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The Constitution does not allow THIS
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- The Constitution does not allow THIS
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- 0:37
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul. #Trump #Venezuela #politics #news
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- They're SEIZING a 175-year-old family farm?!
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Henry family farm is a 21-acre farm in Cranbury, New Jersey and has been in Andy and Christopher’s family since 1850.
So you can imagine the shock, when Andy got a letter from the township’s attorney, stating the town wanted to purchase the land for affordable housing. And if the Henry family doesn't sell, they'll take it anyway, via eminent domain. #farming #farmer #farm
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- Poland’s wild rise from communism
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- After the fall of communism in 1989, Poland put Leszek Balcerowicz, a 42-year-old economist with no experience in government and politics, in charge of economic policy. Poland’s rise out of communism is one of the biggest economic success stories you’ve probably never heard. #Poland #history #historyfacts #economics
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- San Diego library's whites-only show
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- A branch of the San Diego County Library hired Annette Hubbell to portray Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Harriet Tubman as part of a “tribute to ordinary women who became extraordinary.”
But three months after booking her, the library administration asked her only to portray white women in her performance. To them, the way to honor extraordinary black women was to force Hubbell to perform a whites-only show.
#sandiego #library #history
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- Government shutdown: Partisan press conference
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Democrats and Republicans hold a press conference to discuss who is to blame for the recent government shutdown. #Republicans #Democrats #politics
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- Malaysia’s cooking oil to jet fuel scam
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Jet fuel is dirty. So in 2023, there began a push for airlines to use sustainable aviation fuel made from used cooking oil. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #airplane #airtravel #history #historyfacts
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- Why Oregon re-criminalized drugs
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- 28:01
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.
https://reason.com/video/2025/10/01/how-oregons-drug-experiment-backfired/
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Correction:
21:53 This piece originally misstated that Multnomah County's deflection numbers reflected those of the entire state of Oregon.
In 2020, Oregon became the first state in America to decriminalize all drugs. Was it a catastrophic mistake? Has this famously progressive city been mugged by reality?
Reason visited Portland and talked to drug users, politicians, and police to find out what actually happened and uncovered a very different story.
Portland isn't waiting for any changes to state drug laws to try its own sort of decriminalization. But to better emulate Portugal, it needs to establish a clearer pathway off the streets and into shelter.
The circumstances that undermined the state's brief experimen...
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- Why did the Soviet Union ABOLISH weekends?
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- In 1929, the Soviet Union rolled out something it called the “continuous workweek.” Since the days of the workweek no longer matched the real seven-day calendar, they replaced names like Monday and Tuesday with little communist logos. #history #historyfacts #historyshorts
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- What is Peter Thiel Trying to Tell Us?
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- 17:08
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Peter Thiel warns of a pending one-world totalitarian government—while himself pushing to supercharge the surveillance state.
https://reason.com/video/2025/09/25/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-are-using-ai-to-supercharge-the-surveillance-state/
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, has a provocative theory about how the Antichrist could take over the Earth and enslave humanity.
"My speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time," Thiel told Hoover Institution interviewer Peter Robinson earlier this year.
The greatest danger we face, according to Thiel, might not be from global warming, terrorism, nuclear winter, or artificial intelligence going rogue. The real danger is that we're so afraid of these threats that we're willing to give up our freedom in the interest of "peace and safety," which is the phrase Thiel ascribed to the...
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- He got a FELONY for THIS!?
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Why did one man face five years in prison for not wearing a mask…in 2025!? And just for reference, you’ll get less prison time for scamming half a million dollars in COVID benefits. Here’s how a mask mandate in Washington state turned one man into a felon. #shorts #washington
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- Every response to political violence
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Who do we blame for political violence? Left-wing media. No, this is the collapse of the family structure. It’s about guns. Wait, do we know if the victim was a CEO or a minority group? #politics #comedy #republicans #democrats
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- Why did six chickens cost over $100,000?
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Kathy Sarkisian wanted to tend to a few chickens. So she got a permit from the city and invested thousands of dollars to convert her garage into a huge indoor chicken coop and put up a fence outside.
