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New podcast "Dr. Miracle" out July 1 from @campsidemedia @SonyPodcasts | 🏳️🌈 | talking about Mississippi even when I'm not talking about Mississippi
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My newest series, Dr. Miracle, dropped today. To say this one is true crime is accurate—but sells it short. It’s also about that very fine line between hope and desperation and a man who knew how to sell one as the other.
Please give it a listen.
Dr. Miracle, season 8 of Chameleon, drops today! Hear about the alkaline diet and alkaline water hoax, and the sick people who thought it would save them
@thisislarrison
@ShoshiShmu
@Lily_H_Smith
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Thank you, Lin!
Little known fact,
@Lin_Manuel
and I sat next to each other on the first day of our first ever college class. It was Arts in America and he may have gotten a bit more out of it than I did.
Went to college with
@thisislarrison
, (who is just one of the smartest and best people), just catching up with this nonsense.
This guy wants to be governor? Of a STATE? With women in it??
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Oh, hey, look what happens when we fund science
Holy shit.
A new HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials. It is based on the Moderna's COVID vaccine.
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My mom off-loaded her cache of Junior League cookbooks on me and I’m finding 70s southern housewife desperation highly relatable during these pandemic times
Dede Gray, I don’t know what gale force winds were keeping you from the Kroger, but I see you, girl
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@MSTODAYnews
@VP
Women don't get the same courtesy. The "appearance of impropriety" arises only when you see a reporter, not as a reporter, but as a sexual object.
I wanted to cover Foster because I love my job. His campaign refused my request because they sexualized me. How's that not sexism?/8
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@JessicaHuseman
Congratulations! Mine was finalized 2.5 years ago and I was telling my mom this weekend that the worst day of my post-divorce life is still happier than the best day of my marriage. May you have the same experience.
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I was excited this week to get on the road with Rep. Foster as part of
@MSTODAYnews
#MSGov
coverage. Agree with his conservative politics or not, he’s got a vision for MS. It’s why I love my job.
Turns out I don’t get the chance just bc I’m a woman
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Interesting 24 hours.
So I’ve been seeing and getting a lot of messages like the below, and I’d like to break down exactly why opinions like Ms. Beaton’s—and of course Rep. Fosters—are about sexism, not self-protection.
@MSTODAYnews
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@EricMGarcia
Actually come to think of it, I need to do a think piece on Marty McFly: soft butch icon.
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I went to high school in New England where people who discovered I was from Mississippi would invariably ask some version of “wow, what’s it like to live in such a racist place”? My answer was always “you tell me.”
How are white folks *this* shocked that America is *this* racist? All of these "how did we get here?" posts are triggering AF on this app.
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@EricMGarcia
Michael J. Fox. And I'm a lesbian but Alex P. Keaton's cuteness transcended gender.
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Was wondering when folks would catch on to this 😂
The humdinger about the story of the Mississippi gubernatorial campaign — Republican, of course — that refused to let a woman reporter trail the candidate, because that might look like an extramarital affair, is how the reporter … well, read the below.
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@MSTODAYnews
@VP
See, most folks, when they see a man in a work setting, like say a business meeting or on the campaign trail w a candidate, assume that the man is there to work, not sleep with the person they're next to. That's because to most people, men are people first, not sexual objects /7
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Bless
@MonicaHesse
for this analysis: "The most harmful aspect of the Graham/Pence rule is this: It keeps women out of the room. It says that men can forward their careers via mentoring sessions, golf games and brainstorming lunches, but women cannot."
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I am so excited for
@ayewolfe
but I am also excited for Mississippi because this makes it even harder for those responsible to brush off her phenomenal reporting.
Also so so happy to now refer to my old workplace as Pulitzer Prize winning
@MSTODAYnews
. YEOW!
