Julia James
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louisiana native reporting at @dallasnews , proud alum of @MSTODAYnews - questions, comments, and ideas to julia.james @dallasnews .com
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Girl in my sorority: julia are you proud of me i voted!!!
Well sister friend for all the times you’ve heard me talk about the importance of voting, never once was i referring to the campus personality elections but we’ve all gotta start somewhere
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spent the last few months on a project that published today:
Gov. Tate Reeves’ top campaign contributors, since he took office in 2020, have netted $1.4 billion in state contracts or grants from agencies the governor directly oversees.
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a lil update - I've moved to dallas & joined the breaking news team at
@dallasnews
!
I'm excited for the new adventure but will forever be grateful for time spent reporting & learning in Mississippi. The UM Honors College and
@MSTODAYnews
will always have a piece of my heart ❤️
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Big stuff happening!
Meet our newest addition to the newsroom, Julia James! She has joined Mississippi Today's newsroom as a poverty and breaking news reporter.
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“We made a promise to Mamie (Till) that we would persist, and that’s why we’re here today."
A rally will be held tomorrow in Smith Park from 2-5pm.
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Give me a deadline and i will snuggle right up against her every time
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you may have noticed that I started a new role a little while ago, but now it's website official - I write about K-12 education for Mississippi Today!
Throw me a follow for all your Mississippi education news, and always DM or email with tips: jjames
@mississippitoday
.org
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Every semester i get the “PLEASE NOTE - DRUG CONVICTIONS CAN AFFECT FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY” email and every semester i get momentarily concerned i have a drug conviction i don’t know about
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nothing as depressing as being awake to watch the UM today email hit your inbox
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The oral arguments for the Supreme Court case on Mississippi’s 15 week abortion ban are in progress - I’m here outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the abortion provider at the center of this case (and the only one in Mississippi).
@MSTODAYnews
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I told someone that I don’t have tiktok, but there’s one context creator i really like (it’s
@rebmasel
) and sometimes i just pull up her profile page on my desktop to see the new video and they replied “that’s just a blog then. You’re just basically visiting their blog.”
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The judge clearly rebukes the state's legal argument, saying that the program allocating $10 million to private schools clearly violates the plain text of the constitution.
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@Well_its_evan
every liberal dog owner in mississippi names their dog magnolia but calls it maggie and every conservative names their dog di🤢🤢dix🤢dixie🤮🤮
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Personally i find it rude that my friends would ever choose to live in a place that is not also where i live
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I really feel like ole miss is experiencing the sorority space race with all these house rebuilds except instead of seeking knowledge we’re seeking clout
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“We believe that the public’s funds should be used for the public’s schools, not for the private schools that pick and choose which children they want to educate,” Loome said.
Legislators approved $20 million in federal pandemic relief funds to private K-12 schools and private colleges for infrastructure improvements this week, despite concerns from some that public dollars should stay with public schools.
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To the random girl who spent 20-30 minutes helping me search the grove for my dad’s ear cuff on saturday while i sobbed - you were right. I did find it. And thank you again for your unimaginable kindness.
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The first results from the 2022 state tests show limited pandemic learning loss!
Some good news for a hard week.
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Such a pleasure getting to write about one of my favorite teachers and to spend some time talking to other former students/admirers
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This is the first time the state has produced any kind of hard data on this issue.
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my final set of stories for
@MSTODAYnews
, about the 'mississippi miracle,' is publishing this week.
This first story looks at the work that remains to be done to make sure the gains are felt in every corner of the state.
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“Why are they so fearful of people just theorizing and just thinking,” she thought. “We’re not going to turn into, like, communists. Y’all chill out.”
Incredible reporting from
@mintamolly
on what it actually means to study critical race theory
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I’m working on a story about how students around Mississippi feel about the efforts to ban books in schools, particularly the students who see themselves reflected in the texts. Would you be willing to talk, or do you know someone who might be? Please message or email me!
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Normally I think that annoucing a new prof pic would be dumb af but when twitter asked I realized lainey deserves it
#NewProfilePic
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I made a lot of pretty charts!
check em out!
(and also gain context about abortions in mississippi)
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Half of the state can't afford basic household necessities. Half.
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According to the program’s own data, 64% of applicants are employed and 80% make less than half of their area’s median income.
We’re leaving about 100 million on the table.
