AAN is closely following the proposed California Journalism Preservation Act, as well as Google’s April 12 announcement that it would begin restricting news links for a limited number of California users as a “test” for a possible solution. Read more at bit.ly/3UajBid.

Happy to be in Miami representing AAN at the #knightmediaforum for 2024.

Let’s say you’re the governor of Mississippi and you won’t extend Medicaid so it’s a way to, er, own the Libs. Or maybe you can’t think for yourself. Dunno. Will Mississippi hold you accountable when they no longer have hospitals? I guess we’ll find out.

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Kimberly Griffin from ⁦Mississippi Free Press⁩ repping the South as emcee if the #innys2023 awards.

At ONA Annual Conference Robert Moore, founder and CEO of El Paso Matters says if you hear things like “war zone” or “invasion” in the debate tonight, “It’s bullshit.” He says El Paso has challenges, but we have to be really careful to tell those stories accurately.

elpasomatters.org

Breaking: It turns out that Hunter Biden was secretly running a business for Joe while Joe Biden was in office. The business made $160 million in deals during his time in office, and Joe Biden is set to get the entirety of the business when he leaves office.

Whoops…

'Trump, who was twice impeached by Congress but spared conviction by Republicans in the Senate, is the first of the nation’s 46 presidents over 234 years to be criminally indicted after leaving office.'

I know you know it, but let it sink in anyway.

thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hes…

MS Dana Criswell posted yesterday about vaccine deniers with the opener 'The fight for freedom includes your right to make medical decisions for yourself and your family.'

Er... Women's own bodies? Families of trans people? His hypocrisy astounds.

danacriswell.com/cp/135543043

Ashamed of my alma mater and all the cowardly “conservatives” who are trying to hide this country’s (not to mention Texas’) history from their children and prevent them from acting to make the country better for all its people.

texastribune.org/2023/07/11/tex…

His solution? Layer a second police force and court system on top of the existing one. Not, we note, a moonshot investment in education, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing—nothing to truly address the underlying cause of crime, which is poverty.

Here's how the GOP super-majority in Mississippi tackles crime and poverty in the majority-Black capital city -- they form their own police, courts and prosecutors, hand-picked by white state officials.

You can't make this sh*t up.

mississippifreepress.org/32311/white-ap…

And Mississippians wonder why their children leave.

“I applaud my colleagues in the Senate for coming together to reject Delbert Hosemann-backed, woke Democrat Robert Taylor as Mississippi’s next Superintendent of Education,” McDaniel wrote...

mississippifreepress.org/32249/amid-wok…

I grew up in Texas. Not anti-gun. Not anti-gun owner. Just anti-stupid, and that’s how the GOP is about guns in today’s America.

Let's be clear -- this is conservatives forcing their beliefs (not facts, not science) on everyone else.

Iowa governor says 'it's not easy for me either' as she signs laws considered life-threatening by trans care providers.

littlevillagemag.com/reynolds-signs…

That’s what they stoke. “Fear and anger.” It’s how they fundraise, it’s how they primary, it’s how they do media. It’s how they maintain power in the U.S. despite being anti-democracy.

Republicans and their love of “freedom.” Their cognitive dissonance - a product of purposefully limited education, media and social circles - is astounding. Just look at how they’re willing to tell doctors, parents and individuals what they can and can’t do with their lives.

Picard has an off switch.

Congrats to team Mississippi Free Press!

I’m excited to be representing the Association of Alternative Newsmedia at the Knight Media Forum in Miami. Looking forward to big ideas for AAN and others.

Someone needs to see this; In 1797, a few years after signing the Constitution, founding fathers of this country and President John Adams as well as the entire US Senate unanimously signed the Treaty of Tripoli. ART.11 that states explicitly that the US is not IN ANY SENSE…