skooks
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they told me we'd be finished by now
📍New Orleans
📍New Orleans
New Orleans's leadership class loves to close schools and turn housing into hotels and then come back and say, "Well, look, there are no families living here anymore so we have to close more schools and turn more houses into hotels."
January 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
New Orleans's leadership class loves to close schools and turn housing into hotels and then come back and say, "Well, look, there are no families living here anymore so we have to close more schools and turn more houses into hotels."
Reading through City Planning's STR recs. Translating this part: Even though New Orleans is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis, CPC believes that nobody actually lives here anyway. So let's just convert more housing to hotel rooms. cityofno.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...
January 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Reading through City Planning's STR recs. Translating this part: Even though New Orleans is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis, CPC believes that nobody actually lives here anyway. So let's just convert more housing to hotel rooms. cityofno.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...
Gail Etienne urges the Orleans Parish School Board to keep the Leah Chase School open www.nola.com/news/educati...
January 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Gail Etienne urges the Orleans Parish School Board to keep the Leah Chase School open www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Moreno to be sworn in in the abandoned Riverfront Expressedway tunnel under Canal Street
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Moreno to be sworn in in the abandoned Riverfront Expressedway tunnel under Canal Street
In this story, we learn that the Cantrell administration somehow has squandered the money originally allocated to pay bonuses promised to police from ARPA funds. Sadly unsurprising. But also we learn that the tactic didn't work anyway.
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
In this story, we learn that the Cantrell administration somehow has squandered the money originally allocated to pay bonuses promised to police from ARPA funds. Sadly unsurprising. But also we learn that the tactic didn't work anyway.
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
How many furloughs are paying for this pointless security theater? www.wwltv.com/article/ente...
New Orleans closes lanes on St. Charles ahead of Mardi Gras for safety, officials say
City officials said left lane closures begin Jan. 5 as crews install barriers for public safety along the parade route.
www.wwltv.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:22 AM
How many furloughs are paying for this pointless security theater? www.wwltv.com/article/ente...
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Gonna start an NFL conspiracy theory where all outcomes are targeted to optimize the power of the most important city in America, Pittsburgh
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Gonna start an NFL conspiracy theory where all outcomes are targeted to optimize the power of the most important city in America, Pittsburgh
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there are only three “hits” here worth saving sorry but some of the 90s was very bad on the radio
The Billboard Modern Rock tracks from 30 years ago
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
January 5, 2026 at 1:41 AM
there are only three “hits” here worth saving sorry but some of the 90s was very bad on the radio
All in all I will say that 2025 has been a fairly productive pre-season for the Saints
January 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
All in all I will say that 2025 has been a fairly productive pre-season for the Saints
Well that's just unfortunate
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Well that's just unfortunate
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We do not like them b*tches. It's up every time we play. Records/playoffs be damned!
I can’t believe that Atlanta and New Orleans are playing each other so hard so that teams that they hate can make it to the playoffs. I would just sit down in the middle of the field.
January 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
We do not like them b*tches. It's up every time we play. Records/playoffs be damned!
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After getting outscored 7-0 in the first quarter today, the Saints will finish the 2025 season getting outscored 122-29 in the first quarter of games.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
After getting outscored 7-0 in the first quarter today, the Saints will finish the 2025 season getting outscored 122-29 in the first quarter of games.
OK let's all hold hands and watch together as our favorite team plays one last game for us this year
January 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
OK let's all hold hands and watch together as our favorite team plays one last game for us this year
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While we are talking about lack of accountability for Iraq, it’s worth remembering many Democratic pols supported it and they also mostly paid no price and continued to move up, and that universities rewarded key admin figures with sinecures.
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
While we are talking about lack of accountability for Iraq, it’s worth remembering many Democratic pols supported it and they also mostly paid no price and continued to move up, and that universities rewarded key admin figures with sinecures.
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Somehow we're back in April of 2003 when exactly the same people were shrieking in triumph in exactly the same way about Iraq.
January 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Somehow we're back in April of 2003 when exactly the same people were shrieking in triumph in exactly the same way about Iraq.
This is an errant misremembering of how Latoya handled the pandemic. Unfortunately it is the narrative that will stick because it is so often repeated. But in reality, she bent over backwards to placate the business and tourism owners.
www.nola.com/news/politic...
www.nola.com/news/politic...
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
This is an errant misremembering of how Latoya handled the pandemic. Unfortunately it is the narrative that will stick because it is so often repeated. But in reality, she bent over backwards to placate the business and tourism owners.
www.nola.com/news/politic...
www.nola.com/news/politic...
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Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.
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and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM
and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
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Insane how much these people hate their own country
January 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Insane how much these people hate their own country
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Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
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look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time
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What is on fire uptown? It was visibly smoky at winndixie
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
What is on fire uptown? It was visibly smoky at winndixie
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Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.
gothamist.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets