NightOwl8
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DC born/raised, then Midwest, now Great Basin. Public service runs in my veins. “We can see what is possible, when we are unburdened by what has been.”
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wow, it turns out there are three other Bob Ross paintings being sold right now, too, donations from the company, to benefit American Public Television. Two are from episodes of the show, and one was made to illustrate a book
Happy trees ain't cheap! www.bonhams.com/auction/3094...
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![ORDER
The applicants are seeking a stay of two orders of the United States
District Court for the District of Rhode Island, case No. 1:25-cv-569. See D.
Ct. Minute Entry (Oct. 31, 2025) and Docket Number 34 (Nov. 6, 2025).
These orders require the applicants to fully fund benefits for the
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ("SNAP") for the month of
November, and to distribute that funding by the end of the day on November 7, 2025 (today).
Earlier today, the applicants asked the United States Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit to stay the District Court's orders pending appeal, and to
issue an administrative stay to facilitate its consideration of that stay motion.
At 6:08 p.m., the First Circuit denied the applicants' request for an
administrative stay, but stated that it "intend[s] to issue a decision on [the
stay pending appeal] motion as quickly as possible." Rhode Island State
Council of Churches v. Rollins, No. 25-2089 (CA1 Nov. 7, 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibyydayzagrotqzm753km6mib7xxccml3zlxpnonrwd2i6ootfla4@jpeg)
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
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![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
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