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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 9h

One of the most consequential SCOTUS cases is going down right now and it feels a little weird that life is kinda happening like normal.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

I forgot about that part. It's a lot harder than it looks to not hold committee meetings for utilities. We don't understand just how hard it is to regulate. <Mount up>

Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

Oh ... right right ... but you see they weren't friends before so now they're friends they can spend less time attacking each other so it'll be much better. It's like same same but different.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

I am glad we didn't get a Sheriff who had platform ideas of forced labor from people too poor to make bond.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

[SPOILER ALERT] ... I want to be surprised about my utility bill getting higher because Entergy had to repair something and couldn't dig into their own profits to provide service so city council told them sure, increase the rate the people pay to raise the money.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

#nolasky we got them shaking and we gotta come back out and finish the job. Piss Liz Murrill off even more and volunteer to help Calvin Duncan win. www.calvinforclerk.com

Calvin Duncan For Clerk

calvinforclerk.com

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 3d

Hey y'all #nolasky we can get Covid vaccines without a prescription now! Visit Nola.gov/vaccines for more information. Also text "Flu" to 66879 to schedule an appointment at Walgreens.

New orleans health department press release covid and flu shots without a prescription at Walgreens text "Flu" to 66879 or visit nola.gov/vaccines

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

Secretary of State hotline for election integrity.

1-800-883-2805

press 1 for election specialist and ask to speak with election integrity division

Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

Amen!

Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

Major Alert: 🚨🚨🚨 we need proof of this in order to report it. if you haven’t voted yet, or you know somebody on their way to vote, PLEASE TAKE PHOTOS OF THESE LANYARDS. Please be discreet. We dont want anybody getting into conflict with the poll workers. We are looking for clearly legible photos.

Text allegations that poll workers are wearing lanyards that appear to be soft electioneering for the incumbent clerk of court

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

#nolasky we hit over 40k (40,310 to be exact) early and absentee votes going into Election Day (today). If you haven't voted yet.... #GeauxVote Polls open until 8pm.

Secretary of State Precinct Vote Count in Orleans Parish

My 9 days ago prediction we would hit 40k early voting.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 4d

#TheLensNola🔍 Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court – and his campaign seems to have gathered enough momentum to draw fire from high-powered Louisiana officials.

✍ Katy Reckdahl

Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/yOvnIiR

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 4d

#nolasky today is the day to piss off Liz Murrill. Vote Calvin for Clerk because it would make her mad but also because those closest to the problem have the solutions. He knows why this office is important, experienced the inefficiencies, and will make it better.

Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 4d

Vote Calvin for Clerk tomorrow, y’all

The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 4d

#TheLensNola🔍 Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court – and his campaign seems to have gathered enough momentum to draw fire from high-powered Louisiana officials.

✍ Katy Reckdahl

Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/yOvnIiR

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 8d

Awww yes, interesting photo choice for Assessor Williams who was not a school child in 1985-1990s era New Orleans when this picture was taken. He was an adult in city government in that time period. www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...

Main image: After School from the Eyes of Desire series, between 1985 and 1990. Photograph: Harold F. Baquet/Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of Harold F. Baquet & Cheron

Campaign ad for Errol Williams about how he grew up in St Bernard but a picture of 1985-1990 era school children at the Desire. Erroll was in city government as an adult in 1985, he is not in this picture.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 9d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 9d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Casius for Nola @casiusfornola.bsky.social · 10d

Wow- we suddenly all know so much more about property taxes in New Orleans and the assessor’s role! Let’s vote for more of this please — Casius Pealer #11 ! Election Day is this Saturday October 11th.

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Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 10d

I love his Instagram videos. He's so enthusiastic!

Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 11d

Being able to hear Gretna Fest from my porch is kinda nice actually.

Michele @geauxwithmichele.com · 11d

Who is the manager I need to talk to for getting another early voting location or three?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 12d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 12d

The repeal of the ACA is going to destroy healthcare. Prior to its passage people would get divorced to avoid the government seizing their assets for their healthcare.

People used to cede custody of kids to relatives so they could have healthcare.

You could be denied CHEMO b/c you had acne at 16

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

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NRDC @nrdc.org · 13d

When polluting industries move in right next door and directly put people’s lives at risk, we have to call for environmental justice because everyone has the right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy community. 🧵👇

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12d

Arriving in a Blackhawk helicopter and more, ICE raids an apartment building in Chicago.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," said one resident.

"We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Citizen app video captured the chaotic scene, and neighbors say there were dozens of ICE agents.

"As I got to my unit to stick my key in the door, I was grabbed by an officer. And, I said, 'What's going on? What's going on?' He never actually told me. He said I was being detained.," said Alicia Brooks.

Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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