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What a headline

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.

As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years

🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Great read!

Explains why Jackson has been put in a "position to do whatever she could to ensure that the underlying question (must the USDA fully fund SNAP for November?) is resolved as quickly as possible—even if that first means pausing Judge McConnell’s rulings for a couple of days."

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

It's up:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

New York Times headline from December 13,2000: "Bush Prevails: By Single Vote, Justices End Recount, Blocking Gore After 5-Week Struggle"

25 years ago today: the most consequential presidential election of my lifetime. 36 days later, it was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority, would later she regretted that the court accepted the case.

Exactly this

The 60 vote threshold has existed for decades & there's a standard playbook for majority parties to deal with it: buy off a few minority party Senators. But this time around Senate GOP decided to go with a strategy of "Fuck you, vote yes anyway " and feign shock that it's not working

I find the questioning about his travel and politics more than a little disturbing.

I hope the Great Khan of the Plain rains down fire and litigation upon them!

The secret police of the 40+ year, right-wing European dictatorship I was born under started as border/immigration enforcement and trained w/ the Gestapo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE

Seems like our civilization is going to keep repeating the same mistakes until we insist on *universal* human rights.

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

Interesting look at gerrymandering in red and blue states with some nice numerical breakdowns.

My take away is that red states have already packed a lot of Dems into a small number of districts. Blue states can do a lot more squeezing if they put their minds to it.

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

U.S. Debt Hits New Record High, tops $38.019 Trillion; Added $1 Trillion in Only 71 Days, Almost $383 Billion During the Government Shutdown Alone Joint Economic Committee Chairman David Schweikert released the following statement after the total public debt of the United States reached a new record high of $38.019 trillion.

For context: the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) said the debt reached $38.019 trillion, and that it added $1 trillion in about two months.

Link: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

/3 I think this is likely strategy by Justice Jackson -- she likely believes this route (rather than the stay being considered by the whole court) results in the shortest stay. But few will listen to that because of reasons 1-3, and I can't really fault them.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.

But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
/1

It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.

And here she is at the loser party with him.

rosen is one of the moderates who sincerely wants a bipartisan deal, her being this angry is a good indicator of where they’re all at

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds.

apnews.com/article/snap...

In July, Trump and Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, kicking 15 million people off health care.

Now, they’re refusing to extend ACA tax credits, meaning premiums could double or triple for 22 million Americans next year.

Democrats are fighting back to protect health care.

You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby.

The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.

Some really lovely stuff today. Thank you :)

Sunrays at sunset behind a mountain range

Good night, Bluesky!

Sunset behind the Olympic Mountain range. August 2023

These are not federal agents, they are FEDERAL TERRORISTS!

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

Speaking of razon thin races -- this council race between an incumbent conservative Republican and a young pro-choice activist is starting to look like a huge upset for progressives in Spokane:

The voices of SNAP Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.

I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

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what the fuck are we DOING here

Final moments before UPS plane crash detailed by NTSB The UPS cargo plane crew tried to control the aircraft for about 25 seconds before it crashed into a ball of flames shortly after taking off on Tuesday.

Here's some early reporting...
abcnews.go.com/US/final-mom...

okay but sometimes if i mash all the buttons at once the vending machine accidentally drops out two butterfingers so who's the real winner here