Kimberly Griffin
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Auntie💚foodie 🥘 MFP publisher 🙌🏾 reader 📚 lover of British mysteries🕵🏾♀️ home cook👩🏽🍳 traveler 🛳 believer 🌟 funny person 😂 My opinions only.
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NEW: As Vice President JD Vance arrives on campus at the University of Mississippi with Turning Point USA, a coalition of progressive student groups is counter-programming his visit with a town hall featuring Gloria Johnson, Ro Khanna, Heidi Heitkamp & more.
@gracemarion.bsky.social reports:
@gracemarion.bsky.social reports:
University of Mississippi Students Plan Event to Counter Vance
A coalition of progressive student groups at the University of Mississippi plans to hold a town hall to counter Vice President JD Vance’s visit.
www.mississippifreepress.org
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Started listening to the Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo and tbh so far it's worse than I thought it would be.
Though Mississippi’s vaccination rates are high among infants and school-age children, “our concern is that adult Mississippians are not maintaining the pertussis immunity, which puts our babies at risk,” says State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney.
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
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NEW: The University of Mississippi has fired employee Lauren Stokes over a post she shared about Charlie Kirk that called him a white supremacist and criticized his support for forcing child and adult rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.
University of Mississippi Fires Employee Over Charlie Kirk Post
The University of Mississippi has fired employee Lauren Stokes for sharing a post on social media that criticized Charlie Kirk’s views after his assassination on Wednesday.
www.mississippifreepress.org
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
www.motherjones.com
Big news for MFP VIPs! A’Lelia Bundles—award-winning journalist and author of On Her Own Ground and Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance—joins us next. We’ll dig into Madam C.J. Walker’s legacy through Bundles’ powerful storytelling. Join today. buff.ly/Izjg7IB
“When I Rose This Morning” lead singer Mama Mosie Burks — a lead vocalist of the Mississippi Mass Choir — has died her family says. She was 92. www.wapt.com/article/mama...
Mama Mosie Burks, a Mississippi Mass Choir legend, dies at 92
Mama Mosie Burks, a gospel pioneer, has died, according to a Facebook post by her daughter.
www.wapt.com
The “no tax on tips” part of the GOP bill is a total joke. It only applies to $25,000, is only for voluntary tips, isn’t received until you file taxes, only explicitly lists food service and beauticians for who gets the deduction, excludes married people filing separately, and expires in 2028.
CNN’s Laura Coates reports that Diddy fans are pouring baby oil on each other outside the court house and shouting “It’s not RICO, it’s FREAKO.”
