"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Mississippi because it's always 50 years behind." Native born/raised Mississippian. I suffer not trolls nor fools, gladly or otherwise.
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I agree w/ Russell Latino here ... Sen Hyde-Smith NEVER answers the phone. She also doesn't respond to letters or emails from constituents. She also runs from questions or criticisms. So, yes, Russ, like the proverbial broken clock, is right ... just not for the reasons he thinks.
All of this is true, but this is the commission of a war crime as a means to a different end. The effect they’re trying to achieve is a military response by Maduro to justify Trump’s/Miller’s claim the US is being invaded & provide legal cover for using the Alien Enemies Act. 1/
This is the CEO of the "Magnolia Tribune" trotting out yet another version of "WOMEN NEED TO PUMP OUT MORE BABIES!!!1!!!!" (despite the claim "To be clear, I don’t care if people have zero babies or 15" ... that's a lie). Strangely, immigration isn't even a consideration for white guy Russ.
Good God - why does it have to be Rand Paul saying the obvious stuff? Where the F are Democrats?
Next time y'all see that "canned ham" (H/T @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social ) Gov. Tate Reeves (or any other MS Republican) blather about how great MS is and that the "brain drain" (i.e., people leaving MS) is "fake news", figuratively shove this down his pie hole: (H/T @pzmyers.bsky.social):
If you’re a Black person in DC with an open container, a large backpack, or a minor infraction, you could catch a federal charge from Trump’s troops. But if you’re a white person willing to break the law on his behalf, he’ll give you a pardon, money, or a medal.
Exactly right.
It's worth noting that NONE of MS's three Republican US Representatives: Rep. Mike Ezell Rep. Trent Kelly Rep. Michael Guest have signed on to support the discharge petition put forth by Rep. Thomas Massie:
DAMMIT! I hate it when I agree with Senator Rand Paul!
And one more email to my senor US Senator, Roger Wicker, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee:
I send more email, this time to useless US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith:
I send emails (quite frankly, fuck the "Honorable" bullshit):
I've worked on US Navy contracts for 40 years. And while that doesn't make me an expert on military law, legal justifications for use of force, etc, I gotta ask what area commander greenlighted this to his subordinates in theater to proceed.
Leaning towards writing tomorrow's column on Trump's unlawful boat attack and Googled "boat attack illegal" and the top hits were from non-US news orgs like BBC and the Independent. The American media has gone completely brain dead, no longer chasing even the most obvious stories and angles
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This should get members of the Trump Administration hauled into the International Criminal Court. And I say that as an American citizen.
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DAYUM! About time the lower courts started throwing the conservative SCOTUS majority's bullshit back in their faces.
Oh yeah, it’s here- clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol... bsky.app/profile/nuku...
These are the ONLY House Republicans who have signed onto Rep Thomas Massie's discharge petition to force a vote on release of Epstein documents. Where are Rep. Mike Ezell (202) 225-5772 Rep. Trent Kelly (202) 225-4306 Rep. Michael Guest (202) 225-5031 ????????? Light up their phones.
This is unconstitutional, illegal and immoral.
“We blew it up.” On Trump’s orders. Even Rubio wants a little distance from this.
UPDATE to this story: After his protest, Lt. Colonel Aguilar was taken to jail for a few hours where he was put in isolation and has now been released, he confirms to me.
Link to votes?
So after the Epstein survivors themselves said this matter wasn't a hoax and told their stories, the President told them they were lying. That's the headline every reputable media outlet should be running.
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It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
And that's why we fired all the top women and black people in the military.
Kids aren't ... but sociopaths like Laura Loomer definitely are.
"Conservatives" like him are the only reason I hope Hell really exists ... because it gives me great comfort to know they'll all roast there for eternity.
Y'all contrast these two articles and tell me which one shows a commit to factually-based journalism and which one carries water for a political party: www.mississippifreepress.org/cindy-hyde-s... magnoliatribune.com/2025/09/03/d...
@mississippitoday.org @mississippifreepress.org I think it's time to aggressively go after MS lawmakers & get them on the record about this.
One of Scott Colom's big ideas: Federal tax exemptions for teachers and law enforcement officers. "When you have that much responsibility and that much accountability, you need to make sure that you have the pay that makes you thrive and not just survive.”
NEW: When Biden nominated Scott Colom to a federal court, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith used the Senate's "blue slip" tradition to block his nomination. Now, instead of a federal judgeship, Colom is aiming to unseat her in the Senate. @heatherharrison.bsky.social reports on his campaign launch:
Nothing says "I have no reason to silence these women or fear what they will say" quite like ordering military aircraft to fly over and disrupt their press conference.
Disruptions like this are what you do when you're losing the message #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Let’s go
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.
As with the staffer for Sen. Wicker, reminded staffer that this was a serious issue, Ezell knew these questions were coming and that he was doing his staffers a grave disservice by failing to provide them with an answer for constituents.
US Representative Mike Ezell: Asked if the representative was going to sign on to Discharge Petition 9 (Rep. Thomas Massie's forcing the House to vote on release of the Epstein documents). Was told the representative had provided no statement on that issue.
... Wicker knew these ?s were coming & he was doing staffers a grave disservice by failing to provide them w/ at least an anodyne statement.
