Trump's Pro-Union Labor Secretary Out

Plus: Scandal at the Department of Labor, the real reasons people use psychedelics, more problems with Trump's triumphal arch, and more...

Labor secretary quits. President Donald Trump's controversial head of the Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, resigned her position in the administration on Monday amid a swirl of misconduct allegations.

White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung announced the news in an X post yesterday evening in which he praised Chavez-DeRemer for doing a "phenomenal job" and said Keith Sonderling, the current deputy secretary of labor, would take over as acting head of the department.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector. She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their…

— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) April 20, 2026

Prior to joining the Trump administration, Chavez-DeRemer was a congresswoman from Oregon, who was notable for being one of a very small number of Republicans to support federal legislation forcing pro-union policies on the whole country.

That included the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would have made it harder to classify workers as independent contractors, ended right-to-work policies in the states that have them, and expanded the power of the National Labor Relations Board.

Additionally, Chavez-DeRemer co-sponsored federal legislation that would have given almost every government employee the right to unionize and overturned state laws that forbid public sector workers from collective bargaining.

Chavez-DeRemer lost her reelection bid in 2024.

Her relatively pro-union stances made her an odd pick for a Republican administration. Three GOP senators, including Rand Paul, voted against her confirmation, while 17 Democrats supported her.

Personal issues. It appears it was Chavez-DeRemer's personal behavior, and not her policy positions, that proved to be her undoing. Before resigning, the secretary was being investigated by the DOL inspector general over allegations that she drank on the job, was having an affair with a member of her security staff, and concocted official travel plans to pay for personal travel.

Chavez-DeRemer's husband had also been accused of sexual misconduct by DOL staffers and had reportedly been banned from the department's D.C. headquarters building. Last week, The New York Times reported on the secretary's husband and father texting her female staff. Politico cites a "Republican close to the Trump administration" saying the text messages were "the final straw."

In her own statement on X, Chavez-DeRemer said that she was "proud that we made significant progress in advancing President Trump's mission to bridge the gap between business and labor and always put the American worker first."

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve in this historic Administration and work for the greatest President of my lifetime.

At the Department of Labor, I am proud that we made significant progress in advancing President Trump's mission to bridge the gap between business…

— Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer (@SecretaryLCD) April 20, 2026

Chavez-DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to leave Trump's second administration, following former Homeland Security head Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Doing drugs, not medicine. As this newsletter covered yesterday, the president signed an executive order aiming to fast-track Food and Drug Administration review of psychedelics for medical uses.

That's all well and good, writes Jacob Sullum in Reason. But this medicalized approach to legalizing psychedelics also ignores why most people take them. Writes Sullum:

In a 2023 survey of psilocybin users, for instance, the RAND Corporation found that the most common motivations included "fun" (59 percent), "personal development" (45 percent), "curiosity" (43 percent), and "spiritual growth" (41 percent). Needless to say, these are not applications that the FDA is likely to recognize as legitimate. And while 49 percent of respondents said they used psilocybin for "improved mental health," even that category overlaps only partly with the diagnoses that would be necessary to obtain prescriptions under federal law.

Trump's initiative, in short, falls far short of acknowledging that adults have a right to use psychedelics for whatever reasons they deem compelling. It therefore does not do much to address the injustice of threatening people with arrest and prosecution for exercising that right.

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Scenes from Washington, D.C.: One can criticize Trump's proposed triumphal arch for being gaudy and located in Virginia. If you need more reasons to dislike it, Washingtonian spoke to an architect who has thoughts.

A proposed triumphal arch could dramatically reshape DC's skyline. One landscape architect has thoughts. https://t.co/tu8giV4Qu0 pic.twitter.com/WSxgj2Q2te

— Washingtonian 🌸 (@washingtonian) April 20, 2026

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• The Onion makes a bid to acquire InfoWars.
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— Todd Jones 🦊 (@toddrjones) April 17, 2026

• Even more curious. Virginia Democrats are proposing a lobster-shaped district as part of their plan to heavily gerrymander the state.

