Advocate to #EndQualifiedImmunity & #EndForfeiture. Former wine rep partaking in tequila and social criticism. Your ( ) team sucks.
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Civil asset forfeiture is an affront to bedrock American rights. My column:
h/t: @justinamash @ij @IlyaSomin @reason @riponcollege
cc: @nickgillespie @ErikN_NJEdition
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@dianemgoldstein @BrianV1981
George Will bestows a sledgehammer phrase from James Madison on Bill Maher: “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.”
Texas GOP wants to gerrymander state congressional districts. So, state Dems skedaddle to Illinois — to advocate for favorably redrawing state boundaries there, and other blue states. What a jejune juxtaposition. And the enmity is *earned* by both parties.
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Very few entities in America represent inanity and ineptitude more than the Republican party and the Democrat party. And, anyone with a modicum of awareness knows it.
cc: @nickgillespie @thatjenmonroe @ajwimsatt @ErikN_NJEdition
@RealTimers @jaketapper The GOP is hustling gerrymandering in Texas. So, Illinois Governor Pritzker feigns outrage by hosting Texas Democrats, saying, “you know, this is really all about politics.”
*Pritzker signed gerrymandered maps into law in 2021.*
The (R) & (D) are a joke.
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ICYMI a new @wethefifth podcast is out!
Episode 516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" with @EliLake
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It’s July 2, arguably the real #IndependenceDay. Hoping Congress can finally assert its Article 1 powers, think independently, and blunt executive excess. My column…
h/t: @RiponPress @JonahDispatch
cc: @KoliMitra @KevinWilsonROC
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@nickgillespie @four4thefire
Congress is trending. It’s an ineffective, fetid swamp of performative poltroons that enables executive overreach.
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Tariffs once again scaring markets. Just b/c they were a campaign promise doesn’t make them any good. Same goes for Dem advocacy for price controls. (See below.) Welp, disapproval of Trump & Dems now at 53 and 63 percent, respectively. They earned it.🤨
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Isn't the point of republican government that we DON'T have to kiss the damn ring? Enough of this shit.
h/t: @TexHellCat cc: @ChaseForLiberty
Andrew Jackson, the populist, attacked the judiciary: “Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
Trump, the populist, attacked those who said things he didn’t like:
“So, you know what I did? I fired her.”
It’s July 2, arguably the real #IndependenceDay. Hoping Congress can finally assert its Article 1 powers, think independently, and blunt executive excess. My column…
h/t: @RiponPress @JonahDispatch
cc: @KoliMitra @KevinWilsonROC
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There were tons of victims in this particular raid, by the way. Here are just a few of them. I highlighted the one that increases my blood pressure the most (a high bar).
A reminder that the FBI violated a warrant to do this. This is the kind of thing that can really ruin lives.
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This story is insane. The FBI violated a warrant & took an innocent woman’s life savings. They never told her why—because they don’t have to.
She sued to stop that. Her case was thrown out last week. So the feds can keep seizing people’s property without charges or explanation.
The FBI took her $40,000 without explaining why. She fought back—and lost. reason.com/2025/07/28/the-fb…
Hoo, boy. It’s #RussiaGate vs. #ReleaseEpsteinFiles in a battle of “One Side Will Not Be Listening to You.”😑
@ajwimsatt @burner4hire
@ErikN_NJEdition @huntleja
Congress recessed in a cowardly move over #EpsteinFiles while #RussiaGate gets regurgitated for all the partisans.
Sad. Congress and both parties have fully earned their low approval ratings.
More here:
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@nickgillespie @four4thefire
Congress is trending. It’s an ineffective, fetid swamp of performative poltroons that enables executive overreach.
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100% this. Extemporaneous debate is a bad enough way arrive at truth when it’s not obviously lopsided.
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Hey, @grok: With Nancy Pelosi trending, and Trump constantly in the news, wouldn’t this piece on how both of them aligned against the 4th Amendment be of interest?
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I don't normally do this sort of things but I lost one of my oldest and closest friends to suicide last year. We had no idea how much he was suffering and we still don't understand. One of the many facets of it which continues to cause so much pain is how little he shared.
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May I please get two followers to copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. #SuicidePrevention
1-800-273-8255
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