“Jessica Tisch got her start at the NYPD in the Kelly-era Intelligence Bureau building dossiers on Muslim extremism.” @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/welcom...

The most idiotic subset of people are the types on Twitter who think China has done or will do anything for Palestine. Even if you put aside the fact that Chinese indifference to MENA is actually in China's material interests, China is a significant partner in Israeli arms trade.

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee

I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out

I locked in my call earlier that i think Mamdani wins with 51.5% of the vote, just putting it on bluesky to make it official

Appreciate the shout out from @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social in his new paper scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

It's baffling to me that the people who believe "Throwing an ever expanding amount of public money at a solution that in 200 years has failed to produce safety for all and also hurts innocent people" get to frame themselves as the "Reasonable" ones who "live in reality"

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge in Rhode Island rules from the bench that the Trump admin **must** pay SNAP benefits. "The court is orally ordering that USDA must distribute the contingency money timely or as soon as possible for the November 1 payments to be made." Story to come.

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews. In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

"[William McChesney Martin's] segregationist commitments thus define what the ideology of Federal Reserve independence has meant in practice." - @nathantankus.bsky.social Periodic reminder that nobody is doing it like Nathan.

Tremendous historical work from Nathan here. You should subscribe to Notes on the Crises.

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Excited to dig into this work from @nathantankus.bsky.social!!

For what its worth, I signed this

I signed on to this letter.

Take out a paid subscription here. Deep research like this- which included quite a variety of archival materials- is just not economically worth doing for newsletters. Any positive financial feedback helps make it thinkable to do something crazy like this again www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup

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Welp, here’s the post that’s going to make me a paid subscriber (not that I had reservations before, just that I don’t work on the issues Nathan does). Leon Dure, working with Buchanan and Nutter, reached out to Gov. Vandiver to promote tuition grants when the Sibley Commission was working.

sigh.

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As someone who is a mono-talented writer/researcher I'm very jealous that @jael.bsky.social is as good of a reporter as she is AND is a talented musician. Check out her band's new music AND support her climate reporting.

Legal analysis by @davidasuper.bsky.social with a pointed updated yesterday: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

When is Adams going to endorse the 14 words?

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

I’m also concerned about federal control over the banking system. Heisting already-deposited FEMA funds out of NYC’s bank accounts was an /early/ move for Trump II. www.crisesnotes.com/can-the-trum...

Fact check, Cuomo is lying. Only one member of the rent guidelines board has an unexpired term and that is the end of 2026. rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/about/board-...

signal is the birth control pill of phone encryption, it’s 99.99% effective when used correctly. the only way to be 100% assured of fail-proof safety is to never use Phone, but abstinence-only education doesn’t work, so

Finally getting to this one. These distinctions do matter, and the sooner the media catches up, the better.

@nathantankus.bsky.social writes about this very thing, that stock markets do not in fact act like a sum of many smart minds, but are more just herd-like and a bit dumb www.crisesnotes.com/the-stock-ma...

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ICYMI I wrote about this tariff revenue WIC issue. The "paying the troops" thing was breaking as I was finalizing my piece and I'll cover next week. It likely will revise the conclusion of this piece. www.crisesnotes.com/what-the-hel...

Really important news

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

Much appreciated dive into the mechanics of the administration’s shutdown spending. Very interested to see how the author’s update (including the defense, DHS, and CPB spending) might affect this argument.

the question of "how is trump using tariff money to spend without congressional authorization legally" is extremely fascinating, and Nathan does a great job of dissecting it

tankus has a piece on this machinery bsky.app/profile/nath...

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Resigning from the National Science Board was a difficult but necessary decision for me. I spoke at the #STATsummit about this crisis of scientific integrity, the Trump administration's hyper-regulation of AI (yes, you read that right), an ELSI for AI and my Steph Curry theory of tech innovation.

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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece: I take a look at the government shutdown by focusing on the big picture constitutional issues. I go on to assess the White House's claim to use "tariff money" for WIC. Then I connect this up with the ongoing impoundment crisis www.crisesnotes.com/what-the-hel...

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www.crisesnotes.com/what-the-hel... Buckle up. But it's @nathantankus.bsky.social so as usual, it's worth it

I find it grimly very funny that Ben Gvir spends his time going around to witness famous people being tortured and to go scream in their face that they are terrorists. It's like he can't grasp the abstract concept of human suffering- he needs to see it himself. And dole it out

Fixed the annoying venn diagram typo a couple people pointed out.

It’s not too hard to follow, Tankus provides great maps

This is an incredibly important point imo.