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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If you know anyone who wants to support the Mississippi Free Press and no longer has a way to follow them on social media, send them to this link here: www.mississippifreepress.org/newsletters/

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Newsletter - Mississippi Free Press

Get exclusive stories that look at context and solutions to systemic issues for Mississippi and the nation with these FREE newsletters.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The downsizing of the National Weather Service and the NOAA appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies. In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom has just torched Trump, Stephen Miller and the whole administration. 🔥 It comes after armored vehicles and armed federal agents stormed MacArthur Park in LA today. EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What Republicans in Congress just did is give Trump all the infrastructure he needs for a mass, nationwide ethnic cleansing campaign complete with funding to build all the concentration camps he'll need. And if you think it's just undocumented immigrants who will wind up in them, you're very naive.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I’m sick of the mainstream media using euphemisms and other weasel wording to soft-pedal the Trump regime’s corruption. Rather than committing crimes, Trump “sidesteps laws.” Rather than lying, he’s “untethered to truth” or “inverting the facts.” Read my latest Stop the Presses newsletter.

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The media’s weasel wording helps Trump

Here are 5 ways news outlets sugar-coat fascism with euphemisms.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/06/2025

Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?" Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was dumping trash at an apartment complex at the direction of his boss for a real estate project when Jackson police arrested them for alleged illegal dumping. Now, the 16-year-resident is in ICE custody and faces deportation. His children are begging for his return.

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Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man

Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Note the sourcing when you see reports like this about how “sleeper cells” could be activated in the U.S. by Iran. And remember that “U.S. officials” can now include people like Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller and 19 year old DOGE dipshits like Big Balls.

NBC News: Iran threatened to unleash attacks by sleeper cells inside U.S. if it was attacked
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Iran sent a communiqué to Trump in the days before last night's strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources said.
The message got to Trump through an intermediary at the Group of Seven summit in Canada last week, which Trump left early June 16 to consider his options amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, according to sources who include two U.S. officials and a person with knowledge of the threat.
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and the Iranian Mission to the United Nations declined to comment.
Trump vowed yesterday on social media that any Iranian retaliation against the United States "WILL BE MET WITH FORCE FAR GREATER THAN WHAT WAS WITNESSED TONIGHT."

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Margaret McMullan @margaretmcmullan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I wrote about the No Kings Protest yesterday in Gulfport, MS for @msindy.bsky.social Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement msindy.org/p/opinion-on...

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Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement

Writer among millions of Americans who turn out for mass marches, many for the first time

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/06/2025

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

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MS NOW @ms.now · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A. "Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 23/05/2025

"Too often, national reporters express stories on policies that have enormous implications for the lives of everyday people in terms of whether it’s a win for the Democrats, a loss for the Republicans, or a boon for the president. We reject that," Ashton Pittman writes.

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Editor’s Note | ‘FAFO’ is Poison to the Journalist’s Soul

MFP News Editor writes about how journalism should always put humanity before politics and on how empathy is essential to tell people’s stories.

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We sifted through the 220 attendees of Trump‘s crypto Gala and identified previously unknown Trump coin power players. A lot of details and photos here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

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Who attended Trump’s crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues

Previously anonymous, attendees of the $Trump meme coin dinner in Virginia stepped out for the MAGA gala.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen. Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing

ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

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Nick Judin @nickjudin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing

ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/05/2025

Amid the Trump Administration’s mass-deportation efforts, Jordan Salama details his interactions with communities of migrants: construction workers, aspiring nail techs, and others “focussed on the day-to-day difficulties of surviving.”

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Twelve Migrants Sharing a Queens Apartment

In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find a place to sleep. Sometimes it’s just a bed and a curtain.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 20/05/2025

Mississippi’s request for federal disaster assistance is pending more than two months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state. The delays offer a glimpse into what could be in store for communities nationwide as the summer storm season arrives—while FEMA is mired in turmoil.

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Walthall County Halts Tornado Recovery While Waiting on FEMA

As Trump scales back FEMA, Mississippi’s federal disaster assistance request is pending months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state.

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Years from now it will be very trying to hear the chorus of "if only there had been signs for where things were going" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

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Trump White House Sharpens Its Knives for Politico’s Owner

An article about Donald Trump Jr. has sent MAGA world into a tizzy.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 16/05/2025

Richard Trumka Jr., Alex Hoehn-Saric, and Mary Boyle were illegally fired from the Consumer Product Safety Commission by President Trump — and they’re still speaking out to protect Americans. I’m grateful for their courage and leadership.

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Christopher Harress @charress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A Mississippi father of four from Denmark remains in immigration custody after being arrested at his final citizenship interview by ICE agents in mid-April. @msindy.bsky.social @alanhuffman.bsky.social msindy.org/p/danish-leg...

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Danish legal immigrant in Mississippi for more than a decade detained in ICE facility

Family and friends marshal support after man’s arrest while pursuing U.S. citizenship

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Alan Huffman @alanhuffman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I'm not the most objective source but you should read this article.

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.”

Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges.

“I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’”

Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.”

The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025

What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”

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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”

Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

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A Donald Trump ally has a suggestion for Warner Bros. Discovery: Why don't you pay us or give us a TV show?

Donald Trump is suing some media companies. But he's also open to deals with them, like one with WBD that could include money, programming, or both.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you are a Republican wanting a photo-op you get a VIP visit to the prisons. If you are a Dem asking about someone wrongly jailed, you are turned away.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/04/2025

Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

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Emergency Video; April 14, 2025

Hey everyone.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/04/2025

The United States has run trade deficits since the late 1970s and has also been the richest nation on the globe during those years.

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On Trade and Tariffs, Trump’s Stubborn Ignorance Shines Bright

The president can't be taught. And we’re suffering for it.

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Alan Huffman @alanhuffman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There's no shortage of read-it-and-weep stories out there these days, but this needs to be publicized: msindy.org/p/musk-elimi...

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Musk eliminates funding for Mississippi Humanities Council

Move comes amid gutting of National Endowment for the Humanities

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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

2. This lawyer by the way was involved in the arrest of Pinochet, and has written extensively about Nazi Germany.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Terrible. I know Democrats are terrified of seeming pro-immigration or pro-immigrants, but maybe they could bestir themselves to stand up against this grotesque combination of nativism and Putinism.

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Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Peak MAGA would be insisting that there was no classified information on the chat and then, when Goldberg publishes the chat, prosecuting him for releasing classified information. All without blinking.

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Alan Huffman @alanhuffman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Based on the Atlantic's search tool, all of my books were pirated by Meta for use in training and enabling A.I. to "create new works." Which is theft. Story is here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21/03/2025

All four of my books and a bunch of my articles and book reviews are part of the pirated database Meta used to train its AI 😡

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work With economist @kclausing.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3d6Z... youtu.be/nBPTyyuCdHU?...

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Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy

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