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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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Tom Caestecker
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Tom Caestecker
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Advocate to #EndQualifiedImmunity & #EndForfeiture. Former wine rep partaking in tequila and social criticism. Your ( ) team sucks.
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Today, we are doing something a bit different for dedication day. We will be showing sports logos and you tell us the first player you think of when you see that logo. Can be the most random player or the most popular. That’s what makes these fun
We start off with the Expos
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@David_J_Bier ICE is a big-government, police-state organization, but many who consider themselves “small government” are cheering for these thugs, because they see LA progressives protesting.
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"ICE say they weren't chasing him." Um, it admits that it was conducting one of its illegal sweeps, so... yes, they were indiscriminately targeting Hispanic people in the area. Show some remorse, you obtuse anti-American gang.
Kevin Dalton@TheKevinDalton
Anti-ICE activists are protesting at the Monrovia, California Home Depot where a suspected illegal immigrant ran onto the freeway and was run over and killed during an immigration raid. Protesters are demanding an end to the raids. ICE say they weren't chasing him.
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My photo kissing a nuclear waste cask went viral and people had… opinions about it.
There was outrage, with many claiming it was dangerous and that I was hurting my future children (lol).
Here’s why kissing a nuclear waste cask is actually fine🧵
isabelle 🪐@isabelleboemeke
I kissed a cask (of nuclear waste) and I liked it.
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@allie__voss Americans, and the accused, deserve the Rule of Law. And I care about this precept far more than law and order.
h/t: @BoomertarianN cc: @kmele
@mcmoynihan @burner4hire
Tom Caestecker@tomcaestecker
@camiloreports Like Free Speech, it’s too bad that partisans view #DueProcess is only for those associated with *their* team.
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@bluegeorgia @ajwimsatt @RealTimers @billmaher @dianemgoldstein @BrianV1981 Which is why the aggrandized executive power of today is worrisome. And Congress dithers with its tiresome theatrics.
Tom Caestecker@tomcaestecker
@ajwimsatt @BoomertarianN @RealTimers @nickgillespie @four4thefire Congress is trending. It’s an ineffective, fetid swamp of performative poltroons that enables executive overreach. riponpress.com/editorial/edit…
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@bluegeorgia @ajwimsatt @RealTimers @billmaher @dianemgoldstein @BrianV1981
George Will bestows a sledgehammer phrase from James Madison on Bill Maher: “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.”
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Bill Maher: "You spent your whole life talking about how government tries to do too much, which it does, and spends too much. And here you have Trump... and then the other side, you have the guy running in New York, Mamdani, who's a straight-up communist."
George Will: "I want him to win. I think every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again."
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@rmash1776 @RepThomasMassie @ladylibertyaus This has to be parody. Either that, or it’s this bad for you:
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@RepThomasMassie @ladylibertyaus The ramin headed asshole votes against my president Trump every time
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@DanielleKaatz Also: I share Andre Dawson’s frustration with Joe West, lmao 😜
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@DanielleKaatz If you’re a fan — as I am — every umpire has crossed you at some point.
(Doug Harvey is in the HOF, and his strike calls on 1-0 pitches to Ryne Sandberg in the 9th and 10th innings on 6/23/1984 were horseshit.)
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I’m so tired of all the worthless pieces of shit that always appear in the comments of threads like this. I don’t really think the gender that brought us Angel Hernandez, CB Bucknor or Joe West has any right to complain or whine.
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@bluegeorgia @CharlesShort Tbf, both of you made a good point.
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@CharlesShort Weird take but, by his own admission, George Will didn't leave the Republican party. The party left him.
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Bill Maher: "The tariffs, that's not really something the president is allowed to do unilaterally."
George Will: "No. A constitutionally enumerated power of Congress is to regulate trade with foreign nations. Congress, in its absent minded way, has now become a spectator of government... I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me."
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@brad_polumbo Kinda glad I missed most of the initial, overwrought hubbub about Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad. But Brad is onto something, in that numerous outlets/influencers were puritanical and scoldy.
At the end of the day, this story has legs for *one* reason: Sydney Sweeney is hot.
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This. Is. Not. True.
MILLIONS of progressives on social media were and are genuinely outraged over the Sydney Sweeney ad.
Open TikTok!
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski
Fox and monetized right-wing clickbait accounts did two weeks of content on a made up hoax about phantom libs outraged about Sweeney’s jeans ad. They’ll be back next week with another one to feed into the Fake Outrage Machine for the cult. What a sad, pathetic existence.
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@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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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
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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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@DailyRandomCub Andre Dawson emptying the bat rack in the direction of Joe West, followed by Rob Dibble throwing the ball at Doug Dascenzo.
(Dawson’s check to the league office read, “donation to the blind” in the memo section.)
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@C__Herridge @FBIDirectorKash @carterwpage @kennethmulvena @BoomertarianN @four4thefire @GrandTurion
And, FISA abuse and shenanigans are bipartisan. #WednesdayWisdom
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The Ripon Press editorial argues that post-9/11 laws like the Patriot Act and FISA Section 702 have eroded Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. It highlights expanded surveillance powers, warrantless domestic spying, and indefinite detentions under Bush and Obama, urging reversal to restore "reasonableness" standards. Recent NDAA amendments offer hope for reform.
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.@FBIDirectorKash broke open 2016 election FISA abuse scandal
Strategic media leaks were used by FBI, DOJ to amplify collusion narrative + help secure surveillance warrant @carterwpage
I was among the first to report on the Nunes FISA Abuse memo.
This copy with my notes from IG Horowitz 2019 report has aged well.
FBI Director Kash Patel@FBIDirectorKash
In 2017/18, I proved the Steele Dossier was fictitious intelligence, weaponized by corrupt FBI officials to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully spy on then presidential candidate Trump’s campaign- all paid for by his opponent. The media called me a liar. Now I’m the FBI Director: We just uncovered burn bags/room filled with hidden Russia Gate files, including the Durham annex, and declassified them. Once again, I released the prior FBI’s own documents and exposed the truth. The same media is calling me a liar again. Maybe this FBI will release more docs directly, from FBI HQ... so we can see who is lying- wouldn't want to deprive the fake news of more bogus Pulitzers. And then… 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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The Ripon Press editorial argues that post-9/11 laws like the Patriot Act and FISA Section 702 have eroded Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. It highlights expanded surveillance powers, warrantless domestic spying, and indefinite detentions under Bush and Obama, urging reversal to restore "reasonableness" standards. Recent NDAA amendments offer hope for reform.
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WATCH: Democrat Senator @JohnFetterman says @realDonaldTrump’s trade war is “going well,” admitting that his party got it wrong on the president’s trade policy.
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