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Claire Adida
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Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.

Claire Adida is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a faculty affiliate at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, and the Evidence in Governance and Politics Group. She is on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review. She is known for research on comparative ethnic policies focusing on identity, immigration and integration, inter-group cooperation and conflict, as well as the use of survey experiments. She has a PhD in political science from Stanford University. Her research projects have covered how voters in West Africa hold politicians accountable; the experience of Somalis who immigrate to the United States, how to increase inclusionary attitudes towards Syrian refugees, among other topics. .. more

Political science 46%
Sociology 32%

Unconscionable.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

To which a good journalist would respond: "Ok, so how about those Epstein files?"
Oh, glad she cleared that up for us.

but there is no bottom.
Oh, glad she cleared that up for us.

This seems compelling and lays out a clear mechanism by which Trump could/may/will try to subvert the midterms. Thoughts?

love her
Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. trib.al/eiYvT8m

Someone should start a new media outlet by hiring all those fired from @washingtonpost.com this week. I'd subscribe to that.

Thank you - just applied. And was excited to see that some high schoolers can also apply, so will try to get my son to do it, too!

Trump has ended refugee resettlement pathways for Iranian religious minorities.

hias.org/statements/t...
Trump Administration Ends Refugee Pathway for Persecuted Iranian Religious Minorities
The Trump Administration has ended the refugee pathway for Iranian religious minorities to resettle in the U.S., abandoning thousands.
hias.org

Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content by *huge* margins. They believe that 43-47% of users on Reddit/FB post harmful content, when the truth is closer to 3-7%.
Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content
Abstract. Americans can become more cynical about the state of society when they see harmful behavior online. Three studies of the American public (n = 1,0
academic.oup.com

Reposted by Claire L. Adida

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Did not expect that. Will definitely take the win.

Time for everyone with a microphone or platform to push back FORCEFULLY against this deceiving BS.

The GOP knows it can’t win in free and fair elections this November so it is now jumping on the fraud bandwagon.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"

Individuals respond to incentives exhibit # 5783973739393873450
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.

Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

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How Not To Defeat Authoritarianism! A Forum in the @bostonreview.bsky.social featuring many of your favorites and probably some of your least-favorites

I'm in there, I dunno in which category

starting with @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
I have questions:

1. By what mechanism are undocumented immigrants “taking houses”?
2. Do you plan to provide free housing to Americans since it’s their right?
3. Assuming you are smart enough to know you are spewing lies, how well do you sleep at night?
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
How Not To Defeat Authoritarianism! A Forum in the @bostonreview.bsky.social featuring many of your favorites and probably some of your least-favorites

I'm in there, I dunno in which category

starting with @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net

Reposted by Laia Balcells

Just a reminder that "A database maintained by the right-wing Heritage Foundation found "fewer than 100 examples of non-citizens voting between 2002 and 2022, amid more than 1 billion lawfully cast ballots."

via @juddlegum.bsky.social
Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory
One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote tota...
popular.info
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com

💕Bad Bunny💕
#grammys
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

Reposted by David Darmofal

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," the judge wrote. "And the rule of law be damned."
Liam and his dad are finally free and on their way back home to Minnesota.

They never should have been kidnapped in the first place.

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release
A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.
abcnews.go.com

Dem flips have been consistent and large in special elections this year. Reps have flipped zero special elections this year.

Via @gelliottmorris.com