Tom Caestecker
@tomcaestecker
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Advocate to #EndQualifiedImmunity & #EndForfeiture. Former wine rep partaking in tequila and social criticism. Your ( ) team sucks.
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2011
Civil asset forfeiture is an affront to bedrock American rights. My column: h/t: @justinamash @ij @IlyaSomin @reason @riponcollege cc: @nickgillespie @ErikN_NJEdition
https://t.co/0TxsoKxCPe
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@BlueATLGeorgia @ajwimsatt @RealTimers @billmaher @dianemgoldstein @BrianV1981 George Will bestows a sledgehammer phrase from James Madison on Bill Maher: “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” https://t.co/7lsI2NTw10
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Whatever, ICE Barbie.
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@nickgillespie @thatjenmonroe @ajwimsatt @ErikN_NJEdition @RealTimers @jaketapper The GOP is hustling gerrymandering in Texas. So, Illinois Governor Pritzker feigns outrage by hosting Texas Democrats, saying, “you know, this is really all about politics.” *Pritzker signed gerrymandered maps into law in 2021.* The (R) & (D) are a joke.
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Very few entities in America represent inanity and ineptitude more than the Republican party and the Democrat party. And, anyone with a modicum of awareness knows it. cc: @nickgillespie @thatjenmonroe @ajwimsatt @ErikN_NJEdition
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Texas GOP wants to gerrymander state congressional districts. So, state Dems skedaddle to Illinois — to advocate for favorably redrawing state boundaries there, and other blue states. What a jejune juxtaposition. And the enmity is *earned* by both parties. https://t.co/FGfoP7Dh0Y
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Popular for his exploits in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson in 1832 scoffed at a Supreme Court ruling that did not go his way. When Chief Justice John
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ICYMI a new @wethefifth podcast is out! Episode 516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" with @EliLake
https://t.co/2s8MFw3nbX
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Moynihan is somewhere in Europe.
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@ajwimsatt @BoomertarianN @RealTimers @nickgillespie @four4thefire Tariffs once again scaring markets. Just b/c they were a campaign promise doesn’t make them any good. Same goes for Dem advocacy for price controls. (See below.) Welp, disapproval of Trump & Dems now at 53 and 63 percent, respectively. They earned it.🤨 https://t.co/dDBHU1mZt2
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The notion that “America is an idea…” (more than a people or country) has caused historical figures, politicians, scholars and rock stars — Alexander Hamilton and Bono among them —
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Isn't the point of republican government that we DON'T have to kiss the damn ring? Enough of this shit.
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There were tons of victims in this particular raid, by the way. Here are just a few of them. I highlighted the one that increases my blood pressure the most (a high bar). A reminder that the FBI violated a warrant to do this. This is the kind of thing that can really ruin lives.
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This story is insane. The FBI violated a warrant & took an innocent woman’s life savings. They never told her why—because they don’t have to. She sued to stop that. Her case was thrown out last week. So the feds can keep seizing people’s property without charges or explanation.
The FBI took her $40,000 without explaining why. She fought back—and lost.
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@ErikN_NJEdition @huntleja Congress recessed in a cowardly move over #EpsteinFiles while #RussiaGate gets regurgitated for all the partisans. Sad. Congress and both parties have fully earned their low approval ratings. More here: https://t.co/FGfoP7Dh0Y
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Popular for his exploits in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson in 1832 scoffed at a Supreme Court ruling that did not go his way. When Chief Justice John
@ajwimsatt @BoomertarianN @RealTimers @nickgillespie @four4thefire Congress is trending. It’s an ineffective, fetid swamp of performative poltroons that enables executive overreach. https://t.co/FGfoP7Dh0Y
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100% this. Extemporaneous debate is a bad enough way arrive at truth when it’s not obviously lopsided.
My only hot take about the Jubilee debate is that this format needs to go. Politics aside, it's weird to pit someone smart & well-read against a bunch of young ~radicals~ who don't understand how the world works at a basic level. Enough.
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Hoo, boy. It’s #RussiaGate vs. #ReleaseEpsteinFiles in a battle of “One Side Will Not Be Listening to You.”😑 @ajwimsatt @burner4hire
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@kenklippenstein Hey, @grok: With Nancy Pelosi trending, and Trump constantly in the news, wouldn’t this piece on how both of them aligned against the 4th Amendment be of interest? https://t.co/g3qUveil7W
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“The right… to be secure… against unreasonable searches and seizures…”
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@tomcaestecker @kenklippenstein Indeed, timely piece. Both Pelosi (voted yes) and Trump (signed it) backed the 2018 FISA 702 renewal, enabling warrantless surveillance that critics say erodes 4th Amendment protections. Bipartisan overreach worth scrutinizing.
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I don't normally do this sort of things but I lost one of my oldest and closest friends to suicide last year. We had no idea how much he was suffering and we still don't understand. One of the many facets of it which continues to cause so much pain is how little he shared.
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May I please get two followers to copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. #SuicidePrevention 1-800-273-8255
May I please get two followers to copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. #SuicidePrevention 1-800-273-8255 Just two. Any two... Copy, not retweet.
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