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Free minds and free markets. Trans rights are human rights. Passionate about economics, free speech and criminal justice reform. And disc golf…

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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The EU is keen on mass surveillance of all social media and private messaging, and that’s gonna be bad for pretty much everybody. reason.com/2025/12/01/t... @reason.com
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The 'free' world is coming for your private messages
Nobody expects China or Iran to protect privacy. But as seen in the European debate over chat control, even nominally free countries are becoming intrusive when it comes to the digital world.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Most Americans Think Free Speech Is on the Decline, Survey Finds. "Drops in confidence across all political parties contributed to the record-levels of pessimism," writes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. reason.com/2025/11/24/m...
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Most Americans think free speech is on the decline, survey finds
"Drops in confidence across all political parties contributed to the record-levels of pessimism," writes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In its zeal to punish Big Tech, the Federal Trade Commission stuck to a market definition that became more obsolete with every year. reason.org/commentary/f...
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Federal Trade Commission fails to convince judge that Meta monopolizes social media
In its zeal to punish Big Tech, the Federal Trade Commission stuck to a market definition that became more obsolete with every year.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. education.jhu.edu/edpolicy/pol...
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 06/11/2025
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch stated that accepting the Trump administration's logic and the powers they've assumed would result in "a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives."
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Justices don't buy tariff argument
Plus: Outrage at Heritage, air traffic might get throttled, and more...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/11/2025
Trump: "With the 100 percent, I was able to do it instantaneously when we were threatened by the rare earths, as you know, the magnets."
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Michael Dominowski @dom911.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The case of Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen arrested twice by immigration enforcement, demonstrates the problem with the government's current strategy on immigration enforcement. reason.com/2025/10/31/i... via @reason.com
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Adrian Moore on X: "ICE's Mass Arrests Ensnare U.S. Citizens and Show No Signs of Stopping https://t.co/VeUBkKwBqi via @reason" / X
ICE's Mass Arrests Ensnare U.S. Citizens and Show No Signs of Stopping https://t.co/VeUBkKwBqi via @reason
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A new look at travel data shows how work from home accounts for all of the reduction in auto travel in recent year, and transit accounts for essentially none of it. We keep subsidizing transit to fail instead of reinventing it. tbd.ctr.utexas.edu/wp-content/u...
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Study finds state governments have a total of $2.7 trillion in debt, with 26 states exceeding $20 billion in debt each and 10 states over $70 billion. reason.org/transparency... @reason.org
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Report ranks every state's debt, from California's $497 billion to South Dakota's $2 billion
Study finds state governments have a total of $2.7 trillion in debt, with 26 states exceeding $20 billion in debt each and 10 states over $70 billion.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.
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📚🖼📻Joel👤🕊👥Waterman 🧢🦔🐻☪☮𝔼✡ℹ️☯✝🗽🇺🇸🎲 @xtrole.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Abolish ICE and replace it with nothing.
Libertarian Party:

Abolish ICE and replace it with nothing.


