This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
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This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
Terrible news for public health www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
I wrote about how the U.S. refuses to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. "ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
Ben Collins made a big bet. A year ago, just a few months after he’d been named CEO of The Onion, he relaunched its print edition. On this episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED spoke with Collins about his hopes for The Onion, the future of journalism, and his Balatro addiction.
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Oh wow! I think that's from this story I reported early in the pandemic: www.mississippifreepress.org/they-see-us-...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
And frankly helped us surpass many other local media’s social following even as it prevented continual harassment of our team members on X. I was constantly harassed, dispatched, lied about and talked to worse than anywhere online or off in my life there. Also: Nate Silver is a dweeb.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Even with Mississippi IP addresses blocked on BlueSky, we STILL get more engagement here than we do on Threads or Facebook and more than we did on X before we left it.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
"I covered the aftermath of Katrina for three years. It was the story of my life, and it fell in my lap. It was one of the most productive periods of my career," David Rae Morris writes.
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
Then you aren't a musician and, unless all of those things change, you never will be and you will never create art with music.
Record-breaking levels of corruption
The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History unveiled the .45-caliber pistol and its holster during a news conference on the 70th anniversary of Till's murder.
“There was a lot of anger at the way the system failed in New Orleans, and not just the levee system. The way that all systems failed in New Orleans at the local and the state and the federal level,” Stewpot Community Services Director Jill Buckley said.
“When I’m awakened in the middle of the night and a kid has been killed or a baby has been killed or an elderly person has been killed, I can’t roll over and go back to sleep,” Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said, explaining his decision to resign.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
“Everything that's getting built is up to the new codes” imposed after Hurricane Katrina, survivor Betty Ruth Hawkins said. “It's new money coming in, rather than families that had relocated being able to come back.”
“When something happened to the Negroes in the South, I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now, I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us anywhere in the world had better be the business of us all,” Mamie Till-Mobley said in September 1955.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
The last 2 weeks have seen many articles clearly stating Trump has taken US into some state of authoritarianism, even dictatorship, some by indie journalists, but also, major international media. Today on 1A, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine & Spain’s La Vanguardia. 🧵 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
John Bel Edwards hasn't been governor in nearly two years. Louisiana's governor is Jeff Landry.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I appreciate this guy literally speaking truth to power here.
“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first ... And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records on Friday, Aug. 22, on the investigation into his murder.
Bleak: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant brought up the need to reform—and protect—the National Flood Insurance Program, calling it “vital.” That program was created by Congress more than 50 years ago because many private insurers stopped offering policies in high-risk areas.
Eternal shame on everyone who continues to support this monstrous genocide.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
This is surprising to exactly nobody.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
“Our current system often falls short of delivering quality options for all students. Economically disadvantaged communities in Mississippi have been left with too few options for far too long,” said Republican Mississippi House Speaker Jason White.
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"The state’s intent here is to reduce the members of Congress who represent Black communities, and that, in and of itself, is unconstitutional," says NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson.
OPINION: "(My mother) would be proud of the work that I am about to lead, which will shine an even brighter light on the issues that plague this state—issues that my mother tried to address in Noxubee County in the best way she knew how to do," Torsheta Jackson writes.
This whole thread is exhausting. The questions vary between insulting to teachers’ professionalism, trivial, and irrelevant (but requiring a particular set of beliefs). Nothing about actual teacher qualification.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Cis liberals: instead of getting mad at trans people for not liking your favorite transphobic candidate of the moment how about you use that cis privilege to push that candidate to be less transphobic and thus win broader support?
The entire goal of Musk, Zuckerberg, Andersen, Thiel and more: a world of people completely shut off from each other, relying on their tech products ALONE (sans human beings) for social interaction, sexual pleasure and more. We exist as nothing but fodder for their imagined AI juggernauts.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
Someone pointed out that he could have been alive today (age 84), and it really put in perspective how recent 'history' can be.
Many of the records have never been seen by the public. They include reports, telegrams, case files and correspondence and documents from the NAACP, the White House, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, among others.
OPINION: "If interpretation is selective—focusing on opulence while minimizing suffering—tourism then becomes a force of historical distortion," Betsy Pudliner writes.
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The human capacity for evil and belief in their right to control other people’s personal decisions is continually mind-blowing.
You're very welcome.
Further, why not pressure those politicians y'all like to support trans rights if they want your vote? You can do that, my fellow cis people! You don't just have to accept them throwing your trans friends under the bus as if their positions can't be changed by political pressure.
Note: This is not an endorsement of any particular candidate. I don't endorse political candidates as a journalist. I'm just tired of seeing people talk down to trans people and blame them for fascism for daring to defend their own rights and dignity. It's shameful.
Maybe more cis people (and I'm a cis people myself) should support people who support trans rights if they want to defeat fascism. Why is that never the false choice proffered? Why is it always marginalized people who are expected to throw themselves under the bus in service to everyone else?
