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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

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PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 5h

Oh wow. Even the fascists know what’s up. Some corporate Dems still don’t get it.

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

It’s infuriating that they so often make the choices that are both morally & strategically bankrupt.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

#HispanicHeritageMonth: Sylvia Mendez, retired nurse and civil rights pioneer. When she was eight, she was barred from a “whites” only school and ordered to a “Mexican school” next to a cow pasture. Her parents sued. That lawsuit helped bring about the end of school segregation in California.

Black and white photo of Ms Mendez as a child

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19h

Wisconsin’s Democratic elites are living on the coasts fundraising this fall & bending over backwards to get corporate cash, all because they think money wins elections. It doesn’t.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19h

www.vox.com/2019/12/27/2...

Mike Bloomberg has spent a staggering $100 million on campaign ads in a month

His massive ad buys show both the power and limitations of his advertising blitz.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 22h

My figures guy has sadly left this mortal coil.

Deadpool as Bob Ross Paints Happy Trees

ALT: Deadpool as Bob Ross Paints Happy Trees

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond that, mortgage rates are almost double what they were 10 years ago.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

The estimated purchase price on the house we rent is up 84% in the past 10 years. Wage increases come nowhere near matching that.

The year over year inflation rate matters far less than whether people can afford the raw costs for the basics of a decent life.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Works better when all the words make it from my brain onto the screen.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

*up

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

President Donald Trump, in a clear violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, says he is banning MSNOW, CNN and Politico from the White House.

A post from Trump saying "I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

And ex-Confederates are most of the D-->R switchers in the 21st century too. Truly stunning. I knew about the pattern but hadn't seen the list of all them like this.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

I should include the 80s & 90s on there too, because it was a long transition.

In each of those decades, a big majority of the D-->R switchers were from ex-Confederate states.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

I'd add Strom Thurmond. And a whole raft of Southern Dem --> Rep switchers in the 1960s & 70s. That *was* a reaction to what national Dems did, which was just enforcing the constitution's equal treatments & voting rights provisions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of party switchers in the United States - Wikipedia

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Both. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...

David Duke 1988 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

This episode is not just embarrassing for the military -- it shows for the millionth time the self-destructive insanity of leaders in every institution on earth pumping out pro-AI propaganda, from business to edu to news to government to unions. AI has no place being trusted for anything important.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

It appears the analyst in question didn’t even bother to check his own work or the conclusions reached by the chatbot

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lock them, & shut it all down.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

נתניהו העביר במודע מיליונים למחבלים" | סערה בעקבות תחקיר "ידיעות אחרונות"

www.ynet.co.il/news/article...

"נתניהו העביר במודע מיליונים למחבלים" | סערה בעקבות תחקיר "ידיעות אחרונות"

שב"כ, אמ"ן ואפילו מצרים התריעו כי קטאר מממנת את הזרוע הצבאית של חמאס, וכי הכספים ממנה מהווים כמחצית מהתקציב של הזרוע הצבאית של ארגון הטרור. ראש הממשלה התעלם. התחקיר המלא של רונן ברגמן ויובל רובוביץ' -...

www.ynet.co.il

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Mamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government

www.nyc.gov

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 1d

This article is really burying the lede which is not that the AI did anything surprising but that rotten culture and bad operational habits get accelerated at machine speed.
“Did you interrogate the analysis before you launched the mission”
“Why would we do that”
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

www.cnn.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

It appears the analyst in question didn’t even bother to check his own work or the conclusions reached by the chatbot

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Locking people up for using drugs will never make sense to me. The people I've known who've used drugs, in spite of the threat of severe consequences, did so bc they are not/were not okay. Locking people in dungeons traumatizes them further and makes these patterns even harder to break.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

The largest group seems to be those invested in rights-forward issues (Voting rights, reproductive rights, gun violence, LGBTQ+), which is consistent with public understandings of the @democrats.org But the one doing "kitchen-table" politics is completely disinterested in issues around rights.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Good amendment.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

I guess that implies too much intention. The purpose is to get an audience to make the business or org financially well-off. Obscuring is part of how they do that.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of mainstream political news is to obscure what is clear.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of it really is "are there too many non-white Democrats??"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

New analysis: Expert handicappers like the Cook Political Report are probably underestimating Democratic odds of winning the House by about 30 points. That's based on an analysis of their historical ratings, not polls or other models.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-18...

The race raters are lowballing the Democrats

Based on my analysis of their historical ratings, Cook, Inside Elections and Sabato’s Crystal Ball are probably underestimating Democrats' House win probability by about 30 percentage points

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