Quilty Mama 🪡🧵
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New Orleans quilter Gen X mama
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Hey y’all. I just checked the three community fridges by me, the two on lower Jackson and the one on Washington, and all three were completely empty. My family and I are making some stuff for those three, but go check the ones by you! Let’s get people fed! #nolasky
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hey y’all. I just checked the three community fridges by me, the two on lower Jackson and the one on Washington, and all three were completely empty. My family and I are making some stuff for those three, but go check the ones by you! Let’s get people fed! #nolasky
This photographer was not kidding around
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This photographer was not kidding around
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This is my thing. If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck... It's not incumbent on the public to know which ones are mallards & which are mandarins.
Also, article defends actions of the police. Okay, in this instance they were doing something positive. But there's a reason is Acab, not Mcab.
Also, article defends actions of the police. Okay, in this instance they were doing something positive. But there's a reason is Acab, not Mcab.
So Nola dot com wrote about the fiasco with Sports Drink filming the cops, and I still stand by my inquiry - WHY are we dressing law enforcement in faux military garb that's all indistinguishable yet similar?
December 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is my thing. If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck... It's not incumbent on the public to know which ones are mallards & which are mandarins.
Also, article defends actions of the police. Okay, in this instance they were doing something positive. But there's a reason is Acab, not Mcab.
Also, article defends actions of the police. Okay, in this instance they were doing something positive. But there's a reason is Acab, not Mcab.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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Hey NOLA area folks, if you are or you know of an LGBTQIA+ student around here who could use some tuition money, the local PFLAG scholarship applications are open. You can also contribute to the scholarship fund through this same link if you wanna do some good for some young scholars. Please share!
2026 Scholarship Application Process Information
PFLAG New Orleans Scholarship Application for the 2026-27 school year is NOW OPEN! If an applicant has questions regarding their application, they may send an email message to...
www.pflagno.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hey NOLA area folks, if you are or you know of an LGBTQIA+ student around here who could use some tuition money, the local PFLAG scholarship applications are open. You can also contribute to the scholarship fund through this same link if you wanna do some good for some young scholars. Please share!
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#TheLensNola🔍 A survey in photo and text, of what New Orleanians are thinking about the local immigrants threatened by Catahoula Crunch.
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#TheLensNola🔍 A survey in photo and text, of what New Orleanians are thinking about the local immigrants threatened by Catahoula Crunch.
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
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this is today!! pop-up art porch sale/open studio 600 block of north olympia in midcity near city park. if you're headed to the arts market in city park, pass by on your way there or after! we'll be out there 10:30-4pm.
a few friends are joining me selling their wares so it should be a fun time. weather is supposed to be awesome saturday. swing by and say hello and do some holiday shopping! oh, and i'll have whistle kits for all who stop by and i can answer any questions you have about our community resistance. 2/2
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
this is today!! pop-up art porch sale/open studio 600 block of north olympia in midcity near city park. if you're headed to the arts market in city park, pass by on your way there or after! we'll be out there 10:30-4pm.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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(cont'd) another training, tonight (Friday). This is a continuation of the one I went to last week which was tremendously informative. That was the second in the series but you didn't have to go to the first so I assume you'd one can stand alone as well
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
(cont'd) another training, tonight (Friday). This is a continuation of the one I went to last week which was tremendously informative. That was the second in the series but you didn't have to go to the first so I assume you'd one can stand alone as well
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans
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free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!
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“We learned from Los Angeles and D.C. and it’s our turn to share what we learned with the cities facing it now,” said González, co-founder of Protect Rogers Park."
Chicago activists share blueprint for resisting Border Patrol: ‘Chicago clearly is front and center’
As President Donald Trump’s ramped up Border Patrol action hits city after city, Chicago’s immigration-focused community organizers are following.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“We learned from Los Angeles and D.C. and it’s our turn to share what we learned with the cities facing it now,” said González, co-founder of Protect Rogers Park."
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Aaaall riiiiiiighhhht! I loved taking home jigsaw puzzles from my town library when I was a kid! I will definitely be using the #NOLALibrary puzzle exchanges. You don't even need a library card—just take one home, and return it when you're done.
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
Community Puzzle Exchange
The New Orleans Public Library hosts community puzzle exchanges. Drop off your old puzzles and take new ones for free.
nolalibrary.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Aaaall riiiiiiighhhht! I loved taking home jigsaw puzzles from my town library when I was a kid! I will definitely be using the #NOLALibrary puzzle exchanges. You don't even need a library card—just take one home, and return it when you're done.
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
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Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
secure.givelively.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
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I keep thinking of those people coerced into signing deportation papers at Broadview and never had a chance to potentially come home.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I keep thinking of those people coerced into signing deportation papers at Broadview and never had a chance to potentially come home.
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The New Orleans Rapid Response hotline # for ICE/CBP/HSI/DHS sightings is: 504-221-1499. Please RIGHT NOW put it into your phone's contacts so you have it if/when you need it. Link to the whistle kit zines here: drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fo...
504 whistle kit zines - Google Drive
pdfs of NOLA whistle kit zines
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The New Orleans Rapid Response hotline # for ICE/CBP/HSI/DHS sightings is: 504-221-1499. Please RIGHT NOW put it into your phone's contacts so you have it if/when you need it. Link to the whistle kit zines here: drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fo...
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OK, I wanna make a few things clear about the hotline cause I keep getting questions. It is not in indivisible New Orleans that is responsible for it. There’s a coalition of 30+ organizations around town who have been working on this for weeks and helping to staff it. It is voice only, no texts.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
OK, I wanna make a few things clear about the hotline cause I keep getting questions. It is not in indivisible New Orleans that is responsible for it. There’s a coalition of 30+ organizations around town who have been working on this for weeks and helping to staff it. It is voice only, no texts.
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Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
ALERT: @veritenews.org has started a tip line for people to report ICE/CBP sightings in the greater New Orleans area ahead of the upcoming deployment of Border Patrol agents to the region. If you see an enforcement action, raid, illegal detainment, etc., please let us know!
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
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People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say
Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks. The operation aims to arrest around 5,000...
www.wwltv.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
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and here's the relevant info about the whistles from the group in chicago that distributes them. i got mine in a whistle kit from Unión Migrante. also comes with a Know Your Rights card in English/Spanish.
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
and here's the relevant info about the whistles from the group in chicago that distributes them. i got mine in a whistle kit from Unión Migrante. also comes with a Know Your Rights card in English/Spanish.