I took down the quote bc I blocked eight people and didn't want to deal with it today. But when looking for candidates to support, look for the ones brave enough to abolish ICE and break up the DHS. From 2019: www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Home Depot is letting this #ICELawlessness happen to their own customers! Their own flippin customers! This #Thanksgiving, #BlackFriday & #cybermonday I'll be spending money anywhere but there, Target or Amazon.

"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."

The Saints are a disgusting organization. Attempted to sign sexual predator DeShaun Watson (the owner personally flew on her private jet to recruit him), heavily involved in the cover up of Catholic church sexual abuse scandal, and now attempting to sign another sexual predator. Nuke the franchise.

Monday’s Daily Dime: - Jack McFarland on rising health care costs - Cutting into inequities of HBCU funding - Louisiana is paroling prisoners in order to deport them - Locals feel negative effects of data-center construction https://investlouisiana.org/jack-mcfarland-on-rising-health-care-costs/

This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

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ICE in New Orleans: NOLA Rapid Response hotline is up and running! Report actual sightings to 504-221-1499 #NewOrleans #ICE

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This Sunday (Nov 23) there will be a community food giveaway at the Press Steeet Garden from 1pm - 4pm. If you are interested in volunteering please email [email protected] #nolasky

#nolasky Immigration court watch opportunities. Let's watch out for each other.

#nolasky Irish Channel ... the mosquito control trucks are currently out spraying.

REMINDER: I'll be discussing speculative fiction and magical realism with @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @bryancamp.bsky.social on Friday @ 2 PM for the NOLA Words and Music festival!! Event description: www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.

Very glad I spoke out against Top Golf coming to my neighborhood, I know, how very NIMBY of me 😉, when we were promised a grocery store and affordable housing. I do feel bad for the workers who might lose their 401k in the forthcoming bankruptcy because they're lower on the priority of claims list.

So much for privacy.

I know this is a serious moment (and I'm glad my weekly Prosecute Ice post can be about the prosecution of an Ice agent) but I just giggle anytime I see Temecula.

Lol for a second I thought this was about where I live.

Congratulations Calvin Duncan!

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?

New York City grocers say sales at their stores dropped by as much as 25% last week because of delayed food assistance benefits due to the federal government shutdown.

Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all.

Abolish ICE.

If Dems continue this feckless behavior... we're cooked. The fascism happened no more fundraising off the threat of it. If they don't clean house it's over for the brand. Abolish ICE, prosecute these heaux, and give us back our voting rights and bodily autonomy! These are the bare minimums.

Today, Saturday November 15th is election day. Please geaux vote before you fest!

The New Orleans life 😂

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Only 100 permanent jobs! That's it! It is utterly shameful that politicians are selling us out for 100 bloody jobs! GTFOH

GET HER, JADE.

Didn't realize our clerk of court also ran the records department at Broadview ICE facility.

My heart flutters everytime Croissant says, "Mommy, I want you" and immediately falls asleep in my arms.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying. As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Wow… this is wild. How does the Clerk lose track of that much money? I knew Darren’s office was messy, but... records in landfills & now missing out on over $600k in bond money?? We need new leadership. VOTE Calvin Duncan for Clerk of Criminal Court this Sat, Nov 15! 🙌🏻💙 #NOLAsky #NewOrleans #NOLA

Here it is. The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.

This Sunday morning, we'll be continuing our regular routine of serving the houseless community in New Orleans. Join us, bring us your shoes/clothes/blankets, check out our Amazon wishlist, or consider a donation for drinks, snacks, and supplies. #TailgateTogether

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

So it turns out that airports in the US are deeply dependent on money from the federal govt and they basically can't exist without it. Socialism, man. It's where you least expect it, but you should expect it because private businesses don't fund shit. Taxpayers do.

Dude would have told Martin we gotta stop the bus boycott after a month. Probably still shops at Target. Straight up scab energy would have told everyone to stop picketing for better working conditions after a week.

I’m right there with you! My husband is a Veteran and is working without pay for the V.A. and our young adult son with Autism has no SNAP benefits, but we believe every American deserves affordable healthcare. I’m terribly disappointed in and pissed of by the 8 Dems that got us exactly nowhere! WTF?

Wooooooow.... they haven't even wrote the bill yet. Just rolled over for a maybe maybe not. GTFOH ... I'm cussing out the next Act Blue text message I get.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Political retribution and punishing dissent creates a culture of "Yes Men". The removal of Morris was political and maybe they should ask themselves why they scored poorly on a housing scorecard instead of lashing out at an affordable housing advocacy organization. www.nola.com/news/politic...

Calvin Duncan is the CLEAR choice for Clerk. Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard. #nolasky #neworleans #nola www.nola.com/news/politic...