Eric Boehm

Socialism sucks

Instant all-timer here:

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.

Reported by David Goodhue, Miami Herald. "She can be heard screaming as agents attempted to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

So this ends with them making out, right?

Virginia ABC system finally has a fully satisfied customer

How it started / How it's going

The Trump administration finally admits that tariffs raise prices If lowering tariffs makes things cheaper, why stop at coffee?

If reducing tariffs provides relief to consumers who eat bananas and drink coffee, what would removing other tariffs do for American manufacturing or consumers?

Someone at the WH should ponder that.

reason.com/2025/11/14/t...

Life comes at you fast

The Trump administration finally admits that tariffs raise prices If lowering tariffs makes things cheaper, why stop at coffee?

reason.com/2025/11/14/t... @reason.com @ericboehm87.bsky.social

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico

NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico.

Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico.

He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law.

W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

I know this won’t be a popular opinion on here, but Donald Trump is right to finally install an indoor toilet in the White House. It’s appalling that for 200 years the American president has had to crap in a wooden outhouse with flies buzzing around it

Does Bari Weiss prove woke media is collapsing? The Reason editors discuss Paramount's $150 million acquisition of The Free Press and Bari Weiss' promotion to editor-in-chief at CBS News.

We covered it well over a week ago, and were unanimously critical of it, FYI

reason.com/podcast/2025...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

After all those DOGE cuts, federal spending still increased by $300 billion For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, the federal government spent more than $7 trillion and ran a $1.8 trillion deficit.

😑 DOGE for the win! 'Despite the high-profile efforts of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the 2025 federal fiscal year ended with the federal government having spent more money than it did in the previous fiscal year' - via @ericboehm87.bsky.social reason.com/2025/10/10/a...

It's wild how you can just say "no" when the would-be authoritarians tell you to do weird, illegal things

This should become a trend

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives believed participation trophies were a bad idea

Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made?
ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met
DHS: denied

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Independent media!

MAGA economics is losing Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.

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Who won the Battle of Thermopylae

Absolutely love to see it. And I hope this trend catches on in other circumstances too.

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips