Hey look there’s a place that has even dumber and/or more sellout politicians than Nashville! Our largest public stadium subsidy record is about to be broken. My condolences to all affected taxpayers - Nashvillians & Tennesseans feel your pain 😭😭😭 (as do all the other taxpayers robbed for stadiums).

🔥🔥🔥 3 of the most badass women I know 🥹 they sacrifice so much and fight so hard to keep our community safe. This recognition isn’t why they do it but it’s beyond deserved. Let me know if you want to support or get involved with Music City Migra Watch! Truly life-saving & life-changing work ❤️

Thank you to @citycastnash.bsky.social for having me & spotlighting the work of Open Table Nashville. And more importantly (😂) thanks to @whittlz.bsky.social for editing out MOST of my “ums”. Take care of your neighbors y’all! ❤️

All I want for Christmas is for the library to reopen.

Most important bench yet made it’s debut at this morning’s Annual Homeless Memorial. As of the other day, 169 individuals in Nashville have died after a prolonged period of homelessness or while experiencing homelessness this year. More names will likely be added before the year ends 💔

I laugh every time I recall the quote that the benches would be better used somewhere else. Our imagination can’t even contain bench abundance. There’s just 10 benches. Can’t get more.

Oh! I know this one! The Library!!

you know what they did blow up though

I love how in one hour people on here have spent time coming up with ideas to try to make folks’ lives easier and more enjoyable, even with disagreement, while the mayor makes up scenarios where we blow up a water park

Stop wasting our fucking time. Stop scheduling unrealistic time slots for committee meetings. Stop the CM, council attorney & lobbyist mingling & start the damn meeting. Some of us don’t get paid to be here. Rushed for a 5pm B&F start & just had to leave for winter canvassing without B&F starting.

Right? We don’t need the bandwidth of fiber to tell us when a light is green or red. Video surveillance needs bandwidth though. I’m increasingly convinced @freddieoconnell.bsky.social will do anything to have a real-time surveillance command center. My dude, just watch NCIS. We don’t want this 💩.

LOL It doesn’t affect CHYM but… see screenshots archive.ph/2025.11.05-0...

Smart signals are surveillance fyi

Getting out of a scarcity mindset yet… we couldn’t freeze fares.

Open Table Nashville, who is out every night on these bitter cold nights giving rides and supplies to folks sleeping outside, ran out of sleeping bags last night. Things are very tight for everyone around the holidays but even $5 hand warmers make a direct impact in keeping a neighbor warm.

“The downtown partnership has a credibility problem” is a good take

Forgot to mention the shelter is open all day & night! Folks can go in anytime today and stay until tomorrow morning at 7am.

Okay I don’t have the energy to make a Bluesky-specific post so here’s a thread of my current IG stories 😂 take care of our neighbors y’all! It’s freezing & so dangerous for our neighbors experiencing homelessness out there!!

It’s an epidemic that must be stopped!

Laugh all you want people but it’s a real problem

Lol wait did I just see a press release that says we need to put mass surveillance in downtown Nashville to stop STREET RACING? The straws, we are grasping at them!

Folks who have been following the trajectory of mass surveillance being pushed upon us in Nashville will remember that this whole thing started with LPRs being needed to “combat drag racing”. Fast forward to now- ICE & federal agencies have an entire network used to track our every move & target us.

It’s the time of winter where we break out the Bernie Sanders meme our comms person made me to ask y’all to come winter canvassing! The low Sunday night is 10 degrees, come & take care of our neighbors with me & other cool people! bit.ly/otnwintercan...

As our state yet again takes elaborate, considered, intentional, action to send people to their graves, I must ask once more: Why do we continue to kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?

We’re told we need a SWAT vehicle, command post, military grade surveillance downtown - what we actually need is for people to be safe INSIDE bars. This is the real downtown safety problem & software created for special forces operations aren’t going to solve it. nashvilletodo.com/what-483-nas...

This morning, people were taken 1) outside Sip Cafe & 2) in Nipper’s Corner area, both on their way to work. 🧊 operations ongoing, every single day in Nashville. Please be vigilant in protecting our neighbors. Take photos/videos & call MCMW (615) 933-8409. We have to take care of each other 💔

Hi friends! As you know, we’re in a long cold stretch of winter. It’s warmed up a tad but the low on Friday is currently 14 degrees. We go out whenever the Metro shelter is open to give rides & supplies to our neighbors. We go through a lot & could use a restock! www.amazon.com/gp/registry/...

Genuinely interested in hearing at what point any pro-surveillance folks are changing their minds. Is it now? Have you done so already? If not, what is the line that’s too far for you?

A few months ago I tried to get ahead of the barrage of football-related tweets that fill my feed during football season so I muted the words “sports” and “football” 😂😂😂 @jspencersharpe.bsky.social pointed out that most people posting about sports use neither of those words. He was right 🤣💀 Help 😭

It’s long past time to put the NDP in timeout and take away their privileges. How else will they learn there are consequences to destroying our public goods? My toddler nieces understand this concept, would be nice if our electeds did as well. Maybe a Sesame Street episode would help!

Kelly in this house, running a billion-dollar entertainment district is a privilege, not a right. and it WILL be taken away when you blow up the library

mommy bloggers have this one right

Don’t we have a Downtown library that needed renovations??? Seems a good use of this funding that was already approved in the DMC’s grant contract would be to… renovate the library the NDP’s subcontractors blew up. Ah but wait, the mayors office is choosing to limit this use out with the MOU.

I would expect anyone who advocates for cameras to protect cyclists and pedestrians to immediately reverse course upon seeing this. We’ve been saying for years surveillance doesn’t make us safer and…. here you go.

Violent crime … is DOWN, you say? Interesting thing to bring up at this moment in time

So why do we need surveillance in downtown with no oversight 👀

Dave Rosenberg is not having a good day 💀💀💀

The fact that this keeps coming back especially after so many who put in so much sweat equity in the first campaign have spoken against it with receipts is so telling. It says "We no longer need you. But that sweet, sweet downtown money... yeah, we'll take that."

our fight has gone national! major shoutout to Mike, Ed and @truthout.org for amplifying our years-long fight to keep our neighbors safe ❤️ truthout.org/articles/a-n...

DO IT!!! We are in the midst of a brutal cold stretch. We are going out every single night checking on our neighbors, handing out supplies and giving them rides to the shelter. We can’t do it without you! ❤️

"The mayor’s office said in a statement to the Banner that the NDP has already been awarded the grant and expects to receive the money by the end of December." we need to shut down NDP and return what useful work it does manage into the auspices of accountable & responsible metro workers

Thanks to @citycastnash.bsky.social for covering the MOU in their newsletter! Links to their episodes on NDP & Fusus below: nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/is-... nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...

And thanks to Farhang, former director of The Policing Project at NYU and Vanderbilt law professor, for this op-Ed in the Tennessean 🙏🏼 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Big thanks to @iamstevenhale.bsky.social for covering the latest push from the Mayor’s Office to expand & privatize mass surveillance in our city nashvillebanner.com/2025/12/01/n...

Major shoutout to our local weather icons for supporting our work keeping friends on the streets as warm as possible. Help us restock - we’ll be out all week and give out as much as we can every night. We take care of each other ❤️

lol the mayor’s office favorite way to refute every single point we make is simply to claim “it’s misinformation” with no substantive rebuttal. Dave Rosenberg did the same thing with fusus and every single thing we said about surveillance tech has happened since then.

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