Hungary is the only country in the EU not classified as "free." Corruption is rampant. Orban’s illiberal leadership didn’t even accomplish its objectives—the country is poorer, fertility is still low, and religious affiliation has *declined.* A total failure. freedomhouse.org/country/hung...
Viktor Orban is one of the most corrupt living politicians. He cozied up to Putin, expanded & packed the Supreme Court with loyalists, crippled economic growth with central planning & political favors, and killed media outlets for criticizing him. Amazing news for Hungarians.
A lot of people clearly did not read the decision. The ruling doesn't endorse conversion therapy. It says laws that explicitly discriminate based on viewpoint are constitutionally suspect. That's it. The First Amendment doesn't just protect ideas you like.
If Congress refuses to abolish TSA, then at the very least it should allow the two Minneapolis women behind me in line to start their TSA beverage cart business so we don’t have to wait in 3.5-hour security theater lines while sober. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We overhauled and nationalized airport security after 9/11 out of a psychological need to Do Something bit and showy, not because it was actually necessary or, really, made any sense.
TSA isn’t even good at what it does. The agency missed *95 percent* of explosives & weapons in an undercover DHS investigation.
The real security upgrade after 9/11 was locking cockpit doors. Everything else is mostly security theater. reason.com/2026/03/26/i...
Don’t forget this chaos—and what allowed it—once it ends. Scores of people’s lives were temporarily upended because lawmakers wanted to leverage that misfortune in a political food fight. It’s absurd they have the power to do that. They shouldn’t. reason.com/2026/03/26/i...
People act like TSA is the only way to do airport security. That’s wrong. Several airports—including San Francisco—use private contractors to do screening. They haven’t missed potential terror attacks, and they don’t have mile-long lines right now. We don’t have to accept chaos.
I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight.
The ability to get home shouldn’t hinge on Congress doing its job. Why are we still tolerating this?
Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it: reason.com/2026/03/26/i...
I would agree!
Chalamet’s opera controversy broke out the same day Oscars voting closed, so who knows how much it mattered. But the fact that he could plausibly lose for saying a totally benign fact tells you what you need to know about the Academy Awards.
This article epitomizes why I stopped taking the Oscars seriously.
It highlights Chalamet’s (correct) opera/ballet comments and his general ~vibe~ as emblematic of why he lost. Which is to say: it’s not about merit. It’s about who runs the best campaign. Endlessly silly.
I love it so much!
An anecdote from my time in opera. Perhaps the people across the world yelling at Timothée Chalamet could take their indignation to the opera box office, where they’ve likely never been.
I used to work at an opera company. Paychecks bounced—because there were times when they had $0 in the bank. Glib phrasing aside, Timothée Chalamet was right: few people care about opera.
Absurd that there’s international furor because an actor said a benign fact. www.thefp.com/p/im-a-forme...
Addendum: She also killed a puppy and bragged about it in a book
Kristi Noem's tenure at Homeland Security was marked by a lot of dishonesty, a disregard for the Constitution, and a penchant for using public funds on self-promotion. Whatever your politics, that is the record she leaves behind.
More recently, Noem spent over $220 million on an advertising campaign featuring herself.
Perhaps worse, the taxpayer-funded contracts circumvented the normal competitive process & were secretly awarded to a company with close ties to Noem. reason.com/2026/03/04/d...
Noem has spent a lot of taxpayer money. DHS bought a luxury $70 million jet equipped with a private cabin. Noem has been using it to travel with Corey Lewandowski, the adviser with whom she is allegedly having an affair. reason.com/2026/02/13/h...
Under Noem's leadership, DHS lied—over and over—about people arrested by immigration enforcement. The government has repeatedly released sensational stories tarring people, only for evidence to come out showing completely different stories. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
Noem threatened to have people prosecuted & jailed for filming law enforcement, despite the fact that 7 federal circuit courts have confirmed that this is a basic First Amendment right. Free speech still applies when inconvenient. reason.com/2025/12/22/d...
Noem's hostility to civil liberties was part of a pattern. In May, she told Congress that the president can suspend habeas corpus on a whim to deport people. That is not how the Constitution works. reason.com/2025/05/20/w...
After shipping hundreds of men to a brutal megaprison—without due process—she showed up in El Salvador to film content wearing a $50,000 watch.
Some of those men had sought asylum here legally. reason.com/2025/03/27/k...
Noem lied to the public when she called certain Americans "terrorists"—despite the evidence directly contradicting those claims.
Then she went before Congress and lied about her lies. reason.com/2026/03/04/i...
Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself.
Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.
Delcy Rodríguez is a dictator with a horrible history of violating human rights btw reason.com/2026/01/06/w...
My favorite quote from Trump is when she said he cut drug prices by 600 percent which would mean companies would be THROWING money at us to take drugs lol
In a recent survey, when economists across the political spectrum were asked if the cost of tariffs is borne by consumers, *95 percent* said yes. It’s not close! It’s not a mystery!
The tariffs are not, in fact, paid for by foreign countries. Virtually every economist agrees they are paid for by Americans, because that is how businesses pass down costs. It's basic economics. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
