Live on YouTube right now, the youth from my hometown of Bók Čito (big creek) is playing Koni Osi (little skunk) in the Choctaw stickball tournament as part of the State Games of Mississippi. Winner advances to Gold Medal game tomorrow evening

I love this time of year. The first day of Choctaw #stickball affiliated with State Games of Mississippi is taking place on the reservation right now. Anyone can watch on YouTube. If you log in, say hello and an announcer may give you a shout out! www.youtube.com/live/b8Bkpuo...

This generation's version of the Clippy. "Looks like you're writing a letter, would you like some help?"

Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. I shared on my private Facebook page my favorite article from my freelancing days in 2021 which features my mom and our tribal princess in the banner photo, and which also happens to be my one piece that won a regional professional journalism award. HBD Mom 💖

Comeback from COVID: Fair Again Celebrates Choctaw Culture, Hosts Stickball World Series www.mississippifreepress.org/choctaw-fair...

A Facebook meteorologist posted a “tostado watch” for my area this evening and hilarity immediately ensued. This made my day. The comments section was gold, also, with the OP sheepishly saying his phone was still thinking of Cinco de Mayo 🤭😁

Voting begins today in special election for the Choctaw community of Bogue Homa in Jones County to fill Tribal Council seat vacated due to death of council member in April. Four candidates running including granddaughter of the deceased council member. Results expected later this evening.

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

Mainstream journalists, take note

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

That part

It’s Always Sunny in Washington, DC?

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After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession. Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.

I was exhausted from work and completely missed the Oscar's. I was absolutely rooting for Sinners #iykyk. Also, crazy weather

Editor’s Note | Mississippians Deserve More Transparency From Our Government www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

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Happy to see this article. Yakoki (thank you) to the MFP!

Im surprised the ChatGPT has been like a therapist to me. I asked it a couple of "hypothetical" questions and now its talking like a human back to me, sounding like guidance and even offering clarity through my tornado of thoughts. Given what it knows about me and the events of the last 5 months, /1

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Awesome article by the MFP: read & share ‘History Rocks! Trail to Independence Tour’ Visits Choctaw Central Middle School for Its Only Mississippi Stop www.mississippifreepress.org/history-rock...

I'll never discount a paid lunch hour at work and employer provided meals ever again! It is a real benefit lots of other companies don't provide!

Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

No, I didn’t watch the Kick Rocks show or whatever his name is

Choctaw words of the day: chokfi ayobah Y'all have a wonderful Sunday

Now down to three years…. If not somehow sooner

When the government carries out cruelty and injustice while claiming to be “Christian” and we Christians do not speak out against it, we are not only giving tacit support of this evil, we surrender the reputation of our entire faith to those carrying out evil in our name.

Ready to get a passport and just get away. Sick of this place

I’m ready to just get up out of here. Nothing left for me here. Sick of the lack of infrastructure in this state.

It was “protect the children” until it came to immigrant children. It was “protect the children” until it came to gun violence. It was “protect the children” until it came to food assistance. It was “protect the children” until it came to healthcare. It was never about protecting children.

Oh, just sitting up late on an early Friday morning, music playing from an algorithm of favorites on Youtube Music while each song from a different era inspires vignettes of memories from my last 42 years on this tiny blue marble. Fighting back tears with each bittersweet memory, especially those

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Mississippi is "considering" getting rid of property taxes. Which we won't do. But it's a nasty little ploy - a cowboy hat dolt will propose it, some voters will think it sounds good, the legislature will drop it, THEN they'll say they're cutting taxes on second homes over 500k "for the people."

Perhaps the biggest lesson for me from 2025 is that the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side; sometimes it’s best to stick to what you know. Don’t walk away from blessings you already were blessed with.

Mom, I miss you so much, esp these days, not just for the holidays, but because life is hitting from all directions rn. Phone cut off, car repo'd last wk, now im facing eviction. Sometimes i just want to be where you are, over the 🌈. Can't believe youve been gone a whole year 💔💔💔💔💔

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Not for me. Yall enjoy, tho

These magas lose their minds over gender markers + trans issues but wanna force everyone to acknowledge new names under Trump admin? Oh. My pronouns are thought/so.

This will wind up being my generation’s Berlin Wall moment. And it doesn’t feel too long ago; I was alive when that wall came down. I might have been in kindergarten or so but I barely remember a librarian or teacher saying “this” country doesn’t exist anymore.

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

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One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Phone line suspended. Car repo'd this morning. Eviction coming soon. Self destruct mode is almost complete. Mom's one year anniversary of her passing is almost here. Happy holidays to all.

What's on my mind, indeed.

42 revolutions around the Sun ☀️ HBD to yours truly

It’s Thanksgiving week and people in Mississippi be like:

The screens flashes “TOHCHINAH” inside Reed Green Coliseum at Southern Miss every time someone makes a 3-pointer. Translates to “three” in the Choctaw language 🏀