Posts by ashton@journa.host
(DIR) Post #AS5LHVNJrUmCdv1VOC by ashton@journa.host
2023-01-27T23:12:49Z
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Story:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dog-shoots-man-kansas_n_63d05d74e4b04d4d18e219ab?d_id=5412462&ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&fbclid=IwAR153IVk7XNsqu-KXgzzzA2WYpGSV3MFfQiZfW9cFficU6yP0NLOAP4fiqg
(DIR) Post #ASVAARiS1ApctU9YW0 by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-09T02:21:11Z
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NEW: The Mississippi House's white Republican supermajority passed a bill removing power from Jackson's majority-Black elected judges and giving it to judges and prosecutors appointed by an all-white cast of state officials to oversee the capitol district.Jackson's mayor called the legislation "plantation politics" and compared it to "apartheid."https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30916/white-appointed-capitol-courts-in-jackson-step-closer-after-mississippi-house-approval
(DIR) Post #ASVAATRrZokeGcPKwC by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-09T02:32:21Z
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The Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice would appoint two judges to the new Capitol court district in Jackson and the state AG would appoint four prosecutors—taking power away from locally elected judges by the city's 82% Black majority.Despite being the Blackest state, no Black Mississippian has held either position—or won any statewide office since the 1870s.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30916/white-appointed-capitol-courts-in-jackson-step-closer-after-mississippi-house-approval
(DIR) Post #ASVAAVBd78xFeqpOue by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-09T02:34:13Z
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The Jackson capitol court bill's sponsor, Rep. Trey Lamar, said his goal is to "make our capital city ... a safer city."“This bill is designed to assist the court system of Hinds County, not to hinder it," said the white Republican, who lives 2.5 hours north of Jackson.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30916/white-appointed-capitol-courts-in-jackson-step-closer-after-mississippi-house-approval
(DIR) Post #ASVAAWxAXsZl8a4seO by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-09T02:36:21Z
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Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba explained why he considers the legislation akin to apartheid:“They dictate our leadership, put a military force over us and we’re just supposed to pay taxes to the king," Mayor Lumumba said.The state already takes 6% from Jackson's sales tax revenue to fund its capitol district. This new legislation would double that to 12%.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30916/white-appointed-capitol-courts-in-jackson-step-closer-after-mississippi-house-approval
(DIR) Post #ASVAAYkTs1cAho9m9Q by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-09T02:38:37Z
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Be sure to read reporter Kayode Crown's full story.For more journalism like this, follow @msfreepress.You can support our nonprofit, paywall-free newsroom by donating at https://mfp.ms/donate
(DIR) Post #ASgLSS7qbMHXjvGsWu by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-14T20:51:13Z
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NEW: Democrat Brandon Presley has a 4-point lead over Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves amid the welfare scandal, a new poll shows.The pollster says the result "makes clear the upcoming election cycle will be very competitive in Mississippi.”Presley led Reeves 47%-43%, with 10% saying they were “undecided.”https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows
(DIR) Post #ASgLSSfAbSw9PGrUTA by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-14T20:51:14Z
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Tate Reeves was lieutenant governor in 2016-2019, when the MS Department of Human Services and others diverted more than $77 million in TANF funds away from the poor and toward wealthy individuals and their causes, like Brett Favre.Presley called Reeves “a man with zero conviction” who “looks out for himself and his rich friends instead of the people who put him into office.”https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows
(DIR) Post #ASgLSXGXUTCngKNOGu by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-14T20:51:14Z
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Mississippi voters said they held an unfavorable view of Reeves by a 54%-42% margin, with 3% saying they did “not know.”After the pollster described the Mississippi welfare scandal to voters, Reeves' unfavorables rose to 64%-25%, with 10% unsure.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows
(DIR) Post #ASgLSYs9W6t2fGywXQ by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-14T20:51:15Z
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The election for Mississippi governor may be competitive, but control of the Legislature isn't.Democrats only fielded candidates in 53 of the House's 122 districts and in 21 of the Senate's 52. They could win every race, and the GOP would keep control.Meanwhile, Libertarians recruited “the most candidates from a party other than Republican or Democrat in 100 years."https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows
(DIR) Post #ASgLSaWFOWYLlukTfk by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-14T20:51:15Z
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For continuing issues-focused elections and legislative coverage, follow the Mississippi Free Press @msfreepress.You can donate to our nonprofit newsroom at http://mfp.ms/donate.
