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Board Certified Veterinary Dentist™️, gulfsouthvetdentist.com. Originally San Franciscan, former Alaskan, current New Orleanian. Mom of 3 amazing human kids and various pets. Always curious, proudly liberal democrat. She/her. No 🚫 DMs please
This is why we don’t say crazy shit like “screw the South.” Ain’t nobody got more practice organizing against authoritarianism than Black people in the South. While others of us despaired, they were doing what they always been doing: working and organizing and fighting.
On the one hand Democrats won which makes me happy, but on the other hand Republicans are very sad, which also makes me happy
I wrote about how the midterms truly prove how much Americans hate data centers and the big tech and AI companies that fund them. And how, like the Ancient Mariner, the US tech industry now must wear the rotting, squawking albatross of MAGA around their necks, due to their own stupid actions.
Maybe Telling Americans They're Useless Eaters Who Must Perish for the Glorious AI Revolution Was a Bad Idea: Midterm Thoughts
Americans really, really, really hate data centers. Lest you harbored any residual doubt about this, the midterm elections just proved it. Take a gander at these apocalyptic numbers for data center a...
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hell yeah Wendell. I keep saying this is Civil Rights Era stuff. Compromising (or being apathetic or unwilling to join in) makes you that kind of person you don't want to think of yourself as from the 50s/60s - what King called "the white moderate."
Mamdani: We cannot mistake last night as the end of the story. Last night creates an opportunity for us, and now it is up to us as the Democratic Party to fulfill that opportunity and deliver on hope in a way that Americans can live, breathe, and feel every single day.
Really, really important for Democrats to understand that if we allow "enforcing the rule of law" to be redefined as "getting even" we are cooked.
MS NOW@ms.now · last wk."The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
Q: What radicalized you? Me: Jamie Davis losing a winnable Senate seat bc the Corporate Democrats running the party couldn't be bothered with Louisiana Fuck them all
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · last wk.It took 1.3 million dollars of last minute dark money, an appearance by trump, double the name recognition on Letlow's part, and an endorsement from the Governor, all to beat a random farmer from Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The LA GOP ain't unbeatable bruh.
My LA Senate election takeaway: This race shatters this myth of inevitability that the GOP will continue to dominate in the South. A no-name farmer challenged a sitting GOP House Rep and loss by about 1% with no help from the DNC--and a 100% grassroots campaign--in a state Trump won by 22 points
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · last wk.Win or lose, with a little over 80% of the vote in, almost all parishes in Louisiana shifted to the left by double digits
Fuck that. Consequences are the barest minimum
MS NOW@ms.now · last wk."The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
The most hopeful I’ve been in a Louisiana election in a loooong time
Dj@djsoke.bsky.social · last wk.The two closest senate races in the country could be Mississippi and Louisiana
Waite: “On the eve of a national midterm election, the Times reached all the way over to the Book Review & parted ways with a writer in the genre that most often presents rape scenes from the perspective of the victim, in stories that insistently end with the victim triumphant, beloved, and happy.”
i’ll let this anchorage daily news op-ed have the last word here: “Lower 48 news outlets have a history of failing to understand Alaska, and only randomly and quickly coming north to dig for gold, though often just taking home dirt.”
Opinion: New York Times Peltola story wins the Fox News Unfair and Unbalanced Award
New York Times journalists have allowed half of the story to elude them — the half that most Alaskans know, and Lower 48 reporters should too.
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Re-upping as I'm working on a story about La. races: ‘Highly Undemocratic’: Five Louisiana Congressional Candidates, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, file for election using disconnected phone numbers www.lamplighter.news/p/highly-und...
‘Highly Undemocratic’: Five Louisiana Congressional Candidates, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, file for election using disconnected phone numbers
Declaring a string of 0s as his phone number, Johnson is one of eight candidates with a series 0s or 5s listed as their phone number in their bid for public office.
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Rainy night here but really hoping we get some kids to come take this off our hands. And I will take any excuse to dress up! (Halloween is my FAVORITE!)
Easy access to government? "Because the board has no website, a notice posted somewhere in the courthouse will do. “Back door?” one board member jokes. “Doesn’t have to be the front door,” Busada replies with a laugh.” www.lamplighter.news/p/from-space...
From SpaceX to School Closures: The Right to Public Participation
Votes that facilitated SpaceX’s Louisiana spaceport, drawn by a $27.5 billion incentive package, were held in violation of Louisiana Open Meetings Law, residents allege.
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They even have recliners sometimes now so…
Rooting for the Brewers all the way because they SWEPT the fucking Dodgers and I will have a warm spot in my heart for them forever because of that! #FTD #gobrewers
I spayed a cat today for the first time in probably a decade. Kind of like riding a bike, though not at all the same. #vetdentistextraordinaire
I can’t remember why or how or on whose recommendation I preordered Winterset Hollow long enough ago that it was a surprise when it arrived, but many MANY thanks to the the universe for this wonderful book! #booksky #WintersetHollow @thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Realized yesterday that when we switched her car insurance to our daughter, and the agent transferred her to a secure line to enter her info, the AI charged someone else’s card. Just rearranged or made up numbers? Human agent can’t explain it but when it’s disputed, her ins would have been canceled
It's tiiiiiiime!🎅🏿🤶🏿🧑🏿🎄 🎄The annual #NOLATwitter #NOLASky Xmas party. 📅Dec 13 2026 🕰3PM 🍸12 Mile Limit 500 S. Telemachus As usual: the gathering is also a toy drive for the New Orleans Women&Children's shelter. Wish list attached. PLEASE RETWEET!! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.
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