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Today, in Understory (a support group for activists that I co-facilitate), we talked about the writing exercise I created to help folks get oriented for the year ahead. I don't think we can balance caring for ourselves, tending to our relationships, and taking action by accident in these times.
Worksheet: Staying Whole in 2026
If you want to enter 2026 with intention, I encourage you to take twenty minutes to write yourself a plan — not a resolution, but a map for staying intact. Write by hand if you can. Don’t worry about ...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today, in Understory (a support group for activists that I co-facilitate), we talked about the writing exercise I created to help folks get oriented for the year ahead. I don't think we can balance caring for ourselves, tending to our relationships, and taking action by accident in these times.
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Ok but it shoulda been 18 because Delroy Lindo definitely deserves Best Supporting
www.essence.com/entertainmen...
www.essence.com/entertainmen...
31st Critics Choice Awards Nominations: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Leads With 17 Nods | Essence
Sinners leads the Critics Choice Awards with 17 nods, while Cynthia Erivo’s surprising best actress snub becomes the morning’s biggest shock.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Ok but it shoulda been 18 because Delroy Lindo definitely deserves Best Supporting
www.essence.com/entertainmen...
www.essence.com/entertainmen...
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New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
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New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during
www.nola.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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"Plan to detain at least 5,000 people across a region stretching north to Baton Rouge and East into Mississippi, according to internal documents." per @nolanews.bsky.social
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Plan to detain at least 5,000 people across a region stretching north to Baton Rouge and East into Mississippi, according to internal documents." per @nolanews.bsky.social
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
Just posting this for no reason the day before the surge of Customs and Boarder Patrol raids begins in New Orleans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrl...
Vampire Cornbread can't enter the Joint (Being kind to one another) Sinners 2025 4k Scene
YouTube video by Legendary Movie Scenes
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December 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just posting this for no reason the day before the surge of Customs and Boarder Patrol raids begins in New Orleans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrl...
Made it into the bean club. 🎊
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Made it into the bean club. 🎊
In honor of the arctic air blast that is heading this way, harvested some blueberry basil (smells like blueberries) and used some Meyer lemon juice to make a lemonade. BEST LEMONADE EVER. I'm going to have to go out with a flashlight to harvest all the remaining blueberry basil before it's too late.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
In honor of the arctic air blast that is heading this way, harvested some blueberry basil (smells like blueberries) and used some Meyer lemon juice to make a lemonade. BEST LEMONADE EVER. I'm going to have to go out with a flashlight to harvest all the remaining blueberry basil before it's too late.
OMG, there's going to be a Goonies Lego set...! I feel like that movie IS my childhood. Watching the video with a reveal of who is playing with it at the end made me emotional.
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
OMG, there's going to be a Goonies Lego set...! I feel like that movie IS my childhood. Watching the video with a reveal of who is playing with it at the end made me emotional.
Helena Moreno's campaign playing Barry White as she comes out for her acceptance speech as the next mayor of New Orleans.
Excellent.
Excellent.
October 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Helena Moreno's campaign playing Barry White as she comes out for her acceptance speech as the next mayor of New Orleans.
Excellent.
Excellent.
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New Orleans vaccine update from the health department
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New Orleans vaccine update from the health department
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A key moment in growing fruit & nut trees: you've done it long enough that you have a list you'd like to cut out this winter
you're making my life WORSE we are BREAKING UP
you're making my life WORSE we are BREAKING UP
August 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A key moment in growing fruit & nut trees: you've done it long enough that you have a list you'd like to cut out this winter
you're making my life WORSE we are BREAKING UP
you're making my life WORSE we are BREAKING UP
Amen
unless someone specifically asks for advice it is actually pretty rude to offer it unsolicited, especially when the “advice” is basic “how to live your life as an adult” stuff
August 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Amen
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20 years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. For so many New Orleanians, our lives are demarcated by this moment. If someone ask you about an event or memory from the past, we say “was it before or after the storm?” On this twentieth anniversary, I wrote about going back home.
Twenty Years After the Storm
What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina
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August 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
20 years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. For so many New Orleanians, our lives are demarcated by this moment. If someone ask you about an event or memory from the past, we say “was it before or after the storm?” On this twentieth anniversary, I wrote about going back home.
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This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”
Here is Pete Hegseth's tweet announcing the return of the Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery. The plan is to restore it and reinstall in 2027.
It's important to point out that this monument was never referred to as a "Reconciliation Monument."
It's important to point out that this monument was never referred to as a "Reconciliation Monument."
August 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”
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I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane
I wish there was delulu hive on this site. Red horse? Act iii: Revolution? Black hair? The Betty Black Tour? Secret Act iv?
Shoot it straight into my veins.
Shoot it straight into my veins.
August 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I wish there was delulu hive on this site. Red horse? Act iii: Revolution? Black hair? The Betty Black Tour? Secret Act iv?
Shoot it straight into my veins.
Shoot it straight into my veins.
It is very cooling, on this hottest of evenings, to look back at pictures of New Orleans covered in snow. That was only six months ago.
July 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It is very cooling, on this hottest of evenings, to look back at pictures of New Orleans covered in snow. That was only six months ago.
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I kept bringing the picture up because something was off and now I know what it was
July 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I kept bringing the picture up because something was off and now I know what it was
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This thunderstorm is so intense, if I could I would crawl under the sofa with my cat.
July 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This thunderstorm is so intense, if I could I would crawl under the sofa with my cat.
Every time I read about Malcolm-Jamal Warner I start crying.
July 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Every time I read about Malcolm-Jamal Warner I start crying.
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how about we talk about it as "scam friction" so we can ground it in @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's description of "scam culture"
🎵 when the app scans your eye just to order a pie
that's scam friction
when you have to pay little fees through the day
that's scam friction
🎵 when the app scans your eye just to order a pie
that's scam friction
when you have to pay little fees through the day
that's scam friction
we need a new word to replace “enshittification.” the word itself has become enshittified
July 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
how about we talk about it as "scam friction" so we can ground it in @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's description of "scam culture"
🎵 when the app scans your eye just to order a pie
that's scam friction
when you have to pay little fees through the day
that's scam friction
🎵 when the app scans your eye just to order a pie
that's scam friction
when you have to pay little fees through the day
that's scam friction
I really thought I had lots of time to do all the things before I go on a little trip but then the email letting me know the Sinners dvd is arriving TOMORROW came through and well...
July 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I really thought I had lots of time to do all the things before I go on a little trip but then the email letting me know the Sinners dvd is arriving TOMORROW came through and well...
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As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.
July 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.
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Ohhhh, so we're not going to die outside Plaza Tower.
We're going to die in it.
www.wdsu.com/article/new-...
We're going to die in it.
www.wdsu.com/article/new-...
Plaza Tower sold, will be redeveloped into senior living facility
Sources tell WDSU that the building was purchased by two developers, Brian Gibbs, and Lincoln Avenue Capital.
www.wdsu.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ohhhh, so we're not going to die outside Plaza Tower.
We're going to die in it.
www.wdsu.com/article/new-...
We're going to die in it.
www.wdsu.com/article/new-...