Several bills with broad bipartisan support that would have protected Louisiana residents from abusive AI practices (being denied health coverage due a robot's decision, for example) have died due to bullying from the Trump Administration #lalege www.nola.com/news/louisia...

So the mayor has decided to turn down the free money for new bins and instead ask for a smaller amount of free money which (if it is even granted) she will use to pay influencers to make more ride along videos with IV Waste to "educate" people veritenews.org/2026/03/31/n...

The 👏 VIN 👏 is 👏 already 👏 on 👏 the 👏 vehicle 👏

“The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families,” wrote U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee. “He is not, however, the owner!”

The government that's attacking universities for their supposed antisemitism now has legal authority to collect lists of Jews on campus. Because, you know, they just want to protect us.

They're putting in one of those motion activated gates

Here is who bought Checkpoint Charlie's www.nola.com/news/busines...

It's also what the Democratic Party leadership wants. I'm not saying that's what they will get. I'm pretty sure they will not get Rahm. But it remains true that their main political objective, even now, is purging the left.

According to this, the public comment was 66 opposed to the drone program and 4 in favor. In the Times-Pic article about this meeting, they quote one opposition attendee and three people in favor. therosenbergbrief.com/2026/03/30/m...

there's actually one guy named "claude" a hyper competent frenchman given a special cocktail of amphetamines that they keep chained up in a basement in San Francisco. the usage limits are because sometimes he dies and it's necessary to decant a new clone and give him more amphetamines.

"Streamline the hiring process," how, exactly? Most of the city is currently under a hiring freeze. Is Moreno planning to subvert the normal civil service procedure in some way? Article doesn't say. www.nola.com/news/politic...

boy who killed kitten ready to go home now

4. -Even if you think you're going out of your way not to put "politics" into your work, you are. Who you are in the world, what you think of it, and what you aspire to say your work is *inherently* a social/political stance. Writers can't help but be "political" because all writing is commentary.

3. One takeaway from this was the awareness that, people will see (or concoct) social/political views at work in one's writing, often mapped through their own views. In short, one way or another, you will be viewed as putting "politics" into your stories, even if you go out of your way not to. BUT-

Today, the FQMD approved the purchase of a drone that NOPD will use to surveil residents of and visitors to the French Quarter. In this state, the deer and alligators have stronger privacy rights than you do. #lalege

Democrats: "We gotta get more sexist" www.axios.com/2026/03/29/s...

If only someone would create, like, I don't know, some sort of "efficiency" department that would go through the government looking for stuff like this... www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

From the same report: 22.7 million renter households in the U.S. are now cost-burdened—a new all-time record. And of those, 12.1 million are spending more than half their income on housing (up 1.5 million since the start of the pandemic and 4.6 million since 2001).

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

The Times' 6:00am story about Trump's determination "to end the war in Iran through negotiations" is followed 26 minutes later by Trump's threat to blow up and completely obliterate "all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells, and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)."

I feel like he literally has a goal of making it impossible to rewatch Veep.

Cardinal Pizzaballa

maybe if the direct payments are in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars a year it could work

This is the situation we find ourselves in

Interesting that this long in-depth article about SWB financial challenges focused in particular on catch basin maintenance doesn't mention the often bandied about push for a new stormwater drainage fee. Has that been put on the back burner? www.nola.com/news/politic...

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

I am so tired of being told that because I live in a coastal city I don’t count as a Real American and it is especially grating coming from my own party

lol sure

The Lord of the rings movies are only 20 years old, you don’t need to fucking reboot anything let alone 20-year-old movies, has everyone gone goddamned insane

Unfortunately, people will continue to be told this by their bosses forever

Naw, bruh these are actually screaming red flags. Anybody who actually lives here could have told you that. Also you are in Sacramento and trying to invest in a New Orleans house flipping scheme. I hope you never get a penny back. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Arguably more like a joint stock company than a nation state

The U.S. is not fighting like a nation, arguably; it’s fighting like a disembodied Air Force

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

The problem is, even as the backlash grows, the management class of every organization is still racing to shove operations into apps and ai

The last time I took my car to our regular mechanic he told me not to bring it there anymore. (1994 Tercel)

Forgot to wear my jersey today.

I am so tired of this sort of thing in particular. What the hell are "very strong talks"?

I think there needs to be some sort of legal ruling that declares NDAs pertaining to public functions invalid. www.wwno.org/local-region...

Remains funny that the main through line across so-called populist right is not actually pride but groundless self-victimization.

Life in the Dark Ages www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

My pitch for this movie would be a scene with a character running down a dark corridor and all the remaining light behind them is going out as if they are chased by primordial darkness itself and then they trip and fall down and say “this is scary, but lunchtime isn’t scary thanks to Factor meals”

oh www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

The use of the word “attacked” in this headline is stunningly irresponsible. If you read other, less click-bait accounts of this incident: it was alleged drone *sightings*. And I remain VERY unconvinced sightings like these are even drones, instead of “jumpy people getting confused.”