US District Court in Providence orders SNAP payments to be made tomorrow as originally scheduled, drawn from emergency funds.

Motif Magazine reports from inside today's court hearing.

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PVD: Remnants of H. Melissa bring heavy rain Thu 4pm – Fri 5am, as much as 2 inches.

Halloween trick-or-treaters expect nearly ideal weather, high 50s, except for somewhat high winds, 15 MPH sustained with gusts to 25 MPH, Fri 10am – 11pm. Sunset will be 5:41pm.

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Could the Gaza War End Soon?, by @mikebilow.bsky.social

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Anyone who thinks political assassination is a new thing should read the classic "American Violence" by Richard Hoftstadter and Mike Wallace, a collection of primary source accounts of such occurrences in our history going back to the colonial era.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/81387/...

According to Aug 2025 Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, 60% of American 18 – 24 year olds support Hamas, recognized internationally as a terrorist group explicitly committed to killing all Jews on earth and who carried out murder, rape, and kidnapping on Oct 7, 2023.

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My automated spelling checker but a red squiggly line under "neo-fascist" and suggested correcting it to "neon-fascist." My guess is it wants dictionary words both before and after the hyphen, but in this case it makes no sense.

Occupying Gaza is the worst option:
Netanyahu has been dishonest from the beginning because Israel can either eliminate Hamas or recover the hostages, but not both.

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At Providence, high heat will break as a front passes through, bringing possibly severe thunderstorms around 5pm plus or minus four hours.

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Two extremely close strikes, very bright and loud. Now downpouring.

At Providence, now observing thunderstorm over Warwick.

Ropeless rope may have reached a new level of absurdity, but it seems expensive unless it can be bought with moneyless money.

@nytimes.com has allowed their SSL/TLS cetificate to expire on their TOR/Onion web site. I wonder how much use it gets?