Nick Gillespie
@nickgillespie
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Libertarian. Editor at large, Reason. Host, Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie. Eagle Scout. Legalize Drugs & Immigration. On vacation in Israel, Feb. 2-11.
New York, NY
Joined January 2009
Is the @realDonaldTrump- @elonmusk teamup good for free speech? New @reason Interview is up, with @TheFIREorg's @NicoPerrino!
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Serious question as teachers push back against reopening schools: Did anyone raise concerns abt supermarket workers, who have been showing up for months without many seeming problems?.
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How high did @KamalaHarris get while smoking weed in college? High enough to claim she listened to Tupac and @SnoopDogg as a student, though their debuts came after she graduated college ('86) and law school ('89). As with her former position on legalization, she's scamming.
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Donald Sutherland, RIP. My favorite role of his is Sgt. Oddball in the strange and wonderful Kelly's Heroes: 'I'm drinking wine and eating cheese and catching some rays, you know.' My father, who served in Europe in WW2, approved.
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I want to thank my grandparents, who fled repressive, economically degraded lives in Old Europe in the 1910s, for moving to a country where the govt puts out bullshit propaganda so bad that no one is dumb enough to believe it.
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This is a terrible position, @JoeBiden.
Joe Biden: "If I'm president, charter schools are gone.". He should reconsider that proposal.
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What if Biden wins and refuses to enter the White House?.
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These cops should be fired and the wife should file for divorce.
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The @washingtonpost took down this @ramirezcartoons cartoon mocking #Hamas (not Palestinians writ large) after readers and staffers complained that it was offensive, racist, unfair, inaccurate, etc (see linked story). The editor of the opinion page, David Shipley, explained his
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God protect the Internet, which is filled with more marvels than we can count.
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Hey everybody, instead of making today about @realDonaldTrump & partisan gotchas, why don't we actually, you know, think about the 40 million people killed because of World War I? @reason.
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Looking forward to Columbus statues being torn down by folks wearing Che Guevara t-shirts.
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Jesus Fucking Christ. The @OhioState University should be deeply embarrassed by this alum.
Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
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If you believe the accusations against Kavanaugh, you really got to acknowledge the FBI, which background-checked him half a dozen times, is the worst investigative outfit ever.
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The previous time was 2020, when @sciam endorsed Biden. Which makes it seem less like a rare break in tradition and more a new partisan direction for one of the oldest continuously published magazines on the planet.
For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial
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Q: If punishing everyday Russians via economic sanctions is legit because they bear at least some responsibility for Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine, does that mean American citizens are guilty of crimes committed by our gov't? What are the implcations of that thinking?.
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This is incredible. Might be Kamala Harris' best yet.
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This should be the standing rule, yes?.
BREAKING: Gov. Charlie Baker announces nurses and other medical professionals who are licensed and qualified in other states can now be licensed in Massachusetts within a day, an effort to bring in medical workers ahead of what could be major shortages and hospitals and clinics.
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Just imagine how far Amy Coney Barrett might have gone if she didn't belong to a cult that keeps women down.
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.@realdonaldtrump's speech at #CPAC was a bedazzling mix of bravado, B.S., humor, and positive vision that no Democrat will be able to top.
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Hogan's Heroes is the Siegfried Line of popular culture. Have yet to meet anyone under 40 who is familiar with it or, hearing its premise for the first time, doesn't think I'm making it up.
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Oh, and 30 percent identified as Democrats, also near all-time low. Real story is independent affiliation staying high, now at 44 percent.
Just 25% of Americans identified as Republicans in new Gallup data. That's close to the low water mark for the GOP in modern times.
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Regardless of how the Kavanaugh confirmation process ends, we have really lost our way as a country. There is no way this does anything other than drive apart a country that is already hyper-polarized and hate-filled.
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I saw AOC+3 and The Poor Boys open for Frankie Goes To Hollywood in 1986.
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These people are the next great Americans. In them, I see my grandparents who left countless generations of awfulness in Ireland and Italy so that their children might have a better life. We should make it simple and legal for all who want to live and work here.
On the U.S./Mexico border in Juarez we witnessed a Venezuelan family with a toddler going under the concerta wire to enter the El Paso illegally by placing cardboard on their backs to avoid being cut , the little girl can be heard crying as she goes under @NewsNation
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Really terrible--Zuckerberg is talking about regulating "political speech"--all speech (commercial, artistic, etc) should be free, but *especially* political speech.
Facebook issues a new and expanded call for the government to police your online speech, in interview with @GStephanopoulos. It asks for your speech on “divisive” issues - including posts on immigration - to be regulated by the government as if it were a campaign ad. No thanks.
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Increasingly confused by #NeverTrump folks who say he is an authoritarian thug that needs to be blocked at every step but also that he really needs to impose a national lockdown law and/or use the Defense Production Act to force whole industries to do his bidding.
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How do they do it?
“Immigrants drive up property values, making it impossible to buy a house . Immigrants increase crime, destroy local cultures, raise taxes, and reduce prosperity.”. You can’t have it all.
