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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. Views mine, ~90% right. US democracy, votes, violence, history, psych. Post-post-post-post doc. Dad w/ jokes. Unlapsed 🧙🏻. 🥏⛳🏆. Avid 🧗. Congress said I have "tremendous sway over SM platforms" 😂 nathankalmoe.com .. more

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 7h
This is a public university telling student journalists not to publish news and firing them if they disagree
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

““I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member, said.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...
US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.
apnews.com
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Past time to drop the White House press pool too.
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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
Paging Near v. Minnesota.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 9h
“One day” how about now ISP commander in chief @jbpritzker.bsky.social
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h
The combination of “trust authorities” news norm plus the “don’t do anything that looks anti-Trump” news norm.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h
NEWS

The highest court in Australia has affirmed the government’s decision to ban Candace Owens from entering Australia.

In 2024, the Australian government said that Candace Owens did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa.
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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 9h
Breaking:
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
abcnews.go.com/US/los-angel...
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
jessicacalarco.com
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 9h
Also not to relitigate the fascism debate yet again, but seemingly every Republican staffer under 40 expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler should be pretty conclusive evidence of the fascistic dimensions of the modern American right.
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h
by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h
the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11h
It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h
the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11h
It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 11h
I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h
"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”
'The tables will turn one day': Pritzker blasts ICE, CBP in Chicago
Governor Pritzker is speaking out about the federal immigration raids of the last few days.
www.fox32chicago.com
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10h
Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 11h
Of all the things that didn’t happen
Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 11h
Of all the things that didn’t happen
Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 11h
One protester arrested, the rest remain across Lexington yelling “shame,” among other things, at officers who just detained a person.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 11h
The way I put it is that pointing to some policy & claiming it’ll solve a problem (usually increasing or decreasing group inequality), regardless of its actual impact, has the function of making the claim that they can solve the problem a little more credible. Or maybe not even that.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h
Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12h
Asking the question in reverse can tell you the answer.

Instead of asking “why do Dems lose elections when their policies are broadly popular?”

Ask yourself “why do Republicans win elections when their policies are broadly unpopular?”

The answer is right there: Policy is irrelevant to elections
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h
"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views
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anyoldname.bsky.social @anyoldname.bsky.social · 12h
Blackmailing the populace of another sovereign state.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
www.newsweek.com
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 13h
Subscribe here!

www.bostonreview.net/memberships
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