#mississippi home

[fairrylandforever]

[fairryland]

[sincerelytennessee]

[amandaanddonnie]

Honeymoon Air BnB tour - Peaceful with Water Views in Iuka, Mississippi

[foreos]

what are you supposed to do if you go to college in a different state than the one you’re registered to vote in

[dailyplanet-loislane]

Mississippi Showboats

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

refusing to go to sleep bc I don’t want to have to get up early to pack lmao

[irradiatedwarlock]

[rachelspoetrycorner]

Summer in a Small Town (2009) by Tony Hoagland

In Episode 201, Rachel brings a really funny poet.

Rachel: Yeah, he told in an interview with the Houston Chronicle, "Humor in poetry is even better than beauty. If you could have it all, you would, but humor is better than beauty because it doesn't put people to sleep. It wakes them up and relaxes them at the same time."

This poem truly feels like a lovely snowglobe (just the idea of a summer-snowglobe delights me), the way it carefully and precisely encompasses this picture-perfect feeling of a small town. It's also interesting to place it next to the poems Mississippi: Origins and A Primer; they're like sisters to me.

You can listen to the poem and the entire Poetry Corner segment over here: Keep it up, Tetris Boy, from 20:00 - 28:58

[fairrylandforever]

[firsttraintovictoriaville]

as the only canon married/committed relationship man I hope Utah rubbed it in everyone’s faces that he has the best way to spend his birthday. You just know Mr. State of Utah; took the day off of work, woke up to breakfast in bed made by his loving wife and his six loving children and got plenty of cuddles, after his children went to school/daycare he made love multiple times to his wife, chilled around the house watching his favorite dad sitcoms, had a lovely board game session with his children, and ended the night with a homemade cake and thoughtful gifts from his family 

[tomorrowusa]

While Ron DeSantis is busy spewing anti-woke tirades in early primary and caucus states, the crises in Florida grow more numerous.

So far...

the malaria outbreak

the worst citrus harvest since the Great Depression

loss of convention and tourism business due to the increasingly homophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant atmosphere in the state

the highest rate of inflation of the 50 states

Add to those the soaring cost of home insurance – provided that you can actually obtain it.

Households in Florida, the third most populous state in the US, have been grappling for some time with a property insurance crisis that is making home ownership unaffordable for many. After at least six insurers went insolvent in Florida last year, Farmers on Tuesday became the latest to pull out of the Florida market, saying in a statement that the decision was based on risk exposure in the hurricane-prone state. Climate change is threatening the very existence of some parts of Florida. And the costs are already being felt by Floridians. At the end of 2022, average annual property insurance premiums had already risen to more than $4,200 in Florida – three times the national average.

Having a notorious climate denier as governor is not a plus in the state most affected by sea level change.

Andrea is among a number of Florida citizens who shared with the Guardian that rapidly exploding hurricane cover premiums had made their private property insurances unaffordable, and forced them to apply for cover with the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s not-for-profit insurer of last resort, created in 2002 to provide windstorm coverage and general property insurance for homeowners who could not obtain insurance elsewhere. “This insurance trouble has been going on since Hurricane Andrew,” Andrea says, referencing the destructive category 5 hurricane that struck the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana in August 1992. “But it has been getting a lot worse over the past two years. The state of Florida has done zero in that period to help homeowners.”

Of course DeSantis has been governor for the past 4.5 years.

Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has been accused of dragging his feet on the insurance issue, as well as of a “catastrophic” approach to the climate crisis after saying he rejects the “politicization of the weather” and questioning whether hurricanes hitting Florida have been worsened by climate change. “In a really bad hurricane year,” Andrea says, “Citizens can do a special assessment and charge me more. When my premium goes to the $3,000-a-year mark, I have to sell and move out of Florida, probably in the next couple of years. With my income level I’d have to move somewhere pretty inexpensive. I’ve been looking at South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Poor Andrea may become a climate refugee thanks to DeSantis.

Even in the Panhandle, nicknamed "the Redneck Riviera" people are suffering because of DeSantis's sloth on public policy.

Phil Goddard, 64, a freelance translator living in Pensacola, the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, has similar misgivings about the state’s future. [ ... ] Although moving out of state would be “a last resort”, Goddard says, the rising costs of property insurance are putting a damper on everyday life. Friends, he says, a retired couple, have cancelled their property insurance as they can no longer afford it. [ ... ] “This is a great place, but it’s a poison paradise, because of all the associated costs and risks of living here. “Global warming is partly to blame, but so is Ron DeSantis. Instead of banning books and picking fights with Disney and drag queens, he should be tackling the issues that really matter to Floridians.”

While DeSantis is campaigning nationally on the slogan, Make America Florida, he is effectively Making Florida Mississippi.

EDIT: Instead of making this a separate post, it seemed like a good idea to just add it here.

When we occasionally say that DeSantis acts in a fascistic way, it isn't just name calling. He's actually setting up his own militia.

State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say

A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his personal command, according to military veteran recruits who have quit the program. Several veterans resigned after an encampment last month having become concerned at the “militaristic” training and “abuse” one disabled veteran suffered at the hands of instructors, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.

Abusing disabled veterans who signed up sounds very un-American.

This is more like the Brown Shirts than a Florida "disaster relief force" as intended.

Promoted by DeSantis as an “emergency focused, civilian defense force” when it was established in June 2022, the state guard has quickly morphed into something quite different, the report found. Volunteers have been trained for military combat, including the use of weapons; khaki polo shirts and pants were replaced by camouflage uniforms; and recruits were “barked at” by boot camp instructors at the joint training base who woke them before dawn and imposed lights-out by 10pm.

The rubber stamp GOP Florida legislature helped make this possible.

Additionally, DeSantis’s compliant, Republican-led state legislature has contributed to the change of direction, this year approving a massive expansion in the force’s funding, size and equipment. Its budget increased from $10m to $107.5m, and its maximum size more than tripled from 400 recruits to 1,500. On the governor’s shopping list were helicopters, boats, police powers and reportedly even cellphone-hacking technology for a force outside of federal jurisdiction, and accountable directly to him.

DeSantis is unhinged, we can see why Elon Musk has a man crush on him.

In 2024, 20 of the 40 Florida State Senate seats are up for election as are all 120 Florida State House seats.

It's not too early to start work on chipping away at the Republican majorities which empower DeSantis's extremism.

The first step is to find out exactly who represents you in the legislature.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

[hellgivenhasmoved]

We seriously went to Biloxi just to shop. 🤣 no complaints. I got myself a few lil things.

[whenisthefall]

Bro I’m actually about to die, I just played in a volleyball tournament and everything freaking hurts just to get 4th bro ugh

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

I’m excited to fly home on Wednesday, it’s been over a month since I’ve seen my parents lol