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3 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Join me in Delaware this weekend!

I'll be speaking at the Liberty Speaks event this Friday 6/4 along with @MAJTOURE and many other great guests.

Then on Saturday 6/5 I'll be attending the @lpdelaware, followed by a special dinner with Tasha and guests that night.

Links below.
Liberty Speaks: eventbrite.com/e/liberty-spea…
.@lpdelaware Convention: fb.me/e/13CoVgIPG
Dinner with me & Tasha: fb.me/e/3IYOUMF2F

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3 Jun
Puerto Rico is trending, so this is as good a time as any to say that the Jones Act is a travesty and needs to be repealed.
The Jones Act is a protectionist law that requires that goods delivered within the US by boat must use a US-flagged & built ship.

It drives up the cost of living here, especially the islands & Alaska, and makes US goods less competitive in pricing than foreign goods.
It also makes it cheaper to ship things from China & other countries to the US than from one part of the US to another.

Finally, it hurts the environment by making it to expensive to ship things from one coast to another, so freight trains & trucks are used instead.

Repeal it.
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31 May
1,186,000.

That is the number of US military personnel who have died at war.

Today is Memorial Day, a day for us to remember and honor those who have fallen.

Let's truly honor them by ending the wars that are sending more to join them.
For many, this is a day for cookouts, fireworks, vacations and spending time with loved ones.

For some, this is just another day to mourn their lost spouse, parent, child, sibling, friend.

Let's be very clear: the best way to honor them is to stop more families from suffering.
Millions of Americans, some of the best salt-of-the-earth people in this country, swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They join to protect Americans and our freedoms, with promises of financial and educational support.
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30 May
Gentle reminder that the Nazis very strongly approved of FDR's "New Deal" because it was the exact same corporatist command economics that fascists always use.
Official thread for people who want to defend the guy behind the Tuskegee Experiment, Japanese internment, appointing a Klan member to the Supreme Court, sending Jewish refugees back to the holocaust.
Oh also, when the Allies took over North Africa in 1942, Roosevelt kept the Vichy French in power there, who continued to operate concentration camps for another year.
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21 Apr
Over the past year, the city of Baltimore took a chance on ending prosecution of low level crimes such as drug possession, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. This was initially started to lower the prison populations in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
City officials announced they will move forward with making this policy permanent.

Baltimore’s state attorney Marilyn Mosby touted the success of fewer arrests, proven by the crime rate remaining the same with much fewer costs to the taxpayer in enforcement and imprisonment.
Declaring an end to the war on drug users in Baltimore, Mosby said the focus will be on rehabilitating addicts instead of putting them in cages.
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20 Apr
Now that MN police and national guard have proven that protests go much more peacefully without their involvement, maybe they can focus on protecting homeowners and small businesses from looting?

No?
Hmm.
CONTEXT: MN police depts, national guard & homeland security formed "Operation Safety Net" to deal with protests.

After weeks of attacking protesters & reporters, public officials called for OSN to calm down. OSN decided to go home instead, and...the protests have been peaceful.
For days, OSN had been tear gassing, rounding up and arresting protesters and reporters without any charges, and the protests continued to escalate, because that's how people respond to being brutalized.

Now that OSN has stopped, protests have been much calmer thus far.
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26 Mar
The militarization of our police has been accelerated thanks to qualified immunity and war on drugs, and the city of Washington DC is no exception.
DC Police have decided that their "training and expertise" is "paramount" to the rights we all have. Instead of finding probable cause, they just say they will find something.
In a review of 2,000 warrants, 14% were issued without finding probable cause, only invoking their training and experience. About 99% of these "warrants" involved Black suspects.
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