“Tragically, each year many more people have a searing personal experience with political violence. It leaves you with a deep understanding of how hate festers. You catch yourself from referencing opponents as enemies. You reach out, when possible, to find common ground. You try your best…

I wish the TN legislature had designated March 27th of every year as a day of remembrance for the Covenant School shooting victims and survivors.

Stephanie Moscetti said her son “was an honorary pallbearer at his friend’s [Merkel’s] funeral; how is this our reality?”

Thank goodness @wkrnnews2.bsky.social isn’t Sinclair.

Hulu and Disney are going through some things right now.

This is a post I saw online today. Was it written by a Republican or Democrat? Liberal or conservative? Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, non-denominational, Pentecostal, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc? A person from the Midwest? South? Mid-Atlantic? Can you tell?

Important PSA

Political violence has no place in our democracy. Gun violence is a plague on our country that destroys lives and damages communities - on the left & right, in red & blue states, in cities & rural areas. We must act.

This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

Deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk’s shooting and death. Praying for his wife, children, loved ones, and colleagues. Horrific that so many people witnessed it. This shooting was senseless, evil, and horrific - as has been every other shooting in the US. Each victim is a real person w/hopes and dreams.

My ‘Dores are looking GOOD tonight! ⚓️⬇️

What is even happening here?! ⚓️⬇️

How can Ogles expect the National Guard to show up in Nashville when Ogles won’t even show up for a town hall meeting?

Given the legislation passed in TN and the fact that any therapist can deny treatment to a child based on “sincerely held religious beliefs,” this is not surprising.

TN can’t redraw its lines earlier bc they’ve already split Nashville into 3 congressional districts. It’s now 8-1, and that 1 is Memphis. Good luck with that.

TN ranked the worst in “outcomes” after coming in at 48th place, including infant mortality rate, share of patients readmitted to hospitals, share of at-risk adults with no routine doctor visit in the past two years and share of non-immunized children.

State government, which masterfully drags its figurative feet on things like getting kids in state custody off the floors of state office buildings, moves at lighting speed for items like this vanity project.

🚨 MUSK TUNNEL UPDATE: Nashville can still stop this! Got questions? Listen to CityCast’s latest tunnel episode. Ready to fight back? Text TUNNEL to 91750 to join efforts by The Equity Alliance & Stand Up Nashville. Let’s keep our city public!

“NASHVILLE IS NOT BILL LEE’S CITY TO GIVE AWAY.” Sen. @campbell4tn.bsky.social says @GovBillLee’s Teslas-only tunnel shows “we are not living in a democracy” and asks the media to contextualize it as Trump Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts tells Republicans to “de-charter Nashville”

Lost their minds

Former Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn has withdrawn her nomination to serve in the No. 2 spot in the Trump Education Department.

That’s a shame.

Elmo is going through some things on X right now. He has all the feels. 😳

All I did was step away to do laundry and apparently Trump just began WWIII. Am I overstating? I thought only Congress could authorize acts of war…I know, I know.

This is why I don’t go to protests anymore. I’m so over Nashville.

Talk about a Faustian bargain… “States that made it easier to obtain and carry a firearm had a tradeoff for that, which was a higher rate of mortality in kids," Faust said.

Oh, FFS! We are a parody of ourselves at this point.

This is the most TN story you’ll ever read.

Make sure you have another way to get severe weather alerts tomorrow-we’re under a moderate risk.

UPDATE: “7-2 the Supreme Court continued to block the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to deport a group of Venezuelan migrants who said they had not been given enough of a chance to contest their removal…” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

👀 Candace Owens: “I never thought I’d see a day where I would be rooting for a university over Trump… but if you think this attack on free speech is gonna stop with college campuses you’re out of your mind. So you better buck up and root for Harvard.”

Awesome sauce!

I love this and applaud these clergy - and implore all clergy - to do likewise in their respective districts. Hold them accountable! 💪🙏

CLERGY ask @RepMarkGreen @RepJohnRose @AndyOgles to hold TOWN HALLS: “If you have not planned an in-person town hall by the end of May, we’d be happy to organize a public town hall in one of our houses of worship. We hope you will listen to the concerns of our faith communities.”

JUST IN: Judge Kollar Kotelly has *blocked* provisions in Trump order seeking to require federal agencies to enforce a citizenship documentation requirement for voter registration. It's the province of Congress, she says, not unilateral action by Trump. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

JUST IN: Judge Friedrich (a Trump appointee) has blocked the Trump administration's effort to pull funds from schools over DEI programming, saying the requirements are unconstitutionally vague. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Post-Columbine, there has been an increasing connection between school shooters and Nazi ideology. “On March 21, 2005, 16-yo Jeff Weise murdered nine people at Red Lake High School, in Red Lake, Minnesota before committing suicide. Weise posted on a Neo-Nazi website with the handle “NativeNazi.”

😬

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

An active shooter alert is currently in effect on Florida State University’s campus.

Rep. Johnson is now speaking on her amendment, which would rename the bill “The White Fragility Act.” 👀

And now the TN House is taking up HB0622, the “anti-DEI” bill. The live stream is muted, and there seems to be quite a bit of drama going on. Follow along here.

The "Scopes Monkey Trial" (using the rep's terminology) and TN's Butler Act are being honored right now on the TN House Floor. Prior to that a pastor prayed, saying that he was "thankful for the quest for truth, especially Biblical truth." How's your day going?

WATCH: REPUBLICAN senators oppose a cruel Senator Bo Watson bill to remove undocumented kids from 🇺🇸 schools Gardenhire, Haile, Walley were among 7 Republicans who joined Dems in opposition. It passed 19-13. (Up in House finance sub Monday)

Markets are down today. Over/under on how long it will take Trump to announce additional tariff cuts or pauses?

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Here’s the best way to understand what’s happening. Trump genuinely wants to impose a 19th century mercantilist model that would crash the economy and destroy the global trading order but the idea is just so colossally stupid and destructive, he can’t actually do it. So we get this.