The Mississippi Today staff is spending the afternoon celebrating our wins and watching the 2023 Pulitzer Prize announcement! Join us in wishing Anna Wolfe good luck on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her series The Backchannel. 🤞
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Hey guys, this bumper sticker ensures no woman will ride alone in your truck
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Lord, grant every woman the confidence of a Republican governor whose citizens are dying in a preventable pandemic
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During the last big snow storm, Mississippi opened its Civil Rights Museum. Today the state raised a new flag over the Capitol.
Frankly I like it very much when hell freezes over.
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But what happens when the male colleague is the one you’re alone with?
@rlnave
does
@MSTODAYnews
have the budget for a chaperone?
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@MSTODAYnews
Why, you ask, would this guy not see the absurdity of demanding I bring in the reinforcements he requires? Uh... probably because at the end of the day, he doesn't see me as someone who belongs there.
To wit: the inherently sexist Billy Graham rule that Foster invoked /4
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The most shocking thing I learned is that, no matter how scared a teacher might be about returning to school, they can’t quit.
In MS reneging on their contracts (that they signed back in Feb!) can cost them a teaching license.
That’s forced labor.
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@MSTODAYnews
@VP
I have yet to hear of a female politician (don't y'all forget those exist!) who's invoked the Billy Graham rule when dealing with male colleagues.
And this gets at the "perception is everything" statement I got from Foster's campaign that kicked off everything /6
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@MSTODAYnews
So even though his campaign admitted that the request was "weird" and Foster was the one who felt uncomfortable--he was totally comfortable making it my responsibility to fix it. He made the rule, but I had to make it better /3
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Espy accuses
@cindyhydesmith
of reading off notes during entire
#MSSen
debate: I had a couple notes jotted down. She had 30 pages of notes. She read her apology
@MSTODAYnews
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Of all the lies that have been told about my state, this one hurts the most
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If we’d had more governors like this, Mississippi might be a very different state
Breaking: Former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, who championed education initiatives, job creation, and racial harmony throughout his life, died Friday at age 97.
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Don't forget that the most important Democrat in this country grew up in Mississippi
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@JoshuaEngelken
@MSTODAYnews
To be clear, it’s this man’s “weird request” (as his campaign put it to me). So he needs to provide the solution. Asking me to find a way to make him comfortable because my being a woman makes him uncomfortable is sexism.
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Y’all!
If your view of women is so backward in 2019 that you can’t be alone with a reporter doing her job, what the hell are you doing trying to be the governor of a whole state?
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Undercounting has been a problem nationally since the pandemic began — but in Mississippi, where cases are surging and testing is harder to come by when you’re alive, it’s a crisis
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If my kids had been born in Indiana (or potentially Mississippi) my parental rights would be on the line right now.
Please explain how losing me as a legal guardian helps my kids.
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As a woman, the floor of the House
Question for Tonight: What do you think is the creepiest place in Mississippi? I have my ideas, but would love to hear yours ...
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PSA: they moved the New Orleans airport
Don’t follow highway signs, don’t use Google maps and definitely don’t use your memory of being here 9 days ago or a guard at the old doors will say “baby they moved the airport last Tuesday” And then put you on a shuttle w the other fools
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Every block in Brooklyn has a parked car with Mississippi tags
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Or, how quarantine has turned me into a 70s housewife
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@MSTODAYnews
First, let's talk about what Foster's rep admitted was a "weird request"--that he would not be comfortable with my reporting the story unless I brought my own male chaperone (colleague)
Link to orig story:
@MSTODAYnews
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Really enjoyed this conversation with
@JohnBerman
. Thanks for giving me the chance to talk about the inherent sexism in what Foster did—and the Billy Graham rule
@MSTODAYnews
“What you're saying here is a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second.”
Reporter Larrison Campbell responds in real time to Mississippi State Rep. Robert Foster, who denied her request to accompany him on a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague.
