Doube days of facilitating large webinars, on camera. 600 people over 2 sessions in 2 days. And I looked cute.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Doube days of facilitating large webinars, on camera. 600 people over 2 sessions in 2 days. And I looked cute.
that's great but monthly SNAP issuance is approx $7.8 billion for the US. reduced distribution is a bandaid.
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
Defendants.
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
that's great but monthly SNAP issuance is approx $7.8 billion for the US. reduced distribution is a bandaid.
Dear work: just let me know whether the temp layoffs are happening so I mnow whether or not I can make travel plans.
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dear work: just let me know whether the temp layoffs are happening so I mnow whether or not I can make travel plans.
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This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!
In the 60-year history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it’s never run out of money. Here are the states suing the federal government over it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!
love to wake up to my work comp taking a deep sleep and refusing to wake up. just what I needed today. guess i'll be traveling. love this for me
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
love to wake up to my work comp taking a deep sleep and refusing to wake up. just what I needed today. guess i'll be traveling. love this for me
Annnd there goes the power. I knew we should have made dinner at 4
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Annnd there goes the power. I knew we should have made dinner at 4
I literally can say I knew her when... this is probably my favorite on Mara's EP. Something just hits different in it.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I literally can say I knew her when... this is probably my favorite on Mara's EP. Something just hits different in it.
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Beat the Dodgers for us okay?
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Beat the Dodgers for us okay?
welp. it's been fun Ms
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
welp. it's been fun Ms
Ehhh, I would have been fine with the call either way. The argument can be made it would have hit him in the head if he'd stayed moving forward, but also he could have ducked instead of jumped.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Ehhh, I would have been fine with the call either way. The argument can be made it would have hit him in the head if he'd stayed moving forward, but also he could have ducked instead of jumped.
AWS I need smartsheet back please.
October 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
AWS I need smartsheet back please.
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The Mariners either win and I'll experience incredible joy or they'll lose and this will mercifully all be over and I will once again know peace
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Mariners either win and I'll experience incredible joy or they'll lose and this will mercifully all be over and I will once again know peace
Nothing like being out of garlic powder in the middle of stocking the freezer with homemade garlic bread. 🤔
The drawbacks of living in the middle of nowhere.
The drawbacks of living in the middle of nowhere.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nothing like being out of garlic powder in the middle of stocking the freezer with homemade garlic bread. 🤔
The drawbacks of living in the middle of nowhere.
The drawbacks of living in the middle of nowhere.
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Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.
I'll know next Friday (10/24) if I'm one of the nearly 600 people in my division being temp laid off until the federal shutdown is over.
Thinking I might escape to the beach for a few days if it happens.
Thinking I might escape to the beach for a few days if it happens.
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I'll know next Friday (10/24) if I'm one of the nearly 600 people in my division being temp laid off until the federal shutdown is over.
Thinking I might escape to the beach for a few days if it happens.
Thinking I might escape to the beach for a few days if it happens.
wellness check on my blue jays friends. everyone ok?
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
wellness check on my blue jays friends. everyone ok?
1 down 3 to go.
imma cry if this is (finally) our year
imma cry if this is (finally) our year
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
1 down 3 to go.
imma cry if this is (finally) our year
imma cry if this is (finally) our year
my oh my goodbye baseball
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
my oh my goodbye baseball
My power is out and I can't watch the gaaaame. Ugh. Go Ms.
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My power is out and I can't watch the gaaaame. Ugh. Go Ms.
I would like to go to sleep
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I would like to go to sleep
This is the game that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends....
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This is the game that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends....
this is my fault for daring to watch the batball game
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
this is my fault for daring to watch the batball game