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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 8h

Iran released a 26 page missive to the American people about Trump's war against Iran. I am mostly reflecting on their expectations for American's reading comprehension and stamina img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14h

The story of out-of-state consultants homogenizing Troy Jackson is more complicated, Bob Kuttner reports. It was Jackson's own close aide, BJ McCollister, who encouraged him to use Chuck Schumer's team, because McCollister's consulting firm stood to make a fortune from ad placement.

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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect

Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14h

Now its true, Ben Gvir can give people guns and tell them to go Massacre West Bank Palestinians. No one is saying a collapse wouldn't be bloody. But something analogous to the January 1945 death marches is very different than Israel continuing the status quo with more collective punishment.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14h

I think an Arms Embargo from the United States is so existential that an Israeli leader would give in and let himself become pilloried for the sake of Israel's "survival" (in some, now much more attenuated sense). But even if not, that simply means Israel would experience a shocking social collapse

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14h

It is a very common misconception that a high GDP makes a country impervious to BDS. Imported inputs are important for small open economies already, but Israel takes it to a a new level with all the qualitatively differentiated military goods it relies exclusively on USA for bsky.app/profile/nath...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15h

Checking in on a Israeli Democracy Institute Poll, only 41.3% of Jewish Israelis list "The party's position regarding foreign affairs and security" as the "most influential" **or** second "most influential" factor in their voting decision in the upcoming election. en.idi.org.il/media/32364/...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A comrade from my harm reduction organizing needs (pro-bono) help w/ an eviction case in Porter County, IN. Legal aid didn't take her case, and she's been having an exceptionally hard time navigating trial pro se due to a TBI. She specifically needs someone who can be present in person.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish some leftists would stop pretending they regularly are in social spaces where they are bullied into taking direction from a white muslim convert from Louisiana who is part of PSL. Charlie Brown doesn't have hoes.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Since 'surplus' is the difference of physical quantity between initial stock and crop, and this comparison cannot be made within any one industry, which has an initial stock composed of quantities of various heterogeneous things, and crop composed of one thing only."- Piero Sraffa 1928

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if he had looked in the granaries, instead of the railways, he would have found a stock, a "fund" of product equal to consumption up to next crop. Agriculture is a typically discontinuous form of production: manufacture is almost continuous.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Cannan, in What is Capital? makes great fun of the 'wages fund'. There is no such thing in the world, he has failed to find it in the balance-sheet of a railway Co., etc. He does not realise that it is a conception essentially relative to an agricultural economy

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"that applies only to the assumption of a number of discrete processes for each industry. If we assume that there is an infinite [or very large number] of processes, i.e. that the transition from one to the other can be made continuously [or with very small changes] this does not hold any longer.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026

In the logic of the people who think, e.g. that LLMs can factually think, they have the logic backwards: they have already decided they can think. So it's like already deciding the pyramids were built by aliens... you will under such a frame find things that seem to you to be "evidence".

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Smh ofc an antisemite like @diplomatofnight.com would focus on this fringe figure like this rather than an israeli a friend of mine heard about from his cousin who said Palestinians deserve three square meals a day

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want mary poppins to give the speech John Reed gives Emma Goldman in Reds

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would enjoy it if it was Mary Poppins going to murder RFK Jr. And Elon Musk in defense of children.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤔 At the moment, Mamdani is not taking big shots on climate/jobs. Nor is he taking the (small/med) shots he said he would. NYC is a global leader on climate/jobs action b/c of Local Laws 97, 154 & divestment. Policies he inherited. So far Zohran isn’t furthering the city’s leadership. He should!🧵

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since today is my first full day not being sick, i am going to claim Sraffa healed me

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our media would be spending most of its time between 1936-August 1939 focusing on discrimination against Germanic Poles and the absurd "extremity" of the Polish Socialist Party and, especially the Jewish Labor Bund. Look at their wacky mutual aid organizations! Hear the funny things they say!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Or to riff in your other reply: The reason you refused to answer the question is that the truth is self-evident: you don't have an answer to the question, haven't thought about it and have a ridiculous and emotive resistance to taking the question seriously.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I didn't ask about the majority opinion, i asked you to justify the "unreasonableness" . Put aside your kneejerk reaction. Spell out why 1 day a week of compulsory masking at the park slope co-op to facilitate immunocompromised shoppers is unreasonable.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 27/09/2026

I suppose if Stalin had been a billionaire techbro, he would have said, "one hack is a crime, a thousand hacks is disrupting the market."

