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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

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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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.

If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.

www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes

"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.

www.axios.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk.
It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

Headline: U-boat men to die for murder of Allied crews

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

Democrats: Government employees should obey the law.

Republicans: DEMOCRATS ARE INCITING INSURRECTION!!!

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 12h

This is happening solely because of Donald Trump & JD Vance.

A Surprise When Your Package Arrives: You Have to Pay the Tariff

The end of a tariff exemption on goods worth $800 or less has left some U.S. shoppers with an extra shipping bill that must be paid before delivery.

A Surprise When Your Package Arrives: You Have to Pay the Tariff

www.nytimes.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12h

"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."

Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 20h

A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year

Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

hechingerreport.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 13h

If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago spent more than $212 million on overtime for members of the Chicago Police Department in the first 10 months of 2025 — 6% more than the amount Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to set aside for police overtime in all of 2026, records show. https://to.wttw.com/49QGPU6

Chicago Spent $212M on Police Overtime So Far This Year, 6% More Than New Limit Set for 2026

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told the Chicago City Council on Nov. 5 that he was confident that CPD would be able to spend no more than $200 million on overtime in 2026.

to.wttw.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 14h

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14h

DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As explained further below, however, your status as an inferior officer under Article II of the Constitution renders you an “at-will” employee, and your removal is beyond the purview of Title VII. Regarding your client’s claim that her employment as an Immigration Judge was terminated, this decision was a lawful exercise of the Attorney General’s authority under Article II of the Constitution. Article II of the Constitution allows the President and heads of departments exercising his power to remove inferior officers without cause, subject to only narrow exceptions that do not apply to your former position. No statute provides otherwise, and even if it did, the statute would run afoul of Article II.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

breathing steadily, calmly. but there are blurbs now.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 16h

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing.

That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy.

It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them.

In a report out in Jan +

Chart with Turnout on the Y axis & election year (2016, 2020, and 2024) on the X axis. 6 lines, 3 for White, Black, and Hispanic in households making over $100k/year, 3 for the same groups in households making under $30k/year.

Overall you can see turnout increasing among higher-income people in all three racial groups, and declining (White and Black) or staying flat (Hispanic) among low-income people; the turnout gap by income is much larger in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016.

from 2016 -> 2024:
- White $100k turnout goes from 65% to 78% while white under $30k turnout goes from 55% to 49%
- Black over $100k turnout goes from 51% to 64% while Black under $30k turnout goes from 48% to 33%
- Hispanic over $100k turnout goes from 52% to 67% while Hispanic under $30k turnout stays flat at about 36% (higher in 2020 at 42%).

Caption: "Our analysis, Cooperative Election Survey Data, Validated Votes."

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

Obviously "mass deportation will lower housing costs" was never a real argument but @mtkonczal.bsky.social crunched the numbers. Get ready to for crimes against humanity to save you a two liter of shasta mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Mass Deportation Will Save Renters Less Than $5 a Month

President Trump wants to deport his way to affordability. But immigration can’t explain the housing crisis, and deportation won’t fix it.

mikekonczal.substack.com

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17h

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:

It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!

www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People

A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic. (Note for free subscriber...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 18h

Sociologists are trained to see everything through the lens of power imbalances. But what if it's simply that the marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than the marginal cost of the foregone domestic work?

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

We have to talk about how this glorification of overwork is driving care downstream.

To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...

Billionaire Jimmy John’s founder: Work-life balance for entrepreneurs ''is the biggest line of bulls--- that’s ever been created’

Jimmy John Liautaud says launching a successful business requires an immense amount of dedication and persistence, leaving no room for work-life balance.

www.cnbc.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 18h

From Natalie Jackson. open.substack.com/pub/herdingc...

It might be time to retire the liberal-to-conservative spectrum

We hear terms like MAGA, progressive, socialist, and America First way more often.

open.substack.com

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 18h

It's a fact

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

“in the DC tip sheet space” are the most cursed media words ever written

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18h

Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade

OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay

www.oudaily.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19h

Deeply embarrassing that NPR falls for this shit. A real disservice to their audience, who will take this seriously.

NPR @npr.org · 19h

Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu

An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress

Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.

n.pr

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

Billionaire Jimmy John’s founder: Work-life balance for entrepreneurs ''is the biggest line of bulls--- that’s ever been created’

Jimmy John Liautaud says launching a successful business requires an immense amount of dedication and persistence, leaving no room for work-life balance.

www.cnbc.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

let's fucking go

Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 20h

The DC I know is worth fighting for.

I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.

youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM

The DC I know

YouTube video by Janeese for DC

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 19h

This is a really well-done corrective to the NYT/Atlantic party line on how attitudes about trans people affect Democrats' electoral prospects. Liberal Currents continues to shine.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic

2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19h

dems should start saying that presidential pardons dont apply to international war crimes and in fact implicate the president, no idea if thats true but they should start saying it

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19h

And Venezuela has offered President Donald Trump the chance to leave his country for Russia or elsewhere.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

The United States has offered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the chance to leave his country for Russia or elsewhere, a Republican senator said Nov 30, amid heightened fears of imminent US military action.

US gave Venezuela’s Maduro chance to leave country, says Republican lawmaker

The US president has said that efforts to halt Venezuelan drug trafficking “by land” would begin “very soon.” Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19h

What’s the name of your act?

Political Science! 👇🏻

Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 20h

When I first read this, I just couldn't get over the fact that Huntington's 'civilisations' included 'Hindu,' 'Japanese,' and 'African.'

Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 2d

Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress

Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.

n.pr

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19h

One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.

It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.

Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.

Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.