Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly Libertarian reminder that you don't have to do the

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I am Matt Welch joined by Nick Gillespie, Catherine Mangue Ward and filling in for a grieving.

Peter Suderman is beloved reason, staffer Eric Bain Bain. Welcome Eric and welcome everybody.

Howdy. Happy Monday. So if you haven't paid attention to the news for a hot minute this past 420 weekend, which Nick

celebrates every day of the year.

Every weekend's 420, man.

It was a bit of a, on the freedom massacre side, wasn't all that awesome for those of a

Libertarian persuasion, although depending on how you look at it, we'll get into some of that. You had a and scores of billions thrown at financing overseas wars and defensive

commitments reauthorization and strengthening of the notorious

section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act colloquially known as FISA.

And forcing Tik-Tok to a decouple from the Red Chinese.

Yeah, the Biden administration restoring and making worse the notorious anti-due

process Obama administration title 9 rules for adjudicating campus sexual assault accusations.

China went after Apple's what-saps,

some US courts made your phones less secure

from unreasonable searches and seizures.

The Ivy League became like this crazy battleground between protesters, cops, and various other insane people and oh yeah, the leading GOP presidential candidate is on trial in lower Manhattan and people are setting themselves on fire in

protests so Catherine it's kind of hard to know where to begin with all the

frowny face stuff but maybe let's start here are is there any element of the 95 billion dollar

congressional vote over the weekend the Ukraine the Israel the Taiwan the TikTok, is there any bit of that where you think,

that one's not so bad. I have to say I came into this podcast pretty depressed about the events of the

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