Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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Pinned
"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women.
Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.
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Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
Nope, still not distracted.
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Nope, still not distracted.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
See our wrap-up for the top 12 stories and topics of 2025. The MFP's aim is to bring solutions-based journalism to our readers. That means telling the stories of Mississippians from all over the state—from Jackson to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Delta and everything in between.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
See our wrap-up for the top 12 stories and topics of 2025. The MFP's aim is to bring solutions-based journalism to our readers. That means telling the stories of Mississippians from all over the state—from Jackson to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Delta and everything in between.
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I could not love this more. Welcome to the @mississippifreepress.org, Rogelio. Wanted to work with you so long, friend. For those of you who don’t know, Rogelio Solis is THE photojournalist in Mississippi.
January 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I could not love this more. Welcome to the @mississippifreepress.org, Rogelio. Wanted to work with you so long, friend. For those of you who don’t know, Rogelio Solis is THE photojournalist in Mississippi.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Unless I’ve missed something—and pls update if so—major news orgs seem profoundly uninterested in the death toll from the Venezuela raid. Nowhere to be found on MSM home pages.
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed.
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Unless I’ve missed something—and pls update if so—major news orgs seem profoundly uninterested in the death toll from the Venezuela raid. Nowhere to be found on MSM home pages.
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
How the @mississippifreepress.org handled the Trey Reed story (sadly) set us apart, again. It’s also the reason that it was our most-read journalism of 2025.
Our team reported this horrific story with caution, integrity and care for a grieving family.
I'm proud of how they handled it in those first few days (and how they continue to do so).
I'm proud of how they handled it in those first few days (and how they continue to do so).
When authorities found Delta State University student Trey Reed hanging from a tree on campus, rumors swirled. The Mississippi Free Press, however, stuck straight to the facts during a series of investigative stories that followed the incident.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM
How the @mississippifreepress.org handled the Trey Reed story (sadly) set us apart, again. It’s also the reason that it was our most-read journalism of 2025.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Around 40 people died in that New Year’s fire in Switzerland, and it led home pages around the country.
So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed.
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Around 40 people died in that New Year’s fire in Switzerland, and it led home pages around the country.
Read my latest …
EDITOR'S NOTE: "If there is a leadership lesson I learned at the JFP, we should never try to bar the door when someone really is ready to leave," Donna Ladd writes.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Read my latest …
This explains why the op-ed was ready to go
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
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January 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Exactly
January 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Exactly
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In a year when President Donald Trump called Chicago the “most dangerous city in the world” and launched an aggressive deportation campaign, citywide killings ultimately fell to a 60-year low as overall crime continued to drop.
Chicago records fewest killings since 1965, despite Trump's campaign against city
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January 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
In a year when President Donald Trump called Chicago the “most dangerous city in the world” and launched an aggressive deportation campaign, citywide killings ultimately fell to a 60-year low as overall crime continued to drop.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Release the Epstein Files!
January 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Release the Epstein Files!
Media and American people: talk about the Epstein files. The people can handle multiple topics at once even though the herd obsessions of corporate American media have long obscured this. Focus.
DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Media and American people: talk about the Epstein files. The people can handle multiple topics at once even though the herd obsessions of corporate American media have long obscured this. Focus.
This was a huge story for us last year, but not the top one. One more to go!
Nick Judin's reporting focused heavily on the personal story of Kasper Eriksen, whose mistake of missing a paperwork deadline prompted his detention during an appointment for what he thought would be a final step toward U.S. citizenship.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This was a huge story for us last year, but not the top one. One more to go!
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
She and Marjorie Taylor Greene are both absolutely correct.
January 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
She and Marjorie Taylor Greene are both absolutely correct.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Agree with Donna. Let me raise you a "three thoughts at once" exercise:
1. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator
2. Trump's regime change attempt is illegal
3. Elected officials can exercise their own judgement whether to include #1 when they condemn #2 because what matters is what they'll do about #2
1. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator
2. Trump's regime change attempt is illegal
3. Elected officials can exercise their own judgement whether to include #1 when they condemn #2 because what matters is what they'll do about #2
But Americans often fail at the two thoughts at once exercise.
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Agree with Donna. Let me raise you a "three thoughts at once" exercise:
1. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator
2. Trump's regime change attempt is illegal
3. Elected officials can exercise their own judgement whether to include #1 when they condemn #2 because what matters is what they'll do about #2
1. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator
2. Trump's regime change attempt is illegal
3. Elected officials can exercise their own judgement whether to include #1 when they condemn #2 because what matters is what they'll do about #2
He’ll is freezing over: Le Pen is not wrong here.
Well, if you can't get Le Penn on board with this, you might have problems.
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
He’ll is freezing over: Le Pen is not wrong here.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, flying him out of the country in a stunning military operation—the culmination of months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the country.
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US Captures Venezuela's Leader and His Wife, Plans to Prosecute Them
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, flying him out of the country in a stunning military operation.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, flying him out of the country in a stunning military operation—the culmination of months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the country.
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Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social owner) recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for the US assets of Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum. My latest:
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media became officers of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum’s U.S. assets
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social owner) recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for the US assets of Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum. My latest:
Yes, I own the campaign button (not out of support). Also see history of “America First.” Too many don’t know.
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Yes, I own the campaign button (not out of support). Also see history of “America First.” Too many don’t know.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
This too
Those Epstein files must be insane … juss say’n 💁♀️
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This too
This.
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This.
Accurate as it goes
FIFA Peace Prize winner militarily attacks and kidnaps the leader of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Accurate as it goes