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San Francisco’s $454,000 homeless bar tab
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- San Francisco’s $454,000 homeless bar tab
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- Why did San Francisco spend millions to serve beer and vodka to homeless alcoholics during the pandemic? #SanFrancisco #California #alcohol #homeless #homelessness
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- Should Billionaires Pay More Taxes?
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- 1:31:17
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
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- Yale Law School professor Natasha Sarin and the Cato Institute's Adam Michel debate the resolution, "Billionaires should pay a higher share of federal taxes."
Taking the affirmative is Sarin, who is a professor at Yale Law School and the president and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. She is also a former counselor to Secretary Janet Yellen at the U.S. Treasury Department.
Arguing against the resolution is Michel, the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute. He was formerly deputy staff director at the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
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- Will AI pull your car over?
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Starting next year, your new car could be using AI to decide if you should be driving. And if not, your own car might pull you over. #ai #artificialintelligence #cars
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- The feds injected him with PLUTONIUM?!
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- In 1945, Albert Stevens was told he had terminal cancer. So of course the government decided to secretly inject him with plutonium. #history #historyfacts #radiation #science #weirdhistory #facts #radioactive
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- L.A. spends $865,000 PER ROOM for the homeless?!
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Are California politicians, real estate developers, and a nonprofit using the homeless industrial complex to fraudulently flip properties and pocket your tax dollars at $865,000 per apartment? #california #losangeles #homeless #homelessness
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- AI scan sent an innocent grandma TO JAIL?!
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- A Tennessee grandmother was wrongfully arrested after AI-powered facial recognition falsely identified her as a North Dakota fraud suspect. #artificialintelligence #surveillance #ai #facialrecognition
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- If doctors acted like politicians...
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- This treatment might not help you, but it polls really well with college-educated suburban women. #comedy #parody #politics
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- How wealth taxes backfire
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others from the anti-math wing of the Democratic Party are pushing for a wealth tax. Europe already tried it, here's what happened. #politics #berniesanders #elizabethwarren
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- Can TikTok users SAVE Spirit Airlines?
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- The Spirit 2.0 campaign is trying to raise enough money to buy the failed airline. Will it work? #spiritairlines #airtravel #tiktok
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- Why is Washington TARGETING ranchers?
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- Is Washington state using non-existent environmental rules to fine ranchers and cancel their lease for environmental justice? #farm #farming #farmer #washington #cattle
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- The feds wasted $100 million on...unused trucks?!
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- Why did ICE spend $100 million on new trucks they don’t even use? You might remember ads featuring custom trucks emblazoned with the words “ICE” and “Defend the Homeland.”
The trucks in this ad alone cost taxpayers $700,000 and were part of a larger campaign to recruit thousands of new agents. But they didn’t stop at just a couple of trucks and ordered thousands more. #government #cars
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- Is THIS a PONZI scheme?!
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- In many Western countries, including the U.S., the U.K., and most of Europe, public pensions are largely pay-as-you-go. Today’s workers fund today’s retirees. The system only works if there are enough workers to support enough retirees. #retirement #pension #finance
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- Justice Neil Gorsuch: “Aspirations for power need to be checked”
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- 35:13
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- This week, Nick Gillespie sits down at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Neil Gorsuch to discuss his new children’s book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, co-authored with Janie Nitze.
Gorsuch and Gillespie examine why the United States is a creedal nation built on shared ideals rather than ethnicity or religion, and why those ideas require constant effort and courage to sustain. They discuss originalism, equal justice under law, the risks of government overreach, and the growing complexity of federal and state regulation.
Finally, Gorsuch considers what it will take for the American experiment to endure another 250 years, from learning history to cultivating the courage needed to defend freedom.
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0:00–America’s 250th anniversary
3:24–Unsung heroes of 1776
4:43–Why America is not an ethnostate
8:00–Originalism and equal justice under the law
11:29–Is America a libe...
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- Eat the rich…then what?
- Runtime
- 9:14
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- California progressives are pushing for a tax on billionaires; so are senators like Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). But as Andrew Heaton explains, such programs don't work. Just ask France.
