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7 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves confirmed that his state will swiftly move to ban nearly all abortions starting from the moment of conception if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Anyone providing an illegal abortion would face up to 10 years in prison.
mississippifreepress.org/18665/gov-reev…
In 2011, Mississippians rejected a ballot referendum whose sponsors aimed to ban virtually all abortions from the moment of fertilization by a vote of 58%-42%.

But state lawmakers continued to pass abortion bans, including the one before #SCOTUS.
mississippifreepress.org/18093/10-years…
For months, Mississippi abortion-rights organizers, anticipating Roe v. Wade’s downfall, have focused on boosting pre-existing efforts to teach people how to safely perform their own abortions in the absence of legalized clinical care.
mississippifreepress.org/17132/organize…
Gov. Reeves when @jaketapper asked him if he will move to enact the state's 2007 trigger law banning nearly all abortions from the first week of pregnancy:

“Yeah, Jake, that is a yes..."
mississippifreepress.org/18665/gov-reev…
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8 Dec
Just 56% of Mississippians are white.

But white Mississippians make up almost 70% of COVID-19 cases and deaths over the last month (way up from just over 25% in May 2020).

Mississippi is one of the few states where Black vaccination rates exceed white vaccination rates. Chart shows that white peop...
Because of Black pro-vaccination organizing in Mississippi, the state actually boasts one of the most highly vaccinated rural counties in the nation.

87% Black Jefferson County is Mississippi's most vaccinated county despite also being one of its poorest.
mississippifreepress.org/18447/we-can-g…
How did a 87% Black Mississippi county with a nearly 30% poverty rate that ranks near the bottom in health care outcomes rise to become one of America's most vaccinated rural counties?

@nickjudin has the story: mississippifreepress.org/18447/we-can-g…
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8 Dec
NEW: The U.S. should not rule out attacking Russia with ground troops or a nuclear weapons strike, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker said today.

He is the second-highest ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
mississippifreepress.org/18727/sen-wick…
Sen. Roger Wicker: “Military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea, and we rain destruction on Russian military capability.

"... I would not rule out American troops on the ground. We don’t rule out first use nuclear action.”
Sen. Wicker's office did not offer comment on his remarks about ground troops and a nuclear strike on Russia, but an aide did direct this reporter to a separate interview he did with CNN this afternoon for additional context.
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2 Dec
NEW: During oral arguments on abortion, Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Alito implied that overturning Roe v. Wade could be like overturning Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 ruling that said segregation laws did not violate the constitution.
mississippifreepress.org/18565/justices…
Justice Kavanaugh suggested the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade the same way it overturned Plessy and racial segregation in 1954.

He also compared the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade to overturning sodomy laws and same-sex marriage bans.
mississippifreepress.org/18565/justices…
After comparing overturning Roe v. Wade to ending racial segregation, Justice Kavanaugh suggested that abortion should be a "state's rights" issue.

But state's rights arguments were the very ones used in defense of racial segregation.
mississippifreepress.org/18565/justices…
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1 Dec
Six years ago this month, Hillary Clinton tweeted that "A Republican president could nominate as many as 4 Supreme Court justices" & linked a warning that it could lead to the end of Roe v. Wade.

Her replies were filled with left-wingers accusing her of "fear mongering." screenshot tweet directed a...screenshot of December 2015...
For months, Mississippi abortion-rights organizers, anticipating Roe v. Wade’s downfall, have focused on boosting pre-existing efforts to teach people how to self-manage or perform their own abortions.
mississippifreepress.org/17132/organize…
The point of these tweets isn't to relitigate the 2016 primaries.

But when a woman was right about something, and mocked and ridiculed for it and not believed at the time, we ought to all be willing to admit that moving forward.
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1 Dec
NEW: Anti-abortion activists waved pink flags with “JESUS” emblazoned in white outside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic this morning even as state attorneys in Washington, D.C., urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. #SCOTUS
mississippifreepress.org/18536/america-…
Justice Sotomayor: "The (Mississippi 15-week abortion ban) Senate sponsor said we’re doing it because we had different new justices on the Supreme Court. … If people believe it’s all political, how will we survive? How will the court survive?”
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In 2019, Mississippi State Sen. Joey Fillingane, a sponsor of the 15-week abortion ban, told me that Trump’s 2018 appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court meant that “now would be a good time to start testing the limits of Roe.”
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19 Nov
Jackson Public Schools announced that six schools are going ALL VIRTUAL this morning—but NOT because of COVID.

They're going all virtual because they lack running water.

Jackson, Mississippi, folks. A capital city in the richest nation on earth.
This marks the second day in a row that these six Jackson Public Schools have had to go all-virtual.

For background on the ongoing Jackson water crisis, start here: mississippifreepress.org/10153/under-th…
Here's the second part of @NickJudin's three-part series on the Jackson water crisis (follow him). mississippifreepress.org/10682/under-th…
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