Joey Fishkin

@durlauf.bsky.social interviewed me for his terrific Inequality Podcast, which highlights different scholars' work on inequality. It was a fun conversation—and if you'd like an introduction to my work, this is a great place to look (or listen). Discusses both bottlenecks and oligarchy!

Important reporting and it is wild that the relevant disclosure is “years later on tax returns” rather than “during the election.” A Democratic Congress could pass a law to fix that part.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

A striking but fair summary of Bibi's pitch to voters from @joshtpm.bsky.social: "the results of my policies are dire and I’m the only one who can protect us in such a dire situation." After all my years in power, things are SO dire that electing anyone but me means Israel's complete destruction.

This is an open invitation to journalists to get inside this story & exactly what happened. It’s just enough out in the open that it may be possible. This initial story is pretty damning all by itself.

PM Carney sharply criticized the decision to restrict Ukraine’s satellite access: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression.”

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Kagan, 2010: "We are all originalists." Kagan, 2026: "The whole project of originalism is kind of misconceived, and it’s not a very good match with the Constitution we have." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Publishing fake polls is a fundamentally antidemocratic act. And we have to recognize that there are a lot of actors out there who are pretty indifferent to that. So we all have to read information that has extremely high electoral salience (like polls) with special caution.

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

A message that would have made perfect sense to voters even back at the turn of the 20th century. If you can’t turn voters against the world’s richest man who is trying to buy “his own personal Senator” (who btw is one of the sleaziest politicians on earth), then who CAN you turn them against?

Must -Read LA Times Story on DOJ’s Despicable Conduct in Its Los Angeles Voter Fraud Arrests electionlawblog.org/2026/must-re...

One fact explains both: (a) a non-trivial chunk of the political differences between TX and CA (b) why, after moving from south Austin to west Los Angeles, I suddenly have a longish drive to the nearest Costco or Home Depot. It's suburban here, yet too dense for big box stores. Unthinkable in TX.

This is not even slightly true! Texas has "cities" that are large collections of suburbs and a density profile where it's densest cities are lower density than the typical California suburb

Things are getting pretty bleak out there when the NYT feels the need to run an opinion piece by Bernard Avishai that basically amounts to “Liberal Zionism exists.” “…Or at least, existed and/or could exist.” !

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

Credit to @emptywheel.bsky.social for screenshotting Katie Miller's tweet before she quickly took it down and tried to replace it with more neautral-language tweets: x.com/emptywheel/s...

This is how you write a headline.

It's just extraordinary to live in a time when all this is literally true, and not really even in dispute. And yet, the party that for decades successfully branded itself as the "national security" party...

Is the DOJ going to prosecute this as “election interference”?

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Sometimes guys who “work in AI” are _trying_ to tell us as loudly and clearly as they can that they do not understand what human interaction is about or why anyone might want this. (Which is related to, maybe even upstream of, not valuing “care.”)

The most obvious @marypeltola.com campaign pitch ever: This is only even on the table because our campaign is winning. Has the virtue of being 100% true.

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵

It doesn't have to be useless--it can even be transformative--and it can still be a bubble that has the potential for a very painful burst as supply greatly overbuilds compared to demand & many companies convince investors they're likely the winner--until they're not. See, e.g., railroads, Internet

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

Are you kidding me? The idea was a brief symbolic protest and then a shrug?

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

The media assignment is very straightforward and clear: Can you find, in the coming months, some of these 750,000 people and interview them? According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.

This is some great reporting by ProPublica. SCOTUS has so narrowed our definition of corruption that most corruption isn’t even illegal… but this? Yeah no. This appears to fall squarely within what’s still actually illegal. If the reporting is correct. And they have the actual physical check…!