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    Bayona is Susan Spicer, old-school New Orleans Creole from the 80’s. Justine is Justin Devillier’s (LPG) new-ish French brasserie. Much more of a party atmosphere. Both are fantastic but depends what scene you want.
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    Molly’s Rise and Shine, Mason Hereford’s breakfast spot. It’s great (and they are doing a Night+Market-inspired crispy fried rice, one of my favorite dishes on earth), but they really need to get their liquor license.
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    After three years I finally got an Ultramarine allocation. I’m a big Michael Cruse fan, but never had it - does it live up to the hype? I don’t even think I’ve seen it in the wild.
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    You don’t have to imagine. “The years of the Obama presidency were confusing to her. She said she heard talk of giving freedoms to gay people and members of minority groups. But to her it felt like her freedoms were being taken away. And that she was turning into the minority. “I do not love Trump. I think Trump is good for America as a country. I think Trump is going to restore our freedoms, where we spent eight years, if not more, with our freedoms slowly being taken away under the guise of giving freedoms to all,” she said. “Caucasian-Americans are becoming a minority. Rapidly.” She explained what she meant. “If you are a hard-working Caucasian-American, your rights are being limited because you are seen as against all the races or against women,” she said. “Or there are people who think that because we have conservative values and we value the family and I value submitting to my husband, I must be against women’s rights.”
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    No. You can’t vote multiple times and the county is supposed to investigate if you do. If you vote with an older ballot it is held provisionally until voting ends, and if you vote with the newest ballot that one counts and all older ones are voided.
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    As you would expect, the only folks in CA calling into question voting integrity have been Republicans.
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    Why is it always Oakleys? Can someone get an “Unvaxxed COVID Death” starter pack going? Oakleys, MAGA hat, truck nuts and a GoFundMe.
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    There is no Whole Foods in the Garden District. Is it the one Uptown or in Mid-City? Probably a dumb question. But would think looting is more likely in Mid-City. Honestly, I can’t say how impressed I am your kid is braving this thing in the heart of Central City right now. At least it doesn’t flood!
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    This came out a few years before K and actually ended up becoming a pretty significant documentary of a community that no longer exists.
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    I know CC has gotten better, but that is an extremely dangerous area of town in general. It’s blocks from where the Magnolia used to be. How does he feel safety-wise right now?
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    It’s also fucking stupid. NOPD has been in full force the entire time. Shaun Ferguson was on TV around 1 am and told any would-be looters to FAAFO.
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    I mean, there’s been a $15B upgrade to the levee system, and there is likely no other area in the country with such dedicated federal and state focus on hurricane preparedness- but yes, definitely. I’ve never understood how Teedee just accepted that the century-old pump system was shit. But we also need to focus on the huge role coastal erosion has had on hurricanes, our natural hurricane barrier, the result of climate change and human activity.
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    From one of my favorite Pic (Advocate, whatever) reporters:
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    IMO, the lack of preparation for evacuating people who don’t have cars - which is a lot of New Orleanians. Obviously COVID complicates things, but with the utter outrage 16 years ago over the lack of transportation for the city’s poor, there’s really no excuse. People in the 7th, 9th and 3rd wards and New Orleans East are going to die in the next week from heat stroke, dehydration and lack of access to medical care. Obviously they won’t open up the Dome again because of the optics - this time it’s the Convention Center.
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    Needed 12-24 hours. I’ve been following NOLA Twitter reporting for the past 48 hours and it seems that people have been very proactive and early in evacuating - after the voluntary evacuation order was issued yesterday, people did wake up in the middle of the night to leave. Anecdotally, it looks like I-10 was packed in the morning and there was a big lull around noon. Yeah, there’s definitely the broader question of how to enact contraflow when these things always pop up so quickly, but all in all in hasn’t been too bad. Keep in mind it was August 28 when Nagin and Blanco said that this was the big one and we needed to GTFO immediately.
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    Well, to be fair, the Dome didn’t really hold - the top ripped open, making it more of a hellhole than it already was. Katrina in New Orleans was about the levee failures. I’d wager most deaths were from folks returning home after the storm passed - Lakeview and the Lower Ninth, particularly - and were surprised from the rapidly rising floodwater from Lake Pontchartrain following the 17th Street and Industrial Canals, respectively. I’m not super worried about the levees given the massive scrutiny on the Army Corps of Engineers. With SW&B’s utter failure to fix the drainage system, however, I think there’ll be significant flooding, like there usually is, in Mid-City, Gentilly, Broadmoor etc. Also really sucks for the brand new Four Seasons in the WTC - hope they don’t take any wind damage. As others have mentioned, the coastal parishes are about to get fucked. Wonder how much longer Grand Isle holds on.
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