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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.

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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

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

Reposted by Laurent Pech, Claire L. Adida

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d
Please ask any company or institution you are affiliated with to stop supporting this depraved person with their continued reliance on his child exploitation network.

There is no excuse. Several excellent alternative networks exist.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Michael Kevane, Claire L. Adida

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d
Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 2d
Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship'
The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d
We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...
Map of event locations for #ICEforGood

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 2d
This poll was just one day before ICE murdered Renee Good in broad daylight; 37% of Americans think ICE tactics are about right or not forceful enough.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.

Reposted by Claire L. Adida

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d
And again, if you think the Democrats are feckless, too conservative, etc. etc., & if you care about more progressive policy on ______, then your platform is <institutional reform>. The policies simply aren’t going to happe under current political institutions. And neither are more parties.
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29d
Care about gun control?

Climate change?

Gun control?

Abortion rights?

Gun control?

Universal health care?

Gun control?

Higher education funding?

Gun control?

Abolishing ICE?

Gun control?

Ending murder on the high seas?

Gun control?

Etc.

Your platform is <institutional reform>
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 7
<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 3d
More of this @nytimes.com

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 3d
Their inhumanity is matched only by their incompetence.

Reposted by W Grant, Claire L. Adida

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
WATCH: Trump’s goons kick over a Renee Good memorial😳

“Really, you f*ckin’ punk? That’s why we’re here… Renee Good is a mother.”

(H/T @covie93.bsky.social )

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel Kuehn, Claire L. Adida , and 1 more

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d
For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people.

It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control.

It must stop.

Kristi Noem must go. Now.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 4d
Are you paying attention, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ?
robinkelly.house.gov Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 4d
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 4d
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 4d
Just devastating news out of Minneapolis. Who is going to hold ICE accountable?

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Bryna Godar @bgodar.bsky.social · 4d
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
slate.com

Reposted by Claire L. Adida, David Darmofal

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 4d
Trump is lying, again.

The only time NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense provision was ever invoked was by the U.S. after 9/11.

Hundreds of soldiers from our NATO allies were killed fighting alongside American troops in Afghanistan.

Trump insulting our allies makes us weaker.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 4d
Same question here.

Reposted by Claire L. Adida

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4d
"Norway, a NATO Member, foolishly chose not to give me the Noble Peace Prize. But that doesn’t matter!"

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 4d
Yes, and.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 5d
Where are the protests against Trump’s insane foreign policy threats? @indivisible.org ?

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 5d
SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?????

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 5d
Every single time I thought it couldn’t get worse, it got significantly worse.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
shipwreck75.bsky.social Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d
Trump on Venezuela oil:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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Trump on Venezuela oil:

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 6d
This is so shameful. The administration is run by little insecure men.
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he will demote retired naval officer and sitting Senator Mark Kelly for 'reckless misconduct' after the senator and other Democratic lawmakers urged troops to refuse any illegal orders reut.rs/49Fd5c0

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he will demote retired naval officer and sitting Senator Mark Kelly for 'reckless misconduct' after the senator and other Democratic lawmakers urged troops to refuse any illegal orders reut.rs/49Fd5c0

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
More immigrants =>
better health for Americans.

More deportations => worse health.

Reposted by Claire L. Adida

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: A hand grenade was found at the entrance of a residential building near a synagogue in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹.

Jews should not have to risk their lives just to go to synagogue.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 8d
And Trump is going to lose interest very quickly, leaving chaos and insecurity.