🚨NEW REPORTING🚨 The carceral healthcare industry is booming, but to some opponents to the industry, the focus on profits may be costing the lives on the incarcerated. For Gambit Weekly, I took a look at the local operations of two major players in the industry www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

And now two personality-free, anti-charismatic people will cudgel each other for months to prove who is the biggest baddest MAGA-est candidate standing.

Trump allies: How dare you call us authoritarians or fascists Trump administration: We have created a special FBI squad to imprison our enemies www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Profit Margins: Privatized healthcare was supposed to save the lives of the incarcerated. Critics say it may be killing them. another great, deeply reported story from @deecherrywriter.bsky.social in our latest issue www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Super long line at the Sauvage entrance. Doubling back a few blocks. Apparently this morning’s rain didn’t deter anyone

Parking enforcement is out in Faubourg St. John, so watch those driveways and corners

And Flagboy Giz!

The amount of talent rolling across this Jon Batiste stage is amazing. Blind Boys of Alabama, Antwigadee, Juice, second line dancers and La Reezy just popped up

Love popping my head into the Gospel Tent on the way into JF. St. Mary’s Academy choir was so good

Can't believe I forgot about this gem until now amidst all this Shia LeBeouf news. Shia Surprise www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4...

THREAD: In AZ, a cancer patient was told to treat his symptoms with an energy drink. A MS inmate broke his arm and later needed to have his broken arm amputated. In CO, a 22-year-old died from treatable infections after he was ignored by prison staff for a month. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Missing Mardi Gras for the first time in a decade, but luckily my dude @jakeclapp.bsky.social put together this amazing mix of Mardi Gras jamz open.spotify.com/playlist/1tv...

Disposable throws are a centerpiece of the local Carnival economy, writes Megan CW—one that’s found itself in the crosshairs of environmental and budgetary challenges influenced by unpredictable changes in national trade policies. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/the-...

genuinely stunning image

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

My neighborhood Spanish Mass only had about 25% attendance today. Portuguese straight up cancelled. #nolasky #nolatwitter

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

New Orleans mayoral candidate Helena Moreno, Royce Duplessis and Oliver Thomas took part in a forum last night focused specifically on growing the city's music economy and supporting musicians. Here's a recap (and a link to the full forum) @gambitweekly.bsky.social www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

There’s a New Orleans mayoral forum tonight focused on the city’s music economy. Hosted by Louisiana Music Partners, MaCCNO and The Recording Academy. It’s streaming on YouTube at 7 pm: m.youtube.com/live/Llvrdp0...

Tuesday, Oct. 7, is the last day for New Orleans musicians and bands to submit music to New Orleans library's (pretty awesome) Crescent City Sounds platform. www.nola.com/gambit/music...

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Louisiana residents are having problems getting the COVID-19 vaccination, particularly for children. Some of the big chain pharmacies won't vaccinate children in Louisiana, even with a prescription. From @wwno.org #lalege www.wwno.org/public-healt...

Our @jakeclapp.bsky.social talked with Flag Boy Giz, Nate Cameron and other New Orleans culture barers about what they need from city government, and then asked candidates for the city council and mayor for what they'll do. The story includes their full responses www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

New Orleans mayoral candidates met at a culture-focused forum to talk about the city's cultural economy and their ideas to support artists, musicians and culture bearers. New Orleans needs more forums on the culture before Oct. 11. @gambitweekly.bsky.social www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I spoke to Gambit about post-Katrina music education in New Orleans. It's a great piece by Kaylee Poche. www.nola.com/gambit/music...

A tradition like no other.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell Indicted By Federal Grand Jury www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

the two horsemen of calling their dad before winning a multiple choice trivia show

I guess the uber ad deal went limp

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

The 2025 New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal is now available on the ANTIGRAVITY website. antigravitymagazine.com/wp-content/u...

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

With Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans this week, I wrote about the state of affairs of the bar industry and how it’s a mirror of the broader society — and all the problems we’re facing in the US www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

@wadrewhawkins.bsky.social wrote about today's ICE raids, Latin America's banana plantations, and the history that connects them. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/frui...

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

We love @washingtonpost.com vertical video explainers of what’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Pentagon sends hurricane forecasters scrambling after suddenly announcing shutdown of key satellites The Department of Defense is abruptly shutting down a satellite program that meteorologists say is crucial to hurricane forecasting — just as what’s expected to be an “above-normal” Atlantic…

The ACLU's National Security Project director worries President Trump is 'writing himself a blank check' to use the military on civilians in other U.S. cities.

Anger and condemnation break out as families, attorneys and immigrant advocates react to a travel ban by the Trump Administration that stops or restricts people from 19 mostly African, Asian and Caribbean countries from entering the U.S.

WATCHMEN (2019)

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

Someone is hustling out at Jazz Fest. My Morning Jacket has even finished and the setlist is already online