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Finding Food in Northeast Louisiana Best believe I will always always always come back around to food security. People gotta eat every day. Here are some resources, ideas, and calls to action for feeding the 12 parishes of Northeast Louisiana.

Finding Food in Northeast Louisiana

Best believe I will always always always come back around to food security. People gotta eat every day. Here are some resources, ideas, and calls to action for feeding the 12 parishes of Northeast Louisiana.

I’m bout to be a social worker not allowed to “practice” social work This is the story about why I'm about to not have social work certification one way or the other in September. Stressful things happen and I'm a proud hater. They'll take the 3 letters, but it's not like they gone take my three degrees or things I have learned. The state doesn't own my knowledge.

I’m bout to be a social worker not allowed to “practice” social work

This is the story about why I'm about to not have social work certification one way or the other in September. Stressful things happen and I'm a proud hater. They'll take the 3 letters, but it's not like they gone take my three…

Contemporary Music from Kinshasa So I was on Bandcamp, and I saw this article about music in the DR Congo. And I was like "YES, please!" There are a bunch of songs in the original article, so your ears get treated to a mix of flavors that are innovative, weird, messy, carefully crafted, and Congolese.

Contemporary Music from Kinshasa

So I was on Bandcamp, and I saw this article about music in the DR Congo. And I was like "YES, please!" There are a bunch of songs in the original article, so your ears get treated to a mix of flavors that are innovative, weird, messy, carefully crafted, and…

The Scramble for Africa & Congo’s Genocide: A Comprehensive History DR Congo has been put through hell at the hands of greedy men in its history. From Leopold II of Belgium to Mobutu to the Kabila duo to today, it has been a, genocidal mess. The people have suffered so these men and people in other countries could get rich and people all over the world (including us) could exploit their resources.

The Scramble for Africa & Congo’s Genocide: A Comprehensive History

DR Congo has been put through hell at the hands of greedy men in its history. From Leopold II of Belgium to Mobutu to the Kabila duo to today, it has been a, genocidal mess. The people have suffered so these men and people in…

Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another Ezra Klein wrote a NYT piece about the divide in the American Jewish diaspora over Palestine. The Israeli Occupation is still starving Palestinians in Gaza while there are people and experienced organizations ready to bring food by land and sea and distribute to the whole of Gaza.

Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another

Ezra Klein wrote a NYT piece about the divide in the American Jewish diaspora over Palestine. The Israeli Occupation is still starving Palestinians in Gaza while there are people and experienced organizations ready to bring food by land and sea…

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance Kellie Carter Jackson is in conversation with the reader, telling both personal and public narratives in a way that illustrates her knowledge of the subject from life and study. I get the sense that she wants us to understand how we (Black people) got here - the many large and small acts of revolution, protection, force, flight, and joy through which our ancestors asserted their right to exist and made our existence possible. She outright states she wants us "to grapple with the causes and consequences of [violence], and to think outside the binary of violence and nonviolence."

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson is in conversation with the reader, telling both personal and public narratives in a way that illustrates her knowledge of the subject from life and study. I get the sense that she wants us to understand how we (Black people)…

Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum cuts One of the striking things about this book, other than the case itself, is that it talks about and is evidence of poor and working people organizing against the abuse that is the state and power structures. In the background writing, they talk about how sharecroppers and workers were taking radical action against economic and racial oppression. It talks about positive relationships between Black people and leftist organizations and ideas. It is a body of artwork - even just the 1935 graphics without the modern foreword - that is more rooted and bolder than what many artists today would dare create and publicize.

Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum cuts

One of the striking things about this book, other than the case itself, is that it talks about and is evidence of poor and working people organizing against the abuse that is the state and power structures. In the background writing, they talk about how…

V for Vendetta #1-10 Now was as good a time as any to read some explicitly antifascist comics. Plus, I wanted to see what made Moore disown the movie.

V for Vendetta #1-10

Now was as good a time as any to read some explicitly antifascist comics. Plus, I wanted to see what made Moore disown the movie.

After Roe: What can happen and your action ideas Dobbs v Jackson left bodily autonomy up to the states, and the effects will be many and not good for millions of vulnerable people. So I'm gonna guess what you're thinking about doing.