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— Virginia GOP (@VA_GOP) February 6, 2026

• It appears peace talks between the U.S. and Iran will be held in Pakistan as the ceasefire is set to end tomorrow.
• Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO.
• Federal Reserve independence is the spotlight at the confirmation hearing for Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Labor secretary quits.

This is like a fly in your chardonnay.

[Bubba Jones]

She was pimping her staff to her husband and father.

I guess those were her primary qualifications.

The common theme seems to be that only a drunk pimp would work for Trump.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

The common theme among steaming piles of lying shit seems to be a raging case of TDS, TDS-addled steaming pile of lying shit.

[mad.casual]

The common theme seems to be that only a drunk pimp would work for Trump.

Would you feel better if they told you they truly loved you?

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know, because she was labor sec and she quit. It's ironic. Like from the song.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Nope.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Her relatively pro-union stances made her an odd pick for a Republican administration.

Do we currently have a Republican administration?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Oh, snap!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Her relatively pro-union stances made her an odd pick for a Republican administration. Three GOP senators, including Rand Paul, voted against her confirmation, while 17 Democrats supported her.'

Maybe Trump wants to prove he is more best at being the best pro-union President than Biden.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Before resigning, the secretary was being investigated by the DOL inspector general over allegations that she drank on the job...

She really was pro-union.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Bunch of nannies and Karens that seem unable to do work and politics with a healthy buzz.

[mad.casual]

If your father and husband can't sexually harass your co-workers while you drink at work for the DOL, where can your father and husband harass women while you drink at work?

[Liberty_Belle]

Everybody knows to make it in Washington , you have to be a high functioning drunk. If you can't booze it up while still keeping your grift going ... what good are you ?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Mamdani closes down public access to Times Square for 4th of July celebration, now Newsome and politicians in California are also clamping down to stop 4th of July fireworks as America is set to celebrate its semiquincentennial.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-newsom-allows-bureaucrats-to-kill-fourth-of-july-fireworks/ar-AA21khM7

The California Coastal Commission has set out to end Long Beach's “Big Bang on the Bay,” the city’s Fourth of July fireworks show that has run for 15 years. The commission is blocking it on the grounds of environmentalism because California will destroy every community event (or community) in the name of environmental activists, and fireworks are supposedly killing the planet. This would be an outrageous overreach by the government in any year, but it is particularly jarring given this year marks 250 years since the founding of the United States.

In other words, Newsom allows a collection of unelected bureaucrats to make political decisions designed for politicians, with no real way of holding them accountable, as they are part of an “independent” agency. The California Coastal Commission is a “quasi-judicial” agency that makes legislative decisions while operating as an untouchable part of the executive branch.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What part of Neo-feudalism do you not understand?

[Juliana Frink]

Anti-Independence Day.

It figures. I wonder what happens if millions of people defy (RESIST!) these tyrants and set off their own (small, basically harmless) fireworks?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

In CA they leave it to the homeless to burn cities to the ground.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I assume those were immigrant hobos, since domestic hobos will not do necessary hard work.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Read a recent article that in Portland 40% of the fires are started by homeless druggie vagrants.

[Mickey Rat]

"...unelected bureaucrats to make political decisions designed for politicians, with no real way of holding them accountable, as they are part of an “independent” agency. The California Coastal Commission is a “quasi-judicial” agency that makes legislative decisions while operating as an untouchable part of the executive branch."

A vital aspect of the Progressive version of "democracy", which has to dodge accountability to the sovereign people. Making alternative a legislature, executive, and judicial bodies unhindered by the normal checks and balances to "get things done" is SOP for deep Blue States.

[Juliana Frink]

"...Progressive version of 'democracy'..."

Relies heavily on Enemies Foreign and Domestic to overrule the Will of The People.