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Judge Reeves pushed hard on the issue of viability asking state’s Paul Barnes how the life of a pre-viable fetus trumps woman’s right “over her body”
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@MSTODAYnews
Honoring the Billy Graham rule, as Foster explains it, is all about "avoiding the appearance of impropriety." As a result, male candidates can't be seen in a situation with women that might be misconstrued--i.e. alone with them like
@VP
Pence /5
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In case missing family Thanksgiving has you nostalgic for the sounds of your favorite drunk hill uncle, here’s local treasure and Mississippi state Sen Hob Bryan yelling about technology
Courtesy of the Mississippi Legislature, here it is: your Moment of Zen.
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For generations, Mississippi has had the worst outcomes for just about every health issue: cardiovascular disease, low birthweights, diabetes — the list goes on.
State leaders cannot act surprised that we’re also getting the worst of a global pandemic.
COVID-19 deaths are exploding in the state—and it may be a massive undercount. One coroner put it simply: “It’s bad.”
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I want to be focused on the Biden inauguration today but both of my kids just tested positive for COVID, and if that isn’t a brutal reminder that the Trump presidency is still very much with us, I don’t know what is.
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LOL at Twitter successfully guilting me into reading an article before I retweet it, even though I wrote the article
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First person makes me uncomfortable but I still had a good time writing about why Jackson's better than LA for
@ArchDigest
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Y’all didn’t think I’d make it all the way through 2020 without finding some way to work Robert Foster into an article, did you?
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Worth asking how much office time
@shadwhite
and his team spent proving a sociology prof protested racism, which is area he teaches, for like 16 hours.
Also worth asking how much time
@Insurgent_Prof
spends on extended office hours and research/semester. Prob more than 16 hours.
NEW: A tenured University of Mississippi professor skipped work to protest racial inequality. The state auditor says he violated state law and should be fired.
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Y’all. Please. Read this before tweeting me.
@JoshuaEngelken
@MSTODAYnews
To be clear, it’s this man’s “weird request” (as his campaign put it to me). So he needs to provide the solution. Asking me to find a way to make him comfortable because my being a woman makes him uncomfortable is sexism.
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Trump is one more polling dip away from just promising everyone a million dollars
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I see someone found my MySpace. I was pretty cute 14 years ago.
But again: what a woman (no longer) looks like is beside the point. If you tell me I can't go somewhere a man can, unless I bring a man (BYOM?) it's sexism. You have a problem with how I look? Supply the solution.
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With all due respect to Tom Petty and this song, the last people I want shouting “gonna stand my ground” are a stadium of Floridians
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Judge Carlton Reeves has completely wiped out
#HB1523
minutes before it was set to take effect.
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When we talk about Mississippi’s great writers, we need to start including Justice Reeves
You need a little hopefulness today. Judge Carlton Reeves has it for you.
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@PositionsTears
@BritneyHiatus
I have O positive as does my girlfriend. We’ve both had the vax (me, Pfizer and she, Moderna) with zero complications. I write about public health and would be happy to talk to you or your mom about how it’s safe for everyone. Please feel free to DM me!
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This story describes Mississippi as being "in the spiritual Midwest" and on behalf of my state, I'd like request
@nytimes
issue a retraction.
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Barnes said by the time Mississippi’s HB1510 goes to court the state is convinced it will be able to “develop substantial proof that at least some of the fetuses protected by this law are viable.”
To be clear proof of viability before 20w has never been offered
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Guess what?
@SenHydeSmith
actually loves politics on Sundays.
Oh and I’ve got the videos to prove it.
@thedailybeast
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Minnesota is MN.
Missouri is MO.
Massachusetts is MA.
Mississippi—for the last time and the love of everything holy—is MS.
.
@MnDPS_MSP
officer Albert Kuehne detained a woman on suspicion of drunk driving, searched through her phone & sent himself NUDE photos of her while she was getting checked out by paramedics! He must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law!
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Oh, is it now, Senator?
🧵
This is not only disrespectful to the members of the White House Press Corps but also the American people.
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Know who else has been saying this? My mom. Since like April.
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy
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OMG
The woman reporter is
@thisislarrison
and I hope you'll join me in following her.
