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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 48m

With *maybe* one exception but he's got some other not so great attributes. The clear front runner voted to REMOVE protected bike lanes on the west bank (as did every city councilmember running) so that's a hell no from me

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 58m

None of the candidates for mayor I'm supposed to vote for today give a shit about safe bike/pedestrian infrastructure so it's really hard to give a shit about them

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 46m

Well that's the one thing you can count on. It can and will always get dumber.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 50m

Earlier this year, ICE inked an agreement with Palantir Technologies, the firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, to build software aimed at streamlining the process of identifying and deporting people the agency is targeting.

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 1h

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 1h

It's unnatural to be that kind of rich

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 1h

As awful as that sounds, I think it's far more interesting than what we will actually get to watch, unfortunately.

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder: If Esperanza School on S. Carrollton was your polling place — you now vote at Thurgood Marshall School on Canal.

(The Esperanza/Crossman campus closed in June)

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2h

I think whats gonna be the only diff between then and now is that *then* the dot com bubble bursting took out folks connected to it but this time the AI bubble bursting is gonna take out darn near everything all b/c ppl are putting their fingers in their ears and going lalalala all for a quick hit.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 8h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Verite News @veritenews.org · 3h

🔴 LIVE: 2025 New Orleans Elections

Polls are now open for today’s municipal primary election. 🗳️

Wondering what’s on the ballot and which races could shape New Orleans’ future?

Stay with us for real-time updates, results, and insights from our team all day long.
veritenews.org/2025/10/11/l...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 3h

And yet their rhetoric expects you to believe they all represent some sort of "change" they don't exactly define. What they mean is they are not Latoya. Ironically in 8 years, they will be.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 3h

My general take on the mayor's race is that all of the major candidates are backed by the same class of landlords and plutocrats that every mayor this century has been owned by. Their electoral pitch is to the same narrow sliver of middle class sensibilities they always pander to.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3h

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 3h

I hope all the candidates remember to hydrate today

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 9h

New Orleans here. This is way less exciting than it looks. The mayoral candidates all represent basically the same business and real estate coalition. The Sheriff election is pretty much a revanchist referendum on a failed "reform" incumbent.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

It’s actually Election Day tomorrow… in Louisiana!

I’m watching: the New Orleans sheriff race, and the New Orleans mayor’s race.

Both in my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall!

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 20h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't even mention the Clerk and the Assessor's races. I think Clerk might go to a runoff. The fact the Lombard has roped in the AG to sling mud on his behalf indicates he is in trouble. Erroll will be re-elected as Assessor in a walk

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 16h

Great kicker. Marc Benioff’s PR team wanted him to do an interview about philanthropy. Instead he sounded off on a bunch of Trump policies he supports and called for the White House to send troops to SF.

Doesn’t seem like the comms team was pleased with how the interview went..

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe Royce or OT has enough to eek into a runoff and then we get to talk about all of this for a few more weeks. But maybe not.

skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway New Orleans voters are typically pretty conservative. The electorate here (meaning the people who feel invested enough to vote) are middle class people with middle class concerns. They choose their candidates based on who their friends, family and co-workers know or have some dependency on.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h

The others share some of that too, of course. The city is so diminished now that there's really only one constituency of politically engaged people who feel like they have a stake in things. And it's what I just described. Royce and OT have that plus specific ties to vestigial community orgs

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 16h

I won't try to guess the mayoral result. Helena is leading because her coalition is most like the one that put all three of her predecessors over the top when each of them first ran. Business and entrepreneur crowd, non-profit types, and upwardly mobile transplants to the city

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