Louisiana, pay attention.

News flash: crime is DOWN. Again.

also:
-the economy is good, not bad.
-the 2020 election was legit, not stolen.
-the IRS is collecting overdue taxes from rich people, not sending armed agents to your house
-biden is an effective leader, trump is going on trial tomorrow

World paid little attention to Sudan's war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger apnews.com/article/sudan-…

There are 3 abandoned puppies under the bridge at Oretha Castle and Calliope. 311 and SPCA can’t help immediately #nola #nola twitter

While the world’s eyes are on Iran and Israel, Israeli settlers are terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank with the backing of their government.

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The nice thing about the state party leadership election stuff being (mostly) done is that now we can all focus on the much more important stuff, like stopping the completely hair-brained attempt to rewrite Louisiana’s constitution in a couple weeks

In the 18 years since Katrina, Louisiana’s southernmost territories had started to hollow out, steadily accelerating their quiet migration northward as Louisianans fled their coast.

It is, indeed, the next great migration already well underway. propublica.org/article/climat…

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The soldiers from Louisiana sit in folding chairs and recline on the beds of Humvees, eyeing the thicket of razor wire that blankets the bank of the Rio Grande and waiting for a threat that rarely materializes.
nola.com/news/politics/… #lalege #lagov

Can I keep it real funky? Blue states don’t prop up Mississippi, they prop up the state’s most vulnerable people. The ruling class of Mississippi would love for *federal support to vanish so that it has an excuse to rain down violence on the poorest and Blackest people in America

This🧵⤵️ is a good look at how the Republicans are responding to Iran's attack on Israel by attacking....the U.S. President.

IT'S NOT NORMAL. The news media must not share these vile comments without facts & context. No stenography.

Siri, show me another example of gop hypocrisy:

North Dakota Senate Votes To Expand Free Meals For Its Members — And Not For Kids huffpost.com/entry/north-da…

*If it’s not any better than this year, I think our rural schools will cave,” she said. “I think that’s probably the purpose—that if we have less schools, then the monies can go to privates and charters.* Incredible reporting from Oklahoma kfor.com/news/local/she…

Shut the fuck up about how Israel wouldn’t have been attacked if Trump were president.

Iran attacked US when Trump was president.

HBCUs accept more than 2X white students as Ivy Leagues accept Black students. And HBCUs offer minority scholarships to white students.

Maybe spend less time banning history books and more time actually reading them. 😑

The prestige economy of academia — which rewards you for publishing books or articles read by several dozen people, but not public books or articles read by thousands or tens of thousands — is part of the crisis of the humanities. It’s both an intellectual AND a labor issue. 1/

I’m disgusted by people gleefully awaiting a war between iran and Israel happy to sacrifice the lives of people living there and in the surrounding countries to their own bloodlust & immature ideas of violent revolution. You’re treating people like video game characters

Agreed. Netanyahu's recklessness and political cravenness is putting millions of lives in danger.

Motion to ship all of the world’s autocrats and want to be autocrats to a radioactive island somewhere to fight it out amongst themselves and leave the rest of humanity the hell alone to live our lives.

In these sensitive hours, please do some due diligence and make sure you are not amplifying fake news of which there will be plenty and, when amplified enough, will make a real difference in the real world for real people