Trump is mumbling at length about various foreign leaders he's assassinated during his speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition

We need #Pride because we do not have the same privileges you straight people take for granted. There are literally only a few places in the entire world where gay couples don't have to be hyper-vigilant and aware of their safety when it comes to something as simple as holding hands.

And he still wound up switching his vote under pressure from Trump. Video: buff.ly/96p5icL

Legislative redistricting may require a special session before January 2027 because the qualifying deadline for candidates is on Feb. 1, 2027, although Gov. Tate Reeves would not confirm with reporters at the Neshoba County Fair whether he would call a special session. buff.ly/YhaABY3

OPINION: "Gun violence is a topic that hits close to home to me. "Over the years, I have had family members, friends and members of our community experience the unimaginable pain of losing loved ones to gun violence," Tami Jones writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/publishers-n...

Marchers shut down parts of the City of Senatobia, Mississippi, today while calling for justice for Kohen Wiley, the 1-year-old child who died in his mother's arms after a police officer shot him on June 14. The march comes a day before the child's funeral. 🎥 Nick Judin

“They hope that they can slink away in the middle of the night without explaining to anyone what they did, why they did it, or how they proposed to clean up the mess that they’ve made... And we don’t intend to let them get away with it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

If saying Haitians are poisoning the blood of America and that they probably all have AIDS isn't "overtly racial," it will be nigh impossible for Black people to prove discrimination before this Court. Title VII is basically dead letter for Black workers. So that's fun.

In his majority opinion in Mullins, Sam Alito didn't print the racist shit Trump actually said about Haitians. But in her dissent, Elena Kagan made sure to.

Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.

Racist white men need to learn how to assimilate.

Trump wants the Postal Service to REFUSE to mail ballots if states don't bow down to Trump and hand over their voter rolls. Insane and unconstitutional. That's exactly why a federal judge just BLOCKED Trump's EO attacking vote by mail. I’ll keep fighting to protect our democracy. 🇺🇸

Ahead of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley's funeral, activists from Mississippi and across the country are gathering in Senatobia to march tomorrow, demanding justice after a police officer shot and killed the child while his mother held him in the passenger seat of a car outside Walmart. Details here:

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The Iran Football Federation wants FIFA to prevent any “ceremonies or promotional activities” in support of the LGBTQ+ community at a much-discussed “Pride Match” between Egypt and Iran on Friday in Seattle.

"Judges, as we often say, are 'not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free." Whew.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

A day before Kohen Wiley’s family is set to lay the 1-year-old child to rest, organizers plan to march in Senatobia, Mississippi, on Friday, June 26, to demand accountability for the police shooting that left the child dead in a Walmart parking lot.

For the hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the US, the Supreme Court's decision to allow Trump to end temporary protected status is a matter of "life and death." “There is no safe place in Haiti.”

A 3-year-old giraffe has been missing for nearly two weeks in Texas

Four years ago, I arrived at the Pink House in Jackson, Mississippi, just as the news broke that the abortion clinic had lost their case at the U.S. Supreme Court—and that Roe v. Wade had been overturned. Here's the story of the last days of the Pink House, and the photos I shot to document it all.

The legacy of Donald Trump's Supreme Court:

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

"I raised my baby up trying to show them he was in the car. ... By the time I set my baby down, it was like 3 to 4 shots. One of the shots hit him in the rib cage," Vellesiya Wiley said.

President Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, abruptly canceling plans to sign a bipartisan measure that could help spur more home construction. www.mississippifreepress.org/trump-abrupt...

Important thread about Trump's relentless corruption. He ran for president in 2024 to avoid prosecution and get rich. Tthat's exactly what has happened.

Four years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, we're revisiting a #AHAPerspectives article by Karissa Haugeberg. As a historian of antiabortion movements, Haugeberg argues that the decision is part of a broader movement to contract American civil liberties. Read more:

Unless he vetoes it, it'll become law in 10 days anyway without his signature. He just won't get credit for it.

Trump is now refusing to sign a bipartisan bill that would increase housing supply and prevent institutional investors from buying up residential homes.

Up last night. Bless this family for this unbelievable loss over a disputed allegation of diaper theft. And bless the detailed and very human coverage by the @mississippifreepress.org reporting team. THIS is what we mean by people-centered journalism. It’s not less hard-hitting, it’s more.

Excellent reporting again from Mississippi Free Press and I am so glad that they are on the story.

“ I watched my baby take his first breath, and I watched my baby take his last breath,” Vellesiya Wiley said, eight days after a police officer shot and killed her 1-year-old son in her arms in Senatobia. The family is seeking an independent autopsy and demanding the release of video footage.

This part... "a juvenile child fleeing..." He was 1.

A 2-term Democratic incumbent just lost his primary.

Meanwhile, the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol go free.

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

some larger context: bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

In other news, the Senate just passed the House-passed Iran powers resolution, meaning we've now got a bicameral, bipartisan rebuke of Trump and his war without end. 4 GOP senators voted with nearly all Dems to pass the nonbinding resolution: Susan Collins Rand Paul Bill Cassidy Lisa Murkowski

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

This all has to end. It has to stop.

"After several minutes had passed, one officer said over the radio, 'He’s kicking around inside the vehicle right now.' None of them called for emergency services...Jenuwine lay dying in the van for at least five minutes." “The cruelty of it, I suppose, is what strikes me the most”

Somehow this just came to mind, from Carter era: —On flight back from int'l conference, then-SecState Cyrus Vance gave reporters "background" briefing, for attrib only to "a senior gov official." —NYT ran story next day —Alongside story was photo of Vance, w caption saying "a senior gov official"

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This, from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Givr, is the what unvarnished evil and inhumanity sounds like: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese must weep." When you dehumanize other people to this degree, there's no limit to the atrocities you'll carry out.

Makes me think of the Deacons for Defense, the southern daddies every American should study in history books.

Read my related 2007 story. Various media types informed me that no way were there ever Deacons in Natchez: www.mississippifreepress.org/fighting-bac...

Super excited to work with Abbi! Her organizational track record is outstanding, and she’s solving problems on her first day!

Elon Musk's destruction doesn't just stop at killing children, it also includes needlessly permanently blinding Black Africans because doctors no longer have the resources to fix kids' eyelashes from physically scraping their eyeballs, our exclusive reporting at @thexylom.com revealed this month:

This part... "a juvenile child fleeing..." He was 1.