The Mississippi gov again declared Confederate Heritage Month. He doesn't post the proclamation for the public to see.
The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans takes care of that.
@mississippifreepress.org finds it every year.
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A bunch of mailers for the redistricting referendum in Virginia
So so SO many mailers for the Virginia redistricting referendum today!
Between that and a crazy number of texts it is basically impossible to escape.
They aren’t really targeted either. I’ve gotten a ton of it from both sides.
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ICE got blocked in Maryland over failure to comply with NEPA.
Item #2 on the request for contractors:
"Site planning and environmental planning assessment to support ICE compliance with National Environmental Policy Act and other Federal and State Environmental requirements."
It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP.
ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate
Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data
They describe over-dx as including cases that are only “mildly impairing.”
How pathologizing and short-sighted.
Understanding one’s strengths, mild or otherwise, is just as important.
"It is unclear if Amentum Services has any experience operating an ICE immigration detention site."
National Guard troops at the polls? Congress wants to know.
"The National Guard’s top general told Congress on Friday that it would follow the Constitution and the law"
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nati...
In Mississippi, a remarkable grassroots effort is trying to help people keep their water service turned on.
Life After Cars offers "an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. Just close your eyes and think for a second what it would feel like to never have to think about how much gas costs again."
>>The contracts for running the Michigan detention center to house immigrants through the end of April are worth $77 million
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Caption from Seattle Times: A narwhal swims near the sea ice edge on Inglefield Fjord, near Qeqertarsuaq Island, outside the village of Qaanaaq, Greenland. (Kiliii Yüyan, 2023) Photo shows tail of narwhal diving in an open stretch of water.
Today, I am fully up for being charmed by this.
"We had sung to the whales, and they had remembered."
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Wow Kansas City eliminated parking minimums!!
Nathan Hansen, the newest immigration judge at Fort Snelling, has a long history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories online.
Another Democrat making an unannounced visit, this one in Minnesota. A lot of these in the news this week.
After a wrongful conviction,
"Calvin Duncan rebuilt his life, in part by running for and winning the clerk’s office. But Louisiana Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted to scrap Duncan’s new job...."
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OPINION: "The forum also brought numerous members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus to Gloster, signaling the statewide significance of these local concerns," Kevin Enos Brown writes.
Amazon Web Services is expanding its Mississippi data centers in Ridgeland and Clinton, with $13 billion in investments. Gov. Tate Reeves calls it a “blueprint” for other states to follow.
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And in Maryland:
>>His legal team says he suffered bruising and abrasions to his face, forehead, hands, abdomen and shoulder, along with an ACL sprain requiring orthopedic follow-up within two to three weeks. Some of his wounds remain open, they said.
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And in Florida:
>>Rep. Wasserman Schultz said she discovered needlessly inhumane conditions, including 32 men housed in each cage, minimal food, and a persistent odor of urine.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/09/i...
And in Indiana:
>>When asked whether detainees who died had received adequate medical care, Rep. Carson responded: “Apparently not.”
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Happy to see there's at least one Godspeed You! Black Emperor entry in the batch.
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Previously, on a visit with 7 days' notice, Reps
Stanton and Ansari found "one of the few times the facility had been under capacity in more than a month."
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Surprise, surprise, surprise: An unannounced visit to an Arizona ICE facility finds overcrowding.
Rep. Stanton: “What we saw tonight inside the facility was shocking."
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"It’s very unclear why the government is investing so many resources to fight this family.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
There are probably better ways to do this, but traffic death data shows a pretty clear shift for the Ford F-350 from when it used to be primarily categorized as a light truck to the last two decades where it is predominantly a large truck (weight rating over 10k pounds) www.datawrapper.de/_/lnRsU/
You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.