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Remind me again why @Jorgensen4POTUS, who is on the ballot in 50 states, shouldn't be in this #debate?.
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If you're savior is a 28 yr old econ major who doesn't understand anything about economics, or a 700 year old guy from Vermont who denounces choice in deodorants, well good luck with all that. .
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Yes, Fidel Castro murdered, tortured, and imprisoned thousands, but unlike Donald Trump he never attacked Rosie O'Donnell #trudeaueulogies.
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Trump: "Take the guns first, go through due process second." Unbelievable statement from president who just weeks ago asked "Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?"
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Please tell us again why you endorsed Roy Moore for Senate?.
Wow. These #JamesGunn tweets are just horrible. Child rape is no laughing matter. As Texas SG, I handled far too many child sexual assaults. Truly evil. I’m glad Disney fired him, but if these tweets are true, he needs to be prosecuted.
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A gentle, libertarian reminder that @joebiden has been involved in virtually every major escalation in the drug war over the past 50 years and that @KamalaHarris, who bragged about smoking weed in college, is a cop.
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I'm increasingly frustrated by whataboutist libertarian takes on indefensible Hamas terrorism that seemingly deny @israel's unquestionable right to respond to war crimes committed within its own borders. If your first--or second, or third--response to civilian deaths is to point.
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Still waiting for the right celebrity to tell me how to vote.
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Concerned for @Snowden , whose last Twitter activity was 2/22, and has never been quiet concerning bad Putin and Russian activity.
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Maybe it would be easier to list what isn't infrastructure?.
Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.
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Wow, @amazon snagged $2 billion in handouts from New York and Virginia. This is cronyism, folks, and shouldn't be happening
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Is taking the virus an option?.
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.@GeorgeWill nails it: "The three repulsive architects of Wednesday’s heartbreaking spectacle. must be named, and forevermore shunned. They are @realDonaldTrump, and @HawleyMO and @SenTedCruz."
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Proposition: What we are facing in America is not a pandemic, or economic malaise, or resurgence of inequality, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, or lack of options, food, shelter, you name it. What we are facing is a crisis of meaning or, if not quite a crisis. 1/x.
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Incredible account of surviving Jonestown massacre by Rep. @JackieSpeier. If you're of a certain age, Jim Jones and the People's Temple loom large in memory
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Crisis? The median monthly payment for the 70 percent of Class of 2018 grads who took out loans was $222. Most borrow responsibly and make good investments in future that taxpayers shouldn't have to cover. Why should we pay for anyone's private tuition?
We have a student loan crisis—and we can't afford to wait for Congress to act. I’ve already proposed a student loan debt cancellation plan, and on day one of my presidency, I’ll use existing laws to start providing that debt cancellation immediately.
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Fully 50 percent of a '70s boyhood was spent building bike jumps. The other 50 percent was spent recovering from broken bones from using bike jumps.
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"The part of Kenosha that burned was the poor multi-racial commercial district, small underinsured shops. Weeks after I filed, an editor told me @nytimes wouldn’t be able to run my Kenosha piece until after the 2020 election." @NellieBowles via @bariweiss
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Litmus test: Does this make you like or hate the Electoral College?.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump in California by 4.3 million votes. Trump beat Clinton in the rest of the country by 1.3 million votes.
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I'm really happy that things have slowed down and gotten back to normal since Trump has left office. You?.
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I think @Snowden should be allowed to return to the US without facing criminal charges. His revelations were vital to a much-needed reckoning of govt overreach. Come on @realDonaldTrump, pardon him.
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I've heard the mailboxes are being taken to a sex farm upstate and being sold to Russian oligarchs. #PostOfficeSabotage
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Taxpayers shouldn't be responsible for debts incurred by people this willfully stupid.
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I'm glad that Kamala Harris lost, very cautiously optimistic abt what might come next. But if politics is the main place where find meaning, community, and identity, you're screwed whatever side you're on. Politics can't do the work of living your life for you.
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That's messed up: 44 percent of Americans under the age of 30 support firing executives if they vote for @realDonaldTrump. 27 percent support firing for voting for @joebiden. Via @ENBrown at @reason.
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The attacks on @GretaThunberg, esp. @realDonaldTrump's, are contemptible. But her basic worldview--that the world is about to end, that the future is bleak, and that economic growth is both to blame and unsustainable--is wrong and needs to be refuted.
Greta Thunberg to world leaders at the U.N. climate summit: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words”
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I'm only enough to remember when Harry Potter books were burned for being satanic. History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.
J.K. Rowling book burning videos are spreading like wildfire across TikTok
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This! @RandPaul is single-handedly blocking the Senate's insane spending bill! @reason @EricBoehm87.
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The opening scene in Netflix's #3BodyProblem is a brilliant, terrifying depiction of China's Cultural Revolution. Watch it now. The entire series is worth watching, but this scene, moved from the middle of the original novel to the start of the English translation, provides a
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Really great to see America's Dad, @JimGaffigan dunk on a woman with 155 followers. So proud of us all.
