Kelly Bennett

Multimedia Journalist at SuperTalk Mississippi News

[msema @MSEMA]

MEMA continues to monitor and prepare for Potential Tropical Cyclone One.
The storm is forecast to bring heavy rainfall that will impact Mississippi beginning on late Wednesday (6/17/26) and into Thursday (6/18/26).
Widespread flooding is likely. Roads could be closed or washed out. Structures could also flood. Mississippi could also experience some damaging wind gusts, and brief, weak tornadoes are also possible.
MEMA is filling requests for sandbags from multiple counties as we continue to prepare for this storm.
We are asking for citizens to:
📲Stay Weather Aware
❌Know where to go in case you need to evacuate from rising water
🚧Identify alternate routes to your destinations in case of flooded roads
🛑TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN

[Sen. Brice Wiggins @bricewigginsMS]

Illegal entry into the United States is now a state crime in Mississippi. That means that our own state-level law enforcement officers now have the authority to arrest illegal immigrants instead of waiting for ICE and CBP. We’re putting Mississippians first.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

Thank you Tulsi for exposing their lies! It’s moments like this that should serve as a reminder why we worked so hard to win in 2024.

[Andy Gipson for MS @AndyGipsonforMS]

Good afternoon everyone, I have this report and update on Deputy Yates Rodney, who is able to communicate today. And I am sharing this specific prayer request he asked me to share with you. Please pray that Deputy Rodney will be able to walk again. We know and I believe that God is able to do this, and God has already answered so many prayers for this young hero. Thank you all, and God bless all you prayer warriors!

[Rep. Randy Feenstra @RepFeenstra]

The death tax is an unfair pilfer tax that forces farmers and working families to worry about losing their livelihoods during a time of grief.

That’s why the Working Families Tax Cuts increased the death tax exemption to $15 million. I have also introduced the Death Tax Repeal Act to permanently eliminate the death tax and help ensure family farms and businesses can be passed on to the next generation.

As Secretary Bessent emphasized, many countries have already adopted similar policies. It’s time to put the next generation of American farmers first and protect the future of family-owned farms.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

“The UN just walked back its climate doomsday models – after BILLIONS were wasted. ‘Every apocalypse is a business model.’ They used fear to grab your cash, your gas stove, your truck, your burger.”

Watch this epic takedown of the climate cult from @greggutfeld.

“The UN is backing off after calling you a climate denier, as if questioning the faulty models is like denying the Holocaust. But no big apology, no refund check, no "our bad." Because in the end, they got what they wanted. The motive wasn't the environment, it was greed. The instrument was fear. Once panic becomes an industry, there's no incentive to calm people down. That's why every Dem crisis now comes with a consultant, a nonprofit, a celebrity telethon, and a 900-page spending bill. Every apocalypse is a business model. And for the climate change scammers, no business had been hotter than the end of the world.”

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Rep. Wesley Hunt just made the Democrats SPEECHLESS after dropping straight truth nukes

"My own father, who grew up in a segregated South, had to walk around to the back of a restaurant just to order a sandwich because of the color of his skin."

"THAT was Jim Crow, and THAT is precisely why it is so offensive to compare that era of legalized discrimination and racial terror to showing a PHOTO ID in a voting booth!"

"And it's just as offensive when groups and organizations like these manufacture faux hate and racial tension, requiring identification of vote."

"It's not oppression. It is not segregation. It is not racism."

"It is a basic standard that applies equally to every single American citizen, regardless of what you look like. You need an ID to board a plane. You need an ID to cash a check."

"You need an ID to buy alcohol. You need an ID to enter these very federal buildings. And by the way, attaining an ID in this country is an extremely low bar."

"But somehow showing an ID to vote in America is now considered to be Jim Crow 2.0. This is NOT about civil rights. This is about political theater. And the Democrat Party survives on manufacturing grievance."

🫳🏻🎤

[SuperTalk News @SuperTalkNews]

William Carey University now ranks No. 3 in the nation for sending doctors to rural communities, with nearly 25% of graduates practicing in areas facing healthcare shortages. For President Dr. Ben Burnett, bridging the healthcare gap in Mississippi isn’t just a goal – it’s the mission.

READ MORE: https://t.co/jyt4X4ik3K

[SuperTalk News @SuperTalkNews]

The Mississippi State softball team swept through the Eugene Regional to advance past the opening round of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in program history. Next up is Oklahoma with a Women's College World Series appearance on the line.

[SuperTalk News @SuperTalkNews]

Mississippi GOP chair Mike Hurst said Gov. Tate Reeves made the right call in canceling the special session but believes Republicans can still draw four GOP congressional districts after November’s midterms.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

This is absolutely lovely. Please listen. Dang you @ericchurch for making me homesick on a Thursday morning.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

“Slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead.”

Rep. Wesley Hunt pushes back on what he calls “reinvigorated talk” of Jim Crow, while defending the idea that America is a Christian nation:

"As someone who is a direct descendant of a slave, as someone whose great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you, slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead."

"I am a Black man representing a White-majority district in Texas, the great-great-grandson of a man born on a plantation stands before you today as a proud, conservative Republican from Texas. As a believer and follower in Christ."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "American cattle ranching is destroying the Great Plains."

Rancher: "How many bison were here in 1800?"

Activist: "A lot."

