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[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Kid At Baseball Game Unsure Whether Fans Are Cheering For Aiden, Braiden, Cayden, Or Jayden https://t.co/TLe45Mnj7z

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

@LibertyLockPod B L O W B A C K.

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

Here is an aside.

I remember like yesterday when Dr. Paul called me into his personal office in 203 Cannon with a draft of his famous "What If" speech. He had written it in his own hand and he asked me to go over it and clean it up a bit. Not unusual for how he writes: from the heart.

And afterward I spent a good deal of time in his office with a stopwatch making sure he could deliver it under the five minute rule. Shuffling the papers. What do we have to cut. Which paragraph could be spoken a bit faster.

I knew and understood at the time that it was a very special speech. No one as far as I know had ever done such a thing before on the Floor of the House.

It was incredibly innovative and made all the powerful points without being unnecessarily confrontational. It was meant to gain allies, not to punish adversaries.

Because that is how Ron Paul always thought when he was in Congress. The worst of them were not fools to be brought low, but potential allies awaiting the proper argumentation with the application of time.

"They'll come around," he said patiently.

And believe it or not, it worked more often than you might think. Being a fly on the wall as the organizer of his legendary Thursday Congressional Member lunches, I was privy to so many Members who would not dare say so in public but who dropped in for a couple of Gulf Coast shrimp and to tell Rep. Paul how right he was on the Iraq war and Afghanistan and the Fed etc.

The campaigns later on were so important and galvanized the Liberty Movement and sent it worldwide, but the kernel was planted in his unique and generous, kindly approach to even his most odious adversaries.

"What did Ron Paul ever achieve in Congress???" - they demand.

Well, he changed the world. How's that?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Senator Rand Paul says the real reason for the TikTok Ban was censorship

🚨 He EXPOSES TikTok even offered to have an American Board and host its data right here in the United States and was DECLINED

“I do believe that banning a social media app like TikTok is a violation of the First Amendment”

“Very disappointed. 170 million Americans expressed themselves on TikTok on a daily basis, and it's just wrong for the government to ban it.”

“They've actually offered through our foreign investment committee that oversees foreign investments, they've offered to have the data here.
They've offered to work with Oracle to house the data in the United States. They've offered to have an American board.”

“In fact, it's misreported that it's a Chinese company to begin with. It's owned 60% of the company. It's owned by international investors.”

If the TikTok Ban was really about data security Congress could have just passed new data laws. It was always about censorship.

[Christopher Skelly @Skelly4Liberty]

As usual, @RepThomasMassie was right about the TikTok Ban.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@IngrahamAngle You think my vote was unpopular back home? I’m getting lots of positive feedback from constituents who know how horrible Mike Johnson has been on spending, foreign aid, and domestic spying.

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

Order up! 🍔

We've acquired INF Jake Burger from the Miami Marlins in exchange for minor leaguers INF Max Acosta, INF Echedry Vargas and LHP Brayan Mendoza.

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

.@Whataburger you're gonna love the new guy. 🍔

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

🎯

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

New Hampshire police department statement on fireworks:

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

The 11th player in Rangers history to hit for the cycle. #StraightUpTX

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

For those who don't understand what Chevron Deference is, and why SCOTUS ended it, here's the long and short of it:

A family fishing company, Loper Bright Enterprises, was being driven out of business, because they couldn't afford the $700 per day they were being charged by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor their company.

The thing is, federal law doesn't authorize NMFS to charge businesses for this. They just decided to start doing it in 2013.

Why did they think they could away with just charging people without any legal authorization?

Because in 1984, in the Chevron decision, the Supreme Court decided that regulatory agencies were the "experts" in their field, and the courts should just defer to their "interpretation" of the law.

So for the past 40 years, federal agencies have been able to "interpret" laws to mean whatever they want, and the courts had to just go with it.

It was called Chevron Deference, and it put bureaucrats in charge of the country.

It's how the OHSA was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab, or be fired.

No law gave them that authority, they just made it up.

It's how the ATF was able to decide a piece of plastic was a "machine gun".

It's how the NCRS was able to decide that a small puddle was a "protected wetlands".

It's how out-of-control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air, and force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them, because they were the "experts".

Imagine if your local police could just arrest you, for any reason, and no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you'd actually committed a crime or not. Just off to jail you go.

That's what Chevron Deference was.

It was not only blatantly unconstitutional, it caused immeasurable harm to everyone.

Thankfully, it's now gone.

We haven't even begun to feel the effects of this decision in the courts. It will be used, for years to come, to roll back federal agencies, and we'll all be better of for it.

And that's why politicians and corporate media are freaking out about it.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

@RepThomasMassie You did well today.
We’ve ratioed Dan Crenshaw in your honor.

[FanDuel Sports Network Southwest @FanDuelSN_SW]

It's officially baseball season now

[Larry The Cable Guy @GitRDoneLarry]

This sounds like a scam to me. NBC is saying the only way you’ll be able to watch the next solar eclipse is by live streaming it on the Peacock Network.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

The greatest liberty litmus test of politicians in our lifetime was COVID.

90% of those in power failed, including Trump. Trump gave us an experimental vaccine at warp speed and shut down our economy even quicker.

Desantis is among the 10% who passed. In fact, he aced it.

[Roger Clemens @rogerclemens]

This is legendary

[National Debt Tweets @NationalDebt]

$33,704,351,344,292.03 (+) #NationalDebt

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Congratulations to the @Rangers on their first World Series title in the franchise’s 63-year history! It’s always good to see players & coaches give God the glory for the opportunities they’ve been given. @CoachTBeasley the Ranger’s third base coach said, "Anyone that interviews me or gives me an opportunity to speak, God's going to receive the glory.” I appreciate that the team’s star rookie outfielder Evan Carter & third baseman @Josh6Jung are also vocal about their faith in Jesus Christ.