CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Wintergr33n @_L1vY_ It's where you drive your car into the water and then wade back to the shore. Working as designed.

@_L1vY_ On the plus side, Harding is looking competent and ethical and the Grant administration is looking tough on Confederate racism these days.

#Via Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip7187:40 AM · May 18, 2026How Big Oil Ruined a Texas Town:https://www.thexylom.com/read/tags/all-hell-breaks-looseResearch Institutions Rely on H1B Visa Holders:https://www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-visa-trump-uscis-research-university-medicine-engineering-funding-mapOnly Refugees Admitted Now Are White South Africans:[pdf link]https://www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Refugee%20Arrivals%20by%20State%20and%20Nationality%20as%20of%20March%2031,%202026.pdf- Assembled list of non-AI Slop news outlets [but it's on Bluesky, not linking]- Tracked attendance of No Kings protests [in cooperation with a journalist on Substack, not linking]- A lot of journalism & research awards.

#Via Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins4:40 PM · May 17, 2026"3,437 bound volumes. 17,000 pounds of documents. 1,400 victims.Tomorrow at noon, I'm standing at a podium in Tribeca and reading the Epstein files out loud for 24 hours straight."https://www.youtube.com/@eliza.orlins

@_L1vY_ @scalziDamn well better.

@_L1vY_ @JonathanCohn Vichy Democrats.

@Ooze Yeah it claims it's unavailable in my area too, better use vpn @phil_lewis_

#Via Dante Atkins@DanteAtkins2:06 PM · May 8, 2026"One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW"

@_L1vY_ @mattsheffield What's consciousness for? Maybe you should try it sometime.