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Poland shoots down Russian drones (Steff Chávez/Financial Times)

Steff Chávez / Financial Times:
Poland shoots down Russian drones  —  Prime Minister Donald Tusk cites ‘multiple violations of Polish airspace’  —  Poland said it had shot down drones that violated its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine, in what the Nato member said was an “unprecedented violation” of its airspace.

2025-09-10 23:05:00 UTC

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Bryan Hooper Sr. Freed From Wrongful Conviction After ‘Sordid’ 27 Years in Prison

Stillwater, MN — Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of a Minnesota prison on Sept. 4 after 9,999 days of captivity for a murder he was wrongfully convicted of. Three weeks after the confession of the state’s key witness, Hooper appeared remotely in front of Judge Marta Chou with his legal team. Two days later, he was released from prison and hugging his children with his charges dismissed.

On Monday, Hooper Sr. addressed the public during a press conference. He thanked all of the legal support he received and stated “I can’t begin to explain what it felt like to be sent to prison for a crime you didn’t commit. But I knew one thing, that I was never gonna stop fighting for my freedom. And I took that time that I was given and I taught myself a plethora of subjects. I used to tell my mom, ‘mom, I’m just away in college right now.’ I’m trying to be a wizard at everything. But, I’m just happy to be home.”

After 27 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Call For Bryan Hooper’s Murder Conviction to be Vacated

Hooper shared a heartfelt statement addressed to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: “Mary, it is my sincere hopes that whoever succeeds you, have the will and the courage to see the truth when the truth is there and resolve these injustices. Thank you.” Moriarty had apologized to Hooper earlier in the press conference.

When asked if Hooper was mad after losing 27 years of his life to a wrongful conviction, he said there was “a lot of anger” but that he used it “for something good, not something bad.” Hooper said he took out his anger on books.

While in a Georgia state prison in late July this year, Chalaka Young confessed to the vicious 1998 Minneapolis murder of Ann Prazniak, 77. Young, then named Chalaka Lewis, was the state’s key trial witness in the conviction of Hooper, who had maintained his innocence the whole time.

Hooper was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime. His conviction was based solely on incentivized jailhouse informants — even Chalaka was given a plea deal for a lesser burglary charge for the deadly incident at Prazniak’s apartment, in exchange for lying to say Hooper was the killer.

Despite many other witnesses recanting over the years, the courts denied every appeal that Hooper attempted — he previously filed five Post-Conviction Relief Petitions. Hooper was also denied parole earlier this year. In Minnesota, prisoners can be given supervised release after serving 30 years of a life sentence.

After Young’s new confession, the Great North Innocence Project and Hooper’s legal team worked together to submit his sixth Post-Conviction Relief Petition. After filing, Moriarty waived the two-year statute of limitations, the Knaffla bar and the statutory bar under Minn. Stat. § 590.01, all of which have been previous barriers for recent petitions by Hooper and others.

Judge Marta Chou was assigned the case after Hooper’s legal team removed Judge Paul Scoggins, and Chou held a hearing on Sept. 2. The next afternoon, Judge Chou issued a court order to release Hooper from prison and vacated his murder conviction — Hooper was released on Sept. 4 from MCF-Stillwater. In the ruling, Judge Chou listed the facts of the case, from the trial to the filed petitions to the confession and hearing. Read the order granting Hooper’s Petition for Post-Conviction Relief (pdf).

Hooper’s case is not a one-off. He’s one of what could be hundreds, if not thousands, of wrongfully convicted innocent people locked away in Minnesota’s prison system.

From the 1990s into the 2010s, Mike Freeman and Amy Klobuchar reigned over the county attorney position. Michelle Gross of Communities United Against Police Brutality said during that time the county basically created a “street to prison pipeline like a conveyor belt of Black men just being sent to the prison system. And it was almost as if it didn’t matter whether you were innocent… it wouldn’t matter what kind of defense you tried to mount or anything. You weren’t going to be able to get yourself out of that because they were going to put somebody away for those different crimes because they needed to sort of calm down the white populace.”

In 2021, the Minnesota Conviction Review Unit (CRU) started accepting applications to review wrongful convictions. They received over 1,150 applications with at least 203 cases with verifiable reasons to believe the applicants are innocent. The CRU has completed five investigations since its inception, according to the latest public data.

Four years later, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty created the Hennepin County Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) to review wrongful convictions in Hennepin County — Minnesota’s most populated county with about 1.3 million people.

