For those interested, we did a whole series on this "fixing your swim" progression on the #MADcrew forum, starting with....
Part 1: Every body floats!
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@elonmusk This is what I don’t get about the attitude of the global elite and whoever is sponsoring the destruction of US and European culture through mass immigration. What good will all your money and power be if civilization falls apart?
Why Can’t Notre Dame Find an American English Professor? University Turns to H-1B Visa Instead | Margaret Flavin, The Gateway Pundit
Why can’t the University of Notre Dame find an American citizen to teach English?
Apparently, that is such a difficult task that the Catholic university, located in Indiana, is turning to foreign workers via the H-1 B visa to fill the role.
The College Fix reports that the university has filed a “Notice of Intent to Hire,” signaling it plans to hire a professor of English under H1-B for the $87,000+ a year position.
Apparently, foreigners are better at teaching English.
That must be why @NotreDame is looking to hire a non-American for an English professor role.
— The College Fix (@CollegeFix) June 4, 2026
Per The College Fix, other jobs the university says it must fill by hiring non-Americans include “an associate librarian ($96,000 per year), a marketing program analytics manager ($85,000 per year), and a ‘program coordinator for student success’ ($47,000 per year).”
The Gateway Pundit reported that two other Indiana universities, Purdue University and Indiana University, are both using H-1B visas to fill roles, despite Indiana’s wealth of qualified American candidates.
The program was originally intended to bring in temporary employees with highly specialized skills that few Americans possessed.
However, as a White House proclamation states, the H-1B program “has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers.”
According to the American Chamber of Commerce, the official intent of the H1B visa is to help employers temporarily hire foreign professionals for specialty occupations that require specialized knowledge.
Does teaching English at an American University require ‘specialized knowledge’?
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the data shows that the program has largely become, instead, a cheap source of skilled labor for companies, taking jobs, including ‘white collar’ jobs, from U.S. citizens and suppressing wages.
When he returned to office, President Trump cracked down on the H1B visa program, requiring companies to pay $100,000 to sponsor a worker.
It is concerning that the University, which boasts thousands of its own graduates with English degrees, can not find even one of its own alumni to fill the role.
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Vitol Says Europe and US Aren’t Facing Up to Oil Supply Crunch
Vitol’s top executive in the Middle East said that many Western governments still aren’t reckoning with the oil supply crunch that’s rippling around the world due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
“In Europe and I think in the US, everyone is kind of asleep at the wheel and just carrying on life as normal,” Tom Baker, a board member at Vitol, said at S&P Global’s Middle East Petroleum & Gas Conference in London. (Bloomberg)
I updated my list of essential books on Urbanism and living, architecture (v.2022/2). Where you start on this depends on your interests, but Kohr, Schumacher, Sale, might be fundamental works suitable for everyone.
A company like $POWL is built very rarely in history and irreplaceable in the sense that the conditions for it to be created are difficult to reproduce.
They essentially have the sole source contract on the US grid for ultra custom medium voltage switchgear and ultra custom medium voltage packaged power solutions.
Ask me anything and I'll do the best I can to answer whatever my findings are as I've dug into this company.
@AJA_Cortes Shale crudes are very light and produce gasoline instead of diesel. Also less competition in the diesel retailers ie truck stops meaning diesel retail margins are much higher.
BBG: "Roughly one-quarter of the large oil tankers trapped inside the Persian Gulf have managed to slip out in a slow, stealthy trickle.
Twenty-nine of the 109 bigger vessels have now crossed the chokepoint, with the cargoes being snapped up by a global market in which inventory buffers are shrinking."
Good news: contributed ~30 MMbbl of supply to market, shifting floating Gulf stock into global commercial pool.
Bad news: that many fewer immediately available barrels once Hormuz reopens
@FischerKing64 It’s insane. Spent last two weeks in DC and NYC. You can’t walk one block at anytime of the day from Capital Hill to Central Park without that stench of that weed permeating everywhere.