BREAKING from @DonnerKay: A year after Mississippi changed our state flag, a Confederate group is celebrating after Gov. Tate Reeves once again declared April as "Confederate Heritage Month."
“Darn’ tootin’ it is!" a Sons of Confederate Vets wrote posted alongside a copy of Gov. Reeves' proclamation. “It’s official-April is Confederate Heritage and History Month in our state of Mississippi and we observe it with pride!"
As Gov. Tate Reeves signed the bill retiring Mississippi's Confederate-themed state flag last summer, he acknowledged "the pain that some of our neighbors felt when they looked at our flag."
Gov. Reeves last year: “It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind." mississippifreepress.org/11224/darn-too…
Gov. Reeves (cont): “I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history—north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans. I reject the chaos and lawlessness, and I am proud it has not happened in our state.” mississippifreepress.org/11224/darn-too…
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I feel it necessary at this point to note that 73% of Mississippians voted to adopt our new state flag in November (keeping the old Confederate-themed flag wasn't an option, but some supporters of it hoped to prevent the adoption of a new one at all). mississippifreepress.org/6731/mississip…
Also: Gov. Reeves did NOT make this Confederate Heritage Month proclamation public.
We only know about it because the neo-Confederate organization who yearly asks for the proclamation posted a copy of it on FB. mississippifreepress.org/11224/darn-too…
Be sure to follow @DonnerKay who has been reporting on these proclamations since 2016:
On a separate note, Mississippi avoided an NCAA boycott last year after changing the state flag...then dove head first into another one by passing a law practically banning transgender athletes from high school and college sports.
NEW: On his FB campaign page at 11:15 a.m., Rep. Palazzo accused Biden of emptying out migrant detention facilities.
On his FB public figure page 58 minutes later, Rep. Palazzo accused Biden of cramming children into crowded migrant detention facilities. mississippifreepress.org/11328/palazzo-…
Candidate Palazzo, 11:15 a.m.:
"Joe Biden has spent $87 million to put illegal immigrants up in hotels, rather than place them in virtually empty detention centers that taxpayers already fund." 2/ mississippifreepress.org/11328/palazzo-…
Rep. Palazzo, 12:13 a.m.:
"I’m horrified by what my colleagues witnessed at the border. As a father, the conditions these children are subjected to break my heart...I’m calling on Biden to fix the crisis he created.” [posted w/pic in crowded facility] 3/ mississippifreepress.org/11328/palazzo-…
NEW: There is NO EVIDENCE that a COVID-19 vaccine caused a Mississippi man to suffer a stroke.
A flurry of news reports emerged based on his aunt's speculation that "he took that J & J vaccine and that, to me, is what caused his stroke" 3 hours later. mississippifreepress.org/11314/no-evide…
MSDH: “It is important to note that strokes are not associated with this vaccine—instead, a rare clotting syndrome has been identified. Further, adverse reactions have been cited between six and 13 days after the vaccine was administered." mississippifreepress.org/11314/no-evide…
The early reports suggesting that a J&J vaccine triggered Brad Malagarie's stroke didn't cite any medical experts, quoting only his aunt's speculation. She isn't a physician.
Rep. Steven Palazzo is currently under a U.S. House ethics investigation for allegedly using campaign funds to designate a family home as a "campaign HQ" (but not using it as such).
BREAKING: The NCAA is considering banning all sports championships in Mississippi after Gov. Tate Reeves signed an anti-trans bill into law that targets transgender teen and young adult athletes.
Mississippi narrowly avoided an NCAA ban last year when lawmakers retired the Confederate-themed state flag after the NCAA and other sports orgs threatened a boycott otherwise.
@yaf And it's also not wrong. It's actual history.
Also actual history: @YAF was founded by William F. Buckley.
Buckley defended Jim Crow laws, saying the "white community" is "entitled" to take steps to ensure it "prevails politically" because "it is the advanced race.”
@yaf Literally founded in William F. Buckley's home in 1960—3 years after he wrote his 1957 pro-Jim Crow editorial.
@yaf To be clear, Young Americans Foundation is an offshoot of Young Americans for Freedom. Their lineage is the same. yaf.org/about/history/
NEW: After nationwide backlash for warning against registering "woke" and "uninformed" college students to vote, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson is saying he regrets not wording his remarks better.
“It does all Mississippians a disservice to discount the intelligence of our young people,” @MSVotes said after Secretary of State Michael Watson warned against too many “woke” and “uninformed” college students registering to vote. 3/ mississippifreepress.org/11009/mississi…