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Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social |
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•Journalist (Mississippi Free Press) •Husband •Pibble Dad
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Ashton Pittman
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It's telling how all the "small government" people in my life are elated at the idea of a king-like president who can freely commit crimes so long as he does so under the guise of "official acts" cloaked in the power of the presidency. This is how freedom dies.
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Ashton Pittman
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Misogynist trash like you on the left like you is why we are where we are.
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Ashton Pittman
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.
She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.
National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Ashton Pittman
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A lot of rich white men and powerful corporations are going to be stoked at the Chevron ruling. For the rest of us, who like to breathe safe air and drink clean water, it's a disaster. This is a Supreme Court for the rich and powerful, not for the people.
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Ashton Pittman
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It's honestly terrifying to be an LGBTQ+ person in the US right now, here on the precipice. And we're expected to pretend like this is normal politics. Like it's some glorified team sport. And like our rights and lives aren't on the line. I used to have a lot of hope for America. Now, just fear.
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Ashton Pittman
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I...worked on these talking points for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
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Ashton Pittman
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If you're Andrew Tate, why even live at all?
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Ashton Pittman
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I still think it should matter a lot that the U.S. government stole kids from their parents and ran child concentration camps under Trump. There was never enough outrage over this and it's not even treated like an issue in 2024.
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Ashton Pittman
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It's becoming clear that the election this year is a choice of either a) Joe Biden for president for 4 more years or b) Donald Trump as dictator for the rest of his life.
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Ashton Pittman
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😭😭😭
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Ashton Pittman
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My favorite Bible story is that time when Jesus falsified business records to hide hush-money payments to the Judean pornstar, Mary Magalynn.
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Ashton Pittman
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That's the joke. 🤪
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Ashton Pittman
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Thank you! And I appreciate your sympathy.
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: Here's how top Mississippi leaders are reacting after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records as part of an illegal scheme to affect the outcome of the 2016 election using hush-money payments.
www.mississippifreepress.org/42633/trump-...
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Ashton Pittman
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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is a man of conviction.
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Ashton Pittman
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Nice
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Ashton Pittman
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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is a man of conviction.
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Brendel
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: The FBI has raided the office and business of Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens—the Mississippi DA who announced the first indictments in Mississippi's $77 million welfare scandal.
It isn't clear what triggered the raid.
www.mississippifreepress.org/42441/fbi-ra...
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Ashton Pittman
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Donors have already raised over $26,000 for the family.
www.mississippifreepress.org/42365/after-...
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Ashton Pittman
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In a single night, Kim Welch lost her mother, Ida Welch, and her sisters, Vicky Welch and Crystal Welch, in a triple homicide.
They can't afford the funerals. Please help her and the Welch family give their loved ones the memorials they deserve: www.gofundme.com/f/welch-fami...
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Ashton Pittman
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Today my family unexpectedly had to say goodbye to our baby Jackson after 9 years. I'll miss the sound of him excitedly playing with his squeaky balls and him pawing at me to run under his neck, and wanting to join me on the porch in a warm breeze. He was the goodest boy. ❤️🐾
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Faculty had raised alarms in the days before the attack on pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. That night, one witness called emergency services 11 times before police intervened.
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Ashton Pittman
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accusing them of defaming him*
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is suing Sports Illustrated’s former publisher and a reporter of defaming him in a new lawsuit over a May 2023 report about Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal and his connection to Brett Favre.
www.mississippifreepress.org/42158/ex-gov...
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Ashton Pittman
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It worries me that, 9 years in, there's a whole generation of young voters coming up who have only ever known Trumpian dysfunction as normal, ordinary, everyday politics.
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Ashton Pittman
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"We"? He got a worm in there, too?
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Ashton Pittman
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I will say one thing, RFK is definitely an ivermectin candidate.
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Ashton Pittman
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This is one hell of a notification. 🧠🪱
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Ashton Pittman
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Dear God, this is a real tweet from a real congressman. I was making fun of RFK Jr.'s brain works too, but...
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Ashton Pittman
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Netanyahu is a monster. Why are we funding this slaughter of innocents?
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Ashton Pittman
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Congressman Mike Collins, R-Ga., praised the video in which a white fraternity student made monkey noises and gestures toward a Black woman who was protesting in support of Palestine.
"Ole Miss taking care of business," he wrote.
www.mississippifreepress.org/41943/congre...
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Ashton Pittman
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The University of Mississippi student who made the monkey noises at a Black woman has been kicked out of his fraternity. Phi Delta Theta announced his removal today. Earlier, the UM NAACP called on UM to expel Phi Delta Theta member JP Staples.
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: As students protested for Palestine, the ghosts of the Ole Miss's racist past rose again.
One white man made monkey-like sounds at a Black woman who supported Palestine while his compatriots chanted, “Lock her up!” and "Lizzo! Lizzo! Lizzo!" at her.
www.mississippifreepress.org/41910/as-stu...
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Nicholas Slayton
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Growing up the worst anti semitism I experienced was from Christian fundamentalists now they get to decide if I'm an anti semite
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Ashton Pittman
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BREAKING: Medicaid expansion won't happen this year in Mississippi.
Senators rejected the House GOP's proposal to put it on the ballot before voters.
The GOP Senate still demands expansion be tethered to work requirements that the federal government likely won't approve. #MSLeg
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: Mississippi Democrats could tank the Medicaid expansion bill, which they call "Medicaid expansion in name only."
GOP senators say expansion may only happen if Trump wins because the bill ties expansion to federal approval of work requirements.
www.mississippifreepress.org/41822/missis...
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: Mississippi lawmakers killed two anti-trans bills after failing to reach an agreement. That includes a bill that would have banned trans people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity and a bill codifying binary sex as defined at birth.
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Ian Boudreau
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This is the school that awards Pulitzers
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Ashton Pittman
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So they removed some college students from Columbia's campus. But guess what? Israel's government is still carrying out a genocide in Gaza and American taxpayers are helping fund it.
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Ashton Pittman
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One thing the responses to these campus protests make clear is that a lot of liberals are quite illiberal.
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Ashton Pittman
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If your university campus never has protests, then it's a corporate mill for churning out obedient little worker bees—not an institution of higher learning.
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Ashton Pittman
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NEW: Medicaid expansion in Mississippi could hinge on former President Donald Trump winning the November 2024 election despite dozens of criminal charges under a Senate compromise plan, a Mississippi Senate GOP leader says. The plan requires work requirements, which the Biden admin won't approve.
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Ashton Pittman
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I love that Taylor Swift wrote songs criticizing obsessive fans who get up on a moral high-horse trying to control her personal life and her personal choices... and a lot of fundamentalist Christians and evangelicals mistook it as an attack on them. 💀
www.christianpost.com/news/taylor-...
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Don Moynihan
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The danger is not just that a lot of people are embracing authoritarian politics but that too many other people are responding as if the rules of normal politics still hold
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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honestly as an independent scholar without institutional privileges, I'm lowkey panicking at the decline of google scholar 😬
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Ashton Pittman
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I WOULD LOVE IF NETANYAHU WOULD STOP TRYING TO SPARK WORLD WAR III.
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Ashton Pittman
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If any jury should ever be sequestered, surely it should be the jury in the first presidential trial in history? #TrumpTrial
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Jason Read
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"I am not surprised by those who attempt to propagate hatred. I am surprised that my own university—my home for four years—has abandoned me."
www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/s...
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Ashton Pittman
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Thanks! Really interested in accounts live posting on court news live and about courts generally. Trump's trials for sure, but also circuit courts, the Supreme Court, etc.
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