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Thank you Oregon.
NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thank you Oregon.
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the sandwich guy getting acquitted makes this extremely ridiculous video the white house posted of his arrest even funnier www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvt...
Nighttime Routine: Operation Make D.C. Safe Again Edition
YouTube video by The White House
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
the sandwich guy getting acquitted makes this extremely ridiculous video the white house posted of his arrest even funnier www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvt...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
an earthquake near the SANDWICH islands, the same day as closing arguments over a guy throwing a subway SANDWICH in DC?! We need to get to the bottom of this story
5.7 magnitude moderate #earthquake
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
an earthquake near the SANDWICH islands, the same day as closing arguments over a guy throwing a subway SANDWICH in DC?! We need to get to the bottom of this story
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5.7 magnitude moderate #earthquake
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
5.7 magnitude moderate #earthquake
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
2025-11-05 22:03:49 UTC
South Sandwich Islands region
earthquake.usgs.gov/us6000rls2
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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.
![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
Page 11 of 15
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.
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Do you have a LinkedIn?
Are you against having your information being fed into an LLM/AI learning tool?
Then go turn this shit off. (You were opted in by default)
Are you against having your information being fed into an LLM/AI learning tool?
Then go turn this shit off. (You were opted in by default)
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Do you have a LinkedIn?
Are you against having your information being fed into an LLM/AI learning tool?
Then go turn this shit off. (You were opted in by default)
Are you against having your information being fed into an LLM/AI learning tool?
Then go turn this shit off. (You were opted in by default)
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You’re not tricking me that easily; we need to see you shirtless first
“When you start asking if it’s worth standing up for trans people, you’ve already lost the moral argument,” Democrat Dylan Blaha told me in an interview about why he’s challenging an Illinois congresswoman from the left.
www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...
www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...
Illinois Army captain says Dems are ‘rolling over’ on LGBTQ+ rights. He’s running for Congress to change that
“What’s happening right now to trans people — to the LGBTQ+ community — is not okay. Somebody needs to stand up," Dylan Blaha told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
You’re not tricking me that easily; we need to see you shirtless first
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Transit solutions aren’t viable in low density places because we’ve socialized away a huge cost (roads) while still demanding that transit operate funded by fares. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Edens Expressways were opened in the decade prior to that rail shutting down.
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Transit solutions aren’t viable in low density places because we’ve socialized away a huge cost (roads) while still demanding that transit operate funded by fares. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Edens Expressways were opened in the decade prior to that rail shutting down.
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Right, this is what the actual issue is. It's not the density.
And I think urbanists who are stuck on making density arguments don't realize they are making the problem worse by starting from a self-defeating place
And I think urbanists who are stuck on making density arguments don't realize they are making the problem worse by starting from a self-defeating place
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Right, this is what the actual issue is. It's not the density.
And I think urbanists who are stuck on making density arguments don't realize they are making the problem worse by starting from a self-defeating place
And I think urbanists who are stuck on making density arguments don't realize they are making the problem worse by starting from a self-defeating place
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"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
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Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
October 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
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Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:
I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:
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Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
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Rossman: they're holding him for purpose of punishing him for exercising his legal rights or for political purposes. if govt legitimately wanted to remove him, they had a clear pathway in Costa Rica. That's not govt's aim. aim instead is to ID series of countries that have no connection to
/175
/175
October 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Rossman: they're holding him for purpose of punishing him for exercising his legal rights or for political purposes. if govt legitimately wanted to remove him, they had a clear pathway in Costa Rica. That's not govt's aim. aim instead is to ID series of countries that have no connection to
/175
/175
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R: may i be heard?
J: yes
sidebar
[so DOJ invoking presidential communication privilege suggests this decision about where to send Abrego is getting pretty high up]
/120
J: yes
sidebar
[so DOJ invoking presidential communication privilege suggests this decision about where to send Abrego is getting pretty high up]
/120
October 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
R: may i be heard?
J: yes
sidebar
[so DOJ invoking presidential communication privilege suggests this decision about where to send Abrego is getting pretty high up]
/120
J: yes
sidebar
[so DOJ invoking presidential communication privilege suggests this decision about where to send Abrego is getting pretty high up]
/120
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What programs are immigrants eligible for!
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What programs are immigrants eligible for!
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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September 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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Plush, Baird, Berman: my kingdom for an NWSL commissioner who doesn’t actively make life worse for the players
jessica berman doesn’t deserve the league and its players. she made a name for herself by being slightly better than lisa baird – primarily by not getting in the way of the nwslpa. now that she has clout and notoriety, and feels important, she’s consistently made choices that prioritize her ego.
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Plush, Baird, Berman: my kingdom for an NWSL commissioner who doesn’t actively make life worse for the players