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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you didn’t read my popular Democracy essay on whiteness, today is a good day as so many of us are grappling with how to respond to the rapid loss of freedom and decency in our nation.

Finding solutions has much to with facing the constructed use of “whiteness” to divide and conquer us all.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · May 30

DEMOCRACY: “We need to become a powerful majority to turn back bigotry & inhumanity amid this fierce urgency of now—not as a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy & to finally realize the dream of so many who gave their lives to save us,” Donna Ladd writes.

Democracy | ‘Whiteness’ Is an Ancient Con. We Can Defeat It.

We don’t need “a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy,” Donna Ladd writes.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25m

SOLUTIONS: "[T]he newsrooms I direct have rejected sensational, episodic, bleeds-it-leads crime coverage, instead committing to deep solutions reporting on evidence-based violence prevention,” Donna Ladd writes.

A Decade of Reporting on Violence Solutions

Donna Ladd writes about rejecting “sensational, episodic, bleeds-it-leads crime coverage” in favor of solutions.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2h

Wednesday marks one month since a group of football players found Delta State University student Trey Reed hanging in a tree on campus.

Amid swirling rumors, we've published a timeline of the known events surrounding his death and the investigations.

Timeline: Trey Reed's Hanging Death at Delta State University

A timeline of the known events surrounding Delta State University student Trey Reed's hanging death in Cleveland, Mississippi.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 17h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 6h

What, no hiding behind “critics say” or “some say”?

Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 7h

Journalism rule at AP and USA Today, the two places I worked for most of my career: Sources who criticize, praise or speculate need to be named.
AP: www.ap.org/about/news-v...
USAT Network: content-static.usatoday.com/styleguide/U...

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 7h

Source: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

In the wake of Delta gun violence, one of the discussions in this solutions circle will focus on violence prevention: the people will guide the conversation, not us or officials. Please pass the word:

Register: buff.ly/25rfrIC

Email [email protected] with questions. 3/

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 7h

Bravo! Doing this would mean becoming state-controlled media. That is the opposite of journalism.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Preventing violence is about the people together working ahead, not just power and police reacting. See our packed MFP/JFP/YMP Preventing Violence archive below. 2/

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Preventing Violence - Mississippi Free Press

Preventing Violence: An Ongoing Series by the Jackson Free Press

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 18h

No. 3, ha

God @thegodpodcast.com · 18h

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 19h

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 19h

Surgery with hardware in my wrist

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 20h

Urging Trump to send in the National Guard to Black communities is certainly a choice of an immediate response. An offensive one.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 20h

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22h

URGENT: Let's Talk About Violence Prevention in the Delta
After this weekend’s Delta gun violence, we’re hosting a Greenwood Solutions Circle. The community—not officials—will lead. Every Delta resident is welcome to share, listen and help shape a path. Spread the word—solutions start with YOU.

Solutions Circles 2025 flyer for Greenwood, MS. You black male in photo talking to a group.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21h

FBI agents are seeking the public's help identifying four people seen near a mass shooting in a Mississippi Delta town that left six killed and more than a dozen injured over the weekend.

FBI Seeks Help in Leland, Mississippi Mass Shooting

The FBI wants help identifying four people seen near a mass shooting in a Mississippi Delta town that left six killed and more than a dozen injured.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 20h

I still hate the response, dear. It’s disrespectful to the families and victims to immediately lob political quips.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

With no pay during the shutdown, some air traffic controllers are calling in sick so they can take other jobs to cover rent and bills, worsening an already critical shortage and causing major flight delays nationwide.
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How the government shutdown is making the air traffic controller shortage worse and leading to flight delays

Air traffic controllers are considered essential workers and required to work without pay during the shutdown, but there are reports some are calling in sick in greater numbers than usual.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly, clearly the goal

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem stars in partisan video about the shutdown, to be shown in airports

Remember DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stared in taxpayer-financed ads, which resembled political propaganda? Now, there's a sequel, which will air in airports.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Good Lord, I hate this response.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 1d

The 17-year-old son watched as ICE ripped his father from him. “It all felt like a lot to bear,” David told the Youth Media Project. “He’s my role model, my biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot.”

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

“I shouldn’t have to text my parents to tell them I’m safe every time there’s a shooting near my school,” said Eshah Green-Ortega, a volunteer with the Jackson State chapter of Students Demand Action.

Nine Dead, at Least 20 Injured in Shootings Across 5 Mississippi Counties

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

It was a mixture of places, as we reported.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

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Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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