if the brits can do it...

"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

we could be just wrapping up the first year of her second term as president

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

Minneapolis.

After ICE agent shoots, kills person in Minneapolis, activists in New Orleans take to the streets Hours after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, activists from the New Orleans Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression gallered protesters…

It’s a pleasure to announce @aschweig.bsky.social’s elevation to the position of Chief Strategy Officer at @deepsouthtoday.org. His leadership and dedication to operational excellence has been invaluable as Deep South Today has grown considerably during 2025. deepsouthtoday.org/2025/10/08/d...

Anyway, tell me if you find any broken stuff. mississippitoday.org/2025/10/02/m...

yes obviously we'll open source the fun vertical video thing, just give me a couple days to sleep

made this cute lil' new website for @mississippitoday.org: mississippitoday.org

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

...good?

Getting old is weird. First, like everyone else our age, it was getting way into birds. Now, apparently, it's fixing mechanical watches. What's next?

*and* they are apparently meant to...

we really just can't have nice things, huh?

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Once more with feeling

2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.” (H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

Finally some good news!

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The Trump DOJ pulled millions in funding for groups throughout Louisiana that support survivors of domestic, sexual + intimate violence. Now groups fear they'll have to lay off staff, cut back services for survivors. @arierob17.bsky.social has more @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2025/05/01/d...

“If you’re leaking a document, take pictures of it with the camera within Signal, which doesn’t save photos to your camera roll, and then send them to the reporter. If the document is on a screen, take pictures of the screen with the Signal app; don’t print anything out.”

You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.

Adding some key roles to the team @deepsouthtoday.org. All remote, all reporting to me, all a great way to make a real difference by being part of a growing network of newsrooms rebuilding and re-energizing local news throughout the Deep South. Here's a 🧵 with the individual postings. 👇

Column: The humanities are under attack by the Trump administration. To defund them is to erase the roots of American identity, and no state has more to lose, or more reason to fight back, than Mississippi. Here's how we can. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/21/t...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

Deconstruction.

#OnThisDay in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” about the lynchings of Black Americans — 6,400+ between 1865 & 1950. The song reminded her of her father, who died when a hospital refused to treat him because of his color. The song sold 1M+. #History mississippitoday.org/2025/04/20/o...

RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Thrilled to be selected to be a part of the first cohort of @newmarkjplus.bsky.social's new nonprofit news business certificate program. Can't wait to meet all these folks in NY next week and learn a whole lot over the next few months!

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

We're excited to announce our partnership with @kffhealthnews.org ! Both @veritenews.org and @mississippitoday.org will work closely with KFF Health News’s Southern Bureau. Learn more: deepsouthtoday.org/2025/04/07/d...

how far do the markets have to fall before we get to a literal torches and pitchforks in the street situation?

Madison County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Mills dismissed former Gov. Phil Bryant’s defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today on Friday, ending a nearly two-year case that became a beacon in the fight for American press freedom.

I can’t compete with this

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

irony is (still) dead

Someone should just tell him america is great again and give him the hug that his dad never did. "You did it son, we're all so proud of you!" (now stop and let everyone else get back to living their lives)

so much winning

A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

What's super clear is he's not running in 2028. Either he's out (unlikely) or he's going to cling to power and never leave. After tanking the economy and screwing everyone who voted for him there's no way he wins, so...y'know.

Huh, weird

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

📌 Set a reminder: Tomorrow at 2 pm CT, @veritenews.org reporter @richardawebster.bsky.social will be doing a Reddit AMA about his latest investigation for our Local Reporting Network 👇