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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. Views mine, ~90% right. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 in progress: How WE Make US Democracy. Dad w/ jokes. 🧙🏻. 🥏⛳🏆. Avid 🧗. Congress said I have "tremendous sway over SM platforms"😂 nathankalmoe.com .. more

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1h
If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.

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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 1h
It’s a good book! Read: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1h
It’d be lovely to see this wave build across NY & into state governance & state party leadership & fed reps. NY Dems are such a mess. NYC is a great start.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1h
You asked a question so I naturally assumed you wanted an answer.

How was Biden not chosen by voters in 2020? I’ve heard people mad that the 2024 primary wasn’t seriously contested, but I’ve never heard that claim about 2020.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h
Just got news yesterday that the LA Charter Reform commission voted 9-1 vote to support and collaborate with an independent (privately funded) 2026 civic assembly devoted to charter reform.
Not gov't by sortition, but a step in that direction.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 2h
“A lot of the discussion was about what comes next,” Ganz said. “How to avoid the Obama trap, how to avoid having built a really great organization and just dissipating it.”

“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
HKS Lecturer Advised Zohran Mamdani on Sustaining Momentum, Avoiding the ‘Obama Trap’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64 met with incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in August to advise his campaign on how to sustain a grassroots movement once in office.
www.thecrimson.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3h
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.

www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org

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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 7h
My big takeaway from last week's election, as I told @perrybaconjr.bsky.social , is that this should be an accountability election not just for MAGA, but for the commentariat that keeps telling us the wrong thing about what’s going on in America.
www.weekendreading.net/p/election-d...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h
Absolutely. I volunteer to design!

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Anyone could've run against Biden, and some did, but no one of note nor any who got significant support. Nothing stopped anyone popular except the surety that they wouldn't beat him, & that it'd hurt their future ambitions.

Harris was an unprecedented switch a month before the formal convention.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
True facts.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
There'd be big fights over what gets into that curriculum...but there are also big conflicts over the curricula that educated the current representatives (who are quite miseducated), so...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Petty tyrants all around.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Exactly.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Sortition is a form of representative gov't, kinda like jury service, in which representatives are chosen by lottery. 1 plus is leaders who match US on class, sex, etc. 1 knock is that reg people may not know or be smart enough to govern well, even w/ supports.

But this is what we have now, so... 👇
burgessev.bsky.social Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 12h
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10h
What if I told you that the University of Michigan was one of the most infamous offenders of faculty and student rights during McCarthyism? It feels like their current moves targeting student protestors are in alignment with this dubious honor.

specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
From the Daily: The University's values on trial
specials.michigandaily.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11h
NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County Public Defender’s new community legal hub to expand legal resources for South Siders • The TRiiBE
Free legal services will roll out on Nov. 19 at the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center in Roseland through a partnership with The Village Legal and Community Project.
thetriibe.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 11h
Parties are shells that are continuously remade. Compare Ds/Rs in 1868, 1904, 1932, 1972, & today on class, race, gender, immigration, & religion.

Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation.

Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
"The best way to solve these problems is to leave the Democrats behind!"

"No, you can solve these problems more effectively by taking over the Democrats"

"LOOK AT WHO LOVES THE DEMOCRATS!"

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 11h
My friend Shatema Threadcraft just made this book The Labors of Resurrection and it is so brilliant and beautifully written! Read it! academic.oup.com/book/60873
The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy
Abstract. Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate t
academic.oup.com

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 11h
🚨Civil society is under threat. Our new Nonprofit Investigations Toolkit gives organizations tools to navigate the current environment. Equip your organization to stand strong against political intimidation.

Explore the resources → https://protdem.org/NonprofitInvestigationsToolkit
Nonprofit Toolkit: Resources for organizations facing government investigations
On this page, you’ll find short topic-specific primers that build on our full-length guide, Protecting Civic Space.
protdem.org

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11h
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
"The best way to solve these problems is to leave the Democrats behind!"

"No, you can solve these problems more effectively by taking over the Democrats"

"LOOK AT WHO LOVES THE DEMOCRATS!"

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 11h
I don't doubt it was on the minds of many voters -- but were you hearing it specifically from people who hadn't made up their mind yet?

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 12h
Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs in Chile, but an analysis of permit filings by @restofworld.org shows only a small number of potential positions — and most are not skilled IT jobs, but those in security and cleaning. restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.
restofworld.org

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 12h
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 12h
I've said it before, and I will say it again.

We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do.

8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure

For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 12h
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13h
I doubt that was on the minds of most folks who were undecided about whether to vote or who to vote for.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13h
If it never happens, it won’t even register with most voters.