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Dr. Heather Urbanski (She/Her)

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English Prof, daughter, sister, Philly kid for life but adjusting to Massachusetts, overall geek

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
BREAKING on MSNBC: The federal prosecutor in charge of investigating whether Sen. Adam Schiff should be charged with mortgage fraud has told her bosses in Washington she did not think the case was strong enough to move forward — via @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/10/2025
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
BOOM 🔥: Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025
BREAKING: Judge Immergut has GRANTED a 2nd TRO blocking National Guard from ANY state be sent to Oregon. She was very annoyed the DOJ circumvented her order from yesterday. I'll be joining Adam Klasfeld on Substack live to discuss in a few minutes...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, says Democrats will raise a point of order to strip the Medicaid ban on gender-affirming care in OBBB: "this is a private choice for adults. It should belong to them."
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 30/06/2025
The budget is a statement of values. The budget is policy. This budget is awful.
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xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Get you some co-mayors who wave the trans flag while blowing kisses and dance like nobody's watching with the rainbow one
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Brad and Zohran and Tish at NYC Pride! I think Brad is having the most fun. 😆
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If only he had a way to vote in accordance with his stated beliefs!
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“This bill is so terrible that it has stained the very soul of our party, but, sure, I’ll vote for it.” - Josh Hawley
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025
hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
Rep. Dan Crenshaw tweets