[Fist of Etiquette]

But this medicalized approach to legalizing psychedelics also ignores why most people take them.

Trump's a doctor, not a stoner. Elect a hippie if you want ayahuasca flowing freely on our nation's playgrounds.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump's initiative, in short, falls far short of acknowledging that adults have a right to use psychedelics for whatever reasons they deem compelling.

I'm sorry, but if you're too high to get a doctor to write you a scrip then maybe you deserve the hoosegow.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A proposed triumphal arch could dramatically reshape DC's skyline. One landscape architect has thoughts.

Oh, please. A landscape architect is just an interior decorator with dirty fingernails.

[Minadin]

Washingtonian spoke to an architect who has thoughts.

Landscape architect. Very different.

[Ron]

If you put ten architects in a room you will never get agreement on anything, least of all architecture. and what makes this architect's opinion more important than any other

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Onion makes a bid to acquire InfoWars.

Man, that just keeps getting [yawn] funnier and funnier.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What will the Bee make from this?

[mad.casual]

In A Bid To Outpace Their Competition's Superior Investigative Journalism Capabilities, The Onion Purchases InfoWars

[Fist of Etiquette]

Japan's Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan

As long as it doesn't curve into a crescent.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How many Islamic rape gangs in Japan?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Virginia Democrats are proposing a lobster-shaped district as part of their plan to heavily gerrymander the state.

Woe to those in a state bordering the swamp.

[Bubba Jones]

I was expecting more of a gander than a lobster.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or a big penis. But Democrats would feel conflicted.

[mad.casual]

Are we sure "lobster" isn't polite euphemism for "pubic louse"?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A penis has the risk of being chopped off.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It appears peace talks between the U.S. and Iran will be held in Pakistan as the ceasefire is set to end tomorrow.

Suck it, India.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO.

I really need to increase the quality of my sleep. I can't seem to stop yawning.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Federal Reserve independence is the spotlight at the confirmation hearing for Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh.

Unaccountability isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Ohh reason all the talk about pretending to be for free speech, and no mention of the hit job that was the destruction of info wars. The fbi started it and coordinated with people and the courts, because they knew it was a straight up 1st amendment destruction

Unless reason can say how much money they made on every article, they should be fined $1.5 billion. And no, any evidence you bring up I will throw out because I think your lying.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Forget it Jake, this is Reeeeason town.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Nice little place, on the edge of the swamp.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Otisburg?

[Juliana Frink]

And then there's this:

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045997083153350719

The Anti-Anti-Fraud faction rears its ugly head. And I don't think there is anything "grass roots" about it.

[mad.casual]

Nick Shirley reveals it's getting dangerous for him to stay at HOTELS because of the doxxing and killing plots

"It's just 1A protected public platforms all the way down." - Reason

[Juliana Frink]

Perhaps Reason refuses to do a 1A article on Nick Shirley and so many on the "right" is that they would inadvertently reveal that the anti-free speech actions undertaken by progressives is easily an order of magnitude worse than those they accuse the "right" of doing.

Face it, the Boaf Sidez(!) tripe from Reason is completely undermined by the fact that everything the Trump administration gets wrong is outdone by REAL horrors perpetrated by the "left" by at least ten to one.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The 1a protects the Red Guard of the left.

But fuck that Alex Jones guy or any conservative lawyers.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Sexual harassment in congress isnt just for swallwell.

https://thepostmillennial.com/taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-18-million-to-pay-off-sexual-harassment-settlements-against-congressmen

[Spiritus Mundi]

Congressmen but not congresswomen? I thought Demi Moore got elected!?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The FD-302 released last month details an FBI agent’s claim that a battle erupted in Special Counsel Mueller’s office concerning whether the team should seek a third renewal of the FISA warrant to surveil Phares. Then-FBI agent Andre Khoury said “No,” adding, according to the FD-302, that “they were getting all of the information they needed from interviews with the target of the investigation who was cooperating and providing everything they needed.” The FBI report continued by noting that Khoury said that FISA surveillance “would not give us anything more and there was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation other than to prove the Target was being honest with investigators.”
..
The FBI agent interviewed for the FD-302 called the Special Counsel’s FISA renewal the “most egregious” of the misconduct, as the team sought to continue to surveil Phares “despite the change in our information.” That agent explained that he had made “specific corrections to the applications in numerous instances throughout the FISA certified copy process.” However, Kevin Clinesmith — who would later be convicted of making a false statement related to the Carter Page FISA application — said “we can’t send this to the DOJ.”

