Tiffani Ashley Bell

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

Circuit Assignments It is ordered that the following allotment be made of The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42 and that such allotment be entered of record, effective September 28, 2022. For the District of Columbia Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice [HIGHLIGHTED] For the First Circuit - Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island) For the Second Circuit - Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice (Connecticut, New York, Vermont) For the Third Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgin Islands) For the Fourth Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia) For the Fifth Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

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

It’s embarrassing and one of the most evil things we’ve seen so far

(People have been asking where I have been… )

#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

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.

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"

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.

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?

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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.

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...

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

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 😞

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

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