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Mohamed Salhi, PhD

@uselesssimo.bsky.social
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Assalamualaykum Comrades! Lecturer in PolSci / Goethe Uni (Research: CDA/Far Right/Visual Populism/Hate Speech/Memes) FirstGen academia/diaspora; OPEN FOR RESEARCH/TEACHING POSITIONS Mosalhi.com

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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🟥Red Lines🟥 'Today, in the context of European migration governance and the externalisation of borders, Harga continues'. Moving beyond prevailing Eurocentric explanations, @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses the social and psychological roots of the Ceuta-crossing. reacpol.net/ceuta-harga/
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Red Lines: Ceuta and the Psychology of the “Harga” (Mohamed Salhi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi explores the deeper meaning of the Ceuta crossing.
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It has been almost exactly a year since this article was published, and it was in the top 5 most read articles every month for nearly a year until last month. It is a small thing but I am pretty proud of it :)
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/05/2026
This is a must read by @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
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Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🟥Red Lines🟥 'How is this cordon sanitaire supposed to survive if it is undermined from within?' @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social examine the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz. reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
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Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Great to work with @uselesssimo.bsky.social on this Red Lines piece on the mainstreaming of far-right discourse by German chancellor Friedrich Merz, and how this was foreseeable from Merz's early days as a politician reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
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Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
One down, one to go! Last punches to see if academia blesses or rejects me 🫣
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"The Trump administration view of “western civilisation” is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, including international law." That might be what EUrope says, but not what EUrope does!
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Trump’s America and a clash of civilisations with Europe
The White House sees mass immigration as a bigger threat than Russia — and it is pressuring Europe to agree
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Amazing how blind centrists are to the foundational nativism of European politics. There is more outcry over the U.S. Southern border than over the European Mediterranean border. How about the actual treatment of non-white citizens and non-EU immigrants or LGBTQIA+ community in many EU states?
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Communication and Social Sciences @comsocsci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 far right; mainstream parties; political communication; agenda setting; automated text analysis @dasalgon.bsky.social · @tevoelker.bsky.social @ejprjournal.bsky.social
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Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Will be speaking at this a week today along with the brilliant @minakshidahal.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/periods-ar...
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Periods around the world: How can we deliver menstrual justice?
Eventbrite - University of Bath presents Periods around the world: How can we deliver menstrual justice? - Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at The Mission Theatre, Bath, England. Find event and ticket inform...
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
FreeKoulchi! ✊
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2025
Doing critical research in academia can be lonely and alienating, particularly when it's about an already grim topic like reactionary politics The engagement with the network so far shows how spaces for solidarity are needed
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
As ever so incredibly proud to be working with the RPRN team ❤️
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
That's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
RPSS banner next to the stairs towards the room
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Yasmine Goldhorn @yasminegoldhorn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My chapter, Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Externalisierung, explores pedagogical perspectives on Jewish life and antisemitism in kindergartens. BOOK OPEN ACCESS: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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Antisemitismus in der Kindheit
Gegen Antisemitismus in der Kindheit – Empfehlungen für die pädagogische Praxis in der (früh)kindlichen Bildung.
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Yasmine Goldhorn @yasminegoldhorn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
✨Thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume Antisemitismus in der Kindheit. The book concludes the research project RelcoDiff (Religiös codierte Differenzkonstruktionen), initiated by Prof. Dr. Isabell Diehm (✝). @sabanurcheema.bsky.social
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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Das extremistisch-arabische 'Nakba'-Vokabular" - die deutsche Verzerrung palästinensischer Geschichte findet kein Ende.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of extensive media exposure on public perceptions and normalization. It references specific research surveys conducted on Sky News UK and Australia, analyzing changes in public attitudes and policy effects due to media strategies.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Most read three months in a row in JLP journal; 9th most read on JB. Last few months were full of professional disappointments so Ill take this as a little win 🙆
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2025
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly * Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Mohammed’s skeletal arms stick out of a romper with a grinning emoji-face and the slogan “smiley boy”, which in a Gaza hospital reads as a cruel joke. He spends much of the day crying from hunger, or gnawing at his own emaciated fingers. At seven months old, he weighs barely 4kg (9lbs) and this is the second time he has been admitted for treatment. His face is gaunt, his limbs little more than bones covered in baggy skin and his ribs protrude painfully from his chest. Continue reading...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You can find Mohamed's research article, which this interview is based on, here: brill.com/view/journal...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
📣New interview📣 @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses reactionary digital cultures in Morocco and their links to the global far right. Check it out below! reacpol.net/right-morocco/
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Interview: Reinventing the Right in Morocco (Mohamed Salhi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Mohamed Salhi's article 'Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces ' (2025)
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/07/2025
While the threat of the far right gets euphemised (populism, left behind etc) and their politics legitimised, any alternative left of centre gets exaggerated and ridiculed so that we are left with the bad and the worse as alternatives
Observer cartoon mocking Jeremy Corbyn
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access! doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Finally out! "Reinventing the Right in Morocco" now appears in the Special Issue on Populism in the Arab World. 😍 doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20251449
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Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces
Abstract Nationalist sentiments and right-wing populist discourses have become a consistent phenomenon in Moroccan online spaces over the past few years, mainly under the name of Moorish Movement, coi...
