Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
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Trump’s order that DOJ investigate ties between Epstein and Democrats is deviously brilliant—an ongoing investigation can be used as a reason, even if pretextual, to block public disclosure of the file.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the dealings of Democrats with Jeffrey Epstein, after a week in which his own relationship with the convicted sex offender was in the…
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Trump’s order that DOJ investigate ties between Epstein and Democrats is deviously brilliant—an ongoing investigation can be used as a reason, even if pretextual, to block public disclosure of the file.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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“If you support keeping the filibuster you are not serious about moving the country forward in any positive direction.…you should absolutely be primaried with the intent of removing you from office at the first opportunity.”
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“If you support keeping the filibuster you are not serious about moving the country forward in any positive direction.…you should absolutely be primaried with the intent of removing you from office at the first opportunity.”
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Tis the season
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tis the season
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AAUP Home
www.aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
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feckless and stupid people play acting at political strategist when they should be denouncing a *substantively* corrupt move
Here The Washington Post Editorial Board treats Donald Trump ordering DOJ investigations of his political adversaries as a *political* misstep, never once so much as hinting that it is an *abuse of power*
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
feckless and stupid people play acting at political strategist when they should be denouncing a *substantively* corrupt move
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
At last, Trump gets his landslide. More than two-thirds of the Epstein email threads mention him - a supermajority.
Trump is the single most mentioned name in the 2,300 emails released.
The emails date back to 2009.
The emails date back to 2009.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
At last, Trump gets his landslide. More than two-thirds of the Epstein email threads mention him - a supermajority.
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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In @deseret.com.web.brid.gy today, I argue for why Utah's new court-ordered Congressional plan is good for the state - and good for the country.
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Perspective: Is this the end of the road for redistricting battles in Utah?
Why Judge Gibson’s ruling is seen by so many as good news protecting democracy, not undermining it.
www.deseret.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In @deseret.com.web.brid.gy today, I argue for why Utah's new court-ordered Congressional plan is good for the state - and good for the country.
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
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@jamellebouie.net clearly lays out the epistemological problem: the political game has fundamentally changed, but Democratic dinosaurs who've spent decades playing it the old way (pluralist politics) & are hugely insulated from the concrete realities of the new friend-enemy game can't see it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
@jamellebouie.net clearly lays out the epistemological problem: the political game has fundamentally changed, but Democratic dinosaurs who've spent decades playing it the old way (pluralist politics) & are hugely insulated from the concrete realities of the new friend-enemy game can't see it.
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Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
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The actually amazing, intelligent, thoughtful people don't get rewarded for it. They aren't rich, they aren't powerful, because our society doesn't actually reward hard work and merit and cleverness and expertise. It uses them, and then projects their virtues onto those who are on top by chance.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The actually amazing, intelligent, thoughtful people don't get rewarded for it. They aren't rich, they aren't powerful, because our society doesn't actually reward hard work and merit and cleverness and expertise. It uses them, and then projects their virtues onto those who are on top by chance.
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How do I get to the parallel universe where these emails were released 10 years ago? Because I bet they're having a lot more fun than we are.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
How do I get to the parallel universe where these emails were released 10 years ago? Because I bet they're having a lot more fun than we are.
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So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.
In @deseret.com.web.brid.gy today, I argue for why Utah's new court-ordered Congressional plan is good for the state - and good for the country.
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Perspective: Is this the end of the road for redistricting battles in Utah?
Why Judge Gibson’s ruling is seen by so many as good news protecting democracy, not undermining it.
www.deseret.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In @deseret.com.web.brid.gy today, I argue for why Utah's new court-ordered Congressional plan is good for the state - and good for the country.
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
A deep dive:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
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"Advanced melanoma used to be a death sentence....in the mid-1990s, one in 20 ... with metastatic melanoma survived. Now, it’s one in two. This transformation hinged on [basic science, supported by NIH]."
This is what's being destroyed. Thx to Mr. Braslow for speaking up.
This is what's being destroyed. Thx to Mr. Braslow for speaking up.
Opinion | Cancer Patients Like Me Are Casualties of MAHA’s Hypocrisy
The Trump administration has undermined the once bipartisan war on cancer and declined to approve a promising melanoma therapy.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Advanced melanoma used to be a death sentence....in the mid-1990s, one in 20 ... with metastatic melanoma survived. Now, it’s one in two. This transformation hinged on [basic science, supported by NIH]."
This is what's being destroyed. Thx to Mr. Braslow for speaking up.
This is what's being destroyed. Thx to Mr. Braslow for speaking up.
catch and kill
The emails also reveal that the New York Times had info on Trump and Epstein in 2015 but never published it!
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
catch and kill
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Dick Durbin's job title in the Senate is Minority Whip. His job is to literally "whip votes" to the party position. He is not just leadership, but literally the one person in the entire caucus whose role is to get people to not vote the way he did.
And Dems expect people to just "move on?"
And Dems expect people to just "move on?"
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Dick Durbin's job title in the Senate is Minority Whip. His job is to literally "whip votes" to the party position. He is not just leadership, but literally the one person in the entire caucus whose role is to get people to not vote the way he did.
And Dems expect people to just "move on?"
And Dems expect people to just "move on?"
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His statement is pretty blunt for a Senator, calling out the Minority Leader of your own party ahead of the Majority Leader is...well suffice to say I think Marty is now off Chuck's Christmas card list lol
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
His statement is pretty blunt for a Senator, calling out the Minority Leader of your own party ahead of the Majority Leader is...well suffice to say I think Marty is now off Chuck's Christmas card list lol