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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

@nathankalmoe.bsky.social

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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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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 6h

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...

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely. I volunteer to design!

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 7h

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.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 7h

True facts.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

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...

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

Petty tyrants all around.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

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... 👇

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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

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

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.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

"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 · 9h

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

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 9h

🚨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 · 9h

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 · 10h

"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!"

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 11h

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

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

I doubt that was on the minds of most folks who were undecided about whether to vote or who to vote for.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

If it never happens, it won’t even register with most voters.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

They’ll rename them “alpha-alanine” too. (I don’t actually know what those are!)

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 12h

[Avengers reverse the Snap and have all their heroes and all of Wakanda's army arrayed against Thanos]
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

Agreed. It's very similar to the problem with mainstream news. Usually the facts are right (apart from routinely printing lies pols say), but the framing/context is so wildly off that the usual result is gaslighting.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

Next up, probably: the mean on the 0-100 scale is 126 because the codebook didn't say missing = 999.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

I’m seeing convergence on 2 explanations for Dems caving: 1) Trump more willing to inflict pain on public than Dems (Ezra Klein), 2) protect the filibuster

But these are still puzzles (derogatory) because strategic actors should anticipate them. They don’t explain why now

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

Basically right when you squint at a couple hundred years of history, despite all sorts of complications & caveats in the details.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

User error. 😭

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12h

(Deleted a post on party diffs for candidate hope b/c both parties were rating the Dem, not their own. Oof! 🤦)

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