reason.com: These Unusual Egg Alternatives Might Just Get You Through the Egg Shortage -- https://tinyurl.com/27rxpgyj -- The wonders of capitalism make hyper-realistic egg substitutes possible. #liberty #news
reason.com: Marco Rubio Brags About Defending Freedom of Speech While Eagerly Undermining It -- https://tinyurl.com/228emrou -- The secretary of state, who aims to liberate American speech, nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him. #liberty #news
mises.org: Public Unreason: Making Sense of Nicholas Wolterstorff -- https://tinyurl.com/23w3ezh8 -- In Nicholas Wolterstorff‘s Understanding Liberal Democracy, he assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful. #liberty #news
mises.org: Don’t Pay Down the National Debt. Just Stop the Deficit Spending -- https://tinyurl.com/2xs7axnr -- For now, the number one thing we can to do make the federal debt less costly and more manageable is to just stop making it bigger. #liberty #news
reason.com: What Happens When Presidents Defy Court Orders? -- https://tinyurl.com/2bsogt4f -- “The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions.” #liberty #news
mises.org: Tariffs Mean Lost Jobs -- https://tinyurl.com/2dbpkmbp -- The goalposts are continually changing (more like fallacy-hopping), but one would-be goal of tariffs needs to be confronted—tariffs for domestic job protection. #liberty #news
reason.com: Ignoring SCOTUS -- https://tinyurl.com/27ge5gs9 -- Plus: A deep dive into the likelihood of China invading Taiwan, a weak dollar, Kasparov sounds constitutional crisis alarms, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Opponents of Big Government Need to Reverse the "Ratchet Effect" -- https://tinyurl.com/2bohh6xk -- Economist Robert Higgs described the ratchet effect in which government either creates a crisis or responds to one, leading to a permanent expansion of government power. After the crisis ends, government retreats—but not to the point where is was pre-crisis. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Federal Government Is Still on Track for a $2-Trillion-Plus Deficit -- https://tinyurl.com/2yxvqxdo -- It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory into continued $2-trillion-plus annual deficits. #liberty #news
reason.com: In 12 Years, This $40 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in Texas Has Not Laid a Single Foot of Track -- https://tinyurl.com/2btgja55 -- The budget for the project has quadrupled, and private property owners have opposed the use of eminent domain along the proposed 240-mile route. #liberty #news
mises.org: Free Markets, Entrepreneurial Error, and the Nico Iamaleava Saga -- https://tinyurl.com/2dbnremh -- College football has finally experienced an athlete‘s holdout in order to leverage a hoped-for payday. In the case of Nico Iamaleava, he tried to leverage more money from the University of Tennessee but failed spectacularly. There are economic lessons to be learned here. #liberty #news
reason.com: CECOT Forever -- https://tinyurl.com/2yxpgank -- Plus: Israel stopped from striking Iran nuclear sites, Zohran Mamdani wants to soak the rich, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Foreign Student Persecution Imperils any American Who Advocates for Freedom -- https://tinyurl.com/283yr74d -- By trying to deport foreign student Rumeysa Ozturk for simply writing an op-ed in a student paper critical of Israel, the Trump administration and its supporters quickly forget that their actions are part of a slippery slope that imperils free speech in this country. It doesn‘t end here. #liberty #news
reason.com: Tariff Uncertainty Is Stalling the Economy -- https://tinyurl.com/275zyxo8 -- Businesses are reporting fewer orders, lower inventories, less employment, and weaker expectations. The only thing going up: prices. #liberty #news
reason.com: 3 Apocalyptic Climate Change Predictions That Failed To Come True -- https://tinyurl.com/2czg6rqm -- Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it. #liberty #news
reason.com: Federal Judge in Deportation Case Finds Probable Cause To Hold the Trump Administration in Contempt -- https://tinyurl.com/28bjj6dj -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the evidence indicates that the government willfully disobeyed his order blocking removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members. #liberty #news
mises.org: Federal Spending Is Only Going Up: Trump Pushes Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget -- https://tinyurl.com/25bw47me -- It‘s looking more and more like this playbook is following the exact same story that we’ve witnessed during every other Republican administration over the past forty years. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Takes Dangerous Steps Towards Defying Court Orders in Garcia Abrego Case -- https://tinyurl.com/23j934vq -- The Supreme Court ruled they administration must facilitate the return of an illegally deported migrant imprisoned in El Salvador at its behest. They have responded by doing virtually nothing to comply. #liberty #news
reason.com: Political Violence Surges as the Use of Force Becomes Mainstream -- https://tinyurl.com/2dyc3gpp -- Americans, especially on the left, are growing tolerant of using force to achieve ideological goals. #liberty #news
reason.com: Quinn Slobodian Bastardizes Hayek and Mises -- https://tinyurl.com/26lepuo7 -- A historian tries to tie two classical liberal economists to the racialist right, and scrambles their words in the process. #liberty #news