Brea Banks
@bmbanks4.bsky.social
Bray•uh | she/her | Assoc Prof | Licensed Psych | wifey to one, mommy to three | former hooper who thinks she still has it
Opinions are MINES #RAMSLab #SchoolPsych
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/bmbanks/research/research-team/
Opinions are MINES #RAMSLab #SchoolPsych
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/bmbanks/research/research-team/
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Some of the responsibilities the administration aims to move were explicitly assigned to the U.S. Education Department by Congress, raising questions about the legality of these changes. n.pr/47KSHp6
Trump administration shares new moves to dismantle more of the Education Department
Some of the responsibilities the administration aims to move were explicitly assigned to the U.S. Education Department by Congress, raising questions about the legality of these changes.
n.pr
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Some of the responsibilities the administration aims to move were explicitly assigned to the U.S. Education Department by Congress, raising questions about the legality of these changes. n.pr/47KSHp6
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Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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I'm excited to finally share my side project, Voices of Color in School Psychology (VOCSP)! VOCSP is a project dedicated to documenting the history and experiences of school psychologists of color.
Critical Histories and Honoring Trailblazers of Color
open.substack.com/pub/cmonique...
Critical Histories and Honoring Trailblazers of Color
open.substack.com/pub/cmonique...
Critical Histories and Honoring Trailblazers of Color
We cannot honor trailblazers without also acknowledging why they had to blaze their own trail.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm excited to finally share my side project, Voices of Color in School Psychology (VOCSP)! VOCSP is a project dedicated to documenting the history and experiences of school psychologists of color.
Critical Histories and Honoring Trailblazers of Color
open.substack.com/pub/cmonique...
Critical Histories and Honoring Trailblazers of Color
open.substack.com/pub/cmonique...
I went outside in a t shirt earlier to get the mail. It’s currently snowing 😑
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I went outside in a t shirt earlier to get the mail. It’s currently snowing 😑
Randomly remembering having used Uncle Ruckus to explain a statistical model to one of my students in supervision last week 😭😅.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Randomly remembering having used Uncle Ruckus to explain a statistical model to one of my students in supervision last week 😭😅.
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Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!
HOPE
JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race, in a historic victory for progressives
Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
HOPE
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
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Trump says he will not release SNAP benefits, despite a federal court order requiring him to do so.
Trump says he will withhold SNAP benefits until the government shutdown ends
President Donald Trump said he will withhold November food stamps. This comes a day after the administration said it will pay partial benefits.
www.businessinsider.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Trump says he will not release SNAP benefits, despite a federal court order requiring him to do so.
Just ate a rotisserie chicken sandwich for lunch and it left me with a strong desire for FRIED TURKEY. We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving, but a turkey will be fried, and several sandwiches will be eaten!
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just ate a rotisserie chicken sandwich for lunch and it left me with a strong desire for FRIED TURKEY. We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving, but a turkey will be fried, and several sandwiches will be eaten!
Our neighbors across the street used to let our kids pick tomatoes & at Halloween we would step inside for a min & they’d have special treats for them. Last year, these mugs had on Fox News when we were in there. Mind you, it was a couple of weeks before the election.
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Our neighbors across the street used to let our kids pick tomatoes & at Halloween we would step inside for a min & they’d have special treats for them. Last year, these mugs had on Fox News when we were in there. Mind you, it was a couple of weeks before the election.
Noticed a Tr*mp flag at a house we had just gotten candy from. I took the candy right out of their buckets, turned around, gave them that trash back (they were in the garage), and emphatically said NO THANK YOU. I overheard them talking about “oh I guess they don’t like Tr*mpers.
Ya f*cking think!
Ya f*cking think!
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Noticed a Tr*mp flag at a house we had just gotten candy from. I took the candy right out of their buckets, turned around, gave them that trash back (they were in the garage), and emphatically said NO THANK YOU. I overheard them talking about “oh I guess they don’t like Tr*mpers.
Ya f*cking think!
Ya f*cking think!
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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.
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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 5:59 PM
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.
Got news of two revise and resubmits today, one of which is essentially an accept contingent upon reviews. Weird to hear back from two editors the same day, but I like it!
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Got news of two revise and resubmits today, one of which is essentially an accept contingent upon reviews. Weird to hear back from two editors the same day, but I like it!
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feed your communities if you can. take care of each other. if you're feeling overwhelmed - here's an idea: we started a food pantry for students in an empty filing cabinet. it is entirely faculty and staff funded. this year I'm running a drive to get some fun meal kits for it! you can do that too!
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
feed your communities if you can. take care of each other. if you're feeling overwhelmed - here's an idea: we started a food pantry for students in an empty filing cabinet. it is entirely faculty and staff funded. this year I'm running a drive to get some fun meal kits for it! you can do that too!
As a pediatric/school psych engaged in socially just work I cannot let this go. We have to socialize these kids man. Forgoing important conversations with them bc they’re kids ain’t it. We have to engage them to think critically NOW!
Many of our school psych students are on SNAP so faculty pitched in & I made a Sam’s run. My 5- and 7-year-old asked about the food lined up on our dining room floor. I gave them a developmentally appropriate and honest answer. They weren’t confused and understood fully.
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As a pediatric/school psych engaged in socially just work I cannot let this go. We have to socialize these kids man. Forgoing important conversations with them bc they’re kids ain’t it. We have to engage them to think critically NOW!
Many of our school psych students are on SNAP so faculty pitched in & I made a Sam’s run. My 5- and 7-year-old asked about the food lined up on our dining room floor. I gave them a developmentally appropriate and honest answer. They weren’t confused and understood fully.
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Many of our school psych students are on SNAP so faculty pitched in & I made a Sam’s run. My 5- and 7-year-old asked about the food lined up on our dining room floor. I gave them a developmentally appropriate and honest answer. They weren’t confused and understood fully.
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@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
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Elsevier just published an article advocating more AI-use in peer-review... that was written with the assistance of AI.
Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).
www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...
Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).
www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Elsevier just published an article advocating more AI-use in peer-review... that was written with the assistance of AI.
Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).
www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...
Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).
www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...
Today my therapist reminded me that I can’t compete with the delusions in other people’s heads and I just really needed to hear that.
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today my therapist reminded me that I can’t compete with the delusions in other people’s heads and I just really needed to hear that.