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- Seattle’s DoorDash DISASTER
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- The year? 2022. The problem? App-based food delivery drivers don’t earn enough. The solution? Seattle’s PayUp law, promising $26.40 an hour for drivers, before mileage and tips. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #Seattle #drivers #doordash #food
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- California killed his 32,000 plants for...a bug?
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Why did California destroy 32,000 citrus plants for a bug found five miles away two years ago? #garden #gardening #plants #california
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- This pastor faces trial for...quoting the Bible?!
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Clive Johnston is a 77-year-old retired pastor from Northern Ireland who’s on trial for preaching Bible verses near a hospital in 2024.
He’s facing two charges under a law that creates a 100m buffer zone around abortion facilities. In those zones, you can be prosecuted for trying to “influence” someone getting an abortion.
Except that’s not what he was doing… #Ireland #freespeech #police #Bible
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- Can Zohran Mamdani Make NYC Affordable?
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- 1:28:15
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout and the Manhattan Institute's John Ketcham debate the resolution, "Mayor Zohran Mamdani is likely to fulfill his campaign pledge to make New York City more affordable for most residents."
Taking the affirmative is Teachout, an attorney and professor of law at Fordham Law School. She is the author of two books, Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money and Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. She's also formerly served as special adviser and senior counsel for economic justice at the New York Attorney General's Office.
Arguing the negative is Ketcham, a legal policy fellow and director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute. He's also a contributing editor to City Journal, where he's closely followed Mamdani's governance.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
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- Fed BUSTED for taking upskirt photos?!
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Here’s what happened after an on-duty ICE agent got caught trying to take upskirt photos of his flight attendant. #airline #travel #flightattendant
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- Why did Russia strap BOMBS to DOGS?
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- The year? 1941. The problem? The Red Army needs to blow up more Germans. The Solution? Strap explosives to the back of dogs and train them to run under enemy tanks. Sounds like, oh man, that is seriously depressing. What could possibly go wrong? #History #HistoryFacts #dogs #russia
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- California’s $450 million 911 FAILURE
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- How did California spend $450 million over six years on a 911 system that didn’t work? #California #911 #tech #technology
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- The COVID Reckoning Is Finally Here
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- 24:44
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly.
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The public health establishment lost America's trust during the COVID-19 pandemic with its bureaucratic incompetence, "noble lies," and authoritarian mandates.
It was about time. Agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been failing the American public for decades. But the agency with the worst track record is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which, long before COVID, caused Americans to lose hundreds of thousands of life years by slowing down drug development. After COVID, the American public had finally started to catch on.
President Donald Trump put a new team in charge of the federal health apparatus, some of them truth-telling contrarians who risked their careers to expose the sins of the old guard. But it's...
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- Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee
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- 34:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Andrew Heaton is joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman, who recently turned a police raid on his home and the lawsuit that followed into an unlikely free speech victory and a new chapter in his career.
Afroman explains how officers raided his house, damaged his property, seized cash, and then sued him after he used the security footage in his music videos to mock them. He argues that the real issue was not just the raid itself, but the lack of accountability that followed, and says the verdict was a win for ordinary Americans who want the right to criticize public officials without getting dragged into court.
Heaton and Afroman also discuss a possible presidential run, smaller government, patriotism, and why his unifying message could break through in a divided country. Along the way, they talk about Flavor Flav as a possible running mate, Lemon Pound Cake, and how this viral comeback can become something even bigger than his music. Plus, Heaton asks what ...
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- How to WIN elections? Gerrymandering!
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Remy appreciates your support this November, but he doesn't need it. #comedy #music #politics
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- Is this the WORST streetcar EVER?!
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- This is one of the last runs for the D.C. Streetcar, which is shutting down just a decade after it launched.
But even while it was running, the streetcar didn’t really go anywhere. Here's why. #transportation #washingtondc #streetcar
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- Colombia's 'illegal crops' problem
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The year? 2014. The problem? Colombia produces too much coca. The solution? Announce a crop substitution program designed to pay farmers to voluntarily eradicate coca and replace their fields with legal crops. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #colombia #history #historyfacts
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- Illinois prison guards used her as BAIT?!
