Daniel Feldman: Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

"The rabbit's got the gun now" is an interesting metaphor to use when you represent the most powerful person in the state

It's also something said when a hunting buddy did something stupid and shot himself in the foot.

From last week: bsky.app/profile/torr...

“Mississippi Opens the Playbook for Dismantling a Free Press - A former governor is using the courts to stifle local reporting. If he prevails, it will hurt press freedom nationwide, Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today’s editor in chief, writes.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...

Opinion | Mississippi Opens the Playbook for Dismantling a Free Presswww.nytimes.com A politician’s defamation case against a small Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization is designed to drain its financial resources.

I think we should follow European football & adopt promotion/relegation with regard to states. Every census we review quality of life metrics & the 3 worst states get relegated & the 3 best territories get promoted. Mississippi is always in the relegation zone.

Sounds like a bad deal for the most vulnerable people who live in Mississippi.

Unless relegated means forcible removal of people in power

Had to look it up for myself, and it doesn't imply a forcible removal of people in power. I'm a Mississippian at heart (now Bay Area transplant), and while I still love the friends and even the places to a degree, I refuse to ever move back until things truly change.

what, exactly, do you think should happen to the people who live there

It’s a joke, but to play it out, people’s lives would be better. They’d get improved schools, health care, housing, social services in an effort to stay up. When clubs are relegated or heading toward it, the manager is usually fired, so the gov and legislative leadership are the ones displaced.

But who am I kidding, Republicans and the Supreme Court will rule that the quality of life criteria have to be the most guns per capita and lowest taxes on rich people.

It’s always cheerful to hear that the state with the highest percentage of Black folks is so easily disregarded. The MS Free Press has an amazing series about voter suppression and the actual obstacles we in MS face to change our circumstances.

Best states gain a senator, worse states lose a senator, and it’s 5.

Puerto Rico, welcome to America. Mississippi, you’re out

Fuck Brett Favre.

It would be nice if the DoJ took a side on this. These reporters were investigating the theft of federal funds.

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR INFINITE PRESIDENT, THE MAN WITH INFINITE LEGAL POWERS.

Have her run for President and she'll be immune

Wait until you see what the GOP thugs will do with Social Security and Medicare.

Brett Farve also knows all about welfare. He still owes Mississippi $700,000 www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Brett Favre Still Owes Mississippi Over $700,000 In Misspent Welfare Money, Auditor Allegeswww.forbes.com Favre was accused of receiving $1.1 million in funds designated for welfare recipients as payment for speaking engagements he never made, provoking him to sue the auditor for defamation.

Mississippi is equivalent to a 3rd world country. That needs to change

It's not though. It's still a US state and has massive resources, more than nearly any country in the world. They just choose to use that power to punish black people rather than building a better life for everyone.

Absolutely, but isn't the result similar to 3rd world nations? Just that it was intentional instead of lack of resources

I think it's very hard to compare, because if someone is having a hard time in Mississippi, and is lucky enough to be able to leave, they just leave The stats we have are on the people who stay (either because they're rich, or so poor they can't leave)

Countries are more like closed boxes (only a very tiny percentage of people get to emigrate)

You're right, immigration and moving to another State, Province or city is a lot harder.

Too poor to move is simply very unfair. I've never been that poor, but I can understand not having options in life is painful. It boils me up that some Politicians intentionally pass on these hardships onto those already suffering.

Many third world country citizens live in better conditions than the good people of Mississippi.

Possible, but some even worse as well. There is a lot of Corruption to go around that needs to end.

Yeah. Fuck the South. Period. End of sentence.

People who did not agree to be treated like this live there and have no vote. Dismissing the entire region for the acts of the fascists in power and the corruption that keeps them there is just as wrong as the acts that keep them powerless.

For what it’s worth, I really dislike it when people do that shit. Writing off parts of the country for having corrupt leaders doesn’t help anyone living in those places. It’s just a way for people who don’t live there to pat themselves on the back.

Agreed! Considering how many former blue states now have book bans or captured state governments, they should see misjustice against a southern state as a threat to their own freedoms!

I think people want to believe that what is happening other places can’t happen where they live, which is understandable. But then it can morph into “but it isn’t happening here and it is happening there so we must be special.” And that’s not it.

No

Your opinion is not only unethical, it's unjustified and without merit. Thank you for making it easy to mute you.

Delete your account

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Sorry, delete your account. Period.

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Fuck the south is a dumb thing to post, and you should feel bad about posting it. Period.

Shithole state that will be under the Atlantic Ocean shortly. Sorry folks, I’m not mean. I’m a scientist. The southern states and parts of California were ocean before the great ice age. Y’all had 500,000 years to plan for this.

Funny how you think fascism stays in a particular geographic region!

How has that worked out historically? If only there was a way to find out …

Funny How you got fascism out of an environmental statement??

Funny how you don't see that they are inexplicably intertwined?

*Inexorably Thanks autocorrect They are quite explicitly intertwined. See ExxonMobil cozying up to the evangelical "green stewards" movement in the 70s and 80s which fed into the religious far right which fed into where we are right now, amidst and self-inflicted environmental apocalypse.

Sounds about right wth Has happened to people

Welcome to Republican utopia. Everyone expected the Republican inquisition btw.

'Murica

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