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they told me we'd be finished by now 📍New Orleans

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 9h
California is a two-party consent state.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 9h
Wait a minute. THIS lady is the reason the bars won't offer HIV testing anymore? www.nola.com/news/french-...
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 18h
The sad and happy man riding a train meme but both sides changed to the sad man. On the left the there is text above him that reads "Having a job" and on the right text that reads "Not having a job"
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 13h
Hmm... I'm thinking the Saints have all kinda problems right now. But it's hard not to believe the final score Monday will be something like... oh I dunno... Saints 28 Falcons 3
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/09/2026
The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey shows that Americans today feel worse about the economy than they did during either the Covid-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 15h
A PR push of sorts and an aura of inevitability have pushed the 24-team CFP’s popularity up from catastrophic to merely terrible. But we’re still gonna do it!
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 19h
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 14h
I have a list of framing devices to offer to any ambitious reporter or historian or social scientist who wants to write a book about the post-Katrina decades in New Orleans. One of them is the destruction of UNO as a community bulwark vs the rise of Tulane as a parasite. www.nola.com/news/busines...
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 15h
Okay but this is a publisher power problem. It isn't a problem for the library budget to solve. It is a problem for the law to solve. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 15h
This is the shell game of using AMI for "affordable housing" development parameters. This threshold is NOT going to help relieve the housing cost burden for New Orleanians in need. www.nola.com/news/busines...
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h
The thing about this is that it only makes MAGA manosphere politics stronger. Because the whole point of that is to take advantage of the perceived victimhood. In that game, if you actually improve the material condition of your base you lose them.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h
Jamie Davis has zero chance of winning that Senate seat. I think it should be said. I'm not saying don't go out and vote for him. But the people campaigning for him think they are doing good by being dishonest with us about how bad the situation is. That is not actually helping.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 02/10/2026
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Nice Punt Sickos Committee Logo
Alt: Nice Punt Sickos Committee Logo
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the thing I keep thinking is "this guy sucks to work with." like it's not even what he does as a teammate or competitor. he's a just a shitty co-worker.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Fed's Logan calls for '50 bps or more' in rate hikes reut.rs/4z1flnK
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Fed's Logan calls for '50 bps or more' in rate hikes
The US central bank will need to raise short-term borrowing costs by at least another half of a percentage point to turn monetary policy "modestly restrictive" and get inflation back on track to ​the Federal Reserve's 2% goal, Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan said on Thursday.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This clip should pick up at about 1:27 or so into today's budget hearing. There we find ACLU's Sarah Wittington commenting on the NOPD budget followed by an unhinged and angry retort from CM Eugene Green who insists that "people want more surveillance" www.youtube.com/live/bf62YbD...
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2027 - Proposed Budget Hearings (Day 2)
YouTube video by New Orleans City Council
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know the coroner is not actually required to wear his lab coat, stethoscope, and... um... giant badge on a chain just to present his budget to city council, right?
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thrill as poochie returns to his home planet
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year ft.trib.al/XLBMDBD
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US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year
Dallas Fed survey finds energy executives believe high cost of fuel will persist
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing about the city budget process this year is that if it weren't so depressing it would actually be boring. Everyone is just playing very predictable roles and the outcome is already well understood.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026
Any cap on what a worker can earn means that it artificially shifts money from the worker, who earned it, to the manager, who didn't. Hope that helps.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something
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Bini @biniman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local journalists I'm begging you to attend this
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is essentially an anti-labor bill and should be rejected. I know it addresses a few things that need to find their own (and better) fixes. But none of it is worth what this bill does apnews.com/article/coll...
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Senate passes college sports bill that would rein in athlete payments and transfers
The Senate has passed a sweeping bipartisan bill that would regulate college sports. It's an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unres...
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thinking about how many times i had to listen to mike huckabee slimily grinning about democrats buying votes with certain folks with "uncle sugar" and trump's out here like "vote for me and get $5,000. that's not all: i will build the largest factory in the world, and you can take nasa to get there"
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess my thought here is that this is how it has always felt to me and people my age? I mean... yes, it is bad and we should probably do something about that. But I will never understand the pretense that it's something that just happened this decade. This is a 50 year status quo
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/06/2026
Debbie Harry in VIDEODROME saying “Don’t be afraid to let your body die.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every republican president starts a war in the middle east and destroys the economy
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They're asking John Georges about the propriety of aligning his media outlet with this widely hated plagiarism and pollution behemoth and he think the issue is that he ought to be a star. www.wwno.org/economy/2026...
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Other thing I’ll add here is AOC’s “unique window” she has to deal with is who else does she think does this in 2028 if not her? “Democratic socialism” isn’t nationally popular; she and a guy who constitutionally can’t run are.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you post a "walk and talk" style Instagram video on any topic at all, I am blocking you
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two really bad plays by Shough in the second half look like they will be the difference
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
INTENDED TO THROW FORWARD
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See the mistake the Raiders made was neglecting to pile up a 20 point cushion against this 2nd half juggernaut
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just watched Shaq bop up and down and wave to people while some music played for 10 minutes
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got em right where we want em
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is so adorable to see Kellen Moore get angry for the first time in his life
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is too early for us to be winning the game. I feel weird
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They're saying that when the dollar finally tanks, this will become the new reserve currency
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Where. The. Saints. Of. Football. Play.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just remembered the Saints are playing against Ironhead Heyward's son today. To this day, still my all time favorite Saint
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I remember when a small minority of us much preferred the idea of LSU pursuing Sumrall instead of Lane.....
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 26/09/2026
piss penalty, as called on ESPN Deportes:
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wait a minute. Where? Where is this actually true anymore? Particularly in the small casual class of eatery? Look around. I'd say you'll find a lot more like Honeys than you would anything offering the kind of plate lunches nostalgically described here. www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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