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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NOLA_missed_connections: I carelessly stepped over the candles into the circled pentagram you were drawing on Lower Decatur and came out in Cleveland. Coffee at Envie when I get back?

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It seems that some people have forgotten the New Deal with the alternative to dragging the bosses out of their homes and beating them to death in front of their children. I think fire is an appropriate way to remind them of this unless you prefer the first statement.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

After New Orleans Congressman Steve Scalise assaulted representative Al Green to tear up his "Black people aren't apes" sign we are reminded he once referred to himself as "David Duke without the baggage." He is a klan-to-the-bone racist.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Who in New Orleans actually still goes to Cafe du Monde on Decatur (except maybe between 2-6 am) or Parkway anymore? Even take out at Parkway takes 45+ minutes. I think we should start a local campaign to give them horrific Yelp reviews.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

who are these people narrating on w why yes soon to everyone in the grand march by name?

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I sent Troy Carter a DM on FB cause I'm in NOLA but not his District and can't use the congress.gov email web form. If you're in his district please write him & tell him body cams on ice and cpb will just be used to feed the facial recognition Palantir database of dissidents. It will make it worse.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Mini Himler doesn't like Jews. I'm shocked; shocked I tell you.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/01/2026

my teenage self is both absolutely starstruck and sobbing right now

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Every full moon in New Orleans we let all the pent up anger and crazy out by howling loudly at the full moon.

image of a Raven in front of a full moon. title how loud. February 1 at 6:00 p.m. monthly at the full moon at Bayou St John meet at 6:00 p.m. at the blue Bridge.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis is up. The United States is up. Tottering and about to fall into facism. Unless we tip it the other way.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trump is lowering the new Iron Curtain around the USA dictatorial, pariah state. The free nations of the world need to contain it & to topple it. We need to do our part toward regime change, and not just wait for the next election. There won't be another free and fair election in MAGAmerica.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Kristi Noem appearing behind a podium sign "One of ours All of yours" is an open threat to kill protestors. That statement is associated with the Nazi policy of murdering an entire village if one person committed an act of violent. active resistance.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If being an asshole dictator who steals another country's resources is justification enough, who's coming for Trump? And when? Soon I hope. Also Trump pardoned the actual narcotics trafficker president of Honduras, so I guess Trump is also a narco terrorist.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I don't know why I have to keep posting this, which I first wrote in 2006 post-Federal Flood of New Orleans, but there are a lot of naive people who think this can be fixed in the next election: The American experiment is concluded and the results are in. It failed.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Now I have to go clean up the coffee I spit our laughing.

an imaginary newspaper called breaking news with a headline quote president Trump expected to rename the San Andreas fault to Joe biden's fault uclose quote

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

if his head doesn't explode before this is over, then mine will.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Best and funniest description of habit ever.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New Orleans: This is the Brown Pogrom. Will you wait for the Brown Holocaust to say something? It wasn't me? I didn't know? What will you tell your grandchildren? Your grandparents and great grandparents are watching you, wearing a marksman badge, a postumous Purple Heart or a red cross.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The much-touted NOLA schools "miracle" post-Katrina isn't. @nepc.bsky.social fellow Kristen Buras examines evidence beyond test scores, including New Orleans history, student interviews, finds academic fraud, rebuts claims of charter school success: networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/u...

networkforpubliceducation.org

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Taking down my earlier post and adding this from Reddit r/ New Orleans. New Orleans needs to shun the feds, State Police and National Guard,. no food no drinks no bathroom no cigarettes no chewing gum. not a candy bar. Make them drive to Metairie if they need to piss.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Congress or the Deems won't save us. Lawyers & judges won't save us. We have only We Ourselves. Ashley Morris adopted Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) as a response to The Federal Flood in New Orleans. It's time to resurrect that cry of self-reliant solidarity.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hey New Orleans This is the Brown Pogrom, the American Kristillnacht. Will you wait for the Brown Holocaust to say something? It wasn't me? I didn't know? What will you tell your grandchildren? Your grandparents and great grandparents are watching you, wearing a marksman badge or a red cross.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Year ago on Canal Street waiting for the street car. Older Woman: Look they putting up the Christmas decorations already. A Man: The turkey don't get no respect.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

walking in the front of city park in New Orleans and just heard a very loud low frequency noise that sounded like something blew up or fell down

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Sound level 5:30am off Florida boulevard in West Navarre inn New Orleans NOLA 200 ft from the i-610. LaDOT says they measures and we don't qualify for a sound wall. bullshit. this would be worse if a crotch rocket or custom exhaust had gone screaming past like they do at night.

saved recording of sound level at my house just off Florida boulevard and West Navarre 200 ft from i-610 at 5:30 a.m. the reading says 67 decibels with a peak of 74 in an average of 64.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We need to be ready for them.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

bluesky mods retire bitch

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you've eaten fast food or shopped at WalMart yes the government is subsidizing *your* food.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Reading from the poetry anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20 at the Baton Rouge Gallery featuring poets from New Orleans and around the Louisiana coast.

image of the cover of the poetry anthology hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20 and anthology of Louisiana poetry with art edited by Mona Lisa salon and John Warner Smith former poets Lawrence of louisiana. the image on the cover is of a crowd at a second line in New orleans. an announcement follows there will be a reading from the poetry anthology on Sunday November 2nd at baton rouge galleries Sundays at 4:00 featuring Charles de gravel's Nicole Eden malaika favorite Mark fols Carolyn Henry Valentine Pierce Brad Richard and Andy Young

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

like if a Nazi tattoo is news, I think this, coming from a government agency, should probably be news

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The appropriate response to Landry's threat to the New Orleans finance and independent governance is to have S&WB shut off the water to all state buildings.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Me posing for this picture the sports editor wanted to run beside his column about the then also very sad New Orleans Saints.

photograph of a man and a flannel shirt at a typewriter wearing a bag on his head. The bag says 1-13 has a 😞 and the man holds a cigarette through the mouth hole cut in the bag. This was commentary on a very bad New Orleans Saints season decades ago

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

wellbottomblues.com/2025/10/18/s...

a screenshot of the homepage excerpt of a blog post: shinrin yoku Forest bathing 10 years ago just his medication was beginning to rain in my outrageous and dangerous bipolar mania I quit a job that almost broke me and fled into the park.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 13/10/2025

The reason colonizers are so afraid of immigrants is because they make the mistake of thinking that because all colonizers are immigrants, all immigrants are also colonizers. They think immigrants come with evil in their hearts, because colonizers come with evil in their hearts.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

reading elsewhere in the news and it occurs to me if we were reporting on another country we would not be referring to ICE agents, we'd be referring to DHS paramilitaries. because that's what they are

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I can't comment directly on this post but I can point out that the "Levee" police are in fact the private security force of everyone who lives north of Allen Toussaint.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I believe the professional military, especially the senior officer corps, would never do anything out of bounds to support Trump. Ut's the part-timeers in the Guard operating under title 32 State direction, with authority to act as LEO, in places like New Orleans that frighten the fuck out of me

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