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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 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
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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 2m
“Millions of dead children” will be in the first line of Marco Rubio's obituary.

Nice that the only State Department comment here is that “the U.S. 'continues to stand with the people of Burma.'” Myanmar hasn't been called Burma since 1989, but since Trump is forever stuck in 1983, that checks.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2m
More like a crash into the twin towers, the Pentagon, & a field in Pennsylvania.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 18m
@himself.bsky.social talking sense, as usual. Notably: “The administration would have played its cards differently if it had a stronger hand.”
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12m
plus if you have a short commute, work from home, or take public transport most days maybe don't even bother with any fancy charging stuff - plugging the car into a regular outlet over a night or two will give more range than you need

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 5m
Me too.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13m
it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 22m
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12h
It’s also important to flood social media with this jury nullification toolkit so that potential jurors (You?) read it before they become actual jurors.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8m
And the law says all get backpay *after* gov't reopens.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1h
Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑

"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."

Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 1h
Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 42m
If the AI industry can't survive without theft as the core business model, then it's past time to kill the AI industry.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1h
In public, they might say ‘no one has died’
In private, people like Stephen Miller and Elon musk and the Trump coterie are likely gleeful that brown and Black children are dying.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16h
When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:
Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All
Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h
"Some 58% of Americans - including seven in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats...[Trump's] approval rating ticking down to 40%..."

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2h
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11d
How will SCOTUS justify none of this applying to the next president? Easily: it never justified why it applied to Trump. No written opinions, no precedent to contradict.

It's an even cleaner perversion of the law for its special boy than "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances."
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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11d
Excited to see how they Justify none of this applying to the next president
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11d
BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.

Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 2h
Six federal circuits—the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th—all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public.

Taught my students last week that they have a First Amendment right to record in Pennsylvania. So do folks in Chicago and Portland.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3h
New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.
Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2h
Yes, Jabotinsky and revisionist Zionists SAID they were colonizers and that Israel was a colonial enterprise, but obviously they didn't MEAN it, says the Jerusalem Post
In Jabotinsky’s lexicon, the term “colonization” meant the return of Jews to their homeland as a people, not at all foreign to the land. They would be engaged in agriculture, industry, and other enterprises that would create the foundations of a state. As for “native,” Jabotinsky simply meant the Arabs who have resided in the area of the former Judea since their conquest of the Jewish homeland in 638 CE. To think he saw those individuals, who weren’t even mentioned in the League of Nations Mandate decision, as being somehow more “native” than the Jews is a devilishly ridiculous proposition.
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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9h
I wrote back in June that Trump is essentially attempting a Little Rock 1957 deployment only this time for white people, and he just tweeted it out
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h
Dutch merchant in 1647: “Yes I've sold my land for a handful of bulbs, but there is nothing especially alarming about price of tulips.”
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 4h
Is AI a bubble about to burst, bringing down the economy? Although the spending is massive, at this point there’s nothing especially alarming.
The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented
The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something of a fool’s errand. Quantifying the size of the capex surge seems like a more productive endeavor — and one that may offer some hints as to its sustainability.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Sarang Shah @sarangshah.com · 10h
Seems like a problem a continent-spanning regulatory authority could solve
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h
You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...
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