Mid Stream Dreams

There is a season turn, turn, turn. The Long-tailed Tits always leave here when their breeding season has finished & return in the autumn to begin their hedgerow foraging. I'm not sure of the total flock size today - there were always birds away from the water. We're gonna need a bigger lid. 🦉🌿

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

You may remember this great story my colleague Pascal wrote on Black voters in Fayette Co., their legal win, and how they're bracing for the VRA's impact. boltsmag.org/voting-right... The NYT 3 days ago: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u... Of course it makes sense to cover Fayette now! Just credit!

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

I didn't know this, so I'm sharing for others who might not know.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

The release of 158 specially bred Floreana giant tortoises is a win for both the animal and its long-lost island ecosystem

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Republicans are holding hearings on natural disasters — while Trump punishes Colorado communities from the same & guts the agencies tasked with responding. It is theatre of the absurd!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

$40 / hr, going rate for your soul, sure sure.

The most effective way to commemorate the Holocaust is to platform Nazis. by JD Vance

#RussellVought 's father's was IBEW. 'A commercial electrician and member of IBEW Local 292 who was holding a sign reading ​“General Strike is a Path to Justice” during the march told me he was ​“out here to support immigrant rights, support every American.'

Had 6 new followers today. All mysterious media accounts who post AI slop. No thanks. Blocked.

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

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This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.

This is just my periodic feed to the algorithm. Remember that JD Vance's mom, a Heritage American, stole drugs from her patients. These were legal drugs made by and for United States companies. Fuck JD Vance for projecting his home-grown trauma anywhere other than where it belongs. His Daddy too.

I've had a Hilton Honors account for over 30 years. I canceled it today. I don't travel anywhere near the amount I used to, so it's not much of a sacrifice for me to do so, but it was an easy way to send a message.

"DATA CENTER WATER USE DOESN'T MATTER" is one of the silliest arguments I see floating around. unless you think re-writing 200 yr old water law (OG political third rail in the US) is a simple matter, the marginal consumption of new water is literally make or break for much of life in the western US

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

While some sociopaths become alcoholics, far from all alcoholics are sociopaths. But enabling is enabling, Susie Wiles.

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

101 years old Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra doing Space is the Place with Messthetics, Luke Stewart, Janel Leppin, Lady Myrhh, Bob Boilen and others here at the dc space reunion event @ Atlantis in DC . Will share video later

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

"Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left." Hey, @governor.ca.gov are you listening?

Kristi Noem blasts “foreigners” for dangerous driving. According to the Rapid City Journal, that state’s court records show Noem had 20 speeding tickets dating back to 1989, alongside other violations, including failure to stop at an intersection and invalid license plates.

in a way, im glad this administration thinks reading books is gay and Woke or whatever cuz if they read any books on how dictators consolidated power, “starving and impoverishing the military that would, in theory, enforce your rule” probably isn’t among them

Trump: "I haven't been watching it too much, the World Series. I'm disappointed they didn't put Pete Rose in. And with all the gambling you see now -- I mean, gimme a break."

"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both" Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

Fantastic reporting by Wiley D Cope and the @us.theguardian.com staff on ties between a Russian street fighting organization and neo-Nazis in Tennessee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...