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One of my favorite #Petrofuture maps….The Mississippi River becomes a vast inland sea reaching up to Memphis. 
Of course New Orleans is gone. I mean, c’mon.

Melted ice caps on a 1956 Shell Oil road map. 

Higher-res images:
conspiracyofcartographers.com

#climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #greenWashing #Louisiana #Mississippi #NewOrleans #worldBuilding #gulfOfMexico #MississippiRiver #Memphis

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@taniel

" #Mississippi set up a system of lifetime disenfranchisement when crafting its 1890 constitution, with drafters explicitly saying they wanted to limit #Black political power. The authors of that document chose to make people lose the right to vote only when convicted of certain felonies—a list comprising crimes of which they thought Black residents were most likely to be convicted."
boltsmag.org/mississippi-lifet

SCOTUS Declines To Review Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Disenfranchisement Law -

NEW: “#SCOTUS declines to hear a #Mississippi case challenging a lifetime voting ban on people with certain felony convictions. Previously, the 5th Circuit upheld the ban as constitutional, rejecting 8th Amendment claims and ruling against voting advocates” democracydocket.com/news-alert

Democracy DocketSCOTUS Declines To Review Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Disenfranchisement LawRead more here.

@GottaLaff

Who is Rep. Keen of Mississippi? Is there a chance Bill could pass? HB1448

Looks like they are trying to introduce legalized slave labour our of undocumented immigrants !!!
And a Bounty?!!

" (3) (a) The offense of trespass by an illegal alien under this section is a felony for which the authorized term of imprisonment is life imprisonment without eligibility for probation, parole, conditional release, or release except by act of the Governor or the natural death of such person."

#News #Mississippi

billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/docu

billstatus.ls.state.ms.usHB1484 (As Introduced) - 2025 Regular Session