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maureen2musings · 6 months

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#eclipse #look up #moon and sun #banks of the mississippi #curators on tumblr

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anarkhebringer · 5 months

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I'm awake and thinking bout my desktop I'm getting again, and I'm glad we have a solid plan for it now. It's gonna take a while to get because the order of doing things alongside the cost, but likely sooner than expected.

My older brother wants us to get my parts first at around 400 bucks, then we have to wait for him to get his at around ~$3K, he's gonna take out what he can salvage out of his old setup then put my parts in, then give his old setup to me. It's gonna be a 1060 GPU but it'll run BG3 and FFXIV on high settings just fine, which is what I need.

#he told me exactly how it loads the former and I can work with it #as he worded it ''it's just a one or two Mississippi of everyone standing there and then it's all loaded''#and he said it also runs The Witcher at high settings so that's also promising #but him replacing the hard drive with an SSD is probably gonna remove the one Mississippi entirely because of asset streaming shit #another promising thing about the speed of purchase is that he's a serial saver so he's gonna try and buy all this shit together if possibl #like he thinks having like 2K in his bank account is low on money he is a VERY good saver

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dailylighthouse · 9 months

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Merrill Shell Bank Lighthouse

Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, United States

Source: United States Coast Guard

Constructed: 1883

Automated: 1932

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#lighthouse #dailylighthouse #mississippi river #merrill shell bank lighthouse

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.

A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.

“They narrowed it down between the ’50s and ’60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.

The search group included members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and two Till relatives: cousin Deborah Watts, head of the foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. Relatives want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river.

“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview.

Keith Beauchamp, whose documentary film “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” preceded a renewed Justice Department probe that ended without charges in 2007, was also part of the search. He said there’s enough new evidence to prosecute Donham.

Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for.

Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.

“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said.

District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible.

Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.”

Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago.

“I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.

Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly wouldn’t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.

But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause for a new prosecution, he said.

“If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said.

Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment.

Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time.

Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal.

Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband at least two other Black men were not the right person.

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River on May 17, 1673.

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miaava9856 · 2 years

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norasophia · 2 years

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psychoticwillgraham · 4 days

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literally not even worried about tornadoes anymore bc of the sheer luck we’ve had and yeah I know we’re way overdue (been 14 years since the last direct hit) for a bad one, but im not gonna preemptively worry until Chloe starts getting upset, bc dogs are the best warnings for storms. dad thinks we’re gonna get hit at some point this year too, so he’s going over what to do during a tornado and his own little things that he personally does to prepare.

#look if it’s meant to hit me then it’ll hit me #and my house is directly in the likely path bc tornadoes always come from the direction #of the hospital which is barely a 6 minute drive from my house #and my neighborhood could easily be hit #we’re on the banks of the Mississippi #so we’re normally out of the woods

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lindaseccaspina · 2 months

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German Canarys Coming to Almonte -- Fletcher Bradley Pet Store Ottawa

1931, Almonte Gazette One hundred passengers off the S.S. Montrose direct from Hanover, Germany, are coming to Almonte on Saturday, Nov. 19 and will be located at the Almonte House. Mayor Comba need have no fears, however, as each one of these strangers is prepared to sing his way into the hearts of any Almonte family. These little passengers are all trained singers and the pick of the German…

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#almonte #bank street #bigamy #bords #bradley #canary #Fletcher Bradley #genealogy #History #Lanark-County #Mississippi mills #ontario #Ottawa #pet store

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clairity-org · 5 months

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Minneapolis Riverfront 12/1/23 by Sharon Mollerus

#Mississippi River #Minneapolis Riverfront #winter #river bank #Minnesota #Minneapolis #MN #flickr

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officialbillhader · 5 months

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Not to bitch abt the corporate insurance companies but geioc cant even find my address and progressive wont let me just buy a policy online 😭

#awesomepie3221 #pls my (blank) is expired and i need insurance to get a new one #banking on the fact it wont be noticed bc its a mississippi (blank). or a cop will see it and be like oh thats not my problem. not my state

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the-cimmerians · 5 months

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Today, ProPublica reports on yet another big change that stands to solve a decades-long problem we first learned about back in 2016, closing a huge loophole that allowed states to divert federal antipoverty funds to governors’ pet projects, like promoting abstinence, holding “heathy marriage” classes that did nothing to prevent out-of-wedlock births, funding anti-abortion “clinics” to lie about abortion “risks,” sending middle-class kids to private colleges, and other schemes only tangentially related to helping poor kids. It’s the same loophole that Mississippi officials tried to drive a truck through to divert welfare funds to former sportsball man Brett Favre’s alma mater, for a volleyball palace. [ ]

The agency has proposed new rules — open for public comment until December 1 — aimed at nudging states to actually use TANF funds to give cash to needy parents, not fill budget holes or punish poor people.

One change will put an end to the scheme Utah used to substitute LDS church funds for welfare, by prohibiting states

from counting charitable giving by private organizations, such as churches and food banks, as “state” spending on welfare, a practice that has allowed legislatures to budget less for programs for low-income families while still claiming to meet federal minimums.

Another new rule will put the kibosh on using TANF to fund child protective services or foster care programs, which are not what TANF is supposed to be for, damn it.

And then there’s the simple matter of making sure that funds for needy families go to needy families, not to pet projects that have little to do with poverty:

The reforms would also redefine the term “needy” to refer only to families with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. Currently, some states spend TANF money on programs like college scholarships — or volleyball stadiums — that benefit more affluent people.

#us politics #in support of an informed and engaged electorate #TANF #cash assistance

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nycannabistimes · 1 year

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#Repost @cannafirstfinancial ・・・ Posted @withregram • @medmarijuanams CannaFirst Financial Proud Members Of @medmarijuanams Powered By @merchantsandmarinebank Member FDIC. We are so excited to announce that the first medical marijuana sales have taken place in Mississippi! Three companies, The Cannabis Company in Brookhaven, MS, along with Hybrid Relief, and Starbuds in Oxford, MS, successfully completed their first transactions yesterday afternoon. This is a big day for the patients of Mississippi! #cannafirst #cannafirstfinancial #banking #fyp #cannabiscommunity #dispensaries #cultivation #testinglabs #cbd #hemp #banks #banking #mississippicannabis #mississippi #mississippibank #financial #merchantsandmarinebank #cannabistech #cannabisnews #cannabismagazine #foryoupage #cannabiseducation #bankingtech #bankingindustry #bankinginnovation #bankingnews #bankingandfinance #cannabismarketing #news #ganjapreneur (at Biloxi, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5LrOyuQlb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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titleknown · 1 year

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So, while I've talked about this in other posts, I figured I may as well compile it in one post with this nifty propaganda poster (more on that later)

Long story short, they're bringing back KOSA/the Kids Online Safety Act in the US Senate, and they're going to mark it up next Thursday as of the time of this post (4/23/2023).

If you don’t know, long story short KOSA is a bill that’s ostensibly one of those “Protect the Children” bills, but what it’s actually going to do is more or less require you to scan your fucking face every time you want to go on a website; or give away similarly privacy-violating information like your drivers’ license or credit card info.

Either that or force them to censor anything that could even remotely be considered not “kid friendly.” Not to mention fundies are openly saying they’re gonna use this to hurt trans kids. Which is, uh, real fucking bad.

As per usual, I urge you to contact your congresscritters, and especially those on the Commerce Committee, who'll likely be the ones marking it up.

Those senators are:

Maria Cantwell, Washington, Chair

Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

Brian Schatz, Hawaii

Ed Markey, Massachusetts

Gary Peters, Michigan

Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin

Tammy Duckworth, Illinois

Jon Tester, Montana

Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona

Jacky Rosen, Nevada

Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico

John Hickenlooper, Colorado

Raphael Warnock, Georgia

Peter Welch, Vermont

Ted Cruz, Texas, Ranking Member

John Thune, South Dakota

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Todd Young, Indiana

Ted Budd, North Carolina

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

J.D. Vance, Ohio

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Again, it doesn't work unless you do it en-masse, so make sure to call ASAP and tell them to kill this bill, and if they actually want a bill to allow/get sites to protect kids, the Federal Fair Access To Banking Act would be far better.

Also, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license. Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, edit it to be about the other bad internet bills they're pushing, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods' sake get the word out!

Also, shoutout to @o-hybridity for coming up with the slogan for the poster, couldn't have done it without 'em!

#poster #cc0 #creative commons #internet censorship #internet freedom #us politics #american politics #KOSA #kids online safety act #censorship #scary

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theredhookian · 2 years

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#mississippi #river #bank #wisconsin #minnesota #night #tree #moon #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVCJjxrDmu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mississippi #river #bank #wisconsin #minnesota #night #tree #moon #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

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rabbitcruiser · 2 years

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Late during the afternoon of May 8, 1925, Tom Lee steered his 28 ft (8.5 m) skiff Zev upriver after delivering an official to Helena, Arkansas.

Also on the river was a steamboat, the M.E. Norman, carrying members of the Engineers Club of Memphis, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and their families.

Tom Lee witnessed the M.E. Norman capsize in the swift current 15 mi (24 km) downriver from Memphis at Cow Island Bend. Although he could not swim, he rescued 32 people with five trips to shore. Lee acted quickly, calmly and with no regard for his own safety, continuing to search after night fell. Because of his efforts, only 23 people died.

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