This Barbie is a Plesiosaur

Looking for my #NOLATwitter, #NOLABluesky, and #tnrt folks! I want to follow all of over here! 💙🩵💙🩵

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

LOLOLOL 😂😂🤣

Facts. ⚜️

Trying this again! This place was pretty dead last I was here, more than a year ago, but it feels more lively now! Who should I follow that I haven’t found yet?

This seems fine…

Funny, but nope. Organize.

Arkansas gets to stay because it’s very pretty.

Many moons ago, when I was displaced in Chicago, I dreamed about the day I’d finally be put in charge of plate tectonics, with plans to rearrange the midsection of the country so N.O. & Chicago were closer together by eliminating MO, northern LA & southern IL. Glad to see others thinking similarly!

“I Don’t Think They Care”: Virginia Is Slow-Walking the Fix to a Wrongful Voter Purge With elections weeks away, state officials admitted improperly removing some people from voter rolls. Local advocates say the state is doing too little, too late to remedy the harm.

Youngkin stopped automatically restoring the voting rights of people who lost it over a conviction.

And, we now know, he oversaw an illegal purge of people from voter rolls who hadn’t even lost their rights!

All to thump his chest as tough on crime for elections.

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Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.

An executive order restored the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians, but many weren't told.

A coalition of activists has now reached 89,000 people to inform them and help them register them to vote — nearly 60% of those affected. boltsmag.org/kentucky-vot...

Yes! That is a definite honorable mention!

Ever wonder why Google search keeps getting worse? They're substituting your actual search query with something else--e.g. a brand name--that earns them more ad money.

I really love this new trend where terrible people from New Orleans (Michael Lewis, Walter Isaacson) write about terrible people destroying our world (Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk.) New Orleans finally gets to participate in wealth-building! For those two dudes! Late-stage capitalism is so fun!!

McCarthy won't do this because he believes that as soon as he cooperates with Dems, he will lose his position. And his position is more important to him than shutting down the government

By refusing to bring the bipartisan, Senate-negotiated CR to the floor, Speaker McCarthy shows that he prioritizes his own powerful job over the state of the nation. That’s not how public service should work.

There’s an Easy Way to End Government Shutdowns Forever No other rich democracy endures America’s brand of budgetary chaos. We didn’t either until the Carter administration.

end government shutdowns forever with one weird trick: prospect.org/politics/202...

Student loan debt forgiveness becomes a reality for more than 804,000 who paid for decades A Biden administration review found that for some student loan borrowers, years of payments hadn’t added up to an erased balance. That's being fixed.

More than 800K borrowers had their loans discharged after the Biden administration identified errors in their repayment record, and fixed the problem.
Good government matters.
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Here’s the thing—you don’t want to work. None of us really do. We want hobbies, passions, things that drive & excite us that aren’t tied to salary, sustenance. Banging on the drum all day seems appealing. But you ALSO don’t want to play so, now, I’m concerned. Feels compulsive, obsessive, unhealthy

Yep—my grammar school/high school teachers were radical leftist nuns.

Everyone knows how to send birthday party invitations. But not everyone knows that you should also send a card to the people who AREN'T invited to inform them why you don't want them there. It's called politeness.

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Important program, tell your friends! All the bad press about the price of the booster was RICHLY deserved, but I worry about it deterring people who might not hear about how to get them for free, whether or not they have insurance.

Free Covid rapid tests are back. The goal here: Encourage use AND maintain warm domestic rapid test production capacity, critical for both Covid and future disease threats. It's been a boom-'n-bust phenomenon for producers so far. www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/f...

Concerning, if true

It smells very specifically like Jesuit priests, to me. Also see: cigars

Incredibly helpful for newbies like me!

Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan.

Happy National Voter Registration Day

Make sure everyone you know checks their registration

Also a good day to remember registration is unnecessary and voter suppression.

Republicans know this because North Dakota hasn't had registration since 1951. And you never hear them complain about it.

Looking for #NOLATwitter up in here!