Bridget Smith Pieschel

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

Publisher’s Note | ‘A Wild Ride’: The Story of Starting, Growing and Passing the MFP Torch MFP Publisher Kimberly Griffin announces her planned departure from her role next year and looks back with pride on what she helped build.

Friends, Kimberly Griffin—one of the two women who co-founded the Mississippi Free Press in 2020—is leaving her role as publisher.

We will miss her tremendously, but we understand her decision and we are eternally grateful for what @kimberlygriffin.bsky.social built here.

She is one of my heroes!!!!

I can’t believe that you have waited so long for this recognition. I heard that this art is the prototype for the bronze statue.

📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:

1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)

2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

Join us tomorrow on December 5th at noon until 1 pm to support Ukraine, our ally, and to support our Senator Roger Wicker in his efforts to examine the lawfullness of the bombing of foreign boats on the high seas. Support public education. Support a cause you believe in. We have a voice. Speak up.

In Mississippi the cashiers are making a little over $7 an hour. Too little.

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Today’s soup made from the turkey stock frozen on Thanksgiving Day. A++

Please do not run as a Republican.

Thank you for an amazing #GivingNewsDay with a steady roll of doubled donations all day yesterday! The next $5,000 in donations starting today are TRIPLED! 💜🎄🥂

📚 🦸🏻‍♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”

Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.

Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Y’all, this thread melts my retired English teacher heart. 😂😂😂

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A mix of people lined up in folding chairs in a circle in a community center in Greenwood, Mississippi

One of the solution circles’ small groups focused on preventing gun violence in Greenwood, Mississippi. Six people pictured.

A Black man standing under a basketball hoop next to a large list of potential solutions to gun violence on an easel as he talks about them to the full solution circle group

A black woman in a jacket and nip cap going through solution circles outcomes possible solution on an easel next to her

The Greenwood 2 Solutions Circle last night in Mississippi Delta was intense, honest and solutions-driven. Gun violence, in particular, is a very serious issue there, even by Mississippi’s low gun-loving standards, with few real organized solutions. The community wants to organize to change that.

Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.

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Fairhope Public Library accepts donations to cover withheld state… The Fairhope Public Library was presented with over $42,000 in donations from EveryLibrary during its regular meeting Monday. The funds were raised after…

Alabama officials cut off funding for a public library that refused to bar access to the "The Handmaid's Tale" and other books they deemed sexually explicit to anyone under 18.

Thankfully, @everylibrary.bsky.social has stepped up to provide funding to allow the library to remain open for now.

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

An incredible takedown of AMERICAN CANTO by @scaachi.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2025...

We can win in the next round of elections. People are fed up.

Kamesha Mumford Wins Mississippi Senate District 26 Runoff, Filling Seat John Horhn Vacated Kamesha Mumford, a municipal court judge, won the Mississippi Senate District 26 special runoff election in Hinds and Madison counties.

Kamesha Mumford will be the new senator for Mississippi Senate District 26 after a special election runoff on Tuesday. Though the special election was nonpartisan, she is expected to serve as a Democrat in the Senate.

John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.

Dems can win the midterms and the presidency. Thank you for showing us this is possible! Thank you for running an amazing race!

My priest and I were talking about Revelation on Monday. I said I always thought that it’s something between a nightmare and a hallucination. He said, “yeah. An acid trip.” He has an excellent point.

Christian singers caught in deportation net, one branded ‘worst of worst’ Delmar Gomez (left) and Eber Gomez. (Courtesy of Gomez family) This story was originally published by The Institute for Public Service Reporting.  On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Go…

The Guatemalan brothers — both longtime Memphians — are known in national Pentecostal Christian circles as well-traveled worship singers, performing at churches from New York to Florida. Read more here👇

I guarantee the amount they give to orphans and refugees is $0.

Amen. Thank you.

What a lovely idea. I recommend a mental health routine that I benefit from. I pour my glass of wine. While seated in the dark in our dining room, and I light the Advent I candle, my prayer is “All things shall be well.” I love that your wife understands Advent so well.

She was a loyal friend who loved unconditionally. May we all rise to her ethical level. She rests in peace.

Me too.