Thank you, Larrison!
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For the better part of the year, state leaders like
@PhilBryantMS
, have argued
@ayewolfe
has been relentlessly negative in her coverage of Mississippi's ongoing workforce issues.
Interesting then that when national data shows up, it's in sync with what she's written
@MSTODAYnews
"Both states rely heavily on production and manufacturing jobs, often in industries vulnerable to trade disputes and global turmoil. But Mississippi relies more on low-wage versions of these production jobs than does any other state in the union."
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All anyone has to know about how scared Phil Bryant is about what’s in this series is that he consented to a 3-hour interview with
@ayewolfe
before publication (which is 2.9 hours more than his cumulative interviews with
@MSTODAYnews
up to that point) 👀
Mississippi Today’s five-month investigation reveals how Phil Bryant used the governor’s office to exploit a dysfunctional welfare system for personal interests. Our series debuts Monday. Read more.
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I have thought about this tweet at least once a day for the last 3 years and 9 months.
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Another bold move: submitting a recipe for guacamole where the key ingredient appears to be... guacamole
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Also, mixing vodka and gin and then ordering your husband to write in on your behalf
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Mississippi’s economic model has long been one of dependence on the federal government. Mississippi receives $2.13 in federal aid for every dollar it sends to DC
BREAKING: Thanks to the reckless spending of Democrats in Congress, America becomes even more dependent on China, a strategic competitor, to finance trillions of dollars that responsible states don’t need.
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In case you’re like “my parents paid for college, how does reducing student debt help ME?” it might be a good time to think about who could be teaching your kids
In less than a decade, the number of new standard five-year teacher licenses issued by Mississippi Department Education has dropped by 85% from 3,626 to just 557 in 2019.
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Hey remember when
@SenHydeSmith
's MAGA campaign bus broke down in between two campaign events -- on a Sunday? I sure do.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith defends preventing people from voting on Sunday, because God
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Our lives are actually a constant struggle to tamp down that urge.
Ms. Campbell still does not understand the possibility that a Woman might SCREAM RAPE at any moment.
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This seems like a really good time to share with y’all the most important
#MSElex
update.
Y’all may remember Robert Gray from as the MS truck driver turned Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 2015. Well he’s also on Twitter and it is 🔥
@MSTODAYnews
#MSGOV
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Big news guys. Mississippi's Republican gov-one of 20 plaintiffs whose lawsuit just took down entire ACA-has been quietly looking at ways to expand Medicaid
Bryant's office is deflecting but this is as well-sourced as anything I've reported
@MSTODAYnews
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MINUTES before midnight. Wow.
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Ole Miss seemed awfully eager to get quarantining students off campus—and into the community
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But not for having one haircut sitting on top of another?
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Confederate monuments are just an Elf on the Shelf for white supremacy, as much today as when they were put up post-Reconstruction. It’s still saying to Black Americans that the ghosts of the Confederacy live—and they’re watching.
Keeping them in public spaces is terrorism.
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Ah yes, that crazy liberal
@PhilipGunnMS
There’s a small group in the House that only wants to pick fights with me—some liberal Republicans who’ve joined forces with liberal House Dems. They run the show these days: Democrats and some left-leaning GOP politicians. Trey Lamar and Robert Johnson lead that crew around.
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Coincidentally, immediately after that child is born Mississippi becomes the most unsafe place in America for him or her, with an infant mortality rate of nearly 9/1000.
That means nearly 1% of all babies born in the state die in infancy. /1
@MSTODAYnews
#MSLeg
"Safest place in America for an unborn child" = 4,660 Google results
"Safest place in America for a child" = 1 Google result
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My kids would be devastated to hear someone say I'm not really their mom. I cut their umbilical cords. I was the first person to hold them.
Adoption is necessary for society to function. One more way she and the
@GOP
prove they're not actually pro-life.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that adopted or parents through marriage aren’t real parents because they’re “not biological.” She just told a witness who is a mother through marriage that she is “not a mother.”
