This is the greatest summary of the failed Pivot to Asia I've ever seen. @diplomatofnight.com

The latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social carried a bad review of my good friend @blbalthaser.bsky.social’s excellent new book on the American Jewish Left and anti-Zionism. I wanted to explain what’s wrong with the review, and why it matters

woke 1 was crazy lmaoooo remember when we were upset about the police killing unarmed black men? LMAOOOOOO thank god that’s over

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

Listening to Company Flow at the Wall Street Chipotle

Everyone now knows my darkest secret (I'm water insoluble)

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I attended @thomasherndon.bsky.social's wedding and got to throw Liza into Bob Pollin's pool. And then push her in a second time.

Now might be a good time to announce that I've officially started my new job at the Fiscal Policy Institute as their Housing Policy Analyst! There are no words for how excited I am about this position and the incredible, irreplaceable research I get to do alongside my brilliant colleagues.

Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read it alongside this great Eisner and @elizabethcooper.bsky.social analysis for @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-econom...

WU TANG WU TANG WU TAAAAAANG

Until the outside returns to Defund NYPD as a core demand, this will keep happening. Ultimately, it's up to our ecosystem of Left orgs that are focused on governing power to construct what we've never built before: an organized majority of voters whom City Hall is more afraid of than the NYPD.

Elizabeth Kim@elizabethkim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NYPD Commissioner Tisch told City Council today that she’s been budgeted to hire nearly 600 more cops. That would give her a larger police force than under Mayor Eric Adams. gothamist.com/news/nypd-se...

"C,mon bro. Please. Just 580 more cops bro. 580 more cops and it'll be perfect. 34,749 cops in New York City is not enough cops bro. We are so close. We can't stop now. Look at the pictures bro. Look at them. That's not enough cops. We only need to add 580 more and it would be enough. Please bro."

Gothamist@gothamist.com · 3mo ago

NYPD set to hire 580 extra cops under Mayor Mamdani’s latest budget gothamist.com/news/nypd-se...

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words

Organizers rally outside Delaney Hall, facing violent clashes with agents, as over 300 detainees are on hunger strike

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Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a paranoid fantasy that the media encourages but it’s actually not true. The US produces a very educated populace. It’s just that the sheer scale of our R&D requires drawing on the finest talents of a far larger population base via immigration.

slightly increase a band Dinosaur the Third

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

slightly increase a band 11,000 Maniacs

@OliviaRodrigo huge fan of your work, but concerned that your mention of Versailles in your latest single might make you seem nostalgic for the Ancien Regime. Maybe in future consider referencing some revolutionary locations, Valmy, the (storming of the) Bastille, things of that nature.

The role "the Epstein files" have played on the public consciousness is to transform sexual abuse from a societal problem that we all have to collectively grapple with to a baroque conspiracy committed by faraway, unrelatable villains that you get to righteously fantasize violence against.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4mo ago

this is basically vulgar Making Up Guys to Get Mad At but it's a little brain melting for the continual cover-up of the epstein files to be one of the largest news stories of the year at the same time as the shitty michael jackson hagiography breaks box office records

75yo neocon columnist: This YouTuber Says Capitalism Is Not “On Fleek”, But Is He Mogging Democrats’ Midterm Chances? 38 year old fellow at the Institute for Ethical Euthenasia of the Homeless: this is the most important thing youll read this year. if youre not scared youre not paying attention

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Article confirming what has been well known in the humanitarian aid sector for a while, namely that Israel military personnel, organized crime, and intelligence actors were responsible for a massive and highly lucrative smuggling ring into Gaza.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Kali is one of our most important living organizers, who presciently predicted and has masterfully helped steward his community through the atrocities of the current Trump administration. Please donate if you can.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi." please give what you can if you can! chuffed.org/project/1771...

Thank you for your service Mr's. Shelton and Robinson. Yours is the work of angels, and the spirits of the creatures you bring to their final resting place thank you.

The 51st@51st.news · 4mo ago

At a city agency that does so many thankless yet critical jobs, dead animal collectors Joseph Shelton and Terrence Robinson might be the Department of Public Works' biggest unhailed heroes. They’re also extremely busy, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reported last year:

Cory Booker has to face 11 other New Jerseyans to earn his 6 seed, & if he loses to Fairleigh Dickinson that's all she wrote

@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My ideal First Democratic Presidential Primary 2028 is five hours with 20 people, involving like a half-dozen candidates getting their careers ended as another half-dozen candidates kamikaze into them with Warren-on-Bloomberg levels of violence. Red Wedding for Useless Dems With Aspirations

SAME

Werner Herzog's Bear@jasontebbe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For some positive city discourse: what’s a city that people put down but you think is great? My vote is for Newark.

Been pretty quiet on my DSA work here but fwiw I've had the honor and privilege of providing research support for Meg the past month or so and cannot express in strong enough terms how excited I am for this campaign. Donate if you can and join us to canvass!

The thing about this incredible crime decline is that every local mayor and pd gets to say *their* specific policies are working from Brandon Johnson’s funding of violence interrupters and summer jobs to SF’s police drones and license plate readers.

Y'know this war may be pretty bad for most people, but consider for a moment who will benefit from this period of geopolitical tumult: Pakistani military also rans trying to stay on top of the log of Islamabad court politics by personally befriending JD Vance.

No the camps are definitely for immigrants

Phoenix Calida@phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 5mo ago

Hey remember when yall wondered why this administration is so obsessed with buying spaces to turn into concentration camps? Because Surely if we're only deporting immigrants, we don't need thousands more beds? The camps are for americans, kids.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Been pretty quiet on the old sky app lately but I realize I should mention I am now a graduate of the New School's Economics MA and looking for work in the field! My areas of expertise include federal monetary operations, housing policy and heterodox macro, hire me before someone else gets to!