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“There should be more consequences for the President and Administration having continually lied about Reflecting Pool vandalism than having to drop the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn.”

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

okay the *next* time they won't be lying

Say what now

Emotional support strategic bombing here we go

"The ethos typically puts the cart before the horse, replacing challenging epistemic labour—figuring out what is actually happening in societies characterised by profound ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity—with a much simpler moral posture." open.substack.com/pub/conspicu...

"Speaking Truth to Power" Is Bad EpistemologyIf intellectuals want to hold power accountable, they should focus less on power and more on truth.open.substack.com

It seems ludicrous that a paper like this would even need to be written, but here we are.

really makes you think when someone isolated in solitary confinement craving human interaction blocks you

The MAGA 'Anchor Baby' Myth Doesn't Hold Water (Steve Chapman/The UnPopulist) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

In 1968, the Trix Rabbit was VERY concerned about voter registration!

Talk Therapy is Speech - Marginal REVOLUTION

Talk Therapy is Speech - Marginal REVOLUTIONIJ: On Wednesday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a D.C. law that barred therapists from other jurisdictions from doing online teletherapy visits with clients in D.C. The decision comes nearly six years after Virginia-based counselor Elizabeth Brokamp teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit arguing the law violated the First Amendment. “This decision is […]marginalrevolution.com

Not once. Not twice. Not three times. This mom had the cops called on her FOUR SEPARATE TIMES because her kids were... Outside. Run inside to your iPad kids! I don't want someone calling 911! My piece at Reason: reason.com/2026/07/30/a...

A Pennsylvania mom says the cops were called on her 4 times—for letting her kids be outsideState lawmakers are mulling a law that would establish commonsense protections for families that give their children a reasonable amount of independence.reason.com

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.www.washingtonpost.com

"Former President Joe Biden used up all the ammunition. There is no ammunition shortage. It is illegal to leak military secrets about the ammunition shortage."

Waltz: Interceptor shortage is Biden's fault, fake news, and illegal to discussThe Trump administration official contradicted himself as he tried to explain away bad news from the Iran war.reason.com

reason.com/podcast/2026...

How jailhouse snitches send innocent people to death rowPamela Colloff discusses the dangers of incentivized testimony, as well as the difficulty of overturning wrongful convictions.reason.com

www.cato.org/blog/social-... "Perhaps most importantly, it has been tried elsewhere. And in those places, it has failed. The result is always the same: the internet becomes much less interesting—and much less useful."

NYT - Secret Service agents who questioned former FBI director Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us...

Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing SaysThe demand suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.www.nytimes.com

to be clear, a warrantless stakeout or a tail is not necessarily a 4th Amendment violation *THIS* is an off-the-charts, 11-out-of-10 4th Amendment violation

It certainly sounds like Fauci is saying that he thinks Paul is trying to trick him into perjuring himself. But that can't justify invoking the Fifth Amendment, otherwise anyone could get out of testifying anytime by claiming that, if they testified, they might lie. That can't be right.

We all laughed at Blanche when he said they had done an actual investigation into Comey. Turns out he was right — and the investigation was at once comical, sordid, and bone-chilling. A would-be Pinochet runs up against the structural limits of a still-free country.