LL Bean is opening a retail store in the Nashville area, it's first in Tennessee. So much for my retirement account. 😆 www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump “believes in cutting deals, not sharing values; in making money, not winning friends,” the editorial board writes. “His approach is inadequate for the long-term challenge America faces.”

MAGA is truly trying to kill off PBS and NPR. This is ideological warfare. cordcuttersnews.com/fcc-receives...

How does anyone take this guy seriously at all?

If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.

Happy Caturday! I'm such a lucky cat dad to these two awesome boys.

Happy 100th birthday to the legendary Dick Van Dyke, by all accounts one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.

"When an administration openly retaliates against critics, attacks judges, and guts whistleblower protections, the line between fantasy and consequence collapses. Some readers don’t see this as fiction. They see it as permission. That’s how threats escalate." Thank you @oliviaoftroye.com

If you need a little hope for a brighter tomorrow, here's your read for today: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is the way it's done. Shut down the empty rehearsed platitudes. Confront them all with the cruel reality of what they're doing to good people.

Let Rep. Thompson give a lesson in Reporting 101 to about half the DC press corps.

Good to see the rule of law in effect here. I don't know if Abrego Garcia is guilty or innocent. It's the government's job to prove him guilty. Otherwise he's considered innocent and should be free. This administration has given us plenty of reason not to take its word at face value.

Absolutely irresponsible and reprehensible conduct from a member of Congress. Ogles posted the names and photos of judges, declaring "We are at war." He knows what he's doing. Invoking stochastic terrorism, to intimidate and threaten these judges and their families. wpln.org/post/were-at...

Incidents like this happen because the Trump administration has empowered a quasi-military force with little to no training to round up people at their own discretion, without restraint, based on skin color or perceived ethnicity, to harass and intimidate those deemed unworthy or undesirable.

George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation. George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.

youtube.com/watch?v=mQwR... Hatred lives. White supremacy is alive and well in Tennessee.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Statement from the New York City Bar Association: www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Tennessee congressman Andy Ogles posted the pictures of Tennessee state judges and declared "We are at war". This reprehensible and irresponsible nonsense has put state judges, and their families, in real danger of violence. This is totally unacceptable behavior from a member of Congress.

There are a lot of things that might improve the airport experience. Nowhere on that list is a pull-up bar. Nowhere. Not on anyone's list.

I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse. There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.

Trump says his farm bailout would not be possible without tariffs. How clueless. The farm bailout wouldn't be NECESSARY without tariffs. Geez. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

This news wasn't unexpected but still sad to see this day come. variety.com/2025/music/n...

The self dealing and corruption of this administration is like nothing we've ever seen. It's making a mockery of our system and Constitution. Our nation has never been equipped to deal with a president devoid of ethics, integrity, and morals. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

People who did all the right things. Went through the process legally, as we're often told is the way to immigrate. Only to be stopped at the citizenship ceremony and told no. Shame on this administration.

"The end of the Trump era is coming into view, and too much attention is focused on what Republicans think of Trump and too little is focused on what Republicans think of one another." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

Donald Trump is pressuring Republican state lawmakers to redistrict (gerrymander) before the midterm elections in a desperate bid to keep the House in GOP control. Indiana said no. Lawmakers were then threatened, one saying he didn't want his house firebombed. This isn't democracy.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

The Supreme Court has decided to hear Trump's case to end birthright citizenship. This is ominous. The Constitution is unambiguous. If SCOTUS rules in favor of Trump they rule against the Constitution. Then we no longer have a constitutional republic. We have rule by fiat. An autocracy.

MAGA Americans are bigly mad at Costco after they sued the Trump administration to recover tariff costs. They are threatening to boycott. I mean, I've always enjoyed shopping at Costco, but if MAGA truly stays away the experience will only be that much better.

"FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members" DC Field Office career leaders pushed back citing "a lack of legal and factual basis to initiate a criminal case."

We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

America’s strength is moral authority. We lose it every time we excuse cruelty done in our name. We can be better—and we must. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

What does a president who believes he can do whatever he wants look like? What does a president who believes he’s above the law look like? What does a president who believes he has total immunity look like? It looks like this president. That’s what it looks like. Well done America.

For the next time you hear Trump say he inherited an inflation mess. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social #CPI

The story keeps changing. If the objective was only to destroy the boat, how does that square with Hegseth ordering "kill them all" as previously reported? There's some frantic CYA and scapegoating going on at the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Headlines tonight will be saying Van Epps "won". But is it really a win when the district has been gerrymandered to almost guarantee the outcome? It's certainly not democratic. To make a football analogy, Van Epps had four downs, started on the one yard line, and the defense was on the bench.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

You may have heard something about a special election in Tennessee #TN7 today. Not everyone in Tennessee is voting today, but I did.

Trump and Hegseth now both claiming they didn't know about the second strike. BS They're getting scared and they're throwing Bradley to the wolves. Predictable.

True. Van Epps has shifted his event tomorrow from Pucketts to a right wing billionaire’s mansion in Franklin to avoid any protests on the eve of the election. Says it all, really. #TN7

NEW: An appeals court upheld Alina Habba’s disqualification as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, another blow to Trump’s U.S. attorney gambit.

Why does Trump keep giving pardons and clemency to people convicted of fraud? Birds of a feather I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

He's not done any such thing. He has no authority to do that. He's made a pronouncement on his social media. That's all. Actually enforcing a no-fly zone means shooting down commercial aircraft carrying hundreds of innocent passengers. He'll be on the fast track to the Hague if that happens.