This is bananas. @rachelwells1.bsky.social reporting on a doctor refusing to provide pre-natal care based on marital status, under the recently enacted Medical Ethics Defense Act open.substack.com/pub/wellsrac...

lol

Hey @eastnashtivists.bsky.social it’s been zero days since Gavin Newsom was joining a MAGA podcast to peddle transphobic conspiracies. Maybe spend a little more time reading @erininthemorning.com and a little less time taking selfies with this dipshit and passing it off as “voter education”

Truly 🫥

Fresh transphobia for ya

I wrote a thing about Gavin Newsom’s surprise guest appearance at a Nashville ‘progressive’ org’s meeting yesterday open.substack.com/pub/adamshoo...

Consent manufacturers not sending their best bsky.app/profile/edro...

It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:

Honey I shrunk the president

What a Mighty Good Mam Zoolanderish Zohran united New York’s salt and pepa, and this hunky hip-hop fan makes me want to shoop. by Maureen Dowd

+1 to the I should move back to NYC column

I hope he’s having a nice night

Whenever I think it would be easier to find standard recipes if I still had access to NYT Cooking they remind me why I will not give them any money

That @freddieoconnell.bsky.social thinks saying or doing anything about immigration enforcement in Nashville is akin to “a series of rhetorical check boxes” is telling. It isn’t even saving him from accusations of ‘embracing sanctuary lawlessness’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

An accessible explainer on the Supreme Court ruling allowing deportations to countries other than the person’s own, without due process

A team of lawyers from legal and immigrant advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that criminalizes providing “harbor” to undocumented immigrants.

We were never going to get a say in this.

During these critical moments following the US bombing of Iran, key lawmakers and pundits are circulating a lie on par with Iraq WMD falsehoods: that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. US intel consensus is they do not. Does it matter? By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Look I am always here for a religion angle but "I want to thank everybody and in particular God, I want to just say we love you God" is a weird-ass thing to say at a briefing

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

Heaven help us

Once again, I recommend Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent, which she read from the bench. (The SCOTUS equivalent of screaming.) It’s all straightforward and accessible. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Read the dissents first because there's no way that trans liberation won't happen at some point. Just not today, sadly. And when it does happen, all these transphobic bellends will pretend they were always for trans rights. I'm disgusted.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

As I mention in my Substack piece, highly recommend listening to this episode

My bottom line from that day remains the same: The courts won’t save trans people, or anyone else the law routinely abandons. Only the rest of us can.

First Substack piece in awhile. I hesitated the past couple days over whether to write but hopefully this helps break the decision down for non-lawyers. open.substack.com/pub/adamshoo...

For the Banner I wrote about La Brigada de Oro, fear of travelling to a game and the tension that comes from an MLS club wanting to market to different groups but also trying to stay out of politics.

La Brigada De Oro, a vibrant Nashville SC’s supporters' group, is canceling game-day festivities today amid a wave of increased ICE activity. "We're suffering. We're hurting a lot. We feel targeted."

one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out

Hello, police? Yes this is ICE, we’re about to snatch a bunch of people based on racial profiling and pretextual traffic stops. We think there might be some public backlash and we were wondering if you could help us keep a lid on it

Davidson's attorney calls this “a transparent attempt to discredit and silence a whistleblower who exposed serious misconduct within the Metro Nashville Police Department.”

so do we know what this was about?

Sorry everybody the mayor was having margaritas at Sunday brunch

In TN it would be this but taste testing for the vaccines unwittingly placed in our lettuce the GOP is so concerned about

I talked to some parents of people who have died at CoreCivic's Trousdale prison and their experience of feeling left in the dark about what happened to their sons. nashvillebanner.com/2025/04/17/t...

“xAI has essentially built a power plant in South Memphis with no oversight, no permitting, and no regard for families living in nearby communities....These dozens of gas turbines are doing significant harm to the air Memphians breathe every day.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When a leader at a Nashville nonprofit focused on refugee resettlement heard about Trump's funding cuts, his thoughts raced to the families his group was assisting. “This is a promise that we made to these people that we have reneged on,” he said. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

this is why i wasn't giving the "unanimous" decision any kudos

This week: a bill criminalizing being in TN without immig status is tabled but the Plyler v Doe challenge passed in the Senate; as did a bill penalizing abortion medication providers with wrongful death lawsuits; but IVF and contraception protections head to Gov Lee open.substack.com/pub/adamshoo...

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I don’t think “I would like to speak to the manager, this is unacceptable” is gonna cut it

They’re eating the Pokémon

When you think Kid Rock you think maybe… defending the confederate or shooting cases of bud light with a machine gun for transphobia, or refusing to close his Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse during the pandemic. Right? Wrong! You think upscale fine dining in Nashville. archive.ph/ilAW4

Why don’t any of the stories about Trump firing the TVA board chair talk about TVA’s role in reviewing and approving the huge power demand xAI will need in Memphis? www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

A Pokemon style card game where the characters are based on middle-aged men from a small town, like an electric-type ojisan who is bespectscled and can “fix any electrical appliance without fail.” How do I get my Pokemon-obsessed nephews to play this with me www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

More breaking news on the MNPD whistleblower complaint: it’s being investigated by a Davidson County grand jury

My latest for TN Repro News: Tennessee Clinics Won't Stop Providing Care Despite Millions Frozen open.substack.com/pub/wellsrac...

Borrowing from @scarletred.bsky.social “This is a perfect metaphor for the party: this wasn’t a real filibuster, didn’t block a single bill, and accomplished nothing. An actual performance instead of material action.” I don’t understand why people are excited about this?