When the Louisiana State University football team loses in an upset, it causes judges in Louisiana to add 1,296 days of punishment to juvenile defendants (& 136 extra days of jail time!) as the judges are grumpy. Judges with degrees from LSU are harshest. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

It is truly some bullshit to have an election during Mardi Gras. nola.com/news/politics/…

Just putting the predatory Whiteness right there in the business name LMAO

From now on, I only vote for politicians who vow to work to end “Citizens United”. If you’re not interested in overturning the ruling through legislation, I’m not interested in voting for you.

If what city leaders are truly doing is a slow war of attrition against the music community, it’s working. But if they’re at all interested in doing what’s right for performers and our city, they’ll permanently reopen the Royal Street pedestrian mall nola.com/gambit/music/j…

Imp rpt from ⁦The Associated Press⁩ ⁦⁦Matt Sedensky⁩ - “In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance, as the stipend is called, is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.” apnews.com/article/nursin…

This is Joshua Cain of Saxony Holdings, LLC, who seems determined to re-write the history of slavery in the South, while also making a bucket of money off of short-term rentals. Thread 🧵

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” #JamesBaldwin

Good old fashion American Exceptionalism hard at work. apple.news/A5CCrJkc5RmGY1…

Former President indicted, fed judge repeals life saving care in ACA, Supreme Court takes away reproductive rights, Opposition party all in on proxy war with nuke armed adversary, states banning trans identity , climate destruction imminent. Time to spark one I guess.

Too good not to retweet.

I know plenty of people who have been shot or someone who has a loved one killed by a gun. I’ve personally been threatened with gun violence so many times I probably can’t count it. Same for multiple friends. apple.news/AfuuBe5arSRmzf…

If you’re a news agency that works with the FBI to expose leakers and whistleblowers, you’re not a news agency, you’re a government asset and cannot ever be trusted. nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…

Mandalorian 3:7- I guess the Mandalorians forgot they have missiles on their jet packs or those cool tiny missiles that kill multiple enemies?

⁦NOLA.com⁩ , where Doug McCash ends his article about the new sobriety tent at Jazz Fest by telling addicts how to get a bourbon cocktail from their new sponsor Wild Turkey. nola.com/entertainment_…

The Palestinian people are not Hamas. We must all demand an end to this insane genocide and call on our leaders to withdraw their support from this brutality.