Guy Grossman
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Guy Grossman
@guygrossman.bsky.social

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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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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Which is also Trump’s way of saying “ask hard question and I’ll make sure the job is no longer yours”.
The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.
DOKOUPIL: When I travel the country, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up--

TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.
The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.
DOKOUPIL: When I travel the country, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up--

TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.

Separation of church and state is so passé

interesting they didn't even ask about Threads.

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I can’t imagine normie voters seeing the images and videos from MN and thinking this is okay.

Thannk you, Robert. I deleted the original skeet. I appreciate your engagement and constructive comment.

yes, served close to 20 years in a combat unit as an officer. The images coming from these home searches are reminiscent of search operations we conducted. I'm not proud of my past. Just noting that the images are similar. Respectfully, what don't you agree with?

yes. I was an IDF soldier. I know excatly how this works.

Celebrating colonization as if it's 1883.
Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

Weaponizing the Justice Department to intimidate civil servants is the antithesis of a functional democracy.
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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And Apartheid South Africa

If journalists , judges and opinion leaders would hold both parties to the same standards , we would not be in this mess.

Ryley - I guess finding a witch with these qualities, she had to expand her neighborhood range.

We all do!

yeah; so many gems.

"Avocados that go from rock-hard to rotten..."
This ad appeared this week on our West Philly block. Read all the way down.

Looks like external occupying forces.
Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

polarization = everyone sees what they want to see
ah. they all got the memo
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I'll give this to Biden -- I wasnt checking bluesky and threads every day.

They call themselves the party of personal responsibility, not for nothing.