphis, Tennessee, arresting a well-known local activist who's also the lead plaintiff in a First Amendment lawsuit alleging illegal retaliation by the force.
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Memphis task force caught on video arresting activist already suing it for First Amendment retaliation
The ACLU says Hunter Demster's arrest shows a continuing campaign of intimidation and retaliation by the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow — jury quickly convicted on all 11 counts against this border agent who raped and robbed immigrant sex workers. No one bought his you-know-Chinese-hussies-lie defense reason.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Border officer convicted of raping and robbing Chinese sex workers
Jurors didn't buy Luis Uribe's defense: that he was targeted by 'hustlers' for being an immigration officer.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 17/09/2026
"I'm deeply relieved that the court affirmed what I knew all along: that I am permitted to speak my conscience in the United States of America, including when I criticize government officials," said David Streever.
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A federal judge enjoins DHS from threatening to prosecute a critic for constitutionally protected speech
After David Streever castigated the agency's acting director in an email, ICE investigators delivered a "warning notice."
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 17/09/2026
The Congressional Budget Office says the inflationary consequences of the war will be felt well into 2027.
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Pentagon auditors say the Iran War has cost $33 billion. The real price tag is far higher.
The Congressional Budget Office says the inflationary consequences of the war will be felt well into 2027.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 17/09/2026
Trump says he supports the cameras simply because law enforcement does, no matter that they can be misused or abused.
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Trump backs Flock cameras, continuing his long-time support for unchecked police power
Trump says he supports the cameras simply because law enforcement does, no matter that they can be misused or abused.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 16/09/2026
"In recent years, there have been a number of prominent news stories about SWAT teams inflicting major damage on innocent people's property while pursuing fugitives. And often neither the local government nor the owner's insurance will pay for the damage."
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Study: Reimbursing victims of police property damage would cost very little
And yet governments deny reimbursement claims more often than approving them, according to the Institute for Justice.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 16/09/2026
The White House said the database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement officers was "full of woke, anti-police concepts."
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The Trump administration shut down a police misconduct database. Now it's facing a FOIA lawsuit
A FOIA lawsuit seeks records on why the Trump administration scrapped a database of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 16/09/2026
The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Pete Hegseth, who is accused of "abusing the power of his office to ignore congressional war powers resolutions, to kidnap foreign leaders, and to intimidate critics of the Trump administration."
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Thomas Massie just filed 8 articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth
The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Hegseth, who is accused of 'abusing the power of his office.'
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 15/09/2026
An inspection of the now-closed detention camp found overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and an "unprecedented" use of small metal cells to confine detainees.
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'Alligator Alcatraz' held detainees in small metal cages, Inspector General report finds
An inspection of the now-closed camp found overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and 'unprecedented' use of small cells to confine detainees.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 15/09/2026
The history of the Excessive Fines Clause shows why Alaska pilot Ken Jouppi should not lose his airplane simply because he helped a passenger defy a local alcohol ban.
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A $95,000 fine for transporting a 6-pack of beer defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court brief argues
The history of the Excessive Fines Clause shows why Ken Jouppi shouldn't lose his airplane just because he helped a passenger defy a local alcohol ban.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 14/09/2026
The feds want to require that cars come equipped with a kill switch.
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European cars are spying on their drivers. The same tech could be coming to the U.S.
New cars in the E.U. must now have cameras that track drivers' eyes and flag distractions.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 14/09/2026
After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing him out of town. buff.ly/xdbrdsm
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A judge ordered ICE agents to stop retaliating against an Ohio videographer. ICE moved the agents out of town.
After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing him out of town.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 13/09/2026
This push "to crush the enemy" might reward power-hungry politicians hoping to benefit their party, but the losers in all of this are the voters, who have their voice diluted with each further gerrymander. buff.ly/oHh5rwG
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Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s messy, trump-backed gerrymandering fight
The decision ends a yearlong legal war spanning multiple lawsuits, contradictory state and federal court orders, and repeated appeals to the Supreme Court.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 12/09/2026
For the second time this year, James Talarico, the Texas Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, appeared on a late-night talk show only to get bumped from the nightly broadcast. buff.ly/IQDHaho
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Jimmy Kimmel didn't air Talarico interview over fear of FCC 'equal time' threats
For the second time this year, Talarico appeared on a late-night show only to be bumped in response to federal threats.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 11/09/2026
How did Republicans at the GOP midterm convention feel about President Donald Trump's offer to send every American adult a $5,000 check? I tried to find out. I got very far and also basically nowhere. buff.ly/pVjgOBW
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I Tried To Find Out What Republicans Think of Trump’s $5,000 Checks. Then I Got Trapped.
At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, looking for answers meant a security escort, a Palestine-Mexico protest flag, and a front-row seat to the spectacle.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 11/09/2026
The U.S. government ensured that there would be no end to the public's fears—and no real justice for bin Laden's victims.
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How the war on terror turned 9/11 into a permanently open wound
The government ensured that there would be no end to the public's fears—and no real justice for bin Laden's victims.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it's still so weird to me to hear conservatives talking about nutritional yeast and gut microbiomes, or teaching people to make arugula salads and to replace the tuna in tuna salad with chickpeas reason.com/2026/09/07/r...
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RFK Jr.'s MAHA cooking show is government propaganda. I kind of love it?
I think it's cool that conservatives are trying to make it cool to care about nutrition. But this isn't the government's place.
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