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Chad
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NOLA. Xennial. Former Democrat. He/him 🏳️‍🌈.
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NOLA in the NYT:

- inserts partisan GOP criticisms of Moreno, blaming her for problems caused by Teedy's reign of terror, without any counterbalance or context

- bizarrely frames Moreno's victory as if it were driven by Latino/immigrant voters (Dems with their identity politics!)

archive.is/FGNus
The Mayor-Elect of New Orleans Is Already Awash in Challenges A month before taking office, Helena Moreno is steering the city through a budget crisis and a Border Patrol enforcement operation that has immigrants in hiding.
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
bchadhill.bsky.social
Huh. I wonder why.

Warren will have the last laugh.
Al-related stocks, particularly the "Magnificent Seven" tech giants, have been the overwhelming driver of S&P 500 growth, accounting for a massive 70-75% of total S&P 500 returns in the past year or so, fueling most earnings and capital spending growth, with companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Alphabet leading the charge. This concentration is significant, with these few Al leaders making up nearly 30-40% of the entire index, making the S&P 500 function much like an Al fund.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Debutante or ...
A still from the landmark 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which offers an intimate look at the NYC ballroom scene of the 1980s
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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(1) Not historically atypical

(2) A depressingly large percentage of descendants of the first wave are now adherents of this nativist ideology that would have denied their ancestors the opportunity to become American

www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...
Many Americans can trace their ancestral roots to the "great wave" of immigration that occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This is not surprising, as the foreign-born population grew rapidly during this period, doubling in size from 6.7 million in 1880 to 14.2 million in 1930. Between 1880 and 1930, the foreign-born population represented between 12 and 15 percent of the total population.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I saw someone post this picture on Thursday. At first, I figured they were just being overly critical for obvious reasons. Then I blew up the photo.

It's like an LLM prepared dinner. Everything is strangely off. An uncanny valley of food.

IS THIS ... POTATO SALAD AND ... STUFFING??
Four bowls of food. Potato salad (it's not mashed potatoes) upper left, cranberry sauce bottom left, uninspired green beans and baby carrots upper right, and a mystery dish (brown, pasty, with visible red chunks that likely are cranberries) bottom right.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Some of them have said that Bluesky is lame and again: how fucking dim and/or devoid of moral fibre do you have to be to look at a tableau with "occasionally tedious" on one end and "actively seeking to destroy the West as we know it" on the other and go hmmm, but I just don't want to sit with the nerds at the front of the bus? Fucking look at yourself in the mirror for a minute there, jesus christ!
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Not my favorite horror movie if I'm being honest
A meme from the movie It Follows. A woman in a house. Obviously to the large scary man looming behind her. She is labeled "Innocent BlueSky posters." He is labeled "Jerry's posts."
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Wah-wah-wah
The Press Your Luck Whammy: a drawing of a red cartoon devil with a yellow cape and yellow dollar sign on his stomach
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Lmaoooo
It's challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. Indeed, even attorneys employed by the Texas Attorney General who professes to be a political ally of the Trump Administration describe the DOJ Letter as "legally[] unsound," "baseless," "erroneous," "ham-fisted," and "a mess."
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Anecdotal.
Different observation: for awhile, I had the whiff that right-wing tech-aligned conspiracy theory was that Al would rise up and kill us all, and now those exact same people are not just promoting Al but, like, disturbingly revelatory about it *** Just an n=1 anecdote, my wife's sister-in-law is a fully Q-anon-pilled evangelical, and she is rapturous about Al now, and constantly posts gAl images and videos on Facebook. I don't get it. Is it escapism?
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Can I say something without everyone getting mad?
Adam Kinzinger is such a sexy motherfucker GODDAMN and I recognize that my thirst is shameful but the "heart" wants what the "heart" wants
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The commentariat must be purged in purifying flame.