The CIU has received 173 applications according to the latest numbers released by the county. The CIU has completed a review of 118 cases, closed 49, have 55 queued up for a full investigation and are currently investigating 13 others — Hooper’s was in full investigation mode.

Hooper is the fifth person freed from a life sentence after being wrongfully convicted in the last five years in Minnesota: Myon Burrell (commutation); Thomas Rhodes (conviction vacated); Marvin Haynes (exonerated); and Edgar Barrientos-Quintana (exonerated).

A fundraiser has been started to help Hooper get on his feet.


Hooper’s daughter, Bri’ana, fought consistently to free her father. “My father has spent his life missing many milestones because Minneapolis Police Department deemed him as a threat, as a thug, as a gangster,” she said during a press conference last year.

Hooper wrote a letter to Unicorn Riot last year requesting support exposing his “wrongful conviction.”

Read Hooper’s Petition for Post-Conviction Relief [Aug. 12, 2025].

Read the state’s answer to Hooper’s filed Post-Conviction Relief Petition [Aug. 12, 2025] in which Moriarty notes, “Mr. Hooper has been incarcerated for 9,976 days for a crime that the evidence shows he did not commit. The State of Minnesota has no interest in adding a single day to that sordid tally.”

Cover image via Great North Innocence Project.


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Recent Unicorn Riot Prison Coverage:

Mail Censorship, Book Bans, and Misconduct – A Letter From Federal Prison [Aug. 2025]

Anson Chi says he’s a political prisoner dealing with mail censorship, book bans, and misconduct by federal corrections officers.

After 27 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Call For Bryan Hooper’s Murder Conviction to be Vacated [Aug. 2025]

Bryan Hooper, another wrongfully convicted Black man in Minnesota, is hoping to be freed from his life sentence after the state’s key trial witness recently admitted to the murder Hooper was convicted for.

New Conviction Integrity Unit Agrees to Review Mahdi Ali’s Case [June 2025]

After fifteen and a half years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit, a fresh burst of hope has worked its way into the cell of Mahdi Ali. His legal team has filed an application with Hennepin County’s new Conviction Integrity Unit and recently received assurance from the unit’s director, Andrew Markquart, that the office would give Ali’s case its “full attention.”

Coverage of Philip Vance’s ‘Wrongful Conviction’ [Numerous Article and Videos]

Serving a life sentence for a deadly robbery in South St. Paul in 2002, Philip Vance has always insisted he is innocent. Officers from the corrupt and disbanded Metro Gang Strike Force were the investigators of Vance’s case and his 2004 conviction was prosecuted based on testimonies which have since been recanted. Unicorn Riot has published several reports and videos bringing further context to Vance’s case, including a slew of documents and an analysis.

Living Life on His Own Terms: Reflections from Former Political Prisoner Eric King on His Release [Dec. 2024]

Former political prisoner Eric King was released from prison on December 12, 2023, after spending nearly 10 years behind bars. Seven and a half of the ten were in solitary confinement, with five and a half being consecutive. As he walked off the Florence Federal Correctional Complex property toward a small crowd of friends and supporters, his wife and child ran up to him, embracing him tightly. King spoke with Unicorn Riot in December 2024, reflecting on his release day a year earlier and how life in the halfway house was.

Recanted Jailhouse Testimonies Lead to Renewed Calls to Release Bobo and Ferguson [July 2024]

Family members and advocates of two men serving life sentences in Minnesota — Deaunteze Bobo and Jermaine Ferguson — renewed their demands for their loved ones to be released from prison, saying they were wrongfully convicted.

Target, ‘Junk Science’ and Unreliable Testimonies: The Contentious Conviction of 15-Year-Old Mahdi Ali [June 2024]

Overlooked details have emerged casting serious doubt on Mahdi Hassan Ali’s conviction for a 2010 triple murder, as well as the integrity of the investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. “I was the perfect scapegoat.” – Mahdi Hassan Ali 

Marvin Haynes Exonerated and Released From Prison After 19 Years [Jan. 2024]

In a historic ruling, Hennepin County Judge William Koch vacated Marvin Haynes’ murder conviction, dismissed his charges with prejudice, and ordered his release from prison where he was sentenced to serve life. Haynes walked out of MCF-Stillwater as an exonerated man into the loving arms of his family and supporters on Dec. 11, 2023.

The Case of Marvin Haynes – An Investigative Series & Film [2023]

Despite no evidence tying Marvin Haynes to a 2004 murder and Marvin’s consistent claims of innocence, Haynes has remained in prison for nearly two decades based off of coerced testimony of jailed teenagers. We examine his case in our investigative series.

