During the Clinton administration, Cliff Johnson served as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted health-care fraud cases in Mississippi’s federal courts.

If Congress fails to extend the National Flood Insurance Program by midnight, nearly 500k residents of Louisiana will be impacted -- the state with by far the highest recurring flood rate in the nation:

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🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.

Kerlin Moreno-Orellana is in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after police arrested him and his boss on charges of illegal dumping.

The Jackson, Mississippi, father could face deportation and the possibility of separation from his wife and children.

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On this day in 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

Fishermen in coastal Mississippi say they've been 'sold out' by a state-led plan to privatize up to 80% of publicly held oyster reefs in the Mississippi Sound.

It follows a 2024 Senate bill modeled after a privatized approach in Louisiana and Texas:

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With a now-defanged Civil Rights office under Pres. Trump's DOJ, residents and activists in Lexington, once again, become the drivers of police accountability in the rural town of 1,200:

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For weeks, the Trump administration’s funding delays forced the agency tasked with advocating for disabled people in Mississippi to stop taking new clients, leaving children and adults in institutions across the state at risk of abuse.

It could be a vision of a much more difficult future.

A growing coalition in Rankin County is calling for the resignation of Supervisor Steve Gaines after he disparaged the victims of a 2023 attack by former Rankin County Sheriff's Office deputies, labeling them 'dopers' and rapists:

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In more than 100 days under Trump 2.0, Mississippi immigrants rights advocates and organizers describe a system that's now much harsher and demoralizing.

Some have begun asking themselves whether they can continue the work at all.

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Among the many comments the former RCSO deputies uttered to Jenkins and Parker when assaulting them in 2023 was to "go back to their side of the river [in Jackson]."

Gaines, 2025: “ How do you feel about ... people from across the river coming over here and putting their kids in your school?”

More than two years after a night of horrors, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker settle with RCSO

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A dispatch from Mississippi's Poultry Belt:

Hattiesburg's Mar Jac, for the second year in a row, named among nation's most dangerous and abusive employers

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Test opening set for Bonnet Carre Spillway as Mississippi River rises (via @nolanews.bsky.social)

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It looks likely that the Bonnet Carre Spillway will open in the coming weeks after substantial rainfall throughout the heartland makes its way down the MS River.

Members of the MS Sound Coalition are asking the Corps of Engineers to limit discharges:

(Chart via NWS LMRFC)

Reposting some of my previous work on here to build a feed of sorts. A conversation with my friend Maya Miller, previously of the Gulf States Newsroom, about the Mississippi Sound's moribund oyster industry and the Bonnet Carre Spillway:

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A new anthology of essays, art and poetry from men incarcerated in Parchman Prison's infamous Unit 29 is shedding light on one of the Americas' most notorious prison environments:

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Nearly two weeks of cleanup and recovery in rural Walthall County, MS, told through the lens of two families, miles apart, who lost nearly everything to an EF4 tornado on March 15:

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