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@realPOTUS2040 @AdamThierer @courtneyatlas @LoganSeacrest
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You should know she runs this account and will make fun of you here too.
@RSI you should know that one of your employees is harrassing ppl on tw.
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The U.K.’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) explains in detail what each category of prohibited content includes—even “[c]ontent which realistically depicts serious violence against a fictional creature.” Such a definition would not only prohibit minors from accessing historical and newsworthy content about wars—but many episodes of SpongeBob (if posted to social media), including but not limited to “No Weenies Allowed.” @senatorshoshana
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.@taylorswift13 SAYS THE WOMAN WHO IS STILL DEAFENINGLY SILENT ON NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM REFORM
Taylor Swift urges everyone to vote: "It's not enough to just want change ... You have to go and make change by voting" abcn.ws/2DowtMF #ElectionDay
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📆 Feb 15: @Renew_Democracy hosts: Virtual Democracy Rally rdi.org/rally with LTC (Ret.) Alex Vindman, @Kasparov63, @PreetBharara, @MilesTaylorUSA
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.@RepMattGaetz’s alternative to the Green New Deal — what he calls the “Green Real Deal” — aims to address climate change by spurring innovation and cutting regulations to speed up clean energy development. dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/k… @cl_kitchens @DailyCaller
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WE SAID "THINK" TANK
NOT "STEAL" TANK
DUDE - Soldier Accused of Stealing Armored Tank Apparently Tweeted During Chase thedailybeast.com/police-nat…
HE'S ALSO AN @RSI FAN!!!!!
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Shoshana runs this account, and will block you here too.
Hey @RSI, very brave and professional for one of your employees to try and talk smack after she blocked me
And it says a lot that she’s mocking people who are begging her to try and take her platform and messaging seriously - laughing in the faces of folks who are terrified
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THANK YOU ALL! Because we now have 20,000 followers, @senatorshoshana will be sent to Costa Rica to play with sloths!!
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no swim on snek
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Not a Fad: Why Shared Bikes, Scooters Beat Taking the Bus aier.org/article/not-fad-why… @NickZaiac @aier #cities #urbanism
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NEVER, EVER STEP ON SNEK AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.
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"All localities in the United States make available some sort of vote-by-mail with absentee ballots for people who cannot get to the polls on election day." washingtontimes.com/news/202… @WashTimes by @MichaelSteele and our @elilehrerdc
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"The government has not charged the armored-car company nor the cannabis firms with any crimes, but the sheriff keeps the cash, anyway. Critics are right to call it highway robbery." ocregister.com/2022/02/04/ho… @StevenGreenhut @ocregister @IJ #cjreform
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"Twenty years ago, Professor Turley wrote that a crime did not have to be committed for an action of the President to be an impeachable offense.”
— @RosenzweigPhttps://thebulwark.com/turleys-weak-critique/ @pennbarker @BulwarkOnline
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California Considers Up to 6 Months Jail, $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/c… @reason @christianbrits
R Street releases a statement to the California legislature: cc @IanCalderon
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"Bringing greater professionalism into policing and amending policies to control police use of force and violence has improved the outlook and actions of police officers before, and it can do so again." fedsoc.org/commentary/public… @fedsoc @arthurrizer @emilymmooney #CJreform
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Even with many #forfeiture reforms in many states, this is still an issue that would be made worse by new DOJ policy
This is no trivial matter. Americans now lose more property to civil asset forfeiture than to burglary each year.
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🚨UPDATE🚨 We're 6,500 followers away from sending @senatorshoshana to see sloths!
And YES we know you followed us for that, but DM us (open DMs!) to collaborate on work/policy, write on our work for a story, talk to experts. We regularly influence policy, work with other groups
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As it excludes people who can't afford to pay criminal court debt from participation in the democratic process, SB7066 violates bedrock guarantee of equal rights that every citizen enjoys miamiherald.com/news/politic… @CatoInstitute @lmower3 #FlaPol #sayfie #CJreform @ConLawWarrior
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OK we know you followed us so @senatorshoshana can meet her sloths... but also feel free to DM us (open DMs!) if you want to collaborate on work/policy, write about our work for a story, talk to our experts, etc. We regularly influence policy, work with other groups, etc!
