European Dissent NOLA

Also PSA: this is THE circumstance where you SHOULD simply repeat what your female colleague just said and was dismissed

Rocking out backstage with The Neighborhood Kids while @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social rocks “Killing in the Name”

As if the healthcare insurance industry isn't predatory enough, the suggestion that people can just "negotiate" a "deal" is absolutely fucking ludicrous.

Clearly he's lying, but i think we should treat this as true.

Okay. He was too stupid to know. As a result, he should retire as a political commentator, because Clearly he isn't good at the job.

Tbh we should treat more pundits and commentators this way

Soooo Charlotte is giving ICE HELL.

Thank you NC.

Boxing in cars , showing up at the hotels ...
White boys in topsiders are chasing them through the woods with Latinas in pajama pants and Black boys in wick dreads

so what was @petebuttigieg.bsky.social saying about identity issues ?

you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces

Ahmad has had very low donations, he asks for a special appeal if you can boost him or give to him, he’s been around bluesky fighting for his family’s survival a while. 💕💸🍉

Kudos to Khanna and Massie, folks were appropriately skeptical that they would succeed. Yes I know all of the other steps needed but I think that many were skeptical about a discharge petition succeeding. We should admit that.

Also just to be clear, I’m referring to journalists here!

People who want to provide news that can be life altering should consider getting a second (if not third) pair of eyes on their work.

My creative writing peeps yall keep doing y’all thing 🫡

House Votes to Release Epstein Files in New Setback for Trump Donald Trump’s firm control of Washington showed signs of weakening Tuesday as nearly all House Republicans voted to compel the Justice Department to release its files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstei...

The vote to release the Epstein files is not a political game. It’s about truth, accountability, and justice for the survivors whose lives were shattered by sick, powerful people. Survivors deserve more than answers — they deserve justice.

This is the first step toward that long-overdue justice.

If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud

They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.

THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES

Solidarity is the only way home

has always been

collective liberation or bust loves

Some Black Jews feel more ostracized from Jewish communities post-Oct. 7, survey finds In a survey of 104 Black Jews, 62% of respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7.

today's least surprising data:

"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"

these white women are definitely not tired of serving patriarchy bsky.app/profile/atru...

I think we gave these out at Halloween www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

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Because I know people in New Orleans don’t want to be complicit in this genocide, sending weapons to kill children. Our own people need help. We don’t need to be sending all this aid to Israel, sending them weapons when we need education and food programs in New Orleans.

It’s very important for veterans to be the people who are calling this kind of stuff out. We are people that participated in empire.

They took a Jewish American woman and put her in shackles and beat her, and threatened her with rape.

When our consulate came to see us, they said they couldn’t do anything for us, even getting water for us.

#nolasky

My next question would have been, "Mr. President, did you just refer to an American journalist and fellow citizen as a pig?"
And it should have been the next question from every other journalist present, after which, every follow-up should have pressed him further on the behavior.

Letters: Protestors won't stop despite the name-calling We are not Antifa.

You're NOT ANTIFA, Elaine?

You know that makes you a fascist, right?

Just admit you have no idea what you're talking about or that you really do support an autocratic, dictatorial government that takes away the voice of its people.

Words matter, Elaine.

#NOLAsky

www.nola.com/opinions/let...

As US Skips COP30 in Brazil, the Global South Fights for Climate Financing Environmentalist and human rights leader Kumi Naidoo speaks about climate justice and violence in Gaza and Sudan.

“We’re not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt.” Says Kumi Naidoo at COP30. “Global South countries are going to move ahead without the dominant polluters. Ideally, we want the U.S. at the table, but they cannot hold us hostage forever.”

I love him so much

Kelly Hayes’ writing and her Movement Memos Podcast episodes about AI have been immensely useful to me and I recommend them. In this clip from our recent conversation, Kelly talks about how AI is emerging in a context of alienation and dehumanization.

Put librarians in charge. They would very quietly and quickly just figure it out and then take no credit.

Pretty sure a librarian comes to my rescue about once a week but today three librarians collectively saved my life and I am very grateful. Good luck figuring out what the page numbers of things 100 years old and only held in special collections are while on a copyediting deadline without them.

It’s outrageous that ICE is holding immigrant New Yorkers in such deplorable conditions - and refusing to even let elected officials inside. We’re proud of @bradlander.bsky.social and other electeds for standing up for immigrants and refusing to let ICE destroy our civil liberties

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.

We have to be SHARP on the left right now.