The U.S. Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the state of Mississippi over the way it treats the mentally ill. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson says the state spends millions to shut away the mentally ill in hospitals when they could be provided more appropriate and helpful services, at…
All Musicians Should Join Bruce Springsteen and Protest Discrimination APR 13, 2016 – JTMP supports Bruce Springsteen in his boycott of North Carolina against SB-2, the law that allows discrimination against the transgender community and does not respect their right to live freely, and to choose restroom or other facilities that they are comfortable with….
Last of “Old School” Blues Players are Documented in Film and Photos JAN 14, 2015 – HuffPo has an amazing article up by Priscilla Frank about photographer Lou Bopp documenting the last vestiges of a great American culture, the “Old School” Delta Blues musicians that would fill the juke joints with their amazing and truly…
TW SHANNON IN OKLAHOMA LOSES, RANGEL IN TOUGH VOTE COUNT JUNE 25, 2014 – The upstart Teabagger Chris McDaniels lost the 2014 Republican Mississippi primary runoff election last night, but he is refusing to concede and is calling for an investigation “to see if Republicans voted in the Republican primary”. US Senator Thad Cochran beat state senator…
3 MORE ARRESTS MADE AS CONSPIRACY BROADENS May 23, 2014 – Apparently the right-wing conspiracy is more vast than originally thought. 3 more sleazy Teabaggers were arrested yesterday in the case of Mississippi rightwing extremist blogger Clayton Thomas Kelly, who snuck into the hospice of US Senator Thad Cochran’s wife and took pictures of her. It…