Chelsea Stieber

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José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen adds 2nd Location for Federal Workers to get Free Lunch - PoPville 701 Pennsylvania Ave, NW photo by Josh From an email: "As the federal government shutdown continues to impact families across the Washington region, World Central Kitchen, founded by Chef José Andrés,...

José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen adds 2nd Location for Federal Workers to get Free Lunch www.popville.com/2025/10/jose...

Yes! Email me cstieber at tulane.edu

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Jamaica braces for its worst storm in history Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is set to be Jamaica's worst storm in history.

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm?

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling. Watching disappearances in our community leaves psychological trauma, but we can counter it with our solidarity.

truthout.org/articles/ice...

Look at this photo.

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

The single biggest determining factor of whether you paid to tear down the East Wing is how much you're spending on data centers this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

lol thought you might have seen the unhinged post on the h-France listserv today is all!

h/t @mbedecarre.bsky.social 😱😱

Met my first real, live internet rotted conspiracist in an Uber this afternoon (‘twas a captive audience situation) and I’m pretty sure we just have to blow up the internet

FIU hosts Argentine President Javier Milei Since his triumph over Sergio Massa, a former minister of economy, in a runoff election, Milei has been a notable figure, known for his robust exchanges with media and other Argentine political figures.

news.fiu.edu/2024/fiu-hos...

there is currently an advertisement for FIU featuring a visit from Javier Milei to the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom in the C terminal at DCA

Everything is awful but the college kids are alright. Handwritten color coded notes in the library!! Brain group only for life!!

Man before his time etc etc…but also libraries! But then again, maybe not

Camp of the Saints The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.

africasacountry.com/2019/03/camp...

Oh I wrote about it, just a while ago… didn’t have this on my bingo card. but I should have

10 months late to this but I’ve just been alerted to their existence and…WTAF

Iykyk

But seriously is anyone on the h-France distribution list today?? @paulecohen.bsky.social @laprofmme.bsky.social @parisnoire.bsky.social looking at you

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Would you believe me if I told you I was already starting to turn when the “see you in court” story about Mills got re-upped last week? I swear

Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book

Maybe he’s going to flip it?

Light work for the metaphor department

Thieves rob priceless jewels from Paris' Louvre in brazen heist The robbery took around four minutes, Culture Minister Rachida Dati told TF1. Le Parisien newspaper identified one piece of jewelry recovered outside the museum as the crown of Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugénie.

But have we considered that they might have been stealing it *for* the Bonapartist prétendant
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Quand Julia Gaffield fait le portrait de Jean-Jacques Dessalines et de son leg de liberté ... Julia Gaffield, professeur agrégé d'histoire à William & Mary, à travers “AVENGED AMERICA …JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES and Haiti's Fight for Freedom”, 340 pages, publié par Yale University Press, a fait p...

I'm very grateful for this article on my book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste! @yalepress.bsky.social
lenouvelliste.com/article/2609...

Oof yes: that they are essentially being forced to become dependent and then will have to pay for more, better, etc

A related form of this is pointing out that the usage limits will surely get worse and more expensive over time. These tools are heavily subsidized and in their growth phase.

Louisiana is building three gas-powered plants to meet the energy “needs” of this unregulated abomination of a Meta data center in northern Louisiana bsky.app/profile/chel...

Or when the power goes out, both of which are all but guaranteed to happen more frequently with the *massive* amounts of energy data centers require and their exacerbation of climate disasters like hurricanes, extreme wind, floods…all of which historically do indeed make the internet unuseable