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Nov 29

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NEW: The parents of a teen Mississippi rape victim had to travel 500 miles to help their daughter get an abortion in Illinois.

The family told @MeganWestWAPT that they learned their daughter was pregnant three days after the six-week legal limit passed.
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The parents, whom WAPT referred to only as “Jane Doe” and “John Doe,” said they did not know about the Dobbs ruling or that abortion is now illegal in Mississippi until after they sought help for their daughter.
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“I called my OB-GYN, the one who delivered my babies,” the girl's mother tolD WAPT. “... It was the ugliest feeling having to explain to the doctor that delivered your child that she was raped, and then him having to tell you he can’t do anything to help."
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Nov 18

THREAD: Twitter has been vital for state and local journalists like myself.

And I want y'all to understand how much small local, state, nonprofit and independent news outlets stand to lose—and what we all stand to lose—if the Bird App dies. 1/
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I almost turned my back on my calling as a journalist. I wanted to do important, meaningful work in Mississippi, but I had almost given up hope that I could do the kind of journalism I believed in here. 2/
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Then, I met Jackson Free Press editor Donna Ladd (now editor of the Mississippi Free Press) in 2018. With a push from my husband, William Pittman, I took a position at JFP where I finally had the opportunity to do the kind of journalism I believed in. 3/
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Nov 17

https://twitter.com/ticketmaster/status/1593333211769106433

Swifties are about to crank up to Red (Lenin's Version) and bring the proletariat's fury raining down upon the Ticketmaster monopoly.

https://twitter.com/ticketmaster/status/1593333211769106433

Get ready for "Storming of the Bastille (Raging Girl Autumn Version) (Taylor's Version)"

Now trending: #TicketmasterIsOverParty

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Nov 15

https://twitter.com/taniel/status/1592547515727220736

Voters in Mississippi, where hospitals are shutting down due to lack of expansion, would have been able to vote to expand Medicaid last Tuesday.

But two days after the campaign to put it on the ballot began, the MS Supreme Court struck down our entire ballot initiative process.

https://twitter.com/taniel/status/1592547515727220736

May 12, 2021: The Yes on 76 campaign to expand Medicaid is announced in Mississippi, which has the nation's worst health outcomes.
mississippifreepress.org/12117/medicaid…

May 14, 2021: The Mississippi Supreme Court kills the state's ballot initiative process on behalf of a suburban mayor who didn't like that voters had overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana law & sought to have it and the initiative process invalidated.mississippifreepress.org/12260/in-blow-…

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Nov 15

I haven't moved in years. #TheErasTour

Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. #Ticketmaster

But right now, my time is theirs.

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Nov 14

There's something about Mastodon that has this old-timey internet feel to it, if that makes sense.

It reminds me of joining an a forum or community online in the late '90s or early 2000s where you really had to learn the mores and personality of the place.

And I'm not saying I think that's good or bad, really. It's just what it reminds me of.

I think part of it is Mastodon, like the disparate inline communities of yore, still feels like a secret little enclave hidden in the web.

If you're new, it's obvious. On Twitter/FB/Insta etc, no one cares if you're new. It's not like you've stumbled upon some hidden world.

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