Lovely titbit from @monkemma.bsky.social Here’s Washington Irving complaining about that very thing over 200 hundred years ago. Some things just don’t change.

I’m still somewhat amazed that the only modern political leader who ever just went “you know what? We have a moral duty to provide asylum to those fleeing war and persecution and I don’t care how many of them there are, or what it costs, we’re gonna damn well meet that duty” was Angela Merkel!