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HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.

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Brickbat: Ghost in the Machine https://t.co/r3FLOV4b3F

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For blind veterans, companies such as Meta have stepped up to fill a gap that the government has failed to address.
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"Autonomous adults should be free to decide which substances they consume and which risks they accept. The DEA proposes taking that choice away even as it acknowledges major gaps in the medical evidence. Before the drug police turn more consumers into criminals, they should at least demonstrate how doing so will make those consumers safer."
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Hero Oregon dad showed the importance of defying restrictive gun laws: Laws against guns on school grounds don’t deter murderers and shouldn’t threaten good Samaritans.

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New York mandates composting, but its residents don't like to be told what to do with their garbage—and don't seem all that clear on the rules in the first place.
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A proposed "wealth tax" on California's billionaires could backfire and cost the state tens of billions of dollars in the long run.
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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is running to be the next governor of Georgia against businessman Rick Jackson, who has attacked her for the violence that took place during the summer of COVID.
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If you have to pay a regular fee to maintain control and use of a home or other parcel of property, do you really own it? Or are you just renting it from whoever collects the money?

That's the question behind a growing movement against property taxes.
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For politicians like @SenWarren, there can be no financial gains or losses that aren't the result of shadowy, conspiratorial forces. If her party takes control of the Senate, her words will carry more weight. But it will be American consumers who ultimately shoulder the burden of an even more regulated economy.

Full story: https://t.co/ksIdKYQbTS

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Federal appeals courts recently rejected qualified immunity for cops and a judge who flouted longstanding constitutional principles.
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"The Constitution protects students as individuals, not as members of a racial group. A school district should not be able to defeat a discrimination claim by showing that its policy did not harm enough Asian American children. Every family deserves admissions rules that judge their child on their own merit."
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Social Security's COLA reflects many of the fundamental flaws in America's old-age entitlement program. Like Social Security as a whole, it is too generous to the rich, too costly to the taxpayers, and too unfair to younger, poorer workers.
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Evil Andrew Heaton ‘fixes’ gerrymandering https://t.co/CI8U6Z4oZo

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The Swamp King: The Trump administration's rampant and unprecedented corruption is finally breaking through in polls and conservative media, even if J.D. Vance is still willfully ignorant of it.

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Policymakers nationwide are confronting the unfortunate—and predictable—economic consequences of prohibiting restaurants from paying servers a lower base wage supplemented by tips.
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The Jones Act requires all goods moved between U.S. ports to be carried on American-built, American-crewed ships.
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@pamelacolloff talks with Reason's @billybinion about America's biggest jailhouse snitch, wrongful convictions, and criminal justice https://t.co/IDNUvl6rfS

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Police ravaged an innocent woman's home and destroyed an innocent man's business—and left them with the bill. The Supreme Court declined to hear their cases. https://t.co/hZDH4pdgqM

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"Fauci was wrong about almost every single pandemic policy he advanced," the former FDA insider tells Reason's @TheAbridgedZach. https://t.co/MSxf1N6iH8

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Majorities of both major parties now recognize nuclear power's potential as a more clean and stable energy source.
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