Michele
@geauxwithmichele.com
All takes (hot, lukewarm, and cold) are completely my own. But sometimes they're Croissant's 😉
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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ICE in New Orleans: NOLA Rapid Response hotline is up and running! Report actual sightings to 504-221-1499
#NewOrleans #ICE
#NewOrleans #ICE
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ICE in New Orleans: NOLA Rapid Response hotline is up and running! Report actual sightings to 504-221-1499
#NewOrleans #ICE
#NewOrleans #ICE
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
This Sunday (Nov 23) there will be a community food giveaway at the Press Steeet Garden from 1pm - 4pm.
If you are interested in volunteering please email info@sproutnola.org #nolasky
If you are interested in volunteering please email info@sproutnola.org #nolasky
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This Sunday (Nov 23) there will be a community food giveaway at the Press Steeet Garden from 1pm - 4pm.
If you are interested in volunteering please email info@sproutnola.org #nolasky
If you are interested in volunteering please email info@sproutnola.org #nolasky
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REMINDER:
I'll be discussing speculative fiction and magical realism with @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @bryancamp.bsky.social on Friday @ 2 PM for the NOLA Words and Music festival!!
Event description:
www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...
I'll be discussing speculative fiction and magical realism with @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @bryancamp.bsky.social on Friday @ 2 PM for the NOLA Words and Music festival!!
Event description:
www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
REMINDER:
I'll be discussing speculative fiction and magical realism with @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @bryancamp.bsky.social on Friday @ 2 PM for the NOLA Words and Music festival!!
Event description:
www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...
I'll be discussing speculative fiction and magical realism with @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @bryancamp.bsky.social on Friday @ 2 PM for the NOLA Words and Music festival!!
Event description:
www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
Very glad I spoke out against Top Golf coming to my neighborhood, I know, how very NIMBY of me 😉, when we were promised a grocery store and affordable housing. I do feel bad for the workers who might lose their 401k in the forthcoming bankruptcy because they're lower on the priority of claims list.
Topgolf just got sold to private equity, so thats the end of that.
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Very glad I spoke out against Top Golf coming to my neighborhood, I know, how very NIMBY of me 😉, when we were promised a grocery store and affordable housing. I do feel bad for the workers who might lose their 401k in the forthcoming bankruptcy because they're lower on the priority of claims list.
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So much for privacy.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So much for privacy.
I know this is a serious moment (and I'm glad my weekly Prosecute Ice post can be about the prosecution of an Ice agent) but I just giggle anytime I see Temecula.
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I know this is a serious moment (and I'm glad my weekly Prosecute Ice post can be about the prosecution of an Ice agent) but I just giggle anytime I see Temecula.
Lol for a second I thought this was about where I live.
lol the city has done almost nothing progressive on housing
affordability issue is because we have failed to fund action and have elected centrist dems who have preserved status quo for last 12 years
affordability issue is because we have failed to fund action and have elected centrist dems who have preserved status quo for last 12 years
These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Lol for a second I thought this was about where I live.
Congratulations Calvin Duncan!
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Congratulations Calvin Duncan!
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
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New York City grocers say sales at their stores dropped by as much as 25% last week because of delayed food assistance benefits due to the federal government shutdown.
NYC grocers say sales dropped this month with shutdown-caused delay in food assistance
Some grocers say sales dropped 25%.
gothamist.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New York City grocers say sales at their stores dropped by as much as 25% last week because of delayed food assistance benefits due to the federal government shutdown.
Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all.
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all.
Abolish ICE.
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Abolish ICE.
If Dems continue this feckless behavior... we're cooked. The fascism happened no more fundraising off the threat of it. If they don't clean house it's over for the brand. Abolish ICE, prosecute these heaux, and give us back our voting rights and bodily autonomy! These are the bare minimums.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If Dems continue this feckless behavior... we're cooked. The fascism happened no more fundraising off the threat of it. If they don't clean house it's over for the brand. Abolish ICE, prosecute these heaux, and give us back our voting rights and bodily autonomy! These are the bare minimums.
Today, Saturday November 15th is election day. Please geaux vote before you fest!
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today, Saturday November 15th is election day. Please geaux vote before you fest!
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The New Orleans life 😂
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The New Orleans life 😂
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here