Guest column: Don’t surrender privacy to drone surveillance Drones as first responders, or DFR, advertise themselves as an easy solution to police staffing woes. They’re marketed as force multipliers and promise quick, low-effort deployments to calls for servi...

My guest column arguing for our privacy rights and tax dollars with @theadvocatebr.bsky.social lis up www.nola.com/opinions/gue...

Have someone that looks at you like this

Sidewalk view looking at the front facade of a white house's front porch with pointed overhang. The front door is to the extreme right. There are two long, vertical windows to the left of the door, spaced out enough to span the length of the porch. Ob the front facing portion of the overhanging part of the house are decorative metal flowers of varying sizes and colors.

House flowers, New Orleans

Build me an army worthy of Mordor!

Rain puddle reflection, S Claiborne at Jefferson, New Orleans

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

What Louisiana has and continues to do to Calvin Duncan is so fucked up. It's a wild story.

My impression on meeting with various disaster related organizations (government and non-government) around the state in the last two years, is that things have pretty much gone backwards since Katrina. Not in a linear way, but that is where we ended up

Paying every local influencer to be a hype man is superb media savvy. But at some point folks are going to look back and remember that last year was better than today

New Orleans has never been more in debt, more likely to flood, had more unsafe water, or more mass surveillance

Quote of the day: “OMG you drive a mini cooper and have a bomb ass dog. I’m going to be your wife”

Cortisone

Sometimes the little moments in life are beautiful. I suggested that I should be kind to someone unwell who has been harmful to me. That southern matriarch glare in response communicated to me untold wisdom

Knee is back 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve contemplated leaving NOLA. It’s tough fighting battles that no one cares about. But tonight reminded me of what I love about the city: my neighbors. They were all up in my business in ways I didn’t even know. And they spoke up when it mattered. I couldn’t be more grateful

New Research Highlights the Cost of Police Pursuits Just a few weeks ago, two papers were released providing new and interesting insights into the impact of police pursuits.

New this week I looked at a pair of of new research papers that evaluate the cost of police vehicle pursuits. One finds that fatalities from pursuits have increased substantially while the other shows more pursuits meant more crashes but not less crime in NYC.

jasher.substack.com/p/new-resear...

I filed my taxes today. I’ve never hated it more. I don’t want to write checks to a corrupt pedophile to fund war crimes. Fuck Trump

Love seeing former fosters living their best life

It’s #FundFriday! We made it through another week, and it’s time to check in on #CrowdFunding and #MutualAid💸

Drink some water🚰

Take your meds 💊

Water your green pets 🪴

Check in with yourself 🫵🏽

Check in with your people 👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾

All mutual aid requests are welcome. Be sure to include your links 🤟🏻

Eventually what they will do is build a City Council Ballroom on Duncan Plaza and shove all the city workers into We-Work spaces 20 miles away www.nola.com/news/politic...