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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Oct 1

Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism newrepublic.com/article/2009... via @newrepublic.com

The goal isn’t to anesthetize disagreement; it is to inoculate public life against dehumanizing hierarchies smuggled in as common sense.

Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism

“Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Sep 9

@mjw.bsky.social
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US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Jun 10

@helenamorenola.com

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Helena Moreno's statement on ICE from April 29th and what's currently happening with Glendale's ICE contract

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 10

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."

The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 9

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Jun 10

Exactly, this happened yesterday. We're hearing a lot about agitators and cars being on fire, but nobody thinks we should mention this woman who was shot in the head at close range?

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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · May 23

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.

lailluminator.com/2025/05/23/l...

'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.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · May 24

There's way too many disinformation bots/trolls on Reddit anyway. Its been like that for a while now.

I recommend most people move to lemmy.

It's a lot like Reddit but you join an instance first and then you can search for different communities to subscribe to.
lemmyverse.net/communities

Lemmy Explorer

Instance and Community Explorer for Lemmy

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Rosemary Westwood @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social · Mar 27

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DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to Louisiana Department of Health

www.wwno.org/public-healt...

DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to Louisiana Department of Health

The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.

www.wwno.org

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

Thank you for writing this!

I've been trying to keep up with all of this, and I'm still pretty confused.
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Louisiana DOGE Secret Meetings May Have Involved Plans to Cut Medicaid

Louisiana DOGE taskforce secretly met with director of Guidehouse consulting, Tara LeBlanc. LeBlanc, former Executive Director of Medicaid at Louisiana Department of Health, ran a program currently be...

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

Glad to see the surgeon general of LA is finally coming around on vaccinations, and all it took was two completely unnecessary deaths.

Louisiana Surgeon General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough

Louisiana’s Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham confirmed Thursday that two infants have died in the last six months amid an ongoing whooping cough outbreak in the state, and said vaccines are the best ...

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

Especially considering how much some of the admins in Louisiana are making
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Louisiana Childrens Medical Center - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

Also with so much blame being placed on Medicaid costing more and sick patients, I have to wonder why we do not hear any criticism about hospital admin costs
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Top U.S. "Non-Profit" Hospitals & CEOs Are Racking Up Huge Profits

Who knew? The so-called “non-profit” hospitals CEOs are making $10 million, $18 million and even $21.6 million per year.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

You're interviewing. I'm not sure about admin but no one at the level of DRs or nurses seems to actually know what's going on but the majority of DRs that have suddenly left seem to be DRs that accept Medicaid and not specialists.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

Did not come from there, but there is definitely a sudden shortage of doctors at LCMC and nurses are as confused as patients to learn doctors who have been at LCMC long term are suddenly gone. All of this is so suspicious and it just feels like you're only being given half truths by the people

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

$11 million worth of contracts and eliminated almost 60 of the health department’s 7,700

Ok sorry I missed that, so that is answered but is there a paper trail showing what those positions were?
Given Abraham's and Harrington's statement about needing to pay Drs., one would assume that the cuts

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

kind of sign if that's at least the right question to be asking here or if not something to let me know that I am completely off target?

pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 29

I'm trying really hard to understand this but I think it would be confusing even to people that deal with this stuff on a regular basis.

Why would Landry propose to increase federal money coming in while the federal government was already considering pulling funding? Can you give me some

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 28

But the LDH budget was actually increasing due to federal funds. Still doesn't answer where Landry's cuts are coming from, but regardless the federal money seems to offset that.

Then suddenly the federal government just takes $55 million it had already given the state?

pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 28

This doesn't make any sense. I understand you want to be as neutral as possible here, but this is insanity. I didn't at you to challenge what you said, I am literally just trying to understand wtf is happening right now.

Landry says he found $11M in savings.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 28

Dude what is going on here?

www.wwno.org/public-healt...

DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to Louisiana Department of Health

The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.

www.wwno.org

pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 28

@jsodonoghue.bsky.social

What is going on here? Where is the information about the increased budget for LDH? All I can find are Landry's own statements about $11 million in savings and now this?!
www.wwno.org/public-healt...

DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to Louisiana Department of Health

The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.

www.wwno.org

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 27

@lailluminator.com @nolanews.bsky.social

Uhhh... Was everyone aware Landry's recent EO for a state of emergency grants authority to the National Guard to handle cybersecurity? Like was somebody going to say something...like eventually?

Louisiana Governor's Executive Order Renewing State of Emergency for Cybersecurity Incident Appears to Grant National Guard Authority to Act

Landry's March 20th renewal, grants authority to director of GOHSEP, a position that no longer seems to exist.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 27

Not sure if you're old enough to remember the Bush years, but homeland security deeming American citizens a potential domestic threat based on political views was a thing even then.

It's not just ICE you need to worry about.

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pimentomori123.bsky.social @pimentomori123.bsky.social · Mar 27

Or if a federal agent working for Homeland Security grabs your loved one off the street, no one left to handle your FOIA request to find out where they were disappeared to.

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