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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The first permanent Asian settlement in the whole of the Americas was by Filipino men escaping Spanish galleon trading ships in the 1700s. In Louisiana. These fuckers need to learn their own history.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A) Election day equipment is so fucking old there's literally no way it can be hacked by malicious actors unless they literally got a job in our offices & even then they'd only have access to change one parish B) Still, its beyond time for new equipment. We can't maintain the old equipment anymore.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Though as someone born and bred in BTR, I'd be on board with the panhandle/gulf coast being given to LA instead of how history played out. I've often wondered how Creole families (white & black both) from an identity perspective would've changed if we hadn't had separated ourselves w/ state borders.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Possible, but I don't think so. I'm no lawyer, I just have friends in LA who are. I'm not saying there are 0 differences but today's are way smaller than people usually realize. You aren't the 1st one I've told this to though & certainly won't be the last. www.tulanelawreview.org/pub/louisian...

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm from Louisiana. In addition to all of the reasons TX is normally hated, its also where everyone who leaves Louisiana leaves for, they think they're special in having lived under so many flags, they stole Davy Crockett & lots of other historical/cultural TN things but most importantly.. its Texas

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sure but lots of people think Napoleonic code is where all of our laws stem from which isn't true. Criminal law/civil procedures/constitutional/administrative/corporate etc. is all still based on English common law. Its just property, contracts, family law, etc. that's still based on Napoleonic.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Baton Rouge is about to have make some payments to some kids....

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've never questioned the fact that I'm a feminist - Mona Lisa smile was legitimately life changing for how I saw my version of it - but sometimes .... I see things like these gendered work ads from New Orleans and it stops me in my tracks. #nolasky

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If anyone sees a press release from a lawsuit against the new maps in the state of TN other than the NAACP lawsuit please share it with me somehow so I can share it with people making plans for things :) #tennessee #redistricting #Memphis

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

As someone with family still living in Louisiana, thank you Governor.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Muffaletta from Cochon butcher back at home in Louisiana .... also, I just found out they used to have a footprint in Nashville and I'm devastated.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Addendum: I put this on Jim Crow because of the 1 drop rule white Louisianians were hell bent on putting a wall b/w themselves & their cousins of african descent so they abandoned Creole nearly completely, allowing the meaning to change outside of LA. Though a lot of us from LA stuck w/ the original

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don't know why I keep doing this .... Yes. White people can be Creole. No, Creole and Cajun are not racial designations. Yes, they're both ethnicities. Yes, they're both cultural. Yes, I'll probably fight with someone else before the day is over. Fuck the legacy of Jim Crow.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

In Tennessee. This isn't universal.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Well this is helpful. Of course, that's the point of libraries.

library, dewey decimal system, hard to discuss topics, embarrassment

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Not if they aren't in the 7th and act like assholes to the election staff.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Anyone reading this in Nashville .... Just make sure you're actually in district 7 and don't show up to early voting acting like a jerk when you can't vote because you're in 5 or 6. Ask how I know .... 🙄 People are idiots. Aftyn is not. 🤣

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just make sure you're actually in district 7 and don't show up to early voting acting like an ass when you can't vote because you're in 5 or 6. Ask how I know .... 🙄 People are idiots.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm so bad at assuming that certain things are just common knowledge until I'm reminded that American history \ american immigrant history \ Louisiana history isn't everyone's hyperfocus lol

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I came to the realization today that not everyone knows the US has had a president whose first language wasn't english but whose family had been in the US 200 years when he became President. Van Buren.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Did that help? Sure. But I also know it doesn't happen w/out the diplomatic crisis. It was political as shit w/ Harrison trying to get elected 3 weeks later & was trying to use it to get votes. Without the anniversary there still would've been a day we just may have gotten a better representative.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

1892 was the year after the lynchings in 1891. It was also the year that Columbus Day was implemented as a response to the lynchings.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Its wholly unfair to say they embraced columbus when nobody was talking about him at all much less talking about the atrocities he committed in 1892.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

That's fair. Create a holiday for him then. Columbus day was never meant to be abt Columbus & people have forgotten what it was about. I had Sicilian family in NO at the time. The whole structure was supposed to be a fight against Xenophobia and its literally been allowed to become the opposite.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Fuck Columbus but also, for left leaning folks of Italian Am. descent, esp. those of us who know the story & had family in New Orleans in 1891 the entire country overlooking the day being a response to the US' xenophobic stance on Italian Americans in the late 19th century is frustrating as hell.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We hold the history that people like you don't gaf about.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Bank of italy started in 1904 by Giannini. The San Francisco fire in 1906 is what gave it the push it needed to become the bank it did. It was renamed in 1930. The first Columbus day was in 1892. Nice try though. Also, themobmuseum.org/blog/columbu...

