David Bier

Anthropic Just Showed What Doing the Right Thing Looks Like Anthropic has shown bravery not in standing up to the demands of a foreign adversary’s government but in standing up to our own government here in the US.

"Anthropic Just Showed What Doing the Right Thing Looks Like" [Jennifer Huddleston, Cato]

the bombings will continue until peace improves

Every time the government initiates war against another country, it is used as pretext to suppress the rights of the US population, especially our rights to associate, contract, and trade with foreigners born in the targeted country.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

Mexico Is Not Sending Its Murderers: Homicide Rates on the Mexican Border If the past events are any indication of the future, there is little reason to worry that homicide rates in Mexican border states will influence homicide rates in U.S. border states.

there is a negative relationship between homicides on the American side and the Mexican side. In other words, when Mexican homicide rates go up then American rates tend to go down and vice versa. www.cato.org/blog/mexico-...

Violence in Mexico doesn’t increase violence in the USA.

We are living through the most serious crackdown on civil liberties built on lies

Worth noting that Rubio's speech also suggests that the 1965 immigration act is when our "western" inheritance started going to shit. Amazing to see Rubio go full Miller/Vance here.

In this discussion, @polphilpod.bsky.social and I go hard at that big idea in what I hope is an ambitious way:

Since you're not on X, you don't get to see me debate the fiscal effects of immigration with the conservatives at the Manhattan Institute. x.com/twitter/stat...

Sure, ok.

America should welcome refugees new-ideal.aynrand.org/p/i-chose-to...

A great look at Ayn Rand's illegal immigration from communism 100 years ago this week: “I Chose to Be an American”: Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story. It reinforces how many refugees chose America over others because they don't want lukewarm freedom. They want the real deal.

You don't contact Border Patrol for "translation services." Please. wxyz.com/news/dpd-off...

ICE offers jobs to FIRED police officers. If they don't follow rules in their current job, what makes ICE believe they will follow rules at ICE? This is contemptible and highlights their active recruitment of lawless agents.

Here's the self-serving ICE account. Normal cops don't behave like this. In situations where roads are blocked and officers are directing traffic, drivers are often confused, annoyed, and impatient. It shouldn't end like this! newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

Back in March LAST YEAR, ICE shot and killed a US citizen teenager through his car window, and it never admitted its role. ICE claims it was assisting traffic control (!?!) when the driver didn't follow its instructions. Fake cops. How many other killings are they concealing?

Of course! But if it’s true in one place

Even other pro-Trump DHS officials think DHS leadership under Noem is "evil." www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

To talk of the disaster of mass migration but then to take credit for all its success is pure madness. No attempt to reconcile at all and because it just writes every other ancestry out of the America story, his message is obvious: European mass migration was good (as was his). All others: bad!

So comically absurd to see him talk about the value of cultural exchange and foreign accomplishments while in the next breath condemning foreign influence and free exchange. What a weak mind

What he’s saying here is that we should champion zero sum thinking and oppose liberalism and the comity between peoples. It’s just horrendous that this immorality is setting policy

We are part of one civilization: the world. And our peaceful interconnection despite language, religion, and history is the greatest moral accomplishment in world history. The attempt to reverse it is evil

What they are doing to trust in our society is the most evil thing.

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants. Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to @cato.org studies.

@svdate.bsky.social @davidjbier.bsky.social @huffpost.com #immigration #econ

ICE is imprisoning 70,000 people for civil violations, and the number will likely double over the course of this year.

The Dems' video telling service members to ignore illegal orders didn't go far enough. They should've also urged them to refuse unethical orders, whether illegal or not. There are many things deemed "legal" that are still obviously unethical, and everyone should hold themselves to this higher law

It’s interesting how we used to negotiate free trade agreements and now they’re just trade agreements. They are dropping the “free” from in front of lots of things these days: trade, speech, press, market, country.

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martínez in Chicago, evidence shows A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…

Bovino praised the agent www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

Other video doesn't support what the agents are saying about being boxed in, which is concerning. The first agent tells the others "camera's on."

Body cam from when Border Patrol shot a woman 5 times in Chicago last year. The agents have guns drawn and pointed. One says "do something b----." Then: "Time to get aggressive." Moments later, the driver can be seen swerving the car into hers, jumping out & firing almost immediately.