We are SO excited to welcome James Collins to the MJEG board! Moss Point to NYC, Howard to Harvard! We hit the jackpot! 🎰🎰🎰

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I love this spring MFP sustainer campaign that Erica and Kristin put together. Whet a brilliant team! 🦋🌻🌷🌸🐝 ☀️

This flew under the radar, but Trump's DOJ has abandoned its legal assault on the law firms that courageously refused to bend the knee to him. This should serve as a reminder for the firms that sucked up to Trump: appeasing a tyrant will get you nowhere.

Yes, ICE and ISIS sound the same, but they are different. They are state-sponsored terrorists sponsored by different states.

Many prominent leaders on hand to see Jesse Jackson lie in state. Who was there and what they said. www.postandcourier.com/politics/jes...

Hey you! Psst! 👀 You look like you could use some #bloomscrolling. 🌸

OPINION: "Every few years, it seems some folks wake up one morning and decide the real problem in Mississippi is that citizens know too much about what their government is doing. "This is one of those years," Layne Bruce writes.

A really good way to support democracy is by helping grow independent local media run inside the state by smart, passionate, ethical Mississippians. Please give any amount during our spring campaign. Your gift is doubled by a long-time supporter! 🐈💜🐈‍⬛

"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..." US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps. Full statement at the link: www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

“…its audience was ready at a times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.” - Hannah Arendt #RadioFreeAmerica

Stay the damn course.

New job: McPherson/Eveillard Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Smith College jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69831

Constance Baker Motley was a civil rights activist, attorney, jurist and politician. As clerk to Thurgood Marshall in 1950, she wrote the original complaint in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. She was the first Black woman to argue at the Supreme Court in Meredith v. Fair. /1 #BlackHistory

This quote is quite something from someone who makes big money off … beef. Let them eat tofu.

Watching “Law and Order: Special Victims’ Unit” because they always get the rapists. ✊🏻🚔

Vile racism from a teacher, caught on camera because she didn't realize she wasn't muted.

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

The University of Mississippi Medical Center's clinics will remain closed through Wednesday, Feb. 25—6 days after a ransomware attack forced UMMC to cancel all elective surgeries and close clinics across the state. UMMC operates Mississippi's only Level 1 trauma center.

very funny to me to see folks who have no social media presence outside of twitter say you have to be on twitter to be influential

OPINION: "It is our job to ensure that every member of their generation knows their life should have meaning and purpose. It is our responsibility to be sure they know our history so they can help us avoid reliving it," Torsheta Jackson writes.

Good news under the radar. H/t @dworkin.bsky.social Remember: Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. 👈🏽 Good. End this regime. Join #NoKings3 March 28. Join an Indivisible group near you. Register new angry Dem voters w @fieldteam6.org #voterizer

Wow, I’d never seen this.

OPINION: "Targeting immigrants is a centuries-old American practice. In particular, Asian Americans have drawn parallels between the attacks on Latinos today and the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II," Anna Storti writes.

She ran 800 meters – a half mile – in 1 minute & 55 seconds! Hard for me to believe that for centuries women were held back from nearly all sports. Thank god the U.S. passed Title IX in 1972!

It’s far too expensive to raise a family in America right now - and the cost of child care is a big reason why.

"More than 3,000 people attended the Mass and walked in the procession. "Families affected by immigration enforcement were among the first to receive ashes from Cupich, in a highly symbolic reversal of the marking and tracking many say defines their daily lives." www.ncronline.org/news/god-doe...

WATCH: “Johnny, you blatantly lied.” Rep. Johnny Garrett, running for Congress, RUNS 🏃🏻 from us + Tennessean reporter Vivian Jones to 🦆 Duck Q’s about his lie that undocumented immigrants commit 50% of crimes in TN (Per the AG it’s 2%, 90% of those non-violent/traffic. Also we’d love details.)

We had a nice time at our weekly protest in Columbus, MS. We enjoyed many supportive car horn honks. @maddow.bsky.social @ashtonpittman.bsky.social

We’re not included here, nor were asked to my knowledge, but immigration coverage was huge for us in 2025, including traffic and internationally viral work. Here’s our archive: www.mississippifreepress.org/archives/imm...

Bravo. We all need to thank @jkbjournalist.bsky.social for her service. I heard her speak and was part of a standing ovation last week at the Knight Media Forum in Miami. Please give her the @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social now. This work/impact deserves it.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

Some of us out in these here states are actively thinking about and working on this challenge, including how to think about it. It’s our lane, so to speak.

What monsters they are, to prey on the very goodness in others that they so sorely lack in themselves.

“Pope Leo will not participate in U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza due to concerns it seeks to undermine the United Nations.”

Remember thou art dust…. Shakespeare has been dust a long time. 🙏🏻 A blessed Ash Wednesday from Columbus, Mississippi. N

and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York: midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

This is the man I remember, poised, passionate and funny.

Exactly, David. They did what they wanted to do when Trump admin was more than willing to take the blame.

You owe it to yourself to read the 2001 obituary (republished today) for Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. An incredible woman. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Last call: I'm looking to speak with Mississippi voters who have had trouble voting due to unexpected polling place changes or due to errors with the polling place locator sending them to the wrong location on Election Day.

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The LA Olympic committee must dump him. www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

OPINION: "In Black history, love has never been passive. It has been an act of resistance, a commitment to truth, and a determination to preserve stories when the world tries to silence them," Tami Jones writes.

The FBI increased the reward for information about the abduction of Nancy Guthrie from $50,000 to $100,000. This presupposes there are people out there who are like "I've got information about a missing 84-year-old lady whose family is distraught but I ain't going to be lowballed by the Feds "