In the blink of an eye, a peaceful day of yardwork for Penny McCarthy turned into a nightmare. She was on her driveway in Phoenix, Arizona, in a sleeveless shirt, shorts, and slippers, when a team of United States Marshals pulled up in unmarked vehicles and aimed firearms at her.

Get rich quick, for cops: 1) Invent reason to pull someone over 2) Use bogus reason to search car 3) Seize anything valuable 4) Move forward with civil forfeiture without providing any evidence that the valuables are connected to a crime. oklahomawatch.org/2025/06/25/okl…

Watch The Civil Rights Lawyer break down Institute for Justice's new case on behalf of a grandmother wrongly arrested by US Marshals. This could happen to anyone and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. Scary stuff: youtube.com/watch?v=tZu8IG…

Sonoma County code enforcers are flying drones over homes looking for any violations they can find. If this is the future, then no property owner is safe from potentially ruinous fines. A 🧵 on the threat of blanket searches from the sky.

Not surprised at all. Went for a run at 7:30 am and came back dripping like I'd jumped in the creek.

People break the law when they dine and dash. But the government does something similar. It damages private property and leaves without paying. Melisa and Michael Robinson have fighting for compensation for 16 years in Okay, Oklahoma. Institute for Justice Washington Examiner washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

"Conservative Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has a warning for America" eu.azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Pretty sure my neighbors just hate holidays. The last time they mowed their lawn was Memorial Day at dinner time. Six weeks later, mowing the lawn at dinner on the Fourth.

Finally made it to Gettysburg. The 20th Maine monument and views from Little Round Top and Seminary Ridge.

Some people can run 2 miles in 8 minutes, but not Samuel Scott. Miami police accused him of crimes anyway, hinging on his ability to pull off this Olympic-level feat. The case highlights the absurdity of qualified immunity. Institute for Justice Justin Pearson Slate slate.com/news-and-polit…