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Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com · 08/07/2025
This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram It’s giving MAGA makeover
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This picture 💔 #Gaza ( 📷 The Guardian )
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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Delighted to be part of this @critdiscstuds.bsky.social SI dedicated to work of Phil Graham! We contributed with a paper (written jointly w. D.Johnson & H.Ekström) on ‘proxy discourses’ in contemporary illiberal, exclusionary reframing of the imaginary of society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion
This article explores political discourse in the context of an online-mediated 2021 rapprochement between Swedish ‘mainstream’ and far-right parties paving the way for their eventual 2022 electoral...
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George Newth @georgenewth.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Mine and @k8ebrown.bsky.social's article on normalisation strategies of the far right in Italy has been assigned an issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Sadly, the normalisation/legitimation strategies we identify are certainly not unique to Italian politics... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study
While the mainstreaming of the far right is attracting growing scholarly interest based on its contemporary relevance, the role that far-right self-representation strategies play in this process ha...
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Marta Lorimer @mlorimer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Delighted to finally see this piece out! Around 3 years ago, Matteo & I started thinking about whether Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy REALLY resembled its neo-fascist predecessor in any meaningful way. The results are now published in @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Racists are losing their minds, and hopefully more elections! #ZohranMamdani
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Looking forward to this webinar tomorrow: AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK Beatriz Lopes Buarque (LSE) Aaron Winter (Lancaster) Allysa Czerwinsky (Manchester) Ashton Kingdon (Soton) Julia Ebner (Oxford) Meropi Tzanetakis (Manchester) Robert Topinka (BBK) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK
Join us online for an interdisciplinary perspective on the role played by AI in the recent far-right riots in the UK.
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Applications for our Reactionary Politics Summer School are still open. The sessions will focus on how to understand, study, and disseminate research on reactionary politics. Sign up below!
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
'Being nominally a mainstream actor does not mean that one cannot support or implement far-right politics, espouse and promote far-right discourse or legitimise and embolden far- and extreme-right actors' reacpol.net/far-right-ma...
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Interview: Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming (George Newth) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on George Newth et al's article 'Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming' (2025)
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Grew up just enough pennyroyal for one small Moroccan teapot to make on 30.07, the last day of my book project ✨️
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:
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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Finally out! "Reinventing the Right in Morocco" now appears in the Special Issue on Populism in the Arab World. 😍 doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20251449
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Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces
Abstract Nationalist sentiments and right-wing populist discourses have become a consistent phenomenon in Moroccan online spaces over the past few years, mainly under the name of Moorish Movement, coi...
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Flirts?! It's a long term relationship And how is nativism worse than/an implication of racism when it's a barely concealed articulation of it which is totally mainstreamed already! This is absolute nonsense that describes what has been going on backwards. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Nigel Farage flirts with race politics at his peril
Its recent anti-Muslim tone is a sign Reform could slide into an unpalatable nativism that Nigel Farage can’t control
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Time for some folks to pick their favorite false idol.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 05/06/2025
This is interesting in terms of mainstreaming: What is mainstream in France is seen as beyond the pale in the UK, even on the far right It shows clearly that you don't need the far right in power to have far-right politics in practice or in mainstream discourse www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK row as party chair calls new MP’s burqa ban question ‘dumb’
Party says ban is not its policy after Sarah Pochin called on the prime minister to introduce one
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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
💻 | NEW BLOG POST Mohamed Salhi gives a flavour of what you can expect from his recently published JLP article: bit.ly/4mNbXaZ @uselesssimo.bsky.social
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Interview with Mohamed Salhi: Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming
Mohamed Salhi discusses his recent Journal of Language and Politics article, Surprises, symbols and mainstreaming
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I see Liz Truss is having a very normal Weekend.
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
📣New interview📣 @georgenewth.bsky.social discusses how to research, understand, and resist far-right politics in times of mainstreaming. reacpol.net/far-right-ma...
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Interview: Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming (George Newth) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on George Newth et al's article 'Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming' (2025)
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
*PSA OPPORTUNITY* - New Excellence & Impact Fund available for PSA Specialist Groups. 📆 Application deadline 30 June. ➡️ Full details online.
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PSA Excellence & Impact Fund | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
In recognition and celebration of our 75th anniversary, we are launching this new PSA Excellence & Impact Fund.
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