Is child pornography merely "racy" now?

Ex-Mississippi welfare chief John Davis confessed to WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase Jr. and Brett DiBiase that he "tried to buy your love" as he sent millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to The Million Dollar Man's sons. While denying 99% of poor families who applied.

I've long tried to tell people that there was more to John Davis' motives than just pleasing Phil Bryant. Well, while it wasn't reportable at the time, this is what I was getting at.

In spite of bad weather predictions, we were able to gather for our usual noon protest in Columbus, Mississippi on 1/9/2026. @MSNOW @RachelMaddow

Quick tip: when a media outlet isn’t invited to a press gaggle, factcheck to see if same thing happened to other outlets—and don’t assume it was an exclusive snub due to a particular story. And ask the elected official why as @heatherharrison.bsky.social did here before reporting.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

This is a big deal.

And it’s growing.

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Nope, still not distracted.

I could not love this more. Welcome to the @mississippifreepress.org, Rogelio. Wanted to work with you so long, friend. For those of you who don’t know, Rogelio Solis is THE photojournalist in Mississippi.

Who is asking CBS to apologize for loving America? This patriot-signaling, faux-martyrdom junk belongs in 2003 along with all the other bad media practices of that era.

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Thank you so much, Donna. That honestly means a lot. Laughter is how we get through this mess, and we’re grateful you’re along for the ride. Appreciate you more than you know.

Montclair Sundays #45. Final Protest of 2025. Ending the year…🧵

Mississippi really banned this app for several months —wild

This message hits hard.

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Read this and any interview with journalist Vicky Ward. She’s known so much for so long—that’s few would listen to or act on. But she’s stayed the course.

Happy Caturday from Fry.

We enjoyed our weekly protest in front of Republican congressman Trent Kelly’s office today. Columbus, Mississippi. 12/26/2025

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, an immigrant from Nicaragua who has been in ICE custody since September, has died in a Mississippi hospital following a “failed test to determine brain function.” It's unclear what caused his death. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost

Decided to upload the entire 60 Minutes segment in today's newsletter. Let's see how long it lasts. www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Sexual-assault survivors won’t, can’t, give up now. If we do, we know this sick system continues for future generations just as we all inherited it. Fight like a girl, so to speak. Do t give up. Enablers will threaten, defund, lie about us, buy too much rides on this moment for girls not born yet.

These grammar police books are always very amusingly titled. 🤪 #books

Today when my husband went to turn off the faucets in our old house in Calhoun County (if you have an old house, you know what I’m talking about). He stopped at “Sweet Potato Sweets” in on the way home and bought us some sweet potato short bread cookies and a loaf of sweet potato bread. YUM!

This is what I’ve been talking about for months now: Behind the scenes, MAGA leaders warn Trump he’s losing his base. Predictably, instead of changing anything about his policies, his solution is to hold more rallies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Because it’s a smash and grab.

Advent III - Rejoice!

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I’m happy to have talked to our kids in Japan, and in PA, and in Cambridge UK, this week. Life from our house in Columbus, MS is pretty boring. I’m happy that our five indoor cats each have Christmas stockings, and that our 11 year old grandson in Tokyo told me (tonight) What the cats wanted.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

The US cast the sole vote against a UN resolution calling for the safety and protection of UN and other humanitarian workers in conflict zones…Even Israel demurely abstained.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

Five cat stockings hung today.

I almost gave up on being a journalist. My latest editor's note: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

Another great Friday protest in front of Rep. Trent Kelly’s office. Vote Cliff Johnson for Representative. Vote Scott Colom for Senate.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the crux of the issue is that the officials who direct the agencies “are exercising massive power over individual liberty and billion-dollar industries” without being accountable to anyone.

The Mississippi women y'all need to hear from.

Read @heatherharrison.bsky.social full report at @mississippifreepress.org. www.mississippifreepress.org/bluesky-is-b...