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Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com .. more

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · Sep 18
Rob Blair (@robertblair.bsky.social), Anna Wilke (@awilke.bsky.social), and I have a new draft of our paper "Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in a Low-Income Country Setting?"

Comments are welcome:
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 42m
It's maddening that we all know that part of Trump's interest in regime change is self-enrichment.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1h
Good thread!
garciaponce.bsky.social Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 2h
1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1h
Re Venezuela -- With this corrupt administration, it’s increasingly unclear where U.S. interests end, and Trump’s personal interests begin.

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 2h
1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h
It's not complicated for democratic leaders to state that ...
(a) While Maduro is a vicious dictator who stole the last election,
(b) The world is less safe when countries feel they have a right to invade neighboring countries and kidnap their presidents without probable cause.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h
Prof. Saunders - you are a national treasure. Thanks for sharing these thoughts!

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 6h
How dare a president of a sovereign state conspire to possess machine guns?
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 8h
The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.
Pam Bondi: Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 6h
How can the US government be a legitimate mediator in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine when it holds that superpowers have the right to invade other countries and pluck out their president for no good reason?

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 6h
The time to make this "decision" was long before removing Maduro.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?

TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?

TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 8h
The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.
Pam Bondi: Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 23h
Congrats Anna! Can’t wait to read your timely book.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d
And antisemitic.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d
I'm old enough to remember the attacks on Obama because of his association with Rev Jeremiah Wright, who said something something about state-supported violence.
tomjoscelyn.bsky.social Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder that in 1649, the English Parliament tried and convicted King Charles I for treason against his own people, but in the 2020s, SCOTUS put President Trump above the law.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d
He understands us. He represents us He is commuted to bringing prices down.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
after bidding $100,000 for a painting during an auction at Mar-a-Lago, Trump describes $2 million as "peanuts" for another bidder and the painting eventually goes for over $2.5 million

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
after bidding $100,000 for a painting during an auction at Mar-a-Lago, Trump describes $2 million as "peanuts" for another bidder and the painting eventually goes for over $2.5 million

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d
and rename the Kennedy Center...

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d
The silver lining of his genuine obsession with his legacy is that it's clear he knows deep down that he is no longer the president after the 2028 elections.
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
Congress should stop this.

Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
www.politico.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
Congress should stop this.

Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
www.politico.com

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Announced two days after Netanyahu met with Trump in FL.

www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza
The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said the organizations that will be banned Thursday didn't meet new requirements for sharing staff members, funding and operations information.
www.nbcnews.com

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science

⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026

🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out

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sarahobolt.bsky.social Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · Nov 25
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5d
MTG has not changed. The NYTimes has.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5d
Nick Sirianni’s win record makes it hard to demand he be sacked even as the 🦅’s offense looks like shit.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 6d
הדס - כתבת מקסים. מקווה שהממיואר יתפרסם - אני בטוח יקרא אותו אם כן. מקווה שאת מרגישה טוב יותר. חיבוק.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 6d
One sided cease fire …

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israel strikes southern Lebanon as deadline to disarm Hezbollah nears
Strikes were latest violation of year-long ceasefire and targeted what Israel said were Hezbollah sites
www.theguardian.com

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 7d
Nothing is worse than powerful people who seek to evade accountability dishonestly by playing a marginalized minority card.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 7d
Vermeule is not trying to convince anyone. He is merely beefing the arguments that Thomas and Alito will make whom we all know already how they plan to vote.
paolosandro.bsky.social Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 8d
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

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What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well. Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.