David L. Steelman

country lawyer

[David L. Steelman @DSteelmanLaw]

@HHIDavidson Used to love the Ryder Cup. Now from the overblown analysis to the overdone Ralph Lauren “uniforms” to the overserved crowds etc etc I am pretty well over it.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan has a brutal take on modern politicians: "It's narcissists, psychopaths, and sociopaths that have embedded themselves into the system. They all feed off each other and help each other, and they're all insider trading. When they leave office, they get paid to speak in front of bankers and make a half a million dollars. We're overrun by sociopaths."

[David L. Steelman @DSteelmanLaw]

@HHIDavidson @dandolfa You have been criticizing “free trade” long before it was cool to do so Of course I never figured you and Trump to be in alignment. (And Pat Buchanan years ago)

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

What I feel we are going through now is the Great Unraveling. Every institution feels corrupt and unreliable. Every rock has been upturned and what once was hidden from view is squirming free and poisoning the conversation. Truth is not just elusive but undefined. Trust is dying. The veneer of civilization is not just thin but difficult to reapply. A realignment, a reassessment is inevitable. I just hope it doesn’t get any darker than it is now. But it’s hard to see where the light will come from. In the meanwhile, make your own light. Dance. Love. Drink good wine. And speak truth to power.

[Brandel Chamblee @chambleebrandel]

They couldn’t debate him, so they shot him.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Palm Beach realtor of the year…

[David L. Steelman @DSteelmanLaw]

@HHIDavidson Have we lost the capacity to govern, or, have we lost the capacity to be governed? I seriously don’t know.

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Josh Hawley Calls for Repeal of Big Tech Immunity, Cites Dangers of AI https://t.co/yg2Spz46qe

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Time to FULLY repeal Section 230. Open the courtroom doors. Allow the people to SUE the AI companies that take away their rights

[JD Vance @JDVance]

When I see all these senators trying to lecture and "gotcha" Bobby Kennedy today all I can think is:

You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal "therapies" for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of shit and everyone knows it.

[TrueZOU @TrueZOU1839]

Never forget that:

1) Missouri never seceded from the Union.

2) About 5x more Missourians than kansans fought for the Union.

3) The Missouri Tigers are named after a pro-Union militia who successfully defended Columbia from a pro-Confederate militia.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

TRENDING: #NFL fans are saying that Tom Brady and the #Raiders did not draft Shedeur Sanders after Brady said this about quarterbacks.

😳😳😳

“When a quarterback throws a touchdown pass, I actually watch to see who he goes and celebrates with.”

WOW…

[Maggie Johnson @MaggieLJohnson]

In 2019, Mizzou received:

• Postseason ban across football, baseball, and softball
• 5% scholarship reduction
• Recruiting restrictions
• A fine of $5,000 + 1% of the budget from each sport
• Vacated wins
• Three years probation

For a tutor blackmailing a school for something she did in 2016...

[Phillip Arnzen @PhillipArnzen]

Never forget the @NCAA is a fraudulent and criminal organization.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

― Thomas Sowell

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

We constantly hear about ever-more hurricanes from climate

Actually, longest and most reliable data from landfalling US hurricanes show *declining* numbers

Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv

https://t.co/ViJgMLkCjg

[David L. Steelman @DSteelmanLaw]

@HHIDavidson @dandolfa @ClaireBerlinski @manavnair29 I don’t do much X anymore but your recents posts have been on point

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries. The statute, and numerous subsequent court decisions, recognized that vaccines, like all medicines, are, in the words of the American Academy of Pediatrics case, “unavoidably unsafe,” and that a percentage of vaccinated children will suffer injuries or death. Congress, therefore, simultaneously created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which obliged HHS to compensate injured children. In the words of then Labor and Public Welfare Committee Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy, “when ... children are the victims of an appropriate and rational national policy, a compassionate [g]overnment will assist them in their hour of need.”

Under the VICP, vaccine victims can petition for compensation to the so-called “Vaccine Court,” which pays out awards from a trust fund endowed by a 75-cent surcharge on every vaccine. Congress intended that injured children be compensated “quickly and fairly” for injuries, “either presumed or proven to be causally connected to vaccines,” with doubts about causation resolved in favor of the victim.

To date, the Vaccine Court has paid out $5.4 billion to 12,000 petitioners. But the VICP no longer functions to achieve its Congressional intent. Instead, the VICP has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption as government lawyers and the Special Masters who serve as Vaccine Court judges prioritize the solvency of the HHS Trust Fund, over their duty to compensate victims.

The structure itself hobbles claimants. The defendant is HHS, not the vaccine makers; and claimants are therefore facing the monumental power and bottomless pockets of the U.S. government represented by the Department of Justice. Furthermore, most of the Special Masters come from government, legal, or political posts, and typically display an extreme bias that favors the government side. There is no discovery, and the rules of evidence do not apply. The government lawyers do not allow children’s attorneys access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a taxpayer-funded CDC surveillance system that houses the best data on vaccine injuries. Attorney compensation is in the hands of notoriously biased Special Masters and often hostile government attorneys, who can leverage this power to turn petitioner attorneys against their clients' interests.

The VICP routinely dismisses meritorious cases outright or drags them out for years. Instead of “quickly and fairly” awarding compensation, Special Masters dismiss over half of the cases. Most of those that proceed typically take 5+ years to resolve, with many languishing for more than 10 years as parents struggle to care for children suffering with often extreme disabilities. Petitioners’ attorneys complain that the Special Masters make punitive downward adjustments to attorneys’ fees and medical expert fees to punish effective advocacy. Expert witnesses for injured children complain that they suffer intimidation and even threats that they will lose professional status or NIH funding if they testify for injured children. The government pays its own medical expert witnesses promptly while simultaneously slow-walking payments for petitioners’ experts—sometimes for years.

The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals.

I am grateful to be working with @AGPamBondi and HHS staff to fix the VISP.

Together, we will steer the Vaccine Court back to its original Congressional intent.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Terrible look for online sports gambling…

Individual States are poorly run by Governors and State Houses with very little financial acumen. So they run deficits or miss allocate capital and then turn to simple, superficial ways to generate revenues like sports gambling. Turns out it creates negative societal consequences.

In that way, Sports Gambling is equivalent to legalization of marijuana in its corrosiveness to a healthy, well functioning society.