An interesting thing that has come out of a side project I've been involved in is just how much Léon Blum was infamous as a socialist who supported Zionism and his "endorsement" was the endorsement among famous socialists that Jewish Antizionist socialists had to most frequently combat.

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

And so for a lot of people who have been immersed in that sort of work, it is dispiriting to be told that actually we should be deferring to him on questions of movement strategy now, even as he gained notoriety piggybacking on groundwork he didn't lay.

To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....

I am finally fully recovered from food poisoning and back to work. I'm working on a piece that I've been trying to complete for months and, knock on wood, it will be out in time for the one year anniversary of my rolling stone piece tomorrow. www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

"The question is what one identifies as the symptom and what as the disease. For Mr. Klaynboym and the Zionists, the disease is 'antisemitism.' For us Bundists, the disease is fascism, and we believe the world to be severely ill" - Henry Ehrlich, 1938

Hard to imagine how Larry Summers’s humiliation could be any more complete tbh

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

George Fitzhugh "Cannibals all!" ass posts

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Nothing like coming out of food poisoning for almost a week to really make working feel compelling and fresh

I have enormous respect for @brettmatsumoto.bsky.social and its an almost imperceptible, but real, ray of light that he is the next BLS chief

“I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I’m trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokemon go to the Persian Gulf!”

It's a funny dig because Perry himself has a gigantic lacuna in his worldview from not talking to, or taking seriously, the legal counsel of central bankers.

Reading this over and over until my head pops out like a PEZ dispenser

We are deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Magic legend Kai Budde. His achievements in the game and community go beyond what we could say in one post. Our thoughts go out to Kai's friends and family in this moment. Remembering Kai Budde: magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

Been suffering from the after effects of food poisoning for well more than three days now. Really sucks

Criticism from clueless disgusting people who refuse to read about the Holocaust

Again, you can't talk about breaking from the U.S. led international order while also not having any plans to leave Five Eyes.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

It really is staggering how little our political class understands the concept of "salience".

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

When I reach too much about the Bund, or really any political scene far from our own, it can be disorienting to look back at current events because I just spent hours thinking about political circumstances where real political parties existed to 21st century United States.

While this speech is hypocritical and mythologizing the past in a lot of ways, its welcome to see a clear and public break with the U.S. led order from a "western" leader. That said, its hard to take this seriously from a country still party to Five Eyes www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Its very funny watching this drop right after a discourse started up on "Why do you not like it when Schumer talks about Affordability and do like it when Mamdani does"

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

Better late than never www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

I appreciate foreign commentators really leaning in to say that dem leadership is dogshit because it is going to make the campists become even more neurotic

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

thread - this was helpful for me to understand. thank you @nathantankus.bsky.social for pointing me to it.

Here are more and better photos of something you probably never heard about: the violent clearing out of FIT May 7th 2024 which had minimum 300 cops when you consider both sides of the campus. and probably a lot more. completely bananas.

Its been my consistent experience my whole life having attended protests since I was a very small child. It was very helpful that I went to Columbia at the height of its first major shutdown and could straightforwardly say what did and didn't happen there and the amazing scale of the police response

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

new bluesky slogan dropped

The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students

Usually bored of the digging up GOP quotes from 2016 thing but this is a particularly good one

remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue

Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

Any article that mentions the US Onion Act is instantly a must-read.

NIOSH employees were told today that their layoff notices were “hereby revoked.” “Life-saving research is going to be able to continue,” says union leader and industrial hygienist "Critical public health functions remain intact and effective," says HHS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think this kind of thing is best done in private so that no one else has to be subjected to it. Tony Dokoupil is really one of the most pathetic and despicable people around. Few reach his level of contemptibility

ICE agents are fucking stealing and selling peoples’ PHONES