After Roe: What can happen and your action ideas

Dobbs v Jackson left bodily autonomy up to the states, and the effects will be many and not good for millions of vulnerable people. So I'm gonna guess what you're thinking about doing.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Columbia: "We continue to be deeply concerned about Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi"
Also Columbia:

One podcasts I like that I think fits that is Batch by Bitter Southerner Magazine.

I asked on Threads and nobody said anything, so let me try here:

What are some podcasts by/from the South/Southerners that y'all like? Specifically ones that acknowledge injustices and oppression (economic, racial, gender, environmental, sexual, religious, etc) and challenge oppressive narratives?

We will be stronger if folks are willing to admit that genocide is wrong, Palestinian lives are precious, and apartheid and attacks on civil rights in the name of “Jewish safety” are a Christian nationalist-driven Trojan horse that will destroy us if we don’t shut it down

Once again, this time in the middle of the night, Israeli airplanes bombed Beirut. 4 people were martyred. This time there's no "rockets from south" or anything, but ofc ppl will still osensibly claim this attack as self-defence/justified. It's illegal and barbaric.

...a few dozen or a couple hundred people pushed it the other way so they were all NO? They expect to lose New Orleans, Caddo, BR - but us rural people? Gotta sting! Scares 'em even more #Louisiana

4. How much more embarrassing would it have been for Jeff if those rural parishes that might have had 55% yes and 45% no or even 50/50 with just a few votes more making it YES, had gotten a little more love and information and (continued...)

3. Some commented ppl in their parish that didn't vote NO on all 4 felt misled. As much amazing outreach was done in the lead-up weeks, ppl were missed. Always room for improvement. (My 1st awareness about the amendments came from following Power Coalition online. Nothing on the ground/in my mail.)

Reposting from Threads:

Reasons I keep bringing up rural areas.
1. I'm from a rural parish and know how we get discounted
2. 29 of 40 rural parishes voted NO on all 4

Continued...
#Louisiana

Iberia voted NO on all of them except 2 (the misleading one about teacher pay/ed funds).

Beauregard voted NO on 2 & 3 (the one to put more kids in adult prisons). Bossier, and St. Tammany parishes said YES on amendments 1, 2, and 4, but NO to 3.

#Louisiana

The 11 yes on everything parishes were:

Acadia, Cameron, De Soto, Grant, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Livingston, Sabine, Vermillion, Vernon, and West Carroll.

#Louisiana (continued...)

Color coded map of Louisiana showing 49 of 64 parishes colored green because they voted NO on all 4 constitutional amendments March 29 2025.

Please share the updated map! The original had 3 errors (a 7, Iberia, and Beauregard), and I deleted the post to try to slow the spread of those errors.

So we have 64 parishes and 49 of them said NO on EVERYTHING. 11 of them said yes on everything. (Continued...) #louisiana

Color coded map of Louisiana showing 49 parishes voted NO on all 4 constitutional amendments, Iberia voted NO on 1, 3, and 4, Beauregard voted NO on 2 & 3, Bossier and St Tammany voted NO on only 3, and 11 voted YES on all.

Here is the corrected map

Color coded map of Louisiana parishes showing most parishes voted NO on all 4 constitutional amendments March 2025

Corrected map thanks to @laurieforla.bsky.social. Beauregard gets its own color for the 2 and 2 split, and Iberia is updated to NO on 1/3/4 instead of 1/2/4. #louisiana

Thank you! I'm glad I posted here and you caught that!

Louisiana got something to say: March 2025 election talk Louisiana showed up and smacked down all four of Jeff Landry's harmful amendments. And I posted through the results rolling in and made a color-coded map.

Louisiana got something to say: March 2025 election talk

Louisiana showed up and smacked down all four of Jeff Landry's harmful amendments. And I posted through the results rolling in and made a color-coded map.

I think it might be a couple weeks before we get more broken down statistics. Not sure if it will include how many of what demographic voted which way, though. Haven't seen that in the past.

And that's part of why I created. So they start to understand how complex we are and cut that shit out.