Gov. Tate Reeves on Wednesday said he’s “pushing back on the left” by pulling Mississippi out of a federal pandemic rental assistance program and plans to send any unspent dollars back to Washington.
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I just remembered that a legitimate consideration in my college search process was whether the town had a Canes like damn the Louisiana in me DOES NOT REST
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Working on a story, I'm looking for Mississippi families whose children attended schools using corporal punishment within the last few years. Conversation would be on your terms and I'm open to anything you'd be willing to share. Please DM or email me.
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Driving around the square seeing the “if you want to fins up, wear your mask!” signs really pains me bc “if you want to fins up, mask up!” was RIGHT. THERE.
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“He’s seven, why did it go to this?” Wright said. “Now we’re going to have him afraid of police at seven? And it’s all because of him having a disability that he sometimes needs help with?”
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I would like to submit a formal request for boys to smile more in pictures like bro you’re not too cool for happiness
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MAE President Erica Jones said the decision to endorse Presley was made after reviewing Reeves’ actions during his first term, leading the association to say the first-term governor is “absent as a leader and advocate for public schools.”
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Me connecting my friends who have never met but are moving to the same city
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“Jackson State University produces 67% of the Black teachers in Jackson Public Schools,” he said. “That’s unheard of. I’m here because I want all colleges and universities to have that impact on their local community.”
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This paragraph in my paper is 3 lines short of being two pages long and i think somewhere my high school english teacher is grimacing but if i’ve learned anything in college it is that academia gives no shits about readability
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An actual interaction I just had:
Cashier: Good Afternoon!
Me: Good, how are you?
Cashier: Thank you!
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Telling one of my best friends at home a story from the semester and she goes
“it seems like everyone at ole miss knows everyone else somehow through this big web and now I’m tangentially connected as well bc i’ve met three of them”
If that aint us
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Mom, I’m a podcaster now!
On The Other Side, Mississippi Today journalists Julia James and Will Stribling join Adam to discuss how Mississippi was at the center of a renewed national debate about abortion access and the U.S. Supreme Court’s deliberations about Roe v. Wade.
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“I feel helpless sometimes (watching Deidra get sick), sitting there thinking, ‘What the hell else can I do?’ And my satisfaction is doing this,” Marlan said. “Making sure that people know what has happened to her…what the test results show.”
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The new results from the third grade gate are here, and students have hit a new high of 76.3% passing on the first try.
Initial passage rates have hovered around 75% for the last few years.
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a cool thing :
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Very weird hearing “joseph bulovas with the extra point” on the speakers again like is this junior year????
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Nothing perturbs me like pics of girls who are dressed TO THE NINES next to boys in henleys and faded jeans, like ma’am teach!! him!!
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Sometimes as a girl raised to be polite you just need a reminder!
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I just stress sent 4 emails in like 10 minutes is this adulthood?
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Will Bardwell, an attorney for Democracy Forward, refuted the AG's argument defending the private school grant program, comparing it to "money laundering" to avoid compliance with the MS Constitution.
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I'vr written so many essays about the american dream being dead or a lie its almost like I'm back in junior english with kstew
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Recently married women under 24 really be out here posting pictures of their homes like they’re being featured on southern living
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Something about joe burrow looks a little bit like a 5th grader with his shirt tucked into his gym shorts
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convinced spotify stalking is more invasive than any other type of stalking
anyone who has read through every single one of my playlists either needs to marry me or die you know too much
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Do you know any teachers in Mississippi who have recently (within the last year) decided to leave the classroom? I’d love to connect with them and talk about how they made that decision.
Email me at jjames
@mississippitoday
.org or shoot a DM! (retweets appreciated)
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Never would have thought the state of louisiana could love him any more than we already did but there he goes
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My capacity to feel second-hand embarrassment from movies and tv shows is truly unmatched
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Its aggressively on brand that when i won a sally the first person i told was my hon 102 professor
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The next ole miss student band that forms should really call itself “The Oxford Comma” and I expect to be paid a commission from your Proud Larry’s earnings for this idea
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There may be a boil water notice but hey at least i got to put my tea in my new mug from
#IRE22
@washingtonpost
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I dont mean to be a petty bitch but since I grew up 20 minutes away from the university that ole miss is playing in sport ball today, THE APPROPRIATE ABBREVIATION IS SELU NOT SELA
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Student jumped and cried with excitement that the state’s first charter high school will be opening in Clarksdale in the fall of 2025
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I’ve never understood posts about going on a social media hiatus/returning from a social media hiatus. If you’ve noticed that patterns and mechanisms of social media are negatively affecting you, are you not playing into those very patterns if you post about it?
