@jack_g_nicastro Avatar @jack_g_nicastro Jack Nicastro

Jack Nicastro posts on X about tariffs, donald trump, trade, ai the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence finance 33.33% countries 10.78% technology brands 5.88% travel destinations 3.92% stocks 2.94% nfl 1.96% celebrities 0.98% automotive brands 0.98%

Social topic influence tariffs #1161, donald trump 5.88%, trade 4.9%, ai 4.9%, education 3.92%, new york city 3.92%, strike 2.94%, the first 2.94%, zohran mamdani 2.94%, new york 2.94%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @reason @pgunigantiat @ericboehm87 @dominicjpino @mex_libertario @greenplusane @cremieuxrecueil @jakesherman @sfliberty @gailaslater @micsolana @justzuckerman @natdowzicky @jimepstein @cesarbaezc @blsgovs @leilafadelwhose @upfirst @adp @polymarket

Top assets mentioned Ferguson plc (FERG) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Noble Corporation (NE) StubHub Holdings, Inc. (STUB)

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"FTC letter to Tim Cook slams Apple News for not promoting right-wing media Chairman Andrew Ferguson continues the Federal Trade Commissions crusade against free speech with an official letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"DOJs antitrust chief resigns amid accusations of corruption among top officials Gail Slater resigned from her position as Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division after butting heads with Attorney General Pam Bondi over merger enforcement"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The private sector handles hunger better than Mamdani could Polymarkets pop-up grocery and Kalshis food money giveaways are the latest examples in New Yorks decades-long history of food charity"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Judge lets Blade Runner [----] copyright suit against Elon Musk Tesla move forward The ruling makes it less likely for copyright suits involving generative AI to be dismissed discouraging use of the technology with the specter of costly legal fees"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Poll shows [--] of Americans think Trump's tariffs hurt the economy A new poll finds that even white men without college degrees a key voting constituency for Trump dont approve of the presidents handling of the economy"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Down with anarcho tyranny. Property crime must not be tolerated. wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"House vote clears path to challenge Trumps Canada tariffs Three Republicans defected to vote down a procedural rule that would have made it impossible to vote on Trumps tariffs until August"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I find myself once again begging antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission to stay in their lane far away from constitutionally protected speech. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants Apple News to practice affirmative action for conservative media. https://t.co/5woPt1THCK Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants Apple News to practice affirmative action for conservative media. https://t.co/5woPt1THCK"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"San Francisco teachers make $79468 for [---] days of work strike for more The United Educators of San Francisco went on strike on Monday shutting down the district's [---] schools and robbing [-----] children of their education"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Washington built big health care. Now it wants to break it up. The Break Up Big Medicine Act makes no mention of the laws and government programs responsible for consolidation of the health care industry"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Total victory for American capitalism. 🗽💲 France is investing $30000000 in this new ai initiative Thats how much Google will spend in [--] minutes. No joke. Every [--] minutes Google will spend $30 million on capex this year. One company. France is investing $30000000 in this new ai initiative Thats how much Google will spend in [--] minutes. No joke. Every [--] minutes Google will spend $30 million on capex this year. One company"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @GreenPlusAnE:"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"🦅🗽 This is the most pro-US hegemony over the western hemisphere message imaginable. This is the most pro-US hegemony over the western hemisphere message imaginable"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Fully credentialed K12 teachers in their first year of employment make $79468.for only [---] days of work. This means that a junior San Francisco schoolteacher makes $432 per day$77 dollars more than the median per capita income in SF. Read on: https://reason.com/2026/02/09/san-francisco-public-schoolteachers-make-79468-for-184-days-of-work-now-theyre-striking-for-even-more/utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_brand&utm_content=autoshare&utm_term=post The United Educators of San Francisco went on strike on Monday shutting down [---] schools and robbing [-----] children of their"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @EricBoehm87: This becomes even more amazing when you remember that Switzerland does not have a prime minister If Biden was saying stu"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I am pleased to report that Congress is finally beginning to do its job re: tariffs. House Republicans have been tying the chambers hands behind its back for a year with arcane procedural rules that prevent it from hearing votes to terminate the president's tariff emergency orders. No more Now Republican representatives will have to go on the record and vote to perpetuate these cockamamie national "emergencies" their corresponding tariffs and all the negative economic consequences resulting from them. Following the Houses failure to pass a procedural rule preventing a vote on Trumps tariff"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"RT @EricBoehm87: The House will vote tomorrow on a resolution to terminate Trump's IEEPA tariffs on Canadian imports. For the first time"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"RT @cremieuxrecueil: I actually do not think Boomers deserve luxury communism in return for their votes"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @JakeSherman: the measure passed"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"RT @sfliberty:"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Based. Went straight to the source. The Constitution is clear. Article I Section [--] gives Congress authority over taxes and tariffs. https://t.co/TE5RHH0J1r Went straight to the source. The Constitution is clear. Article I Section [--] gives Congress authority over taxes and tariffs. https://t.co/TE5RHH0J1r"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It appears @gailaslater was pushed out of her role as head of DOJ's Antitrust Division for her stalwart commitment to her populist antitrust agenda and her admirable refusal to kowtow to lobbyists. While I disagree with her antitrust philosophy I respect her commitment to the rule of law the institution of the Antitrust Division and her genuinely held values. Slater was a noble lion that I was proud to hunt. (Coriolanus 1.1.250) Read all about it: https://reason.com/2026/02/13/dojs-antitrust-chief-resigns-amid-accusations-of-corruption-among-top-officials/"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

