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Lauren Fox

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She/Her, Cis (I know, I'm surprised as you are). Quoiromantic Asexual. Project Lead on Agents of C.A.M.P., author of upcoming novel 'The Golden Doppelbangers'. https://linktr.ee/laurenfoxmakesthings

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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm open for commissions. Not for drawing, I can't do that. They're commissions for photomontages and collages. Below is everything you need to know, including in the image description for anyone visually impaired. Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/laurenfoxwri...

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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 6h

I have a feeling my calves are going to be stiff and sore tomorrow after than (amazing) pride march.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

you can (and i do) blame people for being stupid and naive and short-sighted about how this was going to work, but the more they see it, the more they fucking hate it and are outraged by it, and we should encourage that

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

whether people voted for this or not is kind of irrelevant now, people clearly fucking hate this shit in practice, the admin and the republican party are trying to insist that they have a broad popular mandate for this, and they do not

Peter Nickeas 🎃 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 22h

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 22h

Are conservative voters' preferences on immigration impractical? Of course they are. And we should exploit that as far as we can.

The no take only throw meme of a dog asking to play fetch but refusing to give the ball to the human, with these captions:

- Mass deportation?
- no goon squads!!
- ONLY MASS DEPORTATION

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

the median retired conservative suburbanite is going to want to see all these fucking guys hanged after another year of this

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

the whole plan for operation midway in chicago was to frighten and terrorize people, and the administration hasn't considered what can happen when people decide they're more angry than they are afraid

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 1d

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22h

This is how it felt teaching zoomers about punk in my pop music class today

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

i would like the rando doomers who don't follow me but drop into my mentions to piss in everyone's cereal to please go outside and do literally anything else, it's fucking halloween for crying out loud

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

good luck in the governor's race!

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Police say Nancy Mace fully melted down at the airport Thurday, calling cops "fucking incompetent," etc. A TSA supervisor said they'd be reporting her to their superiors. @jakelahut.writes.news has the scoop! This is outside our paywall as it's based on public records:

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report

At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

www.wired.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

(AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

one wonders whether there is a single person in the administration who has, for even a moment, considered the optics of appealing these specific rulings

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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

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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.

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
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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].

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.

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Your Halloween reminder: Ring cameras have partnered up with FLOCK, so any images they take goes to ICE. Now's a great time to get rid of your camera - or at least encrypt it - but FFS, at least turn it off for tonight to protect the families in your neighborhood. ring.com/support/arti...

Using video end-to-end encryption (E2EE)

Learn more about how video end-to-end encryption adds security to video and audio recordings.

ring.com

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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Been too busy this Halloween to post this as soon as I got it. You know how it is. Dressing up a Dr Warren Chapin with a Tingler sock puppet in a box, to both a Halloween anti-patriarchal-violence march and a screening of Halloween 3. Seems very apt I got this. New queer media archive addition.

'Scala!!!' shelved close to the end of the chronological order, amongst other recent blu rays and DVDs.

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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 1d

actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...

Tell your governor: Don’t deploy. Don’t comply. Speak out now and stand strong against Trump’s occupation of American cities.

Donald Trump is using the National Guard against the American people, and almost every Republican governor has already helped him do it. In at least 19 states, Guard members are assisting Immigration...

actionnetwork.org

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Jennifer K. @pdxjenni.bsky.social · 2d

Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Food Resource List - PDX

Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...

docs.google.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i love megafauna destroying squash season

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 1d

they noshed the squash

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

why do they have urinals in conference rooms

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning

Elon Musk tweets: "Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto"

The attached photo shows a dripping graffiti-style spray-painted text on a wall, which reads: The Future is Autonomous

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Portland City Councilor Jamie Dunphy @councilordunphy.bsky.social · 1d

Three of my neighbors in district 1 were killed in three separate car collisions last night. We need action now to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths.

YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

another $5B here, another $6B there and we are starting to talk about real money

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Had missed this but MSFT earnings yesterday suggest OpenAI lost $11.5bn in the quarter.

www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss

: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised

www.theregister.com

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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of Somerville families are set to be impacted by the SNAP shutdown. Every school in Somerville has put together a fundraiser in record time and are collecting grocery store gift cards and money to buy more gift cards. If you’re able to help, please pick up a couple gift cards...

We Feed Us THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
HAS THREATENED NOVEMBER'S
SNAP BENEFITS IMPACTING HUNDREDS OF SPS STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. EACH SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICTIS RAISING MONEY
TO OFFSET THIS LOSS.
TOGETHER WE CAN HELP. Take care of your
neighborhood.
bowmarketsomerville.com/wefeedus

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Heepy Heelloweep

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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Donated. Please donate too if you can, and please share.
gofund.me/f484e052d

Donate to Aid Kira's Legal Battle and Well-being, organized by Lilith Brokensha

Kira is held in North Carolina for fleeing from police during a ment… Lilith Brokensha needs your support for Donate to Aid Kira's Legal Battle and Well-being

gofund.me

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 1d

Please donate and share to help a black trans woman escape the USA for Canada. If you have any leads or support networks that can help please reach out to her.

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · Sep 2

@septembersister.bsky.social is trying to raise funds to relocate from the United States to Canada and is also advocating for other trans folk who want to escape the current fascist hellscape in the USA to the Canadian region.

If any of you can reach out to her, please do!

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 1d

Donate to a disabled trans woman trying to escape the US.

FEMALEPUMPKIN @om64.bsky.social · Sep 3

Mutual aid request for a disabled trans woman trying to leave the US.

gofund.me/c46a6044

Donate to Urgent: Jenny Needs Your Support, organized by Jennifer Yasuna

Hi! My name is Jenny, and I need help badly. I'm working as hard as I can, my digesti… Jennifer Yasuna needs your support for Urgent: Jenny Needs Your Support

gofund.me

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FFun and Fancy Free @ffun-and-fancy3.bsky.social · 1d

The UCP have already used the notwithstanding clause to trample on the charter rights of teachers. They will use it again to strip trans people of their rights. Please sign the petition, and donate if you can.

transactionalberta.ca

URGENT: Stop Alberta's Premier From Overriding Charter Rights of Trans Youth

Healthcare is a right, protected by evidence, compassion, and core Canadian values.

transactionalberta.ca

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