Anna Lind-Guzik

11Alive news headline: "Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food."

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Watching People Run Makes Me Feel Alive And it’ll make you feel alive, too.

“Running is an individual activity, but watching (and, of course, participating in) a marathon feels like a community endeavor.” In honor of the NYC Marathon this weekend, we look back on this story by @mrsslrss.bsky.social.

= Forward JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Support Us A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell. And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone. He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness. His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up. That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

lolol

Used deodorant instead of dry shampoo on my hair this morning so that’s great

feeling great about the decision to finally tune in to the World Series. This game is absurd

And don’t even get me started on whether issues like bodily autonomy are kitchen table issues. Choosing whether to have children or not is literally a question of who will be sitting (and needing to be fed) at that kitchen table.

Appeasement on fundamental rights not only pisses off and disincentivizes the people who are most likely to vote for you, but it does jack shit to fight the real info war problem. It’s both evil and dumb.

Voter perception is largely a right wing propaganda problem that scared white guys keep telling us we can fix by moving rightward on policy and abandoning civil and human rights (and losing the base in the process).

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Ok but even if we did have the death penalty for drug smuggling there is ZERO evidence these people are drug smugglers!! Democrats have to stop accepting Republican framing of events

Now he’s bragging about marble bathrooms while he builds his gold ballroom. Republicans are so divorced from reality they don’t see they’re playing with fire. We don’t even have to look that far back historically to find the Arab spring and color revolutions

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL., Plaintiffs, V. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL., Defendants. * * * * * * * * * * * 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.

A. Likelihood of Success on the Merits Plaintiffs have demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their claim under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A), (C), that Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is contrary to law. At core, Defendants' conclusion that USDA is statutorily prohibited from funding SNAP because Congress has not enacted new appropriations for the current fiscal year is erroneous. To the contrary, Defendants are statutorily mandated to use the previously appropriated SNAP contingency reserve when necessary and also have discretion to use other previously appropriated funds as detailed below.

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 10 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].

Defendants argue out that a "suspension" is permitted under USDA's regulations, and that USDA "has consistently interpreted its authority to allow for the suspension or cancellation of benefits when necessary." Defs. Opp'n 6 [Doc. No. 18). The regulation at issue, 7 C.F.R. $ 271.7(a), sets forth procedures to be followed if monthly SNAP allowances "must be reduced, suspended, or cancelled to comply with section 18 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008" (emphasis added). But that the regulation allows for a suspension when there are no funds does not mean that Defendants may choose a suspension over a reduction while funds do remain. If the regulation did authorize such discretion, it would be inconsistent with the statutory mandate that benefits "shall" be paid unless funding is no longer available.

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.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

The Value of Art That Can’t Be Sold Now, more than ever, we need art to do the heavy lifting of defining our values.

Now, more than ever, we need art to do the heavy lifting of defining our values. This is Cultural Currency is a bi-monthly romp through the intersection of art and capital with writer Cara Marsh Sheffler.

Hand holding two stickers. One blue with text Manhattan Votes Early and the Empire State Building. Second orange and black with a pigeon in a witch hat holding a pumpkin purse that says Halloween Voter 2025

great sticker game for early voters today in NYC!! GO VOTE!

speak to a therapist about this fixation on a foreign country

the rank and file GOP should be more scared about starving people and kicking them off health insurance while their leadership moves onto military bases

The nyt editorial board only TODAY questioning whether we’re losing our democracy is some Susan Collins-level concern trolling

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

I didn’t know credit cards were so chunky

It kinda looks like a sponge? Made of ice cream?

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

he watched Andor for the outfits

turning the us state apparatus into a billionaire bunker

more people in professional positions losing their shit on republicans in public please

maybe I’m not representative but anyone who told that guy to fuck right off with his lies and incompetence would be a-ok with me

What I wouldn’t give for someone to call Mine Johnson a sociopathic dirtbag liar who lets people starve while faking ignorance to his face

And it will have to be written in history books because corporate media ignored the story

yeah I will not be surprised when contractors don’t get paid for the work and the donor money disappears