Suzi Altman

Photographer/Film Maker NYer in MS #SavingMargaretsGrocery #TheNewMiss Brand

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

Born on this day in 1862, Ida B. Wells was a civil rights champion and one of the first investigative journalists in the United States.

She was also a feminist and anti-lynching advocate whose reporting documented lynchings in the American south.

Wells went on to help found the @NAACP.

Thinking of her legacy today.

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

On this day in 1961, Freedom Rider and future U.S. Rep. John Lewis was released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
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[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

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[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

Five months after the Trump administration closed investigations into law enforcement agencies across the country, the Justice Department has signaled that it will continue its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.

Rankin County NAACP President Angela English said a Justice Department official recently informed her that Attorney General Pam Bondi had authorized federal investigators to move forward with the Rankin County investigation after months of uncertainty about whether it would continue under the Trump administration.

English has been coordinating with Justice Department officials since they began investigating the department in 2023, after a group of sheriff’s deputies and a Richland police officer, some of whom called themselves the “Goon Squad,” tortured two Black men during a late-night raid.

Last year, the six officers were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the incident, and dozens more people have since accused Rankin County deputies of abuse. https://t.co/TWZdjjjvYS

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Legendary Actress Jane Fonda has re-launched The Committee for the First Amendment, an organization founded by her father, Henry Fonda, in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

RETWEET to thank @JaneFonda for standing up for free speech!

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1851, citizens of Syracuse, New York, broke into the city jail and freed William “Jerry” Henry, who had escaped slavery in the South and was now working as a barrel-maker. A monument now honors that rescue.

Henry, who had been arrested, faced a hearing on whether he would be returned to Missouri and enslaved again. The Rev. Samuel J. May, a Unitarian minister and abolitionist, visited Henry in jail and told him to stay calm.

“Would you be calm with these irons on you?” Henry asked. “What have I done to be treated so? Take off these handcuffs, and then if I do not fight my way through these fellows that have got me here, then you may make me a slave.”

May whispered to Henry that they planned to rescue him. May, like others, had been moved by the sight of Henry “dragged through the streets, chained and held down in a cart by four or six others who were upon him; treated as if he were the worst of felons; and learnt that it was only because he had assumed to be what God made him to be, a man, and not a slave — when this came to be known throughout the streets, there was a mighty throbbing of the public heart; an all but unanimous uprising against the outrage. There was no concert of action except that to which a common humanity impelled the people. Indignation flashed from every eye. Abhorrence of the Fugitive Slave Bill poured in burning words from every tongue. The very stones cried out.”

Henry’s case also drew support from prominent abolitionists Gerrit Smith and Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen, A Methodist minister who had once fled slavery himself.

At the ring of a church bell, thousands stormed the jail, where Henry was being held, and some began to pelt the jail windows with stones. After a marshal fired a shot, the crowd used a battering ram to break down the jail door and free Henry, whose wounds were treated and his shackles removed.

Days later, men secretly transported him to an Underground Railroad stop in Mexico, New York, and from there across the border into Canada, where he lived for the next 41 years —free. Oct. 1 became a local holiday known as “Jerry Rescue Day,” the day when people stood up against slavery.
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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Jane Goodall had a remarkable ability to inspire us to connect with the natural wonders of our world, and her groundbreaking work on primates and the importance of conservation opened doors for generations of women in science. Michelle and I are thinking of all those who loved and admired her.

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

The University of Mississippi announced it has terminated an employee due to “hurtful, insensitive comments” made on social media regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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[Spectrum News NY1 @NY1]

The Feast of San Gennaro and the Bryant Park Dog Parade are just some things to do in the city this weekend.

Here’s our guide: https://t.co/SRxC12TKxN

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

On this day in 1955, Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, opened her son’s casket so that the world could “see what they did to my baby.”

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[Suzi Altman @SuziSnaps]

Liar Liar your red tie is in Fire. - why? I keep asking but why? What is the point of destroying America?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Q: What did you think Epstein was stealing those women for?

Trump: walks away

The American people deserve to know the truth. Release the files!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dropkick Murphys play a montage of Donald Trump and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein during their song “First Class Loser”

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The gunman who opened fire at a Manhattan office building is dead, sources tell AP. https://t.co/0JOl1cLhjU

[Taylor Vance @taylorcvance]

Did a federal judge use AI to help write an order in a major lawsuit in Mississippi?

It's unclear, but attorneys and law professors are baffled by an order U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate wrote that includes several wrong facts.

[Nick Judin @nickjudin]

Jesus CHRIST.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Paramount announced Wednesday that the creators of “South Park” had agreed to produce 50 new episodes over the next five years.

Hours later, “South Park” excoriated Paramount in the premiere episode of its 27th season. https://t.co/dxI2z9p1gV

[YouTube: @TheSimulationPresents @FilmAgeStudios]

Good Morning! As An American shaped by #SouthPark I feel it’s my obligation to share the Premiere of #SouthParkSeason27 to all Americans who don’t have Cable because they got let go due to some Orange Fat Re&@$%ed F@$#&%…Enjoy and God Bless America🫡 P.S. Fuck Donald Trump

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump is expected to arrive in Scotland tomorrow. This is the front page of The National.