NolaGirl
@fleurdelulu.bsky.social
Number Nerd. Lover of words, music, art. Unapologetic liberal. When all the other little girls wanted to be a princess, I kinda wanted to be a vampire. #WhoDat!
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25 minutes long, but worth the time. You have to know how the game is rigged before you can unrig it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
25 minutes long, but worth the time. You have to know how the game is rigged before you can unrig it.
We just got our letters. We're self employed, so we have to purchase our own insurance. Between loss of subsidy and increased premiums, our insurance is going from $1330/mo to $2438/mo, with increased deductibles and copays. That's 16k/yr to >29K/yr. This isn't sustainable. Who can afford this?
Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up.
I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies.
If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.
I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies.
If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We just got our letters. We're self employed, so we have to purchase our own insurance. Between loss of subsidy and increased premiums, our insurance is going from $1330/mo to $2438/mo, with increased deductibles and copays. That's 16k/yr to >29K/yr. This isn't sustainable. Who can afford this?
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This is amazing!!
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is amazing!!
This was a great conversation. I was not very familiar with @kim.senate.gov , but definitely want to hear more of what he has to say.
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This was a great conversation. I was not very familiar with @kim.senate.gov , but definitely want to hear more of what he has to say.
This time line is exhausting.
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This time line is exhausting.
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You would think at some point, SCOTUS would decide they’ve done enough to help that man, but apparently, nope.
More legal support for an imperial presidency: “Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday temporarily paused a federal judge’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to pay out $4 billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Block Foreign Aid for Now
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
You would think at some point, SCOTUS would decide they’ve done enough to help that man, but apparently, nope.
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Important.
1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.
August 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Important.
E enabled by people too cowardly and incompetent to stop it, the Project 2025 Presidency has done in months what our enemies couldn't do in a 100 years. It astounds me that the same folks who've been shouting about "government overreach" for two decades are cheering it all on now.
August 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
E enabled by people too cowardly and incompetent to stop it, the Project 2025 Presidency has done in months what our enemies couldn't do in a 100 years. It astounds me that the same folks who've been shouting about "government overreach" for two decades are cheering it all on now.
More than corruption, all the cancelled research in every sector is the very definition of waste. It's billions of $$$ & years of time/expertise lost, that will cost us more than money. It leads to a lower quality of life for all of us as the US gives up it's role as the leader in new technologies.
Palantir has been getting a huge number of deals like this, in what is extremely obviously self-dealing.
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over.
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
August 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
More than corruption, all the cancelled research in every sector is the very definition of waste. It's billions of $$$ & years of time/expertise lost, that will cost us more than money. It leads to a lower quality of life for all of us as the US gives up it's role as the leader in new technologies.
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Please listen to @justinwolfers.bsky.social. Boom.
August 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Please listen to @justinwolfers.bsky.social. Boom.
Most people don't answer calls from unknown numbers, but being self-employed, I do—in case it's a potential new client. So I often get calls asking my opinion about certain topics. I just got one, and for the first time ever, I hesitated when asked who I voted for. That's where we are
July 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Most people don't answer calls from unknown numbers, but being self-employed, I do—in case it's a potential new client. So I often get calls asking my opinion about certain topics. I just got one, and for the first time ever, I hesitated when asked who I voted for. That's where we are
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A bunch of Cajuns bout to bring their airboats and seafood boils in to the Great White North!
Canada has a VERY TEMPORARY legal situation allowing anyone with provable CA ancestry to claim Canadian citizenship w/ no generational limit. It may be overruled, but it’s real now. Colin and I both have French Québécois ancestors so you bet yer ass that I’m doing a LOT of rush document requests now
June 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A bunch of Cajuns bout to bring their airboats and seafood boils in to the Great White North!
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About halfway through this conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, Gil Duran discusses the network zones Peter Thiel and others want to build on public land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjR...
American Conversations: Technology Reporter Gil Duran
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
About halfway through this conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, Gil Duran discusses the network zones Peter Thiel and others want to build on public land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjR...
Jena, LA back in the news, unsurprisingly for the same thing that always gets it in the news. The only thing that's changed is a bigger prison facility.
It is weird and fascinating to read a longform piece about my hometown (Jena, Louisiana) and its notable role in the current immigration landscape. I haven't felt welcome there in a long time, largely my own fault for "running my mouth." That sorta thing is frowned upon. slate.com/business/202...
Donald Trump Is Enacting His Darkest Agenda in the Backyard of a Small Town. Absolutely No One Wants to Talk About It.
In Jena, Louisiana, the people knew everything and nothing about what’s happening there.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Jena, LA back in the news, unsurprisingly for the same thing that always gets it in the news. The only thing that's changed is a bigger prison facility.
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Great stuff here from @wired.com. I continue to be amazed at how niche press (Wired, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue) has managed to become the face of this sort of reporting and organising while the mainstream media has done worse than failing.
Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights.
So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
June 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Great stuff here from @wired.com. I continue to be amazed at how niche press (Wired, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue) has managed to become the face of this sort of reporting and organising while the mainstream media has done worse than failing.
All of it, manufactured.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
All of it, manufactured.
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THIS!!!🔥
June 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
THIS!!!🔥
It's all about the grift
National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it.
https://trib.al/HylddRa
https://trib.al/HylddRa
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
trib.al
May 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's all about the grift
This is quite the read, from beginning to end. When 700 year-old documents are popping up to remind us of our rights, perhaps we ought to listen.
May 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is quite the read, from beginning to end. When 700 year-old documents are popping up to remind us of our rights, perhaps we ought to listen.
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May 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Are we officially a police state now?
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
April 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Are we officially a police state now?
This was a great ceremony to watch. Heather Cox Richardson's Keynote Speech was, as always, informative and inspiring. @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I think it did exactly what you set out to do.
250th Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
250th Anniversary Lantern Service | The Old North Church
The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea” signal from the church’s steeple on the eve ...
www.oldnorth.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This was a great ceremony to watch. Heather Cox Richardson's Keynote Speech was, as always, informative and inspiring. @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I think it did exactly what you set out to do.
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Once they have these private facilities, they will keep them filled. Anyone who thinks incarceration will be limited to undocumented migrants is willfully ignorant.
April 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Once they have these private facilities, they will keep them filled. Anyone who thinks incarceration will be limited to undocumented migrants is willfully ignorant.
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This will be a good one…
Join me for a @propublica.org event “Investigating DOGE” Thursday, April 17, at 4 p.m. Eastern
[register at the link below]
Join me for a @propublica.org event “Investigating DOGE” Thursday, April 17, at 4 p.m. Eastern
[register at the link below]
Investigating the Department of Government Efficiency
Our reporting team discusses DOGE and how Elon Musk and his associates are remaking the federal bureaucracy.
www.propublica.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This will be a good one…
Join me for a @propublica.org event “Investigating DOGE” Thursday, April 17, at 4 p.m. Eastern
[register at the link below]
Join me for a @propublica.org event “Investigating DOGE” Thursday, April 17, at 4 p.m. Eastern
[register at the link below]