I believe we need to be able to understand what is happening to us. That's the sole reason for my work on knowledge ecosystems over the years, including Covid Tracking Project. A lot of things *can* be known, even in this political blender. We deserve real knowledge, not close-enough flyby guessing.

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found. RE:

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We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: ...

I have been mainlining Christoper Priest novels and it’s been like hitting myself in the brain with a hammer shaped exactly like my brain. We’re going to call it adaptive.

The replies here are a whole goldmine. Thanks, everyone ❤️ RE:

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send me please your best End of Summer Break videogame recs for a preteen who is very smart and loved Pentiment and Chants of Sennaar but who doesn’t need graphic violence or weird fanservice in her life

Dobson, huh? Here's to breaking generational curses.

I was unaware that you could send so many gdocs edit notifications that you get sent to spam jail for 24 hours but it turns out yes yes

I think the impulse to categorically expel people based on third-hand impurities—eg "someone you publish was published someplace that also published something bad so you're bad"—is really mostly a response to spending so much time in an ocean of voices/takes. It didn't start on Tumblr for no reason!

the process of finding and reopening a closed comment in a Google Doc with a lot of comments is one of the worst things I have ever seen a software do, and I have seen some appalling things

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