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"You take someone on heroin, put them in one room, and someone hooked on cheese, put ’em in another room, and you take it away, I challenge you to tell me the person who’s hooked on heroin and who’s hooked on cheese.” Pray for #NYC.
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So happy for @RealRossU and his family! Thank you @realDonaldTrump and thank you @LPNational and @angela4LNCChair for the role you played in making this happen!
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Amazingly, Wilford Brimley was only 19 years old at the time.
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I've honestly forgotten: Six months into all this, when are we supposed to know that it's time to end the lockdown? And if nobody knows, why are we doing this?.
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"I have seen the future of journalism, and it involves writing lots of checks for libel damages with many zeroes attached" must-read by @Heminator @FDRLST @lnstapundit @Popehat.
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A reminder that's it OK to not have (and/or voice) an opinion on everything.
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Which senators voted for this "treaty" again?
Walking away from Paris treaty is a mistake. Climate change is real. We owe our children more. Protecting our future also creates more jobs.
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One of the genuinely most interesting things about @RubinReport and other shows like it is how they demonstrate there's a longform audience out there that's being ignored by cable news and radio stuck in 20th-century formats. .
1 million views on a two hour conversation on religion, meaning and purpose. Fine work, @benshapiro and @jordanbpeterson: .
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Your move, Florida.
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.@KamalaHarris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To @SnoopDogg and Tupac even though they hadn't debuted yet. Her lying abt her past opposition to legalization is troubling. @reason.
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I have seen the future and it is MAGAtards fixating on issues like seed oils and food dyes while entitlement spending & national debt chokes out the entire economy.
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Have literally never heard anyone in NYC complain about this.
You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors. I’m for increasing licenses but we should do more for the retailers who are paying rent and trying to survive.
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The #LibertarianMoment UFC edition:. 'I love America, I love the Constitution. If you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherfuckers." #RenatoMoicano #UFC300 #libertarian Via
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I wish I were a felon so I couldn't vote and not have to watch this.
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Libertarians are still united against tariffs and taxes.
Tariffs are simply taxes. Conservatives once united against new taxes. Taxing trade will mean less trade and higher prices.
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As an undergrad and grad student in the '80s, it's hard to remember a week without a protest against something. But I don't remember physical violence and the moral vapidity of telling a Jewish student to go back to Poland. Deeply, deeply fucked up.
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You mean *sexier* Mr Rogers. .
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Must-watch from @reason: The green attacks on #bitcoin are best understood as a strategy by economic, media, and political elites freaked out by a form of money they can't control. @nic__carter & @gladstein explain why bitcoin isn't killing the planet.
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Coming from a politician who has signed on to every massive increase in debt-financed spending and every possible regulation and tax to make it harder for businesses to produce stuff, this sort of thing is nothing short of intellectual gaslighting.
Fewer Doritos in your bag. Fewer Oreos in your box. Less toilet paper on your roll. You aren’t imagining it—big corporations really are making you pay the same amount (sometimes more) for less. It’s called “shrinkflation,” and we’ve got to crack down on it.
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What undergrad progressive is going to call out the CEO-to-employee ratio for #hamas, whose top three leaders are worth a total of $11 billion(with a B) while Gazans go without basic necessities?
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Great read on the massive effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines and bad policy recommendations from @CDCgov, which continually botches things.
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"Democratic strategist".
I believe Donald Trump has committed a crime against humanity. And that he should finish his life in custody.
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Why is crowd @CNN town hall booing @danaloesch for saying all states shld comply w background-check databases?.
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Can they also write prescriptions for zoning variances so builders can actually, you know, build housing?.
Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.
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Delusional. If Biden had been an 'actual hero,' he would have bowed out long before being pushed out, so that the @DNC could properly have a primary season to find and vet their best possible candidate.
An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.
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If people seriously think Andrew Yang is out of line or out of step for focusing on violent crime caused by the mentally ill while also pledging to give them more and better treatment, NYC is in for big trouble.
Watch: Andrew Yang’s response to a question about how he would handle mental health during Wednesday's NYC mayoral debate drew fire on social media from people who said it lacked empathy or understanding.
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Didn't see this coming, but bravo.
This is just absurd. The only person who seems to have a gripe is @RepKatieHill’s soon-to-be ex. Who among us would look perfect if every ex leaked every photo/text? . Katie isn’t being investigated by Ethics or maligned because she hurt anyone - it is because she is different.
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I'm no JD Vance fan, but Alex Wagner's sophomore-undergrad-level reading of the secret white supremacist meaning of his family burial plot explains why MSNBC & identity politics flounder. Tendentious & irrelevant while erasing Usha Vance's agency.
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If past is prologue, there is a good chance that everything that gets reported over the next 24 hours will be false, incomplete, barely accurate, totally mistaken, etc.
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As someone who is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, my biggest complaint about last's night debate is that there was no substantive policy discussion from either candidate, esp. about debt and the old-age entitlements driving it.
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