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 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
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...
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...
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...
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."
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."
China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.
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
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...
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
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.
Libertarian Party: Abolish ICE and replace it with nothing. Source: https://x.com/lpnational/status/1612509004290265088?s=46
Abolish ICE and replace it with nothing.
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...
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...
“'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."
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
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
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
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...
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...
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.
Join us to watch @reason and @NRO debate the merits of mass immigration! www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...
2022 — a confession:
This is the future a rush to regulate AI will prevent. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...
The attorney general is now getting called out by fellow conservatives.
Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...
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
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.
With his crack investigative skills I’m sure we will see a breakthrough soon….
