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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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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 44m

It’s already happening.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 44m

"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

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 50m

Very good piece by @brendannyhan.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?

www.nytimes.com

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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 1h

“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...

"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow."
"She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right."
"We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued.
We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."|
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"I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said.
"We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that
our case was straight forward."
"He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it…

"Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything."
Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon.
"She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.”
"They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on."
As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed.
"My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…

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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 1h

"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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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2h

I hate Orwell comparisons as much as the next guy, but they're really hard to avoid these days.

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

-- George Orwell, 1984

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 4h

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

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

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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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 9h

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...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

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

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

@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...

Consider the experiences of the last few years. The racial justice movement that peaked in 2020 ended in disappointment and backlash. The Gaza protests provoked intense conflict without delivering clear political or policy victories for their organizers. Maybe most important, Mr.
Trump himself is back in the White House, suggesting a futility to opposition and activism among young people who have only ever known him as the central figure in our politics. He first took the oath of office when today's first-year college students were in elementary school.
The electoral choices offered to young people are not much better. Given the realities of our dysfunctional two-party system, the only alternative to a Trump-dominated G.O.P. is the Democratic Party, which is dominated by a decadent gerontocracy whose elites were more likely to attend a wedding in the Hamptons than a No Kings protest on the same day.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10h

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 11h

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 11h

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

Thanks for the correction!

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 13h

"Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking 'for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level,' he told employees during the meeting."

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

Is it bad when half your economy is delusional speculation??

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

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

The rich get heads I win, tails you lose.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

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

1/3 of internet traffic is MPSA emails. The other 2/3 is porn. I won't be surprised if those start to overlap to get more engagement. 😂

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

It's definitely radiating 1950s.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 19h

A harmful SCOTUS ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could disproportionately affect voters at the local level, who often use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge discriminatory maps and voting policies, @kevintmorris.bsky.social told @boltsmag.org. boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts

The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.

boltsmag.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

Judge dismisses James Comey and Letitia James indictments over ‘unlawful’ prosecutor appointment

Judge dismisses James Comey and Letitia James indictments over 'unlawful' prosecutor appointment

A federal judge in eastern Virginia on Monday dismissed criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who brought both indictments, was invalidly appointed.

www.cnbc.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility

Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence

For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 20h

The place-based specificity of tactics matters for our analyses and we should be cataloguing it.When the history of current social movmts is written, it will be a major characteristic.How translocalization is a dominant tactic when the federal govt is the object of resistance rather than appeal.

Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance

ICE and CBP’s North Carolina operation faced an early-warning system run by thousands of volunteers

www.theguardian.com

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Angela Li @angelamli.bsky.social · 20h

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...