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In some localities, if you UPLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS FROM HOME, government will make you get a home-based business permit wsj.com/articles/when-the-ci… @WSJ @cjdieterle @senatorshoshana @GoldwaterInst
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📆 Dec 11: @JoinLincoln hosts in San Francisco: Debate: Big tech and the future of political speech online eventbrite.com/e/debate-big-… @BerinSzoka and our @sfmnemonic vs @pnjaban and @JamesOKeefeIII
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Replacing corporate taxes with a #carbontax could make the US the most competitive investment climate in the world. buff.ly/2nE3Jbc
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Hi Jeff Sessions: Crime is still at its lowest level in decades. thefederalist.com/2017/08/31… @JHaggrid @FDRLST
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Yeah bro make sure to tag her employer to get the *checks notes* social media head of the org in trouble
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WE HAVE CHARTS AND DATA FOR YOU legbranch.com/theblog/2018/1… via our @CaseyBurgat @LegBranch #ElectionResults2018
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TOMORROW: Our @RosenzweigP testifies before @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP: Executive Privilege and Congressional Oversight judiciary.house.gov/legislat…
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Meet the Farmers of Manhattan — A 52-story skyscraper in NYC is the world HQ for JPMorganChase. It’s also the home of one of 850 “farmers” who live in NYC.
1995 - 2016, those “farmers” received $16 MILLION in federal farm subsidies. ewg.org/agmag/2018/09/meet-f… @faberfamilyfarm @ewg
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Small Regulatory Reforms That Can Help People During the Pandemic rstreet.org/2020/03/18/small… @senatorshoshana @BeforeChelsea @courtneyatlas @NickZaiac @raylehmann #Coronavirus #COVID19
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A few viral posts concerned the number of hours of training required to obtain a cosmetology license v to become a police officer. What many people missed, however, is the flip side: what it takes to lose that license washingtonexaminer.com/opini… @dcexaminer @senatorshoshana #cjreform
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"We also want to recruit and retain people from the community, so that young African-American boys and girls can grow up to be police officers and police the communities they grew up in."
— @JaRonSmith45
cleveland.com/open/2020/06/q… @sabrinaeaton @clevelanddotcom #CJreform
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Read this story. Sent to Rikers at 16... washingtonexaminer.com/a-ray… @Steena12 @dcexaminer #cjreform #jjrefrom @RandPaul @KamalaHarris
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Republican Legislators Propose Marijuana Legalization at the Federal Level realclearpolicy.com/articles… @realclearpolicy @IamNotAcop_Jill @dianemgoldstein @policeforreform @RepNancyMace @RepBrianMast @repdonyoung @RepMcClintock @RepMeijer
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"Effectively nationalizing once-competitive coal and nuclear plants provides little-to-no benefit to consumers or national security." bit.ly/2stfIsq #energy
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[extremely Oprah voice]
AND YOU GET $125,000 IN SUBSIDIES
AND YOU GET $125,000 IN SUBSIDIES
AND YOU GET $125,000 IN SUBSIDIES
bit.ly/2IwArF7 @cl_kitchens #FarmBill
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.@MarcoRubio’s bill would essentially stop people who make sandwiches, stock shelves and drive trucks from being bound by non-competes thehill.com/opinion/finance/… @elilehrerdc @thehill
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Republican Legislators Propose Marijuana Legalization at the Federal Level realclearpolicy.com/articles… @realclearpolicy @IamNotAcop_Jill @dianemgoldstein @policeforreform @RepNancyMace @RepBrianMast @repdonyoung @RepMcClintock @RepMeijer
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In 2014 law enforcement took more property from Americans than BURGLARS did. We're concerned DOJ #forfeiture order bit.ly/2uE85S8
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How to Have a Conversation With Your Anti-National Flood Insurance Program Reform Uncle Over Thanksgiving
When your uncle brings up - as he always will - the #NFIP, know what to tell him. Prepare for your Thanksgiving dinner here: rstreet.org/publications/?is… @raylehmann
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We... we do not encourage anyone to steal tanks
please don't do this
DUDE - Soldier Accused of Stealing Armored Tank Apparently Tweeted During Chase thedailybeast.com/police-nat…
HE'S ALSO AN @RSI FAN!!!!!
