David
@walterrothbard.bsky.social
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊Libertarian/Voluntaryist/Anarchist. Tolerant Christian fundamentalist. Happily married (to @millennialhippie.bsky.social
💑👫) homeschooling father of 8 kids! #ProudNonVoter
💑👫) homeschooling father of 8 kids! #ProudNonVoter
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David
@walterrothbard.bsky.social
· Oct 17
The Philosophy of Liberty
YouTube video by FreeKeene
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I don't own your past, your present, or your future: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1b...
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seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
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Drafts are here so now I get to pace out my most astute observations
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Drafts are here so now I get to pace out my most astute observations
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"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
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There are psychologically broken people. The culture they stew in turns them rotten, and then their control of the state enables them to weaponize that lack of emotional and psychological well-being against the rest of us on a mass scale.
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
There are psychologically broken people. The culture they stew in turns them rotten, and then their control of the state enables them to weaponize that lack of emotional and psychological well-being against the rest of us on a mass scale.
Flying to Irvine, CA for work today.
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Flying to Irvine, CA for work today.
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Garbarino: "It is a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might be personally offensive to the president or vice president."
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Garbarino: "It is a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might be personally offensive to the president or vice president."
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What does open borders mean? It means the individual has presumptive freedom of movement. You can cross borders without suspicion or harassment. If you choose, there is a clear, easy path to citizenship. That's it. Open borders treats everyone like a potential fellow citizen, like a human being. /🧵
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
What does open borders mean? It means the individual has presumptive freedom of movement. You can cross borders without suspicion or harassment. If you choose, there is a clear, easy path to citizenship. That's it. Open borders treats everyone like a potential fellow citizen, like a human being. /🧵
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It doesn't have to be this way. We should have open borders. But as a first step we should *at least* decriminalize immigration. You overstay a visa? You get a strongly worded letter, or a fine, or you lose certain civil privileges. You don't get clapped in irons or torn away from your life.
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
It doesn't have to be this way. We should have open borders. But as a first step we should *at least* decriminalize immigration. You overstay a visa? You get a strongly worded letter, or a fine, or you lose certain civil privileges. You don't get clapped in irons or torn away from your life.
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In America right now, it's easy to see the violence of Trump's closed border vision because mass deportation leads to indiscriminate violence that spills over onto citizens and white folks. But criminalization of immigration even in quieter times means detainment and deportation.
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
In America right now, it's easy to see the violence of Trump's closed border vision because mass deportation leads to indiscriminate violence that spills over onto citizens and white folks. But criminalization of immigration even in quieter times means detainment and deportation.
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As long as there is a regime of hard immigration control—where violating immigration rules is treated as a crime—you will have outright racists trying to use the enforcement machinery to their hateful ends.
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
As long as there is a regime of hard immigration control—where violating immigration rules is treated as a crime—you will have outright racists trying to use the enforcement machinery to their hateful ends.
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You may think that there are valid reasons why we should control immigration. But there are also very racist reasons to control immigration. Who on the control side will make this their *passion*? Technocrats interested in fine-tuning skilled/"unskilled" ratios? Or the Great Replacement ghouls?
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
You may think that there are valid reasons why we should control immigration. But there are also very racist reasons to control immigration. Who on the control side will make this their *passion*? Technocrats interested in fine-tuning skilled/"unskilled" ratios? Or the Great Replacement ghouls?
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Now is the time to envisage what we actually want from an immigration policy. There is a chance that in the next few years we'll actually get a stab at it.
To this end: the violence and racism of immigration restriction has always been there. 🧵
To this end: the violence and racism of immigration restriction has always been there. 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Now is the time to envisage what we actually want from an immigration policy. There is a chance that in the next few years we'll actually get a stab at it.
To this end: the violence and racism of immigration restriction has always been there. 🧵
To this end: the violence and racism of immigration restriction has always been there. 🧵
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As for "libertarians" writ large, my guesstimate would be: about a third went full MAGA, about half stuck to fence-sitting both-sides-ism (see that in the vote totals above), and only the minority remainder were ever strongly anti-Trump. Most of whom are now disaffected from libertarian orgs.
