There is not a single solution to every problem. There is a discovery process, and you don’t discover it in Congress.

Now that everyone can see firsthand the success of congestion pricing in NYC, looking back on the environmental review process feels even more absurd. 4,000 pages and 3 years of review to study the environmental impact of… using cameras and prices to reduce traffic.

"A leading U.S. AI company was forced to take down a product that millions were using based on non-public, unexplained concerns of a few government officials. This isn’t the red-tape risk of the FDA. It’s more like the FDA demanding, out of the blue and without explanation, that everyone stop drinking milk — if milk were 50% of last year’s stock market gains." @neil_chilson @AdamThierer @RSI

Governor DeSantis spent months promoting roughly $5 billion in property tax relief. The screenshot below is from the Revenue Estimating Conference. It projects roughly $11.9 billion in recurring local revenue reductions. The state has every tax roll, every parcel, and every local budget. The state can model every county, every city, every fire district, and every special district in Florida. Yet five months before a constitutional vote, voters still haven’t seen the county-by-county impacts. Every prescription drug commercial comes with warning labels. This amendment comes with a fiscal note. The warning labels are missing. At this point, that appears to be on purpose.

Feds accuse man of lighting Palisades fire as 'revenge' on the wealthy. Not climate change, but rather violent lunacy is to blame for the fire. latimes.com/california/story…

Regarding the present non-AICOA paradigm, Andy says, "When dominant platforms can impose artificially high fees and preference their own services, consumers pay more and entrepreneurs build less." Last time I checked, I pay nothing to avail myself of Google's search engine, Meta's Instagram and Messenger, and the plethora of apps on Apple's App Store. Speaking of the App Store, developers didn't pay *any* commission to Apple on more than 90 percent of the $1.4 **trillion** in developer billings and sales Apple's platform--the App Store--facilitated in 2025. Andy says AICOA "would restore fairness." I don't know what his definition of fairness is, but my own finds nothing wrong with firms profiting from undertaking massive investments and assuming huge amounts of risk to introduce new products (innovate!) that expand the economy and improve our lives.

The EU unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Package to reduce reliance on U.S. technology & boost “digital autonomy.” But restricting access to leading global tech risks slowing digital adoption, weakening productivity growth, & deepening Europe’s tech lag...🧵

Extremely important read "In the name of safeguarding democracy, open societies are importing the policies of authoritarian regimes they rightly identify as enemies of free expression." "Diversity of opinion and criticism of political decisions, whether domestic or foreign in origin, lie at the very heart of free speech. Labeling such criticism as an attack on democracy implies that democratically elected leaders’ policies and priorities should be insulated from scrutiny" @JMchangama @ForeignAffairs

The new OMB grant rules are being sold as anti-DEI reform. They are much worse: a government-wide machinery for political control of science. Every award must advance “the President’s policy priorities.” Peer review becomes advisory. Grants can be killed on political whim. The nationalization of American science. marginalrevolution.com/margi…

JUST IN: Florida hospital reveals Palantir software has cut sepsis deaths by more than half since it was installed.

When economists write nonsense, it deserves a takedown like @JustinTCallais provides here!

Social Security, aka forcing everyone to lose money…

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet But don't worry guys age verification is going great!! Great reporting from @verge And this is for a purpose I'm understanding of age verifying people for!

Possibly the most painful chart to look at in energy policy:

"Remote work is the biggest innovation for ambitious women with children since the dishwasher." Citing @FamStudies research: Mothers of young children who worked full-time from home spent 2.4 additional hours with their children Excellent @katebachwsj @WSJFreeEx

Question: Who is the biggest winner if Florida creates a massive state backfill fund? The lobbyists. Because once billions of dollars are controlled in Tallahassee, every county, city, sheriff, and special district has an incentive to send someone to ask for a bigger piece. The money doesn’t disappear. The battle over it just moves to the fourth floor of the Capitol. For years, people have complained about local governments hiring lobbyists. This proposal doesn’t eliminate that incentive. It supercharged it.

Milei has accomplished much in Argentina, but an excessive tax burden still drives workers and businesses into informality, and with the right tax reforms the country can regain the wealth it once had. reason.org/commentary/tax-re… via @ReasonFdn @GLawNV

LA just can’t stop making bad decisions. Building a new heavy rail line tunnel will continue a long trend of not serving more people. The same tunnel project with express lanes to allow much more widely used buses to avoid traffic as well as a lot more carpools and vehicles would do far more to benefit far more travelers. governing.com/magazine/the-s…

Institutional operators surveyed by ResiClub have already delayed or canceled 6,000 single-family home projects amid 'ban' push resiclubanalytics.com/p/inst…

"Users cannot access the Constitutionally protected free speech displayed on the internet unless they submit information about themselves, even that which they may not be comfortable submitting."

The two stories are: "America's government is terrible" and "America is great" This is the great dilemma of our time.