A lot of people do this, from homesteaders to hobbyists. It really shouldn’t be a big deal. And it wasn’t, until a chicken ordinance forced her to tear it all down. #chickens #homesteading #homestead
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- Fact check: Boomers and Social Security
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- “Boomers are the problem.” That’s one of the myths about Social Security that The New York Times recently set out to debunk. But is this really a myth? #SocialSecurity #retirement #finance
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- D.C.’s tipped wage law letdown
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- The year? 2022. The problem? Base pay for tipped workers in Washington, D.C. is a fraction of the minimum wage. The solution? Actually, it’s not a problem since employers are required by law to make up the difference if tips don’t bring someone’s pay to full minimum wage. But government needs to do something! #WashingtonDC #server #serviceindustry #job #career
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- Charlie Kirk's MURDER fueling leftist violence, cancel culture? DEBATE
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- 39:54
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss Charlie Kirk’s legacy after his assassination, focusing on how he shaped campus debates by being a fierce advocate for free speech. Soave and Duke also analyzed clips of J.D. Vance hosting The Charlie Kirk Show, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox calling social media a "cancer", and Pam Bondi suggesting that hate speech be criminalized in the U.S.. Both Soave and Duke raise broader concerns about the erosion of principled free expression.
0:00- What we know about Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin
10:45- Bill Maher's reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination
17:50- J.D. Vance's "unity" comments on The Charlie Kirk show
25:45- Is cancel culture back?
30:00- Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment
34:39- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's attacks social media
Producer: Natalie Dowzicky
Video editor: Chris Sowick
Be sure to subscribe to @reasonFreeMedia on Youtube.
- Title
- The problem with Mamdani’s *FREE* bus plan
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Everyone in New York City is talking about democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and his new proposal to make all bus rides free. #NewYork #NYC #transportation #socialism
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- Should paying for sex be a crime?
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- 1:34:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Melanie Thompson of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Kaytlin Bailey of Old Pros debate the resolution, "Paying for sex should be a crime."
Thompson is arguing in favor of the resolution. She is Chief Advocacy & Outreach Officer at the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International, an organization dedicated to work against the the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls.
Bailey is arguing against the resolution, and is the Founder & Executive Director of Old Pros, a non-profit media organization creating conditions to change the status of sex workers in society. She is also the host of The Oldest Profession Podcast.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.
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- Seattle PUNISHED HIM for homeless squatters?!
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Who is to blame for homeless encampments on private property? If you’re Seattle, it’s not the homeless, it’s not the city, it’s—the property owners who should be punished. #Seattle #homeless
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- Is Social Security YOUR money?
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Social Security is “YOUR MONEY.”
This is a common talking point—people say they paid into Social Security so they’re only getting their own money back. But, is that true? #SocialSecurity
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- The Uselessness of Taxing the Rich
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- 12:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Don't comfort yourself with wishful thinking that millionaires and billionaires could take the entire burden of the deficit off our hands.
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https://reason.com/video/2025/09/09/heres-what-would-happen-if-we-seized-all-the-wealth-from-americas-800-billionaires/
Budget deficits of nearly $2 trillion—and speeding towards $4 trillion within a decade—will force increasingly difficult budgetary trade-offs. Many on the left, and sometimes the populist right, respond with: "Easy, just tax the rich. Problem solved."
But is it really that easy? Can most of these soaring budget deficits be closed by higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations? The answer is an emphatic "no." And that's not a question of ideology, or of picking winners and losers. It's just a matter of unforgiving math: Deficits have grown too big for even aggressive tax-the-rich policies to fix significantly.
Taxing the rich could be part of a broader deficit "gran...
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- What the #%^@% is the Scunthorpe Problem?
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The problem? People on the internet swear too much. The solution? A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #technology #internet #history #historyfacts
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- Sorry, socialists, there's no such thing as a free bus
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- 4:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to make every city bus ride free. The democratic socialist assemblyman says the policy would cost about $700 million a year, which sounds like a lot until you compare it to New York state's $254.3 billion budget. Mamdani argues that when stacked against that number, his plan is practically a bargain—one that would improve transit equity and get more New Yorkers onto public transportation.
But here's the catch: Free buses don't exist—someone has to pay for them. Right now, farebox revenue provides the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) with over $5 billion annually. Losing even a fraction of that revenue would open up a budget hole the state can't easily fill. And with COVID relief money drying up, the timing couldn't be worse.
New York City buses already face a serious fare evasion problem, with nearly half of all riders not paying. But that doesn't mean the system should be free altogether. If ...
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- Why can’t we grow cocoa in the United States?
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A room at Hershey’s Chocolate World is specifically designed to mimic the natural habitat of plants than can only survive around the Equator. It’s for cocoa trees. But why do they matter so much to Americans? #chocolate #food #travel
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- The dark history of handwashing
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Here's a not-so-fun fact: The guy who discovered the benefits of hand-washing was bullied by fellow doctors, ended up in an asylum, and died of an infection that probably could have been prevented by washing his hands. #science #healthcare #historyfacts #history
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- Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Obscenity Blocks, Cooking Oil, DC's Tipped Wage (Vol. 19)
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- 3:13
- Date posted
- 9 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 One: Bleep Creep
The Year: 1996
The Problem: People on the internet swear too much!
