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"The Trump administration on Monday approved six additional states seeking to ban food stamp recipients from purchasing processed food.

Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas and Florida received federal waivers to adjust Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) guidelines outlawing the purchase of junk food with state funds in 2026."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5436825-trump-administration-bans-junk-food/

started reading Dac Biet by Nini Nguyen

Nini Nguyen, Sarah Zorn: Dac Biet (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) No rating

Content warning cw cookbook discussion - Vietnamese x Louisiana cuisine

New video free online - "Culture Conversation with Jari Honora" at the National Genealogical Society YouTube page.
Honora, a Certified Genealogist®, is a New Orleans native & resident & proud Louisiana Creole with roots dating back centuries along Bayou Lafourche & the German-Acadian Coast, who works as Family Historian in the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection & previously worked for Le Musée de f.p.c.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoDDH8AxuM

>>Kashanian's application was rejected by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals over a decade later, but federal authorities granted her a "stay of removal" — an administrative reprieve handed out at immigration officials' discretion under which they agree not to deport someone provided they appear as ordered for immigration check-ins.<<


https://www.nola.com/news/politics/national_politics/iran-new-orleans-woman-arrested/article_bcfdc93e-01dc-4021-b5f8-a91ded5ed784.html

"A massive data center for Meta’s AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps.

Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland, with a big creek—it is literally named Big Creek—running through it. It is home to rice and grain mills and an elementary school and a few houses. Soon, it will also be home to Meta’s massive, 4 million square foot AI data center hosting thousands of perpetually humming servers that require billions of watts of energy to power. And that energy-guzzling infrastructure will be partially paid for by Louisiana residents.

The plan is part of what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would be “a defining year for AI.” On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was “building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of …

More good news!

blocks requiring schools to post in classrooms

A panel of 3 federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each classroom is .

The ruling marked a major win for groups who say the mandate violates the separation of , & that the poster-sized displays would isolate …who are not .

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ten-commandments-schools-federal-court-80d31b705fccbbbe3eeeb3cda5f64ec3?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-20-Breaking+News