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2024-08-12 23:43:41

Though she showed up pregnant, bleeding and in pain, emergency room doctors in Texas turned Kyleigh Thurman away, handing her a pamphlet on miscarriage and telling her to “let nature take its course.”
Three days later, the ER finally admitted her. But it was too late; her fallopian tube had already ruptured.
There are at least 100 others like her.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/over-100-pregnant-women-some-bleeding-or-in-labor-turned-away-from-emergency-rooms-since-dobbs-ruling/

2023-08-12 02:53:41

The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected Brett Favre's request to remove him from the State's civil lawsuit demanding $5 million over welfare funds spent on a volleyball stadium at his alma mater and $1.7 million on a drug company he was invested in.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35440/brett-favre-will-remain-a-defendant-in-welfare-lawsuit-mississippi-supreme-court-rules

2023-08-04 23:29:58

This really sums up white supremacy:
Delegate J.H. McGehee vowed at Mississippi's 1890 Constitutional Convention to strip voting rights from Black residents “even if it does sacrifice some of my white children, or my white neighbors or their children.”
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35243/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules

2023-08-04 18:47:34

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2023-08-04 18:20:23

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit just STRUCK DOWN Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes—a Jim Crow-era law designed to target Black voters.
It disenfranchises more people than made the difference in the 2019 governor's race.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35243/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules