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27 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Since Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves left for his trips to Aspen & Orlando over a week ago:

COVID-19 Case Avg ⬆️ 96%
Hospitalizations ⬆️ 89%
ICU & Ventilator Patients ⬆️ 78%
LTC Outbreaks ⬆️ 103%

Delta is flooding MS ICUs. Kids are back in school. Gov. Reeves is still in Orlando.
When I reported last Friday that Gov. Reeves was MIA all week as COVID surged back to January levels, I didn't realize he'd still be in Florida four days later.

He was talking to GOP voters in Florida about "responsibility" on Thursday.
mississippifreepress.org/14010/as-covid…
When Mississippi identified its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020, Gov. Tate Reeves was also away; he was in Spain for his daughter's sport competition.

He returned several days after the MS Department of Health announced our first known COVID-19 cases.
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/mar/…
As COVID-19 cases were breaking out in schools last August, Gov. Reeves was campaigning for a Republican candidate in North Carolina.

But at least then, he mandated masks in school. He says he won't this year—even as kids appear more susceptible to Delta. mississippifreepress.org/5432/7429-miss…

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27 Jul
NEW: President Biden says Congress should honor Bob Moses by passing a new voting rights act "to continue his unfinished work."

Bob Moses worked to register Black voters in Jim Crow Mississippi & was the architect of Freedom Summer 1964. He died Sunday. mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…
“From the polling stations of Mississippi and in classrooms of our nation, Bob always showed up and never, ever gave in.

“In his memory, let us continue his unfinished work," says @POTUS.

Voting rights bills are stuck in the Senate due to the filibuster. mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…
"With attacks on the right to vote unseen since the days of the Jim Crow system Bob helped to dismantle, I call on Congress again to pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act," says @POTUS.
mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…
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25 Jul
"I was taught about the denial of the right to vote behind the Iron Curtain in Europe; I never knew that there was denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States."
—Robert Moses, who set out to destroy Mississippi's cotton curtain (1935-2021) Image
From SNCC Digital:

"'The sits-in woke me up,' recalled Harlem, New York-native Bob Moses, discussing how his involvement with southern struggle began. When he first arrived in Mississippi in the summer of 1960, there was no student movement in the state."
snccdigital.org/people/bob-mos…
📸: Robert Moses at the training for Freedom Summer volunteers, 1964. Photo by Steve Schapiro/Zinn Education Project
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22 Jul
NEWS: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch just asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying it recognizes "a right that has no basis in the Constitution."

“The stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming," she said.
mississippifreepress.org/13989/mississi…
Fitch: “By returning the matter of abortion policy to state legislatures, we allow a stunted debate on how we support women to flourish. It is time for the Court to let go of its hold on this important debate.” mississippifreepress.org/13989/mississi…
Fitch: “There are those who would like to believe that Roe v. Wade settled the issue of abortion once and for all. ... The national fever on abortion can break only when this court returns abortion policy to the states..." mississippifreepress.org/13989/mississi…
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20 Jul
NEW: The Mississippi Lottery raised $59 million for public school education during its first fiscal year.

While that money will help fund pre-K and school supplies programs, it won't reduce the state's $272 million education funding gap. Here's why.
mississippifreepress.org/13923/lottery-…
The education dollars from lottery revenues are “outside MAEP,” the state's school funding program, @ParentsCampaign's Nancy Loome said.

Still, "you can’t minimize” what pre-K funds and money to help teachers afford classroom supplies will mean, she said. mississippifreepress.org/13923/lottery-…
“It’s very helpful for teachers to not have to pay for school supplies out of their pocket, which is happening now in many cases because schools are so underfunded that they are limited in the school supplies that the schools can afford to supply."
mississippifreepress.org/13923/lottery-…
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20 Jul
It's about damn time.

Sean Hannity is an awful person. But whether he did this because he's worried about losing money in stocks or because he realizes it's not good for business if his audience dies... this is good.

Some people who would've died will probably live bc of this.
And that should tell you how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if Fox News handn't pushed disinformation on COVID and masks and vaccines since March 2020 to promote a political agenda and keep viewers riled up and outraged for ratings and $$$.
Yes, I know Sean Hannity said stupid stuff before and after this clip. He's Sean Hannity. That's a given.

But he has millions of loyal viewers/listeners. It's almost 100% some will change their minds after hearing this one part where he urged them to get vaccinated.m
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20 Jul
NEW: Hattiesburg was struggling to convince more residents to vaccinate.

On July 9, local health leaders announced $15,000 in cash prizes exclusively for people who get vaccinated by Aug. 8.

Vaccinations there just had their best 10-day period in months. mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“For so long last year we waited. We sacrificed collectively, individually, through social-distancing measures & mask requirements. ... While early vaccination numbers were encouraging, we have ... come to a standstill," Mayor Barker said on July 9.
mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
The week after Hattiesburg announced $15,000 in vaccine giveaways, the number of people receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine was up week-over-week by:

-49% in Lamar County
-35% in Forrest County

Statewide, vaccinations were up only 18% as Delta surged.mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
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