Happy Fuckin’ New Year
Straight down Bourbon street at 3am on New Years, so you know it was packed with people just out to have fun… WTAF is wrong with people.
And apparently the police blocked people from helping the injured. I guess their excuse will be that they didn’t want anyone else getting injured until they knew the threat was contained.
I don’t know if this is the right spot for this but during the press conference right now Senator John Kennedy just made a political speech and talked poorly of the federal government. He said he had information that they better share. The whole press conference is like an awards show with everyone thanking each other while sharing no new information.
The press conference has like 300 people at the podium.
Oh, and they canceled the Sugar Bowl until tomorrow.
We have a thread on congress, so feel free to cross post that there, too.
What’s the occasion? Press conference about what?
That whole Bourbon Street thing.
Surveillance footage circulated among law enforcement also captured three men and a woman placing one of multiple improvised explosive devices in the French Quarter, according to a Louisiana State Police bulletin obtained by the Associated Press.
Fuck. My assumption was it was a drunk-driving moron, but of course it’d be domestic terrorism. It’s not enough for someone to be a horrible person, it has to be entirely deliberate and premeditated. This is 2025, after all.
President Biden on the new year’s events (NOLA attack and the Cybertruck explosion).
[ETA] It’s a description of the attack by an eyewitness, so keep that in mind before you click on it…
That eyewitness looks haunted.
He does, yeah… 
The person who rented the Tesla Cybertruck tha was used in an explosion outside the entrance of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as an active-duty member of the U.S. Army’s elite special forces unit, two U.S. defense officials said.
So, maybe he was just going to go camping and blow up some fireworks while he was at it, until something went wrong? Or had come back from camping and what ruptured was his unused parphenalia?
What we do know is that Jabbar was a US Army veteran who served in the US military for 13 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan. He was reportedly going through a divorce and had expressed a desire to kill his entire family.
The Army is not training the best.
Grim news, delivered without self aggrandizing or jingoism. I can’t help but think “I’m going to miss that.” (Not that I want more such news at any time.) The reporter at the end who was shouting out “have you spoke to President Trump” really irritated me, though.