GOOD NEWS: after the rogue parliamentarian struck my amendment to ban taxpayer funding for transgender treatments, Republican
Senators put it BACK in the bill anyway. This means they are daring the Democrats to
vote against it in a "point of order." It's a good bet to take. For one thing, nothing to lose so why not try? But second, I believe the Democrats won't want to pick this battle. This is a very very popular provision. I think the Democrats know they've lost the battle. The science isn't on their side and neither is the public.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 27/06/2025
The key theme is not any judicial philosophy. The Roberts majority doesn’t use any consistently. The key theme is aggressive quick action against those who try to enforce the laws and Constitution on Trump. And extreme passivity on Trump’s illegal actions. It’s an anti-anti-Trump court.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 27/06/2025
She took half a million dollars from AIPAC 2019-2024 and isn't up for reelection until 2030, people must be absolutely HAMMERING her phones for her to retreat on this lol
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N.Y. Senator 'Misspoke' When She Falsely Claimed Zohran Mamdani Condoned 'Global Jihad'
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office walked back her suggestion that the New York mayoral nominee had supported “global jihad.”
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
[Insert Anne Frank quote]
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The ADL fired 22 people, all who worked on issues like civil rights for other communities. This is part of larger changes: 1. Ending its anti-bias training, which focused on other forms of bigotry. 2. Removing 134 pages from the site that educated on issues like trans identity & white privilege
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Amid record fundraising, ADL lays off staff to consolidate focus on antisemitism
The Anti-Defamation League dismissed 22 workers this week as it moves away from broader civil rights work to focus on antisemitism.
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Emily Conklin @emzconk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I’m so sorry to every single person who has given their life’s work - time, tears, talent - to the admirable climate efforts at NOAA. The work is important and will continue, and I will grieve this loss.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“power concedes nothing without a demand, frederick douglass taught us that,” says deborah mcdowell, a professor here since 1987. we must do everything in our power to resist this, “authoritarians are never satisfied. they are greedy.”
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
another speaker on the steps clarifies that as much as people may love & support jim ryan, “this is not about jim, this is about inappropriate interference in the process.” crowd now chanting “hands off UVA”
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
the uva faculty senate asks the board of visitors to condemn the demands from the DOJ that led to ryan’s resignation & asks for a meeting with the BOV to clarify the situation
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The @nytimes.com only reported, in surprise, on what was happening at UVA last night & today the president is already out. This delay in reporting Trump's & Vance's attacks on higher ed more broadly, including public universities, is due to the @nytimes.com' monomaniacal focus on the Ivy League.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I have seen Jim's resignation letter and I still do not believe that him resigning will do anything to protect anybody else's job (I appreciate that he sees things differently). Columbia has not gotten their grants back. There is no proof they won't just keep punishing UVA.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Told a reporter we will need collective action in the days ahead at UVA and that the reality is, it will likely require the famous alums stepping up. They don't care about a lil Black girl from the 757. But people like Katie will matter more.
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Today’s resignation by UVA president due to DOJ pressure should be understood amid yesterday’s creation by Southern states of their own higher education accreditation agency. Both seek to wield power against the independence of universities.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The letter Rep. Ogles posted to Twitter outlining why he thinks Mamdani should be deported, including the claim that, “Mamdani has recently refused opportunities to reject the pro-terrorist rallying cry to ‘globalize the intifada’”:
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives @lashington, Z€ 20515-4205
June 26, 2025
The Honorable Pam Bondi
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
Dear Attorney General Bondi,
I write to request that the Department of Justice open an investigation into whether Zohran Kwame Mamdani, currently a candidate for Mayor of New York City, should be subject to denaturalization proceedings under 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a) on the grounds that he may have procured U.S. citizenship through willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism.
According to public reports, including a June 21, 2025 New York Post article, Mr. Mamdani expressed open solidarity with individuals convicted of terrorism-related offenses prior to becoming a U.S. citizen.' Specifically, he rapped: "Free the Holy Land Five / My guys." The Holy Land Foundation was convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Publicly praising the Foundation's convicted leadership as "my guys" raises serious concerns about whether Mr. Mamdani held affiliations or sympathies he failed to disclose during the naturalization process.
While I understand that some may raise First Amendment concerns about taking legal action based on expressive conduct, such as rap lyrics, speech alone does not preclude accountability where it reasonably suggests underlying conduct relevant to eligibility for naturalization. If an individual publicly glorifies a group convicted of financing terrorism, it is entirely appropriate for federal authorities to inquire whether that individual engaged in non-public forms of support-such as organizational affiliation, fundraising, or advocacy-that would have required disclosure on Form N-400 or during a naturalization interview.
Moreover, Mr. Mamdani has recently refused opportunities to reject the pro-terrorist rallying cry to "globalize the intifada"— a call to expand …expressions of admiration for individuals convicted of supporting terrorism, a troubling pattern emerges that warrants formal scrutiny.
The naturalization process depends on the good-faith disclosure of any affiliation with, or support for, groups that threaten U.S. national security. If Mr. Mamdani concealed relevant associations, that concealment may constitute a material misrepresentation sufficient to support denaturalization under federal law.
The federal government must uphold public trust by ensuring that citizenship is not granted under false pretenses. I respectfully urge the Department of Justice to determine whether Mr.
Mamdani's conduct prior to naturalization warrants formal review under applicable law.
Sincerely,
Andy Ogles
Member of Congress
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
Andy Ogles: Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.
Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There’s a kind of person who considers anyone who cares about Palestinians a de facto antisemite and apparently Frum is one of them. Zohran has plenty of Jewish friends and cross endorsed a Jewish candidate but since he’s Muslim, I guess that’s not enough for Frum
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/06/2025
MAGA groups are calling on Trump to deport Zohran Mamdani. The Republicans for National Renewal tweeted, “We fully support this initiative. Communist radical Mamdani should be remigrated as soon as possible,” and the John Birch Society posted “💯” trib.al/AjOFfft
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MAGA Has a Depraved New Plan for Democratic Star Zohran Mamdani
Influential right-wing groups are calling on President Trump to deport the young progressive who just won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025
TAPPER: Republicans are debating a $15m fund for rural hospitals to offset some of the concerns about what the bill does do Medicaid DUCKWORTH: It's like the person setting the fire saying, 'Hey, you know what, we need a fire department!'...Americans did not vote for the 'we're all gonna die' party
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
ICE has detained Paola Clouatre, the wife of service-disabled U.S. Marine Corps veteran and mother of two children under two. One of them is still breast-feeding.
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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
I had a chance to review DHS v. DVD (the Sure You Can Remove People to Randomass Third Countries case) and If the Supreme Court isn't gonna listen to the Constitution or lower court judges I don't see why lower court judges should listen to the Court tbqh! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Supreme Court Is Giving Lower Court Judges No Reason to Listen to It
The White House keeps asking for permission to break the law. The justices keep giving it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2025
Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi. On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:
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Life of the Mother
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.
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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025
AP—Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I read a thesis this week and it cited a report that I knew had been updated with new numbers last year. That's what it means to care about your research area. I have to be an actual expert because nobody would ever let me get away with any of this (and because I'm not a monster).
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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
General ed is about to get mighty narrow. I do tell my students that if you don’t enroll, major, and pass, schools start making cuts.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
America's national science agency officially homeless
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/06/2025
In a few months, Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step was to unleash the AI. A reminder of what has happened:
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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/06/2025
Also in February, we learned that Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt were listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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