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When women do their jobs too well: the problem with taylor swi...headline: Trump unprepared ...
When women think before acting: headline: taylor swift is t...headline: Calculating Clint...headline: calculating Kamal...headline: calculating kamal...
When there's just something about her Imageheadline: i'll say it: eliz...headline: Taylor Swift: why...headline: why is Anne Hatha...
When a woman thinks she's worth more than dirt: headline: Taylor Swift's re...headline: beyoncé's real li...
When a woman insults a beloved man: Liz Warren's feed filled wi...taylor swift's instagram fe...liz warren's head in a snaketaylor swift's head on a snake
When women laugh/when women don't laugh: headline: clinton's phony l...headline: kamala harris' la...headline: the humorless hil...headline: taylor swift coul...
When everyone knows she's lying because reasons: headline: hillary clinton e...headline: when'd you realiz...
When a man is undeniably bad, therefore a woman must be equally bad: headline 2016: the next pre...Image
When a woman told the truth in 2016 and people finally got around to believing her in 2020: 2016 headline: Clinton exag...headline: taylor swift call...2020 headline: hillary clin...2020 headline: Taylor Swift...
When a woman suggests sexism is a problem: headline: no elizabeth warr...headline: just because tayl...headline: not every critiqu...headline: Kamala 2020 crash...
Taylor Swift on not endorsing Hillary: "Would I be an endorsement or would I be a liability? Look, snakes of a feather flock together. Look, the two lying women. The two nasty women. Literally millions were telling me to disappear. So I disappeared."
vogue.com/article/taylor… Vogue screenshot of quoted ...
If she could exonerate herself, why didn’t she? “Here’s why,” she says. “Because when people are in a hate frenzy and they find something to mutually hate together, it bonds them. And anything you say is in an echo chamber of mockery.”
theguardian.com/music/2019/aug…
Speaking of people being bonded in a "hate frenzy" and "anything you say" becoming "an echo chamber of mockery," have you read my thread on Hillary Clinton and hot sauce?
In this thread, I've given you examples of women we all know & the b.s. they deal with—& these are wealthy and powerful women.

But men, these double standards/impossible standards are constantly inflicted on women in your every day life, from family to colleagues. Recognize it.
Don't forget to smile, but don't be smiley! headline: Meghan Markle moc...
Note the confounding factors. You can be a wealthy, powerful white woman and still have to contend with an endless barrage of misogynistic bullshit in your path.

Now think about how much worse it is if you're also disabled. Or Black. Or poor. Or transgender. Recognize that, too.
(I'm not referring to Meghan Markle, who is Black, as a powerful/wealthy "white woman"; I'm referring to others mentioned in the thread, i.e., Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Taylor Swift, et al.)
Anyway, here's a music video on this topic.
Sorry, that Taylor Swift song suffers from "a ridiculous victim mentality," according to one headline.

But when you're a woman who has ever stood up for herself: headline: the ridiculous vi...headline: piers morgan accu...headline: Hillary is playin...headline: debt shouldn't ho...
Two women you should follow who daily work to create a more equitable media landscape: @DonnerKay & @kimberlydgriffi
I'm proud to work for the Mississippi Free Press, a women-founded publication that not only doesn't engage in prevalent media sexism, but instead works to foster a different kind of media environment when it comes to women & gender. Follow @MSFreePress.
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Donna & Kimberly are the co-founders of the Mississippi Free Press; @DonnerKay is editor, @kimberlydgriffi is publisher. I can't tell you how unusual it is to have women found & lead a newsroom in MS—but they did... in March 2020.

Follow @MSFreePress!niemanlab.org/2021/09/the-mi…
An example of @MSFreePress journalism:

Black Noxubee County Women Struggle To Overcome Historic Inequities COVID-19 Exposed by @TorshetaJ
mississippifreepress.org/16665/black-no…
FYI, the Mississippi Free Press is a paywall-free, non-partisan, non-profit news outlet that relies on support from donors of all sizes.

If you'd like to support women-founded/led journalism, you can follow @MSFreePress & donate at mfp.ms/donate.
Another great women-founded/led publication you should follow and support is @damemagazine.
damemagazine.com
As @DonnerKay wrote for @damemagazine about then-NBC Chairman Andy Lack:

"Lack said at a 2017 appearance in Mississippi that the network’s failure wasn’t over-saturation of Trump, but in under-reporting Clinton’s 'unlikeability.'"

I mean... wrong lesson?
damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/the…
If you want to support more women-founded, and specifically more Black women founded newsrooms, start by following @MLK50Memphis, founded by its editor/publisher @wendi_c_thomas.

This is one of the South's most important non-profit newsrooms. mlk50.com/2021/10/14/mlk…
I didn't intend to use this thread to plug the publication I work for (or any others). In fact, it was originally just going to be one tweet. 😅

But I decided that since I wrote all this about media sexism, I should point you to women-led, media forces for good, too. 😌
This was the crux of the criticism of Taylor Swift in that 2014 Vox article:

"Swift was calculated. ... Her hair was freshly cut in a bob and straightened until it barely had any movement. Every word she said was obviously a line that she had written, memorized, and delivered." screenshot of Vox headline:...screenshot from Vox article...
Y'all, look at this. (h/t: @CathyJoeGPT) A newspaper article with a ...

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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dec 12, 2023
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.
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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
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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:
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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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