There is a woman riding a lime scooter on the highway at the bottom of downtown between exits 209C and 210 B. She’s on the shoulder, but, straight up using the highway on a lime scooter.

As a pastor I would often use the term “the Kingdom of Heaven.” The older I get the more I believe that advancing the “Kingdom of Heaven” is community organizing. A better networked, better resourced, better organized neighborhood, looks more like Heaven.

I’m horrified by the Epstein stuff. The combination of the evil of what was done The ongoing coverup attempts The ambivalence of Trump supporters. It’s all so evil.

Any other Nashville Dads got sleds and ready to get Shreddy O’Connell?

The cognitive dissonance of believing that women shouldn’t vote but also being fine with showing your papers to secret police because Kristi Noem said this is how it is now.

It’s really rude for our government to do all this fascism during Dry January.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Evil. Detestable. Shameful.

Being in a family that has had interactions with the foster care system, I always feel something in the pit of my stomach when I see those “in the black“ vanity plates. We live in the state that has defunded care to the most vulnerable and then we celebrate it and call it “fiscal responsibility.“

When I have extra emotional energy, I like to mess with people who are pro confederacy, anti-woke, and say that the Confederates were the Democrats, as if that means something helpful for today’s discourse. “So you support the Democrats?”

I believe that one of the biggest divides in American politics is between those who ask the question “What do other people deserve?” Versus “What do other people need?“

Just watched “That Christmas” with the family. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Debate has little to do with whether an idea is good or bad. When I was a philosophy student I took ethics and logic. In ethics we learned how to wrestle with “the good.” In logic we learned how to argue. We regularly had to argue points we didn’t believe. Because our conviction was irrelevant.

I wish Andy Ogles was as passionately concerned about the sexual predator in the White House as he is a sexual predator on the streets of Nashville.

“These colors don’t run” I know, they sit all day. Which is why everyone is borderline diabetic and has back issues.

I am incapable of discussing SNAP benefits while mf’n baby formula is behind glass at Kroger.

Hot take: Chest pockets are useless. All shirt pockets should be at stomach height like on chore coats. If I put a screw in a chest pocket, it looks like something has gone awry with a nipple. This is a hill I will die on.

Few things bring me as much joy as sending text messages with Siri and then yelling “SEND IT!!!!”

The Kingdom of Heaven is like. . .

Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.

The first Maylene and the Sons of Disaster album was my first real exposure to southern metal. It sent me looking for more and nothing else has even come close. Any recs? @ryancagle.com ?

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

You know what just rips in your 30s dude? Voting against fascism dude. Electing some of the coolest homies dude!?!? Ima need all my gerrymandered bros to go drop a vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Drop daughter at school, go fishing for 30 minutes, vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social So far it’s a solid morning.

The most protected man in the world isn’t able to hide that he is sad, unhealthy and deeply insecure. The way we treat people betrays all of the other branding. A happy, secure, kind person doesn’t say “Quiet piggy”

Trump claims his ICE raids are going after the "worst of the worst". But his own DOJ admits that over 97% of immigrants detained in Chicago have no criminal record. It was always about cruelty, not public safety.

When driving down Ashland City Highway and you see a dude walking on the side of the road with a back pack. Hitchhiker down on his luck or Rogan Bro on a ruck?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Sounds like someone hasn’t started their own Trump backed crypto coin.

If someone is able to minimize the evils of slavery, they will be able to minimize the contents of the Epstein files. There is nothing that can be revealed about this man that will turn his followers against him.

Watched several vehicles hug the back of a neonatal ambulance as it carved its way through rush hour traffic. I hate what cars do to us.

this is literally never not accurate

I’m sitting on a plane that has been sent back to the gate while balancing a toddler on my lap because the worlds most powerful southern Baptist is utilizing all of his power to protect pedophiles from being exposed. What a wild time to be alive.

Reporting from the front. Brooklyn has fallen. They are confining the children to fenced facilities called “playgrounds”

Spotted in Brooklyn.

The New York subways are terrifying. My children keep passing out in fear.

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

These Boomers are governing like they parented. They are withholding care in order to change behavior and maintain power.

Congressional Republicans would like you to believe that their hands are tied, that they would like to help, but they can’t because the Democrats have taken Congress hostage. But, Trump keeps undercutting their messaging by showing that we can feed people, we are just choosing not to.

I feel like we aren’t giving Trump enough credit for making aspiring white male conservative influencers who have never been to Memphis feel safer in Memphis.

“Reality has a well known liberal bias” -Stephen Colbert 2006

I grieve that this man is one of the most visible Christians in the world.

If you think shutting down SNAP because some people abuse the system justifies making those who need it starve, you have a moral sickness.

If someone doesn’t trust govt employees who teach kids or determine SNAP benefits but do trust government agents who shoot citizens and disappear people into unmarked cars. . . What do these beliefs reveal about how that person perceives themself?

A fascist government cuts food benefits to its most needy families, And when that desperation bears fruit in criminality, the government justifies increased harm against its citizens and magically finds the funds to do so. Never enough to help always enough to harm.

Every portion of our government is a grift for millionaire vendors to overcharge the taxpayer to convert public funds to private wealth. And many of yall are mad that some poor people are getting too many groceries.

Interfering in this is patriotic

If your critique of the “No Kings” protest is theological, you are an intellectually unserious person.

Less yards and more courtyards.

😕 We are all paying for this vanity project