Instead, Clinesmith organized a meeting with the DOJ and led a discussion on the FISA renewal. During that meeting, those pushing for a renewal allegedly said the “statements they used in the FISA to describe the Target was ‘broad enough’ to cover the differing perspectives.”

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/20/new-release-fbi-agent-deeply-involved-in-get-trump-lawfare-may-have-crossed-criminal-line/

Guessing reason has zero interest in this story despite multiple articles on ending FISA.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Chavez-DeRemer was a congresswoman from Oregon, who was notable for being one of a very small number of Republicans to support federal legislation forcing pro-union policies on the whole country.

Thank Allah that a 'republican' voiced support for pro-union policies so that Reeeeason could finally level some criticism at them.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Before resigning, the secretary was being investigated by the DOL inspector general over allegations that she drank on the job, was having an affair with a member of her security staff, and concocted official travel plans to pay for personal travel.'

Sounds normal.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A damn good article from Turley on getting rid of the "autocratic" ruler to simply bend the knee to globalist rule by the EU.

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/20/use-the-momentum-the-eu-moves-to-destroy-the-last-vestiges-of-national-sovereignty/

The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary last weekend was celebrated by many who saw the former president as establishing single-party rule in his central European nation. The irony is that this claimed victory for democracy may fuel the establishment of a global governance system that is neither democratic nor accountable to citizens.

The European Union was criticized by many for taking sides in the Hungarian election and for undermining Orban, who asserted national priorities in disputes with the EU. No sooner had Orban conceded defeat than a jubilant European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for the final coup de grace for national identity and sovereignty: the elimination of the ability of nations to stand against EU policies.
..
Van der Leyen helped elect the pro-EU Peter Magyar in order to remove a barrier to the EU’s ultimate exercise of power. The EU had been squeezing Hungary over its defiance by holding back billions in funds. Despite his tough talk on negotiations with the EU, Magyar is expected by EU bureaucrats to be a suppliant, willing to fall into line with the EU agenda.

The EU Chief has reportedly already given Magyar a list of 27 demands he must meet before she will turn the spigot back on.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, nothing wrong with single party rule as long as it's the right party.

[Chupacabra]

The EU was just "Protecting their Democracy".

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Chavez-DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to leave Trump's second administration, following former Homeland Security head Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi.'

Chicks, right?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Can see Boehms sput already flying.

https://www.ussteel.com/media/newsroom/-/blogs/u-s-steel-announces-plans-to-restart-gary-tin-mill

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Why did the Gary mill turn off?
The answer is as
easy as abc...
123...
Abc baby you and me

[mad.casual]

Why did the Gary mill turn off?

It was raining and the whole thing rusted solid mid-chop.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Poor Ro.

Jason Cohen
@JasonJournoDC
NEW: Maria Bartiromo: "10 presidents before President Trump all said the same thing: 'Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.'"

Ro Khanna: "And one president delivered! And that was Barack Obama!"

Maria Bartiromo: "No, that's not true ... Congressman, you're talking fantasy! Obama did NOTHING about it! ... other than send money to the Iranians!"

https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2046223699582349529

Been weird seeing democrats openly cheer the IRGC. Chris Murphy (the guy caught meeting with Iranian spies in 2023) is openly cheering on Iran on X.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

TDS--pray for a cure. Or a quick escalation to a fatal phase.