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"every system of general simultaneous equilibrium for all commodities, such as Pareto's, must be indeterminate; because in this case, when all the prices and utilities of all commodities enter as variables, it is impossible to regard the marginal utility of money as constant"- Piero Sraffa 1930

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...

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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY

School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"These differences are within the Zionist movement overshadowed & suppressed by the common national- or rather nationalistic-aim which unites all trends of Zionism. This unique unity that keeps under the roof of one organization leftist,right & even fascist Jews is in itself repulsive and appalling"

A unique Feature of the Zionist movement is the variety of political opinions represented by its members. Their political differences go almost as far as usually do those among extreme rightist and leftist elements. However, these differences are within the Zionist movement overshadowed and suppressed by the common national- or rather nationalistic- aim which unites all trends of Zionism. This unique unity that keeps under the roof of one organization leftist, right and even fascist Jews is in itself repulsive and appalling. In this country it would be as though Attlee, Churchill and Mosley were all trying to work in the same party". Emanuel Scherer October 1947.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A crucial moment of my timeline on Bluesky is February 2025 when DOGE invaded the Department of Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Services and took over the Appropriations Pipes. @nathantankus.bsky.social had pivotal coverage of DOGE’s removal of key figures in the Office.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You know you're in trouble when a podcast has a 22 source bibliography turbulencepod.substack.com/p/bonus-a-fi...

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BONUS: A Financial History of Zionism w/ Nathan Tankus

With Nathan Tankus

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some will despite this but I've set up the chinese deepseek LLM I run locally on my computer (to avoid the U.S. LLM industry & to have minimal resource use) and its really quite good at translating foreign language archival materials. i can identify what i want a professional translator to translate

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 25/09/2026

I think it is genuinely strange that he’s been able to outflank so many people on this issue, good political instinct is in short supply.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

today, SCOTUS essentially agreed that willful violations of the 1974 Privacy Act the Social Security Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act, resulting in the transfer of sensitive SSA data on basically every American, is fine...as long as you're handing that data off to ICE

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You know you're in trouble when a podcast has a 22 source bibliography turbulencepod.substack.com/p/bonus-a-fi...

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BONUS: A Financial History of Zionism w/ Nathan Tankus

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"You cannot be the guest of the Jewish working class and of the Zionists in Poland at the same time. What would you say if a prominent member of the [LS] International were to come to Brussels and take part there in a demonstration in favor of the Liberal or Catholic Party?"- Henryk Ehrlich Aug 1929

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First of two turbulence podcast episodes with @shaabiranks.bsky.social. prepare yourselves and listen up turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...

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Episode 42: Dollar Imperialism w/ Nathan Tankus

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eben (躺平; Tang-Ping era) @automax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

once again boosting this- what a GREAT ep! Listen! NOW!! I will probably have to find some shekels to upgrade for the next instalment of this series bc this one (as well as many of their free eps thus far!) was positively edifying LISTEN!

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

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Deborah Feldman @deborahfeldman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A highlight of my dscherman adventure is Germans cosying up to my religious heritage so they can offer it up to fascism while attempting to erase me from their society in the tradition my ancestors suffered once before. www.derstandard.de/story/200009... www.welt.de/print/die_we... t

Als sich Eliyah konvertieren lässt, glaubt er zunächst nicht an Gott. Er widmet sich dann jedoch der Lehre seiner neuen Religion und stellt “leider” fest, das ihm das Gelernte einleuchtet… so schreibt er auf die Rückseite seines Buches “lass das mit der Konvertierung.”

Gastkommentar: ethnisches Profiling hilft. Von Eliyah Havemann.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If i were more of a hack i would compare the data center boom to soviet break-neck industrialization of the late 1920 and early 1930s

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Support Trump having a third term but also assert Biden should have a third term after "for fairness". After crosstalk i pitch "can't trump and Biden do their third terms together?" I never acknowledge people "correcting" me saying Biden only had one term.

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