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Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - In case you missed it, the below EO is a big deal. Trump is forcing the federal government to spell out everything that is a crime under federal law. The other thing the EO does is to force the government to add a "mens rea" element to most of these "crimes"; i.e., you have to be aware of the fact that you are committing a crime in order for it to be a crime.
Thus, if you decide to build a pond on your property and the EPA has some obscure regulation saying that is a crime, you would need to be aware of the criminal nature of the act before you did it in order to be guilty of anything.
This is great.
The whole EO is linked in my post below, but I wanted to call attention to one tangential aspect of it. The EO says:
"It privileges large corporations, which can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory schemes and fence out new market entrants, over average Americans.”
This is really important and is a theme I keep coming back to. Regulatory schemes like Dodd-Frank and the CFPB are created ostensibly to help the “little guy,” when in reality they create byzantine layers upon layers of compliance requirements that only mega-corporations can afford to navigate. Those sorts of laws are anti-competitive and hurt most of all the “little guy” they purport to help.
When you hear the likes of Bernie Sanders and Big Chief Lizzie Warren railing against the “oligarchy,” realize that they regulatory schemes they propose serve the oligarchy MOST OF ALL. In fact, Bernie and Lizzie and AOC are the oligarchs, not us.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1922300587657380138

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - This is the full EO:
FIGHTING OVERCRIMINALIZATION IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/fighting-overcriminalization-in-federal-regulations/
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1922300922639548724

Dan Scavino @Scavino47 - Here’s POTUS on the other end in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—before heading out to the motorcade…
https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1922367374444924952