The Solution: A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations.
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out, the English language. The filter started nuking innocent words, like the perfectly respectable town of Scunthorpe, England. When resident Doug Blackie tried to sign up for the service, AOL basically told him to [beep] off.
Their fix? AOL forcibly renamed the town "Sconthorpe," coining a new term: The Scunthorp Problem, which continues to...
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- Why do you need a license for THESE jobs!?
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- There are a lot of jobs which are licensed but don't really need a license, like interior design, fortune telling, psychics, tarot card readers, hair braiding and even shampoo assistants. #jobs #career #job
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- The easiest way to save 175,000 Europeans a year
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Every year, around 1,300 Americans die from extreme heat. But in Europe, which has about double the population, 175,000 people die from heat. These numbers are shocking. Doesn’t Europe have a milder climate? Well, the divide here comes down to one main factor: air conditioning. #Europe #summer #climate
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- Why Do So Many Jobs Require a License?
- Runtime
- 9:36
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Becoming a taxidermist or hair braider shouldn't involve costly hurdles.
Around 20 percent of American workers must hold a professional license to do their job. Why?
Andrew Heaton has an answer. And it's infuriating.
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- The problem with Trump’s D.C. police takeover
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- By now there's a strong chance you've heard about a man in Washington, D.C., who stands accused of what is, at the moment, arguably the most highly-publicized crime in the city. Some of this debate has focused on whether or not crime is actually a problem in D.C. It is, but the picture is more complicated than many would like to admit. #police #Trump #WashingtonDC
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- Why is the drinking age 21?
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Before Prohibition, most states didn’t even have a minimum drinking age. But when Prohibition ended in 1933, most states adopted a drinking age of 21.
All that changed in the 1970s when many states lowered their drinking ages from 21 to 18 or 19 in response to the 26th Amendment, which let 18-year-olds vote. But it wouldn’t last long. #drinks #history #historyfacts
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- ARRESTED for feeding the homeless?!
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- This man was arrested for the heinous, inhumane, and morally repugnant crime of feeding the homeless.
He could have escaped arrest by paying the city up to $1,500 for a picnic permit. And he was willing to do it! What he wasn’t willing to do was let the homeless starve for sixty days while the city government “processed” his application. #homeless #homelessness #arizona
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- Are Trump’s Deportations Constitutional?
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- 1:38:25
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Glenn Greenwald debates Anna Gorisch on Trump's deportation policies.
The resolution reads, "President Trump’s deportation policies generally violate key civil liberties as set forth in the U.S. Constitution."
https://reason.com/podcasts/the-soho-forum-debates/
Arguing in favor of the resolution is Greenwald, a journalist and podcaster who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations. He left The Intercept in 2020 to become independent, and is now the host of SYSTEM UPDATE nightly on Rumble.
Anna K. Gorisch is the founder and managing partner of Kendall Immigration Law, PLLC, and has extensive experience in employment-based immigration. In addition to her legal practice, she is a regular resource for news outlets such as Bloomberg Law and The Free Press, and is a frequent guest on the Political Orphanage podcast.
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- Why does a toilet cost $1 million!?
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Can you imagine using a $1 million toilet? If you’ve gone pee in NYC, you just might have. And it's probably not as glamorous as it sounds… #NYC #NewYork #newyorkcity
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- If they were honest about the Epstein Files
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Why does the White House keep dodging questions about the Epstein Files? Surely if the president wanted to bang a teenager, he would've done it in his own organization rather than outsourcing it to a pervert who is a Mossad agent? Hold on now, don't take that out of context… #comedy #whitehouse #politics
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- Why is New York so bad at building subway lines?
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- This subway system cost $2.6 billion per mile, 8 to 12 times more than it would have cost in Europe. It’s the Second Avenue subway, the newest addition in New York. Oh, and it also took almost 100 years and more than half a billion dollars over budget to build. #NewYork #NYC #subway
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- Why did electric buses burst into flames?
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- In 2019, Philadelphia bought 25 new battery-powered buses that cost $24 million. Even if you don’t live there, you helped pay for them, since the federal government chipped in a $2.6 million grant. Less than a year later, the buses were “mysteriously” removed from city streets. Why? #bus #electric #philadelphia
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- The airplane safety problem almost no one talks about
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- 9:16
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work.
Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is kind of a mess right now. It relies on outdated technology and is beset by staffing shortages. Fixing those problems is essential, but politics keeps getting in the way.
