Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

if you don't want vital public information about one of a billionaire's businesses being provided to you by one of their other businesses I would remind you once again that independent, billionaire-free, worker run media is out there

Intellectual Diversity on the Middle East: We heard from many students that an academic perspective that treats Zionism as legitimate is underrepresented in Columbia’s course offerings, compared to a perspective that treats it as illegitimate. The University should work quickly to add more intellectual diversity to these offerings. Columbia lacks full-time tenure line faculty expertise in Middle East history, politics, political economy and policy that is not explicitly anti-Zionist. We recommend the University address this imbalance through the establishment of new chairs at a senior level in Middle East history, politics, political economy and policy.

Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists)

www.columbia.edu/content/repo...

This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...

I'm noticing a conspicuous *lack* of a teaser for our video meeting today, Seth. Which occurred *before* this live-stream.

The people cry out! For insight! About our conference paper organization & timeline!

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amichai Chikli - yu 'n'ny & @AmichaiChikli X.com War is inevitable - Visegrád 24 * @visegrad24• 11h Syrian Army chants on the first anniversary of Assad's fall "Gaza, Gaza, our rallying cry, Victory and steadfastness, night & day We rise against you, enemy, we rise, From mountains of fire we make our way. From my blood I forge my ammunition, From your blood, rivers will flow"

I feel like you can't really say "war is inevitable" in response to the chants of a country's army when you're literally occupying the territory of that country

hey if you study Congress and you could use estimates of status quo AND proposal location for over a thousand bills including many which never made it to the floor, we've got 'em!

www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

New Yorkers Rally to Strengthen Sanctuary Protections - Documented Immigration advocates and elected officials gathered at City Council in support of four bills meant to strengthen sanctuary policies. The Adams administration was noticeably absent.

NY child welfare authority referred someone to ICE when she requested help. Police are everywhere.
documentedny.com/2025/12/09/i...

This is a great counterpoint to the classic Sid Verba piece, "The Citizen as Respondent: Sample Surveys and American Democracy" in APSR. 👇

Academic article: How People Make Meaning in a Fragmented Democracy: Implications for Incorporating Public Opinion into Public Policy

1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Looks like ICE is back on Cedar Riverside *right now* in Minneapolis. It shouldn't be on our students to bring water and milk because their friends neighbors are being peppersprayed by ICE goons. Just awful. Somali Amer neighbors are part of our community and deserve so much better.

Abigail and John Adams Disagree Over the Rights of Women | Online Library of Liberty In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams announces to John that spring has lightened her mood. “I feel a gaiety de Coar to which before I was a stranger.” Her light mood did not prevent her fro...

Awful, but befitting a John Adams fan club, I guess. oll.libertyfund.org/publications...

I am BEGGING grade and high school teachers to stop telling your students to email college professors for an interview. I don't like saying no to clearly interested and engaged young people but we have our own students and full-time jobs.

Or arrest them for hate speech & they forfeit.

This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.

every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"

Trump can no longer disguise the bigotry behind his administration’s immigration policies | Editorial If you are an immigrant or even a naturalized citizen from a non-European country, you likely are included as those whom the president deemed “non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

"If it wasn’t obvious before, the administration’s latest actions and hateful rhetoric make it abundantly clear that following the rules, personal merit, and character mean little.

In Trump’s America, racial hierarchy is everything."
www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

A hopeful sign. These people can be beaten. Trump can be stopped. If he were all-powerful, Habba wouldn’t be bowing to reality.

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

There’s a lot of talk on here about how people cook their brains on X by marinating in fascist rhetoric.

There’s less recognition that reading NYT & WaPo does similar, just with high-brow aesthetics.

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

The real partisan "God Gap" in religious rhetoric among members of Congress wasn't most pronounced during GW Bush. Study shows it really showed up in 2nd term Obama & was largest during first term Trump. (Note Dems increased religious language too in recent years.)
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

thank goodness it caught your mistakes

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.