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[Mdryall @mdryall]

@seanmdav Air bnb

[Mdryall @mdryall]

@Lord_Mark8 @GlobalBoxOffice Literally LOLed

[Mdryall @mdryall]

Why States Are Right to Reject AI Legal Personhood https://t.co/gTZNOpO96c via @epochtimes

A new op ed by Siri Terjesen and me.

[Mdryall @mdryall]

@SocratesTheChad @Reuters "The Pope is always right" isn't what Catholics believe if they know Church doctrine. Fine to criticise if you know wtf you're talking about.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[Mdryall @mdryall]

Trump’s Incentive Alignment Doctrine: A Businessman’s Fix for Failed Foreign Policy https://t.co/bTFgdi0U9Y via @epochtimes

[Siri Terjesen @siriterjesen]

So blessed to live in Florida😎where @GovRonDeSantis & our legislature are fiscally responsible, in stark contrast to California's $12B (& growing) budget deficit and a proposed billionaire tax of 5%. Thanks @EpochTimes for publishing my @EpochOpinion with @mdryall 🔗⬇️

[Mdryall @mdryall]

@DrClownPhD I'm so happy to be paying higher energy costs for this!

[Mdryall @mdryall]

@mark_k @SpaceX https://t.co/NMZkviIWsg

Just saying ...

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

Tonight in Toronto as children try to sleep, antisemites are harassing a Jewish neighborhood.

Police were called and said that there was nothing they could do about it.

No one can say that 'this isn't Canada', because after 2 years of hate, this is exactly what Canada has become.

@oliviachow @TPSMyronDemkiw @TeamKerzner @MarkJCarney

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

🔴 Reportedly Pounak, Tehran, now.

I'm asking every major account to please amplify optimistic messages and news, as a counterbalance to only doomsday casualty news.

People are out and fighting for their lives.

Don't scare them into going home.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

NO ROOM AT THE INN!

@HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.

When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.

This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Slotkin,

I've been waiting for your take on Venezuela. When it comes to regime change, few institutions have a longer and more educational record of failure than the CIA, so your opposition is as reassuring as Jim Cramer's stock picks.

Congratulations on reciting the roll call of countries your own institutions helped ruin. Treating that history as a rhetorical shield doesn't grant you credibility, it just advertises a refusal to learn from it. Now let me explain why Venezuela does not belong in your grab bag of "long-term engagements."

Most of the countries you list were a result of a worldview that any non-democracy is a threat to the stability of the post-Cold War world order.

🔹 Iraq: My book documents how your side eagerly supported the operations, until Iraq turned into a quagmire, and then instead of taking responsibility, the global liberal order threw America under the bus and blamed a lack of "multilateralism."
🔹 Somalia: The United Nations 1993 resolution lists the goal of the Somalian intervention as "recreating a Somali State based on democratic governance and rehabilitating the country's economy and infrastructure."
🔹 Syria: Obama himself celebrated Syria's "peaceful transition to democracy" in the Arab Spring and we all know how that turned out.

Beyond that, the common thread is: you imposed pro-Western views on a non-Western world. You haven't learned from that, because you are still doing that in virtually every country in the world - except over the decades, your meaning of "Western" has morphed to something like "Communism."

The "long-term engagement" framing is a dodge. You've never been afraid of long-term engagements. See: all your chest-beating about Ukraine.

The real question is far darker: if you believe in democracy, why aren't you celebrating the removal of a dictator from the single easiest country on earth to transition back to it?

Venezuela is not Somalia. It has borders, institutions, a literate population, a unified national identity, and a recent democratic memory. Trump just demonstrated how little force was required to remove a narco-state that survived only on inertia.

You are one of these people who idolize democracy, chant "threat to democracy" like it is a holy hymn, who buy into Open Society ideals. And yet, when an actual dictator is removed, your response is anger.

Why?

Because at some point, Venezuelan people became expendable in service of a larger abstraction you call "stability" of the liberal democratic order.

Maduro's Venezuela was useful. It was predictable. It gave BRICS a foothold in the hemisphere, kept drug flows legible and quantifiable, and weakened an increasingly inconvenient United States. It made the region easier to model, easier to manage, easier to explain in policy memos. In short, Maduro made the whole world more legible to you.

A free Venezuela introduces uncertainty. It restores agency to people who were supposed to remain variables.

So now we get lectures about "international law," tantrums from NGOs, and sudden concern for norms that were never extended to the people living under a narco-dictatorship.

We understand the objection. It just isn't the one you say out loud.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Great rant.

I think many are starting to feel this way.

You go girl!

[Siri Terjesen @siriterjesen]

Very key corporate governance reform in public markets. Thanks @CFGfoundation for citing my work w/ @mdryall on double dilution of ownership

[Siri Terjesen @siriterjesen]

“Universities are like⛴️supertankers moving through the ocean: there is enormous momentum behind their present direction, whichever way that might be.” Thanks @NYPost for spotlighting my @ManhattanInst brief w/ @mdryall on fixing #highered @faubusiness https://t.co/8CmvvciXBi

[Florida Atlantic College of Business @faubusiness]

Please join @faubusiness Professor Michael Ryall on Monday, November 4th, at the Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium from 12:30 - 2 pm for his lecture on "Artificial Intelligence and Human Flourishing".

Register here - https://t.co/ZRZmJcklZY

[Siri Terjesen @siriterjesen]

1 in 10 in 🇺🇸 suffer from a rare, terminal disease. The #PromisingPathwayAct will save lives over and above ‘Right to Try’ and ‘Expanded Access’ Thanks @SenatorBraun & @SenGillibrand for co-sponsoring https://t.co/Uz1LvsxaFd via @epochtimes @faubusiness

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Today’s verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved: a leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America—all in an effort to “get” Donald Trump.

That this case—involving alleged misdemeanor business records violations from nearly a decade ago—was even brought is a testament to the political debasement of the justice system in places like New York City. This is especially true considering this same district attorney routinely excuses criminal conduct in a way that has endangered law-abiding citizens in his jurisdiction.

It is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law. If the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would never have been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict.

In America, the rule of law should be applied in a dispassionate, even-handed manner, not become captive to the political agenda of some kangaroo court.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it:

Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data.