Justin Vogt

big on big hats, specifically, if i may

Israel, Gaza, and the Starvation Weapon The ICC tests a rarely prosecuted war crime.

The long, sordid history of the tactics producing mass hunger in Gaza. "Throughout the twentieth century, starvation blockades were integral to Western strategic thinking—and, as many statesmen saw it, to the maintenance of international order itself." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

The Coming Pax Geriatrica Aging societies and depopulation will lead to fewer wars.

"The coming wave of old and shrinking populations will fundamentally reshape geopolitics. In at least one way, that transformation will be for the better." — Mark Haas www.foreignaffairs.com/world/coming...

i understand, but i'm not interested in the person's identity. i'm just interested in how a person who takes that position might respond to your objection.

How did the person who gave you that advice answer that question (assuming you posed it in response)?

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

"Believing you can outfox a fox is how you become its prey."
— David Pressman (ambpressman.bsky.social) with a stark warning about institutional acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

It would be easier to make this comparison if Bluesky had the equivalent of a "views" metric. (X claims Warren's post there has 5.6 million "views.") I wonder why Bluesky doesn't do that.

very hard to predict how this is going to play out, many x factors

A contender that is similar in many respects: "Every Grain of Sand"

"For Your Freedom and Ours," a banner unfurled in Red Square, Moscow, at a 1968 protest against Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia

I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.

calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive...

For Netanyahu, Gaza Dispute With Biden Offers Risk and Reward (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/w...

Netanyahu, Defiant, Appears to Have Gone Rogue, Risking a Regional War

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/w...

Netanyahu Faces a Political Crisis Over the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/w...

Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

Quite a few news articles and news-analysis pieces in the NYT have alluded to Netanyahu's quest to stay in power as a driving factor in his decision-making on Gaza. Here are a few easily Google-able examples; I believe there are many more, along with numerous opinion pieces.

That's interesting. Do you think it's an area in which he might defer to Lander, assuming Lander becomes an important player in his campaign (and admin, if Mamdani wins)?

In February, Brad Lander promised to keep Tisch if he became mayor. Are his ideas/priorities on law enforcement not aligned with Mamdani's?

Mamdani, Urged to Keep Tisch as Police Commissioner, Is Considering It

A good idea, I think. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/n...

The End of the Age of NGOs? How civil society lost its post–Cold War power.

PWH Faculty Council member @sarahbush.bsky.social has a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com on the future of NGOs. Read here: www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-ag...

Me, to every young journalist I ever meet.

The Global Lead Poisoning Crisis How to wipe out a scourge that kills and disables millions every year.

A genuine global crisis www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

New York has a lead problem. Old buildings, old dirt. I live in an affluent area and my kid’s level was too high. We need to protect vulnerable kids. NYCHA has to step in here.

This one really surprises me. (Orange is Mamdani.)

This guy came up to me after the forum and kept telling me he had “The New York Groove.” Not sure who he is, but I loved his energy!

Q for @katiehonan.bsky.social, @errollouis.bsky.social, @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social, @benmax.bsky.social—or anyone else who knows. Back in February, Brad Lander committed to sticking with Jessica Tisch as police commissioner. What has Mamdani said about how he would fill that job?

Exclusive | Shell in Early Talks to Acquire Rival BP A deal for BP, worth roughly $80 billion, would be a landmark combination of two supermajor oil companies.

WOW www.wsj.com/business/ene...

in other words: readers like us might be a problem that the NYT is happy to see us solving ourselves!

do you think? i suspect the weekday print edition might be a costly albatross at this point.

Has Mamdani said anything about whom he would name as police commissioner, or what kind of person he would like in that job? There is a strong case—substantively and politically, for him—for sticking with Jessica Tisch. Back in February, Brad Lander committed to keeping her.

I think we're gonna stop weekday print delivery, too. Makes me sad. But what you wrote above is totally correct.