Ashlee Jessen

Apolitical turned Libertarian b/c covid restrictions. Here to learn about Libertarianism, Bitcoin, and data that contradicts the narrative. Team Neanderthal.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Are you paying attention yet?

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[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Harvard circa 1700s:

"No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon."

Harvard circa 2026:

"We can't assign whole novels anymore."

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

"this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families" - first, this is not true. second, people have had families for all of human history without "services." third, every european country with better "services" has fewer children.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

This Middle Ages bullshit is a cancer on the planet👇👇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Mooné Rahimi @hiitsmemooneh]

As someone born and raised in an Islamic country (Iran), everything this mayor of New York says is the same thing the 1979 mullahs in Iran started saying to manipulate people, stay in power, and turn that great country into a ruined, destroyed one. For all these years, Iranians have been trying to get rid of them, but they killed us to silence our voices. Be careful, Americans, of these people!

#JavidShah

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Europe now admits it made a strategic mistake:
Abandoning nuclear.

Now it must face the next one:
Agricultural degrowth.

First energy security.
Next food security.

History repeats itself when ideology replaces science.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Milton Friedman: “Government is too big. Its programs are not working. It’s doing far more harm than good. We don’t need any additional government programs.”

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Mostly peaceful IEDs

[rectaprovincia @rectaprovincia]

Qué infantil, todos los padres y madres abandonan "sueños" por criarnos. Mi papá nunca tuvo derecho a "sueños", él se levantaba todos los días,lloviera,tronara o hicieran 35 grados, se duchaba,se afeitaba y salía a poner el hombro y ganarse el pan para sus hijas, sin llorar.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

When he won his Nobel prize, Al Gore said the Arctic summer may be ice-free by 2014.

Later he said it was LIKELY by 2016.

Those dates came and went. There's still LOTS of ice.

Turns out alarmists' predictions are alarmist.

But they grab headlines.

We debunk here:

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

The bottom 10% make our lives infinitely worse than the top 1%

[Governor Tate Reeves @tatereeves]

This seems like a good time to remind you that a black student in Mississippi is 2.5X more likely to read proficiently by 4th grade than if he or she lived in California. We would be happy to send one of our reading coaches to assist you, @GavinNewsom. Learning is a lifelong journey, and you might achieve some of the gains that our black fourth graders have.

Incidentally, one nice feature of increased literacy is that you do not have to fall back on vulgarity to seem passionate.
Let me know!

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

If you want to create a generation that likes walkable cities you have to actually make a city that's safe for kids to walk around without constant supervision and none of these solutions do that.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Suddenly there are two genders again

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Stefan and ~6,000 other “scientists” allegedly concerned about “fossil fuel pollution” flew hundreds to thousands of kilometers on fossil-fuel burning airplanes to Scotland instead of holding the conference on a Zoom call using a “large meeting license.”

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

If you repeatedly tell people they can't have the basic requirements of the good life, such as "not being murdered by drug gangs", because that's fascism...

Then pretty soon they will conclude that fascism is the way to get those things, and it sounds like an excellent idea.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

"The science doesn’t seem so settled after all, and it’s important to understand what happened here. The approach of left-of-center Americans and our institutions — to assume that when a scientific organization releases a 'policy statement' on a hot-button issue, that the policy statement must be accurate — is a deeply naïve understanding of science, human nature and politics, and how they intersect," writes @JesseSingal for @NYTOpinion.

GIFT LINK: https://t.co/EM3f4S7ZY5

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

Hot? Climate change.
Cold? Climate change.
Wet? Climate change.
Dry? Climate change.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

You can only argue that putting men in women's prisons is "human rights" if you think that women are sub-human.