“A #Russian#ransomware gang breached the Energy Department and other federal agencies… a global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments.. #Louisiana officials said people with a driver’s license or vehicle registration likely had their personal information exposed, including name, address, SSN, and birthdate.. and #Oregon confirmed the attackers accessed personal information for about 3.5M people” https://apnews.com/article/hack-ransomware-extortion-moveit-cisa-0a642dd9b3544552d8802befec6de9af
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The state chapter of the NAACP has requested a Louisiana travel advisory, citing “a disconcerting trend of policies and actions taken by Republican legislators in the State of Louisiana that target and marginalize specific groups within the population, including African Americans, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, immigrants, and those who exercise their right to free speech.”
I was going to say that there are no mountains in Louisiana. But doing a quick search, I found a place called Mount Driskill which rises a whopping 535 feet above sea level. Still, is it really a mountain, or is it just a hill. It is the highest point in Louisiana which does have changes in elevation. My house sits on a small hill.
"Driskill Mountain (also referred to as Mount Driskill) is the highest natural summit in Louisiana, with an elevation of 535 feet (163 m) above sea level. It lies about 5.3 miles (8.5 km) southeast of Bryceland, in Bienville Parish. A large pile of rocks marks the high point." - wikipedia.org
Inside the Christian Legal Crusade to Revive School Prayer
Buoyed by the right-wing Supreme Court, Christian groups are laying the groundwork for public schools to veer back toward the 1960s.
Comment: this is a long but well-researched and written article discussing religion in education, and school prayer in the Southern states (focus: Louisiana).
#Louisiana passed a bill prohibiting online services from allowing people under 18 to sign up for accounts without parental consent, and allows parents to cancel contracts underlying their children’s accounts on sites like #TikTok and Roblox
The Louisiana Industry Defense Council has rebranded itself as the Louisiana Industry Sustainability Council, but don’t let that fool you, their message is the same: ignore locals’ desires for a clean, healthy #environment and promote #industry at all costs.
In an area known as #CancerAlley is it really unreasonable to be weary of new development?
Anybody here ever listen to WBRH in Baton Rouge, LA?
The blues Legend, Tabby Thomas, used to host an amazing local Blues show there and send out dedications to people he met at blues shows over the weekend.
He would say, "This one goes out to you, you and you!"
His son, Chris Thomas King, played the blues singer at the Crossroads in O Brother Where Art Thou?
I come from the land of very good music and very good food.
I didn't really know where to put all the rage and grief over the current legislative session here in #Louisiana, so I made a new podcast (as one does, of course).
"Sophie's Legislative Review & Authoritarian Bingo Extravaganza'' serves up everything one needs to know about each anti-#trans / anti-#LGBTQ+ bill in 15 minutes or less. It's updated as the bills move through committee
If you have a chance to listen, I'd love to hear what you think :)
For #ThickTrunkTuesday I wanted to share this enormous old #liveoak#tree that has its own space by the Baton Rouge Clinic on Perkins Road in #BatonRouge#Louisiana. When the Clinic moved to this location, they preserved the tree and set aside an appropriately sized fenced area to protect its root system. The tree is thriving and so is the Clinic. Proof that we can live in harmony with nature if we do so thoughtfully. This oak supports an impressive colony of Resurrection Fern as well. I took these photos last week, and you can see the new spring growth on the branches.
"Louisiana’s coast is among the most rapidly disappearing places on earth: What is lost amounts roughly to the size of the state of Delaware; what is left continues to go." —Lauren Stroh on the catastrophic effects of climate change in Louisiana. Her story, "Great American Wasteland" is a featured read in our #EarthDay collection.