I just saw that they still make Diet Pepsi, which implies the existence of people who drink Diet Pepsi. Which is a level of fucked up I didnt want to contemplate

If I was emperor of the universe three of my first actions would be banning regular sized men from designing public bathroom sinks and urinals, banning weather requiring long pants and banning skirts/dresses with no pockets

My god I hate the tyranny of long pants. So constricting and uncomfortable

remember when we used call the times the paper of record and everybody in the business just deferred to them as the gold standard?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

I am not pleased with this long pants weather situation

I would vote for Roxane as Empress of the Universe based on this statement alone

Checkout my Get Down interview with New Orleans Budget Chair Joe Giarrusso. We talked about the funding crisis, the ugly race to replace Giarrusso, Mayor Cantrell's difficulty with the truth and transparency and why Rep Troy Carter can't build a viable political machine www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Pretty soon all the MAGA Neo-Caths will be saying the Pope is illegitimate

New Orleans’ disgraced Sheriff Susan Hutson calling her PAC the Jedi Guardian Committee is fuuuuuckin bananas

The most Louisiana headline you’ll read today

a beautiful noice

New York Times doing a “oh look at this” story on a particular type of ladies getting gender affirming care while continuing its war on an other particular type of ladies struggling to get theirs is just super fucked up

Based on the number of kids I’ve seen in the last hour alone doing the walk of shame in Spirit of Halloween costumes it’s safe to say another generation of college freshmen are learning the ropes of New Orleans

One of the weirder conspiracy theories I hear shockingly often is Speaker Mike Johnson is/was on grindr. which ... come on. look at dude. In the the year of our lord 2025 even evangelicals aren't really on Al Gore's internet puttin' their whole ass out there, thinkin' nobody will see ... right?

Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins thinks soldiers’ kids can go ahead and starve because they smoke crack www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Somewhere Stephen Miller is really regretting gettin married when he did and not waitin’ till lil mans’ wife got freed up

CBS went to a military food pantry (those words, in order) to interview moms. 13% of military families rely on SNAP/WIC. When a military spouse of a deployed soldier on enlisted salary was asked if people should be surprised: “No they shouldn’t. We live in poverty just like everybody else.”

what a terrible day to have eyes and be literate

Oh shit so Bari Weiss went to the Jonah Peretti school of management. I am surprised she didn’t bring Ben Smith on board first, to be honest. Looking forward to CBS News being just AI trash in the coming months www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

No one talking about that bondage podium?

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Sounds like New Orleans' government internet may once again be fubar so that's fun.

“An administrator has… the ability to defund… programs Republicans vehemently oppose. …could defund city vaccination programs, education programs for kids in detention, programs for the unhoused or maternity programs that don’t discriminate on the basis of gender identity or marital status” #nolasky

“I’m willing to do all sorts of oversight measures, but I'm not going to have a state fiscal administrator come in and take over the city of New Orleans,” Moreno said.

Goddamnit am I gonna have to turn the heat on?

How to get food and where to donate in New Orleans as SNAP recipients face uncertainty www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Landry push to takeover New Orleans scuttles $125 million stopgap spending plan www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

The Venn Diagram of people unconcerned with a dude getting a nazi tattoo and people who are outraged that somebody calls ladies they're not blood related to auntie is a perfect, stupid circle

is anybody else having issues with sharepoint/onedrive/whatever the fuck Microsoft is calling it these days? nothing we're sharing with each other seems to be showing up in email or the drive

Hell hath no fury like a mediocre racist white man scorned

New Orleans City Council oks short-term loan accountability rules Council hopes move will keep state takeover of city at bay www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Ok the emergency meeting ended on a bit of wild note when Mayor Cantrell was caught on mic telling the council's clerk Lora Johnson "welcome back. It's so good to see you." As you may recall, Johnson was found to have sexually harassed staff and fired by the council www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Mayor Cantrell throwing in some digs at the City Council in her remarks, saying the financial crisis "seems to be not so much what you didn’t know but a lack of understanding” by the council and that “We welcome investigations, which seem to be the hallmark of your tenure here”

New Orleans CFO Romy Samuel now says the city CAN make payroll through the end of 2025 if it uses up the rainy day fund -- but that will be the only thing the city can pay out on.

Mayor Cantrell in an oddly Golumesque moment refers to the city's rainy day fund as "our precious" emergency fund and then also says the city has reached out to Jamaica about the Hurricane. Which was a bit of an odd pivot during an emergency hearing on the city's budget crisis

oh shit the Mayor LaToya Cantrell is at the New Orleans City Council's emergency meeting on the budget crisis! This should be good

Honestly though, the National Guard is getting ready to invade the city, the white conservative governor is making a play to take control of New Orleans government and the city can’t pay employees from NOPD to Public Works, and yet this is the ONLY thing our mayor has said publicly in weeks.

This has happened quickly - There's an emergency council meeting this morning — then Moreno and Morrell will book it to Baton Rouge for the state’s Financial Review Committee.

The New Orleans City Council is hoping to stave off a state takeover of the city today in an unexpected early test of the incoming administration www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

lol meanwhile they’re about to not get paid for months

To easy www.nola.com/news/aggress...

New Orleans scrambles to stave off state takeover amidst financial crisis www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Rouge Herpes Murder Monkey infected with Covid and hepatitis c on the loose in rural Mississippi www.wbrz.com/news/disease...

this is batshit insane

New Orleans' Office of Nighttime Economy releases strategic plan to strengthen after-dark economy www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

~deep breath~ ok ill do it

Louisiana House unanimously passes resolution to fund SNAP benefits during federal shutdown www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Kids born in New Orleans are just built different. Some can blow a horn out the womb. Others, well they can drink your whole city under the table by age 11. in this case, a preternatural ability to do amazing consuming makeup —by Gambit’s own Clare “6 7” Brierre

Not that I'd expect her to do this, but it is still nuts that the mayor of New Orleans is checked out so completely she hasn't said a word about the financial crisis she's leaving us in. though i am confident she'll make sure her paychecks go out on time the next two and a half months