[mad.casual]

I don't know whether to commend Bartiromo for the politeness of her response or to criticize her for not verbally bludgeoning him with something more along the lines of "Holy Shit! Are you fucking retarded?"

[Neutral not Neutered]

No articles written, which surprised me, on how Biden supported Iran as much as he possibly could as he gave them money, removed sanctions and pardoned Iranian criminals.

Not sure how the blind eyes were not removed over so many years of Biden family taking money from the same countries who support Putin's efforts against ukraine.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Turning out all those Iranian IRGC family members were granted green cards under Biden.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Almost like its a cultural issue.. qb, any comments?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fury-nigerian-migrant-caught-cooking-cat-public-park-next-childrens-playground

[Medulla Oblongata]

But it wasn't in Springfield Ohio, so it's all a lie.

[Quicktown Brix]

My only comment is that what happened in Italy does not change the fact that the story about cat eating in Ohio was false and even a year or so later no confirmation has ever been presented.

I do have many questions though.

Is that picture supposed to be an image of the incident? Because that cat is alive and is not going to stay in the fire to be roasted. Anyone ever try to catch a scared fleeing cat? Not gonna happen.

Why are the the guy's hands behind and not touching the kitten standing comfortably on the fire?

The image is doctored (or do we say "Jesused" now?). Why do they need a doctored image? And if it's not a faked photo, then this guy was not roasting a cat, just (ineptly) attempting to torture it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

You will not celebrate american 4th of July under democrats watch.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/long-beach-fourth-of-july-fireworks-big-bang-on-the-bay-permit-denied-independence-day/

[Spiritus Mundi]

Resubmit as 'gay pride' firework festival. Guaranteed approval.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But then they will mandate attendance.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Even more curious. Virginia Democrats are proposing a lobster-shaped district as part of their plan to heavily gerrymander the state.'

Looks more like a scorpion to me, with the blue poison in the tail stinger.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It appears peace talks between the U.S. and Iran will be held in Pakistan as the ceasefire is set to end tomorrow.'

So, no booze at lunch? That will make things harder.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The Onion makes a bid to acquire InfoWars.

So is reasok still celebrating the 1.5B judgement? Still celebrating a biased judge helping the onion to buy info wars despite a worse offer?

Weird how reason continues to applaud this shit.

1.5B to bankrupt someone and take their company. Filled with all sorts of shit reason should be against.

Excessive claims of damages over an opinion, not one parent was forced to prove they were harmed.

A bias judge who threatened contempt over documents never proven to exist even woth declarations by Jones they didnt exist.

Judge disallowing coubter testimony in tbe case for defense.

And reason applauds it.

[Juliana Frink]

Reason is the Author of Confusion.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Federal Reserve independence is the spotlight at the confirmation hearing for Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh.'

Could we make this about Federal Reserve existence?

[Ajsloss]

Last week, The New York Times reported on the secretary's husband and father texting her female staff.

You said she was from Oregon and not West Virginia, no?

[mad.casual]

Junior: How did you know she was a Nazi?
Henry: She talks in her sleep.

[Neutral not Neutered]

"Trump's initiative, in short, falls far short of acknowledging that adults have a right to use psychedelics for whatever reasons they deem compelling. It therefore does not do much to address the injustice of threatening people with arrest and prosecution for exercising that right."

Trump's initiative is for medical usage not personal entertainment. Perhaps you need to pay attention and do less wishing things were the way you want them and report on what is?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from DC:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jackson-scolds-colleagues-in-solo-dissent-after-court-jumps-into-routine-police-stop-case/ar-AA21jUXN

The case arose from a 2023 dispatch call to Washington, D.C., police at 2 a.m. reporting a suspicious vehicle. When an officer arrived on scene, two people ran from the car while the remaining passenger slowly began backing out of the parking lot with a door still open. The D.C. attorney general's office argued on behalf of police that this "totality" of facts amounted to reasonable suspicion to stop the person who remained in the car.

