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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15h

You need to know the racial laws of so many irredentist states to even understand what people are talking about on X

Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15h

Stupid and immoral at the best of times but hilariously silly when discussing a website cooking up more and more obscure forms of racism that i only read about in antebellum legal texts.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15h

Even if you tried to sidestep the rampant racism, this claim isn't remotely true.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19h

✅exciting sounding finding ✅authors funded by effective altruists ✅Bad study design ✅dumped in an industry funded conference ✅news coverage as tho it’s actual unbiased good science

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a premium piece so take out a paid subscription to read. www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup

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Notes on the Crises

Coverage of the ongoing Impoundment and Unitary Executive Constitutional Crisis

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: For the past month or so I've been deep diving the narratives behind the concept of "petrodollar recycling". This is the first of three pieces I'll be writing debunking this narrative. www.crisesnotes.com/debunking-th...

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Debunking the Petrodollar “Recycling” Myth: Part 1

This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe to Read I’m going to tell you a secret: for many years I’ve rolled my eyes when people talk about “recycling petrodollars”....

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I decided to record myself doing a reading of an article by the Bundist leader Victor Alter entitled "Jewish Blood", published September 27th 1929. Palestine will be free.

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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Mamdani has a policing problem & the ICE shooting in NYC only made it worse. Advocates say they want more than harsh words for Trump on ICE. And while his DSA allies have held back on pushing him too hard on policing, now they say they see an opening theintercept.com/2026/10/09/i...

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ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hahaha thanks @jwmason.bsky.social. I know if I have absolutely no audience for a piece like this, something terrible must have happened to you.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

<sickos meme> Yes!! www.crisesnotes.com/debunking-th...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love how she has no self-awareness about the subtitle "Why the Rich Love Antiracism" and the need to explain how things "shifted" so quickly.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Debunking the Petrodollar “Recycling” Myth: Part 1

This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe to Read I’m going to tell you a secret: for many years I’ve rolled my eyes when people talk about “recycling petrodollars”....

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI Slopchosis. DuLLMification. StupAIfied.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay locking this one up since I'm clearly going to get the same dumb reply from people who don't realize that we're talking about a specific study and not just saying stuff about software coding in general.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An anecdote is not a study. I'm obviously talking about the study.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An anecdote is not a study. I'm obviously talking about the study.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another way of saying this is there was no productivity gains, introducing LLMs just changed the "recipe" for producing code of the expected quality.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think if you took a casual perusal of her instagram you wouldn't stick up for her bona fides.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Being in one of these states, let me tell ya: the ads his PACs and groups create are INSANE. Mostly AI, always about nonsense issues not relevant to the economic moment....unhinged from reality. They're not even attempting to lie well; it's all fear mongering.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ChatGPT might have written it tho

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Something about this image really cracks me up. The pseudointellectualism of it all.

Actress and quack from Big Bang Theory solemnly holding a copy of "American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities" By charlatan adjunct Columbia University professor Shai Davidai

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yiddish! All our translations are from Yiddish.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"After all, jewish blood was spilled. And Jewish blood is the best lubricant for the wheels of the reactionary." Thanks for this, Nathan.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nope, this is an original translation by @eyshe.bsky.social that will be in our forthcoming volume of original translations "We, Traitors"

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I decided to record myself doing a reading of an article by the Bundist leader Victor Alter entitled "Jewish Blood", published September 27th 1929. Palestine will be free.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Keynes had an immense collection of original Newton manuscripts

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On 10/31/18 I walked in on Anwar Shaikh & Lord Skidelsky having a drink (Robert & I had dinner plans) & what they were talking about was Keynes' writing on magic & Sir Isaac Newton. It's strange that they are now both dead & I am the only one who will remember that conversation

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get why Mamdani governs the way he does but the mayor or governor I'll really be excited about is the one who says "We're doing this because fuck them" when it comes to pro-Abortion, pro-Trans, pro-Immigrant and other such policies.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am very glad this is happening but it's illustrative of what pre-planning would have done. This should have been a day one initiative. I will also note that many people defended Mamdani's earlier position even against the argument they could have funded ringfenced gender affirming care- like this

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh wow Anwar Shaikh has died. May his memory be a blessing. I actually have a book review getting edited right now that discusses "New School Marxism" at length.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People often say this but it somewhat elides the point.You must have a strong reason to think actual prices will converge to their prices of production for many of the theoretical claims in Capital to be valid. Among other things, without a convergence proof the concept of "exchange value" dissolves

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also did plenty of work with conservatives who accepted the science on climate, there was just the small issue of them losing power in their coalition.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The guys on the “other side” of climate change are science deniers. On voting rights, racists. On vaccines, cranks. They’re deeply invested in bad faith arguments, not something you can go to lunch over.

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