Ashton Pittman
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News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
"Respecting due process does not require the public to stop asking questions. ... At the same time, no one should be convicted based on Facebook posts, YouTube videos, or TikTok theories. We can demand accountability without manufacturing guilt."
Love seeing one of my photos from a 2020 BLM protest (an anti-racism walkout at a Missisisppi high school) republished in Télérama, the French entertainment magazine. There's just something awesome about seeing your work in print. This was published alongside a review of Greg Iles' final book.
She has responded with an apology, saying "we recognize that this was a misstep for this specific research."
Y'all, I just got this pitch in my inbox... I don't even know what to say. WTF
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness," his office announced.
Ashley Cole wrote that she and her son "have not had the opportunity to speak to the Wells-Wonsley family" but "are willing to directly communicate with attorney Ben Crump and the Wells-Wonsley family." "We will do everything within our power to assist Nolan's family in their quest for answers."
Many have speculated on the reasons Nolan Wells' friends deactivated their Facebook page. The mother of one of the friends who was on the boat, Ashlee Cole, shared these screenshots, saying she's been inundated with messages on her social media profile threatening to kill her and her children. 1/
I went on News Nation today where I talked about the rampant misinformation in the Nolan Wells case (including AI-generated misinformation) and the importance of not letting theories get ahead of the facts—while acknowledging our racist reality that gives rise to much of the speculation out there.
Ok, this is getting ludicrous. The ceasefire was clearly never a ceasefire, considering the fact that the firing never ceased. But this isn't even stenography. Trump literally said that the "ceasefire is over." And it's far from just one news org doing this (I love the AP, for the record).
Trump says the Iran ceasefire is "over." Of course, anyone with half a brain (not looking at the majority of you, national msm headline writers) knew this weeks ago based on all the bombs and airstrikes.
Marchers shut down parts of the City of Senatobia, Mississippi, today while calling for justice for Kohen Wiley, the 1-year-old child who died in his mother's arms after a police officer shot him on June 14. The march comes a day before the child's funeral. 🎥 Nick Judin
This, from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Givr, is the what unvarnished evil and inhumanity sounds like: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese must weep." When you dehumanize other people to this degree, there's no limit to the atrocities you'll carry out.
Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.
Images from the Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, where police deployed tear gas against residents protesting the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Courtesy Action News 5: www.actionnews5.com/2026/06/16/c...
The family is also disputing allegations of shoplifting. No bodycam or security camera footage has been released. Members of the community plan to gather at Senatobia City Hall at 5 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon to call for accountability for Kohen Wiley’s killing.
Left: The umpteenth story from Reuters repeating Trump's baseless claim of an imminent Iran deal, from earlier this morning. Right: Trump just now, saying Iran is lying about the terms deal, that the Iranians are "very dishonorable people" and that they "better get their act together."
Wasn't it fun? I still have that book. Sometimes, I just want to reference it and build a website based only on the tools in the book without using modern HTML/CSS/etc. This was it:
Of course, this was the beginning of the end of the old internet. Google, with its SEO algorithms, destroyed the quirkiness and fun of the old internet and kicked off the age of SEO farming. Google made the web all about optimization—from content to site design. Everything became cookie cutter.
What does "tests the fragile" ceasefire even mean? If there is an "exchange of gunfire," there is, definitionally, no ceasefire.
The county supervisor, Steve Gaines, made the comments while speaking about the settlement, and praising the sheriff's departments attorney for keeping the settlement lower than it could've been. Gaines says he wasn't referring to anyone specifically when he mentioned "dopers" and rapists.
10 years ago this week, I decided with 3 day's notice (very unlike me) to go on a road trip to South Florida with someone I barely knew. And nearly 9 years of marriage later, we look back on it as our first date.
This kind of absolute beauty does not need color and it certainly does not need AI, beloved!