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Rankin County citizens grapple with lengthy procedure to remove county supervisor mississippitoday.org/2025/05/23/r...
Rankin County citizens grapple with lengthy procedure to remove county supervisor - Mississippi Today
Rankin County citizens starting a petition to remove Supervisor Steve Gaines from office face an uphill battle.
mississippitoday.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Congress is pushing a backdoor attempt to cut Medicaid through work requirements.

We won't fall for it — this is nothing more than an attempt to make it harder for people to access care.
Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work — They Harm People with Disabilities | ACLU
We’ve been here before. Work requirements only cut care, nothing else.
www.aclu.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut.

Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.

Call your reps.
April 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Jackson Mississippi 4/19/25
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Next week in Oxford, Miss. none of our elected federal representatives have agreed to join us, but we are having a Town Hall anyway. And @typinkins.bsky.social, our Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, will be there.
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Yep
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Directives from the Trump administration do not change federal disability laws.

If you’re in the federal workforce and have a disability, know your rights.
Rights of Federal Employees with Disabilities, Explained | ACLU
The Trump administration has issued a number of directives affecting federal employees with disabilities, but laws protecting these workers remain.
www.aclu.org
March 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Using AI to scan the social media posts of students at U.S. universities and then punish them for their views is discriminatory and a direct attack on our freedom of speech.
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Chilling parallels...
February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I believe Tolkien said it best
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
February 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.

We are long past the warnings of an approaching existential threat looming on the distant horizon of our story, which many of us spent the past decade imploring people not to ignore.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
February 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My local shelter is holding a fee free adoption day tomorrow! Any local folks on here go get you a dog!! www.facebook.com/100064531756...
February 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM