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Peter C. Cook

@petercook.bsky.social
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Unapologetic Education Reformer • New Orleanian • Progressive (& unwilling to let crazies define the term) • Democrat • Proud TFA alum • DMs open • #FreeUkraine • peterccook.com

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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg... Her confounding behavior in regards to the Wisner Trust and FQ sanitation contract raises a lot of questions as well. www.nola.com/news/politic... #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Me after hearing the news that Latoya Cantrell has been indicted by a federal grand jury... #NOLA #ChristmasInAugust
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If we’ve learned anything from The Great Escape and events like this, it’s that NOLA Ready texts ain’t worth sh*t if the system can’t share pictures or at least share **LINKS** to pictures. There are a lot of pre-teen Hispanic boys in the world… A picture would help. 🤯 #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finally getting a termite swarm in Holy Cross… Been wondering when they would rear their ugly heads. #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Heavily-armed SWAT roll from LASP just drove over the St Claude bridge into Lower 9. Another escapee about to get caught? 🤔 #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On the 50th anniversary of the Fall of #Saigon and the end of the wars in Indochina, read this account by James Fenton of his experience riding on North Vietnamese tanks as they rolled through the city on April 30th 1975: share.evernote.com/note/ba53838...
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is the 6200 blk of Douglas Street in Holy Cross - I’ve never seen it flooded like this before. #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I haven’t seen water like this in a long time. Storm water is up to my front steps, which almost never happens… #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Lower Nine is completely without power on a literally perfect day with no weather, low winds, low AC use… #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good news for Jacksonians looking for move past Lumumba and his shadiness... #politics
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
#Louisiana just called @JeffLandry's bullsh*t. #LaLege #LaGov #politics
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The state’s teachers unions are not progressive. They will sell out their purported allies at the drop of a hat… The fact that they’re throwing their PAC money behind this is shameful. #NOLAed #LaEd #LaLege #LaGov
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Good morning from the best neighborhood in town… #NOLA
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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Bald Eagle spotted in Holy Cross this morning… 🦅 #NOLA
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This point doesn't get emphasized enough. Just a few years ago Roosevelt Blvd was a top-5 deadliest road in the country. Now it isn't even the deadliest in Philly
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.
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Charm City Couillon @diabsoule.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Reading of how it went reminds me of the execution of Eduard Delacroix from The Green Mile. It was botched, there was suffering, but was called a success because he died
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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The cruelty is the point, Louisiana style. The shame.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The State of Louisiana executed a man tonight by suffocating him for 19 minutes just so @JeffLandry could burnish his tough-on-crime credentials, which is pretty f*cking dark. www.nola.com/news/courts/... #LaLege #LaGov
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Jessie Hoffman is put to death with nitrogen gas, Louisiana's first execution in 15 years
Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended with a gas mask strapped over the man's face in the Angola State Penitentiar...
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Charles Miller, PhD @chamiller1989.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
over my dead body. He would be *awful*.
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Oliver Thomas, veteran New Orleans councilmember, will run for mayor: 'We need a comeback'
Oliver Thomas, a political veteran who rose through one of New Orleans' vaunted Black political groups, held two City Council seats and years later overcame scandal to win a third, is running for mayo...
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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am now told THERE WILL BE SANDWICHES at this. C'mon.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's pretty depressing when you realize you live in a state with a governor whose two main policy priorities are renaming the #GulfofMexico & restarting executions. As if #Louisiana has no other pressing issues to address... #NOLA #LaLege #LaGov www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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Governor Landry aligns with Trump on Gulf renaming
Landry's order directs state agencies, boards and officers to make the change to all published materials moving forward.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Now is the time to start speaking out because we are rapidly approaching a constitutional crisis. Trying to impeach a federal judge or deciding to defy a court order would put us in very dangerous territory. #politics www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump calls for impeachment of judge who tried to halt deportations
It represents a significant escalation of the president’s attempts to push the boundaries of the separation of powers with the courts.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I've seen first hand the great work that SOUL has been doing to reforest our neighborhoods. They have planted scores of trees throughout Holy Cross (I have one in my backyard as we speak). No question they've been exemplary stewards of their federal funding. #NOLA www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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New Orleans nonprofit grapples with grant loss for tree planting
Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley said. Now, it's SOUL's mission to restore its tree canopy.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you wouldn't vote for a felon before, why would you vote for a felon now? #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I kept bees until last summer when we went to Oregon for 2 months & our colony flew off after the hive openings got covered by overgrowth & vines. 10 mins ago a huge swarm of bees flew into my backyard & is in the process of occupying the empty hive. Crazy to watch. #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Not sure why so many people seem surprised that LFT & LAE are engaging in blatantly self-serving behavior while claiming to work for the greater good. If you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention. #NOLAed #LaEd #LaLege #LaGov #NOLA www.nola.com/news/educati...
