Social justice activist Shaun King reports “Apple and Google will remove Twitter from the App Store if it does not moderate and remove hate speech under Elon Musk,” celebrating the advent of a corporate state that can deny public accommodations like social media to anyone it chooses, for any reason. This is not only dangerous to free speech but it essentially proves the greatest threat to liberty today comes not from government, but from corporations that seek to govern thought itself.

U.S. Representatives Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) and Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) have introduced bi-partisan legislation which serves as a good starting point. Known as Zero for Zero, the Cammack-Kildee proposal urges the President to pursue trade policies which would result in the “elimination of all direct and indirect subsidies benefiting the production or export of sugar” by countries who subsidize sugar production at a proscribed level.

Republicans and conservatives still need Truth Social (and Parler and Gettr, etc.), not only to hear from former President Donald Trump, but over the long term to build alternatives to ensure their political views won’t be censored.

The U.S. economy contracted 1.4 percent on an inflation-adjusted, annualized basis, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. If the same thing happens in the second quarter, the economy will officially be in another recession, shortly after the brief 2020 Covid recession. But is the recession right now?

Every year the federal, state and local governments seize about $3 billion of property via a process known as civil asset forfeiture, a perverse incentive for law enforcement officials to engage in searches in the hopes of finding something valuable to seize, knowing that that it most likely will not be challenged and recovered. Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Dan Greenberg joins Americans for Limited Government Vice President of Public Policy Robert Romano.

Twitter may have faced legal consequences had they turned down Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter at a 20 percent premium. They had a legal fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders.