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Spent a year investigating a Christian Nationalist organization operating in my state! Their aim is to control every library in the state of Louisiana.
I uncovered their:
- tactics
- origins
- donors
- Collusion with state lawmakers
And more.
Read and share below!
Spent a year investigating a Christian Nationalist organization operating in my state! Their aim is to control every library in the state of Louisiana.
I uncovered their:
- tactics
- origins
- donors
- Collusion with state lawmakers
And more.
Read and share below!
🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION 🚨
“Soft targets”
That’s how CFNL refers to institutions like library boards, because they are easy to takeover.
And that’s what they’ve tried to do, and they’ve tried to do it quietly.
So I’ve spent the last year investigating them.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/citi...
“Soft targets”
That’s how CFNL refers to institutions like library boards, because they are easy to takeover.
And that’s what they’ve tried to do, and they’ve tried to do it quietly.
So I’ve spent the last year investigating them.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/citi...
June 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🚨 ICYMI 🚨
Spent a year investigating a Christian Nationalist organization operating in my state! Their aim is to control every library in the state of Louisiana.
I uncovered their:
- tactics
- origins
- donors
- Collusion with state lawmakers
And more.
Read and share below!
Spent a year investigating a Christian Nationalist organization operating in my state! Their aim is to control every library in the state of Louisiana.
I uncovered their:
- tactics
- origins
- donors
- Collusion with state lawmakers
And more.
Read and share below!
#nolasky #nolatwitter #Louisiana our #lalege is almost done with their sausage making and one Big Bad Bill criminalizing homelessness remains. SB 196 could actually stay dead for the session IF y'all contact your senators and let them know what you think.
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
We Don’t Back Down from Unjust Policy
We Don’t Back Down from Unjust Policy
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org
June 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#nolasky #nolatwitter #Louisiana our #lalege is almost done with their sausage making and one Big Bad Bill criminalizing homelessness remains. SB 196 could actually stay dead for the session IF y'all contact your senators and let them know what you think.
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
#NOLASky did @entergy.com start these rolling outages and just not tell us?!?! www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy...
Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans forced to initiate periodic power outages to customers
Action taken as directed by MISO
www.entergynewsroom.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
#NOLASky did @entergy.com start these rolling outages and just not tell us?!?! www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy...
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So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.
What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Means For Student Loan Forgiveness And Repayment
Trump’s one big beautiful bill overhauls student loan forgiveness and repayment and repeals SAVE and many other IDR plans. Here’s what it means.
www.forbes.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.
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Ayyyyy this is a particularly nasty scam targeting families of incarcerated people.
Heads up: Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office Warns Public of Scam Demanding Payments for Detainee Release
Heads up: Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office Warns Public of Scam Demanding Payments for Detainee Release
May 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ayyyyy this is a particularly nasty scam targeting families of incarcerated people.
Heads up: Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office Warns Public of Scam Demanding Payments for Detainee Release
Heads up: Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office Warns Public of Scam Demanding Payments for Detainee Release
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#OPINION Despite voters rejecting Amendment 3, state senators just advanced SB 74 — pushing all arrested 15- & 16-year-olds into adult court. Every senator on the committee comes from a district that voted no.
✍️ Sarah Omojola
Click 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/iHCOp3J
✍️ Sarah Omojola
Click 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/iHCOp3J
Does the Louisiana Legislature represent us, or should we find someone else? | The Lens
Last week, the state Senate Judiciary committee passed a bill that would automatically funnel all arrested 15- and 16-year-olds into the adult system. That’s not what Louisiana voters want.
buff.ly
May 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
#OPINION Despite voters rejecting Amendment 3, state senators just advanced SB 74 — pushing all arrested 15- & 16-year-olds into adult court. Every senator on the committee comes from a district that voted no.
