@teeoh.bsky.social
A cat-obsessed raccoon person. Canadian, male, 48 years old, homoromantic, urbanist, irreligious Protestant π, πToronto, Ontario, Canada.
A variety of throwback Halloween looks over the years
01.11.2025 04:06 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0And Doug Ford has in the past threatened to invoke it for frivolous, bullshit reasons as well.
01.11.2025 00:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Happy trail! π
01.11.2025 00:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And of course Twatlievre has just said that he'd invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to override the Supreme Court's decision.
01.11.2025 00:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What are you up to this weekend? Hang out with us and make some calls to Virginia voters to help Democrats add a trifecta in Trumpβs backyard: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
31.10.2025 23:13 β π 195 π 92 π¬ 2 π 1Step on my face, daddy-ote! π
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Trick or treat smell my feet gimme something good to eat
#FursuitFriday
Happy Halloween to all
as a bird artist, in honor of tonightβs game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism
31.10.2025 17:56 β π 3174 π 769 π¬ 102 π 76Wow. Which street is this?
31.10.2025 23:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks for that bit of trivia. π
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SCOOP: At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers βfucking incompetentβ and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report. @jakelahut.writes.news reports:
Unpaywalled as per our FOIA policy:
πΆGive me something good to eat!
Not too big, not too small
Just the size of Montreal!πΆ
31.10.2025 20:07 β π 93 π 41 π¬ 0 π 2
Shouldnβt take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.
31.10.2025 19:04 β π 5061 π 1240 π¬ 103 π 60I hope he wears a cup. π
31.10.2025 20:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The New York Mets sticker? π
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Yote is so happy. @kairiwolfart.bsky.social
31.10.2025 19:27 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We're up and running!
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Weβre 4 days away from Election Day! Help us GOTV this weekend for Democratic candidates across the country.
Virginia: indivisi.org/va-calls
New Jersey: www.indivisibleonenj.org/gotv-2025?fb...
New York: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebanking...
California: neighbor2neighbor.io/campaign/fb6...
The regime is breaking the law to starve children to force Dems to allow Republicans to jack up our health care premiums. Bond villain shit.
31.10.2025 18:30 β π 452 π 155 π¬ 16 π 2![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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)
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. Β§ 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, Β§ 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, Β§ 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. Β§ 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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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)
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, Β§ 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, Β§ 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. Β§ 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.
Sen. Van Hollen: They're intentionally trying to impose pain so that we won't keep up the fight for healthcare.
31.10.2025 00:47 β π 519 π 172 π¬ 18 π 5posting with obvious pride about remodeling the lincoln bathroom in (very ugly) marble the day before SNAP dries up is a level of out-of-touch that i don't think any president has ever matched, even if it doesn't break through the news.
31.10.2025 17:28 β π 996 π 269 π¬ 70 π 15
I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
31.10.2025 17:04 β π 10946 π 3188 π¬ 1332 π 882The Trump administration is not just refusing to fund SNAP
The DOJ went into court and argued AGAINST financing the program-claiming that feeding 42 million Americans would be βdisastrousβ
But we all get that renovating the Lincoln bathroom takes precedence over feeding starving kids, amirite
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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