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Aug 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
People, & some in national media, keep citing Trump’s “increasingly divisive rhetoric” to explain their moves toward being more critical of him. But this is rests on a fallacy: That Trump is somehow more divisive now than he was on June 26, 2015. Let’s stroll down memory lane. 1/
6/16/2015: Trump launched his campaign with:

“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They’re not sending YOU. ... "They’re bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists.“

Think about what “They’re not sending you” meant.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_55…
7/5/15: Donald Trump attacked Jeb Bush for having a Mexican-born wife.

“Jeb Bush has to like illegals because of his wife.”
7/18/15: Trump attacks John McCain:
“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
politico.com/story/2015/07/…
8/7/18: Trump makes a misogynist remark about Megan Kelly:

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes," Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday night. "Blood coming out of her wherever.”
google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…
8/20/15: After 2 Trump supporters beat a homeless 58-yr-old Hispanic man with a metal rod saying “Trump was right,” Trump defended them:

“People following me are very passionate. They love this country & they want this country to be great again.”
nytimes.com/politics/first…
We’re only 2 months and 5 days into his campaign here, and this isn’t even comprehensive. His rhetoric today is the same as it was then.

Maybe some folks blinders just now fell off. But it isn’t Trump who changed. Don’t rewrite the past to explain why you couldn’t see.

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Aug 21
Kamala Harris will accept the Democratic nomination 60 years to the day after Fannie Lou Hamer—a Black woman and sharecropper from rural Mississippi—rattled the DNC with her "Is This America?" speech about being brutalized for trying to register to vote.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, who helped organize Freedom Summer to register and educate Black voters, was one of the leaders of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party who traveled to the 1964 DNC in New Jersey to challenge the state's all-white delegation.
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Fannie Lou Hamer was also an advocate for bodily autonomy.

A white doctor had performed a hysterectomy on her while removing a tumor in 1961.

Such treatment of Black women was so common in the South that Hamer called it a “Mississippi appendectomy.”
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Apr 3
NEW: After discovering that some officials in Mississippi and nationwide were keeping unidentified bodies for "personal collections" and refusing to return them, Pascagoula Lt. Darren Versiga began pushing for a law to regulate how remains are handled.
mississippifreepress.org/40991/cold-cas…
Lt. Versiga told @Shaunicy_ that he uncovered the problems when he began looking into decades worth of unsolved cold cases in Pascagoula.

He said a new bill in the Mississippi Senate could prevent the mishandling of bodies in the future.
mississippifreepress.org/40991/cold-cas…
@Shaunicy_ Lt. Versiga also said the bill, introduced by Sen. Brice Wiggins, could also help prevent cases where counties bury bodies without ever informing families of a loved ones' death—as happened to at least seven families in Hinds County.
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Mar 29
NEW: The Mississippi Senate stripped out the House Medicaid expansion bill and replaced it with one that could cost the State millions more while covering less people.

"This is not Obamacare" but "a very responsible and conservative bill," a senator said.
mississippifreepress.org/40893/senate-m…
Sen. Kevin Blackwell estimates that 80,000 Mississippians would qualify for Medicaid coverage under the Senate plan, but said he expects as few as 40,000 may actually enroll—significantly lower than the House’s estimation of up to 200,000 for its version.
mississippifreepress.org/40893/senate-m…
The House plan includes full Medicaid expansion under the ACA, allowing residents who make up to 138% of the federal poverty level ($20,120 for an individual) to qualify. The Senate plan only allows people making up to 100% (~$15k) to qualify.
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Feb 18
You deplorable misogynist.

You're using photos of her from 10 years ago—when she had an eating disorder.

She was this thin because of hateful assholes like you making her feel bad about her body. Like she could never be thin enough.

You are NOT entitled to women's bodies.
To quote Taylor herself reflecting on her eating disorder:

“If you’re thin enough, then you don’t have that ass that everybody wants. But if you have enough weight on you to have an ass, your stomach isn’t flat enough. It’s all just f—ing impossible.”
variety.com/2020/music/new…
Here's how people reacted after she stopped starving herself (yes, she really did that).

People suck.


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Feb 11
Our top story at the Mississippi Free Press today: "Trump Encourages Russia to Attack American Allies: ‘Do Whatever the Hell They Want’"

We may be a local Mississippi outlet, but this is important. It should be leading every newspaper in the country.
mississippifreepress.org/39734/trump-en…
the Mississippi Free Press logo appears above a photo of trump speaking at a rally and the headline: "Trump encourages russia to attack american allies: 'do whatever the hell they want'" Ashton Pittman#February 11 2024
"'No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want,” Trump said, recalling a conversation with an American ally's president.
mississippifreepress.org/39734/trump-en…
You can support our work by following @MSFreePress.

As a nonprofit newsroom, our journalism is always free to anyone to read, but we do rely on support from our readers to grow and do this work.

Please give if you can at mfp.ms/donate
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NEW: Brett Favre was interrogated by state attorneys for nine hours Monday during a secret deposition about the Mississippi welfare scandal and the millions in TANF funds that went to him, a volleyball stadium and a drug company he was heavily invested in.
mississippifreepress.org/38290/brett-fa…
Favre's deposition was originally scheduled for October, but the State rescheduled it for after the statewide elections.

Hattiesburg Patriot's Tom Garmon found out about the deposition's secret location and staked it out. Clip courtesy @HPatriot
mississippifreepress.org/38290/brett-fa…
It is unlikely that the transcript will become public anytime soon. In October, a judge agreed to a request from the State, Favre and other defendants to issue a protective order sealing certain discovery documents—like deposition transcript.

The order:
mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/upl…
screenshot shows the first page of the protective order: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES VS. MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER, INC., et al PLAINTIFF CASE NO. 25CI1:22cv286-EFP DEFENDANTS AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER This day this cause came before the Court on the joint motion of Plaintiff Mississippi Department of Human Services ("MDHS") and Defendants Brett Lorenzo Favre, Lobaki, Inc., and Lobaki Foundation for entry of a protective order, pursuant to Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 26d), con...
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