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- When staff at the Logan Correctional Center learned a prison counselor may have been repeatedly sexually assaulting a female inmate, they did the sane and humane thing and immediately removed her from his reach while opening an investigation into the alleged assailant.
Just kidding. What they really did was decide to use the inmate as rape "bait.” #Illinois #prison #criminaljustice
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- Can they enter your home WITHOUT a warrant?
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- You probably saw this video of officers breaking into a home.
Officers said they could enter the house to arrest Garrison Gibson. But Garrison and his wife said the officers ignored their repeated demands to see a judicial warrant before allowing them to enter their home.
So who’s right? And what’s supposed to happen in a situation like this? #police #ICE #immigration
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- Fact check: Free trade did THIS for America
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Why does everybody think America doesn't make stuff anymore? Did free trade kill manufacturing or did it increase it? #trade #economics
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- Remy: Gerrymandering
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Remy appreciates your support this November, but he doesn't need it.
Watch all of Remy's Reason TV music videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02D02B9A144182DB
Written and performed by Remy. Music tracks and mastering by Ben Karlstrom.
LYRICS
You're working real late
You're behind in the polls
Cuz you can't quite win
On ideas alone
Well don't you fret, buddy
No need to feel blue
There's just one thing
That you're needing to do
Just put a pen in hand and
Do a ziggy-zaggin'
Wee wee—gerrymandering!
Draw one like some scissors
Draw one like a freight train
Like something that they throw
At WNBA games
Draw one like a Fresh Prince
Draw one like a saint
They're gonna try to beat you
but I betcha they can't
But isn't this act democracy-mangling?
Oui oui—gerrymandering!<...
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- Why 3D printer bans WON’T work
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- New York promised to equip all 3D printers with tech that stops them from creating parts.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced she wants to establish “minimum safety standards” for 3D printers, but here's why that won't work. #3dprinting #3dprinter
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- 600 hours of school to…BRAID HAIR?!
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Can someone safely braid hair without knowing the “ancient origins of braiding”?
A bill backed by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology would require 600 hours of training before someone can get an “alternative hair design” permit allowing them to braid, twist, wrap, weave, extend, or lock hair professionally. #hair #hairstyle #braids
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- LA is TICKETING fire victims?!
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- How does California help victims of the Eaton Fire? By ticketing the RV they live in out front their damaged property! #California #LA #fire #wildfire
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- Does America Still Make Stuff?
- Runtime
- 7:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Why does everybody think America doesn't make stuff anymore? Where is this expressly disprovable idea dribbling in from?
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- Can cops SUE you over lemon pound cake?
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Are you allowed to make fun of the police on the internet after they raid your home, wreck your stuff, and take your money, all based on a bogus tip?
Well, that’s just what rapper Joseph Foreman, aka Afroman, did to some Ohio cops. Then they sued him, seeking nearly $4 million for the “humiliation…and loss of reputation” the videos caused. #Afroman #Ohio #cops #freespeech
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- Why is New York making it HARDER to QUIT smoking?
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Did you know 57 percent of cigarettes sold in New York are sold illegally? New York has basically given the tobacco industry over to organized crime by placing a 75 percent tax on cigarettes! #NYC #newyork
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- Is MAGA going green?
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Is Katie Miller putting MAGA on green energy or is she just getting paid? She tweeted, “Solar energy is the energy of the future,” and people online had a lot to say. #greenenergy #solar #MAGA
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- Accused of human trafficking for THIS?!
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Is it suspicious for a dad to take his daughter to a coffee shop? For this Canadian family, a trip to get coffee sparked a human trafficking investigation. #parenthood #fatherhood #canada
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- Your grandparents are bankrupting you
- Runtime
- 18:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Today's retirees are the wealthiest cohort of Americans. The median household headed by someone over age 65 is far wealthier than the average household headed by someone in their late 30s.
Despite that, roughly 22 cents of every dollar the federal government spent last year was funneled to retirees via Social Security. Medicare spending accounted for another 14 percent. Many of those dollars were extracted from younger, poorer Americans. (The rest were borrowed and added to the national debt.)