themobmuseum.org

Columbus Day and its ‘Mafia’ origins

Like America’s other urban centers, street gangs of thieves and ruffians were a common element in the New Orleans underworld. The influx of Italian immigrants added another ethnicity into the mix.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Just say you like being ignorant and save everyone the time.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Its not abt Columbus. Give me Yogi Berra or Chef Boyardee or Frank Sinatra or Joe Pesci or Robert DeNiro day. I don't particularly care, just give the meaning back and stop talking about Columbus. And if that means the day finds its way into obscurity? Fine. Better than the politicization of it now.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It was supposed to be an apology to Italy w/ a $25k payment. Instead, a grassroots effort was est. & the day made federal in '71. If your family was from NO & have the names Macheca, Marchesi, Bagnetto, Caruso, Comitis, Geraci, Romero, Scaffidi, Traina, Monasterio, or Polizzi you're likely connected

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Columbus day was supposed to be a one time event but Italian Americans liked having a day to rally around. All of the statues were put up by Italian American societies to fight against the Xenophobia & the proliferation of mafia rumors being spread aimed @ Sicilian communities.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Columbus. He was never supposed to be given a day. Italian Americans were given a day because of the mass lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans. They were given a day because it was a major diplomatic crisis b/w the US and Italy. 3 of the 11 killed were Italians. All were of Italian descent.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

And for anyone that's missed this episode, the Canterbury Church is doing an art installation where they've put up "graffiti" in the form of removable stickers. The fuckery and audacity of these people. FAUX OUTRAGE.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

JFC. These people don't even know about the Church of England?

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Imagine believing immigrants weren't involved in the early space program .....

NASA, Space Program, Immigrants, America, JD Vance

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Once upon a time there was a woman, Sylvia Landry from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who started a prostitution racket that also worked in DC. Officially, she committed suicide. Yeah, this is totally not about Epstein. bayoujustice.com/2024/01/bato...

bayoujustice.com

Baton Rouge Madam’s death: suicide or murder?

In 1995, long before we knew the name Jeffrey Epstein, the trial, imprisonment, escape, and suicide of a woman newspapers called “The Baton Rouge Madam” made national news.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Just a heads up if anyone tries to "remind" you.... Roseanne was fired under Trump.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My Southern dad who voted for Trump 3x who is completely secure financially just sent me this.... You know what I didn't have on my bingo card for this year? YouTube beginning the process of pulling him back to the center. youtube.com/shorts/BJ5qf...

youtube.com

One Tyrant Officer Destroyed #shorts #audit #cops #police

YouTube video by Police Bodycam

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Maybe I'm wrong and overreacting. I thought moving to TN would improve it but the last two summers have proven me wrong - I still have family to worry about and can't unplug completely. At least there's nothing (much) in the atlantic/gulf this year.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It feels like we've mostly slowed the yearly 9/11 discussion. Will we EVER stop with yearly documentaries? Can we just .... not? I know it doesn't help that its also my birthday week but JFC am I done. Will we always talk about it among ourselves? Yes. But it's our conversation to have. Not MSM.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Hey everyone that wasn't living on the gulf coast in 2005 - Be Kind to those that were. New Orleans, Waveland, Gulfport, Mobile, Baton Rouge, Thibodaux..... & all points in b/w & beyond that were affected. Everyone else may enjoy watching the inevitable disaster porn but for us its a PTSD revisit.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I was actually curious and looked it up ... ice.usajobs.gov/job/838081000 I was actually surprised at the stated qualifications.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

For the first time in my life, I just had a driver in front of me literally throw a banana peel at my car. Now I'm sure it wasn't directed at me, but it felt very Mario kart & I can't stop laughing now lol

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

How long before tech turns on him? Heh. I'm nothing but an idiot consumer, they may never, what do I know but this sure is going to make for some interesting reporting going forward. If he was intentionally trying to create a recession, he couldn't do a better job than he is now.

cnbc.com

Trump vows 100% tariff on chips, unless companies are building in the U.S.

President Donald Trump said he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, but not for companies that are "building in the United States."

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

100% Fair. I didn't read this correctly of for some reason thought voting was mentioned by Ron. I misjudged the conversation. I'm just as angry as you are about the dumb as shit census as it has absolutely nothing to do with voting and everything to do with financial distribution to states.

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Marie Pitre @petitminou.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It absolutely does not. It leaves local administration to the states. There are in fact federal laws not in the constitution related to voting but you specifically called out the constitution. The constitution is not that robust. www.eac.gov/election-off...

ArtI.S4.C1.2 States and Elections Clause

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