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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 5h

If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.

The Constitution does not allow the president to unilaterally blow suspected drug smugglers to smithereens

If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 11h

It's not a great state of affairs when the president is calling for the arrest of his political opponents at the same time he's sending the military into the streets.

Of course, in 2025, it feels like just another Wednesday in America's long perambulation toward a militarized police state.

Trump calls for arrest of Chicago mayor and Illinois Gov. Pritzker

As Illinois resists the federal immigration blitz, the Trump administration ups the ante on authoritarian rhetoric.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Whoops—Ohio Accidentally Excludes Most Major Porn Platforms From Anti-Porn Law

File this under “lawmakers trying to regulate tech and the internet without understanding tech and the internet."

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Whoops—Ohio accidentally excludes most major porn platforms from anti-porn law

Ohio lawmakers set out to block minors from viewing online porn. They messed up.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 17h

The federal government can't even pass a budget. What's it doing buying a mine?

Republican socialism: The Trump administration buys a stake in yet another company

Trilogy Metals will receive a $35.6 million "investment," and the federal government will now own a 10 percent stake in the company.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 1d

This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.

Trump sued—again—for unlawful and unconstitutional deployment of National Guard

This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

Latest: I have a feature story charting the brief but insane history of Florida’s Everglades detention camp reason.com/2025/10/07/a...

Alligator Alcatraz was built on secrecy, expansive emergency powers, and an unprecedented state power grab

Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 1d

Alligator Alcatraz may have succeeded as a headline-generating spectacle and show of force, but it's been a wildly expensive big-government failure in every other respect.

Alligator Alcatraz was built on secrecy, expansive emergency powers, and an unprecedented state power grab

Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 2d

I've got the cover story on the latest issue of @reason.com. It's about how culture war legislation on everything from library books to lab-grown meat is feeding the police state reason.com/2025/10/06/c...

Texas and Florida have become national models for using the police state to wage culture war battles

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 1d

Politicians have long wanted to erode Americans' right to vote with their wallets, and they've used boycotts of Israel as a test case to introduce wide-ranging anti-boycott laws.

The U.S. government doesn't want you to read this report on Israel's business deals

The report submitted to the U.N. details how Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories has evolved into an “economy of genocide.”

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 2d

Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles, fueled by false memories and made-for-TV outrage.

Trump’s troops return to a city that moved on: Dispatch from Portland

Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 2d

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

Texas and Florida have become national models for using the police state to wage culture war battles

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 5d

One glaring error I noticed in the new Kamala Harris book is her claim that 350 transgender people, including 15 trans kids, were murdered in America in 2024

I read that and immediately knew that could not be right. And it's not right
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In '107 Days,' Kamala Harris unleashes criticism on Biden. Honestly, it's relatable.

The book offers ample reminders of what people find irritating about Harris. But she also comes across as relatable and even, occasionally, amusing.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 2d

The U.S. government's attempts to stop this report from being published make it especially worth reading.

The U.S. government doesn't want you to read this report on Israel's business deals

The report submitted to the U.N. details how Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories has evolved into an “economy of genocide.”

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 3d

The Bush and Obama administrations tried something similar with alleged terrorists. But in that case, Congress had authorized military action against Al Qaeda and its allies.

In this case, by contrast, there is no such congressional authorization.

Defending the summary execution of suspected drug smugglers, Trump declares an 'armed conflict'

The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.

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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 6d

This is insane. DHS agents tackled an American citizen & held him for an hour because, according to his suit, they thought his ID was fake. Three weeks later, he was detained *again.* No one who cares about responsible government should be OK this kind of harassment. reason.com/2025/10/01/i...

ICE arrested a U.S. citizen—twice—during Alabama construction site raids. Now he's suing.

'I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,' says Leo Garcia Venegas, in a lawsuit challenging ICE raids on construction sites.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 4d

Under pressure from Trump's DOJ, Apple just removed crowdsourcing apps used to alert users about federal immigration activity in their area from the app store.
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Apple removed ICEBlock from app store under DOJ pressure

“This is protected speech,” said the app’s creator. “We are determined to fight this with everything we have."

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 5d

The Trump administration is apparently canceling clean energy grants only from blue states.

Ironically, most of that money went to red states.

Trump to cancel Biden-era green energy grants, but only for blue states

The president would be justified in wanting to rescind all state grants. Instead, he's apparently letting states that voted for him keep the cash.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 6d

It's no secret that I am no fan of Kamala Harris. But her new book was made bearable by its hilarious undercurrent of disappointment in, disbelief at, and sometimes barely concealed rage about Joe Biden

In '107 Days,' Kamala Harris unleashes criticism on Biden. Honestly, it's relatable.

The book offers ample reminders of what people find irritating about Harris. But she also comes across as relatable and even, occasionally, amusing.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 5d

Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.

Turning the government shutdown into a fight about the filibuster is a terrible idea

Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 6d

Will we get the version of John Roberts that's more likely to defer to Trump or the one that's more likely to curtail Trump? Which one of Roberts's judicial multitudes will step to the fore?

After 20 years as Chief Justice, John Roberts is now friend and foe to executive power

Roberts has now been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court for 20 years. His record reveals an uneven judicial philosophy.

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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 7d

She sued Biden for violating the First Amendment—in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Now she’s gearing up to sue Trump for...the same thing.

I spoke with Jenin Younes about why free speech shouldn’t be partisan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP1A...

Defend Speech Even When Your Side Hates It

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 6d

An Alabama construction worker is challenging the Trump administration's warrantless construction site raids after he says he was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents—twice—despite being a U.S. citizen with a valid ID in his pocket.

ICE arrested a U.S. citizen—twice—during Alabama construction site raids. Now he's suing.

'I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,' says Leo Garcia Venegas, in a lawsuit challenging ICE raids on construction sites.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Been a while since I did a post just tearing apart absurd anti-tech screeds & Gen Z panicmongering, so let's go!

Today's newsletter is a 3-for-1 rant about romanticizing the past and pathologizing the present...

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Can we please stop romanticizing pre-smartphone life?

A lot of anti-tech screeds only work by romanticizing the past while pathologizing the present and projecting damage on strangers.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Coming up tonight in DC! (Sadly, I will not be there) www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...

(Friends, students, & interns — DM me for a discount code if you’re interested!)

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 6d

This latest effort at undermining the viability of the government's watchdogs suggests the Trump administration is less interested in draining the swamp than in pushing aside people who might sound the alarm about corruption.

The White House just defunded a federal watchdog

As the federal government entered a shutdown on Wednesday, the website for a key federal watchdog also went dark.