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Aug 3 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
In 2011, 58% of Mississippians voted AGAINST adopting a total abortion ban by rejecting the Personhood Amendment.

Then, the Mississippi Legislature spent the next decade passing abortion bans until they finally got one to the Supreme Court and overturned Roe v. Wade. #Kansas
Around ~170 Republican members of Congress currently sponsor a national "Life At Conception Act" like the 2011 Personhood Amendment Mississippians rejected.

It would grant fetuses and fertilized eggs 14th Amendment rights. #Kansas
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After Mississippi Killed Roe v. Wade, Kansas Voters Choose Abortion Rights
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Aug 4
NEW: Watching Kansas voters reject an anti-abortion amendment by a 59%-41% margin is reminding a lot of people of 2011, when Mississippi voters rejected the anti-abortion Personhood Amendment in a 58%-42% rout.

But that didn't stop anti-abortion lawmakers.mississippifreepress.org/26170/after-mi…
“Them losing Kansas is a lot like them losing Mississippi,” says Laurie Bertram Roberts. “... Abortion is not a losing issue. Abortion rights are not a losing issue.”
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“There’s a lot of people who are like, This is so amazing and this is so shocking, it’s not shocking to me. These ballot initiatives have failed every single time. ... This is a losing gambit for them every single time. They lose,” Roberts said.mississippifreepress.org/26170/after-mi…
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Aug 4
Just unlocked a memory from when I was a right-wing teenager.

In 2008, someone told me Apple had stopped advertising on Fox News.

So I angrily emailed a screed to Steve Jobs.

He sent a one-sentence reply: "We've never advertised on Fox News. - Sent From My iPhone."

😭😐💀
To be clear, I never, ever expected to get a reply from Steve Jobs. I thought the email would just go out into the ether but make me feel better.

I was so horrified when I realized he's read it, seen my ignorance & responded that I shut that memory away & never told anyone.
2008 was, incidentally, the year I got my first Mac (and I never looked back).

But damn, I was so embarrassed my brain has been hiding that memory for 14 years. 😭
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Aug 3
In 2011, Mississippi voted against an extreme abortion ban, while electing a Republican State House majority for the first time in a century.

In 2020, MS voted for medical marijuana by ballot initiative, but the MS Supreme Court they elected killed it & ended ballot initiatives.
If the Mississippi Supreme Court had not killed ballot initiatives, voters would likely be voting on ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid and to add early voting options this year.

Polls showed a majority of voters supported both.
Here's the story behind the death of Mississippi's ballot initiative process, which happened following several progressive victories by ballot initiative and just as several more progressive ballot initiatives efforts were getting started: mississippifreepress.org/12703/democrac…
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Jul 29
NEW: Gov. Tate Reeves says attorney Brad Pigott was too "focused on the political side of things" as he probed how millions in welfare funds went to wealthy people like Brett Favre and their pet projects.

Reeves was involved in the decision to fire Pigott.mississippifreepress.org/26083/gov-reev…
Explaining the decision to fire Pigott, Gov. Tate Reeves said the State does not “need a lawyer focused on trying to be a confidential informant or a source for a left-wing blog,” apparently referring to Mississippi Today (which is not a blog).
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Before his firing, Pigott issued a subpoena for communications former involving former Gov. Phil Bryant in his quest to understand how $5 million in TANF welfare funds were used to build a fancy volleyball stadium that Bryant's friend, Brett Favre, wanted.mississippifreepress.org/26035/ex-gov-p…
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Jul 28
NEW: Former Gov. Phil Bryant is the target of a subpoena for information on how $5 million in TANF welfare funds that should've gone to Mississippi's poorest were instead used to build a fancy volleyball stadium that Bryant's friend, Brett Favre, wanted.
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The law prohibits TANF grants from being used for "brick and mortar" construction.

In a plea deal, non-profit operator Zach New said that he, his mother Nancy New, and the DHS director "disguised" the volleyball stadium as a lease to circumvent the law.
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In a 2018 text message, Brett Favre allegedly told an acquaintance that Nancy New “has strong connections and gave me 5 million for Vball facility via grant money.”

Favre separately received $1.1 million in misspent TANF funds from New's non-profit.
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Jul 26
When University of Mississippi senior Jimmie “Jay” Lee didn’t show up for a baby-formula donation drive he had arranged for Friday, July 8, 2022, his friends and family knew something was wrong.

Now, police are searching for his body. From @gracemarion928:mississippifreepress.org/25993/um-stude…
Police arrested Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., 22, and charged him with murder on Friday, July 22, an Oxford Police Department press release announced that evening. “Law enforcement agencies are still working to locate Lee’s body,” the press release said.
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Jimmie “Jay” Lee, a 20-year-old social-work student at the University of Mississippi, was a familiar face to many in Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community. He performed as a drag queen at Code Pink.

This was Lee performing on March 24, 2022. Photo by Grace Marion.
mississippifreepress.org/25993/um-stude… a photo of Jay Lee wearing a red sequined dress and performi
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