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🎵 Remy: Regulate (FTX Parody)
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"While Griner's release is welcome news, it's important to remember that her imprisonment was so outrageous not just because of its obvious political motivation but also because no one should face prison time for nonviolent drug offenses."
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This second installment of the #TwitterFiles is bigger than the first, revealing the existence of exactly the kind of shadow banning—routine, secret blacklisting re: search and spread—many suspected exists.
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Rep. Adam Schiff attempts censorship by proxy, "demanding action" to suppress "hate speech" on Twitter. Elon Musk should tell him to mind his own business.
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'The lack of transparency is startling, and the rationale behind the policy is wholly contrary to a culture of free speech.' As 's notes, we have a right to be pissed. Thx for exposing. Now change all this!
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Fentanyl has been the key driver in the increase in drug overdose deaths in recent years. So fentanyl test strips could be a very important part of harm reduction.
But state governments are getting in the way.
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Even with little evidence beyond minor injuries, state actors are increasingly willing to seize children. And they can do it without a judge's approval.
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Mayor Eric Adams says he'd like to see New York City build 500,000 homes in the next decade. His latest plan won't get them built.
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Bradley Bass did his job in accordance with school policy. But cops say in the process he ran afoul of an old Colorado child-porn law, which they are now weaponizing against him to criminalize him for...doing his job.
This is not parody.
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Today, a Colorado man had a hearing to determine if he'll face 12 years in prison for having child porn. But no one—including the gov't—thinks he had child porn.
He's a school principal who was investigating a sexting incident. And cops want him branded a sex offender.
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Only 1.1 percent of teenagers have reported smoking hookah. But Multnomah County, Oregon, still wants to ban it to “save the kids”.
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Rep. Adam Schiff attempts censorship by proxy, "demanding action" to suppress "hate speech" on Twitter. Elon Musk should tell him to mind his own business.
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Why on earth is the FTC trying to stop a merger in one of the most competitive industries in the world?
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Research says that school choice works just fine outside city limits, no matter what critics claim.
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This man is facing 12 years in prison for investigating a sexting incident, because the police used a decades-old law to charge him with possessing child porn.
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Bari Weiss' Twitter Files reveal systematic '"blacklisting" of disfavored content, with Twitter employees indicating that several types of shadow banning are real and common. #TwitterFiles
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Despite the seriousness of the accusations, there is little evidence to back up the state's claims.
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I'm honestly surprised any office-to-apartment conversions happen, given the many, many obstacles (regulatory and practical) there are to them.
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It's Far Past Time To Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips
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In my latest for , I wrote about Brittney Griner's release, and what we should learn from it.
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Fentanyl test strips are an important harm reduction tool. So why do states still ban them? #ReasonRoundup
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Around 300 American colleges and universities mandate that students receive some form of a COVID vaccine booster. According to a new study, those vaccine mandates likely shouldn't exist: reason.pub/3W6Q88h
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A Black anti-Semite, a Latino white supremacist, and an ex-president walk into a bar or, well, a restaurant at a Florida country club…
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"The Whale" is a tearjerker with a gripping performance by Brendan Fraser, writes in review
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Don't listen to school choice critics: Alternative options aren't draining resources for public education in rural communities.
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In "Inventor of the Future," deflates Buckminster Fuller's reputation, portraying him as an often prevaricating credit hog and serial business failure
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Admitting immigrants of all skill levels could help alleviate some of the economic strain that everyday Americans face.
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The cost of zero-COVID has not just been zero freedom, but vulnerability to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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"This transfers the decision-making over something as basic as when children can play together in a neighbor's yard to the state's child welfare authorities."
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The Secure Jobs Act could potentially drive jobs out of New York City and make employment much more precarious for a huge range of workers.
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Identity politics, cancel culture, and extremely online old people have become a force to be reckoned with all around the world. That's as true in America as it is in Kurdistan.
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Catch the latest Reason Speakeasy, where Nick Gillespie talked with Kaytlin Bailey, the founder and executive director of Old Pros: reason.pub/3hfxFY2
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If a digital upgrade makes the FBI angry, that means it's probably a good development for tech privacy.
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Dwarf Fortress is a computer game so deep and complex that it verges on art. And it just got a lot easier to play.
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Declining to block Oregon's 10-round magazine limit, a federal judge applies "means-ends scrutiny" by a different name.
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After nine months in Russian detention, WNBA play Brittney Griner has been released in a prisoner swap.
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College students should be able to choose whether they want a COVID booster, not be forced to get one.
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Office-to-apartment conversions are already hard to do. And that's if regulations don't stop them entirely.
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Child services say that a Pearisburg, Virginia mom can't let her kids—ages 6, 8, and 9—play outside by themselves.
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