""Under the Antitrust laws a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business no matter what he does.If he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'"Ayn Rand The Objectivist Newsletter (January 1962) https://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/antitrust_laws.html The"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @micsolana: this is what every communist country becomes. its never a real eradication of status and wealth because were human and th"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"https://reason.com/2026/02/13/trumps-ftc-chairman-sends-a-threatening-letter-to-apple-for-not-promoting-enough-conservative-media/ I find myself once again begging antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission to stay in their lane far away from constitutionally protected speech. https://reason.com/2026/02/13/trumps-ftc-chairman-sends-a-threatening-letter-to-apple-for-not-promoting-enough-conservative-media/ I find myself once again begging antitrust enforcers at the Federal Trade Commission to stay in their lane far away from constitutionally protected speech"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"AI art in 'Call of Duty' leads Ro Khanna to call for more regulation Khanna's proposal is sweeping: a tax on mass displacement that would throttle technological adoption and slow economic growth"
X Link 2025-11-17T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"U.S. quartz manufacturers want to make kitchen countertops even more expensive Their trade group filed a petition asking the government to impose quotas and a [--] percent tariff on all imported quartz"
X Link 2026-01-15T17:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Washingtons state capital voted against increasing the minimum wage Olympia residents apparently did not learn from Seattles experience that minimum wage hikes do not improve the welfare of the worst off in society"
X Link 2025-11-05T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Trump's [--] percent tariff on chip imports is really an export tax The order imposes duties on China-bound AI chips if chipmakers don't invest in American semiconductor fabrication"
X Link 2026-01-21T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"California AI regulations affect everyone in the U.S. Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained"
X Link 2025-09-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"New York City can't afford Mamdani's campaign promises Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor by promising New Yorkers free programs and services with their own money"
X Link 2025-11-05T02:38Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements

"The White House says Trumps tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. Thats not even close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it Neither"
X Link 2025-09-02T21:22Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements

"Cant afford to visit New York city for Christmas Blame the city government. The city has removed tens of thousands of rooms available to tourists while making it significantly harder to build and expand hotels"
X Link 2025-12-19T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Trump sides with MAGA dynamists over nativists in high-skilled immigration debate The president is alarming the MAGA faithful by saying he wants more high-skilled immigration. But that doesnt mean hes rethinking the rest of his nativism"
X Link 2025-11-15T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"USPS Spent $3 Billion on Its New Partially Electric Truck Fleet Oshkosh Defenses USPS van is thousands of dollars more expensive than the industry standard"
X Link 2025-12-16T23:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"New behind the scenes pics of Jackson Yee decorating his birthday cake🥹 Jackson Yee Studio # #yiyangqianxi #JacksonYee https://t.co/U2EAtzYeQz If antitrust regulators allow the deal to go through consumers stand to benefit from a less expensive NetflixHBO Max bundle"
X Link 2025-12-04T06:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"These small business owners explain how Trump's tariffs are more of an 'existential crisis' than COVID President Donald Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses but more than [---] small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ"
X Link 2025-10-30T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Virginia company joins Supreme Court battle against Trumps tariffs Crutchfield Corporation a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer is supporting challenges to the presidents tariffs"
X Link 2025-10-27T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Live Nation's and Ticketmaster's merger isn't to blame for high pricesyou are Antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department and the FTC have singled out Live Nation as a scapegoat for concertgoers' insatiable appetites"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Meta's victory over the Federal Trade Commission shows the market moves faster than antitrust enforcement The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant"
X Link 2025-11-19T21:03Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements

