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Michael Jones-Correa
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Political scientist at UPenn: immigrants and politics, cities, and other things.

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Michael Jones-Correa is President's Distinguished Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research centers on the topics of immigrant political incorporation and ethnic and racial relations in the United States, often writing about political behavior in the context of institutional structures. .. more

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 18h
Just to be clear: armed government agents are allowed to wear masks, balaclavas, and glasses that completely hide their identities as they disappear people off streets and out of public places, but students can't wear masks while protesting even in approved "time, manner, and place".
Northwestern shall prohibit wearing of face masks or facial coverings for the purposes of concealment of an individual’s identity, and shall consistently enforce that prohibition against anyone who fails to comply with a request, directive, or instruction of University officials acting in performance of their duties to remove face masks or coverings for purposes of identification.

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 2d
Important, sobering writeup on the history of deportation policies and practices

Trump is a matter of degree, not kind

Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing

Thanks @austinkocher.com

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Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
Over two centuries of deportation data and restrictive laws show that immigration enforcement is not a neutral process but a racial boundary-making system built across decades of policy decisions.
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Reposted by Steve Peers, Efrén O. Pérez, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 2 more

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
 
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.

As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:

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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d
The Supreme Court seems likely to weaken, if not strike down, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Such a ruling could also upend the balance in local governments all over the country, from county councils to school boards.
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
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Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Élisabeth Vallet

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 3d
Ending deportation protections for Myanmar immigrants means sending people back to a country still facing conflict and persecution. This choice puts real lives at real risk.

By: @thediplomat.com

Read: thediplomat.com/2025/11/trum...
Trump Administration Ends Deportation Protections for Myanmar Immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security justified the decision on the grounds that the country has “made notable progress in governance and stability.”
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 4d
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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Michael Jones-Correa @mjonescorrea.bsky.social · 4d
A climate of fear:

one in five Latino respondents said they had changed their daily routines in response
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: 52% of Latino adults in the U.S. say they worry that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported.
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Chart showing 52% of Latino adults say they worry a lot or some that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported. This is up from 42% in March. Majorities of younger adults, Harris voters, immigrants and those with family origins in Central America now express this worry.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Richard S.J. Tol, Andrew Scott , and 12 more

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 4d
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: 52% of Latino adults in the U.S. say they worry that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported.
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Chart showing 52% of Latino adults say they worry a lot or some that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported. This is up from 42% in March. Majorities of younger adults, Harris voters, immigrants and those with family origins in Central America now express this worry.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner , and 6 more

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Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 4d
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sebastian Karcher, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 1 more

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 4d
Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Reposted by Steve Peers, Michael Jones‐Correa

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 4d
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Mark Rice, David Darmofal

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d
"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 6d
If only we had research that showed if regime change was likely to work. Oh wait, we have an overwhelming consensus in a field that rarely produces them. Read @profdownes.bsky.social & O’Rourke in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social

www.foreignaffairs.com/venezuela/re...
The Regime Change Temptation in Venezuela
If past is prologue, a U.S. attempt to overthrow Maduro would not end well.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Michael Jones-Correa @mjonescorrea.bsky.social · 6d
Orwellian language: the protection of human rights are now to be considered violations of human rights
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 7d
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com

Reposted by Mary Feeney, Devon Greyson, Michael Jones‐Correa

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Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 7d
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 2 more

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 7d
On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7d
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 8d
I don't like that the State Department is Camp-of-the-Saints-posting
Tweet by the State department that reads "Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration."

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Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 8d
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.

Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:

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ence morse @ence.bsky.social · 8d
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 9d
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 9d
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.

This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Pádua Fernandes

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d
In a previous era, the U.S. president calling for the deaths of his political opponents probably would've warranted interrupting everything else on TV for the day.

CNN and MSNBC are running a livestream of Dick Cheney's funeral. Fox News is focusing on the Dem who allegedly misused FEMA funds.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d
i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
www.nytimes.com

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 9d
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.

NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.

Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 11d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Michael Jones‐Correa

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11d
In recent months, the Justice Department has filed charges under 18 USC 111 against more than a hundred immigrants, anti-ICE protestors, and random passers-by—accusing them of "assaulting, resisting, or impeding" federal officers
The Administration’s Favorite Statute
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?
www.theatlantic.com