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The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
The US stands alone in the world.
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That’s a lot of words for “I got my side piece pregnant.”
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10.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Same!
10.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 1157 🔁 174 💬 28 📌 7Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
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If Jackson or the full court hasn’t acted by then, the order that full payments be made goes back into effect.
But, there could be a further administrative stay (by Jackson or the full court) while they decide whether to grant a stay pending appeal.
And, the Senate deal could also moot the case.
Where are we at?
The order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits for November is still on hold, but the appeals court denied DOJ’s request for a more extended stay.
As such, that triggers the 48-hour clock Justice Jackson set, at the end of which her administrative stay ends.
[continued]
To be sure, the government does argue that the district court lacked authority to issue the October 31 TRO to the extent that order requires the government to fully fund the November SNAP benefits. It contends that "Congress clearly contemplated that USDA would reduce allotments when faced with a shortfall in annual appropriations." To support this point, it emphasizes that the governing statute instructs that USDA "shall" make partial payments. Nevertheless, the government does not contest that it did not even begin to follow the regulatory process for making partial payments until the district court ordered it to do so. - 24 - Case: 25-2089 Document: 00118364355 Page: 25 Date Filed: 11/09/2025 Entry ID: 6764060 That is apparently why the government had to correct its own mathematical calculations mid-stream, by informing the states on November 4 that contingency funds could cover 65 percent of November payments, as opposed to 50 percent of such payments, as the government had indicated on the previous day.
"Congress has failed to appropriate funds to pay for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for this fiscal year. The Executive Branch has 2 since exhausted the entirety of its SNAP contingency reserve, which amounted to over $5 billion," he wrote, not noting that even that was only done due to McConnell's order. Sauer continued: "But that will be only enough to cover partial payments for the month of November. Such a funding lapse is a crisis. But it is a crisis occasioned by congressional failure and one that can only be solved through congressional action."
The past 10 days have featured significant confusion - and aggressive pushback by the Trump administration. After both courts hearing challenges to the administration's plan to cut benefits completely found that the move was likely illegal, the administration sought only to partially fund this month's payments. The Justice Department told federal courts that USDA would use the SNAP contingency fund but not any Section 32 USDA funds to make November payments. The Trump administration first said that amounted to 50% of payments, but then corrected it to say that it would be 65% of payments.
Judge Rikelman, a Biden appointee, writes the opinion, and notes a questionable argument of DOJ and the slipshod actions of USDA this past week.
These were points noted at Law Dork on Friday — www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi... — and Sunday: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-says-f...
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
But the district court did not order the government to use the Section 32 fund until November 6. It did so after it concluded that the government had failed to comply with its October 31 TRO. As a remedy for that noncompliance, the court ordered the government to make the full payment of November SNAP benefits by November 7. Thus, even if we were to stay the second TRO, the government could not obtain the relief that it seeks unless it also meets its burden under the stay factors as to the enforcement order. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the government has failed to meet the stay factors as to the enforcement order, and we deny a stay of that order.
In any event, the district court has now found that the government failed to comply with that October 31 TRO, from which no stay was sought and no appeal was taken that would have prevented the order from taking effect during the period of alleged noncompliance. Thus, for present purposes, the question that the government's motion to stay the enforcement order presents is this: Has the government made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed in establishing either (a) that the district court erred in finding noncompliance with the October 31 TRO or (b) that, insofar as it did not err in that regard, it could not order full funding in consequence of that noncompliance? As we have explained, the answer is no. In the single paragraph it devotes in its stay motion to addressing the enforcement order, the government does not make a strong showing of likely success in either respect. And in the only other passage of the stay motion that could be read to address the finding of noncompliance, the government fails to grapple with the actual basis for that finding.
BREAKING: The First Circuit denies DOJ’s stay request in the SNAP case, refusing to stay the Nov. 6 enforcement order.
Justice Jackson’s 48-hour clock started just before midnight Sunday, meaning the administrative stay she issued Friday ends at the end of the day Tuesday.
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Just a reminder.
10.11.2025 02:44 — 👍 3055 🔁 1167 💬 134 📌 51Tim Kaine going up to the podium just now laughing and making a joke is everything I need to see from them tonight.
10.11.2025 02:34 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
At the same time the Trump administration is firing FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who investigated the J6 insurrection, they are pardoning those directly involved in trying to overturn the election and organizing January 6th, and prosecuting the President's perceived political enemies.
10.11.2025 05:52 — 👍 494 🔁 213 💬 20 📌 7bsky.app/profile/mayr...
10.11.2025 03:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@fetterman.senate.gov no surprise. The rest are turncoats. WTAF @kaine.senate.gov? 🌊 led by VA last week & you rollover now? New Dem VA Gov, Ltd Gov, AG, all 100 House of Delagates seats. Even if there's a vote in Dec on ACA subsidies, it won't pass now. #NoDemSenateCojones #DemsHad'emByTheBalls
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If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
Yeah, here's a photo of her after this happened. Hats off to her for actually standing up.
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Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.
www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
14.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 21755 🔁 6058 💬 830 📌 291Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
14.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 3377 🔁 1165 💬 1005 📌 492F-off Pedo
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