Nate Kruger
@natekruger.bsky.social
PhD Student at Vanderbilt
Studying Critical Consciousness
"I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides"
Studying Critical Consciousness
"I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides"
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not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
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100 people. One hundred people. In this economy.
You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]
You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
100 people. One hundred people. In this economy.
You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]
You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]
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The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble
PLEASE FUND CUNY!!!!!! I WANT TO PUT MY EDUCATION TO USE TEACHING ALL THE AMAZING PEOPLE IN THE CITY I LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
A busy first day as your Mayor-elect: early morning interviews, transition announcements and meetings. More to say on all of it tomorrow.
But a highlight was lunch with my Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights.
But a highlight was lunch with my Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights.
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PLEASE FUND CUNY!!!!!! I WANT TO PUT MY EDUCATION TO USE TEACHING ALL THE AMAZING PEOPLE IN THE CITY I LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
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NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is.
Very proud of my pal’s public work.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
Very proud of my pal’s public work.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is.
Very proud of my pal’s public work.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
Very proud of my pal’s public work.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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love to see it. curious which unions will respond
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
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Universities like UT Austin have shown that they will place ideology and political power ahead of the most vulnerable students, faculty, and staff they serve.
Fight against the closure of Black, Latino, and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Support our students.
#Blacksky #polisky
Fight against the closure of Black, Latino, and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Support our students.
#Blacksky #polisky
October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Student governments of Vanderbilt, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, UVA, and Arizona issued a joint statement condemning the Compact and stating that "Academic Freedom is not negotiable." www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Student governments of Vanderbilt, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, UVA, and Arizona issued a joint statement condemning the Compact and stating that "Academic Freedom is not negotiable." www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...
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The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.
It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.
It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.
It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.
It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.
So many people told me that “from the river to the sea” is genocidal because it means Israel doesn’t get a state. Now that Netanyahu says he won’t allow a Palestinian state, what does that make y’all?
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
So many people told me that “from the river to the sea” is genocidal because it means Israel doesn’t get a state. Now that Netanyahu says he won’t allow a Palestinian state, what does that make y’all?
RIP president redford
September 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
RIP president redford
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oh well, onward and upward
![REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreig42mujsiyxozvq3kiayszu47dbk6zds3icm5bwu34twt3d7vbo2q@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
oh well, onward and upward
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If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members?
crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...
crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...
Doxcare
A step-by-step guide explaining how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it's important, and what to do if you are targeted for doxxing.
crimethinc.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members?
crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...
crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...
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NYT metro section really hitting us with the one-two w/ scoops tonight huh?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
September 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
NYT metro section really hitting us with the one-two w/ scoops tonight huh?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
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This is all making me think of India Walton’s advice to Zohran: “Moderating is what got us here… I pivoted fairly quickly… to try and integrate myself into the party, because I thought that was the way to build a broad-based coalition… It sort of ate away from our message from the inside out.”
September 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is all making me think of India Walton’s advice to Zohran: “Moderating is what got us here… I pivoted fairly quickly… to try and integrate myself into the party, because I thought that was the way to build a broad-based coalition… It sort of ate away from our message from the inside out.”
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If Mamdani has inspired people by speaking authentically and honestly about issues, then pretending that the NYPD isn't that bad could alienate some of his base: bsky.app/profile/jben...
Let's take the question of whether the NYPD is racist out of the picture, right? Just do electoral cost/benefit. What this does is make it so that no constituency can really rely on what Z thinks about the NYPD. Now lefties are suspicious and it will fail to appease center/right.
September 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If Mamdani has inspired people by speaking authentically and honestly about issues, then pretending that the NYPD isn't that bad could alienate some of his base: bsky.app/profile/jben...
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sorry it’s just like, even eric fucking adams cofounded an organization about racism in the NYPD. what are we doing here
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
sorry it’s just like, even eric fucking adams cofounded an organization about racism in the NYPD. what are we doing here
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"Mamdani's... policy priorities are about affordability, not jail reform. And while there are powerful interests invested in keep[ing] the jails full, there is not... a corresponding political bloc demanding Rikers closure that is powerful enough to inspire fear or loyalty in an elected official."
New Yorkers Keep Dying on Rikers Island. Does Anyone Actually Care?
Will public officials ever stop the deaths in City jails? Will New Yorkers ever make them?
hellgatenyc.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"Mamdani's... policy priorities are about affordability, not jail reform. And while there are powerful interests invested in keep[ing] the jails full, there is not... a corresponding political bloc demanding Rikers closure that is powerful enough to inspire fear or loyalty in an elected official."
I want my money back @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
L + ratio + you are doubling Cuomo's numbers so why
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
Mamdani Says He Will Apologize for Calling the N.Y.P.D. Racist in 2020
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I want my money back @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Barrack Obama, DNC leaders etc are going to publicly cry a lot more about this violence than they ever have about any snipers, bombings or lynchings in Gaza.
“Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.
“Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Barrack Obama, DNC leaders etc are going to publicly cry a lot more about this violence than they ever have about any snipers, bombings or lynchings in Gaza.
“Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.
“Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.