What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

CI magic is awesome until the bug fix you pushed yesterday won’t deploy to prod

Cold night, Governor Nicholls street, New Orleans

Fuck Yeah: Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

When I was pregnant, I tried to eat well, stay healthy & protect myself from undue stress because the baby could be affected. For this reason, ICE had a long time policy not to detain pregnant people. But now they are detaining them, brutalizing them & denying medical attention. #ICELawlessness

The fear of looking like a moron is a powerful motivator

Vote for EoS www.hardresetmedia.com/p/announcing...

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11. New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

The @democrats.org are pathetic

These guys won’t abide by any fucking deal

There are 342 million Americans. Paying each one would add $684,000,000,000 to deficit

… Is this a fucking joke?

Finally got the crust right

The world's largest Pentecostal denomination has been covering up the sexual abuse of children for at least 50 years. Where is the national outrage?

I tried an AI assistant today. I asked the agent to reformat a list of IPs and to resolve the netblock owner. Everything looked great. Then I double checked the answers. About 20% were delusions

The insomnia is raging again

Is the NOPD breaking the law by using tips from Project NOLA? Depends who you ask. The non-profit Project NOLA sends information gathered from its network of facial recognition cameras to NOPD to aid in arrests. Legal experts have concerns.

There were 11 murders in New Orleans in October, 98 so far in 2025, and 116 over the last 12 months. That's the second fewest through October since 1970 (93 in 2019). The surge in shootings that started in late September largely abated by the end of the month.

Seafood samples from the Tangipahoa River last month contained harmful levels of arsenic, but state officials say the testing didn't determine whether the arsenic detected was nontoxic organic or the carcinogenic inorganic type. @greglarose.bsky.social reports. lailluminator.com/briefs/arsen...

DevOps is the worst parts of programming mixed with the worst parts of systems administration

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Happy Halloween

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Are you excited to take the train from Nola through the Mississippi Coast? Here's everything you need to know.

Another month with a large drop in shooting victims in the Gun Violence Archive. Overall, shootings are down nearly 16% in 2025 compared to YTD 2024 suggesting the big drop in murder is continuing.

New Orleans crime is at a 50 year low but NOPD overspent $60 MILLION in overtime. NOPD is bankrupting the city. If Kirkpatrick can’t control her budget, she needs to go

The City of New Orleans is $200 MILLION in debt and cannot make payroll. Maybe NOPD doesn’t need a miniature horse

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Videos show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New Orleans has WAY TOO MANY “non-profit” corporations grifting on taxpayer dollars

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/...

During previous D.C. shutdowns, federal assistance for crime victims continued to flow. But the Trump administration has shuttered the federal crime victim offices this time.

#TheLensNola🔍 Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say. ✍Terry L. Jones, Floodlight Full Story🗞: buff.ly/CgaAQoV #airpollution #chemicalplants #environemtalnews

We're officially announcing our speakers DistrictCon Year 1! Check out our incredible lineup: www.districtcon.org/speakers This also includes our Day 1 & Day 2 Keynotes from Ian Levy and Dan Ridge. And don't forget, GA tickets go on sale November 16! See you in January! 🪩

Here's a look at what's happening at New Orleans libraries.

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

I’m too old for 3pm games

Via ABC news, Planet imagery showing the change in the view from space of the White House over the past month

The US military works for American taxpayers. We can’t let them be bought by billionaires

Private nonprofits funding public projects are the bane of my existence.

The City of New Orleans needs a $125,000,000 payday loan

If a City of New Orleans department head cannot control their spending they need to go

What kind of moron bets the solvency of New Orleans on the Trump administration meeting financial obligations ON TIME to a deep blue city?

The incompetence of the Cantrell administration is stupefying