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After earlier doubts, Louisiana teachers union backs constitution change that will raise pay
After initial hesitation, Louisiana’s largest teachers’ union now supports an amendment to the state constitution backed by Gov. Jeff Landry that would dissolve three longstanding education trust fund...
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Water pressure seems low in Holy Cross… How long before that boil water advisory? #NOLA
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 11/03/2025
Stupid: hurting others while hurting yourself.
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 11/03/2025
Nearly a third of U.S. Department of Education staff laid off www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/11/educat…
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Linda McMahon didn’t need a Trump executive order to make big Education Department layoffs
The layoffs, combined with recent staff buyouts, mean that the number of Education Department staff has dropped by nearly 50% in the last two weeks. President Donald Trump has expressed a desire to close the department.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I remember when The Lens provided legitimate, much-needed news for our city. Now it’s an agenda-driven publication taking sides on issues instead of presenting readers with the facts. When you’re posting things like this on Nextdoor it’s not journalism; it’s activism. #NOLA #media
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It is early in the year and not inherently indicative of how the year will go, but we are seeing massive declines in pretty much all types of crime in America's biggest cities.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
And it's negative for the first time
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
No, AI can't fix our pothole problem because it's human capital - the feckless people running and working for the city - that is the problem. Let's be real: unless AI can physically go out and fill potholes with asphalt, it's ain't fixing sh*t. www.nola.com/news/matt-wi... #NOLA
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Can AI help solve the New Orleans pothole problem? This successful tech entrepreneur thinks so
ChatNOLA designed to help citizens and government collaborate to identify, quantify and fix the city’s long list of infrastructure woes.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Foggy AF on the levee this morning… #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I’m actually pretty sad about this one… Gene Hackman was one of my favorites. He was one-of-a-kind… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
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Gene Hackman, Hollywood’s Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95
The winner of two Oscars, he was hailed for his nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This @the74.bsky.social story about the ways in which chronic absenteeism hurts *all* students is your must-read of the week. www.the74million.org/article/high...
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High Levels of Chronic Absence Affect All Kids, Not Just Those Missing School
Chang and Balfanz: With thousands of schools dealing with extreme chronic absence, academic results and attendance suffer across the board.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
These people don't represent the views of most residents in Holy Cross, no matter how loudly they scream. #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
.@helenamorenola.bsky.social: Don't ally yourself with the NIMBY Stop The Grain Train group. They are spreading lies about the Alabo Street grain terminal and fundraising off those lies. Do not give their misinformation campaign oxygen. Really disappointing. www.nola.com/news/new-orl... #NOLA
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2025
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
NYC Mayor Eric Adams debuts his new look.
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our state can't help but embarrass itself time and time again... JFC. 🤯 wwno.org/public-healt... #NOLA #LaGov #LaLege #clownshow
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Best throw from Krewe du Vieux last night… 😂🤣😂 #NOLA #NOLAed #LaEd
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
These folks are wasting everyone’s time and donors’ money filing lawsuits trying to catch Port NOLA on a legal technicality that will have no impact on the Alabo Wharf project… and still lose. They don’t have a legal leg to stand on in this fight. www.nola.com/news/port-of... #NOLA
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Cindy Van Dam was a fellow 2002 Teach For America corps member here in #NOLA. Unlike most of us who were recent college grads, Cindy joined TFA mid-career. She was caring, passionate about social justice & dedicated to her students. She deserved better. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
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Peter C. Cook @petercook.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hey @wdsu6.bsky.social: Stop carrying water for what is obviously a political attack masquerading as an organization called "United Front" (no such org exists) backed by sketchy & incompetent politicos like Tyrell Morris & Susan Hutson. Try doing actual journalism. #NOLA
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is how you do a resignation letter.
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