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Karen Gadbois
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Founder of The Lens. Nonprofit news site

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Constantly shocked that I am not shocked

New Orleans Louisiana
Anyone familiar with how drug trafficking works know that the people handling the drugs are mostly conscripted. I worked in a jail in Mexico and saw many women there who had been forced into trafficking. Where’s the drugs? Where’s the proof?
trafficking.so
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Meanwhile in New Orleans the state mandates the police department help ICE.
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I was listening to The Wirecutter promo podcast about gift giving. “For someone who has everything “. So fucking tone deaf
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Wouldn’t it be easier the old fashion way? Inherit.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Same house. And the entire street and sidewalk have been dig out multiple times. I had to walk the gangplank to get in my house
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Fuck around and find out
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Oh. I go way back with these people. Over billing. Meter leaks. Sewerage backups. And on and on. thelensnola.org/2018/08/20/l...
Lens reporter's year in S&WB hell: collapsed pipes, collapsed billing system | The Lens
And despite the fiasco, top brass ordered itself big raises. [...]Read More... from Lens reporter’s year in S&WB hell: collapsed pipes, collapsed billing system
thelensnola.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Def have me beat on the street shutdown. We are entering week 2 of a shit pond.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Watching Nuzzi appear on tv over the last decade or so each time I thought she was part swan. Preening and pouting because the story all along was her
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Ogden also may be a good place for a workshop.
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I feel like you sing that to the tune of Blame it on the Bossanova
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
That’s the best thing I read all day. The kind of Harlequin style and then. The mic drop
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM