This reminds me- I’ve been considering doing a Mardi Gras Réveillon. Kinda mashing up Christmas and Carnival traditions. Everybody is always so busy Christmas Eve, but overnight into Fat Tuesday might be interesting. I’d like your thoughts on that.
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This reminds me- I’ve been considering doing a Mardi Gras Réveillon. Kinda mashing up Christmas and Carnival traditions. Everybody is always so busy Christmas Eve, but overnight into Fat Tuesday might be interesting. I’d like your thoughts on that.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Avoid Louisiana and Constance. Fire.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
So back to J’Ouvert. Do they do youth-oriented costume contests like they do in Trinidad?
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
I had no idea y’all had J’Ouvert up there! Why do they do it out of season, though?
I’m not hating- glad you think we need the program, which we do. You just caught me off at a vulnerable time and my elbows were up. I’m glad you can see how fucked up the situation is here. It looks a lot more fucked up at close range when your entire world is on the line- trust.
Both things can be true. We need our wetlands, and you should read the articles you comment on.
You conflated the failure of *federal infrastructure* with a state-level sediment diversion program that wasn’t even in place when Katrina hit. And you said we didn’t learn. It was offensive.
Yes. I wasn’t under the misapprehension that you expected me to bow down lol.
Alright. Because I was just handed a bottle of Pinot Grigio from a union brother, and I will get my ass in that car before I see you dehydrate.
Fine. Come for my head then. I’ll die free before I ever bow down.
I love you New Orleans, you and all the people that love you. ❤️⚜️🙏🫶🤘✊
Are you ok? Should we send help?
Me like…
And when that time comes? There will be very little that could top the experience.
All the people are saying it.
Wow he looks AWFUL.
Every disaster is highly personal and tragic for those impacted. That’s why decent human beings refrain from kicking people when they’re suffering from those disasters. Have a blessed day.
Thank you love. Co-signed.
⚜️🫶✊
The scars remain.
Think you can't survive heartbreak? New Orleans is still here.
Yeah it was always just what we wrote on envelopes going in the mail when we were being lazy. I can’t recall people verbally calling it that pre-K.
Yep. We’ve been treated like an extraction colony for 300 years, and steadily maligned by the self-righteous. Yet here we are. Still here. Our past is your future- every one of you. Learn what you can from us.
You don’t know shit about this city and it shows. Bless your heart.
Don’t even bother. They’re not going to get off their high horse to read an article when they can just stay up there and continue to kick down. Plus ça change…
Sandy wasn’t shit compared to Katrina. But bravo for you.🙄
Oh, did we? When did New Orleans vote for Mike Johnson? Bless your heart.
New Orleans is a special city that deserved better than Katrina and its aftermath and continues to deserve better than the rapacious, privatizing, and exploitative governance that followed.
Small crescent setting over Orleans street, New Orleans
❤️
Yes infrastructure failed. Yes sediment diversion is crucial. But you’re out here with your whole ass just showing that you couldn’t be bothered to read before you had to spread your two oh so important cents on a subject you aren’t even clocking. Do better.
Bless your heart. Which sediment diversion project failed and caused the Katrina devastation 20 years ago? Or hey- maybe just read the article you’re commenting on instead of knocking us today of all fucking days. 20 years later and the pile on persists. SMH.
Well I’m glad you met nice people here.
Many-festos.
I’m sorry that you have to remain precisely there in that spot now forever.
Yes, it’s whiskeyketamineyoga.
That blood is on the GOP’s hands.
I’ll take the combo.
Yesterday at the theater, someone left sawdust all over the loading dock. I grabbed a broom and started to tidy it up. This young man just stands there. Me: Where are you from? Him: Texas Me: It shows. Him: What do you mean? Me: Locals are too superstitious to let you sweep around their feet.
Hey. At least he’s been consistent in that all his life.
I hate going to that store too. Glad they opened up as quickly as they could, but grateful to have options now. And don’t get me started on Emeril.
Yes please.
Ok. I see the creepy license plate photo you posted, and raise you a funeral director’s plate I encountered this morning.
Oy! I never said it was a rational feeling… I just couldn’t shake it when I made groceries back then. 🥴
Or also they could just shut their mouths and climb down from their high horses. That works too. Because when they say those things? They aren’t thinking of black people. They aren’t thinking of white people. They just want to wallow in smug superiority and ignore the problems in their own states.