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
As for "libertarians" writ large, my guesstimate would be: about a third went full MAGA, about half stuck to fence-sitting both-sides-ism (see that in the vote totals above), and only the minority remainder were ever strongly anti-Trump. Most of whom are now disaffected from libertarian orgs.
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Unlike Radley and Shikha I was never at Reason (I only wrote a piece for them once). But having been in the similar orbit at Cato: some libertarians have been good on strongly opposing Trump as a uniquely dire threat, but it was firmly a minority. To claim vindication writ large is... unmerited.
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Unlike Radley and Shikha I was never at Reason (I only wrote a piece for them once). But having been in the similar orbit at Cato: some libertarians have been good on strongly opposing Trump as a uniquely dire threat, but it was firmly a minority. To claim vindication writ large is... unmerited.
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@rechelon.bsky.social is an anarchist who has never identified with libertarians, but as a @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social market anarchist they've been adjacent to the movement. They've done great work on how libertarians failed on crucial issues of fascist creep. humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
February 10, 2026 at 12:34 AM
@rechelon.bsky.social is an anarchist who has never identified with libertarians, but as a @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social market anarchist they've been adjacent to the movement. They've done great work on how libertarians failed on crucial issues of fascist creep. humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
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And everyone should learn from the libertarian movement's gross failure to adequately mobilize against Trump & the authoritarian right, to resist alt-right infiltration & fascist creep in libertarian spaces, & to apply our principles consistently to the current moment.
This was a huge failure.
This was a huge failure.
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
And everyone should learn from the libertarian movement's gross failure to adequately mobilize against Trump & the authoritarian right, to resist alt-right infiltration & fascist creep in libertarian spaces, & to apply our principles consistently to the current moment.
This was a huge failure.
This was a huge failure.
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Taxation is theft, and I want the right to opt out of being forced to fund this.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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One of my college friends just made an FB post like “people are so negative about Trump, can they name three good things he’s done?”
And it’s taking all I have to resist the temptation to make absolutely everyone mad by replying, “Operation Warp Speed, lockdown stimulus checks, and mask mandates”
And it’s taking all I have to resist the temptation to make absolutely everyone mad by replying, “Operation Warp Speed, lockdown stimulus checks, and mask mandates”
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
One of my college friends just made an FB post like “people are so negative about Trump, can they name three good things he’s done?”
And it’s taking all I have to resist the temptation to make absolutely everyone mad by replying, “Operation Warp Speed, lockdown stimulus checks, and mask mandates”
And it’s taking all I have to resist the temptation to make absolutely everyone mad by replying, “Operation Warp Speed, lockdown stimulus checks, and mask mandates”
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BTW, any time DHS or media claim federal agents cannot be investigated or criminally charged by state or local agencies for use of force violations, that is not true. Even CBP & Border Patrol require it according to policy: p. 26.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
BTW, any time DHS or media claim federal agents cannot be investigated or criminally charged by state or local agencies for use of force violations, that is not true. Even CBP & Border Patrol require it according to policy: p. 26.
cbpgov.info/sites/defaul...
cbpgov.info/sites/defaul...
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This is how I celebrated Batmas when I was 15, by the way.
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This is how I celebrated Batmas when I was 15, by the way.
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I am all in on a big tent against fascism, but to be taken seriously you have to examine your own role in its rise. Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people, and some of MAGAs biggest supporters. As a group, they didn't warn anyone about anything.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I am all in on a big tent against fascism, but to be taken seriously you have to examine your own role in its rise. Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people, and some of MAGAs biggest supporters. As a group, they didn't warn anyone about anything.
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Remember when the Libertarian Party hosted and soft-endorsed Trump at their 2024 convention and bargained the pardon of attempted-murderer Ross Ulbricht?
Well, Katherine Mangu-Ward doesn't!
Well, Katherine Mangu-Ward doesn't!
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Remember when the Libertarian Party hosted and soft-endorsed Trump at their 2024 convention and bargained the pardon of attempted-murderer Ross Ulbricht?
Well, Katherine Mangu-Ward doesn't!
Well, Katherine Mangu-Ward doesn't!
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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.