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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Investigators say they found "substantial evidence" that U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo, a Mississippi Republican, may have broken multiple laws with his use of campaign funds, federal dollars and "special favors." mississippifreepress.org/9860/investiga…
Investigators cite “a concerning pattern of campaign expenditures on a large riverfront home which Rep. Palazzo owned and rented to Palazzo for Congress as an ostensible campaign headquarters.” mississippifreepress.org/9860/investiga…
Palazzo's office calls the allegations "false" and says he "welcomes the opportunity to work through this process with the House Committee on Ethics & will fully cooperate with the Committee to show that he has complied with all relevant rules & standards."mississippifreepress.org/9860/investiga…
Be on the lookout for an in-depth examination of the allegations against Rep. Steven Palazzo and the evidence investigators used.

In the meantime, please consider supporting non-profit journalism by following @MSFreePress & by donating: mfp.ms/donate

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BREAKING: Gov. Tate Reeves will sign #SB2536, banning transgender athletes in K-12 and college from playing on teams that correspond to their gender.

A trans man, for example, will have to play on the women's team under the "Mississippi Fairness Act." 1/ mississippifreepress.org/9879/gov-reeve…
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4 Mar
Buckingham Palace will investigate Megan Markle for alleged "bullying," but not a peep about investigating Epstein buddy Prince Andrew for rape.
For context, here's the kind of scandalous behavior Megan Markle's staff has quietly accused her of in the past. ImageImage
She texts us 6 and 7 times a day!

She WRITES HER OWN SPEECHES.

She comes up with her OWN IDEAS for shaping her role.

Why does this American woman bully me so?

I can do this job no longer!
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2 Mar
A chilling warning in Jackson's 3rd week with little running water:

"Parents of children 5 or younger should...(ensure) adequate lead screening or blood testing should be performed."

"Are they telling us that they’re poisoning our children with lead?” mississippifreepress.org/9824/lt-gov-ho…
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, the MS Senate president, on the capital city's water crisis:

"I’ve received no contact from the city at all. No, I have not. Neither the governor nor the city have contacted us at all about any of that.”

It's the third week!
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26 Feb
Look, @Twitter, I know I'm just a Mississippi journalist with only 23.4k followers.

I'll never be as cool or important as a Walmart exec with 8 followers who only opened his account in January, I know.

But today marks three years since you "paused" your verification system.
In the sense of the blue check as a status symbol, I don't care.

But as a journalist who works for a non-profit that depends on the support of small donors, that check helps us grow our following and also demonstrates to newcomers that we're a legit organization.
Also: I've been a journalist for a long time, but because I don't have a blue check, I still have people on Twitter express uncertainty about my own exclusive reporting and wondering why no blue checks have reported it.
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26 Feb
NEW: Historians warn that a Republican bill could "politicize" the Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History board, which has drawn praise for the MS Civil Rights Museum & refusing to sugarcoat history.

The Senate passed it on a party-line vote. #MSLeg 1/
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Under #SB2727, the history board, currently led by Reuben Anderson (the first Black Mississippi Supreme Court justice), would no longer recommend new members for Senate approval.

Instead, the governor and lieutenant governor would appoint its members. 2/ mississippifreepress.org/9679/we-cannot…
46 historians to #MSLeg: “We are asking that you not interfere with the independence of an entity that has done so much good work for our state. To improve (MDAH), what is needed is an increase in funding. Please do not politicize its Board of Trustees.” 3/mississippifreepress.org/9679/we-cannot…
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NEW: As Mississippi passed a bill ending the state income tax today. Rep. Trey Lamar compared it to ending slavery.

“President Lincoln said the right to have a reward for your work was the birthright of every American. That was the main issue of the war.” mississippifreepress.org/9573/as-state-…
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To make up for the loss about about one-third of the state's revenue, the bill raise the general sales tax from 7% to 9.5%. #MSLeg
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This morning, Democratic House Leader Robert Johnson said he hadn't found a "trick" or "trojan horse" in the bill, citing provisions he likes.

It cuts the grocery tax in half, from 7% to 3.5%.

But he voted against the bill this afternoon. mississippifreepress.org/9573/as-state-…
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