Ronald Bailey
@ronaldbailey.bsky.social
Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine. I report on uncontroversial topics such as GMOs and gene-editing techs, climate change, vaccines, the replication crisis, artificial intelligence, biodiversity epidemiology, nutrition, progress and transhumanism.
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This is so embarrassing. Habeas corpus is not a government power. It is a *check* on the government, forcing the state to justify why it’s locking someone up. The fact that so many of the most powerful people do not understand the Constitution at a basic level is wild.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is so embarrassing. Habeas corpus is not a government power. It is a *check* on the government, forcing the state to justify why it’s locking someone up. The fact that so many of the most powerful people do not understand the Constitution at a basic level is wild.
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This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.
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So much for personal choice, huh?
#Breaking: FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
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FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
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May 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So much for personal choice, huh?
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NEW from our Bill Kristol: "The narcissism is jarring. But Trump's self-described progression from 'I run the country' to 'I run the country and the world' seems to represent a progression from narcissism to megalomania. Running the world sounds . . . God-like."
www.thebulwark.com/p/our-megalo...
www.thebulwark.com/p/our-megalo...
Our Megalomaniacal President
Trump has always been a narcissist. But it’s gotten much worse.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW from our Bill Kristol: "The narcissism is jarring. But Trump's self-described progression from 'I run the country' to 'I run the country and the world' seems to represent a progression from narcissism to megalomania. Running the world sounds . . . God-like."
www.thebulwark.com/p/our-megalo...
www.thebulwark.com/p/our-megalo...
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..”
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April 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..”
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"We are at a hinge point in history. Trump has tried to use a 227-year-old law—a law that the author of the Declaration of Independence said was a tyranny—to disappear people....Everyone who has any influence or ability to stop this affront to our constitutional order...has an obligation to do so."
Growing a Spine on El Salvador Is Good Politics
Grant Democrats the courage to change the things they can change and the PR advisers to help them talk about the rest.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"We are at a hinge point in history. Trump has tried to use a 227-year-old law—a law that the author of the Declaration of Independence said was a tyranny—to disappear people....Everyone who has any influence or ability to stop this affront to our constitutional order...has an obligation to do so."
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Say it louder for the people in the back, Donnie!
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Say it louder for the people in the back, Donnie!
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"We often think about tariffs as merely increasing prices, which is certainly bad enough. But you can also think of them as forcing regression to a less prosperous time."
Great (if not uplifting) from @jacobgrier.bsky.social. The extent of the market—it matters!
Great (if not uplifting) from @jacobgrier.bsky.social. The extent of the market—it matters!
I've admired @theunpopulist.net from the beginning, excited to finally write for them today. New from me on Trump's tariffs and their impact on specialty food and drink:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-tar...
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Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Even Let You Drink Your Way Through these Tough Times
Exotic cocktail ingredients are about to become pricier or disappear from the market altogether
www.theunpopulist.net
April 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"We often think about tariffs as merely increasing prices, which is certainly bad enough. But you can also think of them as forcing regression to a less prosperous time."
Great (if not uplifting) from @jacobgrier.bsky.social. The extent of the market—it matters!
Great (if not uplifting) from @jacobgrier.bsky.social. The extent of the market—it matters!
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Nixon was in office for five years before the Saturday Night Massacre, Trump I for four before the threatened mass resignation that stayed his hand on DOJ-as-election-weapon. "In Trump’s second administration, it has taken only three-and-a-half weeks to bring the DOJ to a mass resignation event." /1
New from me at @cato.org: "Officials Resign En Masse at Justice Department After Political Intervention in Adams Case"
Officials Resign En Masse at Justice Department After Political Intervention in Adams Case
Six senior officials in the U.S. Department of Justice have resigned following what appears to be the Department’s blatantly political decision to drop corruption charges against New York City’s Mayor...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Nixon was in office for five years before the Saturday Night Massacre, Trump I for four before the threatened mass resignation that stayed his hand on DOJ-as-election-weapon. "In Trump’s second administration, it has taken only three-and-a-half weeks to bring the DOJ to a mass resignation event." /1
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These people put the "sick" in "sycophantic":
State lawmakers in Florida and Tennessee have been working on anti-immigrant bills named the "TRUMP Act," where the first word is an acronym spelling out the Dear Leader's name. (Different acronyms in each state.)
State lawmakers in Florida and Tennessee have been working on anti-immigrant bills named the "TRUMP Act," where the first word is an acronym spelling out the Dear Leader's name. (Different acronyms in each state.)
‘Open Season’: Local Republicans Rush to Out-Trump Trump on Immigration
State lawmakers are trying to deputize bounty hunters, fingerprint children, and take away gun rights from people with legal status.
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February 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These people put the "sick" in "sycophantic":
State lawmakers in Florida and Tennessee have been working on anti-immigrant bills named the "TRUMP Act," where the first word is an acronym spelling out the Dear Leader's name. (Different acronyms in each state.)
State lawmakers in Florida and Tennessee have been working on anti-immigrant bills named the "TRUMP Act," where the first word is an acronym spelling out the Dear Leader's name. (Different acronyms in each state.)