✍️ Sarah Omojola
Click 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/iHCOp3J
✍️ Sarah Omojola
Click 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/iHCOp3J
#nolatwitter #nolasky #louisiana if you believe in using public resources to actually house people experiencing homelessness instead of counter productively throwing folx in jail, please take this action to oppose SB 196 TODAY (it's being heard tomorrow) lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
No to SB 196: Punishing Poverty and Criminalizing Homelessness Won't Help Louisiana
No to SB 196: Punishing Poverty and Criminalizing Homelessness Won't Help Louisiana
lafairhousing.salsalabs.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#nolatwitter #nolasky #louisiana if you believe in using public resources to actually house people experiencing homelessness instead of counter productively throwing folx in jail, please take this action to oppose SB 196 TODAY (it's being heard tomorrow) lafairhousing.salsalabs.org/nosb196/inde...
Current mood
April 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Current mood
The Willa Cather Residency is currently accepting applications for a small cohort of writers, who will live and work in Red Cloud over a two-week period from October 5-19, 2025. The application for multiple genres deadline is May 1. #writersky #authorsky
www.willacather.org/residency
www.willacather.org/residency
Willa Cather Residency for Writers | National Willa Cather Center - Red Cloud, NE
About the Program The Willa Cather Residency for Writers was created in 2023 to commemorate the 150th year of Cather’s birth and to provide a unique opportunity for a small cohort of writers—and event...
www.willacather.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Willa Cather Residency is currently accepting applications for a small cohort of writers, who will live and work in Red Cloud over a two-week period from October 5-19, 2025. The application for multiple genres deadline is May 1. #writersky #authorsky
www.willacather.org/residency
www.willacather.org/residency
Tracker for federal cuts by state and locality - useful for advocacy to your reps!
www.wvxu.org/ohio-news/20...
www.wvxu.org/ohio-news/20...
Former federal worker from Ohio launches map tracking government cuts
Abby Andre founded the Impact Project to show the local effects of moves by the Trump administration.
www.wvxu.org
April 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tracker for federal cuts by state and locality - useful for advocacy to your reps!
www.wvxu.org/ohio-news/20...
www.wvxu.org/ohio-news/20...
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With the help of four Democrats, House Republicans just voted to pass H.R. 22 — one of the biggest threats to voting rights that we’ve seen in a generation. If you’re represented by Reps. Case (HI-01), Cuellar (TX-28), Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), or Golden (ME-02), they need to hear from you today.
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
With the help of four Democrats, House Republicans just voted to pass H.R. 22 — one of the biggest threats to voting rights that we’ve seen in a generation. If you’re represented by Reps. Case (HI-01), Cuellar (TX-28), Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), or Golden (ME-02), they need to hear from you today.
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Thursday, April 10, is Take Action for Libraries Day.
This year, with federal library funding under threat, we’re calling on advocates everywhere to Show Up #ForOurLibraries and urge Congress to protect vital federal support for libraries and the communities they serve.
www.ala.org/conferencese...
This year, with federal library funding under threat, we’re calling on advocates everywhere to Show Up #ForOurLibraries and urge Congress to protect vital federal support for libraries and the communities they serve.
www.ala.org/conferencese...
April 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thursday, April 10, is Take Action for Libraries Day.
This year, with federal library funding under threat, we’re calling on advocates everywhere to Show Up #ForOurLibraries and urge Congress to protect vital federal support for libraries and the communities they serve.
www.ala.org/conferencese...
This year, with federal library funding under threat, we’re calling on advocates everywhere to Show Up #ForOurLibraries and urge Congress to protect vital federal support for libraries and the communities they serve.
www.ala.org/conferencese...
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Paws down this is one of our favorite signs of the day from Gloucester, MA's #HandsDown rally.
This very good boy deserves a 20/10 on @weratedogs.com.
This very good boy deserves a 20/10 on @weratedogs.com.
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Paws down this is one of our favorite signs of the day from Gloucester, MA's #HandsDown rally.
This very good boy deserves a 20/10 on @weratedogs.com.
This very good boy deserves a 20/10 on @weratedogs.com.
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If you can't make it to one of the many Hands Off events today, there is a virtual one too!
Hands Off Virtual Event
mobilize.us/s/tBIBQL
Hands Off Virtual Event
mobilize.us/s/tBIBQL
Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back · Hands Off
🚨 Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back! 🚨
They're grabbing everything they can—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to...
mobilize.us
April 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you can't make it to one of the many Hands Off events today, there is a virtual one too!
