This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

History is our record of what happened in the past and how we interpret it. Erasing Black people or any group from history is evil.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 10mo ago

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Never change Detroit. Love folks from the D real hard.

Evil Lex@lextherapy.blacksky.app · 10mo ago

They gave my girl some buffs 🥹

Justices are assigned to be on "Circuits." Depending on what state an appeal is coming from, that's the judge who has to deal with it. KBJ is the First Circuit. So it fell to her to handle it.

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I pitched in a couple of dollars I be in New York from time to time haha

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 10mo ago

Soooo it seems like the video has been taken down cause he raised enough money but Mamdani actually crowd funded his transition team money. There was a lot of criticism from the usual sources for "already asking for money" but transition teams are usually funded by hidden donors

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

Back over here for a sec Mostly just to say I abhor everything happening in this country (and the secondary effects of our foreign policy and revocation of aid in other countries) rn People deserve to eat People deserve to be treated with dignity People deserve due process

This is what a real leader does You get up as high as he is, people stop bringing you the bad news (and/or the truth), so you have to go find it yourself Also keeps people under you on their toes and aware you may check

Fortune @fortune.com · 10mo ago

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who runs a $4.5 trillion bank with 300,000 employees, still reads customer complaints himself, a habit he says keeps him connected to reality inside one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions. trib.al/F1ynZLl

One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go

This is the part that is absolutely true whatever the reason for what KBJ just did. Yes she may be trying to keep the SCOTUS conservatives from trashing SNAP entirely, at least right now. But the effect is the same until the 1st Circuit rules.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 10mo ago

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

Not feeding people is foul

when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"

My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves. If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels

‘I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with the J. Bree style’ appeared in the middle of a tense scene with a scaled dragon prince.

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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts

In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

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Musk believes that people are being paid to protest Tesla because he's paying people to vote for a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate. Every accusation is a confession.

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our history is gonna get disappeared because it tells a story some folks would rather not know and the folks with the resources to preserve said records aren’t motivated to do anything about it. but hey, the cassandra life is not new to me so ima keep pushing.

Yup 😞

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.

We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia It really ain’t over until it’s over

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

"What if we combined the normal sociopathy of a GOP administration with the absolute destruction of your 401K?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

checking in on state media 👀

Starting Monday, eligible homeowners can register for a chance to apply for a city program designed to provide roof and porch repairs at no cost to homeowners. to.wttw.com/3DxujLl

Registration Open for Chicago’s Home Repair Program. Here’s What You Need to Know

As part of the program, the city provides repairs, and homeowners are not required to pay back any repair costs. Registration for a chance to apply begins at 9 a.m. Monday, March 10, and runs through ...

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