Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women.
Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.
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Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
“Alcorn,” like “Y’allcorn,” @nbcnews.com.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Alcorn,” like “Y’allcorn,” @nbcnews.com.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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OPINION: "As a white woman who openly rejects the worst of Mississippi, I am blessed to have siblings, nieces and nephews I can gather with who do not bring hate to the dinner table," Donna Ladd writes.
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Editor’s Note | What I’m Thankful for in 2025: The Rough Cut
Donna Ladd writes that 2025 has been a good year. Despite the ongoing challenges, there is plenty to be thankful for.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OPINION: "As a white woman who openly rejects the worst of Mississippi, I am blessed to have siblings, nieces and nephews I can gather with who do not bring hate to the dinner table," Donna Ladd writes.
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"The contention 'Me Too went too far' is not exactly bearing up under scrutiny. Rather, a year after Donald Trump’s reelection, we are beset by daily reminders of why Me Too, and feminism more broadly, came to exist in the first place."
Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"The contention 'Me Too went too far' is not exactly bearing up under scrutiny. Rather, a year after Donald Trump’s reelection, we are beset by daily reminders of why Me Too, and feminism more broadly, came to exist in the first place."
I’m so grateful for our readers—and our @mississippifreepress.org team. Watching them work in sync all of yesterday, including to get runoff candidate info out for next week’s elections by end of the day warmed my heart. Thank you for supporting our shared journalism vision. Happy Thanksgiving. 🍁 💜
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I’m so grateful for our readers—and our @mississippifreepress.org team. Watching them work in sync all of yesterday, including to get runoff candidate info out for next week’s elections by end of the day warmed my heart. Thank you for supporting our shared journalism vision. Happy Thanksgiving. 🍁 💜
My latest …
OPINION: "As a white woman who openly rejects the worst of Mississippi, I am blessed to have siblings, nieces and nephews I can gather with who do not bring hate to the dinner table," Donna Ladd writes.
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Editor’s Note | What I’m Thankful for in 2025: The Rough Cut
Donna Ladd writes that 2025 has been a good year. Despite the ongoing challenges, there is plenty to be thankful for.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My latest …
A good one, but true. 💜 we don’t think or play small for the people of Mississippi.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A good one, but true. 💜 we don’t think or play small for the people of Mississippi.
Please give at MFP.ms/donate to help us keep growing and setting an example for other journalism in Mississippi and beyond as we’ve done for 23 years now.
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That is: truth.
We prefer blunt headlines over mealy-mouthed "he-said-they-said."
Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
That is: truth.
Never.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Never.
Fascinating
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
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![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fascinating
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"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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This makes my blood run cold. I reported on the devastation of Katrina from the middle of destroyed rubble and people begging for FEMA help: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This makes my blood run cold. I reported on the devastation of Katrina from the middle of destroyed rubble and people begging for FEMA help: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
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“It’s going to be a reverent sacred site. ... We hope to include as many voices in that process on how to take something where something so awful took place and turn it into a place with high reverence," says Emmett Till Interpretive Center Executive Director Patrick Weems.
Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“It’s going to be a reverent sacred site. ... We hope to include as many voices in that process on how to take something where something so awful took place and turn it into a place with high reverence," says Emmett Till Interpretive Center Executive Director Patrick Weems.
Something I’ve done approaching two decades with Free Press creative director @wyldkyss.bsky.social is send her a really bad sketch of my ideas, and she rapidly translates my brain into amazing visuals. Blessed to have her as a creative partner and translator. Just now:
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Something I’ve done approaching two decades with Free Press creative director @wyldkyss.bsky.social is send her a really bad sketch of my ideas, and she rapidly translates my brain into amazing visuals. Blessed to have her as a creative partner and translator. Just now:
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The Mississippi Free Press is hosting a solutions circle in Greenwood on Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more information, email [email protected] or visit mfp.ms/circlesreg.
Mississippi Free Press Solutions Circles - Greenwood 2
We are inviting Mississippians to come together across racial and generational divides to discourse around issues that affect all of us.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Mississippi Free Press is hosting a solutions circle in Greenwood on Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more information, email [email protected] or visit mfp.ms/circlesreg.
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Independent Journalism brings out the best! 🏆
This story deserves good writing. Here is it from reporter Jaylin Smith, our reporter who grew up nearby in the Delta.
“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Independent Journalism brings out the best! 🏆
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Mississippi deserves the full story.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Mississippi deserves the full story.
Not spin.
Not shortcuts.
Not half-truths.
We ARE Mississippi Free Press, and we report with depth, accuracy and accountability across all 82 counties.
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Not spin.
Not shortcuts.
Not half-truths.
We ARE Mississippi Free Press, and we report with depth, accuracy and accountability across all 82 counties.
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This story deserves good writing. Here is it from reporter Jaylin Smith, our reporter who grew up nearby in the Delta.
“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This story deserves good writing. Here is it from reporter Jaylin Smith, our reporter who grew up nearby in the Delta.
We’ve proved this over and over and over again over 23 years. Party doesn’t trump truth.
Accountability is not optional here.
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Your support helps us hold leaders, systems and institutions to the truth.
We don’t play favorites. We follow facts.
Help us keep the record straight.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We’ve proved this over and over and over again over 23 years. Party doesn’t trump truth.
Discovered in the middle of the night that #CappBob prefers the hall in our current house to the tiny one we used to hunker down in during tornado warnings.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Discovered in the middle of the night that #CappBob prefers the hall in our current house to the tiny one we used to hunker down in during tornado warnings.
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Even Rod Dreher, who attended JD Vance’s baptism, is skeptical of the “Department of War’s” statement regarding Senator Mark Kelly. 1/ x.com/roddreher/st...
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tornado warning in the hall with Todd and the critters;catching up on news.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Tornado warning in the hall with Todd and the critters;catching up on news.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.