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Lifelong Community Organizer in the American South. Based in New Orleans.

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What to Know About Chemicals and Parkinson’s Disease Some doctors say the chemicals all around us may be increasing our risk of Parkinson’s disease, the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disorder in the world.

Even WSJ is pro-filtered air and water and more: "Some doctors say the chemicals all around us—from golf courses to dry cleaners—may be increasing our risk of Parkinson’s disease wsj.com/health/welln... via @WSJ

31.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: a Windfall for Rural Hospitals Urban hospitals’ attempts to avoid Medicaid cuts yielded huge new subsidies for red state providers.

Cascade Risk Model:“every 10% increase in rural food insecurity, the region faces a 7–12% rise in ER use, a 3–5% rise in mortality, and a 1-in-3 chance of hospital insolvency. If food insecurity rises 20%, stress burden rises 15%, and hospital strain rises 25%.. www.city-journal.org/article/rura...

31.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hurricane Melissa Hurricane Melissa is the most powerful storm to make a direct impact on Jamaica. CORE is responding both there and in Haiti.

CORE, a group we have worked with in New Orleans, and was founded by Sean Penn who came to New Orleans to help during Hurricane Katrina. Please donate if you can and make this information available on social media sites. H Melissa could have been U.S. www.coreresponse.org/hurricane-me...

31.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump's govt violate the Constitution, act as Narco-terrorists (except they kill innocent fishermen), wanton murder is normalized and becomes an act of state.

31.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Fine job by the NYT editors here, yet where is their complicity in ensuring that we had Trump era 1 and 2? "Are We Losing Our Democracy?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

31.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Threat of Lost Food Benefits Is Rattling the Vulnerable in Louisiana

Throwback Racist Imagery -- photos belie the fact that Louisiana recipients are far more white than Black. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u... @nytimes.com

31.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate

President Click-Bait: There must be a list of the hottest historic headlines that he chooses from each day to make up a new way to commandeer the media. Of course, "no country has tested since 2017." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

31.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely, Study Suggests - Inside Climate News Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.

Research suggests climate change played a significant role in Hurricane Melissa’s path of destruction.

30.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

Democrats say Trump plan to withhold SNAP funding is illegal share.google/dtfmhCOWb5Hs...

30.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So he advocates Starvation?

30.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Louisiana’s child poverty rate increase leads US, according to study
www.louisianaweekly.com/la-s-child-p...

30.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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U.S. Trade War Drives Canada to Fast-Track Port Expansion Officials say the upgrade of Montreal’s port will help Canadian importers and exporters find alternatives to the U.S.

Trump's Tariffs-long-term damage to the US Economy continues exponential growth. "Officials say an upgrade of Montreal’s port will help Canadian importers and exporters find alternatives to the U.S." www.wsj.com/articles/u-s... via @WSJ

30.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...

Pay to Pardon for a mere $2Billion:
The richest man in crypto needed a way back into the U.S. CZ used Binance to bolster a Trump family venture. He received a pardon last week. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

30.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

29.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 32514    🔁 14503    💬 1326    📌 1050

Meta's Louisiana AI data center--Remember when opening a new plant meant jobs for locals, and taxes for government? Enter the Bajillionaire Cla$$ who defy all of that, the environment and will cost more to the locals in ruined habitat, higher utility rates, etc. www.nola.com/news/busines...

29.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

While this scenario faces so many coastal cities, it is encouraging to see the kinder more gentle 3 year movement and resettlement plan provided with land and a local voice.

28.10.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ABC: Joe Biden received the lifetime achievement award at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston on Sunday.

Congratulations, a well deserved honor!
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

28.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 750    🔁 268    💬 28    📌 7

families who receive SNAP benefits have an able bodied adult, 89% of the time this person is employed

28.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report Elon Musk's Grokipedia, developed by his company xAI, went live on Monday after months of MAGA railing against the popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia. But a new report points out that Musk's version of Wikipedia appears to be "cribbing" information from the original version. Musk promised to ...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia, developed by his company xAI, went live on Monday after months of MAGA railing against the popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

28.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 33    🔁 21    💬 13    📌 4
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Contaminated meat linked to 1 in 5 UTIs, study finds A four-year study identified a surprising cause of nearly 1 in 5 urinary tract infections: E. coli bacteria from contaminated meat.

Women in the study were more than twice as likely as men to have UTIs caused by meat-origin bacteria — nearly 20% compared with 8.5%. increases of 12% for every 10% poverty increase. highest in turkey at 82%, followed by chicken at 58%, pork at 54% and beef at 47%. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

28.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you think warrantless roundups, the military in our cities & soaring prices/tariffs are bad, then there's 1 way to stop it:

Winning the House majority in '26, but MAGA's trying to cheat by eliminating Democratic districts.

#VoteYesonProp50 to save democracy!
Volunteer today:
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27.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 406    🔁 273    💬 13    📌 11

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

27.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 35783    🔁 13655    💬 1040    📌 625
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Appeals Court Delivers Another Blow to Voting Rights Act Read more here.

UPDATE: The 8th Circuit has declined to rehear a case challenging Arkansas’ voter assistance restrictions. This means Section 208 of the VRA — which lets voters get help from someone of their choice — can't be enforced by private citizens in seven states.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

24.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 283    🔁 152    💬 9    📌 6

Keep this in mind the next time some pundit refers to “flyover country,” “coastal elitism,” and the conservative “heartland.”

27.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 670    🔁 165    💬 3    📌 3
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."

27.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 2788    🔁 1075    💬 103    📌 71

Always women, of a certain size, not large.

26.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blackout 2025: 15,723 attempts to erase Black progress uncovered www.louisianaweekly.com/blackout-202...

26.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fear Grips a Caribbean Nation in the Shadow of U.S. Boat Strikes In Trinidad and Tobago, fishermen are staying home and a family mourns following airstrikes on alleged drug boats.

US terrorist strikes against fishermen are actually killing Trinidadians not Venezuelans who fish in those waters. Now many stay home and some mourn their dead. wsj.com/world/americ...

26.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Louvre Heist Investigation Yields First Arrests Police made the arrests as one of the suspects was preparing to take a flight out of France.

No big initiatives to respond to the crime of the "every man" in France after the epic scandal exposed by heroine Gisele Pelicot or to the increase in general sexual violence, yet major results for taking a blow at aristocratic opulence and overindulgence.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...

26.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Warren Buffett likened it to Americans penchant for gambling.
Someone (else) makes money when people gamble so that's why it's happening.

26.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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