It's absurd seeing people lecturing trans people and telling them they HAVE to support someone who opposes trans rights for president three years from now—or else fascism wins!—when there are other leaders who are still standing up for trans rights, from Illinois to Kentucky.
Here it is, now on the MFP site: www.mississippifreepress.org/integrating-...
The Gestapo called her ‘the most dangerous of all Allied spies.’ With a wooden leg, Virginia Hall built resistance networks, crossed the Pyrenees, and proved tyranny always underestimates those it dismisses. Her story matters now. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/15xg...
Thanks to y'all for pointing out that "your brain is fully developed at 25" thing is an unscientific myth. My bad for spreading bad info. www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...
Excuse me, my husband is TWO DAYS older than me. Not two years. bsky.app/profile/asht...
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Also, I'm not just automatically against age gaps. But when one person is right at 40 and the other is in their upper teens... 😬
It's not the age gap that bothers me, it's that he was right at 40 and she was still in here teens.
This is all theoretical, of course. I'm happily married to someone who is two years older than me, and I love that age gap because it allows me two days every year to call him an old ass and fashion myself as the younger one in the relationship.
As a 36 year old, the idea of dating a 19 year old at my age just gives me the icks. A 25 year old? (Which is the age when our brains are fully developed). Maybe, still not convinced. But a 19 year old? That's a definite hell no.
VICTIMS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND GHISLAINE MAXWELL will be speaking to the public at a press conference on Wednesday, Sept 3rd at 10:30 AM EST at the House Triangle in Washington, DC. They will be calling for legislation to force Trump to release the Epstein files in full. Articles⬇️
Fuck it, PAINT RAINBOWS EVERYWHERE. E V E R Y W H E R E
Ty to Jezi for reminding me bsky.app/profile/jezi...
Update: Twitter is no longer the only place where you can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?"
I’ll never forget working with (and sharing a powerless house) with David Rae and fam in Jackson as we kept the journalism (and our #HurricaneKatrina “triage blog” of community assistance sources) going strong night and day at the Jackson Free Press.
"We had lived in New Orleans more than 30 years, but as a photojournalist I had never evacuated for a storm," David Rae Morris writes. "I had always stayed to cover it for a variety of news organizations. Until Katrina."
Free Press reporters didn't just cover Katrina; they lived it. They sat with survivors, documented injustices and held leaders accountable. That legacy of accountability continues at MFP. With your help, we can continue to tell Mississippi's full story. givebutter.com/mfpdonate
“When you talk about consolidation, everybody gets worried that their school is going to get closed. Well, it may mean that their administration is going to combine, not necessarily the school,” Mississippi House Education Committee Chairman Rep. Rob Roberson, R-Starkville, says.
OPINION: "I remember spending hours in her classroom while my mother taught her students to cook, sew and care for themselves and a home. Those were her other children, and she fought tooth and nail for them to have every thing they deserved," Torsheta Jackson writes. buff.ly/6JmY59D
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It's been four years since mine passed and I still habitually go to text her something. As we lived together, there are days when I walk into the dining room (it was the living room while she was alive) with "Mum, you'll never believe..." ready to pour out of my mouth.
OPINION: "Grief...hits you in the most unexpected ways," Torsheta Jackson writes. "… In the weeks since (my mother's) death, I’ve picked up the phone to call her multiple times. I always think of something new that I need to tell her, and the sadness hits when I realize that I can’t."
No? Maybe you should talk to some Florida news outlets about telling those stories?
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Thirty-five signatories included their names. The 141 anonymous signatories “choose not to identify themselves due to the culture of fear and suppression cultivated by this administration,” according to the letter.
Opposition figures and others in Uganda have criticized the agreement with the U.S. to receive deported migrants, questioning the lack of parliamentary approval and saying the deal eases political pressure on the country’s authoritarian president.
OPINION: "We can’t measure suffering. All suffering deserves compassion," Victoria Richard writes. "We cannot say to two people who have both lost their homes and loved ones that one of their losses is 'bigger' than the other. To do so is to dishonor the pain that both parties have felt."
Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina claimed the lives of 238 people in Mississippi. “The gravity of it is beyond being able to explain,” said Betty Ruth Hawkins, who evacuated Waveland the day before the storm with her daughter and two cats.
“The Till story is not just a Mississippi story or a southern story—it is a human-rights story that is very much a part of this nation’s complicated historical fabric,” Daphne Chamberlain, chief program officer of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, said.
The gun was previously in the possession of a family in the Mississippi Delta, who donated it on the condition of anonymity. It will be displayed in the Emmett Till exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
"As I walked out onto Beach Boulevard that Saturday, I could find no reference point for where I was because all the elegant beachfront houses were gone. It was like a bomb had gone off. There was debris everywhere," David Rae Morris writes.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)