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I had really wonderful times&really hard times in 2018, but the thing i am most proud of was both. I was the intern for the Prison to College Pipeline Program;among other things, i built this website.I hope yall enjoy learning about change happening in MS.
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If you live in one of these fifty counties, you don't need to provide proof of income to be eligible for rental assistance - but you may have other issues applying.
Read more:
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Tbh more intrigued by the stock photo - Did it already exist? Why? Who thought they would ever need this?
New Hampshire Republicans accidentally pass law allowing pregnant women to kill people
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quarantine has killed instagram stalking bc yall are not getting up to anything. The new mood is spotify stalking and let me tell you my friends make some damn excellent playlists
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As part of reporting this story, I built a dataset of every donation Tate Reeves has received since first running for treasurer,
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today at work i:
-enjoyed rolly chairs as they were meant to be enjoyed
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This story was a huge team effort, and would not have been possible without the training I received this summer at The Data Institute. Very grateful for that program
@C4JDHowardU
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@KayAnneSkinner
and I won an award for this story over the weekend, great time to give it a read if you haven’t!
At MS Book Fest last month,
@angiecthomas
was asked how she felt about her books being banned in school libraries. She said "Nobody is taking the time to talk" to kids who see themselves in these books or have been positively impacted by them. So we did:
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I’ll be moderating this discussion next week, would love to see you there!
@MSTODAYnews
@MSHumanities
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there’s not much light pollution at my house and my backyard actually has some really good stargazing this year
should i become a astrology girl? yall want updates on when mercury is in retrograde?
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there should be a spotify version of Netflix party where you can sync music listening with a friend and have a shared queue
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THEY ARE NOT NEWS ORGANIZATIONS THEY HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO BALANCED COVERAGE
I swear if this country doesnt learn to tell the difference between entertainment and journalism i will riot
It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of “the other side.” Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows......
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I really hope that all 12 of my spotify friends see that I’m listening to nobody’s perfect by hannah montana so they can know that, yes, someone should check on me.
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I wanna get a dog and then name it some bland white boy name like "sit, michael!" "fetch, robert!"
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dylan sprouse is 2 people up from me at this concert i just needed to tell someone that
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You ever spend time with a real good friend and start to think maybe the world isnt burning after all? I am really, deeply thankful for those people.
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in a new place but still writing about schools!
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Luv obsessively tracking a package that is absolutely not time sensitive just for the serotonin rush of opening it
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sometimes i really am out here playing dumb just because I want people to say things directly instead of implying them
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If i look at the website for one more nonprofit tonight i might scream. they all just use the same soup of nonspecific language to herald the same principles
Most days i love a good 501(c)(3) but today corporate america could really just steal my soul and i would be unbothered
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new from me this morning: The city of Wichita Falls is seeking to build a reservoir in Clay County to shore up its water supply, but the ranchers whose land would be affected argue it's not necessary.
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unsure why bands make it so hard for me to give them my money. i am BEGGING for gulf states shows
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I had the privilege of getting to know some really amazing men last summer through the PTCPP.
Here is a piece of their story.
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Somone explain to me why people still snapchat dm when they literally have my phone number
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Book bannings have been on the rise, hitting a record high last year since the American Library Association started tracking the challenges. The association also said that the majority of challenged books were by or about Black or LGBT individuals.
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The state board of education has named Lance Evans as the next state superintendent.
He is the current superintendent of the New Albany School District.
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I’m sure i will get yelled at for saying this but all golden doodles look the same. It’s like they hit copy paste i literally cannot tell a difference
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I cannot stop telling people that i purchased a (used) washer and dryer last week like it’s CRAZY and I think I still believe I’m just a kid but like no julia you have a full time job with benefits, this is a reasonable thing for you to have done
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google,
I can see you stalking my searches and optimizing my instagram ads. pls do less.
thanks,
jules
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Hot take:
@dwcase
and
@RobynTannehill
‘s passion and action towards bringing a waffle house to ox proves that grassroots activism matters
#WaffleHouseinOxfordMS
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