The Supreme Court’s unsigned per curiam opinion said the lower court improperly ignored that two people fled the vehicle before the third person was stopped by an officer. Jackson said the D.C. appeals court had done basic "culling" of facts to reach its conclusion that the stop was unwarranted.

"Under these circumstances, with only seconds to decide whether to intervene, the officer was entirely justified in detaining the driver," lawyers for the police argued.

They added that "within moments of stopping the driver, the officer observed a smashed window and punched-out ignition, confirming that the vehicle had been stolen."

But Jackson argued against what she said was the high court's intervention in a lower court's routine evaluation of which facts are relevant and which are not.

"I cannot fathom why that kind of factbound determination warranted correction by this Court," Jackson wrote.

"I am not sure why our Court sees fit to intervene in this case, let alone to do so summarily," Jackson said. "If the intervention reflects a worry that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (DCCA) misunderstands the Fourth Amendment’s totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, that worry seems unfounded."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

KBJ os the apex of a soros bought judge.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from LA: Two long-term historic venues are closing, Coles and Cliftons have had enough of crime, vandalism, open-air drug use, homeless squatters, and trash.

"It's just too difficult to do business in downtown's historic core."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/we-ve-lost-our-way-clifton-s-operator-gives-up-on-downtown-los-angeles/ar-AA21bdVa

Vandalism has been rampant, with graffiti appearing on the historic structure almost daily. Vandals would use acid or diamond glass cutters to deface the windows, often cracking the glass. It would cost Meieran more than $30,000 each time to replace the windows. Insurance companies either stopped offering policies that covered vandalism or raised premiums by as much as 600%, he said.

"The bigger problem for us and the rest of the industry is the high cost of doing business," said Cedd Moses, who used to operate Cole's and has backed many other bars and restaurants in historic buildings downtown for decades. "That's what is killing independent restaurants in this city."

"There was a guy who was terrorizing the front of Clifton's because he decided he wanted to live in the vestibule in front, and he didn't want us to operate there," Meieran said. “He would threaten to kill anybody who came through.”

He doesn't believe official statistics that show crime and homelessness are way down in the area, and he doesn't want to restart a business when criminals can so easily erase his hard work.

"What business that's already on thin margins can survive that?" he said.

[Medulla Oblongata]

California needs an exit tax

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-the-wealth-tax-illusion-we-cannot-confiscate-our-way-to-prosperity/ar-AA21nu0V

In California, even the proposal of a wealth tax referendum has triggered capital flight. High-profile figures, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel and Steven Spielberg have relocated or shifted residency. One Stanford-Hoover analysis estimated that just six such departures removed roughly $536 billion from the proposed tax base — nearly one-third of the wealth the tax was supposed to target. The tax had not passed, yet the erosion had already begun.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

It's gotten to the point where the more they grab for, the less they get.

[Ron]

as Thatcher used to say you eventually run out of other peoples money

[Marshal]

Even more curious. Virginia Democrats are proposing a lobster-shaped district as part of their plan to heavily gerrymander the state.

Using Reason's search function for "gerrymander" shows this is the first Reason article to mention Dems effort to gerrymander the state, literally the day of the vote. That's interesting because most of the writers live in the area which has been saturated with ads for months. It seems Reason has adopted the policy of not addressing issues that might hurt Dems electorally even on subjects they have previously come out against. This is exactly how left-media outlets which consider themselves liberal (distinguished from other flavors of leftists like Socialists and Progressives) protect their standing within Team Left.

[MWAocdoc]

The Department of Labor - another totally unconstitutional agency with only unconstitutional purposes, enforcing unconstitutional laws under the flimsiest of excuses. May all the power-hungry politicians who have executed egregious power-grabs over the last two hundred years of American history burn in hell for all eternity. And may all the jurists who violated their oath of office in failing to strike down these unconstitutional laws, agencies and regulations burn in hell right beside them.