Collin Clabaugh moved in with his grandparents after his parents died. But the homeowner's association says they are not allowed to let him live there, and demanded they kick him out.

I think states should pass laws guaranteeing people certain rights that override all homeowners' associations. Not only the right to have dependents live with them, but also the right to post a sign supporting a position regarding an election or political issue.

A woman who shot the man who had raped her, as he was fighting with her brother afterward, has been denied the benefit of Alabama's "stand your ground" law.

That decision seems absurd, but even without that law, isn't this clearly a case of justifiable homicide?

Salafi Arabia is trying dissidents in a special court for "terrorists".

The practice of labeling dissidents as "terrorists" is found in many countries, including the US and the UK. Salafi Arabia's "justice" is more violent and arbitrary in general, and especially where dissidents are concerned.

AOC: The official US "poverty line" is far too low and systematically underestimates poverty.

40 million Americans now live in poverty, and 1.5 million public school students are homeless.

As Democrats condemned the bullshitter's "normalization of lawlessness", Republicans demonstrated the truth of this by normalizing their own contempt for law and truth.

People are calling this a "cover-up." If only it were merely that. The conman's basic strategy is overt contempt for the law, and the checks and balances that are supposed to defend democracy.

The US government is not much more democratic than Maduro's, and it's just barely legitimate enough to justify rejecting a coup.