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Reading _Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge_. Ona Judge could be considered a proto-Free Stater. She fled to New Hampshire to escape the POTUS's power and found a community of like-minded people here.

New on my blog: Why people like to ban _To Kill a Mockingbird_. https://garymcgath.com/wp/to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Anyone remember when breastfeeding was the One True Way and formula was evil? https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+youngest+market%3a+baby+food+peddlers+undermine+breastfeeding.-a0182081205

A particularly insightful Jesus and Mo. Today, "non-binary" often means "failing to conform to sexual stereotypes." https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/folks/

Tariffs, protectionism, and overregulation led to a shortage of food for babies in the US, something which would have been incredible a couple of years ago. Biden's response is to expand government power. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/biden-defense-production-act-baby-formula/index.html

Bush inadvertently admits to the "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq." https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/19/gaffe-as-george-w-bush-slams-russia-s-wholly-unjustified-and-brutal-invasion-of-iraq

@billblake2018 It's not a legitimate defense expense, and 40 billion dollars is hardly a tiny amount of money.

Mailchimp collects a _lot_ of information on you when you open its mail as HTML. Don't believe me? Let them tell you. https://mailchimp.com/help/reports/

I wish everyone who claims the name "libertarian" would read this. http://www.flawedjewel.com/activism/libertarians-we-have-a-problem/

A new review of _Spells of War_. https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2111337.html?view=15340393

@orthzar Geolocation.

@adamasnemesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9NEPFjpis

@jhertzli The Louisiana bill would outlaw all willful elimination of fertilized ova. It would sentence women with ectopic pregnancies to death. I call that villainy.

The only explanation I can think of for Louisiana HB 813 is pure murderous malice. https://legiscan.com/LA/text/HB813/id/2549012

Attorney General's office brings out the old lie that there's a "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/05/04/racist-emails-black-student-groups-umass-amherst/

@mindhog We should also be thinking of Buck v. Bell, which allows forced sterilization and, I believe, still stands.

Libertarians should be telling the pro-choice world that the doctrine of unlimited government power has led to the possible downfall of Roe v. Wade and that they need to adopt a strong pro-individual rights position. What I'm mostly seeing is "If you didn't support Freedom X, don't claim you support bodily autonomy." How does making people more consistent statists help?