The Afghan shooter was unambiguously evil, but his story is complicated and doesn’t lend itself to easy partisan explanations. Isaac’s post is informative. Please read.

California builds basically no condos. This is a real problem, as their starter homes of 2025. Here's what I've learned as to why. (1/n)

U.S. citizens are not required to carry immigration documents. It’s hard to know which is greater here: the level of corruption or incompetence.

It's even simpler than that: the average American wants a secure, airtight border no one can illegally cross, but doesn't want a huge police state rounding up everyone who's here already.

The idea that Biden airdropped Haitians into Springfield to displace whites is a conspiracy more insane than “they are eating the cats.” They went there because employers needed workers who showed up to work. It’s well-documented. Biden didn’t fly or so much as direct them there

Here’s an actual political refugee who faces persecution by a strategic rival of the US. If returned to China, at a minimum he’d be jailed and tortured. Just as the US welcomed political refugees from the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War, so now it should protect Guan Heng.

Quintessential American story of assimilation: grandparents emigrate here - from Cuba - in search of a better life, and two generations later, their son is a star in the world's most American sport. And RW trolls are still miserable because Mendoza is bilingual.

ICE agents pepper sprayed a baby girl. The baby girl, mother and father are all US Citizens - just in case you thought your family was safe. Rafael Veraza was spending his weekend like any other dad, on a grocery run with his wife and baby daughter at Sam’s Club. When they

The Kremlin claimed that the video of Zelensky in Kupiansk was filmed on February 23, 2022 — one day before the start of the russian invasion. In other words, they’ve effectively acknowledged Zelensky’s genius — that he independently invented and manufactured the iPhone 17 Pro

The Uyghur camps were hidden in plain sight—until someone drove into Xinjiang and filmed them. That person is now begging the U.S. not to deport him. “If he gets sent back, he’s really dead.” Give him asylum.

Or, to be more accurate, this is the stuff that reminds people of who they actually voted for, rather than the idealized guy in their heads that they defend. They wish Trump wouldn't say this stuff because it causes immense cognitive dissonance and embarrassment.

She was a US citizen. ICE told her, “No one is going to help you. You're all criminals.” Thrown to the pavement, arrested, bruised and hospitalized. She was just driving to work - in case you thought your choices could keep you safe. U.S. citizen Dayanne Figueroa was simply

Trump's reprehensible attempt to deport courageous Chinese dissident Guan Heng is part of a broader pattern of deporting dissenters/victims of persecution back to their oppressors. The policy is simultaneously evil and stupid: reason.com/volokh/2025/12…

Yep. You can either be an individualist, in which case modern people aren't responsible for slavery or genocide. Or you can be a collectivist, and claim that your blood gives you a special connection to a plot of land. But then you own the deeds of your ancestors.

The pro-science crowd isn't taking seriously enough this proposed rent control ballot measure in Massachusetts. Looking increasingly likely it makes the Nov'26 ballot, and a recent survey shows 63% of voters support it. It's a particularly draconian proposal that would revert

Many of the people who talk up "Heritage Americanism" today are descendants of people--Jews, Irishmen, Italians--who were abominated by the "Heritage Americans" of an earlier time. The Know Nothings and their kin decried the new arrivals as unfit for American life. On it goes.

Isaac Schorr The central element of Vance-ism to create Strawmen and then “bravely” stand up to them or denounce them. Once you see it, it’s impossible to unsee it.

The cynics seem to believe that wealthier renters come out of nowhere to lease "luxury" apartments, when in reality they're living in lower-priced rentals. When new housing gets built, they move up ... thereby opening up availability for low/moderate income households.

If a Democratic president were doing this, every Republican, in politics and the media, would cry corruption, correctly.

While it is an imperfect rule, I think that most people who are trying to describe somebody's mental state would be better off using older synonyms rather than their modern therapy equivalents. They are not narcissistic, they are selfish and thoughtless. 1/