Andrew Tuozzolo

Felt like I saw this newspaper piece before... and I did? But in the alt weekly? 🤔

“Going Up” ⏫🔥

5 reasons your electric bill is surging Prices are up and projected to keep rising in 2026.

"America's power bills surge as AI strains an aging grid"
The price of electricity is up 32% in five years...
www.axios.com/2025/08/29/e...

Climate change will cost these states tens of billions by 2050 The Urban Institute's analysis is based on FEMA's Future Risk Index.

The gulf south is in the bullseye.
“Damage from extreme weather will cost $32 billion annually across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by 2050 in a "middle of the road" climate change scenario”

Assessing Crime At Midyear The trends aren't set in stone but they are clearly established.

New this week: crime plunged in the first half of 2025 including massive drops in murder and auto theft. My look at the nation's crime trends so far this year:

jasher.substack.com/p/assessing-...

Helena Moreno launches new TV ads, first of New Orleans mayor's race. See what she said. Helena Moreno launches first TV ads of New Orleans mayor's race. Here's what she said.

Read @rjamesfinn.bsky.social on @helenamorenola.com first big media campaign rolling out across all platforms.

Helena's ready to lead boldly with her heart and a real concrete vision to lead our city in a new direction 🚀

See more and watch the ads here: www.nola.com/news/politic...

Mamdani is really good at these videos. Turns out his mother was a filmaker - he has an almost preternatural ability to communicate authentically on these mediums. Everyone should do what they're good at!

From the NewOrleans community on Reddit: I'm Helena Moreno, City Council Vice-President and candidate for Mayor of New Orleans. Ask me anything! 🚀 Explore this post and more from the NewOrleans community

What if we just did some mediocre graphics but instead would really encourage people to read the answers in the actual AMA which are here!: www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...

Mayoral candidate Helena Moreno tells Reddit it's a ‘dangerous time for New Orleans’ The vice president of the New Orleans City Council says she will focus on blight, infrastructural woes and public transit, and praised New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for his push f...

Mayoral candidate Helena Moreno tells Reddit it's a ‘dangerous time for New Orleans’

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

correct - HM was an intern at the WH and eventually in the East Wing under First Lady Hillary Clinton.

How the reconciliation bill would change America An assault on the poor, on freedom and the future

New, from me:
They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible.

Stepping back, the bill is:
*an assault on the poor to benefit the richest
*an assault on freedom
*an assault on the future
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

Climate change disproportionately affects marginalized communities, EPA report finds "This report punctuates the urgency of equitable action on climate change," the EPA said.

Uneven climate risks across communities especially affect New Orleans.
"In New Orleans, for example, about 95% of Asian homeowners, 92% of Black homeowners and 86% of Hispanic homeowners are vulnerable to flooding, compared to 76% of white homeowners."

How an under-the-radar Democrat brings millions home to New Orleans from GOP-led Legislature At the state Capitol in Baton Rouge, he's New Orleans' most powerful advocate. Most New Orleanians don't know him.

Jimmy Harris delivers better than anyone in Lege, but does it quietly.

When I first started, we were both aides to powerful pols who were sometimes at odds. But Jimmy was always awesome to work with. Unpretentious and smart. Great @rjamesfinn.bsky.social piece.
www.nola.com/news/politic...

Blackout last week caused by unplanned plant outages and lack of transmission capacity:
www.nola.com/news/busines...
For years, fmr @nolautilities.bsky.social chair @helenamorenola.com fought for more transmission lines, but utilities said no... for e.g. 2021: www.all4energy.org/wp-content/u...

Uptime at nuclear plants is publicly available information. Including historical. Not going to be hard to find out when.

Either way, losing 2GW of generation isn’t easy to compensate for. That’s the equivalent of ~500k homes.

Don’t worry, they don’t absorb any downside risk when things go wrong. You do.

PSC: Nuclear shutdowns, bad forecasting led to blackouts State utility commissioner says one plant was offline for maintenance and another failed unexpectedly, forcing grid operator MISO to order rolling outages.

More here from @wwltv www.wwltv.com/article/news...

(These plants are run by… you guessed it: Entergy)

For those of you scoring latest Entergy power outage for New Orleans at home, a clue:
EIA.gov showing both Louisiana nuclear plants DOWN as of today shorting us 2GW(!!) of generation.

MISO runs the grid. Entergy/Cleco run power plants. If the plants don't make juice, MISO can't send it.

The River's Reckoning: The Mississippi created Louisiana, but can we contend with its new era? Louisiana’s reliance on the Mississippi means the mighty river can take away as much as it gives – and both the state and the nation are reaching a moment of reckoning. “The river’s constantly trying...

Massive feature in the T-P this morning about the multiple challenges to maintaining the Mississippi River as a shipping channel and as a source of fresh water amid rising seas, saltwater intrusion, and its own changing dynamics.
www.nola.com/news/environ...

When Michelle Obama wanted healthier food for kids and in gov programs = tyranny nanny state liberals.

When RFK Jr. and right wingers do it to even greater extent? = "Make America Healthy Again"
www.nola.com/news/healthc...

YouTube video by JP Morrell (#AskJP) Dan Stein Breaks Down The Insurance Crisis FEAT. Dan Stein

JP had Dan Stein on his little podcast thingy youtu.be/2Sp6Vqk2CUo?...

This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.

Good on @gregsargent.bsky.social for reporting this from “blue town that shifted red” rather than from a diner in Trump country where everyone loves Trump. Something for everyone here, no matter your theory of what happened in 2024.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...

New Orleans City Council passes new ordinance to address building collapses, blight The New Orleans City Council has approved an ordinance to bring in an engineer to look at structural damage and blight after several high-profile building collapses

New Orleans City Council passes new ordinance to address building collapses, blight

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

yea you rite. Helps to have a black-hole level force attention economy communicator at the center of your political project too.

Deepseek is a pretty important development, vis a vis the massive investment annoucements that have come with the AGI race. Good thread here.

where in New Orleans District E is "Rosedale" - I mean, there is location near mid-city/city park with a street (and restaurant) named "Rosedale" and in fact, is in District A. This is behind the old/new NOFD HQ.

Louisiana pays more for electricity from one of the least reliable grids, audit finds • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana residents pay more for electricity than the national average and live with one of the least reliable electric grids in the country.

Louisiana pays more for electricity from one of the least reliable grids, audit finds . @wesmuller.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/2025/01/24/l...

Mob Rule On Social Media and the Universal Experience of Poverty

I think Ganz is really on to something with this distinction between the old bourgeois right & the new right, the mob.

So excited to have Renée be campaign manager for HM for Mayor - we're focused on bringing much-needed change to our city and finally get things working again for the people of New Orleans. Let's goooo! 🚀