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One of the most gratifying articles I've had the pleasure to "edit." By the great @CharlesCMann, with marvelous illustrations by Joanna Andreasson.
Matt Welch
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Matt Welch
@MattWelch
Editor at large, @Reason. Co-conspirator, @wethefifth (wethefifth.com). Writer, The View Level. Note spelling of last name.
Joined February 2009
- This statement is not remotely true.
- When a news article fulfills your most urgent political desires, and is based 100% on anonymous sources of unstated motivation, be skeptical
- Eric Swalwell has received 0% of the vote in 24 consecutive national polls.
- They say political comedy is dead but Democrats keep trying to explain inflation.
- The new president in his inaugural addressed denounced lies & the manipulation of facts, and vowed to always level with us. Let's hold him to that, shall we?
- We have become a “Papers, please” country just in time for our 250th anniversary.The guy being interrogated in this video is a native-born U.S. citizen. He answered the agents' questions truthfully, and gave them his driver's license. And they still dragged him in and held him for hours. So what? You have to carry a passport or your birth certificate or else
- Investigators also discovered bullets, in his body, shot by a reckless and belligerent intruder who illegally entered his property.DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting bit.ly/2D2fd0u
- Fuck it, just fight.
- The Conservative Hoax Machine tried to smear Dr. Anthony Fauci as a sex criminal. But then the alleged victim recanted, saying that Jacob Wohl had "charmed me into taking money to do this." @NancyRomm has the goods.
- Banning menthol cigarettes and paying off affluent kids' student loans during a stagflationary period is a choice.
- "I served with him for a decade, and I saw what he is. He's not a trustworthy person," @JustinAmash said, about Kevin McCarthy. "He'll do whatever it takes to maintain power....He's a compulsive liar. Always has been."
- "He shrunk government," says Gov. Kristi Noem, speaking about Donald Trump. The government is nearly $1 trillion larger on an annual basis than it was when he took office. Trump did not reduce, let alone shrink, government.
