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17 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: A 1st grade teacher died of COVID-19 in DeSoto County, where the sheriff is defying the governor by refusing to enforce a county mask mandate.

27 teachers in the small school have tested positive for COVID-19 since August, but only 13 students. mississippifreepress.org/7026/first-gra…
Here's what one DeSoto County teacher said in a July plea: “I beg those who are in decision making positions to please take more time. Death is final and in this case even preventable if schools (implement) virtual or distancing learning for the fall..." mississippifreepress.org/7026/first-gra…
Statewide, another 65 Mississippi public schools went virtual amid widespread outbreaks.

COVID-19 cases among students doubled to more than 1,000 for the week, and cases among teachers rose above 500.

More than 14,000 students were quarantined last week. mississippifreepress.org/7026/first-gra…
When asked if there is more that Gov. @tatereeves could do, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said he knows it can make people “uncomfortable” for leaders to make the hard decisions necessary to save lives.

“That’s what leaders are for,” he said. mississippifreepress.org/7026/first-gra…
State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs: “This is a moment that requires leadership from everyone. … Everybody who has a leadership position in schools needs to step up and do everything they can do to protect the people in their charge."
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20 Nov
"Legal votes" is code for "white votes."

"Illegal votes" is code for "Black and other unfavorable non-white votes."

Just auto replace these terms in your mind when you see them and many of the asinine comments about the election being thrown around will become clearer.
Many remarks make sense when you replace 50% of mentions of "socialism" w "more power & equity for POC."

McConnell saying "DC+PR statehood="full bore seizing the means of production" makes no sense.

But DC+PR statehood="full bore more power & equity for POC" does.
When the Mississippi governor asks for “Patriotic Education" to combat "indoctrination in far-left socialist teachings that emphasize America’s shortcomings" (slavery), that isn't about seizing the means of production. It's about the Lost Cause.
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20 Nov
NEW: MAIS, a top a private school org, is defending its schools' refusal to comply with lawful orders to report data on classroom COVID-19 cases and outbreaks among their "customers" (meaning students) to the Mississippi State Department of Health. mississippifreepress.org/7085/gov-reeve… Image
Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs: “We are seeing a lot of private and independent schools not reporting their numbers. They need to do it, and it is a public-health order, and they are going against the legal mandate to report." mississippifreepress.org/7085/gov-reeve…
MAIS on private school refusal to report COVID data: “(Private schools) aren't agents of the state. They are small businesses that happen to be in the business of teaching children. The best they can do is report what customers report to them.”
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20 Nov
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is asking the Legislature to cut funds for schools that don't offer in-class instruction.

The proposal comes after the worst week for COVID-19 in schools so far, with over 1,546 positive cases and 16,705 quarantined.
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Gov. Tate Reeves' request for the Legislature to strip funds from all-virtual schools came after more than 65 schools moved to all-virtual amid large outbreaks.

MSDH reported 70 school outbreaks last week—up from 24 the week before. mississippifreepress.org/7085/gov-reeve…
Reeves’ proposed budget does not include a plan to raise pay for teachers—despite 2019 campaign promises of a substantial teacher pay raise. Instead, he wants $3 million for "Patriotic Education."

The news comes after yet another teacher died of COVID-19. mississippifreepress.org/7085/gov-reeve…
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20 Nov
Hi, this is a photo of Hillary Clinton the morning after the 2016 election, wearing purple (as is her husband) to symbolize national unity, red and blue alike, and declaring:

"Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead." 1/
Hillary Clinton said we owed Trump "an open mind and a chance to lead" after he spent his a campaign calling to "lock her up" and for "the 2nd Amendment people" to stop her from appointing judges.

He had also promised to claim her victory, if she won, was rigged. Image
Hillary Clinton's quick concession, even when millions of votes remained to be counted (in a much closer election—77,000 votes in three states) and in which she would win the popular vote by 3 million, was still met with claims that she was a sore loser. Image
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19 Nov
THREAD: Someone dared @ me saying to "get rid of" our pit bulls (Dorothy & Dru, below) because they "kill children."

Let's set the record straight. The idea that pitbulls are some sort of superpredator dog breed is a myth.

And it's a myth borne from anti-Black racism racism. 1/ Our pitbulls Dorothy and Dr...
"When people talk about pit bulls, they often reveal their opinions on class and race issues while 'using the dogs as proxies,' Bronwen Dickey said. Recent pit history, she argues in her book, is partly a story about racism & cultural stereotypes." 2/
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In the early 20th century & through the 1960s, pitbulls had a reputation as a loving, all American dog.

Teddy Roosevelt had pit bulls in the White House.

Helen Keller had a beloved pitbull.

The most famous dog in the country was Petey on the Little Rascals—a pit bull. 3/ ImageImage
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16 Nov
NEW: Families who hold big Thanksgiving gatherings this year could be planning small funerals by Christmas, Mississippi's top health officials warned.

“We don’t really want to see Mamaw at Thanksgiving and bury her by Christmas," Dr. Mark Horne said. mississippifreepress.org/7014/after-big…
“Be careful, because there’s nowhere for you to go if you have a car wreck,” Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said, pointing to the fact that hospitals across the state are running out of beds. mississippifreepress.org/7014/after-big…
Dr. Thomas Dobbs. “I’m just going to be straight up with y’all. It is really bad. Our hospitals are full, we’re overloaded, our caseload is unbelievable. If you have any vulnerability, you really need to stay home, not go to church, not be socializing." mississippifreepress.org/7014/after-big…
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