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Bob Murrell for City Council District A
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People First ★ He/him ★ Goofy dad & husband ★ Candidate for City Council District A (Mid City, Fairgrounds, Hollygrove, Leonidas, Navarre, Carrollton + more) ☮️❤️✊ linktr.ee/bob4districta Join DSA ☆ MakeEntergyPay.com
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 6d
Now is the time to organize! Join me and over 80k others in DSA act.dsausa.org/s/2675.pdyjix
Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social · 4h
One photo, two worlds — the Día de los Muertos parade at the gates of St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans.
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Tiffany @tsalagitiffany.bsky.social · 1d
Bike Easy bicycle second line
Hundreds of cyclists next to Bayou Saint John Hundreds of cyclists on Dauphine in the French Quarter
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 2d
Sorry to anyone not living in the yellow, you are not a major part of the district
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 3d
dsaneworleans.org/voter-guides...

Early voting starts tomorrow
DSA New Orleans - New Orleans DSA Fall 2025 Voter Guide: Runoff Supplement
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4d
inspiring developments taking place at the river district www.nola.com/news/busines...
Convention Center to make sweeping changes to River District project after deadlines missed
The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is moving to take back control of much of its long-delayed River District project, removing the Lauricella-led development team after years of missed deadlines. ...
www.nola.com
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4d
Mayor Kirkpatrick says no www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
NOPD Chief Kirkpatrick rejects NOPD overtime freeze, citing public safety risks
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says she won’t cut officer overtime despite a $160M city budget shortfall, citing public safety concerns.
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 4d
ok thanos
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 4d
These studies are so odd how they're framed. "Yes STRs directly contribute to evictions and poverty, but they're also more popular and are important to tourism"
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 4d
Louisiana will cover most SNAP recipients for November

About 53,000 'able-bodied' SNAP recipients will have to lean on their local food banks as long as the shutdown persists, according to the governor. 
Louisiana will cover most SNAP recipients for November
About 53,000 'able-bodied' SNAP recipients will have to lean on their local food banks as long as the shutdown persists, according to the governor. 
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 4d
"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated."

If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭

My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 6d
Now is the time to organize! Join me and over 80k others in DSA act.dsausa.org/s/2675.pdyjix
Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
act.dsausa.org
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 6d
Early voting starts this Saturday! I'm supporting Calvin Duncan for Clerk of Court and Aimee McCarron for District A
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d
Surveillance is the product.
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 11d
Hey remember when NOPD authorized 400 NOPD officers to get overtime for doing security at two concerts this past weekend?
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 11d
What was even the point of granting Mardi Gras a SEAR designation if there was no money attached? veritenews.org/2025/10/22/f...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11d
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 13d
The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill is going to fund a war on the United States of America by "peacemaker" Donald Trump, as I anticipated in the wake of its passage.
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cool lich doritos 🦝 🏴 @comrade-raccoon.bsky.social · 18d
Stop putting this crap in your house

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 15d
Agreed! And Hakm's speech had a great radical tone to it
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El Spotto @spotto.bsky.social · 15d
The light in this image had already been traveling for 5 billion years before the earth was formed. We are such a small part of the time space fabric of the universe.
allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 15d
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 1.48 (lookback time 9.48 billion years) with coordinates (149.48889, 2.14654).

48 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 48 volunteers.
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Patricia Kreger @patriciakreger.bsky.social · 16d
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drew xolaya costley (they/she) @drewcostley.bsky.social · 16d
A broad cross-section of New Orleanians gathered on Lafitte Greenway to protest the Trump administration, including one who lamented to @veritenews.org that it took so long for some to wake up to the oppression now being ramped up on the federal level.

veritenews.org/2025/10/18/n...
‘I’m pissed off’: At No Kings rally, thousands protest Trump
The New Orleans No Kings rally on the Lafitte Greenway brought thousands out to protest President Donald Trump.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16d
On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵
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Bob Murrell for City Council District A @bob4districta.bsky.social · 17d
Robert E Lee was the commanding officer that responded to Harper's Ferry
jmritchey.bsky.social Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 18d
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18d
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17d
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth conspired to murder a fisherman named Chad Joseph (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack
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