Hands Off Virtual Event
mobilize.us/s/tBIBQL
Hands Off Virtual Event
mobilize.us/s/tBIBQL
As a warm up for #HandsOff today I spent the morning emailing #Louisiana and #Florida reps. I lost my job due to #DOGE cuts to #HUD and was supposed to be at the #Bigfoot convention, but canceled cuz $.
Hot tip re: Speaker Johnson email contact form, just use a Shreveport zip code to get through.
Hot tip re: Speaker Johnson email contact form, just use a Shreveport zip code to get through.
Johnson.email
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm a cybersecurity professor and I agree with this.
If your threat model includes the cops confiscating your phone to acquire your sensitive data... Look up "full disk encryption Android/iOS", set it, and lock it with a long PIN/password (no biometrics). And be prepared to lose your phone.
If your threat model includes the cops confiscating your phone to acquire your sensitive data... Look up "full disk encryption Android/iOS", set it, and lock it with a long PIN/password (no biometrics). And be prepared to lose your phone.
For the vast majority of above-ground public protests “don’t bring your phone” is actually bad security advice. You are much more likely to need your phone to call for help or document police aggression than you are to be arrested later cuz your phone pinged a cell tower near the raging grannies
April 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
15 books to get to know me 💫
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Virgin Suicides
Alice in Wonderland
Half Broke Horses
True Grit
Bastard out of Carolina
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
The Shadow of The Wind
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Virgin Suicides
Alice in Wonderland
Half Broke Horses
True Grit
Bastard out of Carolina
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
The Shadow of The Wind
15 books to get to know me ✨
Silmarillion
LOTR
Pillars of the Earth
Shantaram
Princess Bride
The Monsters We Deserve
Tao of Pooh
Narnia
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Wump World
Series of Unfortunate Events
Hunger Games
A Discovery of Witches
Harrison Bergeron
Silmarillion
LOTR
Pillars of the Earth
Shantaram
Princess Bride
The Monsters We Deserve
Tao of Pooh
Narnia
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Wump World
Series of Unfortunate Events
Hunger Games
A Discovery of Witches
Harrison Bergeron
April 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
15 books to get to know me 💫
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Virgin Suicides
Alice in Wonderland
Half Broke Horses
True Grit
Bastard out of Carolina
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
The Shadow of The Wind
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Virgin Suicides
Alice in Wonderland
Half Broke Horses
True Grit
Bastard out of Carolina
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
The Shadow of The Wind
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If you love your library, call your Congressional Representative and tell them how you feel.
While ILMS funding supports many programs, poor rural communities will likely feel these cuts first and most deeply. Rural libraries, which serve as lifelines to communities w/o reliable access to broadband, rely heavily on this funding for survival. This is criminal.
www.pbs.org/video/defund...
www.pbs.org/video/defund...
PBS News Hour | Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts | Season 2025
Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts after Trump order
www.pbs.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If you love your library, call your Congressional Representative and tell them how you feel.
Thx to NOLA public library which still isn't on here yet for sharing about the #IndieAuthors contest! Get those novels written and e-pubbed by end of May! (Saying this mostly to myself)
indieauthorproject.librariesshare.com/iap
indieauthorproject.librariesshare.com/iap
Indie Author Project Annual Contest
indieauthorproject.librariesshare.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thx to NOLA public library which still isn't on here yet for sharing about the #IndieAuthors contest! Get those novels written and e-pubbed by end of May! (Saying this mostly to myself)
indieauthorproject.librariesshare.com/iap
indieauthorproject.librariesshare.com/iap
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The Trump administration has frozen $35M in health funding, mostly to uninsured and low-income Americans.
As the country’s only federal family planning program, it provides cancer screenings, birth control, and testing for STIs.
As the country’s only federal family planning program, it provides cancer screenings, birth control, and testing for STIs.
Here’s Where Trump’s Cuts to Planned Parenthood Will Hurt Most
Donald Trump just froze millions in funding to Planned Parenthood.
newrepublic.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Trump administration has frozen $35M in health funding, mostly to uninsured and low-income Americans.
As the country’s only federal family planning program, it provides cancer screenings, birth control, and testing for STIs.
As the country’s only federal family planning program, it provides cancer screenings, birth control, and testing for STIs.
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This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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