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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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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h

Similar to how abolition speech & press were banned throughout the south before the civil war, based on the claim that those expressions would incite violent insurrections by enslaved people.

Donna ☕📚🌸 @ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social · 2h

"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"

reason.com/2025/11/26/t...

Texas man faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected pamphlets

A man in Texas faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected zines and pamphlets.

reason.com

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welder millennial @bmceuen.bsky.social · 2h

The rapid increase in battery storage that made solar so much more feasible should really be the technological revolution everyone talks about rather than the fucking plagiarism probability machines

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.

Tonight he’s finally free.

Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.

He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.

He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies

Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months

Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old

www.theguardian.com

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Donna ☕📚🌸 @ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social · 2h

"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"

reason.com/2025/11/26/t...

Texas man faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected pamphlets

A man in Texas faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected zines and pamphlets.

reason.com

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3h

“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham in an interview with @jessehagopian.bsky.social in @truthout.org on Thanksgiving propaganda. "A national origin story that hides the real foundations of the US."
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The Thanksgiving Myth Hides the US’s Inability to Reckon With Its Own History

“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.

truthout.org

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 4h

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender

Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”

apnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a young woman who signed up to serve her community and our narcissistic, despotic president decided to use her as a prop for his ego

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 4h

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The Thanksgiving Story They Don't Teach You About

YouTube video by PBS Origins

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

Bringing the war home

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 6h

Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering

LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout

Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.

apnews.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

Homeland Security tweet says “there us no room at the table for invaders.”

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Cannot emphasize this enough.

If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.

Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 9h

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 13h

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

www.seattletimes.com

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

Thankful for justice movements working to make America belatedly live up to its promises for hundreds of years.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

A million miles away is in space.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

No matter where we look: Religious identity, racial and cultural resentment, attitudes towards the religious/racial/cultural pluralization of American society are dividing the country - and shaping the political conflict - much more strongly than education polarization.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

Love the performance, hate the unnecessary fake cheering.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

One exception: European immigrants in 1621

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been.

Maybe today should be a day of atonement.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks for clarifying!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Put differently: If you look at a group of voters with the same education, their level of racial resentment strongly predicts their vote choice. But in a group of people with the same level of racial resentment, educational attainment does not allow for a strong prediction of their politics.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

Oh interesting! So they only pay if the coach doesn’t take another job?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16h

The Myth of a Rightward Realignment

Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.

As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:

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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment

Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 16h

It’s likely these coaches get another job so the payout rarely materializes (see the James Franklin Penn State situation for an example), but these are like a MLB contracts in that they’re guaranteed. You could think of alternatives, but (perceived as) good coaches are in the drivers seat these days

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 16h

In each year of doing nothing, Kelly get paid 150x the earnings of a median full time worker. Because he failed.

During those six years of doing nothing after failing, he’ll get the equivalent of lifetime earnings for 20 median workers. Obscene.

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

In college football, firing a coach without cause generally entitles them to the remaining value of their contract. It’s very expensive. LSU’s attempt to weasel out in Brian Kelly’s case hurts their attempts to replace him. Pay him what you owe him. Move on. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Sources: Kelly officially fired by LSU without cause

The posturing over Brian Kelly's $54 million buyout from LSU is over, sources told ESPN, as the school sent him a letter Wednesday saying it is officially terminating him without cause.

www.espn.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16h

Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 17h

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

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Matthew J (is) Tired @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16h

New from Amnesty International:

“Today despite a reduction in scale of attacks, and some limited improvements, there has been no meaningful change in the conditions Israel is inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza and no evidence to indicate that Israel’s intent has changed.”