Kat Murti
Libertarian. Feminist. ED. digital. comms. board. advisory board. 🇮🇳🏴🇺🇸🕉 🖤✌🏼💛
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Hundreds of BLM supporters storm Snohomish County neighborhood to protest at Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best’s home
Lynnwood Times - Lynnwood Times 14h 3 tweets
By Mario Lotmore | Lynnwood Times Roughly 40 vehicles lined the road of a small, quiet, and quaint residential community in unincorporated Snohomish County
Doctors with Borders: Embracing the Potential of Immigrant Doctors
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Occupational Licensing Reform Moves Forward
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The pandemic has created a unique window of opportunity for reform, forcing states to reevaluate the impact of regulations on jobs and poverty. States should seize on this opportunity to expand the freedom to work.
The Vanishing Trial
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Kat Murti The U.S. criminal justice system is set up to coerce everyone—even the innocent!—to plea guilty. - criminal trial and appellate lawyer #CatoCJ 10h
Kat Murti Only about 3% of cases go to trial. I can't think of a fundamental civil right we forfeit more often than our right to a trial.— of #CatoCJ 10h
Kat Murti We do not have the criminal justice system that the Framers envisioned. They put the right to a jury in the Constitution before there was even a Bill of Rights. Over time, the need for "efficiency" has completely eroded that. - #CatoCJ 10h
Trump, Zoning, and Discrimination
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Make no mistake, Trump’s support for exclusionary zoning is not only a blatant appeal to our worst prejudices, it is bad public policy.
People over 6ft have double the risk of coronavirus, study suggests 
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Findings indicate Covid-19 transmitting through air, as height would not make a difference if it were carried only through droplets
Libertarians Who Dismiss Social Justice Are Mistaken
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A just society requires just institutions.
Last Century's Transportation Ten Years from Now
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A review of ten passenger‐​train corridors funded by President Obama’s high‐​speed rail program found that only one ended up increasing train speeds by more than 2.2 miles per hour, and several actually saw speeds decline, suggesting that the $11.5...
The U.S. Presidential Election Will Take Place on November 3, Whether The President Likes It Or Not
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Pandemic or no, the Constitution spells out the timetable and rules by which we hold Presidential elections. The President’s term ends January 20, and — absent a highly unexpected intervention by Congress — we also know the date of the election,...
The Government’s Plan to Turn Kodak Into a Pharmaceutical Company Sure Seems Underdeveloped
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Some questions about the taxpayer‐​financed scheme to remake a notoriously mismanaged company. 
Frédéric Bastiat- Portraits of Liberty Podcast
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Unlike most philosophers and economists Frédéric Bastiat is one of the most humorous and enjoyable libertarian thinkers ever to put pen to paper.
Patrick G. Eddington discusses 100 mile border zone the constitutionality and the current situation in Portland OR on BYU Radio's Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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July 28, 2020
House Democrats Drop DHS Funding From Omnibus Appropriations Bill
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It’s a good first step. 
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 6: The National Bank Holiday - Alt-M
George Selgin - Alt-M 6d 1 tweets
If the economy was to survive and recover, FDR had first to stop the gold outflow, and then to arrange for a transfusion.
How Not to Argue Against Libertarianism
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Cogently attacking libertarianism means, at the very least, wrestling with what libertarians actually believe.
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Hegemon: American Territorial Expansion and the Creation of the Liberal International Order
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Kat Murti There's a contradiction in U.S. foreign policy between the desire the liberate and the desire to control. #CatoFP #CatoEvents 4d
Kat Murti Fascinating discussion about how racism and xenophobia shaped U.S. borders... #CatoEvents #CatoFP 4d
Kat Murti The fact that the U.S. did not annex more of Canada and Mexico earlier in its history was because of xenophobia, racism, and ideas of what kinds of people could be U.S. citizens. #CatoFP #CatoEvents 4d
Does the Affordable Care Act Discriminate against the Sick?
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Kat Murti This is Collette. She is 7 and has leukemia. Her family has struggled to find her adequate medical care under the Affordable Care Act. Join the conversation with #CatoHealth... 6d
Kat Murti The ACA bans discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, but hasn't been able to stop discrimination against high-need patients. Just a few high-need patients who have had their access to medical care curtailed post-ACA... #CatoHealth 6d
The 'I have a joke' meme gives us some much-needed humor
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Even Monica Lewinsky got in on it.
El Muro de Berlín: su creación, su caída, y su legado
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Doug Bandow conmemora la caída del muro de Berlín hace 30 años relatando su creación, los antecedentes de su caída y su legado.