"Trump threatens NATO members with tariffs paid almost entirely by Americans Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The new USPS electric vehicles cost $22000 more than other electric vans With commercial vehicles readily available cheaper and already used in its fleet why did the USPS commission new ones from Oshkosh Defense"
X Link 2026-01-14T16:16Z [----] followers, 39.5K engagements

"As tariff case heads to the Supreme Court Trump's strongest argument has a fatal flaw The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Federal Reserve defers to Donald Trump by cutting interest rates by [--] points The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate for the third meeting in a row despite elevated inflation"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Trumps lawyer at SCOTUS cites a letter from Madison that says tariffs are taxes During oral argument at the Supreme Court Solicitor General John Sauer cited a letter by James Madison that completely undermines the administrations case that its tariffs are legal"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:45Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements

"House Republicans just voted to give even more tariff power away to Trump House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31"
X Link 2025-09-17T20:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The New Right is embracing Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy worldview When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict what exactly are they conserving"
X Link 2025-09-26T18:19Z [----] followers, 354.4K engagements

"Come to @reason to watch @justzuckerman @Nat_Dowzicky @jimepstein @cesarbaezc and Cody Huff's documentary about D.C.'s elimination of the tipped minimum wage https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/ https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/"
X Link 2024-11-11T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Listen I'm also upset that the shutdown has delayed the release of @BLS_gov's September Employment Situation but it's simply not true that w/o it businesses and policymakers are "flying blind" as @LeilaFadelwhose coverage I appreciatesaid today on @UpFirst 1/4"
X Link 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"For example @ADP uses payroll data from more than 500k companies and 26m employees to publish its National Employment Report (NER) every month. Its September NER published Wednesday found that private sector employment declined by [-----] workers. 2/4 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5"
X Link 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

""Scalpers" are good for the economy. Sorry. Auctions and price discrimination ensure efficient allocation of scarce resources: seats in this case. Oh and concert ticket resale is 2% of Live Nation's revenue and its market share is less than 20% https://reason.com/2025/10/22/live-nations-merger-with-ticketmaster-isnt-responsible-for-high-resale-prices-you-are/ Facing litigation from the FTC Live Nation agrees to further crackdowns on ticket brokers. The fact of the matter is that "scalpers" have plenty of ways to get tickets to those who value them the most. https://t.co/lwVn01Qg5j"
X Link 2025-10-22T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@PGunigantiAT I agree; artists should allow primary ticket sellers to engage in dynamic pricing. But they don't because it's costly to appear greedy in the eyes of fans. Similarly primary ticket sellers don't do so for fear of misguided antitrust action. So scalpers to the rescue"
X Link 2025-10-22T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@PGunigantiAT If the primary ticket sellers (StubHub SeatGeek Ticketmaster) engaged in dynamic pricing they would enjoy greater producer surplus which could be interpreted by antitrust enforcers as evidence of pricing power acquired through illegal anticompetitive conduct"
X Link 2025-10-23T01:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@PGunigantiAT Im glad to hear it. Do you know how antitrust officials weigh diminished consumer surplus when more consumers are served in instances of dynamic pricing For instance with perfect price discrimination CS = [--] but consumers with lower willingness to pay (p=mc) are served"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Gilmore Girls fans must listen: https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb"
X Link 2025-10-23T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I harbor great antipathy for Zohran Mamdanis policy proposals but not quite as much as I do for such braindead illiberalism. Mamdani will be mayor because New Yorkers() will have elected a pinko; immigration restrictionism will not stop this fatal attraction. Only reality. I fully support deporting Zohran Mamdani. Im tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners. Hes not assimilated into our culture. Not with his habits not with his religion and not with his ideology. The federal government should be able to much easier strip https://t.co/VoL6cLKwov I fully support deporting"
X Link 2025-10-26T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Just now learning that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission forced @Polymarket to ban U.S. users in [----]. Excited to see it return (hopefully) before the end of the year. I have some bets I'd like to make"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"One of the greatest ironies of the Trump's IEEPA tariffs is that they're seriously harming the very entities they're purported to "protect": American businesses. Read all about it: (Shout out to @WePayTheTariffs) https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ If the president's tariffs aren't protecting consumers or businesses whom exactly are they protecting https://t.co/g3ZLbF4adr"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Read all about how Trump's IEEPA tariffs have crippled small American businesses here: https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills: https://t.co/LRNp0CCc57 https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills:"
X Link 2025-10-30T21:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

""Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken. I'm sorry to say that my fellow New Yorkers are going to get what they asked for. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6 Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6"
X Link 2025-11-05T02:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"We went from Gipper and Red Dawn in the 80s to this My how the country has fallen The tankies can have my property when they pry it from my cold dead fingers 🗽 Luckily New Yorkers are not a representative of sample of Americans most of whom are red-blooded freedom lovers Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War. AOC embraced him on camera just two minutes before he said this https://t.co/2VynJOL7BK Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Justice Sotomayor just pressed Solicitor General Sauer on why IEEPA's purported tariff power should apply to "importation" and not "exportation"which is explicitly unconstitutional. The lawyers I spoke to on background called it and I wrote about it: https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/"
X Link 2025-11-05T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Italian Americans are truly the most oppressed minority in the U.S. First the Dems attack Columbus Day. Second the Republicans attack Italian pasta. Theres truly no end to the injustice ✊ Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Read all about Trump's bullshit theory of rising beef prices here: https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from Democrats. Now the Republican president is baselessly accusing meat packers of "criminally profiting at the expense of the American People." https://t.co/p98Y6ovcXM https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from"
X Link 2025-11-10T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Rafa_Mangual An armed society is a polite society. New York City is neither"
X Link 2025-11-11T02:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Learned a lot today about the role Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing and Urban Development played in the [----] financial crisis. Holy shit. Helpful links for young ignorant people like myself: [--]. [--]. [--]. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm"
X Link 2025-11-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@1stMETALStriker @reason Sorry. I tried my best. Thanks for watching"
X Link 2025-11-17T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ConservaMuse Can you really still not get behind betting markets JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r"
X Link 2025-11-17T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sarahsteelex @DrSamuelGregg Instead of the positive-sum world in which we really do live (As recognized by classical liberals free marketeers and everyone who has taken and passed an introductory microeconomics course)"
X Link 2025-11-19T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"TFW you're a penniless working-age Zoomer and you realize your tax dollars are funding the lifestyles of rich retirees interest on the debt and straight-up Fourteenth Amendment violations. $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm"
X Link 2025-11-19T19:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I was a philosophical and political anarchist after reading @Michael__Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority but came back to constitutional liberalism after exploring James Buchanan's constitutional public choice literature with @mungowitz. (I think Buchanan presents a persuasive hypothetical social contract argument for how a kind of constitutional republic is what anyone/everyone would stipulate to in the state of nature.) So although my beliefs are the subject of @PerBylund's ire I regard his essay as cogent persuasive and challenging to respond to. I highly recommend reading it My"
X Link 2025-11-20T20:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Huh Would you look at that: Manufacturing employment has been steadily decreasing since "Liberation Day." I guess the president wanted to liberate American manufacturing employees from their jobs Graph created using the seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment data from Table B-1 of the BLS Employment Situation March-September [----]. (Data for September and August = preliminary) Data and links to sources here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTA_rd7j2oFO-RgE8EmKXUauL1yMTbFU0bsSGKWtGbyxbIQX-6Yc-5Jmv_Yba0TwexrEeIPlEOXJSUa/pubhtmlgid=0&single=true"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:43Z [----] followers, 148.3K engagements

"Federalist 51: If Men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place oblige it to control itself"
X Link 2025-11-22T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Noahpinion When the cost of production was higher movies had to be good i.e. expected to do well at the box office to justify investment. Now that the cost of production is so low shitty movies are more likely to be profitable so they're made"
X Link 2025-11-24T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland explain the Baumol effect well in Why Are the Prices So Damn High As other sectors become more efficient the relative cost of slow-growth sectors (such as health care and education) increases. In other words doctors haven't gotten "faster" at healing people so the relative price of their time climbs. (Of course there are rent-seeking reasons that partially explain why the relatively slower productivity growth of the health care and education sectors)"
X Link 2025-11-26T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@quant_____ From my piece: https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/ https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/"
X Link 2025-11-26T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1998 was perhaps the peak of race relations in the United States. I hope we can get back to this in my lifetime. https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This is awesome CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@BilldeBlasio said his expanded Discovery Program effective fall [----] would offer seats at the city's specialized high schools to students "who just missed the test cut-off." The above is the actual difference between the minimum score required for admission to Stuyvesant the most competitive of the specialized high schools through the regular admissions process and through the Discovery Program (pre- and post-Discovery Program expansion) per official NYC DOE data I recently obtained from a Freedom Of Information Law Request. Before the program's expansion the difference was [--] points. Two"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@jacobjamesrich Paging @kmanguward"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Diana_in_Winter @EphieBernstein Absolutely not. Merely sharing the heuristic I use to help myself remember Thanks in advance for reading my work"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Following @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe's reporting for the @ManhattanInst on Somali fraud rings in Minnesota President Donald Trump referred to Somalians as "garbage" said "I don't want them in our country" and terminated the Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. It is true that [--] percent of those charged so far with defrauding Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) benefit Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) benefit and the Federal Child Nutrition Program (FCNP) were of Somali descent. (79/87 of the defendants including Hassan.) This"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Let's start by assuming that every cent of the $302 million disbursed through HSS from 2021-the first six months of [----] were fraudulently acquired and done so solely by Somalis. (Source: The first eight people charged in connection to HSS fraud earned $8.4 million over this time period. (Source: Ibid) Therefore let's assume each HSS fraudster fleeces the program for $1.05 million. $302 million/$1.05 million/fraudster = [---] fraudsters including those [--] already charged. For the sake of the exercise we (uncharitably) assume every single one is of Somali descent. Next let's figure out how many"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The type of care that Hassan claimed to have been administering through the EIDBI program was one-on-one ABA autism therapy (procedure code 97153) facilitated by behavioral technicians. (Source: In Minnesota Medicaid reimburses a maximum amount of $80.68 per hour ($20.17 per [--] minutes) for this kind of autism therapy. (Like HSS EIDBI is a Medicaid benefit.) (Source: The Justice Department alleges that "Hassan submitted claims seeking reimbursement for the maximum number of hours permitted by Medicaid. (Source: The maximum number of hours authorized for Medicaid reimbursement for this"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"78 defendants of Somali descent charged with defrauding HSS EIDBI and FCNP + [---] HSS fraudsters (excluding those eight already charged by the Justice Department) + [--] EIDBI fraud orchestrators (excluding Hassan) + [----] complicit in defrauding EIDBI = [----] fraudsters and colluders of Somali descent. [---] percent of the total population of [-----] Minnesotans of Somali descent. (Source: Even under the most uncharitable assumptions the vast majority of Somali-Minnesotans are not implicated by the HSS EIDBI and FCNP scandals. This should come as no surprise: "The Somali adult (18-54) immigrant"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"So much of the immigrant blame is baseless. Trump blamed illegal immigrants for high housing prices last night; I have a piece coming out today that details the economic ignorance of this claim. SPOILER: The signage of immigration's effect on shelter prices (rent and home prices) is a function of immigrant education level and zoning restrictions. TPUSA hosting a session titled "Immigrants are causing all the problems actually" at their conference now. Led by J6 Capitol occupier and Nick Fuentes friend John Doyle. This is like the leftists who blame white men for their problems just replace"
X Link 2025-12-18T15:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Last Thursday Trump claimed that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is predicted to come in at over 5%. Trump appears to have confused the Atlanta Federal Reserves estimate of annualized Q4 GDP growth which was [---] percent at the time of Trumps Truth Social Post with annual GDP growth. (Fitch Ratings estimated last Thursday that U.S. GDP grew by [---] percent in 2025: the rate around which yearly economic growth has hovered for decades. ) President Donald Trump also celebrated the lowest Trade Deficit since 2009." Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals the misleading nature of this statement. The"
X Link 2026-01-14T15:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Read all about Postal Service's profligate relationship with Oshkosh Defense here: https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for all of society. https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for"
X Link 2026-01-14T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@DominicJPino Is this in inflation-adjusted terms"
X Link 2026-01-21T17:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Feast your eyes on my preferred cover image for my latest piece and check it out here: Thanks to @DominicJPino and @arindube for the inspo* *for the piece not the image. https://reason.com/2026/01/22/the-greenland-fiasco-shows-the-stock-market-is-the-ultimate-check-on-trump/ Americans should thank global financial markets for helping to checkthe president's worst impulses. https://t.co/1bxKTnUGNJ https://reason.com/2026/01/22/the-greenland-fiasco-shows-the-stock-market-is-the-ultimate-check-on-trump/ Americans should thank global financial markets for helping to checkthe president's worst"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The FTC won't give up its crusade against Meta The government insists that Meta has a monopoly. If anything the social media market is fiercely competitive"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The Greenland fiasco shows the stock market is the ultimate check on Trump Economic globalization and financial markets encourage the 'Trump always chickens out' (TACO) cycle. If you like peace thats a good thing"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Trump said his tariffs would reduce the trade deficit and bring back manufacturing. Here's what the data show. These metrics are bad proxies for prosperity but they reveal just how flawed the president's arguments have been"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:25Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements

