The GOP has been trying to kill Obamacare for 15 years. They need to just get over it. Tell Congress to cancel the GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown here: https://bit.ly/3IDECjz #TrumpGOPshutdown

Please do not take the goalposts to the zoo. ⚓️🐅🦞

690,000 Tennesseans going hungry is unacceptable. Today our caucus asked Gov. Bill Lee to call a special session to address SNAP funding and other vital aid. Read the release on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tnhoused...

How the growing penny shortage may impact you

TIL that you can type in “winklevi” to search for the Winklevoss twins.

General announcement: We’re never not gonna call it “Obamacare.”

We took a cruise recently to celebrate a big anniversary & there were zero single-use plastics on our cruise ship. It’s like they could see into my soul.

Why aren't @democrats.org rallying folks in the street? Where are the press conferences?

I would CUT SOMEONE to be able to watch something besides sports on the TV at your bar.

You can say “that said” instead of “that being said” & it means the same thing.

Big ups to the air traffic controllers working unpaid during the current utter chaos that could have been avoided if 89 million people had voted.

All it takes is 3.5% of the population to be in the streets every day to mandate change. Take Action -Sign up -Share -Attend www.nokings.org One Goal – The impeachment of Donald Trump. Protests need to be large enough that the media and politicians can no longer ignore what the people want.

😳 800 citations in two years for ignoring the laws in Nevada and @GovBillLee invited this wrecking crew to dig through the capital city www.newschannel5.com/news/elon-mu...

Remember that Stephen Colbert is on CBS, which is shutting down his show because … they caved? They’re afraid of a corrupt politician? So for me, there’s not a good reason to watch it anymore.

Tomorrow is the last day to early vote in the TN 7th Congressional districts special election primary. The special general election is Dec. 2. More info & details here: sos.tn.gov/elections/se...

Jane Goodall’s death feels like a light—a light that we needed—has gone out.

Seriously—is Mercury in retrograde rn?

🚨🚨 4.1 million Floridians are about to pay more for their health coverage and Republicans in the Congress are no where to be found.   They are taking a wrench to your health care and celebrating by taking the week off.

What is the word you always misspell unless you spell it out loud? Mine is hemhorrage‪ or hemhorrhage idk which it is.

I’m kind of scared that RFK Jr will discover that mammography has its own section in the federal code. (FDA Section 900)

This is amazing. I'd heard about the KGB figuring out the CIA because they kept putting them in the same apartments thing, but this is levels and levels above that.

It’s hard to imagine that in any other era, a search for just “did h” would yield either “did he die yet” or “did he die today.”

Coming up a week from tomorrow—Donuts & Decoding Legislation w/ @tnequality.bsky.social! Now is the perfect time to get INFORMED & EQUIPPED to stand up for the rights of LGBTQIA+ folks throughout TN. We look forward to seeing you there! Thurs, 21.Aug 5:30-7pm Nashville Public Library-Green Hills

E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g is about to get more expensive. TFG has got to go.

internet searching gives worse results than before. In looking to ID the white floofy hopping garden pest sucking the juices out of zinnias & asters in zone 7a I get a vast array of incorrect info

“Andy Ogles” is a whole-ass sentence.

I know AI is using all the water & burning it all down but. This is pretty useful. techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/g...

These two are why our schools cant have nice things. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

You know it’s hot when the map app’s directions include an extreme heat warning. Never seen this before.

You know who I don’t want telling me what kids can read? The bumpkins in the state legislature. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

Only Tesla drivers can use the proposed Tesla Nashville tunnel. It’s like he invented a whole new level of civic inequality. It’s breathtaking.

Et tu, Instant Pot? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

This is genius. Thank you Scotland. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Susie has 2 sets of hex wrenches. Calculate the odds that the one she needs is missing from both sets. 5 points 😖

Current events really do lend a new meaning to The ICE man cometh.”

Speaker Mike Johnson calling a recess to protect this loathsome, blighted, putrescent president has an upside: House republicans won’t be able to pass any more cruel legislation that further enriches the wealthy while cutting services to the least among us, the needy & powerless.

Need an explanation from an expert on how snatching up migrants doesn’t violate 5A, 6A &/or 7A.

Is there anyone more laughably pathetic than a craven media billionaire?

Will no one rid us of this troublesome chief executive? —Shakespeare, probably

Hubs’ book re-published (7 editions), this time cover pic is actor David Straithern who played the historic character of the book’s subject (Jan Karski—Google him!) I was against it bec I see future referencers incorrectly using Straithern’s image instead of Karski’s photo. Moral hazard? or not?

Weather is not climate. But. I looked up historic summer temps for Ashland City, where I attended summer camp in the 1970s. One year only 1 July day reached 90 degrees. & the next year there, a 60-degree night. Not 90 degrees for most of the 90 days of summer that we’ve seen the last few summers.

People big-mad about today’s Wordle. Can one of you Wordlers explain? I’m a mere crossworder.

The center for Medicaid & Medicare Services handed over data to ICE to track immigrants. A powerful element in improving American health & healthcare outcomes and this is what we ask of it—to root out the socially marginal & the strivers among us. My grandparents would not recognize their country.

Anyone keeping a list of the companies that have caved to the current administration? It’d be great to have as a roadmap for which to boycott/avoid.

This…seems like bad news. “https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01918-1”

Sign posted by the American flag in our annual vacation rental house.

rECeNtLy imPActEd dUE to fEDEraL ACtIOns. Not me, but a sign of the times. It’s the third recession of my career. I’m tired boss.

Made in Tennessee.

So weird that while this country is very publicly on fire & being driven like it was stolen, Canada just up there quietly functional, being a good neighbor & knitting a nice sweater, probably.