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Alan Berube

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Senior Vice President, Policy and Innovation Center (http://thinkpic.org); Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Metro (www.brookings.edu/metro). Likes: Vibrant cities and regions, women's basketball. Dislikes: fascism, spiders.

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · 20d

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · Aug 25

As a DC resident I feel like I should say:

This is a complete and utter lie.

My kid, under age 12, walked to school last year into an area close to downtown.
Telling the truth is an important thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25

Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Aug 11

I love my D.C. home, but lack of congressional representation and being constantly subjected to GOP policy experiments is a bug, not a feature. As for today's fascist rhetoric, here's all you need to know. Don't get distracted. jasher.substack.com/p/assessing-...

Assessing DC's Violent Crime Trends

Murder is plunging in DC but what about overall violent crime?

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Aug 4

Already lots of well-placed outrage at the dismissal of the BLS Commissioner late last week; just want to add how much I have appreciated and relied on BLS data for the past 25 years to tell the story of regional economies. Hope their vital, non-political work continues. cc: @markmuro1.bsky.social

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Jul 30

And one for an even smaller metro (400k?)! (Lucerne)

Map showing public transit system for Lucerne area

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Jul 26

“America First” immigration policy in action

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Trump administration has barred a team of 15- and 16-year-olds from Venezuela from entering the United States to compete in the Little League Senior League World Series. The team from Maracaibo won the Latin America tournament to qualify for the World Series in South Carolina

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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series

The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is one nonstop falsehood, start to finish.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15

Stephen Miller: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."

Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · May 28

Who are Greater San Diego's immigrants? What role do they play in the region's economy and society? And what do the Trump administration's policy and enforcement changes mean for them, their families, and the wider community? Learn more in my latest Pulse on Policy: thinkpic.org/pic-intel/pu...

Pulse on Policy: Understanding Greater San Diego’s Immigrants at a Challenging Moment | Policy & Innovation Center

Pulse on Policy: Understanding Greater San Diego’s Immigrants at a Challenging Moment

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · May 22

This makes sense once you accept that the point of the regime is to rid the United States of immigrants. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing

ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · May 5

A barrage of executive orders, agency shutterings, fundings freezes and recissions, and reimbursements cuts are buffeting nonprofit organizations around the country. In my latest "Pulse on Policy" column I break down what this might mean for San Diego-area nonprofits: thinkpic.org/pic-intel/pu...

Pulse on Policy: Assessing and Addressing Emerging Risks Facing Greater San Diego’s Nonprofits | Policy & Innovation Center

Pulse on Policy: Assessing and Addressing Emerging Risks Facing Greater San Diego’s Nonprofits

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · May 5

Tracy, he merely STOOD STRATEGICALLY NEXT TO the bible. That way you get backsies on the whole Constitution thing.

Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Apr 17

Yes, but three cheers for bringing back “birdbrains.”

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Apr 16

Trump’s sputtering response to Harvard standing up to him is yet another reason why institutions should refuse to bend the knee. He’s a paper tiger, unable to argue his own case.

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump
Everyone knows that Harvard has "lost its way." They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to "teach" municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and "birdbrains" who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called "future leaders." Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT.
Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Apr 2

By far the most memorable of the legendary Val Kilmer’s roles (for me at 13, at least) clip.cafe/real-genius-...

'You didn't touch anything, did you? No. Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in...' - Real Genius

Chris Knight: You didn't touch anything, did you? Mitch: No. Chris Knight: Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under 'H' for "toy." Mitch: What i...

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Alan Berube @berubea1.bsky.social · Mar 24

Haven't made a habit (yet) of posting on here, but figure it couldn't hurt to share what I'm working on from time to time.

Today, it's the potential impact of federal spending changes on Greater San Diego, which received $36.5B in grants and contracts in FY24:

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What New Leadership in Washington Could Mean for the San Diego Economy | Policy & Innovation Center

What New Leadership in Washington Could Mean for the San Diego Economy

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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · Jan 28

The OMB impoundment memo's consequences aren't just about disrupting, in a profound way, *current* funds. It also makes it extremely hard to negotiate *future* spending deals if no one at the table can trust that the executive branch will actually stick to the deal at the execution phase.

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