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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

@nathankalmoe.bsky.social

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

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 5d

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/

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

According to polling data on who has a U.S. passport, the SAVE Act would disproportionately impact Americans who are...

- white or black (non-Hispanic)
- lower income
- married women
- not college educated
- older
- trump voters

ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Pa...

ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net

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

Just wondering if the scale up is straining their counting/reporting systems.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Media challenge: Stop using the word "immigration" in phrases about abduction, assault, murder, and so on. Immigration means the movement of people into a country for purposes of residency. What's being "enforced" here is terror & crimes against humanity.

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

Wondering whether they’re able to count accurately, even before considering false reporting.

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

Riffing on psychology, I’d venture it’s their clear inadequacies that make them desperate to claim group superiority, since individual superiority is not in the cards for them.

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

weird that americans think corruption is rampant, where would they get such a wacky idea

Americans think everyone is corrupt
Matthew Yglesias

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Status @status.news · 1d

As CBS News staff quietly brace for another round of layoffs, Status has learned key new details about the cuts executives are planning behind the scenes.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

The Coming CBS News Cuts

As CBS News staff quietly brace for another round of layoffs, Status has learned key new details about the cuts executives are planning behind the scenes.

www.status.news

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ll recall, the election was actually very close. Trump won with a narrow 1.5-point margin in the popular vote. And yet, the idea that America had experienced a political “earthquake” that demanded far-reaching interpretations became gospel almost immediately.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again

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

Yeah, me too.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

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

Could be part. 3x more wealth, 162x more spending, perhaps.

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prof-alistair.bsky.social @prof-alistair.bsky.social · 1d

The Wiki article you point to suggests that in 2008 billionaire wealth was $4.4 trillion. In 2024, it was $14.2 trillion. As you agree, probably part but not all of the answer.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

"The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter..."

WASHINGTON––The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

It couldn’t be determined which country the foreign nationals are from or what they discussed about Kushner. But the connection to Kushner sheds further light on the top-secret whistleblower complaint that bureaucratically stalled within Gabbard’s agency for eight months and was kept locked in a safe until it reached Congress in heavily redacted form last week.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking:
WSJ: Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner

By Dustin Volz, Josh Dawsey, and C. Ryan Barber

Substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known. @dustinvolz.bsky.social

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner

The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

www.wsj.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

People with the authoritarian personality have a natural, instinctive hostility and contempt toward those groups that their society codes as weak or marginalized. Almost always, women are at the top of that list, but so are minorities, queer people, immigrants, and others.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

“more and more colleges and universities are eagerly partnering with A.I. companies, despite decades of evidence demonstrating the need to test education technology, which often fails to deliver measurable improvements in student learning.”

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Steve Peers, Michael Zimmer , and 2 more Marc Lynch, Steve Peers, Michael Zimmer, Tom Griffin, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 1d

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner

The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

www.wsj.com

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

prof-alistair.bsky.social @prof-alistair.bsky.social · 1d

The Wiki article you point to suggests that in 2008 billionaire wealth was $4.4 trillion. In 2024, it was $14.2 trillion. As you agree, probably part but not all of the answer.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer, Julia Lynch , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer, Julia Lynch, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

www.nytimes.com

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

A good start. Then we gotta fix all the things that were failed & failing before Trump II.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

"Revokes scientific finding"

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 1d

🙃
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions

The agency announced Thursday that it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

www.nbcnews.com

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

*bet

One more strike & I'm out!

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

True, but people who have relationships are much more effective persuaders & mobilizers than paid knockers.

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

Sorry, not guessing in this case, but rating without really knowing.

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

And I'd be those numbers overestimate how many actually know, between guessers & generic sampling that pulls in more sophisticated people than in the broader public (according to Pew's own self-tests).

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

lfg

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

OPINION: "The outrageous lies of Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a Commerce Secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished ... America desperately needs truth and consequences." — Inquirer columnist Will Bunch

The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch

www.inquirer.com

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

That's my 'teaches PoliSci 101' level of awareness on that. Courts & healthcare def aren't my expertise.

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

Pretending the commerce clause doesn't allow Congress to legislate just about everything was a big win for rightwingers who want no regulation that reduces corporate profits (but love lots of regulation that boosts corporate profits).

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