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News outlets—especially independent news outlets—you don't have to stay tethered to this place. The Mississippi Free Press, after three months, now has nearly 55,000 followers at the B-L-U-E place. That's double the audience it took to build 5 years here. My point? 1/

"There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter. But that bird has flown the coop," Ashton Pittman writes. Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-t…

As a news organization, we have deep concerns about Earth’s richest man controlling the flow of information while presiding over the dismemberment of the government in ways that often appear to benefit him. Why Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-t…

We understand that some believe we should stay on X as a beacon of honest reporting, but it’s a light few see now anyway due to algorithmic suppression. Staying would only legitimize the smorgasbord of unabashed hate and misinformation that X serves up. mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-t…

“Twitter’s time as a useful tool for sharing journalism has passed.” mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-t…

The “free press” is rightfully dropping X/Twitter. I’ve held on here for now but have joined Bluesky and created an account there parallel to this one at jeremydanielbond.bsky.social. If you’re reading this, I’d love to stay connected. Let me know if you’re on Bluesky (or elsewhere).

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. Only a day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee, headed southwest.

My latest Mississippi Free Press: the detention of Kasper Eriksen. mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mi…