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I’d also like to take a minute to mention
@RobertFoster4MS
. Anyone who’s followed this story knows that he and I deeply disagree here.
But he’s also been nothing but respectful toward me during this. Those who support his position would be wise to take a page from that book
Those of you who know me know how much I appreciate a good drinking game, so here’s a new one proposed by a listener in, I guess, Canada?
If there’s anything this experience has taught me, it’s that there are a lot of people with time on their hands out there
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You’re welcome Mississippi?
The great irony here: Larrison broke the news of Foster's candidacy. Larrison broke the news that he was offered $1M to drop out. Larrison drove to his hometown for his announcement.
Robert Foster arguably isn't where he is in this race without
@thisislarrison
's coverage.
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Only in Mississippi can you walk out of your office and think “wow, it’s not that hot today” and then see steam rising from the pavement
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Basically yes. Though I even pointed out that Foster’s (male) campaign director would be there the whole time. Still “too risky.”
Wow. Mississippi GOP governor candidate refused to let a female reporter cover him because it wouldn't look right. Basically he Pence'd her. via
@thisislarrison
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Some men don’t want to change. So they’re asking women to go the extra mile so they can hold onto their outdated views.
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When did our society get together and determine that 11 pt font was going to be the new 12 pt font?
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It’s 100 degrees today but I’ve still had some great conversations with Bay folks.
If you want a free drink and a reason to chat (as if y’all need one), I’ll have water and soda outside the Bay St. Louis Froogel’s for another hour
@MSTODAYnews
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Hi, hi and welcome to the first day of Racism 101. Since it’s an intro class we’re only going to cover the most basic topics like “if you weren’t just as offended this summer when the headlines were about outbreaks in Black communities, you’re the racist.”
@thisislarrison
Maskless White People Are Fueling a Massive New Coronavirus Surge in Mississippi? How racist are you? You realize that using maskless people wouldn’t have offended! I guess it was your intent to cause racial divisiveness! How disgraceful using race to create hate!
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As of today
@msdh
says that over 500 teachers and 2000 students are in quarantine in Mississippi. 245 teachers have confirmed cases and 199 students do.
Schools in 71 counties have confirmed cases--Mississippi has 82 counties total.
It seems like school-reopening shit shows are happening all around the country and might have been a bad idea to begin with, but our noted virologist president knows best
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Let God do for us what we cannot do for ourselves
Hurricane Laura has toppled a Confederate monument in Louisiana just days after officials voted against moving it.
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@ThomasAwful
Willem Dafoe once helped me carry boxes into my apartment building.
And in my Hollywood assistant days
@bretmichaels
,
@ThatKevinSmith
and (yes, really. Sorry, folks)
@KrisJenner
always remembered my name and took a minute to chat with me.
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I told them they had to learn how to spell it before we’d be allowed back in
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Shortly before midnight Weds, an exec at Homeland Security Investigations sent an email to federal agencies, outlining how they'd safeguarded the children of 680 detainees.
None of those involved contacting CPS--a breach of ICE's own policy
@MSTODAYnews
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I see we've reached the point of the pandemic where the only excuse Tate has left to avoid telling people to get vaccinated is that most Mississippians don't like him anyway.
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Or random guys threatening to tell my male editor that I’ve been on NPR saying the Billy Graham rule’s sexist.
Y’all not on the same team, bro
My favorite sport is people trying to find a white person in our organization they think is above me to get me in trouble. Lol I just be laughin and laughin and laughin
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“A man’s job”
Lord. Are y’all just trying to be cartoons now?
Seriously, though, we got this tip just a few days ago. Our intern
@WillStribling
took it and ran with it. Excellent work.
“I heard the mayor’s sister says she wants to be a supervisor. What she needs to do is learn to be a woman. A woman needs to be a woman. Supervisor’s a man’s job.”
— Malcolm Johnson, a candidate for the Hinds County Board of Supervisors
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