Rancher: "Sixty million. Same biomass as every cow in America today. Standing on the same grass."

Activist: "That was different."

Rancher: "How?"

Activist: "It was natural."

Rancher: "It was ruminants. Eating grass. Trampling it. Dunging it. The grassland built six feet of topsoil underneath them."

Activist: "Then we shouldn't have killed them."

Rancher: "Correct. We killed them, ploughed the prairie, and got the Dust Bowl in thirty years. Largest ecological collapse in American history."

Activist: "..."

Rancher: "The fix wasn't fewer animals. The fix was putting them back. The grass evolved to be eaten."

Activist: "So reintroduce bison."

Rancher: "Or use the 1,200-pound ruminant that's already here, in the same numbers, doing the same job, on the same grass."

Activist: "It's not the same."

Rancher: "It's the same animal with a different accent."

Activist: "It still feels wrong."

Rancher: "The thing that felt wrong was killing the bison. The cattle are how we're paying it back. Take them off and you finish the job we started in 1870."

[April Chapman @Unshakablewapr]

Are Black people still voting? Yes. Then Democrats did not lose democracy. They lost control. Tennessee redistricting did not take away Black voting rights. It broke up a protected political arrangement Democrats used to treat Black voters like guaranteed property. That is not suppression. That is competition. Full episode up now: https://t.co/RKIIAlX6XL

[Michael Mclendon @senmclendon]

The same RINOs who told you to stay home and take the shot are going to tell you Mississippi “can’t” redraw the map.

They’ll say we “might” elect a Democrat if we do.

They’ll say the primaries already happened.

They’ll say we have to be “careful.”

They’ll say it’s not “in the call.”

Meanwhile, @BennieGThompson is still sitting in Congress after chairing the sham J6 witch hunt against @realDonaldTrump.

Don’t fall for it.

They hope you won’t question them.

If Alabama can fight,
If Louisiana can fight,
If Tennessee can fight,
Mississippi can fight, too.

It can be done.

And it should be done.

Let’s take back our state.

REDRAW THE SIP.
ALL RED.
4-0.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hey Big G -

Here's some info you can take and put in the vault. (See what I did there? Pretty good.)

98% US oil and gas companies are classified as small businesses (500 or fewer employees).

70% have less than 10 employees.

These small companies drill 90% of all new U.S. oil and natural gas wells and are responsible for the majority of new production brought online each year.

Yet these small companies are price-takers - be it a high or low price. Just like the small farmers who don't set the price of wheat or milk - we all have to take the prices as they are set.

These small companies produce a commodity at a price they don't set, send it to market where someone else turns it into something else at a different price at the pump.

That's how it works. And you can put that in the vault.

BUT - if you still want to talk about being unjustly enriched.... Guess what?

Of the 15 largest oil companies in the world. 10 are actually state-owned enterprises, controlled by foreign goverments.

Of the remaining 5, only 2 of those 15 are U.S. companies.

Go ahead and investigate Exxon and Chevron if you want if it makes you feel better.

But your investigation will come up empty - like Al Capone's vault.

Here are the top 15 companies by production.

Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) — ~10.3 mbpd
State-owned enterprise (majority-owned by the Saudi government).

Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) — ~3.9 mbpd
State-owned enterprise (Iraqi government-owned).

Rosneft (Russia) — ~3.7 mbpd
State-controlled (Russian government holds a majority stake through Rosneftegaz).

National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) — ~3.3 mbpd
State-owned enterprise (fully owned by the Iranian government).

ExxonMobil (USA) — ~3.0 mbpd
Privately owned (publicly traded multinational).

ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) (UAE) — ~3.0 mbpd
State-owned enterprise (owned by the Abu Dhabi government).

PetroChina (China) — ~2.6 mbpd
State-controlled (listed subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, CNPC, which is state-owned).

Kuwait Oil Company — ~2.4 mbpd
State-owned enterprise (part of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, fully government-owned).

Petrobras (Brazil) — ~2.2 mbpd
State-controlled (Brazilian government holds majority voting shares and significant influence, though publicly traded).

Lukoil (Russia) — ~1.7 mbpd
Privately owned (one of the largest privately held Russian oil companies, though subject to government oversight).

Chevron (USA) — ~1.6 mbpd
Privately owned (publicly traded multinational).

Shell (UK/Netherlands) — ~1.5 mbpd
Privately owned (publicly traded multinational).

Gazprom Neft (Russia) — ~1.4 mbpd
State-controlled (majority-owned by Gazprom, which is majority state-owned).

TotalEnergies (France) — ~1.3 mbpd
Privately owned (publicly traded multinational).

Surgutneftegas (Russia) — ~1.1 mbpd
Privately owned (though with close ties to the Russian state).

The more you know....

[SuperTalk News @SuperTalkNews]

17 people were injured and hundreds of homes were damaged as a result of overnight storms in Mississippi, according to an update from Gov. Tate Reeves.
https://t.co/CzTaD3ocZy

[SuperTalk News @SuperTalkNews]

Three people, including two minors, are facing charges in connection with a shooting that left a man "critically injured" in Harrison County.
https://t.co/13zmBhL7Pt

[msema @MSEMA]

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency continues to respond to the severe weather events that impacted the state on May 6 and 7, 2026. Preliminary reports of 17 people injured have been reported to MEMA. No fatalities have been reported. Read more here: https://t.co/d25HDRQrFu