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He breaks into houses when you’re thirsty. But he never pays damages. Yes, since his birth on July 26,1974, the @KoolAid man has been wreaking havoc across the country and avoiding responsibility via the legal doctrine of Kool-ified immunity. bit.ly/2xIgZ4h
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"People in prisons are still our brothers and sisters and they have constitutional rights. Letting people suffer in silence, regardless of whether they made a bad decision in life, is not what America is about" clarionledger.com/story/opin… @arthurrizer @JessicaJackson #CJreform #msleg
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New report shows NO single piece of National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) operation is sustainable. insurancejournal.com/blogs/r… @ijournal
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"This could have devastating consequences in a world with 1.1 billion smokers, with over 8 million smoking-related deaths each year." filtermag.org/vape-flavor-ba… @Filtermag_org @CarrieLWade #vape #vaping #ecigs
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We are:
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🔘 A week late to this—but here's an important reminder that free market capitalism is morally superior to socialism: dailysign.al/2sjlBs5
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UPDATE! We're about 5,500 followers away from sending @senatorshoshana to Costa Rica to meet sloths!
Follow us! Come for fulfilling Shoshana's dream, stay for the #freemarket policy solutions. And the memes. @Visit_CostaRica
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Allowing nurse practitioners to do more of the work for which they are qualified, could break up the "licensing monopoly" held among doctors in the primary-care realm, and would directly benefit patients. nationalaffairs.com/publicat… @cjdieterle @senatorshoshana @NationalAffairs
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We are a think tank and do not... have the things that would allow us, a think tank, to do that. Thanks though
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.@RepMattGaetz’s alternative to the Green New Deal — what he calls the “Green Real Deal” — aims to address climate change by spurring innovation and cutting regulations to speed up clean energy development. dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/k… @cl_kitchens @DailyCaller
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Hello, I'm a think tank. You may know me from my greatest hits, including "maybe you want to try to use actual evidence to craft that policy," "no, we do not endorse candidates," and "Yes! I am a sentient policy organization!"
Hello, I'm an Assistant Professor. You may know me from my greatest hits, including “It is in the syllabus”, “It is in the syllabus” and “It is in the syllabus”.
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"Americans would never tolerate a plumber that used dynamite to dislodge a clog, nor should they allow officers to utilize weapons of war in routine policing missions." bit.ly/3du1o8y @arthurrizer #CJreform
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Virginia frees the hair braiders pilotonline.com/opinion/colu… @virginianpilot @cjdieterle @CSOR_SFU #virginia
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This week has been a dark period for our democracy. Thanks to some of the Members who stood up for what's right.
@senatemajldr @chairmang @RepKinzinger @SenToomey @SenatorRomney @SenMikeLee @SenTomCotton @BenSasse @chiproytx @RepMeijer @RepNancyMace @RepLizCheney
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NEW: Coalition Letter in Support of Vote by Mail bit.ly/3duRKlj with @elilehrerdc @MichaelSteele @bobinglis @stanveuger @EvanMcMullin @StandUpRepublic @BillKristol @rjlyman3 @NiskanenCenter @sarahehunt01 @RaineyCenter @JoinLincoln @bonk @ForTheRuleOfLaw and more
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In Chesapeake, Virginia, it's a crime for a child over 12 to trick-or-treat with a punishment of fines fines up to $100, or jail for up to 6 months. And all trick-or-treating must cease by 8 pm. richmond.com/opinion/their-o… @RTDNEWS @nilabala3 #CJreform #JJreform #Halloween
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"A 10-year-old DUI conviction does not affect someone’s ability to cut hair and that person should not be denied a cosmetology license because of it." themissouritimes.com/57256/s… @MissouriTimes @AlishaShurr #CJreform @DerekGrier #moleg
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