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[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

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[Ellie @richoblation]

Let's talk about the significance of Black history.

Mississippi just elected Scott Colom to be the first Black U.S. senator chosen by the vote of the people. This is a huge milestone and I'm so happy to get the chance to celebrate with him and the rest of our local community at the block party this weekend.

But alongside that celebration... my mind and heart drift to back to my childhood in the Mississippi Delta. It drifts back to Money, just a few miles north of Greenwood. To Bryant’s Grocery and the history that's connected to that place.

I want to tell you something that maybe you don't know.

In the 1980's, that property was acquired by the Tribble family. Ray Tribble served as one of the all-white jurors that acquitted Emmet Till's murderers in 1955.

There have been many repeated efforts to mark the history there. Vandals have scratched the historic markers and stripped away panels that contained Emmet Till's story and photographs, and at the site where his body was recovered, memorial signs were repeatedly shot through, until a bullet resistant replacement had to be installed.

And at Bryant’s Grocery, preservation efforts have continued to be stalled for years while what's left of the building deteriorates. The children of that juror are wanting $4 million for the grocery and surrounding properties.

There’s a bitter irony in the name Money, Mississippi. In a place that should remind us of Emmett Till’s humanity, and the humanity of so many other Black Americans who were the denied dignity and justice they deserved, we are instead left talking about a price tag.

Black history is not just the milestones that can be proudly shared, like this election. It is also the places that we allow to crumble. It's in the stories that we fail to protect, and responsibility that we have in protecting it.

I am so excited to celebrate what Scott Colom’s election represents for us here in Mississippi. But this progress should also make us more determined to confront the work that remains ahead of us.

[Tom Celica™ @thetomcelica]

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[holiday I got your bike!!! @Collegekidd_17]

Alabama needs early voting I can’t see any reason other than voter suppression why it isn’t a thing

[GratefulHike 🌎 🚴‍♂️👣 @gratefulhike]

Y’all, it’s time to bring Elder Chavez Carranza home to Albertville, Alabama. He’s an 18-year-old Asbury High School student who was detained by ICE on Dec. 30, 2025. Call your representatives and demand his release.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Brandon Presley, the 2023 Democratic nominee for governor of Mississippi, says some provisional ballots are being rejected because poll workers failed to initial them. He says it "makes him sick."

[Ellie @richoblation]

I can’t tell you, as a Mississippian, how long I’ve been waiting to finally say this:

“Hey! If you don’t like it then leave!”

[Ellie @richoblation]

As a former Republican voter, brought up in a conservative Christian, homeschooled environment and is now agnostic and left leaning, I’ve had to reeducate myself on so much related to history, authority, and personal freedom. Becoming more educated has given me another way to think about how my upbringing here in Mississippi has shaped what we’ve accept as status quo, and has helped me to question it.

My vote in Mississippi relates to race, poverty, and corruption. I really don’t think Mississippi can move forward without being more honest about all of it. We need to start taking racial inequality seriously, hold accountable the public officials who are supposed to serve people instead of line their pockets, and we need to stop treating poverty like it’s personal failing.

Mississippi is so often looked down upon. Low education, poor health, high infant death, high poverty rates, obesity and at the same time serious food insecurity. People have always looked down on Mississippi. But I care about Mississippi and the people who live here, and we deserve better. I mean, my goodness! We are a hospitality state! I have seen people show up for a neighbor, bring food to the grieving, and give what they can even though they don’t have much themselves.

I want our government to reflect it a little bit more of that goodness. I want the care that we show a neighbor in a crisis to extend to people of a different race, different religion, different income, and different way of life. I don’t think we should have to agree with someone’s beliefs to care whether they have enough to eat, whether they have access to health care, or a safe place to raise their children.

And I don’t want Mississippians to have to rely on individual generosity to make up for what our institutions are failing to appropriately provide to us. Bringing someone a meal is great, but why are they going hungry in the first place? Helping a sick neighbor is great, but why is it that they can’t afford to see a doctor? I think we can value personal responsibility and still expect responsibility from the people we elected to serve us. This is why I voted blue. Because I felt those candidates are closer to the kind of Mississippi that I want to live in and continue to build. A Mississippi that takes racial inequality seriously, a Mississippi that respects personal freedom, a Mississippi that invests in people and holds its leaders accountable.

Mississippians are worth it.

[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

Wake up and smell the racism!

This hurts us all 😔

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

You read the year right.

This is from 2000. Not 1870. Not 1950.

Just 26 years ago in the state of Alabama. And the saddest part is that 40% voted no.

[𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚂𝚎𝚌 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙹𝚘𝚍𝚢 🗣️📢 @itsthejody]

@AndyGipsonforMS It should be the Mississippi Public Service Commission but the legislature took the authority away from them, secretly of course.

This government is so fucking ass backwards.

[Sid Salter @sidsalter]

Mississippi’s senators again control major legislative “gates” for defense contracting - Sid Salter op/ed column https://t.co/QkQdukYbHJ

[Sid Salter @sidsalter]

Why Connecticut is spending $400K to $500K in grants to count their state's black bears and using the expertise of Miss. State University researchers. https://t.co/pJ9l4h0L7K

[Anna Wolfe @ayewolfe]

Gov. Phil Bryant screenshotted my tweet below—which touched on my investigation into welfare in the spring of 2019, at the fever pitch of the largest taxpayer theft in state history—and sent it to MDHS Director John Davis. “How is she figuring this?” he asked. #TheBackchannel

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

Brother of slain civil rights activist Andrew Goodman writes that 62 years after death of his brother Mississippi is still putting up barriers to voting. Experian is the latest roadblock. https://t.co/0UeVqdEod1

[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

Big news for The South

Marijuana in Texas.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Texas Democrats filed two bills to legalize recreational marijuana for everyone 21 and older, allowing possession of up to two ounces, home cultivation of 12 plants, and licensed retail sales.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Tensions flared in the Hinds County Election Commission Monday after an observer for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s (R) campaign loudly accused an election commissioner of evading observation.
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[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Democrats won across the country in last week's midterms, but much of their Senate gains were concentrated in the Deep South, where Black voters turned out and supported Democratic candidates at unprecedented rates, writes @ElliscbIV.

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[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

Jefferson Davis would have said this?

A penny for your thoughts.

[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

Jefferson Davis would have said this?

A penny for your thoughts.

[Lou @Lou2173]

@VoteHub Jefferson Davis probably

[Hexaroot @hexaroot01]

@VoteHub Bro is winning in the county named after the Confederate president

[Bamassippi News @Bamassippi]

It does not matter.

Collum will win. It’s over.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Mississippi U.S. Senate: 1 new vote from Tishomingo County

🔴 Hyde-Smith: +1 (100%)
🔵 Colom: +0 (0%)

Colom's statewide lead narrows to 2,535 votes.