Maia
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Creative Technologist. Artist. Web Engineer. Reluctant entrepreneur. Former indie bookseller. Fan of the habitual 'be'.
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Stranded tourists helping to clean up debris from Melissa in Jamaica: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
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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)
![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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Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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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)
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Amazon is reportedly planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs starting Tuesday
Amazon Targets As Many As 30,000 Corporate Job Cuts: Report
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday.
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This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.
"Women are not usually into science fiction"is legitimately one of the stupidest, most divorced from reality sentences I have ever read in my life
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
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Please send prayers up for Brandy. I am in Chicago at the concert and it ended abruptly after Monica came out In tears asking us to lift brandy up. People were leaving in shock. Nothing confirmed but some are saying she passed out. They didn’t even finish the show
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This is already a thing! They’re called green burials.
No coffin, no chemicals, just a biodegradable wrap so your body naturally returns to the earth. It’s kinda poetic.
No coffin, no chemicals, just a biodegradable wrap so your body naturally returns to the earth. It’s kinda poetic.
👉👈
I think we should all stop being buried in coffins, cremated, or whatever.
I think we should give our bodies to the Earth eventually. Just as all other life that has burrowed from the planet returns it when they pass.
I guess as some would put it “Bury me raw” lmao
I think we should all stop being buried in coffins, cremated, or whatever.
I think we should give our bodies to the Earth eventually. Just as all other life that has burrowed from the planet returns it when they pass.
I guess as some would put it “Bury me raw” lmao
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