And even though flying is still the safest way to travel, the air traffic control system is now under more scrutiny after 67 people were killed in a midair collision near Washington, D.C., earlier this year. The full investigation of that incident is still ongoing, but the Trump administration wasted little time in promising to improve air traffic control. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump promised to "modernize this decrepit relic and give America the best, most advanced air traffic control system on Earth."
Dorothy Robyn, a senior fellow at the Information Technology & In...
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- Why is the IRS spying on crypto holders?
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The IRS can spy on you, to determine if they should spy on you. No subpoena, no warrant, and no notice provided to the person whose financial information it’s seizing. #tech #crypto #IRS
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- Who moved this county line?
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In 2019, the border of Banks County, Georgia appeared to shift, in a direct contradiction of the borders that had existed since 1859—and one sheriff appears to be at the center of it all.
#voting #election #rural #america #georgia
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- Fighting fascism with...gun control!?
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Washington is so anti-fascist that they actually just took another step toward disarming civilians. #washington #law #criminaljustice
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- Can NPR survive without public funding?
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Congress has defunded NPR and PBS. Should you freak out? #television #news #media #npr
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- Remy: I Need a Boat (GOP Spending Version)
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- You can't torpedo spending if you're torpedo spending.
Parody of Morgan Wallen's "Need A Boat," written and performed by Remy. Music tracks mastered by Ben Karlstrom.
LYRICS
This draft bill don't look fine right now
And it ain't doing the trick (No…)
We're so dangerously indebted now
And this adds to the debt.
It adds one, two trillion, that's not great.
But what if we add something manufactured in your state?
Would a bridge change your mind? No, but if anything can
It'd be me on a dock pushing off of dry land.
I need a lake, a ship built in my state.
I'd even take a fleet.
Can one of them be named for me?
Sir, we're running out!
Yeah, what I need right now…
Are some real high ceilings
New-ship feeling
Me on the deck just-a sipping on Darjeeling
Don't need no sad song on my Spotify
Crying "he lost an election to a punk guy"
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- NYC taxpayers just helped pay for my boat ride
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The New York City ferry ticket is only $4.50, but the ferry costs about $13 per rider to operate, meaning taxpayers fund $9 for every person who rides. #NewYork #NYC #ferry #travel
- Title
- How corn ethanol backfired
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In 2005, politicians subsidized and mandated corn ethanol as an alternative to oil. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #history #historybuff #environment
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- Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan?
- Runtime
- 1:42:49
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
https://reason.com/podcasts/the-soho-forum-debates/
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
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Jacob Hacker and David Goldhill debate the resolution: "The government should offer to all Americans a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans."
Jacob Hacker is arguing for the affirmative. He's a professor of political science at Yale University and co-directs the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership at Yale Law School. He is a resident fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
For the negative is David Goldhill, CEO and co-founder of Sesame, an online marketplace for discounted health services. He is also author of Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong.
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- Why Seattle’s mass transit sucks
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Why is Seattle spending $148 billion and cutting down 14,000 trees under the guise of green transportation? #Seattle #transportation #washington #green
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- 2 million tires in the ocean!?
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In 1972, too many tires piled up in landfills. The solution? Dump over 2 million tires into the ocean, creating an artificial reef to benefit marine life. #history #historyfacts #ocean #environment
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- The global warming rat apocalypse debunked
- Runtime
- 6:40
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- A widely reported study relies on weak data, inaccurate statistics, and misleading references to support its claims.
https://reason.com/video/2025/07/15/theres-no-evidence-that-climate-change-has-increased-the-rat-population/
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As the earth gets warmer, there's one species that supposedly will really benefit."Climate Change is amazing," reported National Geographic. "If you're a rat."
The horrific prospect of these pizza-dragging, toilet-bathing, plague-spreading, baby-eating, cannibalistic beasts swarming the sweltering streets of our major cities helps to explain why a recent study allegedly demonstrating a global warming-induced increase in the urban rat population received such widespread media coverage. As is often the case, journalists were not sufficiently skeptical, nor did they take the time to read the study closely.
Published in Science Advances with 19 co-authors, this paper contains nothing meaningful about either climat...
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- The city seized their property. So they did this.
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- This is the Hess Triangle. This 100-year-old mosaic is the tiniest, cutest middle finger to city government in all of NYC. How did an angry little mosaic get to this unassuming street in New York City’s West Village? #NewYork #NYC #history #historyfacts
- Title
- A new tariff in town
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Howdy boys. There’s a new tariff in town. One whiskey for $500? Aww… Sounds like 80 percent tariffs on the consequences of my own actions. 🥃💸 #comedy #tariffs #trump #western
