How federal tax dollars meant to fight #ClimateChange could end up boosting #Louisiana’s fossil fuel production
"On the surface, these projects seem beneficial. Keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere prevents the greenhouse gas from fueling climate change. In practice, however, this may lead to a net increase in #FossilFuel production and more emissions.
Louisiana has taken advantage of disasters to boost the fossil fuel industry before."
Reading for Justice: An Evening with Mac Marquis and Victoria Law
Join One Book One New Orleans and Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners for a conversation about #SocialJustice, #literacy, #activism, and more. Mac Marquis, author of Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement and Victoria Law, author "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths About Mass Incarceration, will discuss their books and their justice-focused work. Guests will also hear from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners and One Book One New Orleans about their efforts at the local level.
This event will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Community Book Center (2523 Bayou Road). The event is FREE, family-friendly, and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Erin Reed reports on how Southern states (i.e., solidly Republican-voting ones) are pushing hard to quash all legal recognition of trans people. They want to invisibilize and cancel trans people. She writes,
"Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama all are advancing bills that 'define sex' to exclude transgender people from any legal recognition of their gender."
The case involves a lawsuit initiated by… #Missouri & #Louisiana & individual #SocialMedia users. They accuse the #Biden admin of violating the #FirstAmendment by operating a sprawling federal “censorship enterprise” to #influence platforms…. Justices #Kagan & #Kavanaugh, who previously worked in Democratic & Republican admins, respectively, suggested that such exchanges were routine occurrences & did not amount to #censorship or #coercion in violation of the constitutional right to #FreeSpeech.
#Gardening season! In my raised beds I’ve added parsley and basil plants to the almost-mature garlic on the other side. Corn, snap beans, and zucchini for the warm days ahead. And lots and lots of greens to harvest quickly before they bolt!
Confession: This is my first bowl of grits. Amazing and creamy and you don't want the bowl to end. If you are ever at the Montrose Brown Line, go to Spoken Cafe right under the CTA and order the Acadian Grits. And the coffee is half priced if you get a mug!
"Louisiana is...closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, as Republican lawmakers advanced legislation.
Legislators also greenlighted a bill that would provide a level of immunity from civil liability for someone who uses a concealed firearm to shoot a person in self-defense."
@SteveThompson this is the result of a few voters controlling our politics. Too many citizens couldn’t be bothered to vote so we ended up with Republicans in control of the state. Voter apathy is going to destroy us #louisiana
"Some prisoners work on the same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugarcane more than 150 years ago, with some present-day images looking eerily similar to the past. In Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest incarceration rates, men working on the “farm line” still stoop over crops stretching far into the distance." https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
Just had the misfortune of watching #Seattle news on TV for a few minutes. I’ve always found it to be a perfectly pleasant place, but it would seem Seattle is actually a destitute hellscape where I’ll be robbed/gunned down/shanked the moment I cross into city limits.
Thought I was watching Onion News for a second there 😅
It’s so interesting to me to see the way Seattle is portrayed on the news, especially now that I live in #Washington and have spent some time in the city. In my native #Louisiana, saying you wanted to visit Seattle was equivalent to suggesting a nice vacation to Afghanistan. Louisiana has the second highest murder and gun death rates, but conservatives there are much more concerned about “Antifa” in Seattle than black kids dying in their backyard.
From yesterday: Priscilla Villarreal, the controversial citizen journalist from #Laredo, promised to appeal her case to the Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it was legal to jail her just for releasing public information received through unauthorized channels. Experts suggest it would hurt everyday #journalism if upheld: https://www.texasobserver.org/priscilla-villarreal-journalist-la-gordiloca-fifth-circuit/
"#HeavyRains in #Texas on Wednesday closed schools and elevated flooding risks around Houston in another round of soaking downpours that have made for a soggy and dangerous week across large portions of the U.S.
A stretch of wet and freezing winter weather has swept away vehicles in San Diego, led to high-water rescues in San Antonio and coated roads with ice in the Midwest. Rain was expected to continue pushing across the Gulf Coast on Thursday and Friday."
This is not even a hurricane: just climate changed rain.
" More than a month’s worth of #rain fell in several #Texas and #Louisiana cities from Monday to early Thursday, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital.
While heavy rain is relatively common for areas near the Gulf of Mexico, experts say climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of such heavy rainfall events."
Pay attention to what's happening in this case: the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just essentially ruled that it's fully legal to jail journalists for reporting leaked information, or any information they obtain from government officials without going through "proper channels."
Just in: Priscilla Villarreal, the controversial journalist known as La Gordiloca, says she'll appeal her case to the Supreme Court after a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals which could threaten journalists across three states.