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Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social |
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Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Come visit my long-form essays at samwang.substack.com
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Joshua J. Friedman
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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specifically I just have not seen sustained major media coverage of Project 2025 over the last month, or serious Biden campaign messaging (some but not that much). all the MSM is doing BIDEN OLD. yet it seems to be percolating in social media, group chats, emails, or whatever
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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every evening I take the boy for a walk around the block. local older, working class Black dude that I often run into on the route brought up Project 2025 on his own, seems like this thing really has legs messaging-wise
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Rachel Shelden
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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63% of registered voters oppose Project 2025 when they hear about what policies are actually being proposed navigatorresearch.org/a-guide-for-...
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Nied
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I gotta say the way Biden has bounced back in public appearances has really boosted the idea he's been burning the candle at both ends for a while & showed up at the debate wiped out.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
@susanrinkunas.com
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People maybe heard some of it in this Liptak piece, but yeah totally drowned out
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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SCOTUS essentially restructured American governance over the last couple of weeks. Even if you can get past the 8 million Biden old stories in the Times to the people whose job it is to cover the court, you would have no idea of the scale of the changes made.
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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The doctor whose White House visits triggered a flurry of questions on Monday visited far more often under Obama — and often visited recently when Biden wasn’t in town.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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A lot of it has faded, to be sure. But this, by Jefferson--standing tall, inscribed in his memorial--speaks down through the ages, and inviting a nation that needs to hear it, to choose a better future for itself, unshackled by any laws or institutions that fail to move us forward to a better future
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
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Lawprofblawg
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This seems bad. Looking for the law professors who said not to panic after Dobbs and the immunity decision to provide soothing tweets.
#Satire
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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
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Interesting and in some cases surprising. I really have no idea what’s happening beyond my little neck of the woods, but my sense is that the debate + recent SCOTUS rulings have actually created MORE urgency among bluish voters despite lagging enthusiasm for Biden himself. Who knows
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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The mad lads did it
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Jonathan Bernstein
@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social
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Yeah, I think I'm going to repeat this a bunch of times: It is incoherent to call for Biden to remain in office but not run. What you're saying is that *you* know that he's fine, but foolish voters won't. And anyone saying that is a fool.
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Derek Willis
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Waiting for USA Today's editorial board to ask both candidates to leave the race for the sake of balance.
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Truth Axe
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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nine months from today no babies were born
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Tim Onion
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Finally some food. Good column @pbump.com!!!
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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At the Electoral Innovation Lab, we’re looking for essential logistical support as we grow. Apply to be our Operations Manager: electoral-lab.org/job-postings
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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/squee
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Paul Krugman
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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I’ve been in a meeting with a number of men (and a handful of women) in suits, and while there has been intelligent discussion, my main impression is that Very Serious People are irrationally complacent about the consequences — economic and political — if Trump wins.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Amazing that we have to say “the guy who charges anonymous people a $200,000 membership fee to hang out at his house where he stashed stolen nuclear secrets is astoundingly corrupt beyond all known metrics,” but we do.
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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At the Electoral Innovation Lab, we’re looking for essential logistical support as we grow. Apply to be our Operations Manager: electoral-lab.org/job-postings
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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Competition at one level can have cascading effects. The Economist on how increased competition in Wisconsin - and a possible Democratic takeover - might also boost turnout for Biden's re-election campaign. Featuring Princeton Gerrymandering Project analytics: www.economist.com/united-state...
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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This isn’t a movie, it’s a screensaver
bgr.com/tech/movies-...
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Caryn Rose
@carynrose.bsky.social
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i wrote about ann powers' phenomenal book on joni mitchell which came out earlier this week: jukeboxgraduate.com/ann-powers-o...
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This AP tweet is an instant candidate for the Museum of American Fascism. Carve it in stone and put it over the entrance. It should be an enduring source of burning shame and embarrassment for the entire organization, as well as a warning to other media
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
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The University of Minnesota has paused the hiring of Israeli scholar Raz Segal to head the institution’s Holocaust and Genocide school over his principled position that Israel is perpetrating a genocide.
Truly reprehensible.
jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univ...
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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Excellent long, long thread. Basically, claims of a lab-leak origin for COVID-19 have not been supported by evidence, and it's been that way for several years. In the meantime, exhaustive work and peer-reviewed evidence all point toward a natural origin and the Huanan animal market as ground zero.
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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Tesla may be in trouble, but other EVs are selling just fine arstechnica.com?p=2029773
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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democracy dies in the hands of billionaires
www.thehandbasket.co/p/washington...
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Leah McElrath
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I strongly encourage people to read the entire 77-year-old article. It was written before the State of Israel was established. You’ll see that ethnic cleansing was always the plan and that the dehumanization of Palestinians is deeply rooted in the foundations of Zionism as a colonialist ideology:
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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Who the heck gives a TED talk for academic purposes? Thanks for coming to my TED talk
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Weekly COVID deaths are the lowest they've been since tracking started on March 14, 2020.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
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Jesse Myerson
@jessemyerson.bsky.social
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A new poll from The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has 51% of US Jews agreeing with Biden’s promise to cut off arms to the Israeli military in response to the latter’s invasion of Rafah. Just 21% disagree.
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Adam Serwer
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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Jerry Chen
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i'm not sure how this is relevant AT ALL
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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Getting ready at TED to talk about how to use science to help repair our rickety democracy. Time is short, and we need to get there efficiently. Like a GPS, computation can play an assistive role in preventing us from getting lost. More soon!
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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Getting ready at TED to talk about how to use science to help repair our rickety democracy. Time is short, and we need to get there efficiently. Like a GPS, computation can play an assistive role in preventing us from getting lost. More soon!
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Joshua Holland
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I don't know what you think happened but a GOP Senate refused to even give Obama's nominee a hearing with 10 months left in his presidency and then McConnell rammed three extremists nominated by Trump through with that same majority.
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.
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Peter Sagal
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I haven’t said much about the protests because I’ve nothing original to say. (I know, innovative approach.) But as a nervous-to-paranoid American Jew, I’m a lot more worried about the guys in the background than the woman in the foreground.
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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This fall's abortion-rights initiative in Florida requires 60% support for passage. Nationwide, such initiatives have run 10-15 points ahead of support for Democratic candidates. In Florida that works out to 58-63% in Presidential years. Right on the knife edge. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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This fall's abortion-rights initiative in Florida requires 60% support for passage. Nationwide, such initiatives have run 10-15 points ahead of support for Democratic candidates. In Florida that works out to 58-63% in Presidential years. Right on the knife edge. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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when you're a star, they let you do it
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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I shot the setter But I did not kill the farm billy
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Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
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I shot the setter But I did not kill the farm billy
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