Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
@nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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
If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
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/...
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
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
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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/...
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
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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.
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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It’s a good book! Read: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s a good book! Read: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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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.
Not gov't by sortition, but a step in that direction.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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.
Not gov't by sortition, but a step in that direction.
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“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”
“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
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“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”
“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
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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...
www.weekendreading.net/p/election-d...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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...
www.weekendreading.net/p/election-d...
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🚨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
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
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🚨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
Explore the resources → https://protdem.org/NonprofitInvestigationsToolkit
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well, doncha know, they should be so grateful they get to work menial jobs for megacorps run by white overseers
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
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
well, doncha know, they should be so grateful they get to work menial jobs for megacorps run by white overseers
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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...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
From the Daily: The University's values on trial
specials.michigandaily.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
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... 👇
But this is what we have now, so... 👇
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
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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... 👇
But this is what we have now, so... 👇
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A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
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
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
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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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
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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
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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
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.
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.
"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!"
"No, you can solve these problems more effectively by taking over the Democrats"
"LOOK AT WHO LOVES THE DEMOCRATS!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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.
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.
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It's weird to me the lack of shame leaders at certain institutions have, even though they helped create our current disaster
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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's weird to me the lack of shame leaders at certain institutions have, even though they helped create our current disaster
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"What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing 'Abundance' over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from 'Pod Save America.')"
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing 'Abundance' over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from 'Pod Save America.')"
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Many of us start our days with coffee. Let the coffee makers lead the way to start much bigger things too!!!
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Many of us start our days with coffee. Let the coffee makers lead the way to start much bigger things too!!!
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[Avengers reverse the Snap and have all their heroes and all of Wakanda's army arrayed against Thanos]
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[Avengers reverse the Snap and have all their heroes and all of Wakanda's army arrayed against Thanos]
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
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Hey did you know that I've been paying for term life insurance for years and I haven't even died yet?
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hey did you know that I've been paying for term life insurance for years and I haven't even died yet?
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Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
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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
But these are still puzzles (derogatory) because strategic actors should anticipate them. They don’t explain why now
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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
But these are still puzzles (derogatory) because strategic actors should anticipate them. They don’t explain why now
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We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.