‘Let Me Pay My Taxes’ Says Incarcerated Industry Worker [Nov. 2023]

From inside a Minnesota prison cell, an incarcerated worker in the state’s Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) is demanding the Department of Corrections (DOC) allow him to pay his taxes. Kashaun Pierce Sr. said for the last seven years he’s been trying to pay his taxes but the DOC has been listing him as an independent contractor.

Family Seeks Answers Months After Cristian Rivera-Coba’s Death in Anoka County Jail [Sept. 2023]

Cristian Rivera-Coba died in the Anoka County Jail in July. Months later, his family and advocates are still left seeking information about the circumstances surrounding his death and demanding an investigation into the jail where, only weeks before Cristian died, 24-year-old Miles Jackson was also found dead in a cell.

Prisoners Face Retaliation for Protest at MCF-Stillwater [Sept. 2023]

An email sent to the media on the morning of Sept. 12 from a person housed in B East details some of the retaliatory actions by corrections officers and the “aggravated” charges that those demanding humane treatment inside Stillwater now face for their actions.

‘I Can’t Take This Shit No More’: Alabama Prisoner Takes a Stand [Aug. 2023]

Derrol Shaw’s attempted escape from Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama speaks to a wider human rights crisis in the state’s corrupt, neglectful and deadly prison system.

Limited Funds Stunt Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit — Families Want Expediency [July 2023]

Created to prevent, identify, and remedy wrongful convictions, Minnesota’s first-ever Conviction Review Unit had completed only one official investigation in nearly two years.

Minnesota Inmate Calls on DOC to ‘Value Us as Human’ [June 2023]

Unicorn Riot received a statement from Kashaun Damon Pierce Sr., a man housed at MCF-Faribault. Pierce provides a short glimpse into the state prison system and calls out what he calls the dehumanization of prisoners as a fundamental issue.

More Prison coverage here.

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2025-09-10 22:41:35 UTC

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BREAKING: Charlie Kirk Shot Dead at Utah Event

Charlie Kirk speaks on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump ally and MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed as he was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us.”

Video of the shooting shows Kirk, seated and speaking into a handheld microphone under a tent before a single shot is heard. Blood gushes from what appears to be his neck.

In the moment leading up to the shooting, Kirk, 31, is asked: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

A spokesperson for Utah Valley University told reporters the suspect fired their weapon from a building about 430 feet away from where Kirk was seated, per the New York Times.

FBI Director Kash Patel initially said that a “subject” had been taken into custody, but later wrote on social media that the individual had “been released after an interrogation by law enforcement.”

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Politicians on both sides of the aisle immediately condemned Wednesday’s shooting. House Speaker Republican Mike Johnson called Kirk a “close friend and confidant,” and added that “every political leader must loudly and clearly decry this violence.” Republican Governor Ron DeSantis called Kirk’s killing “a tragedy for our nation.”

Former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she was “deeply disturbed” and that “we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom – who hosted Kirk on his podcast this year – called the attack, “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.” And New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani also reacted, writing on Twitter that he was “horrified by the shooting” and that “political violence has no place in our country.”

Meanwhile, some far-right commentators immediately attempted to blame Democrats for Wednesday’s shooting, despite widespread condemnation from the party.

“The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.

Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer called on the Trump administration to “shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organization.”

Democrats themselves have been targeted in deadly political violence. In June, a Trump supporter shot and killed the former Democratic leader of the Minnesota state House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, according to police. The suspect is also accused of shooting and wounding another Democratic lawmaker and his wife.

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The far-right youth organization Kirk co-founded, Turning Point USA, played a huge role in rallying support for Trump on college campuses, gaining its initial prominence during Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Kirk was known for his many controversial statements. In 2021, he called for militias to go to the border and prevent the “diminishing and decreasing [of] white demographics in America.” Earlier this year, he accused Muslims of having “conquest values,” calling Islam a “threat to America.” He has also repeatedly urged women to get married at a younger age in order to have more children, and said women who don’t “lash out on the rest of society by voting Democrat.”

In the wake of a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023, Kirk said the cost of “some gun deaths” is “unfortunately” worth it in order to preserve Second Amendment rights, calling it a “prudent deal.”

This is a breaking story and may be updated.

