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Mindy Domb

@mindydomb.bsky.social
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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. Pronouns: she/her

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tonight at 7pm, my partner @edmarkey.bsky.social takes the debate stage as the only candidate who is a champion for workers and families in Massachusetts. Let's send him back to the Senate so we can continue delivering for our communities.
Ed Markey and Ayanna Pressley pose for a photo at the Boston Pride parade
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/01/2026
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: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
And, full report is up: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-lik...
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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.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 14/01/2026
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
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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.
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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 14/01/2026
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
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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.
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SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com · 08/11/2025
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.
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Food is not a bargaining chip or a ransom. It’s a basic human right.
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Over 100 elders kicked off Amherst MA’s #NoKings rallies this afternoon in south Amherst @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org @townofamherst.bsky.social
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2025
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
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Custody?
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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 19/09/2025
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
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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.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"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...
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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.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#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:
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 08/09/2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing rebuke Monday in response to the Supreme Court's ruling permitting immigration stops in Los Angeles: 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"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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
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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
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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.*
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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.
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Marc Hurwitz @marchurboston.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Jesus H Christ
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A beautiful mistake 🫂 @imissconsequences.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New Banksy mural fits right in with today's ruling.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 08/09/2025
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...
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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.
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Extraordinary public health leadership from @massgovernor.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
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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.
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
👀👀👀
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They’re going to make their own list
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ICYMI
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/09/2025
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?
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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?
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Labor Day! Celebrate workers, unions and solidarity
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NPR @npr.org · 22/07/2025
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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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.”
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“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...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/07/2025
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.
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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....
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Alerts from NWS Boston/Norton MA (UNOFFICIAL) @bos.nws-bot.us · 20/07/2025
BOX issues Severe Thunderstorm Watch (Hartford, Tolland, Windham [CT] and Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester [MA] and Br... at Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:09:30 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025
MSNBC put together a supercut of Republicans trashing on Trump's big bill before they voted for it
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Update on MA budget in light of the big ugly bill www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/04/m...
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Governor Healey signs $61 billion state budget, but while also slashing funding, delaying earmarks - The Boston Globe
Governor Maura Healey signed the state spending bill on the Fourth of July holiday, moving well ahead of a deadline to act on it and just hours before President Trump was expected to sign a massive fe...
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
going backwards in real time.
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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Keep reminding folks of this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Senate Majority leader is lying
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/06/2025
Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2025
The Trump admin. is using the claim that immigrants “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. But what do the courts say? @mtredden.bsky.social‬ explains.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Good News! The National Weather Service is hiring again, after DOGE’s “brilliant” decision to lay off essential staff. Apparently, round-the-clock weather alerts don’t send themselves. Who would’ve guessed?
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Michal Horný @michalhorny.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Patients with household incomes less than $50,000 annually were least likely to have denied claims contested and, conditionally, have cost-sharing obligations reduced." www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
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Claim Denials: Low-Income Patients From Disadvantaged Racial And Ethnic Groups Experienced The Largest Burdens | Health Affairs Journal
Insurance claim denials are a common source of administrative burden, especially for patients with private health insurance. Contesting denied claims requires considerable investment from physicians a...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/06/2025
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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Mindy Domb @mindydomb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
BINGO!
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Resistance takes many forms!
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 03/06/2025
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would decide whether Republicans can challenge Illinois’ law that allows mail-in election ballots to be counted 14 days after Election Day, following lower federal courts’ previous dismissals of the GOP effort.
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US Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether challenge to Illinois mail-in voting law can proceed
Lawsuit from Republican US Rep. Mike Bost comes as the GOP nationwide has tried to stop allowing mail-in votes from being counted after Election Day.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2025
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
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Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…
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