Nathan Tankus
@nathantankus.bsky.social
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Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
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Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
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Nathan Tankus
@nathantankus.bsky.social
· Nov 25
The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests
Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today!
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!
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Been suffering from the after effects of food poisoning for well more than three days now. Really sucks
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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.
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Again, you can't talk about breaking from the U.S. led international order while also not having any plans to leave Five Eyes.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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".
I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
It really is staggering how little our political class understands the concept of "salience".
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🚨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.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨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.
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.
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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...
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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...
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"
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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"
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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...
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Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.
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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
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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
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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.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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.
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thread - this was helpful for me to understand. thank you @nathantankus.bsky.social for pointing me to it.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
thread - this was helpful for me to understand. thank you @nathantankus.bsky.social for pointing me to it.
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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.
January 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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.
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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
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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.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
new bluesky slogan dropped
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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
Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times
Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.
arktimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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
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Usually bored of the digging up GOP quotes from 2016 thing but this is a particularly good one
Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark"
"That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"
"That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"
January 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Usually bored of the digging up GOP quotes from 2016 thing but this is a particularly good one
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remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue
Trump Net-Approval On:
Immigration: -23%
Venezuela: -24%
Foreign Policy: -24%
Economy: -25%
AP-NORC / Jan 11, 2026
Immigration: -23%
Venezuela: -24%
Foreign Policy: -24%
Economy: -25%
AP-NORC / Jan 11, 2026
January 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue