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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

@nathankalmoe.bsky.social

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PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make US Democracy. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 3d

Hi friends! If you haven’t already (& you’re in a safer position to do so), consider finding (or starting) a neighborhood ice watch/support group.

Even if ice hasn’t been high-activity in your area yet, it’s important to get ready now. And lots of support to provide in the meantime. 1/

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

*hopefully

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The kidnappings in LA were happening before Trump, have accelerated under Trump, and haven’t stopped even though the media doesn’t really cover them

thelalocal.org/immigration/...

LA County identifies the ZIP codes hit hardest by ICE. Here’s where they are | LA Local

A new report from LA County offers a closer look at the economic damage to the region caused by federal immigration enforcement — and at the neighborhoods most affected.

thelalocal.org

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Keep reading for a section on what we can do to slow & hopefully stop it if we act quickly.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Keep reading for a section on what we can do to slow & hoped stop it if we act quickly.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Essential reading 👇🏻

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Most tech workers, even at Palantir (probably), are pro-social compared to the tech owner and VC classes. They need unions so their voices matter for company governance.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

www.wired.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

While Stanford ends programs for first generation and underrepresented students, they maintain their legacy preferences in admissions…

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Communist China, otoh…

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

It would make communists so mad, maybe more so about the allegation than the crackdown.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination

I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 1d

Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the rule of law and determined this case should not proceed. Hopefully, this ends this politicized investigation for good.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the book by my college professor that I still teach my own jury class with. It’s great on the history of the institution and importance to democracy.

Two different covers of Jeffery Abramson’s We the People: The Jury System and American democracy book

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

…which just goes to show how stupid & undeserving they are…

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority.

Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics

In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

www.motherjones.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t reform this. It’s the whole DHS system, and it has to be razed to the ground.

Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 1d

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

www.nytimes.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

We have juries in the US because it is a bulwark against government overreach. Don’t blow off jury duty.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS

The Trump administration tried and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment in connection with a video featuring six Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and intelligence communities not to comply with unlawful orders.

Full Story: nbcnews.to/4r4Ts3v

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to write about this:

segregation without segregationists

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. one person close to the White House predicted that it might be the straw that sends Lutnick ‘for the exits,’ arguing that being on the island is ‘sort of the red line.’”

@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/02/1....

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against six Democrats who posted a video reminding members of the military to refuse illegal orders.

Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video

The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.

nyti.ms

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The unsealing of the FBI’s search warrant affidavit for its raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility prompted swift condemnation from voting rights advocates, election experts and former federal officials. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

‘An absolute travesty': Critics slam affidavit behind Fulton raid for relying on 2020 election lies

The affidavit reinforced fears that the FBI’s seizure was not about uncovering new evidence but about resurrecting a false narrative.

www.democracydocket.com

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1d

They're Letting Cancer Patients Die to Fund Concentration Camps

www.thefarce.org/theyre-letti...

Veterans → Goons
Trump cut VA positions and froze hiring for nurses and psychologists—while 94% of VA facilities report severe staffing shortages. That money instead paid thousands of militarized agents to invade Minnesota and shoot Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, dead while he lay prone on the ground. Veterans who earned their care are denied it so goons can terrorize American citizens.

Care for Starving Children → Fascist Influencers
Trump killed USAID funding, creating a $60 billion gap. The Lancet estimates 22.6 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, as a result of all the funding cuts in 2025 around the world, as allies aped the Trump regime’s cuts. In just six months, 600,000 people died preventable deaths, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Where did some of that money go? To fund far-right movements in Europe. We’re literally taking money from starving children and giving it to Nigel Farage, supporting Nazi-ish parties in Germany, and funding that weird mix of fascist and Putin-purchased movements across Europe.

Cancer Research → Measles Outbreaks
Bobby Jr. terminated or froze 320 grants researching cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease—$561 million redirected away from cures. Meanwhile, measles outbreaks are hitting detention centers holding children like five-year-old Liam Ramos. We’re trading the possibility of curing cancer for the certainty of preventable disease spreading in camps where we’re holding American children.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

MeToo might've actually led to systemic change if it included accountability for those who knew and didn't intervene.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...