Source: https://x.com/lpnational/status/1612509004290265088?s=46
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Big tech companies in the US invest more in R&D than do most nations. This has huge spillover effects on research across the board as well as innovation in all sectors of the economy. itif.org/publications...
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Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Full Depth of Big Tech’s Contribution to US Innovation and Competitiveness
While critics attack “big tech” from many angles, these five companies develop frontier technologies that require large-scale development, build infrastructure ranging from data centers to subsea cabl...
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
When concerned about the impact of AI on jobs, its worth remembering how technological change played a huge role in liberating women. It’s hard to know what good will come when people can do new things. open.substack.com/pub/vpostrel...
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From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women
Progress is more than space adventures.
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“'Poisoning' lets bereaved parents tell the world that their child wasn’t a drug user—they were a good person. But it belies the fact that fentanyl users not only deserve to live, they didn’t have the information they needed either."
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New "Fentanyl Poisonings" Act Would Target Social Media Sales, Again - Filter
In late September, Representatives Adam Gray (D-CA) and Gabe Evans (R-CO) introduced the “Combatting Fentanyl Poisonings Act of 2025.” It’s ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2025
this is an all timer of a Florida Man story drunk Florida Man goes to the wrong house, breaks in, is immediately beaten up by an even purer Florida Man who does MMA
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Philadelphia's city government can address legitimate quality-of-life concerns like crime and homey in Kensington without constraining lifesaving services. reason.org/commentary/r... @reason.org
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Restricting mobile health vans in Philadelphia will lead to more overdose deaths
Philadelphia's city government can address legitimate quality-of-life concerns in Kensington without constraining lifesaving services.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Uber-like ride services focusing on taking kids to and from school are so popular in some places, they are displacing, traditional school buses. Markets for everything… stateline.org/2025/09/30/s...
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School ride-hailing services may be nudging aside traditional buses • Stateline
A pathway has opened for an industry of small-car, ride-hailing and private transport services to ferry children to and from school.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Astonishing! According to @urbaninstitute, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida lead the nation is 4th grade reading test scores that compare kids of similar demographics. www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 26/09/2025
The Constitution is meant to protect ordinary people from their government rather than the other way around. Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
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California got this one right: ICE agents shouldn't be allowed to wear masks
Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Join us to watch @reason and @NRO debate the merits of mass immigration! www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Abolish the FCC reason.com/2024/11/14/a... via @reason.com
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Abolish the FCC
Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
2022 — a confession:
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is the future a rush to regulate AI will prevent. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...
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AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria
Can AI create a life form? These “generative” genomes are a start
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 16/09/2025
The attorney general is now getting called out by fellow conservatives.
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Pam Bondi is really wrong about hate speech
Bondi should know that hate speech is vigorously protected by the First Amendment, and as such, cannot be policed.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2025
this is, I think, the future of american foreign policy the entire weight of the country used to shut down criticism of the president or anyone he likes on a global scale the charlie kirk crackdown applied to random social media users an ocean away
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
So now the MAGA logic is you can’t force a baker to make a gay wedding cake, but you can force a printer to print pro Charlie Kirk posters. Not a single principle in sight.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
An NPR investigation into corporate ownership of rental properties uncovers a lot of surprising progress outcomes. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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Here's what happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood
What makes rents go down and neighborhood diversity go up? Corporate landlords. But they also make it harder to own for yourself.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A series of unfortunate graphs showing that our school system manages to do worse while spending more.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/09/2025
This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes. Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.
Pie chart showing that all institutional investors combined own less than 1% of the single family housing stock.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/09/2025
“In one breath, we say we want to save American democracy from Trump. In the next, we insist on blocking the very thing—housing—that would help the state preserve its political clout and ensure the immigrants we say we want to protect can afford to live here.”
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Good cause eviction laws and other renter protections may seem like a boon to renters, but ultimately they are the ones who are going to bear the cost of those privileges. www.city-journal.org/article/new-...
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This Law Could Tip New York’s Housing Market into a Death Spiral
If left unreformed, Good Cause Eviction could shrink rental supply, reduce quality, and increase blight.
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Raven @raven47.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I hope he sues every single person that put their hands on him.
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Are Americans stronger, freer, and more prosperous when people from around the world are free to join us? @reason.com takes on @nationalreview.bsky.social in a an Oxford-style clash of wit and worldviews on one of the most consequential issues of our time. www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...
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REASON VERSUS - Mass Immigration Is Good for America
Join us to watch Reason and National Review debate the merits of mass immigration!
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
They called Ronald Reagan “the Teflon president“ because fact, checking or accusations, so rarely stuck to him. But he was an amateur compared to this administration which has an impervious “negaphobic” (tm) coating…
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The use of government force to achieve political advantage is always a terrible idea. It's dangerous to life and liberty. Once it's normalized, we can expect future politicians to further stretch the limits of their power. reason.com/2025/08/27/w... @reason.com
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We don't need more federal intervention in U.S. cities
The use of government force to achieve political advantage is dangerous and sets a bad precedent.
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CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Florida's book ban law FINALLY deemed unconstitutional in a court of law. www.metroweekly.com/2025/08/flor...
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Book Ban Law
Court rules Florida’s expanded “Don’t Say Gay” law is unconstitutionally vague, violating the First Amendment and censoring acclaimed books.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/08/2025
Los Angeles has jealously guarded its local control over land use against state intervention, claiming that the city is best positioned to address its housing needs. But when we look at their actions over the past 7 years, it's clear that they have no interest in actual change.
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Reason Foundation @reason.org · 19/08/2025
With costs increasing and transit ridership declining in many cities, Congress needs a more constructive, results-driven approach to federal transit grants.
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Federal transit programs need to be reformed to protect taxpayers, improve service - Reason Foundation
With costs increasing and transit ridership declining in many cities, Congress needs a more constructive, results-driven approach to federal transit grants.
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 19/08/2025
"Kids are learning the wrong things about sex from porn! We have to ban it!" What if you taught kids the right things about sex? "No! Then they might think it's okay to have sex!"
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
this is (1) not a distraction, (2) not able to be disentangled from the military occupation of multiple us cities, and (3) the greatest threat to liberty in this country since jim crow
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Students for Sensible Drug Policy @ssdpofficial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The global “War on Drugs” has served as a mechanism for systemic oppression, disproportionately harming marginalized populations while reinforcing entrenched racial, gender, and economic hierarchies. Learn about the specific impact on women: ssdp.org/blog/impact-...
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Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me · 19/08/2025
NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.
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NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot
An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Remember, I predicted the White House would conflate arrests (often sloppy or unfounded) as "crime reduction" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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White House says more than 450 people arrested since start of federal crackdown on crime in DC – US politics live
Official says 52 people arrested on Monday alone; 68 firearms have been seized and three known gang members arrested since 7 August
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...
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Notes On a Nonexistent Crime Wave
If American cities aren't war zones, they must be turned into war zones
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Reason Policy @reasonpolicy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
When Minneapolis dramatically reduced zoning restrictions home prices fell 16-34% and rents fell 17.5-34%. Powerful stuff. Technical details in great research below.
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 16/08/2025
Judge Carlos Mendoza in Florida has sided with authors and publishers in a lawsuit against the state's book ban, determining that the law violates free speech protections. It was ruled that Florida's ban on books that "describe sexual conduct" is too broad.
Florida judge strikes down state law used to ban books: 'None of these books are obscene
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x
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