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Peter C. Cook
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Unapologetic Education Reformer • New Orleanian • Progressive (& unwilling to let crazies define the term) • Democrat • Proud TFA alum • DMs open • #FreeUkraine • peterccook.com
I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg... Her confounding behavior in regards to the Wisner Trust and FQ sanitation contract raises a lot of questions as well. www.nola.com/news/politic... #NOLA
August 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Me after hearing the news that Latoya Cantrell has been indicted by a federal grand jury... #NOLA #ChristmasInAugust
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If we’ve learned anything from The Great Escape and events like this, it’s that NOLA Ready texts ain’t worth sh*t if the system can’t share pictures or at least share **LINKS** to pictures.

There are a lot of pre-teen Hispanic boys in the world… A picture would help. 🤯 #NOLA
August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Finally getting a termite swarm in Holy Cross… Been wondering when they would rear their ugly heads. #NOLA
May 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Heavily-armed SWAT roll from LASP just drove over the St Claude bridge into Lower 9.

Another escapee about to get caught? 🤔 #NOLA
May 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the 50th anniversary of the Fall of #Saigon and the end of the wars in Indochina, read this account by James Fenton of his experience riding on North Vietnamese tanks as they rolled through the city on April 30th 1975: share.evernote.com/note/ba53838...
May 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the 6200 blk of Douglas Street in Holy Cross - I’ve never seen it flooded like this before. #NOLA
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I haven’t seen water like this in a long time. Storm water is up to my front steps, which almost never happens… #NOLA
April 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Lower Nine is completely without power on a literally perfect day with no weather, low winds, low AC use… #NOLA
April 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Good news for Jacksonians looking for move past Lumumba and his shadiness... #politics
John Horhn, a Mississippi senator, holds a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for Jackson mayor, with nearly triple as many votes as incumbent Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba.

The primary could still go to a runoff on April 22.
Horhn Leads Lumumba in Democratic Primary for Jackson Mayor
Mississippi Sen. John Horhn holds a commanding lead over incumbent Chokwe A. Lumumba in the Democratic primary for Jackson mayor.
buff.ly
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
#Louisiana just called @JeffLandry's bullsh*t.

#LaLege #LaGov #politics
March 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The state’s teachers unions are not progressive. They will sell out their purported allies at the drop of a hat… The fact that they’re throwing their PAC money behind this is shameful. #NOLAed #LaEd #LaLege #LaGov
March 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Good morning from the best neighborhood in town… #NOLA
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS
March 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Bald Eagle spotted in Holy Cross this morning… 🦅 #NOLA
March 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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This point doesn't get emphasized enough. Just a few years ago Roosevelt Blvd was a top-5 deadliest road in the country. Now it isn't even the deadliest in Philly
March 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.
March 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Reading of how it went reminds me of the execution of Eduard Delacroix from The Green Mile. It was botched, there was suffering, but was called a success because he died
March 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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The cruelty is the point, Louisiana style.

The shame.
March 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The State of Louisiana executed a man tonight by suffocating him for 19 minutes just so @JeffLandry could burnish his tough-on-crime credentials, which is pretty f*cking dark. www.nola.com/news/courts/... #LaLege #LaGov
Jessie Hoffman is put to death with nitrogen gas, Louisiana's first execution in 15 years
Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended with a gas mask strapped over the man's face in the Angola State Penitentiar...
www.nola.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I am now told THERE WILL BE SANDWICHES at this. C'mon.
Come on and see me talk sandwiches with the keenest sandwich minds in the city, for FREE, no less. At the New Orleans Book Festival, Saturday 3/29, Tulane's Marshall Family Commons.
March 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's pretty depressing when you realize you live in a state with a governor whose two main policy priorities are renaming the #GulfofMexico & restarting executions.

As if #Louisiana has no other pressing issues to address... #NOLA #LaLege #LaGov

www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Governor Landry aligns with Trump on Gulf renaming
Landry's order directs state agencies, boards and officers to make the change to all published materials moving forward.
www.wwltv.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Now is the time to start speaking out because we are rapidly approaching a constitutional crisis. Trying to impeach a federal judge or deciding to defy a court order would put us in very dangerous territory. #politics www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump calls for impeachment of judge who tried to halt deportations
It represents a significant escalation of the president’s attempts to push the boundaries of the separation of powers with the courts.
www.politico.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I've seen first hand the great work that SOUL has been doing to reforest our neighborhoods. They have planted scores of trees throughout Holy Cross (I have one in my backyard as we speak). No question they've been exemplary stewards of their federal funding. #NOLA www.wwltv.com/article/news...
New Orleans nonprofit grapples with grant loss for tree planting
Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley said. Now, it's SOUL's mission to restore its tree canopy.
www.wwltv.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM