Michele Demak Epstein
@micheledepstein.bsky.social
Jersey, with Michigan roots. Was: Princeton Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
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The highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally
May 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally
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I hate the way media fall back on the word "controversy." MSNBC just called SignalGate a controversy, as if there's a rational debate over whether sharing military secrets with a journalist and your wife is a good or bad thing.
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I hate the way media fall back on the word "controversy." MSNBC just called SignalGate a controversy, as if there's a rational debate over whether sharing military secrets with a journalist and your wife is a good or bad thing.
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Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
April 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
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Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to much/all of this any time they wanted. They are enabling authoritarian government.
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to much/all of this any time they wanted. They are enabling authoritarian government.
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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The most important thing you must share today.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The most important thing you must share today.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
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Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.
Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
March 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.
Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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Elon Musk has committed a blatant felony by offering money for votes in order to help Brad Schimel. This is a chainsaw attack on democracy and the rule of law. Musk should be brought to justice immediately. 🧵
March 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Elon Musk has committed a blatant felony by offering money for votes in order to help Brad Schimel. This is a chainsaw attack on democracy and the rule of law. Musk should be brought to justice immediately. 🧵
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back newrepublic.com/article/1925... via @newrepublic.com
This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back
Some counsel the Democrats to just wait and let the GOP immolate itself. This is horrible advice. Here are some better ideas.
newrepublic.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back newrepublic.com/article/1925... via @newrepublic.com
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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
February 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
Over 900 political scientists “urge the Administration to reverse course immediately.”
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
Political science statement.pdf
drive.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Over 900 political scientists “urge the Administration to reverse course immediately.”
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
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Presidency-ending scandals & total constitutional crisis happening hourly now. We're heading to very dark places.
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Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today.
"They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."
"They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."
February 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Presidency-ending scandals & total constitutional crisis happening hourly now. We're heading to very dark places.
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“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work …
“‘You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,’” one scientist said.
“‘You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,’” one scientist said.
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work …
“‘You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,’” one scientist said.
“‘You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,’” one scientist said.
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There is no sugar-coating this - just a very sad day for the rule of law in our constitutional democracy. And devastating for the career officials across agencies and in the federal judiciary who devoted years to doing the right thing.
BREAKING: President Trump pardons and commutes the sentences of Jan. 6 rioters.
Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
The sweeping pardons would mark the beginning of the end of one of the largest investigations in FBI history.
www.nbcnews.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
There is no sugar-coating this - just a very sad day for the rule of law in our constitutional democracy. And devastating for the career officials across agencies and in the federal judiciary who devoted years to doing the right thing.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Larry Bartels
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
President Biden Honors Nation’s Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators | The White House
Today, President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—our nation’s
www.whitehouse.gov
January 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Larry Bartels
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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Still writing democracy on my checks.
January 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Still writing democracy on my checks.
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Funded conference! Join PRL (Yphtach Lelkes, Sean Westwood, and Shanto Iyengar) in SLC on May 1-2 to discuss new work on democratic attitudes. Grad students/postdocs welcome. This is a small, funded meeting with great papers and discussion. Apply by 12/31
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Annual Meeting
Visit the post for more.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Funded conference! Join PRL (Yphtach Lelkes, Sean Westwood, and Shanto Iyengar) in SLC on May 1-2 to discuss new work on democratic attitudes. Grad students/postdocs welcome. This is a small, funded meeting with great papers and discussion. Apply by 12/31
polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...
polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...
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What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
“New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats”
New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Governor of New York wants to protect CEOs
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
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NEW: 175 leading scholars commend the introduction of the Resolution Establishing the Select Committee on Electoral Reform. The bipartisan task force would study reforms like fusion, proportional representation, and expanding the size of the House. medium.com/@scholarsfor...
Letter to Congress on Supporting the Select Committee on Electoral Reform
Dear Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:
medium.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:42 PM
NEW: 175 leading scholars commend the introduction of the Resolution Establishing the Select Committee on Electoral Reform. The bipartisan task force would study reforms like fusion, proportional representation, and expanding the size of the House. medium.com/@scholarsfor...
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I don’t think it will all fit in there.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I don’t think it will all fit in there.