(DIR) Post #ASk5yv0Fww0Tvz1Fei by ashton@journa.host
2023-02-16T16:08:38Z
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Don't miss the fact that Mississippi Democrats are leaving 65% of state House seats and 60% of state senate seats uncontested—in a state where nearly 4 in 10 residents are Black.That leaves many voters with only a Republican on their ballot this year.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows
(DIR) Post #AXrKDvR0iaADv9Ssgi by ashton@journa.host
2023-07-19T17:16:24Z
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⚠️ Mississippi will experience “dangerously high temperatures” statewide today and through the end of the week, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency warned.Extreme heat kills more people than tornadoes, floods and hurricanes combined.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/34788/temperatures-dangerously-high-in-mississippi-through-friday-state-warns
(DIR) Post #AYPBWm3rokRjLQQosq by ashton@journa.host
2023-08-04T23:29:58Z
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This really sums up white supremacy:Delegate J.H. McGehee vowed at Mississippi's 1890 Constitutional Convention to strip voting rights from Black residents “even if it does sacrifice some of my white children, or my white neighbors or their children.”https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35243/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules
(DIR) Post #AYVEIlawDld8ecfje4 by ashton@journa.host
2023-08-07T23:30:07Z
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NEW: Mississippi election officials have made 161 voting precinct changes ahead of tomorrow's primaries, our investigation finds.They moved 92 to precincts, closed 41 and opened 28 new ones. But not all the changes are reflected in the state's system.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35295/mississippi-officials-made-161-voting-precinct-changes-since-november-2022
(DIR) Post #AYWqHeeUXUEAFTBuCW by ashton@journa.host
2023-08-08T03:31:31Z
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NEW: There is no same-day voter registration in Mississippi; voters must register 30 days before an election.But local election officials are free to move polling precincts around—even 13 hours before an election.And two just moved in Hinds County.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35330/hinds-county-moves-two-polling-places-hours-before-polls-open
(DIR) Post #AYYxxKTT2Ph3pGm0yO by ashton@journa.host
2023-08-09T18:18:50Z
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Robert Foster, who called for trans rights supporters "to be lined up against a wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment," won the DeSoto County GOP primary for Supervisor District 5.He has no Democratic opponent in the general election.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/22283/ex-gop-gov-candidate-calls-for-firing-squad-for-trans-rights-supporters-political-foes
(DIR) Post #AbVwQeLSCNeXl61ROC by ashton@journa.host
2023-09-21T20:49:27Z
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BREAKING: The Mississippi Legislature's effort to mandate four state-appointed circuit court judges in majority-Black Jackson is unconstitutional, the Mississippi Supreme Court just ruled.It's a big victory for opponents of #HB1020.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/36228/law-mandating-four-unelected-jackson-judges-unconstitutional-ms-supreme-court-rules
(DIR) Post #AbsLVriBxP5od9obU8 by ashton@journa.host
2023-11-16T20:38:49Z
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Someone please inform TikTok that Osama bin Laden was a billionaire nepo baby so they'll understand he was bad.
(DIR) Post #Akv9DaYyLi9lVkWXse by ashton@journa.host
2024-08-12T23:43:41Z
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Though she showed up pregnant, bleeding and in pain, emergency room doctors in Texas turned Kyleigh Thurman away, handing her a pamphlet on miscarriage and telling her to “let nature take its course.” Three days later, the ER finally admitted her. But it was too late; her fallopian tube had already ruptured.There are at least 100 others like her.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/over-100-pregnant-women-some-bleeding-or-in-labor-turned-away-from-emergency-rooms-since-dobbs-ruling/