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Suzanne Mettler.

@smettler.bsky.social

Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality.

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Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Actually, there IS a way to explain it to them: invest in rural Democratic Party organizing, building on what's already there, as @smettler.bsky.social explains in her recent book, "Rural vs Urban" bsky.app/profile/paul...

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Democrats won a majority of the most rural House seats as recently as 2008, thanks to Dean's 50-state strategy. With similar party-building they could do it again—and save democracy. "Rural vs Urban" by @smettler.bsky.social explains past, present, future: /1 www.liberalcurrents.com/can-we-win-b...

Suzanne Mettler. @smettler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How to respond to Callais decision? ORGANIZE!!! Make more seats competitive! Couldn't agree more w/ @joshhuder.bsky.social thread:

Josh Huder@joshhuder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Institutional reforms to secure fairness in elections are necessary after the Callais decision. But this discussion shifts attention away from long overdue changes needed in Democratic Party politics. Specifically, its lack of attention or presence in rural communities and constituencies.

Scholars Strategy Network@scholars.org · 6mo ago

🎥 Listen to SSN Academic Director @smettler.bsky.social, Cornell, and Trevor Brown, @snfagora.bsky.social, on how Democrats lost rural voters and what it will take to bridge the rural-urban political divide. @anne-s-kim.bsky.social & @garrettepps.bsky.social, @washingtonmonthly.com:

How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back

Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.

washingtonmonthly.com

Suzanne Mettler. @smettler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Job Opportunity! Director of Chapters, Scholars Strategy Network. A nationwide organization (37 chapters!), aiming to improve public policy & strengthen democracy. Please spread the word about this exciting opportunity. scholarsstrategynetwork.applytojob.com/apply/bsqzey...

Director of Chapters - Scholars Strategy Network - Career Page

Work closely with volunteer leaders to engage and activate members and impact policy in regions across the country. Members work in colleges & universities.

scholarsstrategynetwork.applytojob.com

Sarah Binder @sarahbinder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Powell goes full Schattschneider 🤓! Expand the scope of conflict, get audience off the sidelines & into the game. Gambit to rally political support for Fed & put Trump on defensive. Reminder that Fed depends on political support (from lawmakers, markets, judges, POTUS) to secure its “independence”

Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 7mo ago

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Mallory SoRelle@profsorelle.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'll be returning to campus this fall as the inaugural Tony and Teddie Brown Associate Professor of Public Policy. I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later). I've been sitting on this news for a while now...

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder that the CBO says that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through: -7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes -1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C -2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Estimated Budgetary Effects of a Bill to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Budget on May 18, 2025

cbo.gov

Andrew S. Kelly@askellyphd.bsky.social · last yr.

The GOP’s rhetoric isn’t as aggressive this time around, but their policy goals are similarly destructive. The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.

Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn@citizencohn.bsky.social · last yr.

It would be easier to believe all these Republicans who say they merely want to protect what they define as “the truly needy” if so many weren’t enthusiastic supporters of 2017 legislation to cut Medicaid for those very same people

Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · last yr.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

news.cornell.edu

Suzanne Mettler. @smettler.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you, @milophd.bsky.social for revealing the submerged state...so many valued services, but government's role in providing them is unseen. What will happen once they are gone?

Michael Leo Owens@milophd.bsky.social · last yr.

“everyday information that is based on federal data, such as weather forecasts, "doesn't have a label that says 'brought to you by the federal government'." And now we know it should! But it’s too late. Anyhoo, we see yet again the usefulness of @smettler.bsky.social “submerged state” thesis…