Mindy Domb

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
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SCOTUS likely to allow state trans sports bans, but a changed tone could signal a narrow ruling Although a majority appeared unlikely to strike down West Virginia and Idaho's bans, there also seemed to be interest in avoiding a final decision on constitutional questions for now.

And, full report is up: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-lik...

Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.

Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says

Immigration agents deploy tear gas, pepper spray in Minneapolis as confrontations with protesters grow Many of the clashes between agents and protesters are taking place just blocks away from where Renee Good was fatally shot by and ICE agent last week.

From high school students to elected officials, residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods, leading to days of confrontations and protests. on.nbcboston.com/2ATnFc9

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.

Food is not a bargaining chip or a ransom. It’s a basic human right.

Over 100 elders kicked off Amherst MA’s #NoKings rallies this afternoon in south Amherst

@maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org
@townofamherst.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...

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

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...

Custody?

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.

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

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.

"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...

#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:

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"

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

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.

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.

Jesus H Christ

New Banksy mural fits right in with today's ruling.

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.

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...

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.

Extraordinary public health leadership from @massgovernor.bsky.social

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...

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They’re going to make their own list

ICYMI

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?

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?

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Happy Labor Day! Celebrate workers, unions and solidarity

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.

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.

“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...

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.”

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....

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.