U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–MA) claims that “under Donald Trump, the median age of a first-time homebuyer hit a record 40 years old.”

IN FACT, the figure cited by Warren is from a survey conducted “July 2024 to June 2025,” and more than half of this period was under Biden.

During Biden’s presidency, the median age of first-time homebuyers rose from 33 to 40 years old, a larger increase than the entire rest of the data series back to 1980.

Association ≠ causation, but the following policies embraced by Biden, Warren, and other Democrats have contributed to making homes unaffordable:

• Increased government spending on social programs, which triggered money printing that inflated the prices of real estate while reducing people’s ability to save for a home.

• Growing levels of immigration, which drove up housing prices and rents.

• Passing government regulations that have greatly increased the costs of goods and services, particularly housing and especially in regulation-heavy areas like New York City and California.

• Multiplicative increases in education spending that have raised property taxes while failing to substantially improve student achievement.

• Enacting green energy mandates that have raised the costs of energy and virtually everything else.

• Socializing the costs of housing, which “puts upward pressure on home prices.”

• Promoting liberal ethics about sex, which creates household fragmentation that dilutes family wealth.

• Giving unions monopoly powers that raise construction prices and taxes.

On NPR, LGBTQ+ reporter Kate Sosin claimed that a “2021 study published in the Journal of Sports Medicine” found “no basis in existing research for banning trans women from sports.”

IN FACT, the study actually found that “strength, lean body mass, muscle size and bone density are only trivially affected” by the testosterone suppression meds that males use to compete in female sports, and this gives them a “major performance” advantage and has “safety implications.”

Likewise, a 2021 study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that lean body mass and muscle area “in transwomen remain above those” of biological women “even after 36 months of hormone therapy.”

Summarizing the evidence, a 2024 paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports concluded that the Olympic Committee’s framework for transgender competitors “does not protect fairness for female athletes.” 

The New York Times claims that President Trump is threatening to invoke the “Insurrection Act to quash Minneapolis protests” against “his immigration crackdown.”

IN FACT, Trump stated that he would invoke the Act if the “politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists” from committing violence against ICE. The Times similarly misreported during the 2020 BLM riots that Trump vowed to “crush protests” when he told governors to stop the “professional anarchists, violent mobs, arsonists, looters.”

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D–CT) claims that “job growth” is “awful” because “Trump is running our economy into the ground.”

IN FACT, people born in the USA gained about 2.0 million jobs in the first 11 months of Trump’s presidency, more than the prior 35 months of Biden’s tenure. Under Biden, all job growth other than the natural rebound from Covid lockdowns went to immigrants.

The New York Times claims that “studies consistently show little if any evidence” of “widespread illegal voting by migrants.”

IN FACT, a rigorous study conducted by Just Facts found that roughly 1.0–2.7 million non-citizen immigrants illegally voted in 2024, and attempts to debunk this study by the Times, NPR, and others epically failed.

Furthermore, a 2014 study in the journal Electoral Studies found that illegal votes cast by non-citizens likely “gave Democrats the filibuster-proof super-majority needed to pass” Obamacare by putting Al Franken of Minnesota into the U.S. Senate with a winning margin of just “312 votes.”

PBS claims that “climate change is a threat multiplier, meaning that it makes things” like “biodiversity loss worse.”

IN FACT, a recent study in a prominent scholarly journal found that “extinctions related to climate change have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years.” Predictions about the future effects of climate change are based on models, a class of studies that is notoriously unreliable.

U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–NY) claims that the election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is about “making a new future for all of us” instead of seeking “refuge in the past.”

IN FACT, Mamdani’s economic policies are grounded in the past of the Soviet Union, where the average living standard “was roughly one third that of the United States.” In Mamdani’s words, these policies include the following and more:

• “seizing the means of production.”

• “abolish private insurance”

• “nationalize the medical supply chain.”

• “ban all guns.”

• move “away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right.”

• “universal childcare.”

• “create a network of city-owned grocery stores” that won’t “pay rent or property taxes.”

Mamdani hasn’t endorsed darker aspects of communism mentioned in the Law of the Soviet State, like outlawing “freedom of speech” for “the foes of socialism” and having “the exploiter classes in the country” “liquidated.”

However, the Law of the Soviet State explains that such policies are not “according to the plan” of communism but things that “developed spontaneously during the course of the struggle.”

In other words, Mamdani favors utopian communism without the despots and gulags, although that is what communism has typically descended into throughout history.

Are people who use cannabis more or less likely to abuse opioids than people who don’t use cannabis?

What portion of women in the U.S. who get an abortion say that their health is the primary reason for getting an abortion?

Why do governments engage in inflationary policies?

Has the earth experienced systemic changes in rainfall or droughts over the past 150 years?

Does the right to “free speech” include “hate speech”?