Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

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Exec Director, Ctr for Comm & Civic Renewal @UW-Madison. Views=me. Democracy, voting, violence, psych, history. Retired prof @40 😉 Dad w/ jokes/Lapsed 🧙🏻/🥏⛳ champ/Avid 🧗🏻‍♀️. Congress said I have "tremendous sway over SM platforms"😂 nathankalmoe.com

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Around the world, the left keep saving the center while getting nothing but condescension from the haughty, dubiously-democratic ingrates.

The French are world leaders at "The govt sucks, I'm voting for my ideal, no way I'll compromise, you compromise" (round 1) followed by "The only way to stop the far right? Ugh, fine." (round 2). Often a responsibility placed more on the left, but this time the center too, perhaps more. Let's see...

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my FB feed at the moment

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This is incredible news out of France - the left really saved the center's bacon. It has always seemed that the true cordon sanitaire for the center and right in the amnesiac 21st century was not against the far right but the left.

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The fact that the US is actively pretending that the Israeli government has accepted a deal that it hasn't accepted at all probably isn't good.

On this Independence Day weekend, a reminder that the 1st US civil war was the Revolution, which had Brits fighting Brits. And there were lots of Loyalist colonists opposing Patriots, tho few Loyalists fought. (Plurality of colonists were neutral.) Lots of other smaller, localized US rebellions too.

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Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

Chief Keef

Make a band more vegetable Creedence Cucumber Revival

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Perhaps more than anything else in this war, Rafah's destruction and depopulation is a resounding US failure to stand up to its words www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/w...

In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategywww.nytimes.com Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.

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The 2024 Mandate for Leadership is much more radical than even the 2016 edition. It is the only significant policy planning document by any Republican-aligned organizations. We have no reason to believe that it won't guide a second Trump Admin's agenda. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

static.project2025.org

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The Republican Party is no longer a coalition dominated by center-right, cosmopolitan, business-y types. It's now dominated by the Christian nationalist faction. For the first time since 1980, it looks more like Heritage than AEI or the Chamber of Commerce.

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Why was Mandate so successful? In part, because Reagan bought in. But mostly because presidential candidates don't do a lot of real policy planning, just outlines for big campaign promises. The Center for American Progress has done similar work for Democrats.

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I'd like to add some historical context to the discussions around Project 2025. The discourse misses why Project 2025 is so important. As I write about in my book, Heritage has built something like Project 2025 for every election since 1980, but this time it's different. Big 🧵

The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics, is officially published today! The book tells the story of how partisan think tanks have impacted modern policy debates. Here's why you should consider it 1/ www.amazon.com/Thinkers-Par...

The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics (Studies in Postwar American Political Development): Fagan, E.J.: 9780197759660: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) [Fagan, E.J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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They're just itching to say the N-word. They want to so bad. nypost.com/2024/07/06/b...

America may soon be subjected to the country's first DEI president:...nypost.com There is a raging debate in corporate America on the future of DEI, aka Diversity Equity and Inclusion, because it is literally destroying businesses that go there.

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Some radical left professors are saying today's Republican Party is the genealogical descendant of the John Birch Society. Oregon Republican Party: HOLD OUR BEER!

And also, here’s a video the John Birch Society made in the 1960s featuring career right wing charlatan G. Edward Griffin to express our opinions about American politics.

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Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards You Know.

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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

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why did we stop sending men to the moon. So many men could fit up there

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i don't talk about it as much in this piece but it could not be more obvious that dressing yourself up in the rhetoric of America as irredeemably evil might play well to the online crowd but wrapping the very same idea in a red white and blue flag is how you win real change

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Kagan wasn't just blowing smoke with "we're all originalists now." Sotomayor's dissent is originalism. Roberts and Thomas opinions are, as Radley aptly puts it, "shitposting libs-owning," with a couple of cherry-picked misrepresented Founder quotes that wouldn't pass muster for a high school essay.

Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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I honestly don't know what trading out Biden for Harris would do w/re to the outcome of the election, but I do know the GOP would go way overboard on the overt racism/sexism because the constraints that would have stopped that were pushed out by Trump.

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“Kantianism — among other systems that aided white supremacy while preaching equality and dignity for all — contributed to the house in which we live, and this house turns out to be oppressive for a majority.”

Kant’s Ideas Shaped Human Rights Theories. How Do We Contend With His Racism?truthout.org The anti-Black ideas within Immanuel Kant’s philosophy show how liberalism and racism are closely intertwined.

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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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Matthew Downhour

There's already data on this. Abortion on the ballot increases Democratic turnout and helps elect Democrats.

Abortion issue is boosting Biden’s advantages in the suburbswww.nbcnews.com The state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin is only the latest example of how abortion is driving election results since the Dobbs decision.