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Peter Moskos

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Author of Back from the Brink. https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf Professor. Writer. New Yorker. Here for the pigeons and also discourse on policing and criminal justice.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 6h

I do not know

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 7h

From 2013

Southern District of New York | Twenty-Third Defendant Pleads Guilty In LIRR Disability Fraud Scheme | United States Department of Justice share.google/Quasx6QxxYAh...

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 8h

It is scandalous that every big NYPD chief happens to be "disabled" when they retire.

"Tax free 3/4 of his salery life time benefits... because of an ankle injury he received on Randall's Island while on duty last year."

Bullshit. This is corruption.

www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/06/t...

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 1d

I've taken enough moon pictures to know they never really work, but the moon was rising over Central Park and it was really beautiful, you'll just have to trust me.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 2d

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 3d

"It's not a political party. It's a 'membership organization'." Whatever, dude.

Meanwhile in the real world: "We ran a great DSA campaign and are using the Democratic Party line as a politic tactic."

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Teorema @teorema.bsky.social · 3d

Again and again I’m simply blown away at the idea of someone brain damaged enough to watch him do this and think “hell yeah”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 3d

From a NYC park bathroom today. Seems like a very fair request.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sure he loves puppies. That isn't is the point. It's the scary part that matters. "Not running on" is such a cop out. Of course he's not "running on" what isn't popular. He runs a great campaign. The point is who he is. Anyway, I disengage when sincere polite engagement turns to insults.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

I do! And I don't like it.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

DSA is anti (big D) Democratic and using (or exploiting) low turnout Democratic primaries to seat DSA candidates on the Democratic Party line who hold opinion counter to Democrats. How they allow members to join isn't my concern. How they operate as a political party is. The difference is semantic.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

DSA does not share values with the Democratic party (or shares very few). It's a "membership organization" that is trying to take over the Democratic party from within. I mean, that's their right. It doesn't mean we Democratics have to like it.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

Not many want to rewrite the Constitution and abolish prisons and have candidates who want to seize the means of production.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

Emily's List is a single issue advocacy group. DSA is a wholistic ideology. That's a big difference.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. (I means there's collaboration with federal prosecution and FBI. But not the national guard BS)

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 5d

It is in the sense that the left could develop an actual crime control strategy that doesn't involve federal troops.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 5d

Working on your PhD? Consider applying for a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy $10,000 no-strings-attached research grant. We award 20(!) of them. December 1 deadline. (FWIW, I'd love to see more qualitative and criminal-justice related applications!) www.horowitz-foundation.org/faq

Frequent Asked Questions - The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 5d

That's such an interesting but also irrelevant semantic distinction in NYC. There's a Party Platform.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 5d

That's such an interesting but also irrelevant semantic distinction in NYC. There's a Party Platform.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 6d

He's DSA.

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 6d

Win elections. Not words. Deeds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 7d

Much better than the somewhat halfheartedly written, choppy recent NYT piece. And I really wish the NYT would stop with this nonsense of lifting freelancers' ideas.

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 7d

Read the original here: newrepublic.com/article/1973...

The Secret Ingredient to Zohran Mamdani’s Success

The way to New York voters’ hearts is through their stomachs.

newrepublic.com

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 7d

Like I can tolerate a Che or Mao t-shirt (or just roll my eyes at a random "Free Mumbia" sign) as a sign of one's chic politics. But, yeah, people who murder cops for political "liberation" should be treated with kid gloves by our society or mainstream media.

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 7d

Yet another in a string of recent national security stories that you wouldn’t have read if the @washingtonpost.com didn’t break them www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks

The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.

www.washingtonpost.com

Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 7d

Don't judge somebody by their worst day. Even if that day was the stated purpose of their political violence?