New Orleans City Council passes one year ban on data centers as proposals pop up The New Orleans City Council Jan. 28 voted to ban data centers for a year while they start the required monthslong process of defining — and likely ultimately permanently prohibiting — the facilities,...

New Orleans City Council passes one year ban on data centers

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New Orleanians rally against escalating Trump regime violence in Minneapolis Hundreds of New Orleanians braved near freezing temperatures and rain Jan. 25 to protest the Trump regime’s deadly occupation of Minneapolis and other cities in the wake of the killing

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Brava to @sravits.bsky.social and @gambitweekly.bsky.social for not bothsidesing or bullshitting in their coverage of Sunday’s march.

Homeland Security Committee Democrats

Happening now: New Orleans City Council Members, Mayor Helena Moreno, the ACLU and members of Congress are hosting a hearing over Dept of Homeland Security’s violence against immigrants and citizens. Live stream:

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Amid budget woes, Cantrell administration hired contractor to remove Moreno's Gallier Hall banners The Cantrell administration hired contractors to remove the banners as New Orleans was grappling with a budget crisis that has required steep cuts to spending.

Absolutely incredible use of our tax dollars amid a budget crisis 😆

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In a conservative state, a report from the New Orleans Health Department chronicles the new law's effects:

As the new mother bled, the doctor asked for an update on the medication. “It should have been here by now,” the nurse said.

The woman turned to her doctor. “Is this how I’m going to die?”

New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers. As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.

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Border Patrol, ICE raids are deeply unpopular in New Orleans, poll shows The Trump administration's ICE and Border Patrol raids in New Orleans are not supported by a majority of residents, a new poll shows.

Poll shows most of New Orleans opposes Trump’s immigration raids

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Broad Street, usually buzzing with activity, is quieter as people fear immigration raids Broad Street has long been an epicenter of Black-owned business and is now a hub for the city's Latino community.

Broad Street, usually buzzing with activity, is quieter as people fear immigration raids

Broad Street has long been an epicenter of Black-owned business and is now a hub for the city's Latino community.

EU regulators hit Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations.

European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk's social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations.

A lot of elected officials have weighed in and congratulated the winners of the New Orleans election but Mayor LaToya Cantrell has not yet said anything about Helena Moreno’s win Saturday 🤨

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Hey New Orleans bluesky, I’m looking to talk to some local folks in the autistic community in the next few days/early next week for a story. Shoot me a DM if ya’d like to chat or know somebody who might

It’s not perfect but New Orleans’ crime is way down and it is generally a city where strangers will call you “baby” and share food with you even when they’re broke, but I guess it’s a flex to beg an aspiring tyrant to approve the deployment of uniformed 20 yr olds to stand around looking confused

Notice he changed his tie to fit in with his hero’s gold fixation.

We take care of us. If you want alternative media to survive and thrive in New Orleans, we need your support.

Elon Musk's Idiot Chatbot Turns Into An Explicit Nazi | Defector When last we checked in on Grok, Twitter’s supremely grating and corny embedded chatbot, it had spent an otherwise ordinary weekday in May attempting to impress upon Twitter users the seriousness of…

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Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.

Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

Thousands of New Orleanians participate in national ‘No Kings’ protest Thousands of New Orleanians rally against President Donald Trump as part of the nationwide 'No Kings' movement June 14

Just covered the New Orleans installment of the No Kings protest, which was peaceful and celebratory ahead of the scheduled Pride parade, and with minimal police presence

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New Orleans’ Sheriff may not know how many keys to the jail exist

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A guy on a Zoom call holding a paper up to the camera that says, no innovation until everything works.

New slogan for tech just dropped.

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NYT headline: A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse

Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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Louisiana House committee kills anti-fluoride drinking water bill The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee May 28 rejected a bill by Sen. Mike Fesi, a Houma Republican, that would have banned fluoride from public water systems.

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'The Light Switch,' Episode 7: A smatter of ethics • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana government's dubious history serves as the backdrop for a very significant proposed rewrite of Louisiana’s ethics laws, with Gov. Jeff Landry behind the pen.

Here’s something you don’t hear much:

“Boy, Louisiana is just TOO ethical.”

Our latest episode dives into Gov. Jeff Landry's proposed rewriting of state ethics laws.

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"