Cate Root
@therootisonfire.bsky.social
poet in New Orleans, aspiring/imminent crone
trying to outlive posting
trying to outlive posting
I’m on my way to vote for Calvin Duncan RIGHT NOW
Happy Vote for Calvin Duncan weekend to #nolasky
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’m on my way to vote for Calvin Duncan RIGHT NOW
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
a better world is possible 💫
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
a better world is possible 💫
$100 donation = 300 meals.
If you’re able, please help feed our neighbors.
If you’re able, please help feed our neighbors.
Help Feed Our Neighbors
Largest charitable anti-hunger network in South Louisiana. Mission to end hunger by providing food access, advocacy, education, and disaster response.
secure.no-hunger.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
$100 donation = 300 meals.
If you’re able, please help feed our neighbors.
If you’re able, please help feed our neighbors.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
A better world is possible!
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A better world is possible!
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read his memoir too! It’s hilarious
“Thank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.” Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “Somebody Somewhere.”
Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.
Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.
September 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
read his memoir too! It’s hilarious
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Amtrak is trying to add more rail cars to its new Mardi Gras rail service because ridership is already at double projections just a few weeks in. Maybe people in this country actually want to ride trains when they are given the option to?
September 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Amtrak is trying to add more rail cars to its new Mardi Gras rail service because ridership is already at double projections just a few weeks in. Maybe people in this country actually want to ride trains when they are given the option to?
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September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war
September 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war
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“the south” doesn’t really have to be abandoned or defended. That’s mostly just cope or posturing. It needs to be liberated from the boot of capital. And anyone fighting to de-commodify survival anywhere is helping to do that. They are my brother and sister
September 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“the south” doesn’t really have to be abandoned or defended. That’s mostly just cope or posturing. It needs to be liberated from the boot of capital. And anyone fighting to de-commodify survival anywhere is helping to do that. They are my brother and sister
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I could write a lot more on how this stuff is intertwined, but I guess another way of putting it is there is a powerful machine that takes southern whites and strips them of their humanity, and the control panel to that machinery is mostly located north of the Mason Dixon.
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I could write a lot more on how this stuff is intertwined, but I guess another way of putting it is there is a powerful machine that takes southern whites and strips them of their humanity, and the control panel to that machinery is mostly located north of the Mason Dixon.
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And many of the same liberals disgusted with the horrors down here benefit financially from the environmental racism, prison labor, gentrification, etc that white supremacy provides. We aren’t separate regions as much as different organs of a body.
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And many of the same liberals disgusted with the horrors down here benefit financially from the environmental racism, prison labor, gentrification, etc that white supremacy provides. We aren’t separate regions as much as different organs of a body.
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I do understand the frustration with how cruel and paranoid white southerners are as a whole. But the south also functions as an extraction colony for the capitalist class of the north.
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I do understand the frustration with how cruel and paranoid white southerners are as a whole. But the south also functions as an extraction colony for the capitalist class of the north.
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Racism is a load bearing wall for capitalism. It provides the strict hierarchies required for exploitation, especially in times of primitive accumulation or crisis. It’s why the planter class & Nazis were never truly defeated and found their ways back into power through the American political system
September 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Racism is a load bearing wall for capitalism. It provides the strict hierarchies required for exploitation, especially in times of primitive accumulation or crisis. It’s why the planter class & Nazis were never truly defeated and found their ways back into power through the American political system
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And to expand on this stuff a little bit more: the social formations of the antebellum south simply reconstituted themselves after reconstruction through jim crow/sharecropping. And then again after the civil rights era through war on drugs, white flight, etc.
the meme here is literally true, but it often couples with the belief that voter suppression is the reason the South is deeply red. but it's the other way around: the voter suppression is the *output* of reactionary Southern politics
this meme is both technically true and really bothers me, and I think overall misleading. because yes, there are lots of good people in the south. and yes their political power is diluted by all the things listed in the meme. BUT in many if not all of the south, they are still -the minority- 1/
September 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And to expand on this stuff a little bit more: the social formations of the antebellum south simply reconstituted themselves after reconstruction through jim crow/sharecropping. And then again after the civil rights era through war on drugs, white flight, etc.
I would really love to be transported to a 2005 Ted Leo show
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I would really love to be transported to a 2005 Ted Leo show
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I want to be more specific here because this hasn’t been a central issue in this election cycle and I find it alarming. Oliver Thomas, who is running for Mayor, is pushing this and if the key question of this moment is what your city will do when Trump’s goons come knocking, here’s Thomas’s answer.
NEW: Democratic leaders in New Orleans are preparing to legalize real-time surveillance with cameras that process facial recognition tech.
Civil liberties groups are pressing the alarm: Louisiana has new laws that require localities comply with ICE, and they say this new tech could feed into that.
Civil liberties groups are pressing the alarm: Louisiana has new laws that require localities comply with ICE, and they say this new tech could feed into that.
New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It'll Help ICE. - Bolts
The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls of bars and four-star hotels throughout the French Quarter. For two... Read ...
boltsmag.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I want to be more specific here because this hasn’t been a central issue in this election cycle and I find it alarming. Oliver Thomas, who is running for Mayor, is pushing this and if the key question of this moment is what your city will do when Trump’s goons come knocking, here’s Thomas’s answer.
This is the book I first recommend when anyone tells me they want to read more poetry.
From Franny Choi's book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: bookshop.org/a/862/9780063240087
#poem #books #writing
#poem #books #writing
July 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is the book I first recommend when anyone tells me they want to read more poetry.
Chip in for a good fight. Nurses’ wins are patients’ wins. UMC has been throwing away money to avoid giving up power & extra profits. This is an easy one to support.
gofund.me/617e0af8
gofund.me/617e0af8
Donate to Stand with UMC Nurses Fighting Retaliation!, organized by New Orleans Rank and File Project
The fight for nurses at University Medical Center in New Orle… New Orleans Rank and File Project needs your support for Stand with UMC Nurses Fighting Retaliation!
gofund.me
July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Chip in for a good fight. Nurses’ wins are patients’ wins. UMC has been throwing away money to avoid giving up power & extra profits. This is an easy one to support.
gofund.me/617e0af8
gofund.me/617e0af8
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Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.