Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
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I feel like not enough people know that Jackie Kennedy was a photojournalist, documenting the streets of Washington, D.C., long before she became first lady.
If NYT + most national outlets can over-simplify and reduce a political report and skate by the main things, they nearly always will. That horseracy habit has clearly had a huge effect on elections and, thus, our nation’s trajectory. Also stories about women and “wrath” just fit together, you know.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Heritage, my ass. You use #-generation for Union but not South? All of us white Americans descend from immigrants and/or colonizers, fool. And people in South largely from those folks who migrated here from the North, often with or to own free labor (my families). This is absurd twisting of history.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
NEW: The night before Trey Reed was found hanging in a tree at Delta State, his girlfriend received a text threatening to hang himself, his family says. His death sparked fears of a racist lynching. Nearly a year later, his family says they're still waiting for independent autopsy results.
Trey Reed’s Family Says Crump Never Shared Final Independent Autopsy Results, Stopped Responding
Nearly a year after Trey Reed died hanging in a tree, his family says attorney Ben Crump still hasn’t shared his independent autopsy.
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The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state due to lack of funding, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. www.mississippifreepress.org/soul-crushin...
‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.
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See our timeline on the death of Trey Reed and the investigation here: www.mississippifreepress.org/timeline-tre...
Timeline: Trey Reed's Hanging Death at Delta State University
A timeline of the known events surrounding Delta State University student Trey Reed's hanging death in Cleveland, Mississippi.
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Bless Trey Reed and his family. Never forget.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d agoTrey's mother and grandmother both told reporter Nick Judin something that has never been reported: The night before his body was found, he sent his girlfriend a text message threatening to hang himself. It wasn't the first time. 2/
🧵 One thing I've repeatedly seen people say over the past year about Trey Reed is this: "No Black man would ever commit suicide by hanging himself in a tree." But Trey was also an individual person with his own internal life, his own feelings. As his grandmother shared here. 1/
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: The night before Trey Reed was found hanging in a tree at Delta State, his girlfriend received a text threatening to hang himself, his family says. His death sparked fears of a racist lynching. Nearly a year later, his family says they're still waiting for independent autopsy results.
“Stripping legal protections from unaccompanied minors threatens to both put them in harm’s way and make it easier for abusers to evade justice, said Maggy Krell, a California assembly member who worked on human-trafficking cases over her two-decade career as a prosecutor.”
Trump administration to let contract aiding unaccompanied minors expire
US government, which owes legal services firm $65m, stopped paying in December, as contract runs out Friday
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5d agoTODAY. "Without nonprofit legal services, they would be expected to appear in court alone: before a judge and against a trained government attorney.”
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
NEW last night by @nickjudin.bsky.social
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 6d agoAfter Delta State University student Trey Reed was found hanging in a tree last September, attorney Ben Crump vowed to help the family find answers. But nearly a year later, Reed’s family says Crump has not shared the final results of an independent autopsy and hasn't responded to them in 8 months.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency reut.rs/3RAEPbK
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency
Aurora's 6-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. border alone and spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelter while her mother, who was already in the country, worked to get her out.
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This is one of those New York Times articles that you think may have planted by The Onion.
A Son of Wealth Finds His Calling in a High-End Grocery Store
How the scion Sammy Nussdorf found his calling among the carefully arranged shelves of Meadow Lane, his chic market in Lower Manhattan.
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Yeah, this was stupid arrogance on steroids that all their Luddite accusations won’t fix. Also: data centers, water, power They thought folks wouldn’t notice or care? That part is stunning. AI hawkers, including inside media where it’s also epidemic, show a stunning disconnect with real people.
Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole@carljanderson.bsky.social · 2w agoMaybe telling everyone this bullshit will take your job in 3 years wasn't the best way to make a first impression?
It’s the new bipartisan populist revolution. And it was predictable.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w agoAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Been thinking about this, too. This is overt racism, full stop.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
[killing children] but here’s the thing, i’m a monster
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoRegulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
Agree with this. And I believed this long before this president; such events are not good for keeping necessary distance or building public trust.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w agoYou want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.