US Sen.Roger Wicker: Asked what position/statement senator had on Trump ordering US military to engage in hostilities against civilian vessel in international waters. Was told senator had provided no statement on issue. Reminded staffer this was a serious issue, ...
US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith: No answer, went to voice mail. I can't tell you the last time a live person answered the phone in her DC office. I have to wonder if she's instructed her staffers to screen calls.
Called my 2 US Senators and US Representative (all Republicans). Results are as follows:
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
OPINION: "As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs," Megan Donelson writes.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
Scott Colom’s judicial nomination was blocked by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith using blue slip during Biden presidency. Today Colom announces he’s running against….Cindy Hyde-Smith
Mississippians, Rep. Bennie Thompson has signed on to this. Guess who has not? Rep. Mike Ezell (202) 225-5772 Rep. Trent Kelly (202) 225-4306 Rep. Michael Guest (202) 225-5031 clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...
In Mississippi, 19% of residents lack reliable food access. Locally, nearly 38% of Lumberton’s 1,600 residents live in poverty, according to World Population Review. With no public transportation, residents said many go without when food isn’t available nearby.
Mississippians, Gov. Tate Reeves is over on Twitter and Facebook announcing an announcement where MS handed over even more MS taxpayer $s to a for-profit privately-owned corporation to create LOTS (meaning probably 30 or less) of "high-paying" (which is never defined) jobs.
Now following.
Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
War for Ukraine Day 1,286 update has posted.
I want to clarify something in regard to last night's post. It is not that the EU itself, as well as its member states, the US, non-EU NATO allies, non-EU European states, and other allies and partners are not on the front lines of Putin's and Russia's world war. 1/
Once upon a time, an attack of this nature would’ve guaranteed a congressional hearing. Wanna bet on what happens now?
LOL. That's not nice ... but funny as hell.
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Anytime you block a Nazi, an article about Bluesky dying gets its wings!
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Just confirmation that "It's all about the cruelty".
This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
Donald Trump has recognized the basic truth that a critical mass of Americans will cheer the more brutal you are to people they see as criminals.
And Texas Guardsmen should have it explained to them in no uncertain terms that they have no legal rights in Illinois off a federal installation, beyond whatever Illinois law grants private citizens, because they're essentially tourists.
Not going to repost the snuff video of the DJT folk killing a boat full of people. Were they guilty of something? Maybe. Was death the proper penalty, if they were? Nope. Due process matters, folks. We all deserve the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
I dunno, this sounds like extralegal murder of civilians?
I'm a minor play here and I get FAR more engagement than I ever did cumulatively at Shitter.
I wrote this in November, about some egregious examples of elite acquiescence right after the election and the reasons behind the pervasive accommodation of authoritarian power. Ten months and several authoritarian escalations later, there are still far too few leaders who rise to the moment.
It is frightening that the defense of basic rights and democratic self-government against the authoritarian onslaught depends so much on people who are evidently unable and/or unwilling to grasp who and what we are facing and instead just cling to signaling “bipartisanship” and upholding “unity.”
In a vacuum, that might sound good and noble. But these self-anointed guardians of bipartisanship and “unity” are radically failing the moment because they can’t or won’t grapple with the fact that “normalcy” politics is simply not an adequate response to an acute democratic emergency.
Based on the definition of "antisemitism" used by so many MS Republicans (i.e., any/all criticism of Israel gov't and/or failure to 100% support it), there's a LOT of antisemitism in the Israeli Defense Forces ... www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
HOOCUHDAHNODE?!?!?!?!?!?
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
So it turns out Donald Trump really was too frail and elderly for a second term.
Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
I am disappoint.
From just the headline, this doesn't sound good. Still reading/digesting but ... the fucking bastards. H/T watergirl over at Balloon Juice. insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
/3 Also, it should be obvious, but in case not: this illustrates that the aims of the anti-trans movement are legitimizing violence against trans people as well as against anyone who doesn’t present like Bobby and Cindy Brady.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
If true, I'm sure this will be a total coincidence ...
In Lumberton, Mississippi, where nearly 4 in 10 people live in poverty, the city's first food pantry will open in early 2026. The pantry will be run by Roof Above Resilience, a nonprofit founded in 2024, and is expected to serve at least 100 families each month. buff.ly/qiomoSr
"... these are stupid, racist, hateful people with bad and stupid ideas ..." You are being far too kind.
The ONLY thing I use Twitter for is to receive the one-way rightwing propaganda from my Republican elected officials ... and to "interact" with them (yeah, I know: They ain't listening.)
THIS is the way.
Councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , a Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to @marshablackburn backing Trump putting the National Guard in Memphis:
Yeah, I saw that (meaning the memes thing) referenced earlier (one of your posts?) and I immediately thought the same thing: "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE HANGING OUT ONLINE?!?!?!"
Do you frequent Nazi sites? If not, that's probably why you're not seeing them.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Centrist pundits are very concerned about Bluesky users not getting the minimum daily requirement of Nazi in their social media diet. Let's compare factual grasp of current events from Bluesky users to Fox viewers and talk about THAT.
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Kennedy really is trying to kill us all.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not to mention cat/kitten wrangler.
THIS.