I remember in the first couple of years after that, Tchoup would never really have everything on your grocery list. No butter one week. No mouthwash another week. Just random stuff, super-pared down brand choices. I always felt like Walmart was punishing us for the police looting their store.
That’s maddening. If it works in the moment, try “Thank you for reiterating my point.”
You’re too kind.
Happy Birthday, Virgo! (Mine was yesterday)
It’s a lot. ✊
Lest we forget how we have come so far in 20 years.
As a New Orleanian, well… yeah don’t do that. It’s bad.
No.
Oh JFC. Ok. Now I’m sorry I looked. That is just… too much. No. I see what you’re saying. Basic info was all I caught, and they really should have stopped there for fucks sake.
I have not seen the news the last few days, and only caught a headline. I understand putting the basic information out there… But- There’s no need to harp on anything of that sort, no. It’s terrible to lose a child. There is nothing worse. I hope they have a strong community around them.
I have to be up in four hours. And can we not?
Ok that’s a new noise. Something is in my attic. What the hell is happening up there? Whatever it is involves little tappy claws.
Y’all. Keep your heads up today and you ain’t gotta explain a fucking thing, because if they weren’t here, they’ll never know, and if you were, you already know. You are my people and all my heart and life and soul is here. Chin up.
Vingt ans après l’ouragan Katrina, le traumatisme indélébile de La Nouvelle-Orléans : «La dépression de ces années-là s’est déposée en nous» Deux décennies après avoir été presque entièrement noyée, la ville vit encore sous l’emprise de la catastrophe. Reportage :
Beautifully said and all strength and solidarity and love to you and our people today. And always.
It’s horrific. But to be fair- the lack of that horrific information would have left too much room for undue suspicion and conspiracies. I just don’t think there was a good answer here. And I hate it. I hope the community lifts and holds his family.
Hail.
Where did you go in this state?
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Over 30% of Louisianans are black, and I have not found them to be self-hating. However, I concur with you that racism is a huge problem in the South, as well as in all other parts of the country.
Fascism is so cringe
Have you ever been to Louisiana?
You are so basic. Try to gaze above your own navel.
*flops* not flips.
Shock. It’s shock. Nothing anyone could ever say can even come close to causing the pain that they just got dealt. Everything else- everything- just flips like a muffled thud in a grey and hazy world.
Beyond.
It is so true that only the good die young. Look at these asshats we’re stuck with.
Co-signed.
I cannot. It is such a tragedy that basic human decency can’t be taught. Hot tip from someone who lost a child: If you don’t know what to say, just say “I have no words.” And then STFU.
Horrendous. Protect children.
Some rubber necking BS is what it is. Ghouls.
You may not have been here then, J. But you’re a local now.
Yo. @dirtycoast.bsky.social
I didn’t realize until the last two days just HOW FUCKING ANGRY I still am. I had tucked it into a box. All compartmentalized. But I am not ok. I am still so deeply angry about the way our people were treated. I should try to channel that into something positive. It’s a lot to carry.
Because racism.
Also- and let me paraphrase what Malik Rahim said during the forum on Tuesday- none of this had to happen. There was room in Metairie. There was room in the West Bank. But the Gretna cops came onto OUR fucking bridge and forced people back into the disaster. And then we were scattered.
It was the largest displacement of black people since the Civil War. And 20 years later, it shows. Like losing a limb. The scars are indelible. 🙏😞✊
But we aren’t anywhere. We are New Orleans.
We are and always have been and always will be our own first responders.
He has my deepest respect. When his boots hit the ground, shit got straight. Forever grateful.
I believe in everybody having living wages regardless of their immigration status. Only assholes underpay marginalized people.
Maybe work on your own county before you come out denigrating our people.
I met him today, and after 20 years, was finally able to tell him thank you. That made my whole month. ❤️🙏✊
I sweatergawd these notfromhere people better STFU about “red states” and disasters, because this is NOT the week to try my motherfucking ladylike patience.
Now you go on and sit quietly with yourself, and try real hard to be a better human.
But that’s cool, Mr. Nevada. You go on and tell us all about wtf we do and don’t know about FEMA and disasters with your little haha gif like you know jack shit about what we’ve been through. You better pray you never go through what we survived. Because disaster don’t know party lines.
It’s reductive t even post that in this thread about Katrina. Do better. How do you even define a “GOP state?” You talking about Louisiana? You want to define that a little better? We have more registered democrats than republicans, and are gerrymandered to fuck and back.
