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Mindy Domb
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Working on behalf of the residents of the 3rd Hampshire District (the town of Amherst and precincts 1 & 2A in Granby, Massachusetts) in the MA House of Representatives.
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scotusblog.com
In an order released to reporters at 9:17 p.m. EST on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued the administrative stay that the government had requested, giving the court of appeals time to weigh in on the Trump administration's motion for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Food is not a bargaining chip or a ransom. It’s a basic human right.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Over 100 elders kicked off Amherst MA’s #NoKings rallies this afternoon in south Amherst

@maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org
@townofamherst.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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nytimes.com
If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
A firefighter, shown from behind, looking out toward smoldering trees in a mountain valley. A headline reads: "Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds." Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times
September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Custody?
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Sep 18
Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.
September 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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nbcboston.com
Gov. Maura Healey says that she supports the commission that’s considering changes to Massachusetts’ flag and seal, but also suggested that she doesn’t think changes will happen soon. on.nbcboston.com/KIsWgCW
Focused elsewhere, Healey suggests Mass. flag, seal won't change soon
Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday that she supports the commission that’s considering changes to Massachusetts’ flag and seal, but also suggested that she doesn’t think changes will happen soon.
on.nbcboston.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."

www.kgw.com/article/news...
Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations
New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.
www.kgw.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California.

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:
www.supremecourt.gov
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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19thnews.org
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing rebuke Monday in response to the Supreme Court's ruling permitting immigration stops in Los Angeles: https://bit.ly/4n27HUU
Text reads: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent of the SCOTUS ruling on ICE raids in Los Angeles"
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES - No. 25A169 - KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [September 8, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In early June, the Government launched immigration enforcement raids across Los Angeles and its surrounding counties. During the raids, teams of armed and masked agents pulled up to car washes, tow yards, farms, and parks and began seizing individuals on sight, often before asking a single question. A Federal District Court found that these raids were part of a pattern of conduct by the Government that likely violated the Fourth Amendment. Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping individuals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonable suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate. Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of 2 NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court's order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent. * * The Fourth Amendment protects every individual's constitutional right to be "free from arbitrary interference by law officers." Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 878. After to-day, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little. Because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation's constitutional guarantees, I dissent.
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Jesus H Christ
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 8
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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imissconsequences.bsky.social
New Banksy mural fits right in with today's ruling.
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
In the SCOTUS ruling unleashing what a judge described as "roving patrols" of racial profiling, Kavanaugh cited the Trump admin's unsourced stat about immigration in LA.

There's reason for skepticism, and Sotomayor called him out.

My deep dive www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-scot...
SCOTUS swallows "10%": The disputed stat behind a racial profiling ruling in LA
Kavanaugh regurgitated the Trump DOJ's unsourced stat to unleash ICE's "roving patrols" against California’s Latino population.
www.allrisenews.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Extraordinary public health leadership from @massgovernor.bsky.social

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
As national consensus on vaccines unravels, Mass. and other states chart disparate paths - The Boston Globe
Governor Maura Healey essentially wrote a prescription for COVID boosters for every person in the state over the age of 5, as Florida moved to lift all vaccine mandates.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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👀👀👀
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 4
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to move swiftly to allow the president to continue imposing sprawling tariffs on nations around the world, setting up a major test of his trade policies and his expansion of executive power.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow His Sweeping Tariffs
A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.
nyti.ms
September 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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They’re going to make their own list
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 4
Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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ICYMI
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Sep 2
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
https://cnn.it/45MKT5a
September 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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newyorker.com
On Tuesday, 86 climate scientists delivered a 400-page response to a Department of Energy report from July which had attempted to show that global warming is no big deal. Will science prevail?
Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced
International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out?
www.newyorker.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Happy Labor Day! Celebrate workers, unions and solidarity
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The "Safer Beauty Bill Package" would ban the most toxic ingredients in everyday cosmetics and create protections for the women of color and salon workers who are disproportionately exposed to them.
Many beauty products have toxic ingredients. Newly proposed bills could change that
The "Safer Beauty Bill Package" would ban the most toxic ingredients in everyday cosmetics and create protections for the women of color and salon workers who are disproportionately exposed to them.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A new report by Human Rights Watch and partner nonprofits released today confirms that migrants at the downtown Miami ICE facility were indeed shackled with hands tied behind their backs, forced to kneel, and made to eat from styrofoam plates “like dogs.”
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
www.hrw.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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newyorker.com
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM