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Heather Silber Mohamed

@heathersmo.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Political Science focusing on immigration policy, Latino politics, and gender and politics @ClarkUniversity. Former Hill staffer. @BrownUniversity PhD. @TuftsUniversity BA.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was wondering if Canada was making it feasible for Haitian-Americans formerly protected under TPS to come here. Very glad to see that appears to be the case. I hope we accelerate supports and streamline this process.
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Haitian TPS holders leave for Canada, taking skills and resources gained in Mass. with them - The Boston Globe
In all, more than 10,000 Haitians in the Massachusetts workforce who contributed roughly $480 million a year to the local economy are being forced out, according to an immigration policy organization.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ooh *hello* Suffs streaming on PBS www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...
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Suffs ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
Created by Tony Award winner Shaina Taub, this musical recorded from Broadway tells the story of the American suffragist movement and the remarkable friendships, heartbreak, and action that brought wo...
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Heather Silber Mohamed @heathersmo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Incredible news! So proud to collaborate with @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social, and can’t wait to see what he develops through this fellowship. Congrats MJ!! 🎉🎉
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MJ Strawbridge @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Beyond excited to be named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow! This @carnegie.org fellowship will support my research examining how Black cultural institutions foster Black political unity and act as a counterweight to increasing political polarization. #CarnegieFellows www.carnegie.org/awards/honor...
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Michael Strawbridge | Carnegie Corporation of New York
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
As the Senate preps to debate the SAVE Act, some research I've done w @brennancenter.org to add context 1. We surveyed (with UMD and VoteRiders) Americans to understand who doesn't have easy access to proof of citizenship. The answer? 21.3m! (This number has gotten a lot of play; this is the source)
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Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available
Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Great to be at @sxswedu.com to talk about how I’m fighting to #EndHungerNow in every school across the country. If you missed it, you can watch my panel “Feeding Kids Like we Give a Damn” here:
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Trump is Choosing WAR over FEEDING HUNGRY KIDS in America
YouTube video by Congressman Jim McGovern
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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The City of Providence will provide free salt to Providence residents on Saturday, February 21, ahead of potential snowfall on Sunday. Pickup will be available at 30 Shipyard Street from 8am-1pm. 
Residents must bring their own 5-gallon bucket and proof of Providence residency. 
Please be advised that this material comes directly from the City’s snow operations supply. It is a mixture of industrial-grade road salt and sand and should be handled and used with appropriate caution.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NBC News poll “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the issue of border security and immigration?” JUNE 2025 51% approve 49% disapprove FEBRUARY 2026 40% approve 60% disapprove A 15-point rise for “strongly disapprove.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/02/2026
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.
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just Dave @justdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."
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2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large
Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.令
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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My local school district in Alachua County, Florida is making free breakfast and lunch available to children of families who receive SNAP, with directions on how to apply www.alachuaschools.net/o/acps/page/...
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Client Challenge
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/10/2025
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
When donating to food banks, MONEY goes the furthest bc they can purchase food way cheaper than us. If you are going to get food: pasta, sauce, peanut butter, canned fruits & veggies. Also, food kids can make on their own like ready Mac & cheese. Whatever you can do is a spiritual gift to humanity.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 20/10/2025
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Just an outstanding choice. Well-deserved for @jamellebouie.net!
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
An image from Mayor Wu’s swearing in ceremony on November 16, 2021 in Boston City Hall. Michelle raises her right hand as Judge Myong Joun administers the oath of office; her left hand is on the Aitken Bible held by her husband and two sons.A picture of the Boston Public Library’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible, showing the inside cover and 1st page
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Source: "Yellin’ at Yellen: Hostile Sexism in the Federal Reserve Congressional Hearings" journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Yellin’ at Yellen: Hostile Sexism in the Federal Reserve Congressional Hearings | The Journal of Politics
How prevalent is hostile sexism among US politicians? We analyze the transcripts of every congressional hearing attended by the chair of the US Federal Reserve from 2001 to 2020 using Janet Yellen as ...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
shocking
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
More attention here please.
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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I bring up this chart showing media coverage of shootings during an election year in NYC a lot. The local news is 100% complicit in making it look like crime is out of control to help “tough on crime” politicians like Eric Adams and Trump spread the false narrative that crime is out of control.
Chart showing

Media Mismatch
Coverage about shootings outweigh the number of incidents
• Number of shootings */, Number of times shootings were mentioned in media
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Caroline Heldman @carolineheldman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
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Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
California was consistently Republican through the Mid-1990s. In 1994, Republican Governor Pete Wilson championed the Prop 187 ballot initiative which aimed to cut off illegal immigrants from medical care, education, etc. It passed big, but it alienated CA's large and growing Latino population. 1/x
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The Immigration and Nationality Act is pretty darn clear: native-born citizens of the United States can voluntarily relinquish their citizenship but cannot have it involuntarily stripped from them. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/b...
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Birthright Citizenship in the United States - American Immigration Council
This fact sheet explains birthright citizenship, the Fourteenth Amendment, and its interpretations. Who is eligible for birthright citizenship? Can birthright citizenship be taken away?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We have a fact sheet for that! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...
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How the United States Immigration System Works - American Immigration Council
U.S. immigration law is very complex, and there is much confusion as to how it works. This fact sheet provides basic information about how the U.S. legal immigration system is designed.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Why are Democrats still pretending that they need to hide from this as an issue?
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/06/2025
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
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Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
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Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Oh.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In a time when unprecedented is used a little too much and hopelessness comes a little too quickly, take some time today to learn about the stories of the enslaved, how some fought back and won, and where push for democracy actually started. The fight is continuous. Always has been.
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Kevin Gomes Andrade @kevingandrade.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“The broad trends in terms of who is targeted are not new,” @heathersmo.bsky.social said. “These trends are also consistent with Trump’s language from his first term about ‘bad hombres.’” newbedfordlight.org/after-the-ic...
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Families of detained New Bedford immigrants suffer financially and emotionally - The New Bedford Light
Whether or not ICE is deliberately targeting immigrant men, the effect is the same: families who remain here are struggling financially and emotionally.
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