This is the best explainer so far for why this was the best strategic move Justice Jackson could have made under these circumstances, "entirely understandable and defensible, even if I wish like hell it hadn’t come to this" as @stevevladeck.bsky.social puts it.

The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r

Hate that we are stuck with legal jujitsu to Just Feed People

This lines up with what @jamalgreene.bsky.social dropped in the replies earlier bsky.app/profile/jama...

fellow Americans, if any of you have the means, please donate to your local food bank if you haven't already.

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

For those curious, she has called synagogues and mosques as well. The synagogues were generally yes and every mosque has said yes, even when she referred to them as churches on the phone and none of the synagogues or mosques have asked her what faith or congregation she's from, unlike the churches.

On TikTok there's a woman doing a fairly clever social experiment. She's calling churches around the US and asking if they can help her get formula for her baby. She tracks on a spreadsheet which ones say yes. It makes me wish we could strip religious tax exemption from orgs that fail their values.

It's the Court going "Let's get all the decisions in order and everything resolved so that it can actually be looked at." This works fine 99% of the time, but sadly Trump has created a situation where the law not being operated by robots that can fire out decisions machine gun style is a detriment.

a gentle reminder to ppl who may fall into the category of this guy’s profile: plz unfollow and do not engage with me. politely, thank you very much.

I realize this is Bluesky so this is a big ask, but the "I'm not a lawyer but--" rebuttals from one user have gotten so annoying I straight up blocked.

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

Deleted my "Evil. Straight up evil" post because this looks like an intermediate procedural move for now. But read Ken White's posts for more context & please do know that this administration absolutely IS doing unspeakable evil by trying to kill SNAP payments. Yet to see if they'll fully succeed.

It’s important to note this was a procedural action, not a ruling on the merits of the underlying case. Justice Jackson wasn’t siding with the Trump administration; she was making sure the legal process unfolded correctly and fairly. apnews.com/article/snap...

My daughter's taking the SATs tomorrow for the first time. She got an email from the College Board with a $15 gift certificate for a meal due to the SNAP benefit interruption. Make sure that your kids are applying for fee waivers for the SAT/ACT/college applications, whatever, if you need it.

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days. I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

/3 I think this is likely strategy by Justice Jackson -- she likely believes this route (rather than the stay being considered by the whole court) results in the shortest stay. But few will listen to that because of reasons 1-3, and I can't really fault them.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

ah ok, love that our govt is so evil the courts have to play to make sure people will get fed asap -- except asap is not actually asap bc our evil govt doesn't want it to happen at all

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

KBJ is the circuit justice for CA1, so she handles all the admin and emergency stay requests coming up from there. CA1 said tonight that it would be issuing its decision “as soon as possible” on Trump’s stay request pending appeal, and I imagine it’ll come before tomorrow’s over.

I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”

Since IANAL, can I check my translation here? I think it’s “KBJ allows the Ag Dept to pause funding SNAP until 1CA finishes ruling on the pending motions, which it is expected to do yesterday if not sooner”

Yeah, I was kind of expecting something like this, that SCOTUS would just kick it back and be like 'this is 1st Circuit business, let them rule' or some other chicanery to avoid having to go 'yeah, we're gonna let people starve'

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Again this has nothing to do with budgets or anything. The Trump Administration is doing everything in their power to starve children. It’s extremely focused and determined to perform that task.

Listen, we can ENJOY the infighting and/or good things a terrible person says. But that bitch said, with her whole damn chest, that JEWISH SPACE LASERS caused the fires in California. So, no, we do not give her a pass or welcome her. We just eat our popcorn for now.

You are all a bunch of suckers with short memories you can all get fucked!!

You can all go fuck yourselves

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

Today's aesthetic for #FossilFriday is more beautiful in death.

Our task is going to continue to be learning to enjoy watching terrible people fight other terrible people without thinking we have to make friends with either of the terrible people. Some folks are just shitheads, but it's okay to enjoy the brief moments they're focused on punching other shitheads

As I just said on discord, I am capable of greatly enjoying the chaos that MTG is about to cause to her own party on her opportunistic swan dive from this sinking ship without ever handing it to the lady who either legitimately believes in or cynically endorses the concept of Jewish Space Lasers.

Raymond Watts from PIG is a gentleman and an absolute sweetheart and my husband is writing a thank you email to their PR people. Go listen to some of their stuff. It's bloody great and they are good people. pigindustries.com

Maine rejected a ballot measure that’d have restricted mail voting and imposed voter ID. By a large margin, 64/36. The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

repulsive

Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.

Speaking as the girl who learned the hard way: This goes for writing too 🙃

Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...

Polka dot dress lady was out here fighting ICE in Commes des Garçons. And now she’s donated her dress to raise funds for immigrants @thenyic.bsky.social. Bidding closes Nov 10.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

This is me, if you even care

I'm gonna need folks to understand that just because the worst people in America are obsessed with GLP-1s exclusively because of weight loss does not mean they are not LIFE SAVING for a lot of people. There's a reason they're studying their impact on Long Covid right now.