"D.C. struggles to clear roads of snow despite $7.3 million budget As the district's struggle to clear snow drags on the case for public infrastructure maintenance becomes weaker"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Virginia Democrats advance [--] gun control bills Theyre not getting the whole shall not be infringed part of the U.S. and Virginia constitutions"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The real reason beef costs more: Fewer cows not corporate greed Donald Trump and Peter Navarro are blaming colluding meat-packers for higher prices but Agriculture Department data tell a different story"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:19Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements

"Antitrust killed Amazons iRobot deal. Now a Chinese firm owns Roomba. Regulators warned Amazons iRobot deal would hurt consumers. Instead the Roomba maker collapsed and sold to China"
X Link 2025-12-17T16:15Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements

"Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures are surprisingly libertarian The PayPal and Palantir cofounder warns about the dangers of government overreach and a one-world state in a series of lectures"
X Link 2025-10-14T18:46Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements

"Read all about the FTC's quixotic quest to find a monopoly where none exists The FTC insists on wasting thousands to millions of taxpayer dollars in continuing its doomed antitrust campaign against Meta. https://t.co/qVX61Je2hr The FTC insists on wasting thousands to millions of taxpayer dollars in continuing its doomed antitrust campaign against Meta. https://t.co/qVX61Je2hr"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Had a great time digging into the data on this. To claim that price coordination between meat-packers is responsible for the recent increase in retail beef prices is factually insupportable. Check out my piece if you're into industrial organization antitrust or econ Despite what Donald Trump and Peter Navarro say meat-packers simply aren't to blame for higher beef prices. https://t.co/uHUDpMXzLf Despite what Donald Trump and Peter Navarro say meat-packers simply aren't to blame for higher beef prices. https://t.co/uHUDpMXzLf"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"If you're a Virginian gun owner you need to check out these bills advancing in the state Senate each of which is likely to become law given Democrats' control of both chambers and Gov. Spanberger's hostility to gun rights. "S.B. [---] outlaws 'large capacity ammunition feeding devices' which are merely magazines with a capacity of over [--] rounds.Of the [---] million magazines produced for the commercial market from [----] to [----] [---] million held [--] or more rounds." The standard capacity magazine for many 9mm pistols is [--] rounds. Let that sink in."
X Link 2026-01-30T21:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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