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Tiffani Ashley Bell

@tiffaniashleybell.com
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Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED. Black-Scholes-Merton FTW In LAX or FAY 🏳️‍🌈

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
History is our record of what happened in the past and how we interpret it. Erasing Black people or any group from history is evil.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
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Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Big Lord Bunny @ceepain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Never change Detroit. Love folks from the D real hard.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Justices are assigned to be on "Circuits." Depending on what state an appeal is coming from, that's the judge who has to deal with it. KBJ is the First Circuit. So it fell to her to handle it.
Circuit Assignments

It is ordered that the following allotment be made of The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42 and that such allotment be entered of record, effective September 28, 2022.

For the District of Columbia Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice
[HIGHLIGHTED]
For the First Circuit - Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice
(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island)

For the Second Circuit - Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice
(Connecticut, New York, Vermont)
For the Third Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice
(Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgin Islands)
For the Fourth Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice
(Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia)
For the Fifth Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice
(Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 16/09/2025
TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!! #TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW. Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
THE DOUBLE TAX IS FINALLY OUT

Black woman in a yellow sweater in front of the Cambridge public library holding "The Double Tax" and covering her face
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 08/11/2025
I pitched in a couple of dollars I be in New York from time to time haha
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 08/11/2025
Back over here for a sec Mostly just to say I abhor everything happening in this country (and the secondary effects of our foreign policy and revocation of aid in other countries) rn People deserve to eat People deserve to be treated with dignity People deserve due process
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 08/11/2025
This is what a real leader does You get up as high as he is, people stop bringing you the bad news (and/or the truth), so you have to go find it yourself Also keeps people under you on their toes and aware you may check
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is the part that is absolutely true whatever the reason for what KBJ just did. Yes she may be trying to keep the SCOTUS conservatives from trashing SNAP entirely, at least right now. But the effect is the same until the 1st Circuit rules.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 08/11/2025
Not feeding people is foul
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Aaron Long @aaronlong.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves. If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?
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Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels
‘I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with the J. Bree style’ appeared in the middle of a tense scene with a scaled dragon prince.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/05/2025
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2025
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 31/03/2025
Musk believes that people are being paid to protest Tesla because he's paying people to vote for a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate. Every accusation is a confession.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/03/2025
If you want to do some good today, consider donating to @sadiecollective.bsky.social— an organization dedicated to diversifying the fields of economics, policy, and business. They are officially $100 away from the goal! Please donate: donorbox.org/tscwhm
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The Sadie Collective has spent the last five years opening up pathways for leaders in economics, finance, policy, and data science, furthering the legacy of Dr. Sadie Alexander and empowering our comm...
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 27/03/2025
our history is gonna get disappeared because it tells a story some folks would rather not know and the folks with the resources to preserve said records aren’t motivated to do anything about it. but hey, the cassandra life is not new to me so ima keep pushing.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 27/03/2025
Yup 😞
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia It really ain’t over until it’s over
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 10/03/2025
"What if we combined the normal sociopathy of a GOP administration with the absolute destruction of your 401K?"
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Starting Monday, eligible homeowners can register for a chance to apply for a city program designed to provide roof and porch repairs at no cost to homeowners. to.wttw.com/3DxujLl
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Registration Open for Chicago’s Home Repair Program. Here’s What You Need to Know
As part of the program, the city provides repairs, and homeowners are not required to pay back any repair costs. Registration for a chance to apply begins at 9 a.m. Monday, March 10, and runs through ...
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
If you miss Twitter just pretend this post is an ad for a race science blog that sells supplements
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace. Today: X completely down. The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third. Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 10/03/2025
“appear” lol
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 10/03/2025
Hundreds of dining hall workers at Northwestern University walked off the job Monday as their union said it has reached an impasse with their employer after nine months of contract bargaining.
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Northwestern dining hall workers go on strike
Hundreds of dining hall workers at Northwestern University walked off the job as their union said it had reached an impasse with their employer.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/03/2025
Hear the tranquility? X is down.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 10/03/2025
This sucks and the tariffs they are responding to were so unnecessary
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 10/03/2025
lol
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 09/03/2025
1856: SC Congressman Preston Brooks beat the hell out of Senator Charles Sumner with his cane so badly over the abolition of slavery that Charles had brain damage the rest of his life We are *soft* compared to how they used to get down in Congress smh home.heinonline.org/blog/2021/03...
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Beatings, Battles, and Brawls: Congressional Violence in the Antebellum Era - HeinOnline Blog
There was a time in American history when disagreements became so heated that they turned physical. In the pre-Civil War era, Congress saw at least 70 violent incidents between its members. Join HeinO...
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Ridley LeDoux @ridleyal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Even antebellum American congress had its share of people beating each other with canes (I honestly thought the cane was meant to be a visual reference back to that)
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/03/2025
"🤔My mom had me young, and I turned out okay?" Women and girls are incredibly strong and resilient. That doesn't mean that they should have to be. In 2025, we have a better understanding of abuse, consent, and situational power, than we did in 1945. Young girls are more informed and empowered.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"birth rate decline" discourse from fascists and eugenicists is really about "the wrong people are having babies." The increased birth rates can be seen among women in my age cohort, who were more likely to have kids a little later- after completing their educations and establishing their careers.
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 09/03/2025
Other countries have politicians that get into full-blown fist fights during their events lol What Al Green did was *polite* compared to these other places and yet it is still being talked about on the weekend news
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s never a bad day to tap the @meganhunt.bsky.social sign either
Nebraska state Senator Megan Hunt standing in front of a sign reading “RESPECT MY TRANS HOMIES OR I'M GONNA IDENTIFY
AS A FUCKING PROBLEM”
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Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com · 06/03/2025
Accidentally left my Airpod case in my mom’s car and scared her because she started getting all these AirTag tracking notifications on her iPhone oops lmao (OTOH, I am always glad anything AirTag-enabled will persistently “introduce” itself to whoever is around)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
DAVID ERMOLD; DAVID MOORE,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
No. 24-5524
V.
KIM DAVIs, individually,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Ashland.
No. 0:15-cv-00046-David L. Bunning, District Judge.
Argued: January 30, 2025
Decided and Filed: March 6, 2025
Before: WHITE, READLER, and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Kim Davis, in her capacity as the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue a marriage license to Plaintiffs-Appellees David Moore and David Ermold. Plaintiffs sued Davis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Davis violated their constitutional right to marry. After several interlocutory appeals, the district court entered judgment for Plaintiffs on liability and a jury awarded them compensatory damages. Davis now appeals, arguing that she is entitled to qualified immunity, that she has affirmative defenses to liability under the Free Exercise Clause and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and that Plaintiffs' evidence of their emotional distress was insufficient to support the jury's award. We AFFIRM.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
These kind of votes are born out of trans representation in government. Rep. Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.
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