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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 · 13m

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 · 8h

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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Matthew J (is) Tired @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 40m

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.”

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire

More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by c...

www.amnesty.org

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 48m

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

Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 17h

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. 🏺🧪

Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

www.livescience.com

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 1h

Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.

hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1h

Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.

CNN @cnn.com · 17h

The New York Times produced a detailed, data-driven report on President Trump showing signs of aging. The president, 79, responded by calling the female reporter who co-wrote the story “ugly.” https://cnn.it/48idUFL

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 4h

It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 8h

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

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration is a global plague so I see why they wouldn’t want this commemoration. I suppose we’re lucky they didn’t turn it into a celebration of AIDS.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17h

"Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day. The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels." #overtonwindow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

www.nytimes.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10h

The Target boycott that AFT joined on Labor Day is seeing success. This holiday season, we're doubling down to demonstrate organized labor's economic power, as well as the consequences of ignoring the will of workers and the good of working families.
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...

We ain’t buying it: Why we boycott Target

For a long time, Target—that popular mega store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...

www.aft.org

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Brian A. Nosek, David H. Kaye , and 6 more Nandita Sharma, Brian A. Nosek, David H. Kaye, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Jason Lyall, Erin O’Donnell, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

It didn’t even take 6 hours.

USCIS
@USCIS
X.com
Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.
The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission.
10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave

The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.

amp.miamiherald.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15h

"Identity politics are not about dividing groups and comparing them. It's about building solidarity across groups and coalition-building, recognizing the commonalities across different forms of problems and what you do together," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2033...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15h

"Democrats buy into that stereotype of because they're college graduates, they must be also white, cosmopolitan, wealthy elites, instead being like, "No. To be part of the working class these days often still requires like some form of college education," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h

"This is a Rorschach test. If you can't name the murder of 20,000 children and tens of thousands more adults, the destruction of basic infrastructure, homes, universities,
hospitals....a genocide, you are morally corrupt," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

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

www.jstor.org/stable/48847...

Open access!

The State, War-Making & Democratization in the United States: A Historical Overview A Historical Overview on JSTOR

Robert C. Lieberman, The State, War-Making & Democratization in the United States, Daedalus, Vol. 154, No. 4, How Has War Shaped American Democracy? (Fall 2025), pp. 31-47

www.jstor.org

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h

"Utilities, housing, groceries. The right approach [to affordability] is understanding it's all a function of the same broken system. Corporations keep getting richer, buying each other up and consolidating across sectors to both suppress wages and raise prices," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h

"Medicare-for-All would guarantee baseline health coverage for every single American, without co-pays, deductibles, or premiums. It's just there for you," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, explaining why it's better than a public option. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

The Holy Duality

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17h

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

www.nytimes.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 17h

Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

New from Thompson & McCabe: "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

White Americans in counties with white decline/Black growth are more violent/antidemocratic when primed to think of US racial demo change.

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

A related problem is that “ideology” is indistinguishable from views towards marginalized groups. Folks use ideological labels & abstractions as euphemisms for supremacy & egalitarianism, including “free speech.” That’s what these debates are actually about.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

My limited understanding of current law interpretations is that a student can’t be punished for saying it, unless it’s said to an individual from the targeted group (becoming harassment), as if that’s much different.

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

It’s obviously viewpoint discrimination but it also creates an illegal hostile learning environment. In addition to be morally repugnant & raising the likelihood of racial hiring & student discrimination from profs with those views.

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

And lots with less agreement.

Should a student be able to say Black people are subhuman? What about a professor in class? What about a research project that “investigates” if as a question? Should faculty be hired who do that? Should they be fired? Should students be admitted who say it? Expelled?

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

I don’t love how these discussions are often misframed. The question isn’t free or not. It’s a question of what kinds of expression/research/teaching should be boosted/allowed/banned. There are lots of legal, professional, & social limits on those things already that just about everyone agrees with.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

"I begin the process of evaluating this case with a basic truth: It is not illegal to question or challenge election results"

bitch, what about telling Georgia's Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes" ?

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...