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2025-09-10 21:25:01 UTC

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Trump says Charlie Kirk shot dead during event at Utah Valley University (The Guardian)

The Guardian:
Trump says Charlie Kirk shot dead during event at Utah Valley University  —  President says ally and Turning Point USA executive director is dead after being shot in the neck at event  —  Charlie Kirk, the powerful rightwing activist, Trump ally and executive director of Turning Point USA …

2025-09-10 21:05:01 UTC

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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah event (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah event  —  Charlie Kirk, founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump said.  —  Kirk, 31, emerged as one of the most …

2025-09-10 21:00:41 UTC

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UK Ambassador Told Epstein 'I Think the World of You,' Emails Reveal (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
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Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several people critically hurt (Christa Swanson/CBS News)

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Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several people critically hurt  —  At least two students were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the Denver metro area.  —  According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, the shooting took place just after noon at Evergreen High School.

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Live Updates: Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Activist, Shot in Utah (New York Times)

New York Times:
Live Updates: Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Activist, Shot in Utah  —  Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot in the neck while speaking in front of a large crowd on a university campus.  —  Here's what to know.  —  Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Trump and the founder …

2025-09-10 20:50:00 UTC

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Live Updates: Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Activist, Shot in Utah (New York Times)

New York Times:
Live Updates: Charlie Kirk, Right-Wing Activist, Shot in Utah  —  Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot in the neck while speaking in front of a large crowd on a university campus.  —  Here's what to know.  —  Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Trump and the founder …

2025-09-10 20:50:00 UTC

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At least 3 injured after shooting at a Denver-area high school, officials say (Emma Tucker/CNN)

Emma Tucker / CNN:
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At least 3 injured in shooting outside Evergreen High School (Denver Post)

Denver Post:
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Associated Press:
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Charlie Kirk shot while visiting Utah university; Trump says, 'We all must pray' (Meredith Deliso/ABC News)

Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
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Live updates: Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah (NBC News)

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pbump:
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Politico

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Federal Agents Retreat From Immigration Raid In Upstate New York Amid Protests: 'Gestapo' (Marita Vlachou/HuffPost)

Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Federal Agents Retreat From Immigration Raid In Upstate New York Amid Protests: ‘Gestapo’  —  The operation took one man into custody, according to local outlet WXXI.  —  Federal agents pulled back from a raid on rooftop workers at a rental site in upstate New York on Tuesday morning …

2025-09-10 15:45:00 UTC

HuffPost

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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It (New York Times)

New York Times:
Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It  —  The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.  —  A Venezuelan boat that the U.S. military destroyed in the Caribbean …

2025-09-10 15:35:01 UTC

New York Times

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National Guard documents show public 'fear,' troops' 'shame' over D.C. presence (Alex Horton/Washington Post)

Alex Horton / Washington Post:
National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ troops' ‘shame’ over D.C. presence  —  Internal documents reviewed by The Post show how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans' trust in the military.  —  The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment …

2025-09-10 14:20:00 UTC

Washington Post

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"The Axios Show" exclusive: Lutnick says U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
“The Axios Show” exclusive: Lutnick says U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue … The debut episode, featuring our conversation with Lutnick in his Commerce Department office, will be out later this week. … - The next step, Lutnick says, is to guarantee the U.S. gets …

2025-09-10 14:15:03 UTC

Axios

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They Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
They Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America  —  Although it has long since entered the pantheon of American rhetoric as one of our nation's great orations, there was a time, however brief, when the Gettysburg Address had its critics.  —  The president's funeral sermon …

2025-09-10 14:05:00 UTC

New York Times

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'It's not my signature': Trump says about alleged Epstein 'birthday book' letter (ABC News)

ABC News:
'It's not my signature': Trump says about alleged Epstein ‘birthday book’ letter  —  Trump was asked by ABC News for comment on the alleged note.  —  US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the restaurant Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2025.

2025-09-10 13:45:00 UTC

ABC News

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The Many Ways in Which the September 2 Caribbean Strike was Unlawful ... and the Grave Line the Military Has Crossed (Marty Lederman/Just Security)

Marty Lederman / Just Security:
The Many Ways in Which the September 2 Caribbean Strike was Unlawful ... and the Grave Line the Military Has Crossed  —  Now that the President has submitted the required War Powers Resolution report to Congress, we can begin to take stock of just how extraordinary and significant last Tuesday's lethal strike in the Caribbean Sea was.

