Pras Mchel, a onetime rapper from the Fugees, went to prison in the States for fourteen years for illegal lobbying he undertook on behalf of the criminal conspirators in the 1MDB case, where a Malaysian sovereign development fund was defrauded of more than US$4.5bn. Michel received US$100m from the now-fugitive financier Jho Taek Low. If he had declared his activities as an agent of a foreign power, it might have raised suspicions about where the money was coming from, but he would then legally have been safe as houses. Fourteen years is one year less in prison than the actual mastermind of the plan, ex-PM Najib Razak, who was this week sentenced to fifteen more years, following a reduction in his sentence on an earlier conviction from twelve to six years.

You are now caught up on one of the weirdest and most consequential cases in our regional neighbourhood that it seems nobody in Australia has ever heard of. #1mdb #mspol

This is heartbreaking. And preventable.

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/07/22/corrections-medical-neglect-prison/?mc_cid=0781274d15&mc_eid=8c8b7d29bb
#mississippi #MDOC #neglect #MSpol #MSleg

Another great, in-depth report from Capital B News. This one's about the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, which, after two years of fighting between residents, Jackson officials, and state officials, is still in a state of disrepair, spitting contaminated, often tea-colored water out of residents' taps. Capital B reporters unearthed evidence that the EPA failed to act on its own reports about Jackson's water quality, thereby leaving a large amount of federal money, which could have been used to prevent the crisis, unspent.

https://capitalbnews.org/epa-federal-money-jackson-water-crisis/

You can follow them on here: @capitalbnews.org

I hope you do! I hope you send them some money too!

#JacksonMississippi #JacksonMS #Water #Environmentalism #MSpol #EnvironmentalJustice #WhiteFlight #Racism
@cooperationjxn

@jalefkowit @petergleick

So... I wonder how much closer it would have been this year without the most concentrated area of Black votes "running out of ballots" early this morning?

#USpol #MSpol

#USPol #MSPol

You know, if Mississippi insists on wasting its money on Confederate Heritage Month, then maybe the public should just flood the zone in Mississippi with things like the list of names of people the Confederacy murdered in its insane crusade to continue treating human beings as livestock. And reams of photos of the devices slaves were made to wear, like the heavy iron collars with spikes. Or perhaps photos of people being worked to death for substandard textiles. Maybe publicly display the brutal devices used to subjugate literal children. Remind people they tried to get the British to help them destroy the Union. It failed, but they did try.

Also, I absolutely love that they chose April, the month in which R.E. Lee surrendered to US Grant. Because, if they want to "celebrate" that "heritage," then at least they can celebrate the end result of all that murderous treason and immoral slave mongering. The total destruction of the confederacy.