Old Bull Lee
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There's a wing of the libertarian movement who has held that position for quite a while.
patents are maybe not the best way to finance innovation. see @nicholasdecker.substack.com.web.brid.gy nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/should-we-...
Should We Have Patents?
The ways of funding innovation
nicholasdecker.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There's a wing of the libertarian movement who has held that position for quite a while.
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They want to destroy the country. They're well on their way already
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
They want to destroy the country. They're well on their way already
The making of a labor supply shock.
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The making of a labor supply shock.
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Sure glad we're keeping these terrorists out.
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sure glad we're keeping these terrorists out.
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If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of "changes in the FTC and other government leadership." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
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Calling Justice Scalia
Trump: "People that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year ... we're working with some of your senators."
June 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Calling Justice Scalia
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Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l
Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.
Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.
June 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l
Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.
Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.
Maybe, as the Commander-in-Chief of the CA National Guard, you should say "stand down" and force Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
June 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Maybe, as the Commander-in-Chief of the CA National Guard, you should say "stand down" and force Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
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June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I wonder if he realizes it would be an anti-Musk party?
June 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I wonder if he realizes it would be an anti-Musk party?
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The straightest thing you can do as a man is to think a lot about two other guys' balls.
June 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The straightest thing you can do as a man is to think a lot about two other guys' balls.
Thread. I hate it when Ed sugarcoats his feelings.
This shit ain't nothin to me man. I'm in the White House snorting Special K and pitching continental missile defense. My self-driving scam long like the Trojan War. Shorty wanna invest in magical thinking, that sound like her problem. My chatbot so racist it says the pyramids built by Andrew Jackson
June 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thread. I hate it when Ed sugarcoats his feelings.
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Sure, Jan.
*except MY pork
*except MY pork
June 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sure, Jan.
*except MY pork
*except MY pork
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He isn’t wrong!
👀 Elon Musk, now out of his government job, says what he really thinks about Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda bill.
He calls it a “disgusting abomination.”
He calls it a “disgusting abomination.”
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
He isn’t wrong!
Ukraine is bracing for somewhere between 300 and 400 Shahed drones and a few dozen caliber class missiles tonight. Using history as a guide, most of them will fall on civilian targets. Trump will give Putin (another) two weeks to understand his intentions.
June 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Ukraine is bracing for somewhere between 300 and 400 Shahed drones and a few dozen caliber class missiles tonight. Using history as a guide, most of them will fall on civilian targets. Trump will give Putin (another) two weeks to understand his intentions.
Keep digging.
May 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Keep digging.
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Funny how Walter Isaacson didn’t get asked about this yesterday
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Funny how Walter Isaacson didn’t get asked about this yesterday
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This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote.
And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.
And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.
The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote.
And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.
And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.
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This really *is* Liberation Day: The U.S. Court of International Trade this afternoon struck down Trump’s mass tariffs as unlawful. It’s a fantastic win for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods. /1
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This really *is* Liberation Day: The U.S. Court of International Trade this afternoon struck down Trump’s mass tariffs as unlawful. It’s a fantastic win for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods. /1
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The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
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Trump is a complete mark.
Trump: "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time ... we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised."
May 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump is a complete mark.
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It is terribly difficult to insult someone's intelligence more than he insults his own in moments like saying that he's surprised.
Trump: "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time ... we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised."
May 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It is terribly difficult to insult someone's intelligence more than he insults his own in moments like saying that he's surprised.
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Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck JD Vance. Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck David Sacks. Fuck every sack of shit supporting Putin.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Russia Launches Massive Aerial Assaults on Ukraine, Defying Trump’s Peace Calls
A second consecutive day of strikes sent civilians running for shelters and killed at least 12 people, according to Ukrainian officials.
www.wsj.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck JD Vance. Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck David Sacks. Fuck every sack of shit supporting Putin.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...