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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Once more with feeling

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2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.” (H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )

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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

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Finally some good news!

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The Trump DOJ pulled millions in funding for groups throughout Louisiana that support survivors of domestic, sexual + intimate violence. Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors. @arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...

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“If you’re leaking a document, take pictures of it with the camera within Signal, which doesn’t save photos to your camera roll, and then send them to the reporter. If the document is on a screen, take pictures of the screen with the Signal app; don’t print anything out.”

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.

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Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇

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Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi. Here's how we can. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...

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Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.

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I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

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Deconstruction.

submitted 65 days ago • 101 comments

#OnThisDay in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” about the lynchings of Black Americans — 6,400+ between 1865 & 1950. The song reminded her of her father, who died when a hospital refused to treat him because of his color. The song sold 1M+. #History mississippitoday.org/2025/04/20/o...

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RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Thrilled to be selected to be a part of the first cohort of @newmarkjplus.bsky.social's new nonprofit news business certificate program. Can't wait to meet all these folks in NY next week and learn a whole lot over the next few months!

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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We're excited to announce our partnership with @kffhealthnews.org ! Both @veritenews.org and @mississippitoday.org will work closely with KFF Health News’s Southern Bureau. Learn more: deepsouthtoday.org/2025/04/07/d...

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I know crashing the economy on purpose seems harsh, but it’ll all be worth it when the seventh Little Mermaid is white

submitted 83 days ago • 119 comments

theonion.com/october-22-1...

submitted 79 days ago • 69 comments

how far do the markets have to fall before we get to a literal torches and pitchforks in the street situation?

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Madison County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Mills dismissed former Gov. Phil Bryant’s defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today on Friday, ending a nearly two-year case that became a beacon in the fight for American press freedom.

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I can’t compete with this

submitted 83 days ago • 834 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 83 days ago • 156 comments

irony is (still) dead

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Someone should just tell him america is great again and give him the hug that his dad never did. "You did it son, we're all so proud of you!" (now stop and let everyone else get back to living their lives)

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so much winning

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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

submitted 83 days ago • 70 comments

What's super clear is he's not running in 2028. Either he's out (unlikely) or he's going to cling to power and never leave. After tanking the economy and screwing everyone who voted for him there's no way he wins, so...y'know.

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Huh, weird

submitted 84 days ago • 125 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

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