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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 .. more

Political science 44%
Sociology 21%

My main point is that the demographics of protest (incl. age) depend primarily on subjective cost/benefit. Older people w/ $ are more likely to hold signs on a street corner & wave to preserve the status quo. A much smaller cadre of mostly young people takes personal risks for systemic change.

No, I don't mean numerical among young people across events. I mean the Gaza protests were vastly more Gen Z than Boomer. Their aims were more radical (by sad US standards) & actions riskier. It's about the kind of protest that young people do, and the system-changing aims they're mobilized by.

Yeah, not the ideal illustration I guess. I grabbed a Broadview pic quick while heading into work & didn't notice the gray hair. It's still safe to say most people at Broadview, Portland, etc. are not Boomers.

Yep! Older folks are more likely to knock on doors, encourage small donations, persuade normie friends, etc.

A gen Z grad student made these posters and hung them around campus. Does that count?

No Kings is ultimately “maintain the status quo.” That happens to be very important amidst an authoritarian free-fall. But “preserve broken systems” won’t galvanize young people.

Do they disclose their AI holdings? Did they raise alarm in 2007-08?

Also, Gen Z is getting gassed, beaten and shot by ice & cops at ice facilities. Where are the boomers?

They prefer safe action with the most modest aims. Young people are galvanized by calls for replacing irredeemable systems. And they take risks the olds aren’t willing to take.

We need both.

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There’s lots to like from @brendannyhan.bsky.social here. I agree on demoralization. Also, normie Dem activism is always dominated by well-off retirees. They have more time comfort, & small aims.

Gaza protests against genocide were Gen Z’s antifascist action. (BLM too.) Where were boomers then?

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"Black women are disproportionately working-class. So if it was really about class, explain to me why Black women understood exactly what he [Trump] was going to do, which is make life harder for working-class people," says Kimberlé Crenshaw. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Loving Perry’s interview series. Insightful guests & good conversation. Crenshaw is one of the best as an innovator on intersectionality and other essential frameworks for understanding & action.👇🏻
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

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The statements in question include "gas chamber jokes" which I don't get generally as a human being, much less in the construction of a "joke." Here's an article with more detail.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

It’s already happening.

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"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
Just one week off social media can improve young adults' mental health, study finds
A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.
www.npr.org
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

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"Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com

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I hate Orwell comparisons as much as the next guy, but they're really hard to avoid these days.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org

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Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Thanks for the correction!