A retired couple today might possess a robust retirement account and own a million-dollar home, but the government still acts as if they live in the poverty-stricken hellscape that O'Neill described. And as the old have gotten wealthier, the taxpayer-funded benefits have only gotten more lavish.
Social Security provides inflation-proof monthly payments, keeping retirees ahead of the curve even as working-age Americans struggle to make ends meet. In many p...
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- Do toll roads ACTUALLY work?
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A lot of people hate toll roads...but what if they actually work? #NewYork #NYC #transportation
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- Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Seattle PayUp Law, Dog Bombs, Colombian Coca (Vol. 21)
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Good intentions, bad results.
Watch the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUrH4Sbgh8&list=PLBuns9Evn1w9XhnH7vVh_7C65wJbaBECK&index=1
Do you know a great moment in unintended consequences? Leave a comment or email us at comedy@reason.com.
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PART 1: High Ground
The Year: 2014
The Problem: Colombia produces too much coca, the raw material for cocaine.
The Solution: Announce a crop substitution program designed to pay farmers to voluntarily eradicate coca and replace their fields with legal crops.
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out, farmers like money. Since compensation was tied to having coca plants to destroy, many farmers decided to plant new coca plots or expand existing ones before the program went into effect, allowing them to qualify for the government subsidies. Coca production surged, and potential coc...
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- Humboldt County's SHADY land grab
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- How is one California county using grainy satellite images to extort millions from homeowners?
Doug and Corrine Thomas moved to Humboldt County in 2021 after their home burned down in the LA County wildfires. And six days later, their dream property turned into a nightmare due to a shady government land grab. #California #home #homeowner
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- Ron DeSantis Suggests ABOLISHING TSA!
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- 8:37
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss the ongoing nightmare at airports as DHS remains partially shutdown and unable to pay TSA workers.
Producer: Natalie Dowzicky
Video editor: Chris Sowick
Subscribe to the @reasonFreeMedia channel to get more news like this!
- Title
- People went to prison for…MARGARINE?!
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- When margarine was invented in the last 1800s as a cheap butter substitute, dairy farmers had a cow. So they went to the government and laid it on thick. #food #history #historyfacts
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- The problem with historic preservation
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Can your neighbor surprise you with nearly $160,000 in extra renovation costs?
That's what almost happened to Cassandra London, a real estate agent who recently bought a 140-year-old property in Baltimore County. #homes #homeremodel #baltimore
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- The unstoppable homemade gun
- Runtime
- 28:23
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The 3D-printed gun movement has survived the downfall of its charismatic founder, a major defeat at the Supreme Court, and involvement in one of the most talked-about crimes of last year.
Meanwhile, the guns have gotten good. Really good. Today's hobbyist gun makers are creating better and better weapons that are easier and easier to make, including some with wildly creative designs.
There's anger and passionate disagreement about strategy, law, copyright, and leadership. The movement's critics are scathing: Lizzie, who met her husband Spezz through an online 3D-gun printing forum, calls movement founder Cody Wilson "a thief, a federal informant, and a pedophile." Spezz says "most of the cool stuff he does he just steals from other people." Wilson, for his part, is dismissive: "If you have evidence, present your evidence."
But in the meantime, this technology is fundamentally undermining the power of the state to control our access to firearms. An...
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- Who are the wealthiest people in America?
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Destitute old people are common theme in our culture and in our politics. But here’s the thing. Senior citizens nowadays are filthy rich compared to the rest of us. #retirement #politics
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- FedEx DELIVERS a lawsuit to Trump
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- In February, FedEx, the multibillion-dollar shipping giant, sued the federal government over tariffs they’ve paid under the Trump administration. Why, you ask? #Trump #tariffs #politics
0:14— Correction: Trump first imposed tariffs in 2025.
- Title
- One city is using STRAY CATS to SEIZE property?
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Why is one New Jersey town using stray cats to seize a family-owned tire shop and four homes? #NewJersey #cats #businessowner
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- America's 250th birthday midlife crisis
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Andrew Heaton takes stock of the United States on its 250th birthday. #America #history #enlightenment