2025-09-10 13:35:03 UTC

Just Security

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After declaring D.C. 'safe,' Trump dines out in the city (Matt Viser/Washington Post)

Matt Viser / Washington Post:
After declaring D.C. ‘safe,’ Trump dines out in the city  —  The president boasted in recent days about the success of the federal takeover of D.C. police.  During his first term, he ventured only to the restaurant at the hotel he owned.  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday night arrived …

2025-09-10 13:10:01 UTC

Washington Post

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Trump Gets Called Hitler on First Ever D.C. Restaurant Trip (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Gets Called Hitler on First Ever D.C. Restaurant Trip  —  NAZI SURPRISE  —  The president wanted to make a point about safety on D.C. streets.  —  President Donald Trump got an icy reception after stepping out onto the streets of Washington, D.C. Tuesday night to eat at a local establishment for the first time ever.

2025-09-10 13:05:00 UTC

The Daily Beast

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The Supreme Court Is Committing Judicial Malpractice

Trump greets Roberts at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

When it comes to how the framers structured the Constitution, federal judges – especially Supreme Court justices – are an inherent danger to democracy. That’s because, unlike presidents and members of Congress, they are unelected. Their personal predilections have profound effects on the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, yet voters cannot choose them at the polls. Nor can they fire them at the ballot box. Unless they’re impeached, which is nearly impossible to pull off, federal judges keep their jobs for life – even if they issue rulings that seem to violate the Constitution itself.

Which over and over again appears to be what’s happening with the far-right justices these days, half of whom were hand-picked by Donald Trump personally.

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The latest shocker came down on Monday, in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomoan unexplained 6-3 decision that halted a lower court’s injunction staying the Trump administration from picking up people from the streets of Los Angeles based solely on some combination of four factors, including their ethnicity, use of English, or type of work.

What the Trump administration is doing looks a lot like racial profiling, which, in 2023, the same majority went out of its way to outright ban in college admissions. The Court nonetheless held that to pause this practice for ICE agents would irreparably harm Trump to the point where he is entitled to an emergency order overriding the lower court’s order that immigration authorities temporarily stop doing this until the legality of the policy is sorted out.

Vasquez Perdomo implicates the Fourth Amendment, not necessarily the Fourteenth, but the point is obvious: racial discrimination looks like a one-way ratchet from the perspective of the justices in the majority.

‘Emergency’ Rulings: The Court’s Gift to Trump

Monday’s decision was roughly the 20th “emergency” ruling that this Court has issued to greenlight Trump’s spree of lawlessness since taking office again on Jan. 20.

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2025-09-10 13:02:38 UTC

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Poland Says It Shot Down Russian Drones That Entered Its Airspace (Qasim Nauman/New York Times)

Qasim Nauman / New York Times:
Poland Says It Shot Down Russian Drones That Entered Its Airspace  —  The Polish military called the incursions an “act of aggression.”  It said the drones crossed the border during a wave of Russian strikes in Ukraine.  —  Poland said on Wednesday that it had shot down Russian drones …

2025-09-10 13:00:42 UTC

New York Times

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NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland (New York Times)

New York Times:
NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland  —  The incursion was the first time alliance planes had engaged enemy targets in NATO airspace.  Poland's leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”  —  More than a dozen Russian drones entered Poland overnight …

2025-09-10 13:00:42 UTC

New York Times

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The Constant Battle — The first excerpt from 107 Days ... The first stop on the day's calendar ... (Kamala Harris/The Atlantic)

Kamala Harris / The Atlantic:
The Constant Battle  —  The first excerpt from 107 Days … The first stop on the day's calendar had been planned months earlier.  At a meeting in the Oval Office discussing her work uplifting Black executives and entrepreneurs, Dr. Stacie NC Grant had invited me to address the annual gathering …

2025-09-10 12:30:01 UTC

The Atlantic

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Democratic governors build vaccine firewall against RFK Jr. (Politico)

Politico:
Democratic governors build vaccine firewall against RFK Jr. … “We're ... creating a public health infrastructure that used to exist under the federal government, but with RFK, Jr. at the helm, has been completely disrupted and dismantled,” Healey told reporters Monday at the state Capitol.

2025-09-10 12:00:04 UTC

Politico

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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites (BBC)

BBC:
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites  —  The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.

2025-09-10 11:25:00 UTC

BBC

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GENERAL (RET.) MARK A. WELSH III (Mark A. Welsh III/president.tamu.edu)

Mark A. Welsh III / president.tamu.edu:
GENERAL (RET.) MARK A. WELSH III  —  I am reaching out today to follow up on a statement I distributed through social media yesterday regarding an ongoing issue with one of our 16,000 course sections.  I directed the Provost to remove the College of Arts and Sciences Dean and English Department Head from their administrative positions.

2025-09-10 06:30:00 UTC

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