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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Gernot Wagner, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 1 more

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d
This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.

As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
Chris Carison The Associated Press PHOTO: FIFA President Gianni Infantino awards President Donald Trump the FIFA Peace Prize on Friday during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington. "This is truly one of the great honors of my life,"Trump said FIFA awards president peace prize Soccer group's leader Sheinbaum, Trump meet dian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia WASHINGTON — cites ceasefire in Gaza Mexican President Sheinbaum - in his brief remarks, Claudia Sheinbaum said saying the coordination with the By Seung Min Kim The Associated Press Friday that she and countries has been "outstanding." President Donald Trump "This is truly one of the great hon- had a "cordial" hourlong ors of my life, " Trump said, adding WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was awarded the inaugural FIFA peace prize on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw. Trump had been heavily expected to receive the newly created FIFA prize. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has said he thought Trump should have won the Nobel for his efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza. In awarding the prize, Infantino told Trump it was a "beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go." Trump promptly placed the medal around his neck. The certificate that Infantino handed Trump recognizes the U.S. president for his actions to "promote peace and unity around the world." Infantino also presented Trump with a gold trophy with his name on it that depicts hands holding up the world. meeting in Washington that "most important, I just want that ended with both to thank everybody. The world is a Claudia leaders extending safer place now." Sheinbaum invitations to visit each FIFA has given no details about the other's country. process for choosing a winner. "We'll arrange a date later," Sheinbaum Infantino has often spoken about told reporters outside of the Mexican Cultural Institute soccer as a unitier for the world, but Los Angeles Times the pri…

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

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Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, David R. Miller, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 1 more

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
New from me and @daralind.bsky.social for @immcouncil.org: If you want to know what happened with the huge pause on immigration benefit processing at USCIS, check out our explainer here! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration Responds to Tragedy By Putting Hundreds of Thousands of Legal Immigrants’ Lives On Hold  - American Immigration Council
Trump has halted immigration processing, expanded travel-ban rules, and launched reviews that could upend cases approved over the last four years.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 4d
Remarkably few of the immigrants arrested in big-city ICE operations have had violent criminal records, via Albert Sun:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d
One thing about the Biden admin. is that, two or three levels down, there were tons of smart, focused, pro-social people doing great things that never rose to the level of a headline.

Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.

Reposted by Michael Kevane, Trevon D. Logan, Michael Jones‐Correa

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Maybe Miri @mirimiri9999.bsky.social · 4d
It’s clear he’s selling pardons. It’s become a corrupt practice.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 4d
A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.

A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.

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n_th_n @n-th-n.bsky.social · 4d
The problem is "criminal" is a flexible concept that sometimes means (politically) "out of status," or sometimes things like (per Trump's eliminationist rhetoric) "Black Muslim immigrant." Plus, MAGA likes criminals if they're the right kind. Accepting this framework as the right metric is losing.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations.

Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Michael Jones‐Correa, Stella M. Rouse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d
I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time.

But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d
"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”

Gift link:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump, who has painted himself as a fearsome warrior against illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · 7d
Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d
He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com

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Michael Jones-Correa @mjonescorrea.bsky.social · 9d
The Trump administration has stripped 675,000 people of their legal status since January
austinkocher.com Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 9d
Helpful visualization by Axios of all of the terminations of temporary protected status under the second Trump administration.

www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Michael Jones‐Correa, Élisabeth Vallet

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 9d
Helpful visualization by Axios of all of the terminations of temporary protected status under the second Trump administration.

www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...

Reposted by Michael Jones‐Correa, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 9d
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration.

Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”
Graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries (614 per 100,000)

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Merle Meyerdierks @merleperle24.bsky.social · 9d
#KI hilft bei der Automatisierung....