Kudos to @kellykitty.bsky.social for asking if crime is down 21% can we cut 21% of the MNPD budget?

Y’all.

Pathetic.

America's Mayor

For anyone keeping score, that’s the same Downtown Partnership that blew up the garage 🤡

For anyone keeping score, that’s the same Downtown Partnership that blew up the garage 🤡

Masked person operating a Twitter account says “We.” Thank you, @willbunch.bsky.social for the screen shot.

Hey, I turned this post into a whole column -- tell me what you think www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

Wow, Mikie Sherrill must be so proud of her new "partners": ICE

Helpful. In my classroom, some kids seem to love me but also sometimes seem to want to get me fired for saying Biden won in 2020. They call themselves conservative. When I ask them what they want to conserve, their faces go blank. They’re a danger to themselves & others (for now). Art? Not yet.

And it’s not about crime, or safety. @freddieoconnell.bsky.social

Al, Flock cameras, Ring cameras, FUSUS, LPRs, drone policing - it's all part of the same project. And, in case you haven't figured it out - it's not about immigration.

DEVELOPING: Rob Lowe’s band from St. Elmo’s Fire has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

"This is a rogue administration that has handed undue power to agencies, to ICE agents and to entities like GEO Group [that] are now acting with impunity.”

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

Good morning to @whittlz.bsky.social and @startleseasily.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4dTZ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Always convenient when my underlying assumptions, articles of faith, deep-seated ideological commitments, etc around public policy cannot be measured or quantified

Al, Flock cameras, Ring cameras, FUSUS, LPRs, drone policing - it's all part of the same project. And, in case you haven't figured it out - it's not about immigration.

How it’s done

Aside from the fact that the juvenile posting style has returned, why is the city shilling for a real estate development?

Anyone in Nashville have an Advice King question about the police drones in Madison?

When asked today on WPLN's "Ask The Mayor" about the just launched MNPD drone deployment & how it bypasses the mandates in Section 13.08.080 of the Metro Code, which require a full Council resolution & a public hearing for any technology capable of public recording, Mayor Freddie O'Connell said,

@freddieoconnell.bsky.social made up that the drone’s cameras are not turned while flying to its the destination lmao. Not relevant but hilarious.

There aren’t a lot of people who follow me here from my old podcasting days, but the biggest development in 55 years is happening in real time in Kathy Jones’ case. I’m absolutely floored and didn’t see this coming.

Does anyone have a question for THE ADVICE KING??? 👑 The more mundane the better. Example: “how do I improve my golf swing?”

Last week, Scott Borchetta joined the growing list of commencement speakers praising the glories of AI. Writes opinion columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social, we should stop lecturing young people about AI's inevitability.

Sports Illustrated was in a class of its own, the best writers and photographers, the bedrock of sports journalism, with an iconic monthly front cover. And now… this.

Does anyone have a question for THE ADVICE KING??? 👑 The more mundane the better. Example: “how do I improve my golf swing?”

It’s so fuckin wild that the only people who pay taxes and don’t get massive government assistance here are residents

Stockard is on fire in this one

Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the case against Kilmar Abrego García for selective and vindictive prosecution. In his opinion, he described the indictment as an “abuse of prosecuting power.”

Hey remember that one time when I was chair of the participatory budgeting steering committee and I quit because it was bullshit?

“This is dictatorship in action,” says reporter David Cay Johnston.

No, Bill Lee did not force this on us. Nashville's metro council voted 26-12 for this. The state is often the oppressor but in this case, Nashville's Mayor & "most progressive council ever" was in lockstep.

the local police foundation that says they are not a police foundation & are in fact, an "independent nonprofit" (started by Pat Shea, known to be close friends with Chief Drake) commissioned a report (by former Cooper staffer 😂) on our successes fighting surveillance tech. Copaganda never sleeps!

“They approved the single largest publicly funded, privately owned sports stadium in human history, which the NFL wants to reward so other cities do it next” is the actual answer.

My friend Freddie voted against the new stadium as a councilmember and ran for mayor on a platform that prioritized locals over tourists and billionaires. If he’s available, could somebody please put that guy back in charge? I didn’t vote for whatever this is. ⬇️

⚡️LEAVING THE GRID?!?!! The latest banger from 👑 THE ADVICE KING!!!!! 🫡🔥

"We’d all like to wrap our belongings in a kerchief, put them on the end of a stick and follow the railroad tracks out of town." This week, Advice King @thecroftonshow.bsky.social on living "off the grid."

@thecroftonshow.bsky.social The New York Times Online | Nashville Public Library share.google/7IQ0gvokMKgS... a library card is a wonderful thing

"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate." rofl

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

"So in the wake of defeat by Russia’s puppet Viktor Orbán, Trump has picked up where Orbán left off, shielding Ziobro, who wants Poland to follow Orbán’s model, even granting him a perch from which to disrupt Poland from afar." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/05/19/t...

for my birthday this year i am kindly asking for a $1.8 billion slush fund that i can use specifically to be an asshole

Flock, did you say?

Godspeed, Zeke

⚡️LEAVING THE GRID?!?!! The latest banger from 👑 THE ADVICE KING!!!!! 🫡🔥

The Tennessean this morning reports that Nashville is on track to build 84 new hotels in the near future, which makes me wonder where our overlords think the staff for those hotels will live, since we can’t seem to apply this same amount of energy to building housing here

IYKYK #CBGML