26 items your pantry needs before an emergency, plus 11 basics before a storm hits the Gulf nola.com/entertainment_…

Gov. Tim Walz brought universal free school lunches to children. Gov. Jeff Landry and the LA GOP supermajority eliminated lunch breaks for child workers. The GOP doesn’t give a damn about children. #lalege #lagov

It’s a wrap! We made our first goal but need to fund this week and next week to smash our 70,000 meal delivered goal before summer’s end. Head to toupsfamilymeal.com to donate and feed the kids!

The incompetence is stunning 🤩

🧵 The assertion that a singular Mylar balloon can shut down our entire water system is completely ridiculous. Sewerage & Water Board (SWBNO) has a variety of mechanisms available that should have kicked in when their power was interrupted.

Watching the SWB New Orleans press conference: Exec Dir revealed ALL 4 pumps were being supplied by Entergy. This is contrary to usual diversification of power supplies for water pumping. Entergy power outage took out all four pumps. Took total of 50 mins to restore pumping.

I SAID STICK TO THE SCRIPT

Police setting up for their sweep of the Bywater naval base.

And still zero functioning enforcement. Why are we passing exemptions if we can’t police the the illegal units and legally permitted ones? Seems to be at odds with the previous approaches on this issue. Sword of Damocles etc etc….

Today’s City Council STR exemptions. What exactly is being approved? I’m just gonna post pictures of the applications for STR exemptions that are getting approved. And the CPC recommendation. 🧵

Buoy In Gulf Of Mexico Detects record 95 degree Water Temperature deeperblue.com/buoy-in-gulf-o…

Our city we live in reflects the choices we make when incentivizing development. $109 Million in property tax exemptions that produced 175 jobs that pay on average 36k.

BREAKING: US crude oil production has officially hit a record 13.4 million barrels per day. Daily oil production has increased by 22% over the last 4 years. Since 2008, production has skyrocketed 350% from ~3.8 million barrels per day. The US is now the world’s largest oil

New national crime report ranks New Orleans among top cities seeing reduction in violent crime | Click on the image to read the full story wdsu.com/article/new-na…

I’m so damn tired. #FeedTheKids

This week's cover story Gambit is on how New Orleans bookstores help bring communities together nola.com/gambit/news/th… via Gambit

New Orleans crime rates have fallen faster than other US cities. Here's why, group says. nola.com/news/crime_pol…

That’s a Attorney General Liz Murrill #LizzieLoss for those keeping track

Louisiana can’t keep kids cool and won’t feed them but Jeff Landry will use our tax dollars to indoctrinate kids into Christian nationalism

Salt in Mississippi River again threatens drinking water. Corps to build sill for third year running nola.com/news/environme… via @nolanews