No Kings, No Nates, No Matts.
The commentariat wanted Trump's win in 2024 to be the eternal MAGA crushing of woke because the commentariat despises woke. The median voter meanwhile was thinking something along the lines of: Trump rich, he make me rich. Both groups are astoundingly stupid, but one group is much more actively and consciously evil.
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I love the poster.
The poster for The Initiation features a hand gripping a woman around her waist. She has been made to look like a candle – unnaturally tall and thin. A teardrop-like flame rests just above her head. The same flame-like motif features over each of the "I"s in "Initiation."
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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It's obnoxious that Noonan insists on a MAGA-coded democracy/republic distinction—chiding silly Dems because electoral tallies are (mostly, presumably) accurate—and then defines republicanism as ... democracy.
Quickly, obviously, broadly: A republic is a form of government in which power begins on the ground, with the people, and shoots (and is mediated) upward. Power doesn't come from the top down. The people choose representatives who are protective of local interests while keeping their eye on the nation's. The government of which they're part is bound by laws, by a Constitution that is not only a document of enumerated laws but a mean, lean machine for preserving liberty.
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Bob Murrell (for whom I voted in the primary) has endorsed Aimee McCarron. This follows another endorsement text I received earlier this week from JP Morrell.

I think that's all I need.

#Nolasky
I found myself at several candidate forums saying agree with Aimee" on a number of topics. What I admire about Aimee McCarron is her ability to bring people together even when we don't agree on every issue to focus on what truly matters: getting this city back on track. She's a proven budget problem solver and exactly who we need on the City Council right now. Im asking my supporters and everyone in District A to vote for Aimee McCarron.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I am apparently in the running for best view at the company retreat. #Destin
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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It's the first really foggy morning of the cool season.
The view from a skyscraper window. A blanket of fog covers half of the city scene below. On the right, there are the tops of various buildings. But on the left, a blanket of fog. The uprights of a bridge peak through the cotton balls visible. The river the bridge spans is entirely obscured.
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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We can't even have a single day of celebrating a house (Moreno) falling out of the sky on the Wicked Witch (Teedy) before The Wizard (Landry) swoops in with this ominous message ... #Nola #NolaSky
A tweet (X post) from Jeff Landry: Congratulations to Helena Moreno, the next mayor of New Orleans. I look forward to working together to create a better New Orleans.
October 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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My question remains active.

(I voted for Murrell to put points on the board for the DSA,expecting that he would lose to the ladies—which he now has.)
City Council, District A Holly Friedman led the crowded District A race with 8,589 votes (38.7%), followed by Aimee McCarron with 7,170 (32.3%) and Bob Murrell with 3,002 (13.5%). Because no candidate received a majority, Friedman and McCarron advance to a runoff set for Nov. 15.
October 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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UNOPPOSED MOTION BY THE STATE OF IOWA, MONTANA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND 14 OTHER STATES FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS ...
October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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That's really too bad.
2024 election results for the county where this farmer resides in NE Arkansas. It went 81% for Trump. Incidentally, Census data on Wikipedia for 2020 indicates the county is 89% white.
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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👀

(we would have absolutely adored Avril A here, by the way)
"Sex Slaves of New Orleans"
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Omg 🤩 #Anjuna #ABGT

www.reddit.com/r/AboveandBe...
The Gorge ABGT is superimposed over a b/w image of people at an EDM festival
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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With alt text:
claire's NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE To Our Valued Customers, This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company-conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism. At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation. Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future. Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come. We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Claire's Stores, Inc. 3000 West Cential Road, Halftate 60192 Claire's Stores, Inc. (CBI Distributing Corp.)
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Important clarification from Murc in the comments.
Quoting the previous commentator: "Imight or might not count as ultraleft on your scale, but that's been my position for decades and it's part of why get so annoyed when Murc's law is used as a cipher 'none of this is the Democrats' fault.' Because you know what, they had a major hand in it." Murc: I also got annoyed at it, and made the damn thing up. Murc's Law is for things like "why didn't Hillary stop Trump? That makes Trump her fault!" It is not for things like "Trump was allowed to walk free under an open sky after 1/6."
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM