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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) cases against FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Political Prosecutions of former FBI Chief Comey, NY AG James
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) cases against FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.
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Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, singer and also star of the classic movie "The Harder They Come," has died at the age of 81. Cliff came up in the emergencing music scene in Kingston, Jamaica, along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. bit.ly/4irBZik #JimmyCliff
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, singer and also star of the classic movie "The Harder They Come," has died at the age of 81. Cliff came up in the emergencing music scene in Kingston, Jamaica, along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. bit.ly/4irBZik #JimmyCliff
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🧵TODAY is a Supreme Court order day that could have huge implications for democracy.
This morning, we’ll be watching to see if the Court decides to take up four cases that could dramatically change the future of voting rights.
Here’s what you need to know👇
This morning, we’ll be watching to see if the Court decides to take up four cases that could dramatically change the future of voting rights.
Here’s what you need to know👇
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🧵TODAY is a Supreme Court order day that could have huge implications for democracy.
This morning, we’ll be watching to see if the Court decides to take up four cases that could dramatically change the future of voting rights.
Here’s what you need to know👇
This morning, we’ll be watching to see if the Court decides to take up four cases that could dramatically change the future of voting rights.
Here’s what you need to know👇
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
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"International Hoops Terms With Cleanthony Early" has to be the wildest sports category in Jeopardy! history.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"International Hoops Terms With Cleanthony Early" has to be the wildest sports category in Jeopardy! history.
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Jellybean Johnson’s “Crucial” dance remix for New Edition gave listeners a taste of what Flyte Tyme Productions was cooking up for the upcoming Janet Jackson album. youtu.be/SSxibJ8sb_g?...
New Edition & Rob Base - Crucial (Soul Train Live)
YouTube video by OLD SCHOOL JAMZ
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November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Jellybean Johnson’s “Crucial” dance remix for New Edition gave listeners a taste of what Flyte Tyme Productions was cooking up for the upcoming Janet Jackson album. youtu.be/SSxibJ8sb_g?...
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From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, Rep. @velazquez.house.gov has always been a champion and tireless advocate for immigrants, small businesses and working families. Your grace and fight showed us what real leadership looks like. From the bottom of my heart, thank you La Luchadora.
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, Rep. @velazquez.house.gov has always been a champion and tireless advocate for immigrants, small businesses and working families. Your grace and fight showed us what real leadership looks like. From the bottom of my heart, thank you La Luchadora.
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Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
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Stuart Scott’s legacy comes to life in ESPN’s new ESPN Originals ‘Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott’
A tribute to a trailblazing anchor who broke barriers, brought hip-hop culture to SportsCenter & inspired millions
Premieres Wed., Dec. 10 | 9p ET | ESPN
🔗 bit.ly/4iaL2Uo
A tribute to a trailblazing anchor who broke barriers, brought hip-hop culture to SportsCenter & inspired millions
Premieres Wed., Dec. 10 | 9p ET | ESPN
🔗 bit.ly/4iaL2Uo
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Stuart Scott’s legacy comes to life in ESPN’s new ESPN Originals ‘Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott’
A tribute to a trailblazing anchor who broke barriers, brought hip-hop culture to SportsCenter & inspired millions
Premieres Wed., Dec. 10 | 9p ET | ESPN
🔗 bit.ly/4iaL2Uo
A tribute to a trailblazing anchor who broke barriers, brought hip-hop culture to SportsCenter & inspired millions
Premieres Wed., Dec. 10 | 9p ET | ESPN
🔗 bit.ly/4iaL2Uo
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Lawrence Summers will reportedly immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the university investigates his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Lawrence Summers will reportedly immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the university investigates his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...
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I am praying for the Rev. Jesse Jackson whose courageous voice and transformational ministry I’ve admired since childhood. Strength and grace to him in this season.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am praying for the Rev. Jesse Jackson whose courageous voice and transformational ministry I’ve admired since childhood. Strength and grace to him in this season.
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A classy man, respected by all. It's a joke Lenny Wilkens didn't win Coach of the Year for turning the 1978 Sonics around (he inherited a 5-17 team, retooled lineup, took them to NBA Finals). RIP, Lenny.
RIP Lenny Wilkens, prayers to his family 🙏🏾💚
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A classy man, respected by all. It's a joke Lenny Wilkens didn't win Coach of the Year for turning the 1978 Sonics around (he inherited a 5-17 team, retooled lineup, took them to NBA Finals). RIP, Lenny.
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CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
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Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.
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Black Kos: Keep Melissa recovery in the headlines
Don’t allow recovery efforts and support to drop out of the headlines
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Don’t allow recovery efforts and support to drop out of the headlines
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Black Kos: Keep Melissa recovery in the headlines
Don’t allow recovery efforts and support to drop out of the headlines Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez I realize that a lot of Dump regime insanity, and important local ...
www.dailykos.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Black Kos: Keep Melissa recovery in the headlines
Don’t allow recovery efforts and support to drop out of the headlines
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Don’t allow recovery efforts and support to drop out of the headlines
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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'Angie,' Angela Bofill’s debut album, was released on this day in 1978. I’ll never stop listening to her or thinking about her. She’s one of the ones who saved me shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/the-great-...
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
'Angie,' Angela Bofill’s debut album, was released on this day in 1978. I’ll never stop listening to her or thinking about her. She’s one of the ones who saved me shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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Anyone who thinks baseball is boring clearly hasn’t been watching this World Series.
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Anyone who thinks baseball is boring clearly hasn’t been watching this World Series.
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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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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
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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.
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The Trump Administration would rather starve children and families than lift a finger to help them put food on the table.
I’m declaring a State of Emergency to use every tool we have to help the three million New Yorkers losing food assistance because of the GOP shutdown.
I’m declaring a State of Emergency to use every tool we have to help the three million New Yorkers losing food assistance because of the GOP shutdown.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Trump Administration would rather starve children and families than lift a finger to help them put food on the table.
I’m declaring a State of Emergency to use every tool we have to help the three million New Yorkers losing food assistance because of the GOP shutdown.
I’m declaring a State of Emergency to use every tool we have to help the three million New Yorkers losing food assistance because of the GOP shutdown.
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Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."